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For anyone else who was intrigued by this, I found this helpful animation: https://www.vinylrecorder.com/stereo.html https://www.vinylrecorder.com/stereo.html

WrtCdEvrydy 5y ago
Well, that definitely hurt my brain.
radomir_cernoch 5y ago
Wow, the best example of teaching minimalism I know. Even though the website fails on so many levels, ;-) I still get the message in 15 seconds.
- hulitu 5y ago
  Maybe you are looking at the wrong one ? It loads instantly. I do not have to zoom to read the text. No node.js, cdn and other curses of "modern" web. The only annoying thing is that the guy went to great lenghts to get the audio only to convert it later to mp3. I guess there is no hope. ( it could have been worse - webm).
- jakecopp 5y ago
  It reminds my of the Hyperphysics [1] website, which I believe borrows from Apple's Hypercard (pre World World Web) information tech! [1]: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
- Fnoord 5y ago
  This website, as well as the one in the thread's URL, are exactly in the way as I learned the WWW was when I first started using it.
  - ngcc_hk 5y ago
    It fits its theme ... vinyl
    - danmur 5y ago
      Don't joke, we'll probably see web 4.0 distributed on vinyl soon enough. Just gotta get the assets down to less than 100mb.
      - Spare_account 5y ago
        Is there a Vinyl-ROM format?
noman-land 5y ago
Amazing. Thank you. I immediately saved this, bookmarked it, and shared it with half a dozen people.
dr_zoidberg 5y ago
When I read the title I immediately thought of a "laser tip" that and reading the reflections of it, not something based on software that would "read" an an image. Following this animation I'm left thinking that you could do a bit of filtering to better extract the wave(s) from an image, though you'd require a particular setup for the lighting conditions to get the best possible quality out of it. And then back to my first idea: probably a laser-tip would be the best tool here too. Unfortunately I don't have vinyl records around to test any of this!
- ilikejam 5y ago
  Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
karmanGO 5y ago
That is a great explainer, simple and clear. Thanks for posting!

WrtCdEvrydy 5y ago

Well, that definitely hurt my brain.

radomir_cernoch 5y ago

Wow, the best example of teaching minimalism I know. Even though the website fails on so many levels, ;-) I still get the message in 15 seconds.

hulitu 5y ago
Maybe you are looking at the wrong one ? It loads instantly. I do not have to zoom to read the text. No node.js, cdn and other curses of "modern" web. The only annoying thing is that the guy went to great lenghts to get the audio only to convert it later to mp3. I guess there is no hope. ( it could have been worse - webm).
jakecopp 5y ago
It reminds my of the Hyperphysics [1] website, which I believe borrows from Apple's Hypercard (pre World World Web) information tech! [1]: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Fnoord 5y ago
This website, as well as the one in the thread's URL, are exactly in the way as I learned the WWW was when I first started using it.
- ngcc_hk 5y ago
  It fits its theme ... vinyl
  - danmur 5y ago
    Don't joke, we'll probably see web 4.0 distributed on vinyl soon enough. Just gotta get the assets down to less than 100mb.
    - Spare_account 5y ago
      Is there a Vinyl-ROM format?

noman-land 5y ago

Amazing. Thank you. I immediately saved this, bookmarked it, and shared it with half a dozen people.

dr_zoidberg 5y ago

When I read the title I immediately thought of a "laser tip" that and reading the reflections of it, not something based on software that would "read" an an image. Following this animation I'm left thinking that you could do a bit of filtering to better extract the wave(s) from an image, though you'd require a particular setup for the lighting conditions to get the best possible quality out of it. And then back to my first idea: probably a laser-tip would be the best tool here too. Unfortunately I don't have vinyl records around to test any of this!

ilikejam 5y ago
Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

karmanGO 5y ago

That is a great explainer, simple and clear. Thanks for posting!