I wouldn't say it's an audible recording of anything, I'd rather focus on spectrogram image
...or it's just youtube compression making artifacts between left and right channel ;v
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...or it's just youtube compression making artifacts between left and right channel ;v
Tried with the DMTF decoder to see if something would come up. And heres the results:
This are the first 7 seconds of the 'blocks' that we see in the range 4000 to 15000.
C05#B085750A0C2*186D0683B*06AA1A3914645B9AA14B0A14#A5B75AA485DC394A5A4D8381*D9
And this is the second part on the low freq.
It all weirdly looks simmilar to ASCII / HEX...
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Was also thinking about Morse, but the dots look same length. Wouldn't take it off the table for now.
Almost sounded like voice in reverse, at least at the start..
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Well, because it is hexadecimal. Don't know how dmtf works however. We could try to extract binary from columns of bits, but the same problem as punch card - the dots don't seem to be well aligned
Ah, just figured out what dtmf you were refering to. Phone dial tones... Sound idea, imo, but probably that part with less dots...
I’ve been digging into the audio pretty heavily and wanted to share where I’m at. I checked for DTMF tones (since we had that “1#57” clue), ran LSB analysis and pushed the file through a bunch of Python scripts (probably fifteen different variations trying noise reduction, frequency isolation, resampling, checking for hidden data etc.)
I managed to isolate a (not sure) female-sounding voice that repeats the same short phrase for the entire track. The quality is rough, so it’s hard to make out clearly at times it sounds like “latte“, „cookie“ or „supreme“ and „64” (lol) but I’m not confident enough. Maybe my brain just wants to hear something idk.
I also tested some of the usual suspects like base64 checks, bit shifts but found nothing definitive. At this point I feel like I’ve burned through most of the straightforward angles, so maybe there’s a hint I’m overlooking that would make the right method click?
i was confident i‘d find something with dtmf though.
Maybe the solution is just the friends we made along the way or maybe CDPR is trolling us and trying to remind us that sometimes there isn’t an answer at all. lmao
I managed to isolate a (not sure) female-sounding voice that repeats the same short phrase for the entire track. The quality is rough, so it’s hard to make out clearly at times it sounds like “latte“, „cookie“ or „supreme“ and „64” (lol) but I’m not confident enough. Maybe my brain just wants to hear something idk.
I also tested some of the usual suspects like base64 checks, bit shifts but found nothing definitive. At this point I feel like I’ve burned through most of the straightforward angles, so maybe there’s a hint I’m overlooking that would make the right method click?
i was confident i‘d find something with dtmf though.
Maybe the solution is just the friends we made along the way or maybe CDPR is trolling us and trying to remind us that sometimes there isn’t an answer at all. lmao
I'm just imagining how ARG creators just can't stand our ways of thinking and accept that fact XDDD
Hey. Just found out on the FF:06:B5 Discord (thanks @MaggyCosplay for the link) that the CDPR worker posted there to stop digging and get some sleep, apparently it was some kind of pre-screening to the ARG (in line with the recruitment test scenario). So yeah, I think that's it for now. Good luck to all Netrunners who's going to take part in that. Was a lot of fun digging around with all of you, chooms! See you on the net!
PS. I think bots on the chat was a nice addition to this thread, really hammered in the feeling of "Am I gonk or everyone around me is an AI", so yeah.. Cyberpunk in its greatest
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Amazing job though, maybe it will pop up going forward. Wouldn't expect much from lsb, it's still compressed audio from the YT video, and lsb is, well, least significant, so will be lost in most cases.
Agree, main part of the game is the process, not the result. Like that tic tac toe easter egg from them. Game Over: you win; Game Over: you lose. It's Game Over either way. It's fun while it lasts..
Nah, they were wasted from the start, it's a game after all but it was fun, so I think it was worth it. And we'll see more of it in a while, one way or anothercountless hours… wasted fml
I'm just gonna put this here because I've posted elsewhere but haven't seen it on this forum. From about 20-27seconds in of the audio from the YouTube video, if you look at a spectrogram of the audio there is a pattern in low frequencies (~100hz) that clearly stands out from the rest of the audio. I feel pretty certain there is something here because everything else looks like just white noise, whereas this has got to be deliberately put there I feel. Here's a screenshot of the audio.
Now both the left and right channels look identical just slightly fragmented, so I converted to mono to get a clearer image and zoomed in a lot, this is how it looks:
To me this looks like possibly Morse code, but it's really hard to tell where each letter should start/end. If it is Morse, it looks like to me it reads
"DPA IEPRG" or "DPA EEPAM", but not too sure on it. Could also be something other than Morse, or even nothing at all. But to me looks like something.
Good luck chooms!!!
Now both the left and right channels look identical just slightly fragmented, so I converted to mono to get a clearer image and zoomed in a lot, this is how it looks:
"DPA IEPRG" or "DPA EEPAM", but not too sure on it. Could also be something other than Morse, or even nothing at all. But to me looks like something.
Good luck chooms!!!
yes yes i know it's kinda done... BUT I'M ADDICTED
i extracted a short clip from the vid and generated 50 frames with ffmpeg. i then ran a python script on these frames that:
- enhances the contrast of each frame
- splits the frames into individual color channels (idk just to check if anything is hidden in a single channel)
- and extracts the LSB (again ik youtube compression... but it was fun!)
nothing there to find... except 50 of these really cool images!
yeah thats it from me (unless this thing officially continues ig). Thanks!
i extracted a short clip from the vid and generated 50 frames with ffmpeg. i then ran a python script on these frames that:
- enhances the contrast of each frame
- splits the frames into individual color channels (idk just to check if anything is hidden in a single channel)
- and extracts the LSB (again ik youtube compression... but it was fun!)
nothing there to find... except 50 of these really cool images!
yeah thats it from me (unless this thing officially continues ig). Thanks!
I think it's the visualisation of pseudo random numbers used to create white noise that can be seen in the secretMSG video.
hmm... this makes me wonder if this message was addressed by Myers herself.
