jaybird110127

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

Blind computer geek from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

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simon, to random

#AudioMo: Years ago, I got a GE microcassette answering machine just for fun. More recently, I got an AT&T digital answering machine and discovered it had some unusual but cool features, including a built-in talking caller ID. Inspired by a long thread about old phones and phone equipment, I recorded a demo of both answering machines, including leaving myself a message on the tape and playing back the famous "Answering Machine Song".

jaybird110127,

@simon Okay, so now what someone needs to do is record a call into the answering machine to leave a message, in which it plays the entire song at least once, from the perspective of the line receiving the incoming call. Recording over a VoIP connection would most likely squish everything down to 8K, whereas if you could get a high quality recording directly from the line where the answering machine is connected, you'd capture whatever the machine sent out over the line before any other phone equipment got to it.

jaybird110127,

@simon Radio Shack used to sell a device, I think it was called the Phone Recording Control. It was a box with two cords coming from it. One plugged into a phone jack, and the other plugged into a recorder, and also had a submini plug to be connected to a recorder's remote control jack. The idea is that the box can turn the recorder on and off as needed when the phone is or isn't being used. It had circuitry in place to ensure that the 90 volt ringing current didn't make it to the recorder's input jack. I'm sure there are plenty of similar phone patch devices on the market still, though I don't have experience with any of them.

textfiles, to random
@textfiles@digipres.club avatar

I now realized we passed the tenth anniversary of the FILE FORMATS WIKI without a whisper in 2022. Previously "Just Solve the Problem", the File Formats Problem (not enough documentation and links to tools) was important and big enough that it's still going!

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Main_Page

jaybird110127,

@textfiles Did the whole "Just Solve the XXX Problem" where XXX changes every year idea sort of die off?

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