Never Gonna Give You Up Played through a text file!
Ever wondered what Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up would sound like if it were played from a text file?
In this video, we progressively bit-crush the song cutting out more and more data until only a fraction remains. From full quality down to just 1 in every 24 samples, you'll hear how surprisingly recognizable a song can remain, even when most of its detail is gone.
This isn't just compression, it's psychoacoustics, data reduction, and a wild experiment in audio minimalism.
And yes… it’s all being played from a string of characters in a plain text file.
Credits to Rick Astley for the song!