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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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xhomerx10
on 25/09/2025, 14:13:48 UTC
⭐ Merited by psycodad (1) ,JayJuanGee (1)
Did i already mention that i miss the sound of 56k modems, but i still dream about them sometimes?
That sounds fun to use as a ringtone.

I only wait until i have some spare time to make this brilliant idea real  Cool Grin
Thanks.

No need to, it's all there:

Real 56k Dialup Modem Sound
-> https://archive.org/details/real-56k-dialup-modem-sound

ALL Old Modem Sounds (300 baud to 56K)
-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w
^ Audio from the yt mp4 can easily be extracted with ffmpeg once downloaded as mp4 with yt-dlp:
Code:
yt-dlp -f 234 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w
ffmpeg -i ALL\ Old\ Modem\ Sounds\ \(300\ baud\ to\ 56K\)\ \[ckc6XSSh52w\].mp4 ALL\ Old\ Modem\ Sounds\ \(300\ baud\ to\ 56K\)\ \[ckc6XSSh52w\].mp3
#or with better quality:
ffmpeg -i ALL\ Old\ Modem\ Sounds\ \(300\ baud\ to\ 56K\)\ \[ckc6XSSh52w\].mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192k -f mp3 ALL\ Old\ Modem\ Sounds\ \(300\ baud\ to\ 56K\)\ \[ckc6XSSh52w\].mp3


Edited to add:
I personally still prefer J.S. Bachs 'Toccata and Fugue in D minor' as ringtone, things need some dramatic spice up at times  Grin

 How fuck@#$ weird is this?  I didn't even know about yt-dlp until just two days ago when I read an article in HackerNews informing people that they could no longer rely on the native JavaScript... ah, rather than paraphrasing, here's the quote:

Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "interpreter" to solve the JavaScript challenges that are required for YouTube downloads. But due to recent changes on YouTube's end, the built-in JS interpreter will soon be insufficient for this purpose. The changes are so drastic that yt-dlp will need to leverage a proper JavaScript runtime in order to solve the JS challenges.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

 Anyway, I was surprised to see it mentioned here so soon after first learning about it.  For the most part, I have been using web-based downloaders - nice to know there are other options.