Portal Radio MAXIMUM COMPRESSION (It seriously can't get any more compressed)

[@Garlic_Bread69]

From "still alive" to "still hanging there"

[@nvagn]

you mean "slowly dying in horrendous pain but yet not deceased"

[@Garlic_Bread69]

@@nvagn but still alive "happy music"

[@Lkbk0509KK]

you mean "sadly still alive"

[@timmy6890]

@@nvagnThey’ll be fine just put some ice on it.

[@nvagn]

@@timmy6890 a bandage will do

[@oi-cj1pz]

This aint "Still Alive" anymore, this is "On Critical Life Support"

[@Dbzmad34222]

😂😂

[@NerdGamer12631]

Low HP with beeping sounds

[@progamer3000-uz7pj]

Dead support

[@TheSwitchBlade593]

isn't Still Alive a Green Day song?

[@LordFishTheSecond]

still alive tho

[@finalfursonavii8635]

The good year of 2023 where I will watch a full unskippable ad for 44 seconds of unspeakably compressed portal radio music just to feel something

[@MdnghtEther]

I use mobile and skip the ad by refreshing the page. Swipe down and ad goes poof. Works every time (eventually).

[@LowSkillSurvival]

@@MdnghtEther lmao don't use the app, view yt in browser edge has adblock built in, I haven't seen an ad in years

[@aiexzs]

@@LowSkillSurvival please do not the edge

[@hollowknightenjoyer]

​@@LowSkillSurvivalI just have premium

[@Infinity868]

Your friendly reminder to just *use an adblocker*

[@13gamerbullet]

Oh, yeah. THIS is a song I can feel guilt-free about adding to my collection, I can spare the 18 bytes needed.

[@Crocdor_UwU]

That's not even half a byte 💀

[@benwaffleiron]

this shit's a few nibbles at best

[@billysits2]

@@Crocdor_UwUah yes 18 = 0.5

[@TheMemeLocomotive]

probably a 2 kb sound file

[@diamond_tango]

18 bytes? Bros downloading the 4k ultra had version

[@chalkwarrior5542]

i feel like i'm a mile underwater and somewhere above the surface the portal radio theme is playing very, very loudly

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

Nice PFP!

[@samvigil957]

Did you buy chance buy a ticket to see the titanic?

[@GuilhermeM1]

​@@samvigil957BRO 💀

[@UH-60_Blackhawk]

​@@samvigil957NOT THE PLACE FOR THAT ONE

[@man-from-2058]

​@@samvigil957bro nahh

[@exotic1405]

If i had a nickel for every pixel in this video, id owe it money

[@Atlasworld2005]

if this were reddit, I'd upvote this comment and give you an award for it for making me laugh as hard as I did, but alas, the most i can do is like the comment snd sub to you

[@mr.jitterspam9552]

​@@Atlasworld2005holy fucking shit this comment actively makes me wanna kms

[@AndyTheBoiz]

I cannot understand this comment

[@ChillOki]

​@@AndyTheBoizThe lack of pixels in the video is the joke

[@AndyTheBoiz]

@@ChillOki Nvm I just understood what it meant

[@_Cyel_]

People in '20s: In the future we will be able to listen to music in a higher quality with more details and fidelity than never before! Music in the future:

[@KaneyoriHK]

People make retro-style music now and purposefully lowering sound quality is the funniest shit to me, cause now its a choice, and people are choosing that.

[@paper2222]

we are technically in the '20s

[@pirilon78]

​@@KaneyoriHK Cause it sounds good.

[@chaosbuilder1531]

@@paper2222 true

[@imselfaware419]

NPC comment

[@ThatJoJoFan]

portal 6: glados has gone fucking insane and put all her data onto a 1997 computer, and 94 year old chell, who has suffered two strokes since the last game, has to help her get her shit together. MEANWHILE, wheatley has reached a galaxy far far away using a scrap ship made of sattelite debris and stray rocket fuel, finding an ancient civilisation on another planet thru a broadcast. However, this dumbass actually just made a lap around the earth and has "discovered" the earth again. valve hire me pls

[@tetraxis3011]

Wheatley moment.

[@Sashimitosis]

ah yeah...wheatley being whealtey

[@DeltaTitan]

Genius.

[@thatdogcanexplode5734]

Oh yeah I almost forgot Wheatley

[@ShienlanMiitsues]

I'm wheezing

[@craigmeister1241]

This feels like eating expired jelly beans that went off a year ago

[@theyeetus1428]

Fellow jelly bean lover?

[@zerotian5661]

jelly beans can go off???

[@craigmeister1241]

@@zerotian5661 yep. Had some beanboozled spicy jelly beans that I had, forgot about them, and they went off. Kinda looked off colour white and very brittle.

[@zerotian5661]

@@craigmeister1241 did you try one??

[@SanicConnoisseur_91]

@@craigmeister1241 Bro someone done jizzled in this man’s bean boozled 💀

[@mewfuz37]

You could almost fit two copies of this mush into NASA's 1969 apollo 11 (32kb)computer. 🎉

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

Are you sure that's possible?

[@ryantrainlover7725]

​@@LDTV22OfficialChannelNo, he said "almost"

[@romalog]

​@@ryantrainlover7725can't push two copies, but can push one

[@mightyben4310]

If you can do that Then why the hell can the lunar modules computer not take enough information and set off the 1013 alarm

[@oxotniknaoleney]

@@mightyben4310 it was 1969, what did you expect?

[@nt33_old]

it feels like you can grab the individual sound bytes from it and take a bite out of them

[@zandermav.5122]

*take a byte out of them

[@asdasd-cq1pk]

@@zandermav.5122 oh screw you why the hell did i laugh at this

[@cynicalia]

They’re crunchy

[@ChillOki]

​@@cynicaliaASMR Crunchy Portal Radio Sound Bytes

[@a_random_guy640]

What would it taste tho?

[@loloalexlolo]

that one 95 years old portal fan with the last stage of dementia still waiting for portal 3 his last 69 years:

[@tom_the_animator]

​@snackler6102 can't forget 5 through 7!

[@file_name_2]

Did... Did you physically CRUSH the sound file? Like, did you drop 13-14 anvils on it, and hit it with a metal baseball bat?

[@theyeetus1428]

yes

[@saqdiheru]

No, he sent the file to @HydraulicPressChannel

[@XxSnom16]

@@saqdiheru no he dropped 13-14 anvils on it, and hit it with a metal baseball bat

[@stingray-537]

He hit It with a baseball bat, dropped anvils on it and split It in two

[@mvvaio]

No no no, he did all of them

[@kickskii]

What if you took this recording Upscaled the bitrate Then compressed it again Truly a chewing gum moment

[@unamelable256]

Throw it to AI bot to recreate it, and then compress again

[@daylawashere]

that is not how it works

[@yum976]

How it feels to chew 5 gum

[@TheGlitch93]

He should do that

[@lucymorrison]

That’s now how audio works, you can’t “upscale the bitrate” lol

[@runikwolf7755]

The fact it's still somehow recognizable really is just a testament to how iconic it is

[@astronautnr7]

We live in 2023. We have the ability to buy 8k monitors, we have supercomputers and are able to restore sounds from an old record disc to a point where its really clear and easy to understand. Yet humanity has decided to ignore all that and make a sound so compressed, its almost unrecognisable. We live in a beautiful world

[@irvinsandison]

No one: My stomach when I'm in a silent room full of people:

[@LemonDrip]

If I had a dollar for every byte in this video, i'd have 25 cents.

[@UH-60_Blackhawk]

that's a new one.

[@markzone473]

Boy, did u hire the hulk to crush the whole sound file?

[@theyeetus1428]

Yes.

[@Mewcat]

@@theyeetus1428 Goku would crush the sound file better

[@aywhole]

hulmk sme sh

[@KelBShobra]

Feels like im listening to this through a wall after someone else has already listened to it and is remembering it

[@HypernovaGT]

It's so compressed to the point that if you compressed it even further, it'll become a black hole.

[@TheInfamousSkullFace]

I've watched 7 of these now, slowly getting more and more compressed. What has my life come to

[@polyacov_yury]

Make a playlist

[@mechanwhal6590]

@@polyacov_yuryIn order of compression

[@mingulon6090]

If no one else uses the 144p .25x speed form of this as horror ambience, I WILL.

[@mechanwhal6590]

Do what must be done!

[@adex345]

Are u alive or u compressed it so much that black hole created?

[@DragoDactyl]

Sounds like a stomach ache

[@jeramy8097]

taking this and sending it back in time to show people of the 50s would be interesting

[@theyeetus1428]

They would be confused about how technology got worse lol

[@Jarmey984]

hello Jeramy 809, I am Jarmey984

[@charliegamer4896]

This absolutely amazing. just the part where it's supposed to go "daa daaa daaa daaaaa daa dadada" has me laughing my ass off because its so horribly compressed.

[@mr_flor]

I hope they make a 10 hour version of this music so I can listen to exactly 5 hours and 18 minutes of this masterpiece.

[@YourMothersFavouriteTerminal]

Damn , to achieve such compression you should not only physically crush the files , but drop a full-on nuke on it

[@makuru.42]

Me listing on my premium 🎧 to hear the mienute details of this track.

[@phenxshock870]

It’s surprising that if you hear the first note of the song you still know what it is

[@H1V3_B0M8]

"Ok, where is the sprite?" Me with over 12 opened cans:

[@DergyDauog]

Finally a man of culture

[@malsypright]

finally a song I can store on my ENIAC

[@magnapanther]

Pov: you're a fish in the middle of the ocean, and a cruise ship is passing by hunderds of feet overhead, blasting portal radio.

[@breadloaferson]

i can count the pixels on the screen on 3 fingers, and i can count the bytes on only my toes. wonderful

[@AyoCrunchy]

Pov: someone is playing music at full volume at the other side of the house

[@Nightmare10311]

bro this is the shit i'd hear on "mysterious unknown sounds recorded in the Mariana trench"

[@jkkienzle1356]

Pov: you accidentally dropped your JBL speaker into the pool and all you hear is this

[@punkbnuyyy]

POV- in the past four days, you have gotten 3 hours of sleep, your arm is barely sore, but sore enough to where it is annoying, and you have the vague feeling of an itch that you can never scratch

[@ChesterManfred]

710 kilobytes, this thing downloaded instantly. Now that's a bite sized song

[@Pheminon1]

From "I'm not even angry." To "I can't feel anything anymore"

[@unamelable256]

bruh, being suicidaly depressed while listening to this is kinda relatable

[@JoaoVictor-hz4rm]

Even more impressive is that if you pay close attention you can hear it's unmistakable melody,

[@alexlewis3013]

It sounds like if you took the portal radio, put it in a sealed plastics container filled with weights and tossed it into an indoor pool.

[@turboluck1023]

Sounds like the music you would hear blasting out of an apartment in gta 3

[@dasokiimo504]

finally a song that fits in my brain

[@Anonymous-73]

Going from this to the uncompressed version is like being able to hear for the first time again

[@LoganFortune-Price]

This feels like finding something crunchy in soft food

[@urulito]

It took me putting my phone at full volume with headphones for me to even realize there was music playing

[@Yarxxter]

When you’re trying to sleep but your parents are watching tv downstairs

[@boltowl625]

Aliens in the future may never understand how impactful this video is to humanity

[@Drugsanddragonslul]

This is how old memories detoriate when you are getting older

[@ram_stick_samurai]

instead of "Still alive" it should be "Still on life support and paralized until death".

[@asirithwelzorn5907]

This is just what it feels like to be in a science lecture with a boring professor

[@spamtonlover]

GLaDOS been real quiet since this dropped...

[@Gundanium_Wolf908]

If i had a dollar for every pixel there was in this video i would be broke.

[@KwikBR]

i went from watching this a couple months ago not hearing it at all.. to now once ive completed portal 2 it sounds clear as daylight

[@ricobrown6630]

If you squint your ears enough, you might be able to realise there is a song playing

[@juancano3793]

Thought the noise was coming from my stomach for a sec

[@hoomanperson236]

Love the way that it grinds at the inside of your skull, dont see many songs do that its very interesting! 😊

[@ganondalf8090]

more, compress it until it's just static

[@Azzaram-u9j]

DONT TEMPT ME

[@thatoneXman]

It sounds like a radio GLaDOS hid deep inside a wall, for the soul purpose of driving subjects (and indirectly, Wheatley too) insane.

[@haaaaf8087]

This feels like something you would hear when you scratch a fork on a piece of wood

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

POV: the year is 2086 and you're still waiting for Portal 3

[@Simongravitrax]

My router died and this still loaded

[@Ryan-op7yd]

This is what the aliens would hear if we transmitted this song across space

[@michaelbearce8748]

Someone please put this poor radio out of this misery.

[@Azzaram-u9j]

heh, tends to happen, its a very good bulletproof shield tho!

[@cattowrr]

i love connecting to bluetooth speakers, putting them at full volume from my phone and playing this, its quiet enough no one knows where its coming from but loud enough to be heard

[@Fongus172]

It's so compressed I put it in my pocket when I went shopping.

[@TheTrailtoTrepidationFilms-s8n]

i love how you can still hear the melody

[@alphalax7747]

I'm surprised at how it's still recognizable

[@theyeetus1428]

That was the goal

[@timmy6890]

Sounds like someone kicked the radios shit in and it just woke up to continue to playing.

[@millionelectricvolts6117]

this has the same energy as that picture of the black hole

[@thisisgarbage9892]

what plays mentally after a 48 hour long work day

[@BluerayIsPog]

I can count a whole 4 pixels! What quality!

[@catrinmelldansen]

Ned to go get my headphones to relisten to this, gotta make sure I don't miss out on any of the detail 👌👌👌

[@GAMERIN-rn6dj]

“Hello I am under the water 💀”

[@nolink8884]

This sounds like a music that a flatlined patient would make and I'm all for it.

[@Cirylxlyn]

I can still hear the tune

[@Pingimaster]

We all gotta download this. This gives us so much space.

[@theallmightyfish3027]

If I had a dollar for every bit this sound file weighs, I’d be in more debt than the US government.

[@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t]

i think you might be underestimating the usa's debt

[@invalid_user_handle]

The best part is that it's still somewhat comprehensible if you know the original song.

[@sign_verken]

Too much time has passed. the radio is nearly dead, it's been too long synce I was there.

[@effeKtSVK]

This is so compressed that I wouldn't be surprised if a human could draw the waveform

[@dustinbrueggemann1875]

Portal Radio but somebody is sitting on it

[@bradfordwoodger6026]

the fact that I can fully make this out is amazing

[@dexongd5723]

i believe the image CAN indeed be compressed even more. The music is done tho

[@theyeetus1428]

I don't think a 16x9 image can get any smaller than 16x9 pixels

[@dexongd5723]

@@theyeetus1428 lower the bitrate

[@kadrix732]

​@@theyeetus1428With some cropping, it can

[@GhostlyPancakeTheOddMancake]

I can still here undertones of it's original identity. MORE

[@willowtree147]

I downloaded this as an mp3 and it is litterally 1 megabyte. I cant imagine it getting any smaller.

[@randomdudelol69]

When you're happy because you got an E but then you realise the grade E doesn't exist and the screen was a bit dirty revealing that it was an F

[@8stormy5]

POV: you just loaded up your ipod shuffle with tracks from limewire

[@Doc-Blitzkrieg]

I literally had to remind myself what the actual radio sounded by watching a different video because of how hard it is to distinguish the noises being made here

[@nathanchapin8445]

Dementia is the general name for a decline in cognitive abilities that impacts a person's ability to do everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. Aside from memory impairment and a disruption in thought patterns, the most common symptoms include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and decreased motivation. The symptoms may be described as occurring in a continuum over several stages. Dementia ultimately has a significant effect on the individual, caregivers, and on social relationships in general. A diagnosis of dementia requires the observation of a change from a person's usual mental functioning and a greater cognitive decline than what is caused by normal aging.

[@theyeetus1428]

Wikipedia or AI?

[@nathanchapin8445]

@@theyeetus1428 I think uhh… idk I can’t remember

[@narita_i]

@@nathanchapin8445 o h n o

[@FokkerBoombass]

This is what Dankpods means by "music that somebody else already listened to"

[@DerangedTexan]

WE MUST GO FURTHER.

[@zydomason]

AND THIS... THIS IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@lexicon_c]

dude pulled out a whole ass hydraulic press

[@Simoran]

This is the perfect compression ratio. You can faintly hear the melody and the chord changes are still present. Any more and it would be impossible to hear.

[@Cleaverbomb]

I watched 40 seconds of unskippable ads for this.

[@theyeetus1428]

I'm truly sorry. Please save yourself the trouble and get an adblocker.

[@crazyboutferrets]

If I had a cent for each pixel the entire world economy would go bankrupt

[@ILove20PieceNuggets]

This is going on my bangers Playlist to be played on loop for 6 hours

[@theboringhumanbeing6610]

it sounds like you bashed the radio with a hammer seventeen times, then threw it in a lake

[@theyeetus1428]

Very accurate

[@chxos]

This is so compressed that I listened to it without WiFi

[@om3ga109]

Literally took the file and dropped it into a neutron star to compress it this much.