The sounds of mspaint.exe | Binary Waterfall

mspaint.exe's data directly visualized.
Program Homepage: github.com/nimaid/binary-wate...
My Remix: • Microsoft Paint Remix
Inspiration Video: • The sounds of Microsof...
I was inspired by a video where someone visualized the mspaint.exe binary file using audio and video. I thought the effect was cool, but the original tutorial's process was tedious and held together by willpower alone. I recreated the effect using a Python 3 program that takes care of all of the steps in one simple command. Then I ran it on the same mspaint.exe file as that video, but with different settings.

[@Trey3268]

"I listen to .exe files." -Vargskelethor Joel, Windows 8 Destruction

[@Blaze_Dady]

It's Vargskelethoer Joel not Vargskelethor Joel

[@SwissestCheese]

@@Blaze_DadyYou’re stupid

[@TabbyEgg312]

​@@Blaze_Dady🤓

[@Pyroscity]

@@Blaze_Dady nope it’s vargskelethor

[@christianslaughter8724]

A fellow fecal funny enjoyer ( or fecal female)

[@SailorMaxie]

The fact that this actually sounds somewhat musical is just unfathomable

[@destroy1440]

Because they have patterns that are understandable to us, the same noise looks like noise to us, but the visual data is quite regular and similar to music

[@ImDannn]

Man you'd love Breakcore

[@yeoss]

​​@@destroy1440Yeah. The noise is basically just recreating white noise. Every colour is a diff note, and so the pixels in each line act as members of a harmonic series.

[@MrCatTheII]

0:43 this is when banger starts 🔥🔥

[@Octopus2480]

Minecraft footstep sounds

[@Matute44523]

0:31 ms paint jumpscare

[@PB_Guy2763]

1:01 when the shapes start flowing the beat starts beatin.

[@PersentPronunciations]

fed to the rules and I hit the ground running

[@Medoinstuff]

But it didn't make sense not to live for fun

[@StraellPlays]

your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

[@brs8285]

3:01 Sounds like a MBR masterpiece

[@Brecho856]

0:32 sick beat

[@signpost_fanatic]

0:49 microsoft unintentionally making bangers

[@SillygirlXP]

3:08 music to my ears :]

[@TorutheRedFox]

the bitmaps make such funky noises

[@412lop7]

0:00 code 0:18 some kind of data 0:30 icon data 0:32 code 0:33 logo 0:36 more icon data 0:40 idk 0:43 idk again 0:49 drawing types 1:01 shapes 1:10 cursors 1:19 code 2:05 more icons 3:08 same as 0:43 3:10 back to the icons 3:27 mysterious data

[@popslyme4280]

I think 0:43 and 3:08 are brush/line thickness.

[@n.park1]

It seems like half of Paint is just icons

[@cirkulx]

if the order is similar to how resource hacker loads the data (it should), i might be able to find out what the other data is

[@CccMac-lb4sz]

If you slow 0:30 to 0.25x.. wait for it... there's tiny sprites!

[@THSGC]

One looked like 🙏

[@uncreativedays]

what any computer sees and hears when you open a .exe file

[@nikogda09]

fr

[@foxguysumthing]

now i want dialup

[@dappermaverick]

now i have the sudden urge to open ms paint a lot just to give my computer a banger ass tune

[@tenshialpha]

Reminds me of the sound of loading games on the ZX Spectrum from audio cassette.

[@progect3548]

from a technical standpoint that basically exactly what it is

[@RadeonVega64]

@@progect3548 wdym

[@Brecho856]

1:00 another sick beat

[@foxaii.the.fox.therian]

1:18 looks like a broken tv

[@Benny.Nelson.7]

3:11 amiga sounding for some reason

[@specygamer30]

2:19 that "saved" detune makes the printer's intune so unexpected

[@DiamondNoobie]

Honestly it sounded like DOOM E1M1 instrument

[@specygamer30]

ehh i don't really know much about DOOM​@@DiamondNoobie

[@wolfboyft]

OHHHH THE SOUND IS ICONS!

[@fortcraftgaming2136]

0:50 this is where the breakore starts!!

[@LordSzo]

When the speaker plays HDMI audio when connected.

[@lolwhot]

1:10 why does this sound like a fart orchestra

[@stysan]

Never thought listening to shapes would be so cool

[@rldboi]

Tbh the static parts actually sound like a waterfall, and move just like one too!

[@rldboi]

And it can also sound more like waterfalls by moving your head or speaker at different angles or positions, which is really cool.

[@aolmsn]

This proves that we are living in a simulation!​@@rldboi

[@ZphyZphyer]

AHHHHH ROOMS FAN AHHH AGHHHHH

[@DavidsDump123]

WE MAKIN IT OUTA SYSTEM 32 WITH THIS ONE

[@irmamarcial1119]

no bot or bot?

[@Mr.SystemError]

Every icon has it's own theme.

[@swampmullet]

I share the same sentiment about the original tutorial; got pretty close with ffmpeg but this nails it for sure!

[@NulledInstance]

0:49 beats

[@72fan]

So you are telling me that sounds like in 0:49 are basically the code showing the icons, images etc.? Thats cool.

[@XENON2028]

no, those literally ARE the icons

[@thomasgamer4000]

​@XENON2028 depends on your perspective on life really

[@aolmsn]

They are the BMPs in the exe file

[@XENON2028]

@@thomasgamer4000 wdym ???

[@densylek8779]

those are the selected .ico files for the exe icon, executables have a property on windows that allow them to have custom icons, thank windows for its greatness

[@roflcopterfan5757]

thanks now i can draw sonic in my brain

[@lesharkoiste]

Hopefully it goes on Spotify some day... under the title "FNF Music"

[@offroaders123]

This is outstanding! Thanks for building a program to do it, as well as making it open source. Now I want to look into trying to build it as well.

[@OliversTech]

Love the little program you made by the way! Live preview of that ffmpeg command essentially :D

[@banditboogaloo]

0:28 HL2 METROCOP DYING IN THE MSPAINT.EXE FILE???

[@melol69]

fnf fans: yo this is fire

[@30-50FeralHogs]

Love how sometimes the video forms the icon in its pixels

[@Valery0p5]

Like a tape that never ends, that's what I imagine data looks like in my dreams... Also is it just me or it feels like there are some patterns like lines crawling up the stream in the big chunks of code like 1:19 ?

[@rldboi]

Well, it could be caused by there being separate lines of long coding. (I didn’t know how to explain it, so it’s ok if you didn’t understand)

[@RetroJack]

@@rldboi Could you be any more patronising?

[@Noughtsgnik]

Looks like thunder

[@HalfBreadOrder]

what?! ​@@RetroJack

[@roundedspec]

Thank you, now I can imagine in full SD!

[@GGYThere]

what a banger

[@goober7601]

this is so cool

[@anonymous228yt]

thank u bro, i installed mspaint in my brains

[@milo9845]

wake up babe new noise music dropped

[@mlodygarbacz]

damn those are some sick beats ngl

[@ksawerystyrna5798]

my brain at the math be like:

[@ryzh]

I lowkey like it

[@namething-qy5rq]

i love how every now and then some icons pop up

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

I find it interesting that the icons included within the executable are nearly completely untouched

[@destroy1440]

Because it's not code

[@joaquincualquiera]

thanks now i can paint in my brain

[@MAC_00]

3:01 actually sounds good

[@sudhalohakare3959]

Ahhh finaly nereid moon sounds

[@josiauh]

the image data parts are my favorite

[@MisterElka]

2:05 sounds like Brazilian Phonk

[@LogCabinMusic]

hell yeah i love merzbow

[@Hyperflamee8]

All of the image data & stuff is last because that is naturally how EXE files are structured

[@FinnPlanetballs]

1:10 blud really said "👽👽👽"

[@FlareSnarez]

0:33 THE ORIGIN OF THAT ONE MOON SOUND

[@callme_afk]

Nereid

[@FlareSnarez]

@@callme_afk fake moon sound,,,

[@funnyguy509]

2:04 every brazilian music ever

[@ODEF.]

when you give the fnf mod maker the aux cord:

[@yusayoutube]

Me trying to remember the blueprints in my Castle projects:

[@azumanguy]

autechre been real silent since this dropped

[@Angelicamonroe.]

0:18 is similar to undertales sans voice file

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes interprétions!

[@josiauh]

2:47 yeahh baby

[@pacthesir]

When a PC application from 2009 can rap better than most people today...

[@Noobogonis]

this is what movement 3 of silent orchestra is

[@RainbowNoob127Official]

i finally installed ms paint in my brain

[@GigaMine22866]

1:09 is wild

[@Mari0Kid1234]

Thanks now mspaint.exe is installed to my brain 10/10 download no virus 😊 ❤ 👍

[@DGehTnehWeM]

0:54 Pen

[@LgiidOakLeaves]

Yes I watch this😊

[@Comradesovvy]

THEY GOT THEM PICTURES IN THERE

[@progect3548]

does merzbow finally have competition?

[@marielladd]

Nereid: (starts making rock music)

[@susannerudolph8469]

oo you can see the icons

[@Hyperflamee8]

I didn't know that the binary itself contains the logo image you see on the taskbar!

[@b-figure-023]

when i had this app, i thinked of a idea where i inserted BW into BW. BW - Binary Waterfall dont ask what happended

[@nek0mancer_uwu]

i wonder what would happen if someone downloaded the audio, recorded it onto a cassette, and tried to load the data from the cassette

[@havok_yt]

crazy how much of it is image data

[@xenonorsomething]

Someone's gonna sample this

[@KesorodaBlk]

I Half expect Pulseman to pop out of the screen!

[@kieferskunk5101]

Really? The fourth line at 1:43 looks like that? I always thought it went red-brown-red-green-blue-brown-purple-brown-red-yellow-white-green-green-green-white-blue-black . Thanks for the correction!

[@someoneinthatacc2827]

0:32 that was not the phobos sound

[@Newb1eProgrammer]

I love assembly language

[@the-protogen-of-the-sky]

So when the pixels go past the bottom they are played? Or is it when they HIT the bottom

[@ZphyZphyer]

When they hit it. You can notice this in the parts where a sudden change occurs

[@owenplaster60]

I saw a soul within the file.

[@minestudiolikelimelife8555]

printer is actual trumpet

[@user-qi4sn4no8v]

3:27 not the x 💀

[@user-sd8lb3qf2q]

how can see the image from binary data?

[@markusTegelane]

Because each pixel is 3 bytes and each byte represents a value for each color channel (red, green and blue). If you display these pixels in a grid and it happens to be perfectly aligned, you see the image data. Only works for uncompressed bitmaps (so JPEG and PNG can't be displayed this way for example).

[@OliversTech]

2:02 sounds like it's bouta have a bass drop

[@TGWLEAD]

Doing same things via GoldWave.

[@bluepenmaybe]

1:04 rhythm games be like

[@MegaGameBeaast]

0:49 wow

[@RileyAndersen_YT]

So it just puts every single line of code, data, and texture into sound.

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

Why does 0:49 onward go so hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@melhanlol]

i love the part where it repeats e minor

[@solinus7131]

yay! e minor! all right!

[@melhanlol]

@@solinus7131 yes that is my reaction

[@opa-rappa]

asmr

[@Rudxain]

If anyone wants to try it, on Linux you can call `aplay` or `paplay` and force it to play arbitrary data as PCM from files or streams. I know this because of the Bytebeat community

[@EllaJameson]

Or you can run `pip3 install binary-waterfall` then `binary-waterfall`. ;D

[@Rudxain]

​@@EllaJameson Thanks for the recommendation! That's more cross-platform

[@luisgamercoolgaming]

When you take the cartridge out of the GBA mid-playing:

[@cirkulx]

the funniest part is a GBA starts vomiting the rom too, and the rom is basically an executable

[@luisgamercoolgaming]

@@cirkulx dont you worry, i still remember the sound to part of Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure.

[@burgirmachine]

What if i made a gd level with this

[@kxhu]

0:48 2:04 2:34

[@AutZeroTwo]

how do you do this