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

[@noobgod6]

@@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 🔥🔥

[@fortcraftgaming2136]

That’s what I said

[@HokoraYinphine]

ryoji ikeda type beat

[@Matute44523]

0:31 ms paint jumpscare

[@signpost_fanatic]

0:49 microsoft unintentionally making bangers

[@TorutheRedFox]

the bitmaps make such funky noises

[@Brecho856]

0:32 sick beat

[@SillygirlXP]

3:08 music to my ears :]

[@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

[@navoei]

so much to do so much to see so what's wrong with taking the backstreets

[@PB_Guy2763]

no rhyme no fime, allday all night. no rhyme, no fame, gonna hit the gym, nobody gonna rive with me

[@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

[@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 🙏

[@brs8285]

3:01 Sounds like a MBR masterpiece

[@Brecho856]

1:00 another sick beat

[@foxaii.the.fox.therian]

1:18 looks like a broken tv

[@lolwhot]

1:10 why does this sound like a fart orchestra

[@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

[@Benny.Nelson.7]

3:11 amiga sounding for some reason

[@wolfboyft]

OHHHH THE SOUND IS ICONS!

[@lesharkoiste]

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

[@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

[@swampmullet]

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

[@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

[@fortcraftgaming2136]

0:50 this is where the breakore starts!!

[@DavidsDump123]

WE MAKIN IT OUTA SYSTEM 32 WITH THIS ONE

[@irmamarcial1119]

no bot or bot?

[@Mr.SystemError]

Every icon has it's own theme.

[@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

[@OliversTech]

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

[@LordSzo]

When the speaker plays HDMI audio when connected.

[@roflcopterfan5757]

thanks now i can draw sonic in my brain

[@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.

[@melol69]

fnf fans: yo this is fire

[@JerpyTH]

2:04 sick gangster beat

[@KellyBeeSan]

2:57 - 3:01 Is where it slapped the hardest 😭🔥

[@banditboogaloo]

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

[@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

[@FlareSnarez]

0:33 THE ORIGIN OF THAT ONE MOON SOUND

[@callme_afk]

Nereid

[@FlareSnarez]

@@callme_afk fake moon sound,,,

[@MAC_00]

3:01 actually sounds good

[@milo9845]

wake up babe new noise music dropped

[@roundedspec]

Thank you, now I can imagine in full SD!

[@champion_ofcloud-var]

that ending though

[@GGYThere]

what a banger

[@mlodygarbacz]

damn those are some sick beats ngl

[@anonymous228yt]

thank u bro, i installed mspaint in my brains

[@ryzh]

I lowkey like it

[@josiauh]

the image data parts are my favorite

[@goober7601]

this is so cool

[@30-50FeralHogs]

Love how sometimes the video forms the icon in its pixels

[@joaquincualquiera]

thanks now i can paint in my brain

[@funnyguy509]

2:04 every brazilian music ever

[@josiauh]

2:47 yeahh baby

[@GigaMine22866]

1:09 is wild

[@ksawerystyrna5798]

my brain at the math be like:

[@LogCabinMusic]

hell yeah i love merzbow

[@sudhalohakare3959]

Ahhh finaly nereid moon sounds

[@MisterElka]

2:05 sounds like Brazilian Phonk

[@ODEF.]

when you give the fnf mod maker the aux cord:

[@namething-qy5rq]

i love how every now and then some icons pop up

[@Hyperflamee8]

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

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

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

[@destroy1440]

Because it's not code

[@azumanguy]

autechre been real silent since this dropped

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes interprétions!

[@userdelta254]

this is like when I scream like that when I see a nfsw channel

[@FinnPlanetballs]

1:10 blud really said "👽👽👽"

[@Mari0Kid1234]

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

[@yusayoutube]

Me trying to remember the blueprints in my Castle projects:

[@Angelicamonroe.]

0:18 is similar to undertales sans voice file

[@pacthesir]

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

[@RainbowNoob127Official]

i finally installed ms paint in my brain

[@LgiidOakLeaves]

Yes I watch this😊

[@progect3548]

does merzbow finally have competition?

[@Noobogonis]

this is what movement 3 of silent orchestra is

[@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

[@bluepenmaybe]

1:04 rhythm games be like

[@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

[@susannerudolph8469]

oo you can see the icons

[@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

[@marielladd]

Nereid: (starts making rock music)

[@Newb1eProgrammer]

I love assembly language

[@havok_yt]

crazy how much of it is image data

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

Why does 0:49 onward go so hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@user-qi4sn4no8v]

3:27 not the x 💀

[@ТоварищСовви]

THEY GOT THEM PICTURES IN THERE

[@someoneinthatacc2827]

0:32 that was not the phobos sound

[@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!

[@KesorodaBlk]

I Half expect Pulseman to pop out of the screen!

[@xenonorsomething]

Someone's gonna sample this

[@MegaGameBeaast]

0:49 wow

[@qwertyhbeny_1111]

can you do binary-waterfall.exe next?

[@burgirmachine]

What if i made a gd level with this

[@TGWLEAD]

Doing same things via GoldWave.

[@dasho-tech-official]

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

[@OliversTech]

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

[@opa-rappa]

asmr

[@kxhu]

0:48
2:04
2:34

[@gd_rakaplay9820]

No copyright :)

[@Scubder]

I downloaded the program and ran it and for some reason, it asked for microphone access
Why is that?

[@EllaJameson]

Huh... I honestly don't know. It doesn't access the microphone, just loads binary files. What OS are you using it on, it doesn't do that for me on Windows 10.

[@EllaJameson]

If it keeps happening for you, make an issue on GitHub with screenshots and as much info as possible. Thank you!

[@Scubder]

@@EllaJameson I was running it through Wine CrossOver on MacOS with the only other app being the wine explorer

[@gkmations]

is it downloadable?