Ahh ok… well done!! And now for the cruncher: did you by any chance check which file was number 28? Was it the same Fib or file number 25?
I’ll rest for a bit now
I’ve been awake for 38 hours of the pasta 48
Need some rest.
Brain shutting down.
See you soon
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I haven’t been following it that closely. I just know the order has reversed. So have the countdown bars. They’re moving to the right, now.
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Yeah i also thought this as a possibility. Someone mentioned blanks or marker points so i wonder if we match the lyrics emily posted in time with the sound files we identify the letters at the points which lead us to a password phrase/word
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OK, I have converted the first two files with data in them (that’s thk0s00ab7rxfh14f8bv0qlpvtt367.mp4 and 6qhs4a3jiqzso8zipy3822n7412xyv.mp4) into WAV files, inverted one, and mixed them together.
Some of the signals cancel out completely, showing they were identical in both files. The mixed file is the bottom one. I’ve circled the bits that got cancelled in red.
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@Polyphemus so you mean that file 2 = file 1 + (extra material) ?
Edit: can you give us a link to the mixed (new) file?
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Not that simple. Both files share some identical signals. but both files also have signals that are not present in the other.
I’ve tried putting files on my Google drive and posting the link here - it doesn’t work.
There doesn’t seem to be anything special about the mixed file - I’ll PM you.
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Apparently the forces of W/ARE are preventing my sleep forcing my GF to argue, I guess I’ll hang around a bit more
Sounds interesting.
What are your thoughts after listening to it?
Not much, to be honest. It doesn’t sound significantly different from the others.
I’m not coming up with answers at the moment - I’m asking questions. What facts do we know about these files?
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I was just running some of them through a morse code decoder, it produced lots of letters and even more # symbols. o.O
Trouble with those Morse decoders is they use Fourier transforms. They’ll find patterns even where there are none.
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Congratulations! You’ve Won…nothing. Unless I bump into you in Real Life…where you may win either an old Mardi Gras necklace I got in New Orleans or a random old video arcade token! -)
Now to your question. Yes, it is a anagram of Noldor…very observant! I read The Hobbit when I was 9 years old. Then found Lord of the Rings books when I was 14. Been a fan ever since. I’ve used the online name of Noldor Numbwit starting in 1993. But when I started alpha testing the game Lord of the Rings Online for both Turbine and Codemasters, I couldn’t use “Noldor” in my character name…so it became “Dolnor”. I also use “Elondra” as any female toons I use during testing games…but only during the testing phases.
Since I’ve gotten older, I’ve reverted back to “Noldor” because it means something else in addition to LotR-nut! No Older…but using an Oldor…still is pronounced the same and that is important. -)
Thanks for asking! -)
TQQdles™,
Dolnor Numbwit
Eternal Testing Newbie
Member, The Older Gamers (TOG)
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I figured it was finding something from nothing, so I gave up… 
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I’ve read almost everything LoTR related.
I’m currently reading something of Cthulhu, and then I’ll start reading “The children’s of Hurin”
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I edited the file #2 in Audacity. I removed most of the silent parts between the bursts and just put the bursts together. I ran it at normal speed. It sounds like someone saying something…each burst sounds like a strange word. Maybe it is just a fluke of that file. I’ll try it with the other sound files to see what happens.
Yeah, it was just a fluke. Hmmm…back to the drawing board! -)
TQQdles™
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Best version of the ring of the Nibelung, period.
Anyways, going to listen to those files for a while now to see if can make out any rythms.
Funny because my nick here is the one i used in a table RPG for a Noldor 15 years ago (hard to play a Noldor during the 4th age). He was supposed to be from a branch of Ecthelion family.
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I think you all might be on to something with the musical approach.
In Audacity, the spectograms for the left and right look slightly different. Is this normal for audio files?
So my latest attempt was to take a file into Audacity, reverse ever other pulse, marry it to the previous pulse…to see if it creates a word. It sounds like a strange language but nothing recognizable. I don’t know if you can change pitch in Audacity that doesn’t affect the speed…or to speed it up with out changing pitch?
Another try…maybe taking one file and reverse the playback profile…and match it to another file’s normal playback profile…maybe they match up? Grasping at straws! -)
TQQdles™
Estimated distance using Google Maps (right click on location (measure distance) then left click on second location). Measurements taken when Uplink audible sound stopped.
change from no-signal at 1725 miles to 2qci73sahjtucnf76mafov4g8wzp4l
closest approach 54 miles
change to no-signal, 1439 miles