I got another 10 days of World of Warcraft promotional time, so I thought I’d do a field recording of life among these pandas. I did not accidentally delete the screenshots this time.
I got seven days of free World of Warcraft time for the pre-release of Mists of Pandaria. I decided to check out the state of the game. It wasn’t as exciting as I remember it. But, I made a field recording of my experience (points) to share.
Dr. B
When I uninstalled the bloated client, I did not think to save the screenshots. Ooops!
Here’s a different screenshot of Potamus playing on a netbook. At least it runs on just about anything.
It should probably be noted that these sounds are recorded from me playing World of Warcraft, and so probably also remain the property of Blizzard. But it’s just for fun anyway, so why should anyone care about the legality? First thing I’ll do when I rule the world: kill all the lawyers. How do you even “own” a “sound,” man? Whoa.
ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)
posted in Ogg Vorbis format in order to preserve the sample rate
MP3 tops out at a sample rate of 48000Hz. I’m a little disappointed.
Ogg’s downfall is poor hardware support — which always puzzled me since it is open source and would take literally a single workday to implement in popular hardware such as the one made by that fruit company. Even then, the likelihood of this one working on hardware is almost zero. My Sansa supports Ogg Vorbis, but not apparently at 96kHz.
The WAV version of this track is available from SoundCloud.
ONGELEGEN -- Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)[ 5:00 ]Download
