"As an innovator I have one simple goal: to make an app."

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's in the video

@honey3693

3 жыл бұрын

I'm baffled how this comment has almost 2k likes but only 2 replies, now 3.

@reinux

2 жыл бұрын

This has to be one of the best lines to come out of the onion

@user-dp7ye3cg2z

2 жыл бұрын

Whatever it is

@myczxr

2 жыл бұрын

brilliant

"But can it turn your music into photos? No it can't. Do you get to keep the original photo? No it gets deleted." Amazing

@chaminadecrew79

3 жыл бұрын

Always back up your photos before using PicSong

@VivekYadav-ds8oz

3 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, deleting photos isn't usually a consequence of loading a photo, so they deliberately deleted the photo after making its song, for some reason.

@skeletonbuyingpealts7134

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's in the video

@TheGreenReaper

2 жыл бұрын

@@VivekYadav-ds8oz Sounds like a great opportunity for an app to turn music into photos. 🎶📲🖼️

@nathanlittle8626

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaminadecrew79 why did I read up to this point while he was saying it

Onion Talks Ideas Worth Shredding

@manicabawse2867

5 жыл бұрын

If you are still alive holla at a nigha

@solandge36

4 жыл бұрын

How dare you, sir?

@mintgardener

4 жыл бұрын

Gold

@TheMW2informer

4 жыл бұрын

Manica Bawse he’s dead

@user-dp7ye3cg2z

2 жыл бұрын

Only 1.5k likes? This deserves way more than that

Haha, for my Uni project I wrote software that converts an image into sound and music. I struggled when people asked what the point of it was, if only I'd had this video.

@-nathun8507

6 жыл бұрын

Toby Bull can I have the code?

@TheJudge064

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! You're that guy?

@magnuspeacock5857

4 жыл бұрын

Can it be made into an app? I would genuinely like this to be a thing!

@hgfuhgvg

4 жыл бұрын

Did you remember to delete the original picture?

@gangstasteve5753

4 жыл бұрын

@@-nathun8507 its easy. My approach would be to get the rbg of each pixel of the image (with lowered resolution) and use that rgb color to play a song. There can be a red tone, a blue tone, and a green tone, and it would play them all at the same time for each pixel.

I love how confident his voice sounds but he’s literally saying “I don’t know why or who I made this for but I made it”

@hoid9407

Жыл бұрын

I love that it sounds like he's completely riffing who it's for. "Deaf people, oh yeah deaf people might like this... Babies who understand noise better than light? They might exist." Onion used to be so great.

@aualga

Жыл бұрын

And after the talk, it suddenly hit him. "Oh yeah! Now I remember why I made this app! Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to take all that LSD at work."

The Onion is like an app that turns the truth into humor.

@Paralellex

4 жыл бұрын

If you want to do that for some reason.

@bigfatitalian7298

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck off buttershit

@ryanmarbut1035

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigfatitalian7298 Why are you asking him to turn the "fuck" off. I'm using it!

@theself5738

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!

@Caesar88888

3 жыл бұрын

I hope truth doesnt get deleted

MAKE AN ANDROID VERSION ALREADY!

@user-uv1tw3so7r

6 жыл бұрын

Krombopulos Michael Still relevant today (-_-)

@patrikfrroku7215

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-uv1tw3so7r Still relevant today (-_-)

@sdc303

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrikfrroku7215 Yeah, still relevant today (-_-)

@Pichipieify

2 жыл бұрын

@@sdc303 no it's not

@average_person444

5 ай бұрын

Yes it is. Picsong has not released on android yet​@@Pichipieify

“As an innovator, I have one simple goal. To make an app.” Too true.

This man is the new Steve Jobs. Such brilliance and innovation. I'm sure I need to turn my photos into music for whatever reason.

@ignilc

5 жыл бұрын

what reason?

@jsquire5pa

4 жыл бұрын

ignilc are you trolling?

@stevewhite7084

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe blind people might like it. There you go,he gave you a good reason. Why they might need it,have no idea but its a reason.

I'm genuinely surprised a program like this doesn't already actually exist.

@baconinvader

5 жыл бұрын

it probably does, in many different forms

@abdicolestudios8899

5 жыл бұрын

I just made one in under 2 hours

@christobanistan8887

4 жыл бұрын

@@abdicolestudios8899 Is it on a store? Tell us the name.

@gangstasteve5753

4 жыл бұрын

it does. many programmers make it as a project. It just never gets released as an app for whatever reason.

@mostpassiveuser8904

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently it does. www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2014/04/09/262386815/can-you-hear-a-photo-see-a-sound-artist-adam-brown-thinks-so

But why do my pictures of rotting corpses keep turning into John Maher songs?

@GIFT1FROM1THE1GODZ

5 жыл бұрын

let me guess, they're all off Battle Studies?

@oliverklozhoff

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the app is a true aural translation of the images

@moistnugget4147

4 жыл бұрын

holy fuck lol

@builderphill1361

3 жыл бұрын

@@GIFT1FROM1THE1GODZ john maher isn't john mayer

@Phildiculous

3 жыл бұрын

@@builderphill1361 but John Maher doesn't have any solo work ... did they mean John Mayer?

I love that his company created an app with no purpose or market, and he's up front about that fact.

@jesseleeward2359

4 жыл бұрын

True story

@unfetteredparacosmian

3 жыл бұрын

If only most companies were that honest

@delcarm

Жыл бұрын

I respect it, makes me wanna buy it

“Do you want to know what how you look sounds like?” Best line.

@marvincool3744

Жыл бұрын

Not particularly

I have been to a lot of Silicon Valley company pitches that were a lot like this.

@atthesunrise

2 жыл бұрын

That's the joke.

"As an innovator, I have one simple goal: to make an app." God if that doesn't sum up most innovation

_The Onion_ predicted multi-modal generative AI by almost a decade. Mad respect.

@kieran.grant_

5 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking, lmao

reminds me of a script i made in javascript which took images and turned them into 3d spheres for some reason. it looked at the pixels and grouped them by colour, for each colour it detected to made a sphere who's size was based on how often that colour showed up and who's location in 3 dimensional space was based on the value of the colours (so #FF00FF was the vector 255,0,255) also the colour of the sphere was the colour it's location was based on. so if you wanted to do that for some reason, i made a script for that.

@Muykle

7 жыл бұрын

where can I get this?

@3798penisholder

6 жыл бұрын

I should of known how much of a nerd you are by ur profile pic

@CanelaAguila

6 жыл бұрын

Kind of disappointed by the RGB solution dude, not even using a fancy API to shape the spheres according to the emotions conveyed in the pictures? Something to consider for the next update

@r.alexander9075

6 жыл бұрын

Uhh yes i need multicolored balls for research... wheres the link

@crankfrank3592

5 жыл бұрын

A method very similar to this is actually used for image segmentation, if you're interested. By finding objects of similar color that are relatively close (spatially) to each other, you can identify, for example, individual cells for cell counting in biology labs.

'No, it gets deleted' Spat out my drink at that one.

"Bottom line is: it's an app, and it works." Wouldn't it be awesome if Bill Gates could say that someday?

@VineFynn

6 жыл бұрын

Dude's already the richest person on Earth, why would he need to make apps?

@nukecorruption

6 жыл бұрын

VineFynn actually he's the second richest nowadays

@abdicolestudios8899

5 жыл бұрын

NukeCorruption not after Jeff’s divorce

@wb8211

5 жыл бұрын

Or John Mcaffee

@PhantomAyz

4 жыл бұрын

Apple workers definitely could

I want a photo that turns apps into music. I think that would be far more impressive

ridiculously ahead of its time.

It's an app and it works? That's like, two of the things that are practically required to make a great app! I'm sold.

I kind of wish this existed. Hello, lazy custom ringtones for my friends.

Closing their eyes wasn't enough, they had to shelter themselves. lol

@slotgrinder5596

6 жыл бұрын

Imagining that they have a lot of photos and they need them to be music for some reason or some other problem I don't know

I've taken a lot of photos in my life, and I can honestly say I've never wanted to turn them into music. And after watching this helpful video, I still don't.

Half of Ted talks are just as absurd as this. Kudos to Onion for calling them on it.

I used this app on my girlfriend and all it does is emit a shrill, obnoxious screeching noise.

@MilkandDyskit

10 жыл бұрын

That was a microphone recording, not the app, silly.

@amitthehuman

6 жыл бұрын

The app or your girlfriend?

@deadgoon9705

6 жыл бұрын

Amit Stein probably both

@rajthomas5785

6 жыл бұрын

It means the app worked. Congratulations!

@tincanstantheman

6 жыл бұрын

is your girlfriend Hillary Clinton?

we have this too now The Onion just reports from the future

@pluntchgunster6156

Жыл бұрын

Where?

@htsgm

Жыл бұрын

@@pluntchgunster6156 Melobytes it turns photos into music if you want to do that for some reason

It makes me really uncomfortable that there's one camera angle where he's very clearly not standing at the right angle but somehow not falling over, like at 3:19

@grandmothermud6498

2 жыл бұрын

What the heck, it must be a green screen

@thephony1651

Жыл бұрын

Nah he’s just Michael Jackson’s cousin

I can finally appreciate how beautiful and meaningful staplers truly are.

This is totally coming some day.

@whatdoesthisthingdo

5 жыл бұрын

For some reason.

@michaeljurado7224

4 жыл бұрын

Steps to make ap: 1)train an autoencoder for image dataset. 2) Take the outputs of the dense layer and apply arbitrary function to map to mp3 of fixed time interval 3) return useless mp3 file. 4) Make money and have midlife crisis at age 40

Yeah but can it turn VIDEO in to Music?

@crazychri1

10 жыл бұрын

WOAH WOAH WOAH we are years away from that type of technology!

@Xbob42

10 жыл бұрын

No, you idiot! It turns video into strings of text! Here's a video of my cat playing the trombone: kjewjfjJJKZPp1o1oAZTTT9290430{}{}{|||||>>

@Slyguy846

10 жыл бұрын

Xbob42 Here's my response video to your cat video: ks@$%aafnzafew&^$/danf1o921+_(58bear13aqtfacn>)(!@#!$@%!a15 *agfawbugeaw!@%#!H%IU%!#BHABUAB%!5bu25b* a̶r̶f̶a̶w̶e̶g̶@̶!̶%̶&̶s̶d̶a̶j̶i̶a̶h̶r̶!̶@̶$̶!̶@̶h̶%̶!̶#̶^̶!̶#̶a̶r̶n̶a̶e̶i̶!̶@̶ Not really impressed.

@PeterMeijer1

10 жыл бұрын

The vOICe for Android app does video play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe

@alexnejako777

2 ай бұрын

i have an app for that.. not as silly though

The funniest part about this is that this actually exists, this is a totally real thing someone made

@sainttheresetaylor2054

Жыл бұрын

what's it called?

@KRABPXL

Жыл бұрын

@@sainttheresetaylor2054 Melobytes, its a website

This could actually be a really weird way to store images in another universe

@Skullmiser

2 жыл бұрын

You can't use picsong to turn songs into pictures. He said so. I'm sure there are lots of other reasons you might need to use this software, though. What are they? That's up to you.

@lampoilropebombs0640

Жыл бұрын

This is a good way to convey information in images to blind people.

2:54 “Do you want to know what how you look sounds like??” 😂

"Are thee babies like that? Idon't know..." That one did it for me :D

@DMontez3

10 жыл бұрын

The overuse of the word, "things" did it for me.

Onion predicts AI in music. Damn.

“I can’t tell you why you need this it’s not my job”

This was literally my Software Engineering I project. You have no idea just how accurate this is!

This sounds like the inane thing that ppl would love on tik tok or snapchat

Crazy AI people are now working on this somewhere lol

This actually brings a powerful message: confidence sells.

@jacquesmalan5950

Ай бұрын

I don't think so

This was actually many years ago. They already developed an app that turns music into videos. In fact, this video is actually a converted music file.

@GoPieman

Жыл бұрын

Crazy because to make videos rather than pictures you need four-dimensional music yet here we are

As usual, the onion was prophetic. Years later, we have image to sound AI.

"Includes paid promotion"

Once again The Onion has predicted the future

I love how a stapler sounds like a game over theme from an E-E10+ rated PS2 game.

A stapler sounds like a Frank Zappa song. Good to know!

Haha he sounds like one of your friends pitching an idea he thought of while drunk or high

Great onion talks are back. Love this series.

Build it and they will come! In 30 years our grandchildren will laugh at the fact that we once only experienced photos with our eyes.

Finally! Now, I can turn my photos into music for some reason, if I ever need that sort of thing, which I won't know until I do it, which is why I need the app! Thanks, PicSong!!!

"Are there babies like that? I don't know!"

This is how Juicero started.

@The_Charlatan

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, how do you remember that?

That green screen work was just painful.

is this out yet? how much is it?

My local planetarium actually does this and it just doesn’t make sense. Nobody visually impaired will go to an hour show for 5 minutes of weird sound, and for everyone else it’s exactly as awkward as this video makes it.

I might use this app for some reason

This is real now

As an innovator I have one simple goal. To make an app.

First thing I thought of was Windows Media Player on my old Dell from 2004.

@whateverlolawants

5 жыл бұрын

Dude. I could have written this comment.

@maxungar516

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, well i just as easily could've written your comment. why don't ya suck on that, big boy

Artificial Intelligence will now do all this for you.

This'd be used to make Bad Apple with Bad Apple, and then it will never be used again

Now that we’re getting AI to turn Spotify playlists into images for some reason, I think we’re clear that onion is a time travelling news agency

@bboi1489

10 ай бұрын

Well duh, they have that satilite that can see into the future

@Thumb_

7 ай бұрын

Duh… haven’t you seen Onion Future News?

For anyone wondering this guy is now one of the chief marketing officers at OpenAI.

Not good enough, I need it to turn my music into photos

This is actually something I could see a future app developer making for some reason

If they just had one of the pictures turn into someone screaming this would’ve been like 10x better

I love that in my subscriptions feed, the video above this was a TED talk titled: "Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". Either one could be the joke. Perfect timing.

_"TErD: Ideas worth keeping to yourself."_

I thought "oh it's like the Tantacrul video about how most sonification is completely pointless" and then saw it came out way earlier

There was a kickstarter or indigogo campaign for a program that turns songs Into recipes for meatballs. It was made by Swedish art students

Love the detail of all of them being terrible midis being played back over windows wavetable

I clicked a photo of my trash and it played Baby.

I like how diligently they all covered their eyes.

'Close your eyes'. Audience closes their eyes with their hands.Great joke.

It reminds me a little bit on "Anthem" in one of the Douglas Adams novels. It took financial records and turned them into company anthems!

And now we have Google's Gemini AI, which actually can convert images into sound or text. 😅

Jaw-dropping technology. Never would have dreamed something like this could happen in my lifetime.

Fun fact, recent developments in assistive technology actually are for this. For example, describing the curvature and trends of a graph in music, so blind people can "see" some digital media that can't really have alt text

The fact that this is actually real now...

I needed an idea for a project thank you

You know, there's actually already an algorithm that does something eerily similar, and it's based on the work of a mathematician in 1822. The fourier transformation transforms an image into a unique assortment of waves of different frequencies and amplitudes. Waves like that could be directly converted to sound and bam, you're done.

Why all pictures of me & my girlfriend keep turning into circus music thoe?

I reckon a photo of me would sound like "Because I Got High" by Afroman.

10 years later, this actually became real

Skullflower's legal department wants a word...

Yeah I made SoundPaint 15 years ago and found out the hard way that nobody really wanted to do that.

I'm watching this in 2022 and this hits the nail right on the head about "IoT", "digitalization", "digital transformation" and so many other stuff product marketing blows up smoke about.

Apple inventing Live Photo’s in 2017: 👀

We can actually do this now

Still makes more sense than ted

I've actually always wanted to do this. Thank you, Onion, for bringing this to me.

It would be great if such an app could work. Imagine watching a video during bedtime without opening my eyes even less grabbing a phone.

I use it to delete my photo library with a nice background music as a bonus. 15$ well spent.

This is the future. Sell your house, car, anything you have, and invest it in this now.

And once you have it, it will send you an update every two or three days for the rest of your life.

I love how he just admits that this idea is so stupid

Crazy how this is basically now an AI product.

bro some one at youtube maerked this for including paid promotion why?

@portalbuilder7021

6 ай бұрын

Thats so funny omg