Spam filters are getting better and better. This is unfortunate, because that means you just don't get enough spam to read in your e-mail box. You're crying out for more. Don't despair...instead, listen to this stream of Lovely Spam Music.
listen to Lovely Spam Music in mp3 stream (m3u) format.
listen to Lovely Spam Music in XSPF (XML Shareable Playlist) format.
In January of 2012, niteshad told me about spamradio.com, a classic streaming radio station that plays spam in synthesized speech, over ambient electronic music. Quickly, i got addicted; it became my default background music for working, sleeping, or messing around on the computer. However, i quickly realised that spamradio.com was playing the same few spams from about 2006 over and over again on its stream. Some of the spams were extremely funny, but it got boring once i had memorised all the spams they were playing.
Since i'm interested in algorithmic composition, i decided i could write some code to create new music, start collecting amusing spams i received, and create a more frequently updated stream that serves up a more extensive collection of spam. This is that stream.
Download a .tar.gz archive of the code. This includes both the Python script used to generate the background music for the spams, as well as the bash script that creates and mixes the spam music tracks.
The Python script requires Python, as well as the midiutil library.
The bash script depends on a few utilities that should be available through most Linux package managers: Festival (speech synthesis package), timidity, sox, and lame.
If you want to do your part to make Lovely Spam Music more ridiculous, please use the email address lovely.spam.music@gmail.com to sign up for anything that may cause spam to come its way. That way, instead of the spam clogging your inbox, it will float mellifluously toward your ears.
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