The app will find the file incomprehensible and will tell you that the file is corrupted or in a format the app can’t understand.
An app that works with raw next (Windows’ Editor or notepad++ or any IDE) will try to parse the binary data as text and fail miserably, showing you lots of undecodable-unicode characters.
Imagine you have a book that’s written in Korean. If you gave it to me and asked me to read it out loud, I wouldn’t be able to make sense out of it. If you gave it to a Korean person, however, they could read it perfectly fine.
The book itself hasn’t changed — just the person reading the book. And that person has a different set of skills (or instructions, if you will).
The text program obviously can’t process and play the audio, it will try to open the file as if it contains text.
But it’s not like opening the file destroys it. You can still just close the text program, and then open the file using a suitable media program instead.
Here’s the thing: Let’s say your text editor interprets the file as ASCII.
Several characters in the ASCII table aren’t printable. The first 32 characters in the table are control characters, so they don’t get displayed on screen as text you could copy and paste. So if you opened an audio file in a text editor as an ASCII file, copied the text, pasted it in another text field, then saved that file, any bytes that were between 0 and 32 decimal would be missing.
The app will find the file incomprehensible and will tell you that the file is corrupted or in a format the app can’t understand.
An app that works with raw next (Windows’ Editor or notepad++ or any IDE) will try to parse the binary data as text and fail miserably, showing you lots of undecodable-unicode characters.
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But is sound reproducible this way?
Imagine you have a book that’s written in Korean. If you gave it to me and asked me to read it out loud, I wouldn’t be able to make sense out of it. If you gave it to a Korean person, however, they could read it perfectly fine.
The book itself hasn’t changed — just the person reading the book. And that person has a different set of skills (or instructions, if you will).
What do you even mean by that?
The text program obviously can’t process and play the audio, it will try to open the file as if it contains text.
But it’s not like opening the file destroys it. You can still just close the text program, and then open the file using a suitable media program instead.
Here’s the thing: Let’s say your text editor interprets the file as ASCII.
Several characters in the ASCII table aren’t printable. The first 32 characters in the table are control characters, so they don’t get displayed on screen as text you could copy and paste. So if you opened an audio file in a text editor as an ASCII file, copied the text, pasted it in another text field, then saved that file, any bytes that were between 0 and 32 decimal would be missing.
I know.
I didn’t claim you could do that.
I said you could close the file and open it using something else. Not save and then open it using something else.