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As far as the special edition, a CD/DVD would follow the format of the last two albums. As for the questions about pre-orders, sometimes different retailers have different pre-order bonus tracks. For example, Depeche Mode's last album had 2 Best Buy pre-order bonus tracks, 1 iTunes pre-order track and some region only exclusive tracks. In addition, there were bonus tracks available without a pre-order. All in all, there were quite a few digital only tracks. Quite a few other bands have done similar. MTM had bonus tracks on iTunes, Best Buy and Walmart. What sucks is that half the time, it's live or remix tracks (the Depeche Mode tracks were ALL remixes).

I'm gonna wait until we get more details, but I'm sure I'll get the special edition, especially if the packaging is as cool as the MTM book.

There's a "save locally" option next to the solo button. This leads me to believe you can save them to your PC, I just can't get it to work or figure out how. "Load Local Track" takes a audio file from your computer, wouldn't "save locally" do the opposite?

I hate when people say ignorant statements and act like Christianity is the only religion. There are tons and tons of religions and lots and lots of people and cultures believe in different Gods. I hate when people try and push there religious views down on others. I'm not saying anybody in this thread said anything like that because I don't want to piss people off, but it's going to suck when the new album is released and it has lyrics like the new puzzle. I'm not an atheist, but I do not believe in 'Christ'. I don't believe in Christianity at all. I do believe in a God, my God, but it's more spiritual than anything.

I mostly agree with you, but from what Chester has said in interviews about his religion, I wouldn't be too concerned. I don't think the mention of God is meant to alienate anyone. I think it is what it is in the context of the puzzle. The last on drew from Hinduism, so I don't think the album is going to have any religious agenda.

I mentioned the Wired article in the thread for the last puzzle. I don't think it's relevant information anymore. I think it's important that Mike said "Now, please erase all the stuff you’ve filled your minds with regarding ASCII, double discs, release dates, concepts, Trinities, the Matrix, and FIRIN’ MAH LAZARS!". I think "The Catalyst" works with the whole message to get to something.

I think the problem we had last time was getting to abstract. The answer was in the quote derived from the binary. I think it's best to take an Occam's razor approach. I read far too much Hindu scripture last time just to solve a puzzle.

Using wiki, "Shiva" is the Destroyer of Trimurti, sometimes called the Great Trinity.

EDIT: Another Bhagavad Gita quote: Of horses, know Me to be the nectar-born Ucchaisravas; of lordly elephants, Airavata and of men, the monarch

Yeah, just read that over at LPA. I hope we're not back to square one. I still think the Atomic Age is relevant.

Someone made reference to Eiao island on the LPMB. Again, another possible tie-in to nuclear weapons.

With all of this floating around I'm really starting to think the album is called Trinity and that could very well be the cover.

 

I could also very well be wrong.

Mike said there would be a reward though at the end, right? Trinity isn't returning much aside from the shirt.

I'm also searching a lot of stuff on Google since Mike said "Search harder".

Does anyone know where the video with that damn elephant was filmed?

http://twitter.com/trinityconcerts

 

Scroll down.

 

Also, from LPA: the hindu religion worships the elephant

and some people say that the path to enlightenment is a reward.

Man, if that elephant really means something.

Maybe off topic, but shit:

Sandia National Laboratories is one of the Department of Energy's three nuclear weapons research facilities. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it was created in 1949 by J. Robert Oppenheimer, former head of the nearby Los Alamos lab, as a center for developing the technology that goes into nuclear bombs. The lab is run by the Sandia Corporation, which is owned by defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

Read More http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/n...2#ixzz0ruX4ok00

You might think Chester would stay away from this dude.

My bet is the new album has "Trinity" in the name somewhere.

I'm iffy, since that shirt isn't from the LP site, but didn't they say they aren't changing their logo? This shirt is just a variation of the pre-existing logo.

Also:

Oppenheimer and Groves posed for reporters near the remains of the mangled test tower shortly after the war. In the years after the test, the pictures have become a potent symbol of the beginning of the so-called "Atomic Age"

http://store.bandmerch.com/cgi-bin/liveweb...;sponsor=000031

The testing of the bomb by Oppenheimer was called the Trinity Test.

Check out this LP shirt: http://www.cidmerch.com/catalogue/product/...hirt_Mens/Black

I put the code from the image as a decimal and when converted to ASCII, it returned these characters:

http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0xADB0/index.html

http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0xADB1/index.html

Here's a picture of Hangul characters: http://seoulbysubway.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/hangul.jpg

Converting their Hex codes of them to ASCII returns these two:䑤 䑥

Both seem to be Chinese characters referring to a boat or ship. One mentions a ship or vessel, which seems to tie in some of the other things mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul

Any thoughts?

Would Binary to sound be different than the whole picture to sound? I'm very interested in helping out on this end. I don't know if this is the direction anyone is headed in, but it's worth a shot.

Played around with it in photo impression and I found a face on the left and what looks like sheet music on the right. Look below. Don't know if they were found before

 

Face

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z5/deanowardust/ms1.jpg

 

Sheet Music

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z5/deanowardust/ms2.jpg

That "sheet music" looks more like MIDI data, though I have no idea what would be done with it.

http://www.exhibit24.net/net2.htm - Check the left side of the page, I'm in there among the "A" names. Following an ARG is fun, being included as part of it is even more fun!

Check out 24.24.2.1659. So much fun.

I was also thinking putting the 13 frames over one another seems like the next step.

Wouldn't the Photoshop layers Mark was referring to and the frame-by-frame shots of the .gif animation be 2 different things?

As far as I know, Photoshop layers are like putting one thing in front of another in one photo. It doesn't have anything to do with frames. If you start removing layers, maybe something will show. I unfortunately don't have Photoshop to test it out.

There's nothing interesting as far as a spectrogram goes. I've tried the gif by itself and frame by frame. I also tried converting the picture to sound (with audiopaint), nothing interesting there either.

Agreed about being disappointed about the 128k. I was wondering though if the quality is maybe better on the ipad version? If anyone didn't see it, there's an HD version (note the irony here) of the game for the ipad @ 185 MB.

Also, Did anyone else notice A.06 missing in both 8 bit or hi-res?

This is a link to watch the chat the guys just did:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5861070

When Mike stopped, it got archived.

I think you can DL it here: http://ustream.vo.llnwd.net/pd2/0/1/5/5861...465_5861070.flv

Excellent! Thank you!

i got a version which includeds the interview with mike.

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D626GA8C

 

mp3 | 69.2 MB | 192 kbps

I think this might be the version I have, but I'll compare the two. Thanks!

I've been looking around for this and can't seem to find it anywhere. It would be really nice to see the FM version out there since it's the first time I heard the Meteora tracks and a lot of other people probably did, too.

I have a websourced version that's transcoded (it's at 44.1, not 48 kHz) that I recorded when it first streamed and I really did not know what I was doing back then, so the quality has suffered.

It really ridiculous how some of you have slaughtered Adam for one statement.

The LPU has become this place where tons and tons of exclusive stuff is supposed to come from and people get pissed when it doesn't. You get a CD and a shirt every year which is equal to (if not less than) the price of the package. The band isn't making some huge profit from it.

So many Linkin Park fans I've seen are extremely ungrateful. Name some other bands that have recorded the last 3 years of their touring for download and have 9 fan club CDs? I don't know what bands you're all listening to that care so much it makes LP seem like they don't care about the fans.

were you there?

Sorry I didn't specify. I was there. It was actually the first concert I ever saw.