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ProduKey v1.93 - Recover lost Windows product key (CD-Key) and Office 2003/2007 product key. Copyright (c) 2005 - 2018 Nir Sofer |
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Description
ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007),Windows (Including Windows 8/7/Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for anotheroperating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you wantto reinstall it on your computer.Versions History
- Version 1.93
- Added 'Office Product Name Extraction Mode' option, which controls the way that the product name of MS-Office is extarcted from the Registry:
'Prefer the product name from Uninstall Registry key' - ProduKey tries to extract the product name from the Uninstall Registry entry, like it did until version 1.85
'Prefer the product name from Office Registry key' - ProduKey first tries to extract the product name from 'ProductNameNonQualified' and 'ConvertToEdition' Registry values, like it did starting from version 1.86
- Added 'Office Product Name Extraction Mode' option, which controls the way that the product name of MS-Office is extarcted from the Registry:
- Version 1.92
- Added 'Build Number' column (For Windows entries only).
- Version 1.91
- When loading product keys from remote computer or external drive, the name of the computer or external path is now displayed in the window title.
- Version 1.90
- When the 'Temporarily start the remote registry service on the remote computer' option is turned on, ProduKeynow starts the Remote Registry service even if it's disabled.
- Version 1.88
- Added 'Save All Items' option.
- Version 1.87
- Fixed to display Office version if the product name is not stored in the Registry.
- Version 1.86
- Fixed bug: ProduKey displayed wrong product name of Microsoft Office taken from another Registry key.
- Version 1.85
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option.
- Added 'Auto Size Columns On Load' option.
- Version 1.83
- Added support for SQL Server 2012/2014.
- Version 1.82
- Added 'Run As Administrator' option (Ctrl+F11), which is needed to get a product key from external drive on Windows Vista and later.
- Version 1.81
- You can now export the product keys list to JSON file.
- Version 1.80
- Added option to temporarily start the remote registry service on the remote computer (For reading the product keys from the Registry on the remote computer).
- Version 1.75
- Added support for some Adobe and Autodesk products.
- Version 1.70
- Added support for BIOS OEM Key (Windows 8).
- Version 1.67
- The DefaultProductKey Registry key support added on v1.61 is now turned off by default (You can turn it on with 'Load Default Product Key' option).
- Version 1.66
- Added /NoErrorMessage command-line option. If you specify it with a save command-line option, an error messagewon't be displayed if the save action is failed. Instead, the error code will be returned to the caller.
- Version 1.65
- Added support for Visual Studio.
- Version 1.62
- Fixed bug from v1.61: ProduKey crashed in some systems.
- Version 1.61
- ProduKey now tries to extract the key from DefaultProductKey Registry key if the product key cannot be found in the standard location of Windows 7 product key.
- Version 1.60
- Added support for SQL Server 2008.
- Version 1.56
- Fixed a bug with the 'N' character location on the product key of Windows 8.
- Version 1.55
- Fixed ProduKey to decode properly the product key of Windows 8.
- Version 1.54
- Fixed issue: The properties and 'Select Source' windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
- Version 1.53
- Fixed bug: ProduKey displayed wrong product name string for Exchange Server 2003.
- Version 1.52
- Decreased the height of the 'Select Source' window to fit the netbook screen size of 1024x600.
- Version 1.51
- Added 'Show Time In GMT' option.
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
- Version 1.50
- Added 'Show the computer name for every IP address' option.This option is useful when you scan a range of IP addresses, and you want to view the computer nameof every IP address. Be aware that the computer names will appear a few seconds after finishing to scan the product keys.
- Version 1.46
- Added accelerator keys for 'Copy Product ID' (Ctrl+I) and for 'Copy Product Key' (Ctrl+K).
- Version 1.45
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are addedas the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
- Version 1.43
- When the product key is not stored in the Registry (like in volume licenses of Windows 7), ProduKey will display 'Product key was not found' instead of wrong 'BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB' key
- Version 1.42
- Added 'Copy Product ID' and 'Copy Product Key' options.
- Version 1.41
- Added /ExtractEdition command-line option.
- Version 1.40
- Fixed ProduKey to display the right product key of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta (Office 14)
- Version 1.38
- Added sorting options from command-line.
- Version 1.37
- Fixed issue with x64 systems - The 32-bit version of ProduKey can now also retrievethe product key when you run it on x64 system.
- Version 1.36
- Added command-line options to control which types of product keys will be shown. (/WindowsKeys, /OfficeKeys, and others)
- Version 1.35
- New option: Load the product keys of external Windows installations from all disks currently plugged to your computer.When using this option, ProduKey automatically scan all your hard-drives, find the Windows installation folder in them, and extract all product keys stored in these Windows installations.
- New Command-Line Option: /external
- Version 1.33
- Fixed bug: In 'Select Source' dialog-box, a disk drive error message displayed in some computers.
- Added AutoComplete to Windows directoried combo-box.
- Version 1.32
- You can now send the information to stdout by specifying an empty filename (') in the command-line. (For example: produkey.exe /stab ' >> c:tempprd.txt)
- Version 1.31
- Added the last modified time of the ProductID Registry key.
- Version 1.30
- New option: display the edition (Standard/Professional/Enterprise) of Windows 2000/XP/2003. (doesn't work for remote computers)
- Added AutoComplete for file selection.
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to ProduKey.
- Version 1.26
- Added support for saving comma-delimited (.csv) files.
- Added new command-line option: /scomma
- Version 1.25
- Added new source option: Load the product keys from all computers in the specified IP addresses range.
- New command-line option: /iprange
- New option: Check every remote machine with ping before trying to connect. (Only for Windows 2000 or above)
- Version 1.20
- Added 'Select Source' (F9) option - user interface for loading the product keys from remote computers or from external drive.
- Version 1.15
- Added 'Service Pack' column (Only for Windows entries)
- Added 'Installation Folder' column (Only for Windows and Office entries)
- Version 1.10 - Added filters by product type.
- Version 1.08 - The configuration of ProduKey is now saved to a file instead of the Registry.
- Version 1.07
- Added support for product key of Ms-Office under x64, when it's retrieved from external Registry file.
- Added x64 build - for locally retrieving product keys of x64 versions of Windows.
- Version 1.06 - Added support for SQL Server 2005.
- Version 1.05
- Display information in the status bar while scanning computers with /remoteall and /remotefile options
- New option /remotealldomain - scan all computers in the specified domain.
- Changes in the way that /remoteall scan all computers.
- Version 1.04 - Added product key of Exchange Server.
- Version 1.03 - new command-line option: /remoteall
- Version 1.02 - On newer versions of Office (XP/2003) - display the real product name, if it's written in the Registry.
- Version 1.01 - Added support for XP visual style.
- Version 1.00 - First release.
Known Problems
- When running produkey.exe, Some Antivirus programs display an alert and/or block you from running it.Click here to read more about false alerts in Antivirus programs
If your Antivirus software shows a false alert, you can use the following article that explains how to send a report about a false positive issue to your Antivirus company:
How to Report Malware or False Positives to Multiple Antivirus Vendors - For some types of license keys under Windows 7/8/2008, the product key is not stored in the Registry, and thus 'Product key was not found' message will be displayed.
- If you bought your computer with installed operating system, you may find the Windows product key appeared in ProduKey utility is different from the product key on your Windows CD. This problem is mostly reported with Dell computers.
- From unknown reason, the product key of Visual Stuido .NET is written in the Registry as Office XP product..
- In old versions of Office (Office 2000 and below), the 'Product Key' value is not available.
Supported Products List
- Microsoft Windows 98/ME
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows 7 (Doesn't work with Microsoft Volume Licensing)
- Microsoft Windows 8 (Doesn't work with Microsoft Volume Licensing)
- Microsoft Windows 10 (Doesn't work with all types of licenses)
- Microsoft Office 2000 (Only ProductID is displayed)
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
- Visual Studio
- Some of the Adobe and Autodesk products.
System Requirements
ProduKey works on all versions of Windows. Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported. However, some features, like viewing theproduct keys of another operating system instance, are only supported on Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8.License
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Disclaimer
The software is provided 'AS IS' without any warranty, either expressed or implied,including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitnessfor a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental,consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.Using ProduKey
ProduKey doesn't requite any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, simply extract the files to any folder you like, and then run the executable file - produkey.exeIf you want, you can also download ProduKey with full install/uninstall support (produkey_setup.exe), and then install it like any other software.
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The main window of ProduKey displays the list of Windows, Office, and SQL Server products installed on your system.For each product, the 'Product ID' and 'Product Key' are displayed.If you want the view the product key information in another computer, or in another operating system within the same computer, use the command-line options below.Command-Line Options
/remotealldomain [Domain Name] | Enumerate all computers in the specified domain, and load the product key information from them. |
/iprange [From IP] [To IP] | Load product key information from all computers in the specified IP addresses range.In order to use this option, you must have Administrator privileges in all these computers. |
/windir [Windows Directory] | Load product key information from another operating system on the same computer.The [Windows Directory] specifies the base folder of Windows installation, for example:c:windows, c:winnt This feature is only supported on Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7. |
/regfile [Software Registry File] | Load product key information from another operating system on the same computer.The [Software Registry File] specifies the software registry file usually located underc:windowssystem32config This feature is only supported on Windows 2000 or greater. |
/WindowsKeys [0 | 1] | Specifies whether you want to view the product keys of Windows. 0 = No, 1 = Yes. |
/IEKeys [0 | 1] | Specifies whether you want to view the product keys of Internet Explorer. 0 = No, 1 = Yes. |
/ExchangeKeys [0 | 1] | Specifies whether you want to view the product keys of Exchange. 0 = No, 1 = Yes. |
/stab <Filename> | Save the list of product keys into a tab-delimited text file. |
/stabular <Filename> | Save the list of product keys into a tabular text file. |
/sverhtml <Filename> | Save the list of product keys into vertical HTML file. |
/sjson <Filename> | Save the list of product keys into JSON file. |
/NoErrorMessage | When you specify it, ProduKey will not display an error message if the save action is failed. |
Examples:
produkey.exe /remote Server01
produkey.exe /remotefile 'c:tempcomputers.txt'
produkey.exe /regfile 'F:WINNTsystem32configsoftware'
produkey.exe /windir 'c:winnt' /shtml 'c:temppk.html'
produkey.exe /remoteall
produkey.exe /remotealldomain MyDomain
produkey.exe /iprange 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.50
produkey.exe /stab ' >> c:tempprd.txt
produkey.exe /OfficeKeys 0 /WindowsKeys 1 /shtml f:tempkeys.html
produkey.exe /remote Server01
produkey.exe /remotefile 'c:tempcomputers.txt'
produkey.exe /regfile 'F:WINNTsystem32configsoftware'
produkey.exe /windir 'c:winnt' /shtml 'c:temppk.html'
produkey.exe /remoteall
produkey.exe /remotealldomain MyDomain
produkey.exe /iprange 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.50
produkey.exe /stab ' >> c:tempprd.txt
produkey.exe /OfficeKeys 0 /WindowsKeys 1 /shtml f:tempkeys.html
Translating ProduKey to other languages
In order to translate ProduKey to other language, follow the instructions below:- Run ProduKey with /savelangfile parameter:
ProduKey.exe /savelangfile
A file named ProduKey_lng.ini will be created in the folder of ProduKey utility. - Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
- Translate all string entries to the desired language.Optionally, you can also add your name and/or a link to your Web site. (TranslatorName and TranslatorURL values) If you add this information, it'll be used in the 'About' window.
- After you finish the translation, Run ProduKey, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
If you want to run ProduKey without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.
Feedback
If you have any problem, suggestion, comment, or you found a bug in my utility, you can send a message to [email protected]Download ProduKey (In Zip file) |
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ProduKey is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of ProduKey, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'produkey_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed ProduKey utility.
Language | Translated By | Date | Version |
---|---|---|---|
Arabic | Abu Rehaam | 23/01/2019 | 1.93 |
Azerbaijani | Anguerde | 02/03/2018 | 1.90 |
Bahasa Indonesia | Agus Nurliawan | 14/09/2007 | |
Belarussian | Agnessa Petrova | 19/02/2018 | 1.90 |
Brazilian Portuguese | Toni Leandro (MDM-MG Brazil) | 01/03/2018 | |
Brazilian Portuguese | Paulo Neto | 08/01/2016 | |
Brazilian Portuguese | Paulo Guzmán | 12/08/2018 | 1.93 |
Bulgarian | Hristo Drumev | 29/10/2007 | |
Catalan | Jottunheim | 22/10/2018 | |
Czech | Julius Faltus (v.1.66) | 30/07/2014 | |
Czech | Anders | 19/07/2010 | |
Danish | Claus Svalekjaer | 18/09/2016 | 1.85 |
Dutch | Jan Verheijen | 13/06/2018 | 1.93 |
Dutch | Jan Verheijen | 18/09/2009 | 1.37 |
Estonian | Toomas Tomberg | 18/12/2009 | |
Finnish | Turveperse | 10/02/2006 | |
French | Skorpix38 (oct 2016) | 31/10/2016 | 1.87 (oct 2016) |
French | Dominic Desbiens/Largo | 13/06/2018 | |
French | Leo (Juin 2020) | 10/06/2020 | 1.93 (Juin 2020) |
Galician | Xosé Antón Vicente Rodríguez | 11/05/2005 | |
German | «Latino» auf WinTotal.de | 13/06/2018 | 1.93 |
Greek | geogeo.gr | 10/12/2017 | 1.91 |
Hangul | sinooki | 05/09/2013 | 1.65 |
Hebrew | יצחק חסון | 13/12/2019 | |
Hungarian | Tamás Ferenc | 15/06/2016 | 1.83 |
Italian | Andrea Carli | 13/06/2018 | 1.93 |
Italian | Alessandro Viscone | 21/04/2018 | |
Italian | Massi | 05/07/2015 | 1.75 |
Japanese | Kumarinecity | 30/05/2020 | 1.93 |
Japanese | hppy.net | 03/03/2020 | |
Korean | circlash | 14/05/2011 | 1.51 |
Latvian | Ralf Yu | 06/03/2008 | |
Lithuanian | Igor Gubaidulin a.k.a. MucTuK | 16/06/2006 | |
Mongolian | A.Tsend-Ayush | 29/07/2006 | |
Norwegian | Oeyvind Instefjord | 11/06/2015 | |
Persian | Shadima | 26/04/2020 | |
Persian | NAHCI 13 | 01/09/2007 | |
Polish | Hightower | 14/06/2018 | 1.93 |
Portuguese | Filipe 'Pollux' Baeta | 01/09/2017 | |
Portuguese Brazil | Mark Nascimento - Bambuí | 02/06/2005 | |
Romanian | Jaff (Oprea Nicolae) | 01/02/2016 | 1.83 |
Russian | selkv && Habetdin | 13/07/2010 | 1.42 |
Russian | Habetdin | 04/08/2020 | 1.93 |
Simplified Chinese | 小程936 | 15/09/2017 | |
Simplified Chinese | locationiskey | 17/04/2017 | |
Simplified Chinese | Enzo | 16/01/2020 | 1.93 |
Slovak | František Fico | 18/06/2018 | 1.93 |
Slovenian | Jadran Rudec | 28/11/2005 | |
Spanish | Jose Antonio Alvarez Dominguez | 16/03/2016 | |
Swedish | I.K.l | 06/02/2018 | 1.92 |
Swedish | Johan Haagman | 24/08/2019 | 1.93 |
Taiwanese | 臺灣共和國 | 23/03/2008 | |
Traditional Chinese | Danfong Hsieh | 13/06/2018 | |
Traditional Chinese | 丹楓(虫二電氣診所) | 17/04/2012 | |
Thai | ประสิทธิ์ แคภูเขียว | 25/03/2008 | |
Turkish | HARUN ARI | 04/08/2011 | 1.53 |
Turkish | Cemil Kaynar | 11/11/2016 | 1.87 |
Ukrainian | Yurii Petrashko (aka YuriPet) | 12/05/2011 | 1.46 |
Valencian | vjatv | 04/10/2007 |
What is this?
A CD of silence. (Strictly not a CD of silence, of course, butaudio filesof silence which one can burn to a CD-R to make a CD of silence.)
The tracks are of 2, 4, 8, 16 & 32 seconds and 1, 2,4, 8, 16 & 32minutes duration so they can be combined using the play list feature ofanormal compact disk player to give any duration (in even numbers ofseconds)from 2 s to an hour (well, up to 1 h 4 min 2 s, to be pedantic).
Uses
- Novelty item: This is themain reason I made it. Surreal,silly or stupid depending on your sense of humour.
- Inserting blanks: Sometimesone wants gaps between tracks(for example so that one can run between a CD player & a dancefloor whenone is both dance teacher & DJ, as I have been at times, usingan audiosystem without a remote control) and to have a track break markerbetween thegap and music track (so that one can skip the blank if needed). To dothat,just insert one of these silent tracks between each music track beforerecording. I've had reports of these silent tracks being used forstyles as varied as folk dancing, clubbing, zumba & yoga.
- Shutting up an irritating jukebox:If one wants peace& quiet but someone else keeps playing CDs on a jukebox or a CDplayer towhich you have access, replace their CD with this one. It can similarlybe usedto shut up some irritating mobile telephones by converting a silenttrack to anMP3 and installing it as the ringtone.
- CD player noise test: It canbe used to test a CD player,amplifier & speakers for background noise. As there is no soundon therecording, any noise one hears from the system when playing this isnoise addedby the playing equipment.
- Practical joke: I had notintended it as a practical jokebut found that one of my friends to whom I gave a silent CD triedplaying it ina PC and assumed that the computer was failing when it gave no soundout(despite the CD being clearly labelled 'Silences'). He was going towaste timein a futile attempt to debug his music playing software.
- To silence a CD player when using it as anamplifier (e.g. converting a car CD player to aux-in): If one needs to use a CD player as a amplifier for an auxiliary input, such as from an MP3 player, but the amplifier only works with a CD playing then this can be used as a dummy CD to keep the CD player happy without producing unwanted sounds. (This use was invented by a reader of this site, Kane Zhu, who used it to fit an MP3 player to a car stereo system in addition to a CD player when the stereo's only external input was a dedicated CD player one. Years later another reader told me that my silent CDs had become widely used when modding car CD players to add aux-in.)
- To silence a smart phone when using it to output sound from apps:Several years later another reader similarly found that an iPhone wouldonly push sound from a satnav application to a car hands-free speaker system when it was playing music andhence used a silent track as the music.
- To silence noise cancelling headphones:Another reader told me that he had got noise cancelling headphones for quietness, not music, but found that they needed to be Bluetooth paired to an audio signal source to operate. Hence he likewise used a silent track from here.
- To see musicplayer program animations uninfluenced bymusic:Some music playing computer programs display decorative animations thatadapt to the music. To see what they look like when active butfree-running without music to control them, play a silent track. Somecan look very different to their normal appearance and may even be moreaesthetically pleasing.
- To skip musicplayer first track:A reader of this site reported a music player with a bug in its randomshuffle - it only shuffled after it started playing so the first trackwas always the same. The solution was to put a short silent track atthe start of the playlist to sacrificially take up that unwanted slotvirtually unnoticeably. (The reader left no return address so I can'tcredit them here.)
- As a random timer: The samereader used a random playlist of silent tracks plus an alarm track as asubstitute for a lost random timer of a board game.
- For timing theatre sound effects: A reader told me of using them in a theatre both to time sound effects.
- For timing : That reader also used them theatrically to prevent accidental running into the next manually timed sound effect on forgetting to press pause. It was particularly of use lest the sound effects system was accidentally left on during the interval.
CD Limitations
If you burn the tracks to a audio CD formatted to play in anormal oldaudio CD player then there are 2 restrictions imposed by the originalCD spec:
- All tracks must be >=2 s long. Therefore the 1 ssecond track must beomitted. (I've included it in the download for completeness anywaythough.)
- Although one need not have gaps between the tracks on aCD, it doesrequire a 2 s gap before the first track. This will add about 2 s tothe totaltiming of silence when playing in a conventional CD player (but thespin-uptime adds to that as well).
Additionally I have come across (just) one CD player thatmistakenlyreported that the whole CD was of zero length. Capture one 12. Maybe it tried toautomaticallyskip the silences!
CD Burning Advice
- Set the gap between tracks to zero seconds.
- Use 'Disk at once' mode rather than 'Track at once' mode(the former isprobably the default anyway on simple to use CD writing programsanyway) as thelatter does not support gaps between tracks of zero length.
- Turn off any automatic volume equalising/maximisingfeature. I don't knowwhat will happen if your particular CD writing program tries tonormalise azero volume recording to maximum (zero divided by zero ismathematicallyindeterminate). It should spot the impossibility & so eitherskip thenormalisation or complain. However it might produce noise, might give aconstant DC offset (poor speakers!) or might crash if badly programmed.
- Some CD burning software might not cope with a totally silent CD image. Problems have been reported with K3b (I have tested in version 2.0.2 & found the same problem). I have had success with Nero & ImgBurn on MS Windows and Brasero on Linux.
- Burn to CD-R not CD-RW as some audio CD players(particular those madebefore CD-RW was invented, of course) cannot read CD-RW. CD-RW usesdyes thatchange colour reversibly whereas CD-R uses irreversibly burnt holeswhich aremuch more like the original CD stamped holes.
If using the ready-made image rather than individual WAVs,then only the CD-R not CD-RW isrelevant as I have already done the rest in making the image.
Compressing Nothing
Silence losslessly compresses very well. However the commonfilecompression algorithms are not designed for pathological cases likethis (sixhundred million identical zero bytes!) so it needed two passes. Theoriginal646 MiB of WAV files compressed a thousand-fold to a 640 kiB.tar.gzfile.Compressing this again reduced it to a minuscule (by CD standards)3.55 kiB .tar.gz.gz file. This is anastounding 186 000to 1 compressionratiooverall.
Indeed it compresses better by lossless Gzip or PKzip thanby lossy MP3.At the lowest quality MP3 encoding that Apple iTunes player offers (16kibit/s mono), itcameto 3.7 MiB, over a thousand times what lossless compressioncan do. Although those MP3s can then be zip compressed (as the they mainly consist of justduplicate block headers), fully lossless is still smaller.Most audio players however would need lossless audio stored uncompressed & some don't evenhandle anything but the old de facto standard of MP3,I've included the MP3s here as downloads too.
Even better, the 663 MiB CD image compressed down to2.36 kiB, a 280 000to 1 compressionratio.
It is not often that one can download an hour long CD over a56 kibit/smodem in under half a second! Imyfone fix pro crack.
Warning
In trying to hear sound from this CD, one is likely to turnthe volume uphigh. Remember to turn it back down to a sensible level before laterplaying anormal CD.
Copyright Issue
I think it is okay for me to give away this silence for free(releasedunder Gnu Public Licence). There has been one notorious case of theestate ofJ. Cage suing M. Batt for selling a silent recording, Cage having beenan avantgarde composer who had previously published a famous silent piece.However itwas reported that the suing was because Batt had jokingly credited Cagewithjoint composership of the track without asking permission first& profitedfrom the publicity of that creditation without paying royalties. Thesuing wasnot merely because it was silent as the general concept of silences inperformances & broadcasts pre-dates both Cage & Batt. Anyway,it was eventually revealed to have been primarily a publicity stuntarranged between the two sides.
Furthermore, both Cage's & Batt's silences were bothbased on thespecific novelty of being 'performed' on classical musical instrumentswhereasthe silences downloadable here are purely computer generated (inSyntrilliumCool Edit) loads of zeros.
My actual inspiration for a joke silent recording came fromDavid Nobb's'The Return of Reginald Perrin' in 1977. In that humorous story, afictionalcompany included in its deliberately useless product range silent vinylrecordswith titles such as 'Trappist Monastery Chants' & 'Laryngitisfrom ManyLands'. It was twenty six years before I got around to making one!
Download
Download silent tracks:
- All 12 individual tracks(1 s, 2 s,4 s, 8 s, 16 s, 32 s,1 min,2 min, 4 min, 8 min, 16 min& 32 min of silence) in WAV format:
- With Gzip lossless compression for Linux: Silence.tar.gz.gz(just 4 kiB for an hour!).
- With PKzip lossless compression for Microsoft Windows: Silence.zip.zip(just 4 kiB for an hour!).
- Ready-made silent audio CD image format (suitable for burning from ImgBurn, Brasero, Nero or similar):
- The image with Gzip lossless compression: SilentCd.tar.gz.gz(just 2 kiB for an hour!).
- Table of contents & cover (with a blank white square as the cover art) for CD case inlay:
- In PDF (ready to print) format: SilentCdTableOfContentsAndCover.pdf.
- In MS Word 2k DOC (wordprocessor) format: SilentCdTableOfContentsAndCover.doc.
- All the silent tracks in MP3 format:
- Silent MP3s: SilenceMp3s.zip(22 kiB, 4 3.7 MiB unzipped).
- Individual tracks under a minute long in MP3 format:
- 1 s silence: Silence01s.mp3(4 kiB).
- 2 s silence: Silence02s.mp3(5 kiB).
- 4 s silence: Silence04s.mp3(7 kiB).
- 8 s silence: Silence08s.mp3(11 kiB).
- 16 s silence: Silence16s.mp3(18 kiB).
- 32 s silence: Silence32s.mp3(34 kiB).
- Individual tracks a minute or more long in MP3 format zipped:
- 1 min silence: Silence01min.mp3.zip(0.7 kiB, 60 kiB unzipped).
- 2 min silence: Silence02min.mp3.zip(1 kiB, 0.1 MiB unzipped).
- 4 min silence: Silence04min.mp3.zip(1.5 kiB, 0.25 MiB unzipped).
- 8 min silence: Silence08min.mp3.zip(3 kiB, 0.5 MiB unzipped).
- 16 min silence: Silence16min.mp3.zip(5 kiB, 0.8 MiB unzipped).
- 32 min silence: Silence32min.mp3.zip(9 kiB, 1.8 MiB unzipped).
Cd-800-1
By Andrew Hardwick.
Distributable under GPL orCC-by-sa freeware licences.
Silent tracks made 2003/8/01. Page written 2005/3/6. Updated2006/1/7, 2008/12/31, 2009/5/30, 2012/4/4, 2013/1/28, 2013/8/18, 2014/10/4, 2018/5/12, 2018/7/13 & 2019/9/7.
Available on-line at http://duramecho.com.
Distributable under GPL orCC-by-sa freeware licences.
Silent tracks made 2003/8/01. Page written 2005/3/6. Updated2006/1/7, 2008/12/31, 2009/5/30, 2012/4/4, 2013/1/28, 2013/8/18, 2014/10/4, 2018/5/12, 2018/7/13 & 2019/9/7.
Available on-line at http://duramecho.com.