Sunday, February 5, 2012

Hiding music in an image

So you have a song that you really would like to keep on your thumb-drive--but the thought of losing your thumb-drive and having everyone at the office know that you listen to "I'm a Barbie Girl" is just unthinkable. Never fear, there is a way to hide your song inside a picture!

Simply open a windows command prompt (go to start, run, type 'cmd'). You will need to have your song and your picture residing in the same folder. Navigate to this folder and type the following:

C:\Documents and Settings\God\Desktop>copy /b James_painting.jpg + Lover.mp3 out
put.jpg
For this example, my music file and image are located on the Desktop. Since the image file "James_painting.jpg" is what I want everyone to see, I put it first. The Lover.mp3 is my embedded song and the "output.jpg" is the file generated on my desktop.

If I click on Output.jpg and the image James_painting.jpg will appear. If I change the extension to .mp3, my song "Lover.mp3" will begin playing...

Yes--embedding is really just that easy--but for true secrecy, you will need to learn some decoding...