So its official then, the real title of the album is X 9 Y:)

These people are fast!

 

http://www.stereoboard.com/artistnews/news-1023.html

Good work :idea2: :D

Wooooow. Amazing. Simply amazing. How did you guys find out Coldplay was using baudot code?

 

Yeah Wayne, how did you ever think, "Ooooh, maybe its written in Baudot Code! EUREKA!!!!" :cool:

 

not really - i'd not heard of baudot code before :lol: to cut a long story short, i started working out ascii codes using 10-bits but quickly changed to five bits (pairs of colours, e.g. black and grey, representing a single bit rather than two). This gave D = 9 , E = 1, F = 13 and so on. having three letters (D, E, F) that were next to each other in the alphabet was a great help because it looked likely (from the above numbers) that there was no obvious logical pattern to the numbers that the letters represented. So, i thought, it must've been some specific 5-bit encoding scheme. The good old internet gave me some stuff to sift through on various 5-bit encoding schemes, eventually turning up Baudot. A quick run through all 10 letters we currently have matched up and therefore baudot was probably the one. The deciphering of the secret gig wrist band to discover LIVE was ultimate proof. I felt well smug :smug: :lol:

 

Props to owenrees though for spotting the dashes matching up to letters !

 

As regards the & in X&Y, it takes up two columns (the first being the figure shift, the second the character), it's been pointed out that it's not an ampersand. It is actually a hypen, giving X-Y. I suppose that's either as they intended or they're using some slight variation on baudot encoding that gives a different bit pattern for &.

 

Good stuff though innit ? :)

 

You are the smartest man alive for cracking this.

 

Now do my homework.

You are the smartest man alive for cracking this.

 

Now do my homework.

 

What subject and how much ya willing to pay ? :lol:

That's cool man! :D I've never tought it was so simple!

i'm fairly confident that i've cracked the code.

 

''COLDPLAY FANS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN CRACKING THE CODE FEATURED ON THE BANDS NEW COVER ART.''

 

You are in the news wayne ;) and owenrees of course, and ive helped a bit too... :P

 

congrats lol

Ahhh, I hate missing a whole day of reading the forums lol. I missed like 8 or 9 pages of this thread. anyhow, could osmeone fill me in on something?: Owen emailed Debs about his solution, has he heard anything back from her? OR mayne on teh official forums she said something?

gahddamn, do you people see the views this thread has got???!!!

inzane :o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

i still dont get the code thing, i read what the guy said but i still dont see it. i know im dumb but can someone explain for the 15 time what it is. :/

Ahhh' date=' I hate missing a whole day of reading the forums lol. I missed like 8 or 9 pages of this thread. anyhow, could osmeone fill me in on something?: Owen emailed Debs about his solution, has he heard anything back from her? OR mayne on teh official forums she said something?[/quote']

 

debs basically said that she told management it was cracked, but cant confirm anything yet because she isnt aloud to. also in the q&a today she said they will reveal it soon (perhaps because its been cracked).

gahddamn' date=' do you people see the views this thread has got???!!![/quote']

 

didnt you used to get bling for people posting and viewing your threads? :lol:

Was there really a code? lol

brilliant!!! tres cool!!!

 

canadians are sooo smart!!! ;)

lol im actually british, but live in Canada! ;)

i think all this just confirms that we have the BEST coldplay forum EVER... ;) :)

Phoenix&y: there is indeed a Coldplay font. It's Albertus Medium.

 

impossible to get for free, this?

yes, just go to http://personales.com/espana/madrid/truetypefonts/ttfeng.htm

:cool:

Phoenix&y: there is indeed a Coldplay font. It's Albertus Medium.

 

impossible to get for free, this?

 

i've used a free font called Village before - that's practically spot on.

ok thanx

here's a cleaned up version of the alphabet phoenix&y posted (jpeg artifacts removed, solid colours for the blocks, no anti-aliasing, lossless compression) :

 

(like the style in the way you've used the code in yer avatar phoenix&y :cool:)

Damn that's insane. I never took the time to learn binary code...nice job Wayne.

i just hate math! :rolleyes: :lol:

thanks