Have you ever...

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...opened up a song in Notepad? I just did and it looks weired.

[Rayquarian]

I opened a lot of things with Notepad.  Most of them were encoded and look like gibberish.

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I opened a lot of things with Notepad.  Most of them were encoded and look like gibberish.

Yeah I know. I wonder if you can edit it and then change it back to it's original file type?

[phatyo]

I never use notpade

[bluaki]

I open lots of things in notepad or hex editors. Most of them are just tons of seemingly random europhonic characters.
I found out the bitmap (bmp) images actually make sense in hex. All they are is the hex colors stringed together.