# Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback

> A maker known as Makestreme has printed an entire two-minute song onto a sheet of paper, publishing the full build and source code on Hackster. io. The trick is Meta's EnCodec neural audio codec, which crunched a 2.

- **Source:** [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/maker-compresses-a-2-9mb-song-1000-times-with-metas-ai-codec-and-prints-it-on-paper-as-eight-qr-codes?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a81d4121192bb61042ab03a)
- **Published:** 2026-08-16
- **Category:** Apps
- **Tags:** #meta #song #maker #neural #paper #codes #compresses #eight
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