Some observations:
* EXAI = XI = eleven = 11
* The album artwork is 11 x 11 pixels.
* 11 x 11 = 121.
* The album is 2 hours 32 seconds = ˝121 minutes
I figured the pixels represent bits, that's 11 lines of 11 bits.
Which gives us:
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To get 11 integers from this, we might read rows left to right, right to left, or columns top to bottom and bottom to top. Time to code some python...
How do we interpret each 11 bit value? I figured QR codes might be a hint, and indeed characters can be represented in 11 bits using alphanumeric mode:
http://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/part-1-encode-data/
http://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/alphanumeric-table/
Each 11 bit string represents two characters. The first character is represented by the integer value of the bit string divided by 45. We call this X. The second is the bit string minus (X * 45).
I made a program to generate all strings that can be interpreted from the 121 bits on the cover using alphanumeric 11 bit representation. I also tried all rotations in the alphanumeric table (modulo 45). I haven't tried rotating the bit strings yet.
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