Song made from annoying Windows sounds

by Brad Linder Feb 18th 2008

You know those annoying sounds Windows makes when an error message pops up? You know, the "you cannot delete this file, so please stop trying, and oh yeah, quick, put your fingers in your ears!" noise. While that might not be the most pleasant sound associated with Windows, it turns out that when you mix the system sounds that come with Windows 98 and XP together, you can actually make some decent music.

Now, we're not saying this song is going to top the Billboard charts anytime soon. But we're still reasonably impressed. You can download an extended MP3 of the song and read a bit more about its creation at YouTube. The person who posted the song has already answered everyone's top question: Yes, he was bored and had a bit too much free time on his hands.

[via Neatorama]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CUBSWILLWIN said 10:01PM on 2-18-2008

a really neat and good creation

harmx said 11:09PM on 2-18-2008

pretty cool!

Lcomix said 7:48AM on 2-19-2008

Heres another Windows based composition. Its more of a piece of music and not entirely made of windows sounds.
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4skgihJHQ5M

JimOfSeattle said 12:00PM on 2-19-2008

(I am the composer of the other piece referred to on the YouTube link above.) This is a different take on the sounds and is very cool. This one cheated a little by pitch-shifting the sounds to suit the notes he needed, but still, very good job!

Mike said 6:38PM on 2-19-2008

There's also a flash-based song with a nifty animation. I think it's the first one I've seen - it's been out a while.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/noises

odonja09 said 8:54AM on 2-21-2008

whoever made this should call themselves or the song "Syntax Error" :p.

they should make a music video of all the popups

Matt said 1:38PM on 3-09-2008

Mp3s can be found at http://mavrev.com/index/downloads/winmusic , courtesy the original author.

China-Alex said 7:08AM on 3-14-2008

Those guys, creating such an awesome music with these annoying Windows sounds, can call themselves 'geniuses'.

Just perfect sound.

I really like it. Thanks for brightening our daily computer work.

simon said 5:37PM on 4-18-2008

Sweet music when I heard this I kept playing it over & over again.

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