Song made from annoying Windows sounds

Posted Feb 18th 2008 9:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows

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)

2-18-2008 @ 10:01PM

CUBSWILLWIN said...

a really neat and good creation

2-18-2008 @ 11:09PM

harmx said...

pretty cool!

2-19-2008 @ 7:48AM

Lcomix said...

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

2-19-2008 @ 12:00PM

JimOfSeattle said...

(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!

2-19-2008 @ 6:38PM

Mike said...

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

2-21-2008 @ 8:54AM

odonja09 said...

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

they should make a music video of all the popups

3-09-2008 @ 1:38PM

Matt said...

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

3-14-2008 @ 7:08AM

China-Alex said...

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.

4-18-2008 @ 5:37PM

simon said...

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

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