January 27th, 2008
As if all the sound effects of the Mac OSX interface weren’t annoying enough, I decided to take things a step too far. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Due to popular demand, I’m posting the GarageBand file I created that’s responsible for this madness. Feel free to have your way with it. Download the zip here. Also, here’s an m4a audio file for those brave souls who want to risk this song suddenly coming on during a Party Shuffle.

This is brilliant. My favorite part is 41 seconds in.
01.31.08 at 1:24 am
reach for the lazers.
safe as fuck.
01.31.08 at 5:43 pm
Cool.
02.05.08 at 3:00 am
Nice. :D
02.08.08 at 6:43 pm
That’s awesome. Thanks for posting the GarageBand file.
02.17.08 at 10:12 pm
absolutely spiffing…. you are very very clever!!! indeed!
02.17.08 at 10:15 pm
That’s one great interpretation of the Apple sounds! Thanks! : )
02.18.08 at 2:00 am
This is what I mean when I say genius bars!
Great ! ( just one question: where’s the opening chime ? It should be considered a system sound, somehow… :-)
02.18.08 at 10:05 am
02.18.08 at 10:16 am
Oh, you’re welcome ! Than you for your answer. I’m an editor for an italian MacBlog and I just made an article about you.
Anyway, this piece goes diretly on my iPod in the “to-be-listened-while-repairing-
-PCs-to-avoid-rage-toward-the-customer’s-machine-playlist”
Best things! See You
02.18.08 at 1:36 pm
Cute, but not a patch on the original computer sound music by the User, best seen live.
http://www.theuser.org/dotmatrix/en/intro.html
02.20.08 at 10:17 pm
Someone’d like having Startup chime ?
Download application MacTracker, open the package of the applicaton and you should have it.
02.21.08 at 4:45 am
Great stuff… I think I like this one better, which is no fault of yours, just that Windows98 had better sounds to work with:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1802740
02.21.08 at 8:18 am
“…Windows98 had better sounds to work with…”
That’s because Brian Eno made the sounds for Windows at that point.
02.21.08 at 9:12 am
EXCELLENT COMPOSITION GUY;
yeahh!! xD
02.21.08 at 11:34 am
EXCELLENT!!!!! AMAZING!!!! THANKS FOR THE COMPOSITION!!
02.21.08 at 11:42 am
An idea very original. Congratulations!
02.21.08 at 2:24 pm
xDD GENIAL! MUY BUENO! UN SALUDO!
02.21.08 at 4:31 pm
Cool! Good job :D
02.21.08 at 4:51 pm
hahaha
really niceeee
love it
02.21.08 at 10:32 pm
Terrific!!!!!
02.22.08 at 3:04 am
Fantastic, my congrats!! It feels strange listening to it because you have learnt unconsciously all those sounds like ‘bad thing happened’ or ‘check this out now!’ but the melody is beautiful :)
I hope there is a Song 2 in the future to delightfully scare us again :D
02.22.08 at 6:09 am
Hi man. Congratulations. It´s a really cool mac stuff. Go ahead. Make our day!!!
02.23.08 at 12:06 am
So Cool~~~
Love Apple…
Love Music…:)
02.26.08 at 9:19 pm
Perfect !
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Made on a Mac.
03.13.08 at 1:39 pm
Haha, love it, a very new, fresh take on the Mac sounds, will put on my iPod immediately!
03.18.08 at 3:48 pm
i love garageband. had to use it in7th and 8th grade! nice work
03.29.08 at 7:43 am
Good Job! (secretly adds the song to his iTunes playlist)
03.29.08 at 3:43 pm
this was cool
04.01.08 at 8:28 pm
everybody said it : really awesome
04.27.08 at 10:18 am
Very nicely done. Great site too!
05.19.08 at 5:32 pm
Hey man that is awesome and a brilliant idea. I downloaded it and mixed it a little. Check out my remix on YouTube.
MAC ALERTS REMIXED
07.06.08 at 2:42 am
cool. can i get a download link for the program? or is it just for vista+ course i got an XP.
07.09.08 at 1:26 am
07.09.08 at 8:42 am
could you send me the sounds you used to make this? I want to make a video too.
08.23.08 at 10:42 pm
…you’re destined for greatness!
09.12.08 at 1:32 am
Thanks a lot !
Wonderful for an iPhone ringtone !
09.25.08 at 10:11 am
Synced straight to my iphone as a ringtone! simply phenomenal
09.25.08 at 10:18 am
I agree. Great job and would make an awesome iPhone ringtone.
09.25.08 at 10:47 am
Heard it before and like it. Really good job putting all that together. Makes me think of Kraftwerk’s “Showroom dummies” everytime
09.25.08 at 11:02 am
Great job! Now if only someone could figure out how to do the same with the sounds that come on the iPhone. Hmmm….
09.25.08 at 12:02 pm
Good stuff. I really like the screen capture-as-animation. I’ve always loved the sounds on the Mac. Also reminds me of the days of the Talking Moose. I was astounded that I could get it to speak the names of my folders.
09.25.08 at 12:27 pm
LOVE IT!
09.25.08 at 7:17 pm
Hahahahahahaa……
What a great job!
Love it!!
09.26.08 at 7:02 pm
Clever, but I was waiting to hear the monkey from system 6 :-( I found a collection of Classic Mac sounds at mac Update:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19079/mac-os-classic-sound-pack
Let me know if you do a version 2, um.. perhaps a Classic Soundtrack ;-)
Anyhoo, great job.
09.29.08 at 9:52 pm
What’s the Wilhelm Scream doing there at the end?
09.29.08 at 11:32 pm
Apple should play this at the Mac Expo in Jan.
09.30.08 at 1:43 pm
I am one of those brave souls who will put it on my ipod XD
01.02.09 at 1:00 pm
HUHUH. i found it on utbe, an den i went heer. i swer i POOPED meself wen i seed dis! izzamazzzzzzzziiiiiiiiing!!!!
PPPPPOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!
01.06.09 at 6:39 pm
macs rule
03.12.09 at 3:54 pm
Why was there a scream at the end???????????
03.22.09 at 10:42 am
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04.03.09 at 9:39 am
trippy man!
04.06.09 at 5:39 pm
I was thinking about doing that thing, similar, but never had the time! Great that somebody did it though…
04.19.09 at 9:45 pm
Fuck mac’s
09.19.09 at 5:07 am
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!
02.17.10 at 1:18 pm