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.

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  1. This is brilliant. My favorite part is 41 seconds in.

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  2. reach for the lazers.

    safe as fuck.

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  3. Cool.

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  4. Nice. :D

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  5. That’s awesome. Thanks for posting the GarageBand file.

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  6. absolutely spiffing…. you are very very clever!!! indeed!

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  7. That’s one great interpretation of the Apple sounds! Thanks! : )

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  8. 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… :-)

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  9. Thanks Camillo. I would have loved to use the opening chime, but I couldn’t find it in the filesystem. I could probably have found it online, but I wanted to keep it pure and use only the system sounds in the /System/Library/Sounds folder. (With one exception, of course…)
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  10. 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

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  11. 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

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  12. Someone’d like having Startup chime ?
    Download application MacTracker, open the package of the applicaton and you should have it.

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  13. 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

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  14. “…Windows98 had better sounds to work with…”

    That’s because Brian Eno made the sounds for Windows at that point.

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  15. EXCELLENT COMPOSITION GUY;
    yeahh!! xD

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  16. EXCELLENT!!!!! AMAZING!!!! THANKS FOR THE COMPOSITION!!

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  17. An idea very original. Congratulations!

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  18. xDD GENIAL! MUY BUENO! UN SALUDO!

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  19. Cool! Good job :D

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  20. hahaha
    really niceeee
    love it

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  21. Terrific!!!!!

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  22. 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

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  23. Hi man. Congratulations. It´s a really cool mac stuff. Go ahead. Make our day!!!

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  24. So Cool~~~
    Love Apple…
    Love Music…:)

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  25. Perfect !

    ——————————–
     Made on a Mac. 

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  26. Haha, love it, a very new, fresh take on the Mac sounds, will put on my iPod immediately!

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  27. i love garageband. had to use it in7th and 8th grade! nice work

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  28. Good Job! (secretly adds the song to his iTunes playlist)

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  29. this was cool

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  30. everybody said it : really awesome

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  31. Very nicely done. Great site too!

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  32. 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

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  33. cool. can i get a download link for the program? or is it just for vista+ course i got an XP.

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  34. Sorry Lenin - GarageBand only works on a Mac.
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  35. could you send me the sounds you used to make this? I want to make a video too.

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  36. …you’re destined for greatness!

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  37. Thanks a lot !
    Wonderful for an iPhone ringtone !

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  38. Synced straight to my iphone as a ringtone! simply phenomenal

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  39. I agree. Great job and would make an awesome iPhone ringtone.

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  40. Heard it before and like it. Really good job putting all that together. Makes me think of Kraftwerk’s “Showroom dummies” everytime

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  41. Great job! Now if only someone could figure out how to do the same with the sounds that come on the iPhone. Hmmm….

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  42. 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.

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  43. LOVE IT!

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  44. Hahahahahahaa……

    What a great job!

    Love it!!

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  45. 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.

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  46. What’s the Wilhelm Scream doing there at the end?

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  47. Apple should play this at the Mac Expo in Jan.

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  48. I am one of those brave souls who will put it on my ipod XD

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  49. HUHUH. i found it on utbe, an den i went heer. i swer i POOPED meself wen i seed dis! izzamazzzzzzzziiiiiiiiing!!!!
    PPPPPOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!

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  50. macs rule

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  51. Why was there a scream at the end???????????

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  53. trippy man!

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  54. I was thinking about doing that thing, similar, but never had the time! Great that somebody did it though…

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  55. Fuck mac’s

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