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Author Topic: Most Random Thing of Windows???  (Read 811 times)
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tehfunk101
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« on: April 25, 2010, 01:13:03 AM »

saw this on digg, thought it was pretty comical / random.

Navigate to C:/ , Windows, Media, then a file called "onestop", then listen to it.  Thoughts? laugh
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2010, 02:20:38 AM »

Wow, that's just about every kind of music for every kind of mood I can think of!

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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2010, 11:02:14 AM »

Yeah man! 8-Bit!

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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2010, 11:43:36 AM »

very cool find

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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2010, 02:40:26 PM »

So how would I access it? I am a bit computer illiterate. I also found this about it online.

When you open the C:\Windows\Media folder, you will notice that it includes Windows sounds & sound schemes. Among them you will find 3 MIDI sequence sound files: onestop.mid, flourish.mid & town.mid.

I happened to be browsing this Media folder when I decided to click on the 39 KB onestop file, out of curiosity. I loved what I heard!

This led me to Google
, err Bing on the net. And this is all that I found,  scattered in different places.

There are 3 such .mid files, with rather enthralling music!

C:\Windows\Media\flourish.mid
C:\Windows\Media\onestop.mid
C:\Windows\Media\town.mid

MIDI stands for “Musical Instrument Digital Interface”, a compression format for encoding music.

These MIDI sequence music files have existed in Windows Vista & XP; and maybe earlier versions too.

Flourish and Town were made by Nathan Grigg & Onestop by David Yackley, for Microsoft
 in 2000.

Flourish, it seems, is used, when you run a DirectX diagnostic test for DirectMusic.

I have no idea what the others are used for. Were they once used to showcase Media Players capabilities?

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-mystery-of-the-3-music-files-in-windows-7

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