Desktop themes with Windows Sound Recorder - anyone?
 

They say small things please small minds, and they're not wrong. I've just discovered how to edit WAV files with Windows' Sound Recorder, and so I've been having great fun ripping my CDS and converting them into mp3 files, and then converting the mp3 files into WAVs and then using bits of them as the sounds for my desktop.

So far, I have got:

Critical Stop: Jean Michel Jarre - "Revolution!" from the song Revolution, Revolutions.
Empty Recycle Bin: David Bowie - dog howl noise from the song Future Legend.
Exclamation: The Prodigy - "Rock the house in" from the Dust Brothers' Remix of the song Voodoo People.
Exit Windows: "Contender Eliminated" voice from WipEout 2097.
Menu Command: Leftfield - "Planet" vocoder form the song Phat Planet
Menu Popup: Leftfield - "Phat" vocoder form the song Phat Planet
Program Error: The Prodigy - "I'm a Firestarter, Twisted Firestarter!" from the song Firestarter.
Question: Space Raiders - "One, two, middlesboogie!" from the song Middlesboogie
Start Windows: Intro music from Hogs Of War

Asterisk, Close Program, Default sound, Maximise, Minimise, Open Program, Restore Down, Restore Up, System Default are all set either as The 60's USA or Inside Your Computer (two of the sound schemes that come with the computer)

MSN:
Contact Online: Tribal drumming noise
New Alert: default
New Mail: default
New Message: click noise

AOL:
Goodbye: Tiger growling noise
Welcome: Future Sound Of London - "Ok, let's see what we can see. Everybody online? Looking good" from the song The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman
New E-mail: default

Does anyone else have a desktop sound scheme that they've created themselves? If not, what sort of things do you have as your sounds?

Ever surfed to the M&M's site on www.m-ms.com? You know, the M&M's are also characters with funny voices, and have some of their sayings as sound: Starting up: Uh, hello! Opening program: Hehehe, cool! Exiting program: Nonono! Critical stop: You paphetic puddle! Exiting windows: Nonono!

My sound scheme is pretty much the one that comes with the PC versions of Oddworld with a couple of variations:

Start Windows: Abe's Oddysee intro music
Maximize: Slig saying "Freeze, get 'im hahah"
New Mail: zapping of electric door
Default sound: rock being thrown
Exclamation: Abe "hello" from Exoddus

I chose "get me outta here" as the shutdown sound.

I sometimes use the Windows sound from the Robotz scheme for restore up as that sounds really cool.

My ICQ sounds are a combination of Final Fantasy VII sounds and Starcraft sounds.

Abe Babe...

[ August 16, 2001: Message edited by: Abe Babe ]

1. Start Windows: Stewie from Family Guy - You shall rue this day...well, go on! Start ruing!

2. Shutdown: Chowchilla Charlie from Grim Fandango - You must be patient, my kitten...rowrr...

3. Exclamation: Captain Brannigan from Futurama - Stop exploding, you cowards!


For anybody who hasn't heard these (and they're all funny) I can ICQ them or something. Futurama and Family Guy rock...but they're only on cable in Australia. Curses! (shakes fist at sky)