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Is This The Strangest Microsoft Video Yet?

6:20AM October 28, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Nothing will ever beat the sheer sadness of the Windows 7 Launch Party, but this new Microsoft demo is sure weirder. Our chipper host here is going to demo Songsmith, a Microsoft program nobody uses. By singing so very painfully. More »


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The Strangest Microsoft Songsmith Remixes

1:00PM February 3, 2009 | Adrian Covert

Microsoft’s Songsmith, which autogenerates music for acapellas, has been out for about a month. That’s been enough time for a number bizarre remixes to surface on Youtube. Here are some of the more bizarre selections.


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Microsoft Songsmith Cheerily Documents the Collapse of the World Economy

10:00AM February 1, 2009 | Gizmodo US Edition

Microsoft’s inherently-ironic Songsmith software is such a goldmine. Here, some jokester has turned those stock market frowns upside-down by setting them to Songsmith’s relentlessly upbeat Casiotone beats.

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David Lee Roth + Microsoft SongSmith = Pure Horror

6:40AM January 13, 2009 | Adam Frucci

newVideoPlayer("/davidleeroth_gizmodo.flv", 506, 404,""); An absolute genius decided to feed David Lee Roth’s vocals from Runnin’ with the Devil to Microsoft’s Songsmith software, which adds super-cheezy music to any sung lyrics. The results are, well, incredible. [Metafilter via Kottke]

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Microsoft Songsmith’s Corny Musical Infomercial

2:30AM January 11, 2009 | Gizmodo US Edition

Microsoft’s Songsmith software, which creates Casiotone-style beats to match whatever off-key warbling is optimistically sung into a mic, finally has an ad as corny and annoying as the software itself promises to be.

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