Software

Is This The Strangest Microsoft Video Yet?

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.


February 3, 2009
Software

The Strangest Microsoft Songsmith Remixes

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.


February 1, 2009
Software

Microsoft Songsmith Cheerily Documents the Collapse of the World Economy

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.


January 13, 2009
Entertainment

David Lee Roth + Microsoft SongSmith = Pure Horror

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]


January 11, 2009
Software

Microsoft Songsmith’s Corny Musical Infomercial

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.