Filed under: iTS, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple
iMix of OS X startup music
I enjoy installing OS X and starting Macs up for the first time because of the lovely little welcome movies that Apple includes with OS X (Microsoft, you really should add one of these to Vista). How many times have people asked TUAW, 'hey, what song plays during the initial startup of Tiger?' Many times. Now, we can point them to this iMix on the iTunes Music Store which includes the songs that play during the welcome screen of each major rev of OS X.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Colin P said 8:17PM on 6-07-2006
Is there something wrong with me that I cannot remember ever hearing any of these songs? Particularly the one for Tiger, which was the most recent! Oh well, Royksopp sounds pretty cool so I might have to check them out more.
Reply
nick said 8:28PM on 6-07-2006
Dam some of this is pretty sweet... Damnt! iTunes and my credit card win again!
Reply
Gomer said 9:02PM on 6-07-2006
Eple is such a great song, and Melody AM is a great album.
Reply
nick said 9:12PM on 6-07-2006
totally.
Reply
Peter Payne said 11:44PM on 6-07-2006
Ka-ching! That's cool to have on my iPod...almost as fun as having all the iPod commercials on my video iPod.
Reply
Jonathan Fingas said 11:55PM on 6-07-2006
On that subject, on iTunes Canada there's an iMix that has music for all the iPod ads that the Canadian store made available, all the way up to the "Love Train" ad.
Just search for "iPod Ads" in the iMixes and you'll find it (it's the May 2006 one).
Reply
Pick said 12:15AM on 6-08-2006
#1, Yeah, none of these I remember hearing, I've heard Tiger and Panther, I don't think these are the install songs.
Reply
Josh S. said 12:33AM on 6-08-2006
The song for Tiger, which the iMic says is "Bytecry", does sound like the one Apple used for Tiger. You may not hear it because of the words...ignore the words, and it's the same.
The Tiger and Panther songs are pretty cool, I think.
Reply
Mark D. said 12:37AM on 6-08-2006
In reply to the post:
I think XP already has a start-up vdeo, it's not nearly as universally welcoming as OS X's video (though it has swishing colors), maybe they'll spice up Vista's a bit. Also, I think it was kind of slow frame-wise, either that or I was installing it on a particularly old computer. Hmm... I wonder if i can access the OS X video from the install discs, been a while since I saw it.
Reply
Stephen M. said 1:55AM on 6-08-2006
Does anyone know if the actual install movies are online anyplace? I would love to put them on my iPod.
Reply
Doug said 2:06AM on 6-08-2006
I would recommend Royksopp, their music is, to me anyway, some of the best that I've heard in the genre.
An interesting story about Royksopp, the year I was introduced to them through my roommate, the student org I volunteered at ordered a bunch of G5s. How surprised I was to hear them all playing Eple as they booted. Made me think of how small the world really is.
Reply
Kit said 3:27AM on 6-08-2006
The welcome movie can be found on your Mac.
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-147478.html
It's separated into two files, audio and video.
Reply
savior1980 said 7:13AM on 6-08-2006
As it's said by #12, it can be found on your Mac if you have 10.4 or 10.3 following this tutorial.
:)
Reply
savior1980 said 7:17AM on 6-08-2006
Sorry the link hasn't been published, I'll try it again.
the tutorial in MacWorld.
text:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/04/setupmov/index.php
Reply
jonny blech said 3:44PM on 6-08-2006
i wanna see a little hack/app that'll let you have a startup song of choice while your mac boots. it would be a more interesting bootup.
Reply
hauk said 6:11PM on 6-08-2006
As a curiosity, Royksopp is a Norwegian band and the name 'Eple' is Norwegian for Apple.
Reply