Possibility the worst MIDI background ever? I suppose this may be some traditional Korean tune rendered using an inappropriate scale but if it isn't then it is truely dreadful. (I say Korean, because I am guessing that this is a Korean cafe in Japan) In fact it may even be evil - try listening to it for a few minutes. (for those who don't read comments - this turns out to be a MIDI rendering problem and if you can get it right it sounds much better!)
Oh my god!
Robert Raible
ROTFLMAO! This will be a great antidote to my coworkers' incessant Christmas/Country & Western music in the office. After a few hours, they'll be begging for mercy...
Jamey Smith
It's actually a MIDI mapping thing. On Windows (with default settings) it's completely messed up, but if you listen to it on Linux/Unix with Timidity (and good samples) it's actually a quite nice typical Korean song.<br /> I'm not sure how it'll render in OSX, give it a try and let us know! :)
Jose
I've put the song rendered by Timidity as an MP3 at:<br /> <a href="http://metavurt.net/media/Arirang.mp3">http://metavurt.net/media/Arirang.mp3</a>
Jose
That is much better and clearly Korean too. It sounds awful under OSX too though.
Lindsay
I've just noticed that as well as it being badly rendered, the page actually contains two MIDIs que get played concurrently, both badly rendered. Most amusing... <br /> I'm glad Mozilla doesn't care for any of that...
Jose
it isn't all that bad? I run WinXP and it's fine??? it's actually one of the better<br /> <br /> hangon, what happened then? It cut out and went all wierd!
Bob Bob
oh, the MP3 is far better!
Bob Bob
Sounded awful when played via IE6 (Win2K) but sounded like the MP3 when played via Opera 7
Andrew Urquhart