Info from YT submitter:

Just made a really weird and awesome discovery.

If you import an EXE file into an audio program as audio data, you hear all kinds of cool stuff. The most awesome by far for me was MS Paint.

It's probably one of the coolest things I've ever heard form something like this. All I did to the audio was master it slightly to make it sound less harsh to the ears, as well as remove a long section of noise.

This is the Windows 7 x64 edition of mspaint.exe. I used Adobe Audition to import and edit the audio, but one could jsut as easily use Audacity's "import Raw Data" feature. I imported this as 8-bit, 22050hz stereo audio. I faded in the beginning, as well as removing a long section of noise part of the way through.

sounds like the notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

And now you know the sound of my childhood... well, mostly just the stuff at the start, not so much the 'musical' bit. My gaming life started on a Sinclair ZX spectrum with a tape drive, so you heard the programs load, and that first 15 seconds is pretty much what they sounded like... except it took a minute or two to load them.

>> ^spoco2:

and that first 15 seconds is pretty much what they sounded like...

its mostly because those 15 seconds are pretty much the entire paint executable code, which sounds just like static or something, the rest is just bitmaps and other resource data embedded in it

Which mspaint.exe version?

Coming soon: This is what it sounds like when DRM cries.