I’ll be you’re going WTF is he going on about? Not only does that headline make absolutely no sense who wants to listen to elevator music if not being forced to?
Well I haven’t lost my mind (yet) and this isn’t about actually downloading any elevator music but rather a little utility that lets you tell Windows to play a music file of your choice while any of the supported programs are downloading files. Now personally I can’t see much reason for wanting to do this but just in case someone out there thinks this might be a cool idea here’s a list of supported applications.
- Windows Explorer: while copying/moving/deleting files
- Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: while waiting for downloads to finish
- Microsoft Office and Visual Studio: while waiting for programs to load
- 7-Zip: while waiting for archives to extract
- TeraCopy: while waiting for files to copy/move
- Audacity: while waiting for music files to open/save
- Eclipse: while waiting for it to load, complete a build or refresh the workspace
- VMWare: while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
- Virtual PC: also while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
- Most installers
As you can see in the screen shots (courtesy of the team at Addictive Tips) you have more than a few options to control the utility with.
You can grab your copy of Instant Elevator Music here
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