{"id":18002,"date":"2025-11-18T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:51:12","slug":"looking-for-mystery-conference-call-music-c-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/18\/looking-for-mystery-conference-call-music-c-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for: mystery conference call music, c.2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m slightly embarrassed to be asking about this, but I&#8217;ve been looking for some particularly cheesy conference call hold music (aka <em>music on hold<\/em>) for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on a Telus (Canada)  conference call system operated for my then employer, an Alberta-based power utility. It may have been any time from 2006\u20138, perhaps as late as 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I have to help you is my extremely poor rendition of the main theme on a cellphone keyboard-type thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mystery_moh-theme.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mystery Music on Hold &#8211; main theme: badly played on a keyboard type thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were two other &#8220;movements&#8221; to the piece. The only detail I remember from the other ones is that there was a random Windows alert noise (chord.wav)inserted into one of them, possibly in error. It sounded like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Windows2000-Chord.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m going to ask about this on <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/HoldMusic\/\">Hold Music<\/a>, too \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slightly embarrassed to be asking about this, but I&#8217;ve been looking for some particularly cheesy conference call hold music (aka music on hold) for years. It was on a Telus (Canada) conference call system operated for my then employer, an Alberta-based power utility. It may have been any time from 2006\u20138, perhaps as late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Looking for mystery conference call hold music from ~2008. Link to bad rendition of main theme in link\n#music_on_hold #hold_music #whats_this_tune","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1200,2299,3361,3362],"class_list":["post-18002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audblog","tag-canada","tag-conference_call","tag-hold_music","tag-music_on_hold"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4Gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}