14 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Computer Disc"

My cd player reading a disc.

Starting a computer, sounds of the hdd and fans as the computer boots windows.

Power on self test of a dvd drive. You hear this every time you turn on your computer if you have one.

This was recorded while i was installing operating system from optical disc to laptop. Recorded with zoom h1n.

This was synthesized. No hard drives were harmed in the making of this sound.

Some sounds from an external cd-dvd drive, such as inserting a disc, ejecting it, and some beeps from the drive. Edited in audacity to remove most of the background noise.

Sony dvp-s530d cd/dvd player. A couple of takes of the disc tray being gently pushed closed. The first take includes the sound of the player spinning up a disc. The left channel is a sennheiser mkh-416 and the right channel is an akg c414 b-uls, both into a john hardy m-1 preamp into pro tools. Each mic has a slightly different recording position and overall sound.

Inserting, reading, launching a program, and ejecting a dvd-r in a usb disc drive (repackaged "hp dvdram gu90n" laptop drive) with the occasional rumble of a 2tb 7200rpm internal hard drive (in an enclosure) and mouse clicks. Computer fan may be audible in background. Contains seek noises. Recorded on blue yeti in omnidirectional mode and denoised in rx 8 (drive whine re-enhanced though as noise removal made it quieter). Labels added to audio in fl studio edison.

This is a sound of a spinning cd disk, opening and closing the cd drive. In the background there is a slight noise from the spinning hard disk of the computer. Recorded with my smartphone, the xiaomi redmi note 10.

The interference produced at the low (left) end of the radio dial on a jambox set up close to a dvd burner while in operation. Sound rises and falls as the burner writes to disc.

I thought i had a diy contact mic somewhere, but i did not find it. But i found another thing. A contact mic for an instrument tuner. But (again) it had a 1/4 inch mono plug. That meant i could not connect it to my computer mic in. But (i know) what if i plug it in to my modular synth. Surprise. . . Then i could add a little filter, pan and spring reverb. So clamped the mic on to my external 3,5 inch disc drive and recorded. This is my submission to dare 51.

Broken сd/dvd printer recordered at my office. Here is the sound of internal elements of device and retractable disc slot. Recording until pause is original sound. After pause is the same sound processed with gross beat plugin in fl studio 12.

I recorded the fan on quite loud and i opened and closed the cd drive on my hp eletebook 8460p, different laptop models have a different frequency from the fan and different cd drives make a different sound when checking it. Recorded from the internal microphone.

Another example on "listening" to a computer. Many sounds you hear are overtones from fans. The sharp noise is data transfers. Most of the sounds are caused by moving the mouse. The processors are not "heard" by placing a small antenna between the flat cables from two hard discs, you can capture the data packages. That may be done next time.