DVD Menu Music
First off, I know I haven’t had any in depth posts in quite awhile, but if you’ve been reading, I’m sure you know that I’ve been busy moving. I hope to get back to posting my thoughts and ideas on various topics, so without further ado…
What’s up with the menu music on DVDs? On every DVD that I can think of, the music is about a 15-20 second long clip that is repeated over and over again until you either play the movie or mute the damn thing.
Seriously, it has to be one of the most annoying things ever. I don’t know about everyone else, but when I pop in a movie, I don’t sit there and wait for it to come up to the menu. I usually run to the kitchen to make a snack and get something to drink. It doesn’t take long before I start hearing the same short tune over and over again.
Most DVDs today are packed with special features, which I’m sure take hundreds of hours of work create and test. Producers (or whoever works on the DVDs) spend all of this time and they can’t come up with a full song to play while on the menu? Is it a standard now because it’s been done this way for so long? Or maybe I remember all of the annoying main menus and never notice when there is actual music or even silence.
Does this bother anyone else? If not, put Kill Bill: Volume 1 in your DVD player. Once it gets to the main menu, I bet you can’t leave it sit for more than 5 minutes.
6/17/2008 at 10:48am
I tell you one that is reeealll annoying. Knights tale. I couldnt agree with you more, you think they could spend just a little bit more time on that menu screen…
2/27/2008 at 3:38pm
Try turning the volume down until you are ready to watch the movie. Don’t you do that when a commercial comes on?
Monkey.
9/2/2007 at 12:30am
lol its rather strange i found this thread because i used to take great delight in falling asleep to the Master and Commander dvd menu music. I know, i know, yeah i agree its pretty wierd and stupid. However i used to love watching the film and drifintg off to sleep throughout it with dreams on voyaging and fighting away running through my mind then it would end up at the menu music and i would finally slip off to sleep with that repeating through my mind. Subsequently i would wake up throughout the night and generally stay on the rather less comfortbale couch simply to be able to listen to the repeating music. I actually found this clip as i can’t sleep and want to see if i can find it somewhere on the web to download as i do not have the DVD with me at my current local lol.
2/11/2007 at 12:51pm
This absolutely drives me batty as well. I would GLADLY give up all the extra bonus features if we could have at least one entire 3 or 4 minute song instead of that maddeningly repetitive 30 seconds.
1/15/2007 at 5:20am
I have literally scoured the internet for about 2 hours now looking for some software or SOMETHING that will either A) Disable the dvd menu music, or B) Kill the software or dvd or music after the movie has finished. The reason I want this is like someone was saying earlier, watching a dvd in bed at night is the most obnoxious thing in the world if I fall asleep to it, I get woken up whenever the dvd ends because not only is the music obnoxious because it repeats so much, most dvds have the menu music twice as loud as the freakin dvd sound, so it ends and makes me jump up in bed. I HATE IT and I’m amazed nobody has found a solution to it.
12/5/2006 at 11:37pm
how would someone go about finding the title of the menu song? On the Casino DVD theres a really catchy tune in the menu and i want to know what it is.
8/6/2006 at 3:30pm
With older DVDs the menu music was limited to 30 seconds. Now you can put entire songs on the menu, i’ve done it, but you are there to watch the movie, not the menu, that’s why its only a short clip.
-Fern
3/15/2006 at 5:28am
Hey i am trying to make Dvd And am putting musi con it so its gfonna be a full songh
9/18/2005 at 11:15pm
does anyone know what the song is?