I’m okay with appliance making cute little dings or buzzes but if they chime out a full song it creeps me right out. I’m gonna get the clothes out of the wash you don’t have to scream “Mary had a Little Lamb” at me.
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Fun fact: back in the 90s, some motherboards would start playing “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” through the internal speaker if the CPU fan was failing. So if you started hearing that, that meant your computer was about to fry itself.
I like that you don’t say it annoys you but that it creeps you out. Like the washing machine singing at you is somehow a hint that Skynet is beginning to activate.
My current dryer has an annoying tone for everything. Change mode? Gotta beep as you click passed each one! Oh, you wanna adjust the time and heat? We’ll make it chime with every increment instead of just when the button is pressed! Clothes done? Song of my people! Opened the door? Second verse!
Samsung? We got one used and it’s great for the drying part, but when I went to research how to change the “melody”, and I’m being generous here, to a chime or something else…nope. You get that, or silence. So we use silence and listen for the sound of it stopping. That song is terrible, and for there to be no options at all in a modern appliance…why was this a good idea on the drawing board?
Part of my wife’s rationale for getting an Ecobubble was that it played the little song, and she loves it. (Also the whole low power and water usage thing)
My hot water boiler / warmer loudly plays Fur Elise for 10 or more seconds after it has brought a fresh tank to boil. Most of the time I don’t care, but at 6:30 in the morning its loud I worry about waking people even with closed doors.
Hold the unlock button for for 3 seconds and it will change the song to 3 beeps. Do it again to mute it.
Shoot some Great Stuff into the speaker hole. (Not really, no, don’t do this with something that heats up).
You could open it up, find the little speaker (probably a tiny little thing) and disconnect it or put some glue in it (like Goop).
I found instructions online on disabling the music circuit without completely disabling the speaker. I think I know just enough about electronics to really screw it up.
