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OK, I know this is gonna sound weird, but here's what just happened. I was sitting here with a friend talking. My MBP screensaver starts up after 15 minutes. The screensaver is Arabesque. After about another 10 minutes or so (not sure exactly) the screen goes black and music starts playing. I have no idea what music it was, but it appeared to be some sort of long drum beat loop. It's not anything that is in my iTunes Library. Very odd, this has never happened before on any of my Macs. I touch the trackpad to come out of screen saver. I look at the dock, no open apps at all, just a dot by the Finder. Music still playing. I open iTunes and play a song. Song plays, but same music plays as well. Looked at all the options in System Prefs, but nothing out of the ordinary. Command-option-escape, only the finder is open. I sleep the MBP, music stops. As soon as I wake it, music starts back up. Finally, I had to restart to get rid of it.
ANY IDEA of what the heck happened?

Who has had access to your computer? It sounds like an "easter egg" to me. The big question is "did the music start again the next time your screensaver was active for 10 Min?" Or was it just a one time thing? Look in your startup items list for any suspicious items.

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