We used to pay for tiny samples to use as a ringtone, now you can just set a song on your drive as a ringtone
Remember ringback tones. Everyone should hear my shitty music
I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?
Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.
Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?
every phone had a different format, i remember the Razr had a deprecated tool to convert .mp3 to a format it could read and limited it to like…30sec audio snippets?
additional fuckery
Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…
(back creaks) In the old days, some phones had a specific audio format for ringtones that wasn’t .mp3 to save storage space.
Are we talking about the button phones? Did they have different audio formats cuz their speakers were crappy or something (hence, no use playing high resolution audio)? Did the custom ringtones then sound bad as well?
button phones
Oh god this is the phrase that makes every bone in my body cry out in old.
Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones
Actually you just had to “play” it and lots of Nokias had a custom ringtone composer you could actually write ringtones with yourself.
So you’d just reserve an hour of computer time from the library, browse some guides on how to compose Axel F on a 3210, write them down/have it printed and then input them into your phone.
Here’s that composer in action: https://youtu.be/ymjV1IwReU4
I used to compose ringtone tunes with it still in 2013. everyone else was playing with their smarphone. nokia 3310 was the best, so simple
Yeah way easier now am I right? Maybe you should post instructions for the the old people who don’t know how
Is there any context to this picture? I’d love to read it lol
how did this guy get into my bedroom, why are the colors backward, and who replaced my desktop with a fax machine?
and who cleaned?
Unfortunately, my phone could only handle .midi
