• GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.

      • gregorum@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        additional fuckery

        Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

        • Encom@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          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?

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      1 year ago

      (back creaks) In the old days, some phones had a specific audio format for ringtones that wasn’t .mp3 to save storage space.

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        1 year ago

        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?