Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.
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UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?
GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 6 months ago
gregorum@lemm.ee 6 months ago
additional fuckery
Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…
Album@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.
gregorum@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s what I’m saying. “Additional fuckery” is really putting it mildly compared to what we all really had to go through.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?
Encom@lemmy.world 6 months 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?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Well first of all who actually has their ringer on anymore
And secondly it was WAY more of a pain in the ass back then
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 6 months ago
(back creaks) In the old days, some phones had a specific audio format for ringtones that wasn’t .mp3 to save storage space.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months 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?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh god this is the phrase that makes every bone in my body cry out in old.
snf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones
Damage@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Old dumb phones could not play arbitrary audio… Well, aside from phone calls of course. Ringtones were a series of… Tones! Kinda like a midi file, ever heard of that?
Extra fun fact, the original iPhone only had THE iphone ringtone, and you could not change it.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?
NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?
pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Low quality speakers and storage was far more expensive then than it is now
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Reee kids get out
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I still have some 3gp/3gpp videos recorded on my old slide. What a pain. And I think depending on whether your phone was gsm/CDMA would affect whether it recorded to .3gp or .3g2.