Comment on Those were the days

UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨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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  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨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?

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    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      button phones

      Oh god this is the phrase that makes every bone in my body cry out in old.

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      • snf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones

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    • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

        Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

        Extra fun fact, the original iPhone only had THE iphone ringtone, and you could not change it

        NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

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    • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Low quality speakers and storage was far more expensive then than it is now

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the button phones

      Reee kids get out

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  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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  • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    additional fuckery

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

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    • Album@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.

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      • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what I’m saying. “Additional fuckery” is really putting it mildly compared to what we all really had to go through.

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  • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?

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    • Encom@lemmy.world ⁨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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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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