Damn… I can remember doing this and just finding it easier to buy a ringtone when they were cheap.
Those were the days
Submitted 6 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 6 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s funny how important ringtones were back in the day. I don’t want to hear my phone unless it’s through headphones!
Dasus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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: youtu.be/ymjV1IwReU4
olutukko@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
Damage@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
What in the freaking pixel fog am I looking at
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
All I can make out is the dude and his massive honker
olutukko@lemmy.world 6 months ago
lmao I was thinkin the same
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Peak Male Life Style. You wouldn’t get it.
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?
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?
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.
GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 6 months 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 6 months ago
additional fuckery
Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?
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
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is there any context to this picture? I’d love to read it lol
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 months ago
how did this guy get into my bedroom, why are the colors backward, and who replaced my desktop with a fax machine?
Toes@ani.social 6 months ago
It was a pain in the ass back then.
Had to convert it to a amr file, use a weird proprietary cable.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ya, but you could save a whole 99¢ doing it.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
Btw, is there still “call 01223344 to get that awesome ringtone!” telemarketing nowadays? It still was a few years ago, where i wondered why my mom would voluntarily see telemarketing.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
My very first cell phone ever was a Danger Hiptop/Sidekick in 2002. It didn’t need conversion. It just straight up used mp3s. 😎
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And that spin-flip when you needed to send a long message was just sooo satisfying.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah way easier now am I right? Maybe you should post instructions for the the old people who don’t know how
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
On Android:
Download song as .MP3
Go to the sounds settings
Choose ringtone
Choose “browse files” or whatever similar title your version uses (on pixels it’s a + symbol)
Find downloaded MP3 file, select
If you want to edit it down first then use either an app or Audacity on your PC
You can also use a file stored to Google Drive if you wanted to
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 months ago
What is all that stuff around him? Just random crap?
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Remember ringback tones. Everyone should hear my shitty music
vox_shit_alt@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
[deleted]Maultasche@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unfortunately, my phone could only handle .midi
DaGeek247@fedia.io 6 months ago
Dude's got a chair handle in his pants.
Album@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Contextually I’m saying it’s a diaper. This is a guy who doesn’t love getting out of his chair.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
My first reaction was that he was packing heat like an elephant, but yeah, incontinence guard is far more likely.