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FlashSheridan: /* Buying a ringtone: an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface? */

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‎Buying a ringtone: an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface?

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‎Buying a ringtone: an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface?

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	:Question: Why would you ''buy'' a ringtone? I mean, good luck to whoever puts what you want there to sell, but it's a bit Life Of Brian to 'individualise' your device with a potentially widely downloaded product. <crowd>Yes, We Are All Individuals!</crowd> (Even if you only sample your favourite chart hit/movie dialogue, you make it unique and your own 'art' by choosing how and where you slice it. And can at least be sure that the possible copyright infringement is done by yourself (surely mitigated by "fair use", if anyone cares enough) and not done by some moneymaking grifter who will commit unfair mass-piracy, before they skedaddle with their ill-gotten gains in the face of the IP lawyers. But then I'm not an iDevice user of any kind, so not sure how locked into pure purchases the Apple stuff is, and have never spent a red cent on my Android devices beyond the initial hardware purchasing (directly, though I have donated to developers - off app - if they don't effectively ''demand'' freemium payments to make their almost useful apps more useful) and of course any rolling network costs where applicable.		:Question: Why would you ''buy'' a ringtone? I mean, good luck to whoever puts what you want there to sell, but it's a bit Life Of Brian to 'individualise' your device with a potentially widely downloaded product. <crowd>Yes, We Are All Individuals!</crowd> (Even if you only sample your favourite chart hit/movie dialogue, you make it unique and your own 'art' by choosing how and where you slice it. And can at least be sure that the possible copyright infringement is done by yourself (surely mitigated by "fair use", if anyone cares enough) and not done by some moneymaking grifter who will commit unfair mass-piracy, before they skedaddle with their ill-gotten gains in the face of the IP lawyers. But then I'm not an iDevice user of any kind, so not sure how locked into pure purchases the Apple stuff is, and have never spent a red cent on my Android devices beyond the initial hardware purchasing (directly, though I have donated to developers - off app - if they don't effectively ''demand'' freemium payments to make their almost useful apps more useful) and of course any rolling network costs where applicable.
	:Anyway, that mild rant aside, get (or use, if you already have one) a sound recorder app and pester someone with a vibrating phone and a hard table (ditto) and try a few experiments. It'll do your geeky soul good! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222\|162.158.34.222]] 16:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)		:Anyway, that mild rant aside, get (or use, if you already have one) a sound recorder app and pester someone with a vibrating phone and a hard table (ditto) and try a few experiments. It'll do your geeky soul good! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222\|162.158.34.222]] 16:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:: I have made some custom ringtones (e.g. my default tone, going back to a Palm VII Midi browser plugin, of the Thunderbirds theme with an initial ten-second pause, which is sufficiently individualized not to overlap anyone else within earshot at the office who has also forgotten to mute his phone on a given day). But I’m happy to pay 99¢ to avoid duplicated effort.
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	Has anyone found a ringtone that is an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface? I tried and failed in the new and inferior iTunes Store.		Has anyone found a ringtone that is an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface? I tried and failed in the new and inferior iTunes Store.
	— [[User:FlashSheridan\|FlashSheridan]] ([[User talk:FlashSheridan\|talk]]) 13:06, 29 February 2020 (UTC)		— [[User:FlashSheridan\|FlashSheridan]] ([[User talk:FlashSheridan\|talk]]) 13:06, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
		+	:Question: Why would you ''buy'' a ringtone? I mean, good luck to whoever puts what you want there to sell, but it's a bit Life Of Brian to 'individualise' your device with a potentially widely downloaded product. <crowd>Yes, We Are All Individuals!</crowd> (Even if you only sample your favourite chart hit/movie dialogue, you make it unique and your own 'art' by choosing how and where you slice it. And can at least be sure that the possible copyright infringement is done by yourself (surely mitigated by "fair use", if anyone cares enough) and not done by some moneymaking grifter who will commit unfair mass-piracy, before they skedaddle with their ill-gotten gains in the face of the IP lawyers. But then I'm not an iDevice user of any kind, so not sure how locked into pure purchases the Apple stuff is, and have never spent a red cent on my Android devices beyond the initial hardware purchasing (directly, though I have donated to developers - off app - if they don't effectively ''demand'' freemium payments to make their almost useful apps more useful) and of course any rolling network costs where applicable.
		+	:Anyway, that mild rant aside, get (or use, if you already have one) a sound recorder app and pester someone with a vibrating phone and a hard table (ditto) and try a few experiments. It'll do your geeky soul good! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222\|162.158.34.222]] 16:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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	My "general" ringtone is a recording of a dialup modem in action. Freaks out the older nerds around me. I know a young woman who set the custom ringtone for when her mother called to the theme for the Wicked Witch of the North (original Oz movie). Friend of mine set the ringtone for his wife to a recording of her saying " [Marty], it's [Diane]..." [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 16:36, 26 February 2020 (UTC)		My "general" ringtone is a recording of a dialup modem in action. Freaks out the older nerds around me. I know a young woman who set the custom ringtone for when her mother called to the theme for the Wicked Witch of the North (original Oz movie). Friend of mine set the ringtone for his wife to a recording of her saying " [Marty], it's [Diane]..." [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 16:36, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Has anyone found a ringtone that is an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface? I tried and failed in the new and inferior iTunes Store.
		+	— [[User:FlashSheridan\|FlashSheridan]] ([[User talk:FlashSheridan\|talk]]) 13:06, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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	: And I've not even noticed the change. I still hear ringtones going off when people get calls. I'm not even sure how it would work, since surely you'd at least need it to ring while charging or when you don't have pockets (like a lot of dressier women's clothing). And then there's the trend I have noticed of people actually playing their music out loud without headphones, which makes me think that people are not becoming more concerned about their phones making noise. [[User:Trlkly\|Trlkly]] ([[User talk:Trlkly\|talk]]) 10:35, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		: And I've not even noticed the change. I still hear ringtones going off when people get calls. I'm not even sure how it would work, since surely you'd at least need it to ring while charging or when you don't have pockets (like a lot of dressier women's clothing). And then there's the trend I have noticed of people actually playing their music out loud without headphones, which makes me think that people are not becoming more concerned about their phones making noise. [[User:Trlkly\|Trlkly]] ([[User talk:Trlkly\|talk]]) 10:35, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
		+	::Playing music out loud (from phone hansets or, these days, far meatier bluetooth units) is an active decision, uncaring of others and/or deliberately showing off. Even these people ''might'' baulk at a random incoming call (assuming not pre-arranged) sparking off whatever sound it creates, at otherwise inopportune moments like sitting in a toilet stall, crossing the road or window-browsing for the next model of phone. Personally, I have the vibrate-and-'ring' setting, which startx to vibrate shortly before it makes noise, usually giving me time to evaluate the incoming call and answer/mute/reject it before very much of anything audible (except for my own yelp/exclamation of surprise and quick fumbling in the pocket, in response to the sudden 'tickle') happens. I wouldn't even need that if I had one of those earpieces, but they eat battery and always seem too losable so I don't. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.102\|162.158.159.102]] 15:20, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

	Early ringers were hand-cranked generators (or perhaps magnetos), so you might be able to tell who was calling by how fast they cranked.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.206.22\|172.68.206.22]] 19:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)		Early ringers were hand-cranked generators (or perhaps magnetos), so you might be able to tell who was calling by how fast they cranked.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.206.22\|172.68.206.22]] 19:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

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	:Okay, now I want to change my ringtone with a slide whisle XD [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.136\|162.158.214.136]] 04:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)		:Okay, now I want to change my ringtone with a slide whisle XD [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.136\|162.158.214.136]] 04:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
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		+	My "general" ringtone is a recording of a dialup modem in action. Freaks out the older nerds around me. I know a young woman who set the custom ringtone for when her mother called to the theme for the Wicked Witch of the North (original Oz movie). Friend of mine set the ringtone for his wife to a recording of her saying " [Marty], it's [Diane]..." [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 16:36, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

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 I can't stand people who use the old fashioned 1950s bell ringtone. It's not cute anymore, it's just boring and overused. Almost as bad as the many "default" ringtones that people are too lazy to change. These are smartphones! You can easily use just about any song or sound imaginable! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.82|162.158.214.82]] 08:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 :Yeah, how dare people like something you don't You can easily use just about any song or sound imaginable, therefore you should limit certain ones because someone online might find it "boring".[[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.111|162.158.187.111]] 14:49, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 I will definitely not switch to vibration any time soon. I hate vibration in phones so much that I have installed multiple apps and mods to get rid of every single variant of vibration on my phone (which is surprisingly difficult), at least as long as the system is running. After shutdown it sadly still vibrates. Maybe I should screw off the vibration motor one day. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 09:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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	I can't stand people who use the old fashioned 1950s bell ringtone. It's not cute anymore, it's just boring and overused. Almost as bad as the many "default" ringtones that people are too lazy to change. These are smartphones! You can easily use just about any song or sound imaginable! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.82\|162.158.214.82]] 08:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		I can't stand people who use the old fashioned 1950s bell ringtone. It's not cute anymore, it's just boring and overused. Almost as bad as the many "default" ringtones that people are too lazy to change. These are smartphones! You can easily use just about any song or sound imaginable! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.82\|162.158.214.82]] 08:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
		+	:Yeah, how dare people like something you don't You can easily use just about any song or sound imaginable, therefore you should limit certain ones because someone online might find it "boring".[[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.111\|162.158.187.111]] 14:49, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

	I will definitely not switch to vibration any time soon. I hate vibration in phones so much that I have installed multiple apps and mods to get rid of every single variant of vibration on my phone (which is surprisingly difficult), at least as long as the system is running. After shutdown it sadly still vibrates. Maybe I should screw off the vibration motor one day. [[User:Fabian42\|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42\|talk]]) 09:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		I will definitely not switch to vibration any time soon. I hate vibration in phones so much that I have installed multiple apps and mods to get rid of every single variant of vibration on my phone (which is surprisingly difficult), at least as long as the system is running. After shutdown it sadly still vibrates. Maybe I should screw off the vibration motor one day. [[User:Fabian42\|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42\|talk]]) 09:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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	1820s to 1870s: {{w\|Steamship\|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w\|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King\|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)\|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)\|beeps}} [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76\|162.158.159.76]] 15:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		1820s to 1870s: {{w\|Steamship\|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w\|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King\|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)\|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)\|beeps}} [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76\|162.158.159.76]] 15:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
	:I did that (entered my own ringtone Nokia's on-phone Composer thingummy) with the Thunderbirds theme tune. Learnt just enough how to extract note data from a MIDI file via a quick-and-dirty Perl script. Then had to monophonise it to get the vital trumpet refrain just right where it overlapped "Duh dah-dah-d(DAH-DAH-DAAAH!) ...". Would you believe I also tended to wear lots of very colourful/cartoony ties? Still got 'em. But my phones just (sort of) ring these days - No fun in it once you could just start to plug in sampled MP3s/etc of ''anything''. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.221\|141.101.99.221]] 21:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		:I did that (entered my own ringtone Nokia's on-phone Composer thingummy) with the Thunderbirds theme tune. Learnt just enough how to extract note data from a MIDI file via a quick-and-dirty Perl script. Then had to monophonise it to get the vital trumpet refrain just right where it overlapped "Duh dah-dah-d(DAH-DAH-DAAAH!) ...". Would you believe I also tended to wear lots of very colourful/cartoony ties? Still got 'em. But my phones just (sort of) ring these days - No fun in it once you could just start to plug in sampled MP3s/etc of ''anything''. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.221\|141.101.99.221]] 21:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:Okay, now I want to change my ringtone with a slide whisle XD [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.136\|162.158.214.136]] 04:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

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	1820s to 1870s: {{w\|Steamship\|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w\|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King\|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)\|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)\|beeps}} [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76\|162.158.159.76]] 15:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)		1820s to 1870s: {{w\|Steamship\|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w\|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King\|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)\|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w\|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)\|beeps}} [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76\|162.158.159.76]] 15:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
		+	:I did that (entered my own ringtone Nokia's on-phone Composer thingummy) with the Thunderbirds theme tune. Learnt just enough how to extract note data from a MIDI file via a quick-and-dirty Perl script. Then had to monophonise it to get the vital trumpet refrain just right where it overlapped "Duh dah-dah-d(DAH-DAH-DAAAH!) ...". Would you believe I also tended to wear lots of very colourful/cartoony ties? Still got 'em. But my phones just (sort of) ring these days - No fun in it once you could just start to plug in sampled MP3s/etc of ''anything''. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.221\|141.101.99.221]] 21:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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 : In the UK, the so-called trimphone was introduced in the sixties with a warbling ringtone instead of the traditional bell sound. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.12|162.158.159.12]] 23:12, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 : The initial tones for tweedling or beeping phones were often pure sine wave tones, which are difficult for the human ear to locate. If you had five phones (not uncommon in some offices) you would need to pick up each in succession to find the one that was ringing. [[User:Snezzy|Snezzy]] ([[User talk:Snezzy|talk]]) 10:07, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 Interesting contrast to [https://xkcd.com/479/ xkcd 479].
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 I will definitely not switch to vibration any time soon. I hate vibration in phones so much that I have installed multiple apps and mods to get rid of every single variant of vibration on my phone (which is surprisingly difficult), at least as long as the system is running. After shutdown it sadly still vibrates. Maybe I should screw off the vibration motor one day. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 09:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
-s to 1870s: {{w|Steamship|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)|beeps}}
+s to 1870s: {{w|Steamship|whistle at end of long tube}}; (me, turn of the millenium: much abbreviated monophonic '[https://nokia.fandom.com/wiki/Composer Composer]' version of a complex polyphonic MIDI file of a {{w|In_the_Hall_of_the_Mountain_King|classical tune I quite liked}}); Mid 23rdC: {{w|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701)|electronic version of a whistle through a long tube}}; Mid 24thC {{w|USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)|beeps}} [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76|162.158.159.76]] 15:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)