Damn… I can remember doing this and just finding it easier to buy a ringtone when they were cheap.
Is there any context to this picture? I’d love to read it lol
What in the freaking pixel fog am I looking at
All I can make out is the dude and his massive honker
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: https://youtu.be/ymjV1IwReU4
I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?
(back creaks) In the old days, some phones had a specific audio format for ringtones that wasn’t .mp3 to save storage space.
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?
button phones
Oh god this is the phrase that makes every bone in my body cry out in old.
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.
Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.
