I like lots of music. I like loud rock. I like country. I like mellow white-boy music. I like old jazz. I like 'experimental world music.' I like the Yoshida Brothers song with the shamisen from the Wii commercials. I even like classical music.What I don't like, however, is super-low-bitrate pseudo-techno or 5 seconds of the latest Fergie song playing on repeat, sounding like it's coming from a 1920's-era AM radio. Unfortunately, those are the hideous noises that come out of 95% of cell phones out in public today.
Fortunately, I have a solution.
Most new phones don't even come with anything resembling a 'normal' ringtone. I had to dig all the way back to an old Motorola phone to find a normal, electronic-sounding phone ringtone. After a fair amount of hacking and about a half-dozen conversion programs, I have the "classic" ringtone from my Motorola v600 as an .mp3 file, which should work as a ringtone on just about any new phone. For those of you with Treo 650s that won't play .mp3 ringtones without a goofy add-on program (I was there once too), I've also added a .WAV version.
The classic-q3 files are the standard ring, with no extra 'pause.' If you try those and find that your phone seems to ring too fast, try the classic-q3l files. They have a built-in delay for phones that loop .mp3 files instantly.
I'll leave it to somewhere else on the internet to tell you how to get them on your phone, but here are the files:
(Image from justinbaeder on Flickr)
Thank you. Do you also, by any chance have the old (non-electronic) style ring tone mp3? Just asking, because I've not been able to find such anywhere. Thanks again.
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