Ringtones

[rareboy]

We just shifted the business phone to cellular, saving about $100 per month per line.

Choosing a ringtone to distinguish it from my personal cellphone while not making my ears bleed has been a challenge this week.

What do you use for your ringtones?

Factory installed? Custom?

 

[NotHardUp1]

I have used the factory installed ones almost without exception.

However, a few months ago when Trump was shot, someone posted a hilarious video on 9gag as a meme featuring the 12-Street Rag being played on an American Fotoplayer , with the caption something like "Conspiracy theorists right after Trump was shot!" It was so apt, so zany, so nostalgic for slapstick, I downloaded it as a soundbite for a ringtone.

My phone rarely makes it to a full ring, but sometimes I just let it. Love it!

Joe Rinaudo performing.

The whipcrack, slide whistle, ooga horn, cymbals and marimba just do it for me. Circus in a bottle.

 

[rareboy]

I may look into this one!

 

[NotHardUp1]

I may look into this one!

You can be damned sure no one will let the phone ring and ring.

I had to download a program to extract the sound from the video and save it. Wasn't bad. Only a 11 second clip, I think.

Also, I love the implication of multitasking while fielding calls.

 

[TickTockMan]

I use songs that remind me of the caller.

 

[bankside]

I googled a tutorial to show you how to make ringtones out of any piece of music using Apple's garage band. It's a bit fussy, but when my guy calls me, it now plays the multi-tone from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

 

[Yooper]

Years ago I paid a whole .99 cents to download the Imperial Death March theme part as my ringtone for my Supervisor. I figured out if she was calling me, she'd never hear it, because she wouldn't call me from the same room. It worked, and made everyone else giggle when they heard her calling me.

 

[peeonme]

I use the factory installed now. In times past I downloaded Beethoven's 5th and also Hail to the Chief.

 

[Latimer]

The ringtone I use on my Samsung phone is an excerpt from Satie's first Gymnopedie. Samsung offers a number of classical ringtones. My partner uses one by Mozart.

 

[Vannie]

Obnoxious sounds from stuffed cabbage night.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

The ringtone I use on my Samsung phone is an excerpt from Satie's first Gymnopedie. Samsung offers a number of classical ringtones. My partner uses one by Mozart.

Supremely Beautiful. Thank You for posting, it has made me vey happy!

 

[EJMichaels]

I'm surprised how unpleasant the factory options are. I found a not-obnoxious but loud enough one for my unknown caller default. Known contacts get my radio call sign in Morse code. Frequent contacts get their own names (or call signs) in code. My mother has a different one from the factory list that's distinct enough even when I can't hear the phone well.

 

[Kahaih]

/\ @ unpleasant factory options

Should I call you, I would like for you to answer the fucking phone right away, not just sit there listening to a goddamn opera, or worse, forcing your 'ringtones' on everyone around you like some punk with a boom box. LOL

If there are lovely little tunes that you like to hear, add them to your playlist/music folder and play them on your own time.

 

[Alistair]

^ yep. I always have my phone on silent.

No one ever calls me anyway