☎ The Best (and Only) Ringtone Thread
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Continuing the discussion from 🖎 The officious song of the day comment thread!:
my ringtone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEj70pwmmGYLet's create a thread for discussing ringtones.
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And now for my own ringtones.
I don't think I've actually used this one, come to think of it. But it was one of my candidates.
For the longest time I've used this. I still have a tendency to check my pocket when I hear the song, even more so than my current ringtone.
This is my current ringtone:
Necros - Winter's Dream – 02:46
— necrostributeAnother good one by Necros is "Mechanism Eight", of Unreal Tournament fame.
I should change it, since my dad "stole" it from me and now things can get confusing when we're together.
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You shouldn't set up your favorite song or theme as ringtone. You'll grow to hate it within a week.
I just use various variants of beeping sounds for different things. Which is how it should be.
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On my work phone:
Propellerheads - Spybreak! – 04:01
— MusicSoundtracksPersonal phone:
Foo Fighters - Next Year – 04:48
— 0foofighter0
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You shouldn't set up your favorite song or theme as ringtone. You'll grow to hate it within a week.
Not true - I sometimes miss answering the call in time because I leave it ringing longer
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I just use various variants of beeping sounds for different things. Which is how it should be.
I use the same favorite variation of beeping sounds for everything. :)Having said that, I partially agree with your sentiment with two attenuating factors:
- you don't have to use your absolute favorite song, just something you like (enough for a ringtone). This is the case for the first two songs in my previous post;
- some songs only "really start" well after the 30 seconds mark, so you won't get tired of the "meat" of the song.
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I sometimes miss answering the call in time because I leave it ringing longer
I used to have Fuck Her Gently by Tenacious D as my ringtone. There was always that extra bit of tension to answer it before it got to the profanities.
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Mine used to be this, used to answer my phone faster then.
AMERICA F*#K YEAH! MUSIC VIDEO - Team America World Police THEME SONG – 03:00
— BadfishKoo
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First twelve seconds of this song:
I don't get enough calls that I get tired of it. It has two major advantages: one, that it's almost certainly not the same ringtone someone else has, so I don't reach for my phone when someone else gets a call, and two, it's loud enough I can hear it in the car with the windows down and the stereo playing (not gonna answer it when I'm driving, but it's nice to know a call came in so I can check voicemail the next time I stop; before I switched to this I might not know about a call for hours afterward).
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that bleach theme the fighting pose one.
or the deathnote one that goes hey hey ningen fucker
someone youtube those for the greater good
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Freedom Planet theme tune FTW
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the deathnote one that goes hey hey ningen fucker
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One of my custom ringtones (for when my husband calls me):
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On my old phone I used to have the starting sound of one of these (Sadly, I've lost the recording I made):
Tändkula - Västervik tung 4 hk – 01:05
— Bengt AnkarvallThe one below is a bigger version, but the sound of it slowly gaining speed and rhytm is sort of the same:
Sigvard startar tändkulan – 01:08
— oldcarsweden
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I technically have this as my ringtone, but I never actually have my ringing volume above 0.
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I just use various
variants of beepingsounds for different things. Which is how it should be.A must. Gotta know if it's the wife, kids, or school.
Hmm...getting new phone, must look for a new ringtone for my wife...
A "bonk" perhaps... like Wilma hitting Fred Flintstone with a skillet?
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This entire damn topic needs to get off my lawn (OK, not @cartman82, he can hang out and drink beer with me). What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
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This entire damn topic needs to get off my lawn (OK, not @cartman82, he can hang out and drink beer with me). What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
The question is: How does a phone sound today? Because the fake old-school ringtones are really crappy. The closest I can think of is the noise of it in vibrate-only mode on top of a wooden table.
Hmm... /me sneaks off to do some recording...
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Because the fake old-school ringtones are really crappy.
It's true.
Fortunately, I have a...um...5 or 6 year old phone that still has a reasonable ringtone.
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What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
Nothing.
As a member of the belt-onion crowd I whole- 'd-ly agree with you.
Except that's the ringtone for my Alarm Clock... because if there's one sound that'll wake you up... it's the phone ringing in the middle of the night.
Which, eventually will collapse into a black-hole of circular reasoning.,, but works for now.
Oh, cool, "oncoming" emoji didn't see those before.... , but not
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there can only be OTRT and it is:
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This entire damn topic needs to get off my lawn (OK, not @cartman82, he can hang out and drink beer with me). What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
Did I say anything about having to post only songs?I didn't, did I? :fakerage:
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@boomzilla said:
This entire damn topic needs to get off my lawn (OK, not @cartman82, he can hang out and drink beer with me). What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
Did I say anything about having to post only songs?I didn't, did I? :fakerage:
If people can be outraged that I say, "You guys," then I can be outraged that they play songs when people call them.
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That doesn't answer my rhetorical question.
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What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
At work a lot of people have BlackBerrys left on the default ringtone. Having a distinct ringtone means I know when it's my phone ringing.
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I've always wanted to set this as my ringtone:
Aliens Motion Tracker on iPhone/Android 1.0.2 Update – 01:03
— DemonNiteBut I'm too lazy to figure out how and nobody would get the joke anyway.
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What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
A phone playing music as a ringtone sounds like a phone.
You need to update your definition of what a phone sounds like. You used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" is.
That said, 90% of this thread is terrible anime music. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
Nothing, but setting other ring tones to specific sets of people can let you know when it is one of them (thus answer faster or don't ignore it). Thus I use
You're The Jerk Of The Week – 00:30
— ParryGrippRadio
for close friends and
I'm a Crazy Weirdo - Parry Gripp – 00:22
— BooneBum
for family.
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Nothing, but setting other ring tones to specific sets of people can let you know when it is one of them (thus answer faster or don't ignore it)
You guys obviously have bigger problems if you have lots of people calling you. If I get a call, 99% it's either my wife or kids. The phone is either in my pocket or connected to my car, so it's obvious that it's my phone.
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You guys obviously have bigger problems if you have lots of people calling you
Agreed.
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If I get a call, 99% it's either my wife or kids.
For me it's 80% work outside of work hours and 80% confirmation of order/appointment/whatever in work hours, thus the actually important getting something different.
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You shouldn't set up your favorite song or theme as ringtone. You'll grow to hate it within a week.
Nonsense--the real problem is that you wind up wanting to listen to it instead of taking the call.
I used a clip from this for a while:
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A guy at my last job, who had a habit of leaving his phone at his desk when he was at a meeting, and inevitably getting a phone call while he was there, had this
Primal Scream - Loaded (HQ with Lyrics) – 07:02
— DSoTM
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What's wrong with a phone sounding like a phone?
Nothing, if you're the kind of person who's still using his RAZR that can't even play anything but MIDI tunes anyway, and drives a Ford Fairlane.
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If people can be outraged that I say, "You guys," then I can be outraged that they play songs when people call them.
I pay for that feature of playing custom ring sounds back at people who call me, just in case you ever want to call me.
Or maybe to make sure you wouldn't want to.
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That's the one!
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Nothing, if you're the kind of person who's still using his RAZR that can't even play anything but MIDI tunes anyway, and drives a Ford Fairlane.
Pfft.
Razr V3.
And it's a Buick Regal!
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Razr V3.
That's what I meant. The coolest phone of 2003.
Buick Regal!
Don't be a hater. I had a Buick Skyhawk in the late 90s. It was awesome.
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Techno - So I Herd U Liek Musics – [00:11..06:48] 06:48
— Kohacoloop at ~22s
Also Sections of Setting Sail, Coming Home, Specifically this one IIRC, but I've used like 3 different sections of it.
Bastion Soundtrack - Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) – [02:24..03:26] 03:26
— outphase52
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Also, my notification sound is the "data acquired" voice from Tyrian.
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Just putting this out there for anyone who might want to try it: "Paralyzed", by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
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there can only be OTRT and it is:
That just inspired me to go looking for ringtones...
But being free, they do try to shove all sorts of shit at you... I just pressed the back button.
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A guy at my last job, who had a habit of leaving his phone at his desk when he was at a meeting, and inevitably getting a phone call while he was there
A colleague of mine said that at her previous place they had an oversized version of these jars:
Anyone orphaning their phone with the sound on would find it nicely preserved afterwards.
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Also, my notification sound is the "data acquired" voice from Tyrian.
Geekiness is having a Starcraft quote. You just went beyond geekiness and into "what planet is she from?" territory.
Personally, I'm the reverse case of @boomzilla - I always keep my phone in my pocket and on vibrate, so I know it's my phone anyway.
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