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A ringtone, ring tone or ring is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. Originally referring to and made by the electromechanical striking of bells, the term now refers to any sound on any device alerting of a new incoming call—up to and including recordings of original telephone bells.

Electronic telephones, especially smartphones, are manufactured with a preloaded selection of ringtones. Customers can buy or generate custom ringtones for installation on the device.

Background and history[edit]

A telephone rings when the telephone network indicates an incoming call, so that the recipient is alerted of the call attempt. Landline telephones typically receive an electric alternating current signal, called power ringing or ringing signal, generated by the telephone exchange to which the telephone is connected. The ringing current originally operated an electric bell. For mobile phones, the network sends a message to the recipient’s device, which may activate a sound, or a visual or vibrating indication.

On a POTS interface, this signal is created by superimposing ringing voltage atop the −48 VDC already on the line. This is done at the Central Office, or a neighborhood multiplexer called a «SLC» for Subscriber Line Carrier. (SLC is a trademark of Alcatel-Lucent, but is often used generically.) Telephones with electromagnetic ringers are still in widespread use. The ringing signal in North America is normally specified at ca. 90 volts AC with a frequency of 20 hertz. In Europe it is around 60–90 VAC with a frequency of 25 Hz. Some non-Bell Company system party lines in the US used multiple frequencies for selective ringing. Ringing voltage is produced by various sources. Large central offices used motor-driven generator sets for both ringing and other signals such as dial tone and busy signals. In smaller offices, special sub-cycle^[1] magnetic oscillators were used. Typically, solid-state oscillators have replaced them. Originally this voltage was used to trigger an electromagnet to ring a bell installed inside the telephone, or in a nearby mounted ringer box. Fixed phones of the late 20th century and later detect this ringing current voltage and trigger a warbling tone electronically. Mobile phones have been fully digital since the early 1990s second-generation («2G») devices, hence are signaled to ring as part of the protocol they use to communicate with the cell base stations.

While the sound produced is still called a «ring»,^[2] some phones electronically produce a warbling, chirping, or other sound. Variation of the ring signal can be used to indicate characteristics of incoming calls. For example, ringing bursts with a shorter interval between them might be used to signal a call from a given number.

In POTS switching systems, ringing is said to be «tripped» when the impedance of the entire telephone line (local loop) is reduced when the telephone handset is lifted off the hook. This signals that the telephone call has been answered. The telephone exchange immediately removes the ringing signal from the line and connects the call.

The ringing pattern is known as ring cadence, in which the high voltage ring current is switched on and off to create the pattern. In North America, the standard ring cadence is two seconds of ringing followed by four seconds of silence. In Australia and the UK, the standard ring cadence is 400 ms on, 200 ms off, 400 ms on, 2000 ms off. These patterns may vary from region to region, and other patterns are used in different countries around the world. Some central offices offer distinctive ring to identify one of multiple telephone numbers assigned to the same line, a pattern once widely used on party line (telephony).

In many systems, including North America Bellcore standards, Caller ID signals are sent during the silent interval between the first and second bursts of the ringing signals.

The caller is informed about the progress of the call by the audible ringing signal, often called ringback tone. Power ringing and audible ringing are not generally synchronized.

Seven different gong combinations for the «C» type ringer were included in the model 500 and 2500 landline telephone sets. These gongs provided «distinctive tones» for hearing-impaired customers and also made it possible to distinguish the specific telephone that was ringing when several telephones were placed in close proximity.^[3] A «Bell Chime» was also offered, which could be set to sound like a doorbell or to ring like a standard telephone.

While rings, ringers, ring signals, or what might be viewed as the call signals which are the predecessors of ringtones, date back to the beginnings of telephony, modern ringtones appeared in the 1960s and have expanded into tunes and many customizable tones or melodies.^[4] Arguably the first ringtone (in the modern sense) appeared in the movie Our Man Flint in 1966, where the head of the secret government agency had a red phone that connected directly to the President and rang with a distinctive musical ringtone.^[5]

Following a 1975 FCC ruling which permitted third-party devices to be connected to phone lines, manufacturers produced accessory telephone ringers which rang with electronic tones or melodies rather than mechanical bells. People also made their own ringers which used the chip from a musical greeting card to play a melody on the arrival of a call.^[6] One such ringer, described in a 1989 book, even features a toy dog which barks and wags its tail when a call arrives.^[7] Eventually, electronic telephone ringers became the norm. Some of these ringers produced a single tone, but others produced a sequence of two or three tones or a musical melody.^[8] Some novelty phones have a ringer to match, such as a duck that quacks or a car that honks its horn.

Polyphonic ringtone technology dates back to 1999, when the Yamaha MA-1 sound chip was introduced, including four 2-op FM synthesis channels.^[9] Ringtones played on the MA series chips are in the MIDI-based synthetic music mobile application format (SMAF). It was succeeded by the MA-2 in 2000, which includes 16 channels with support for ADPCM samples, and the MA-3 in 2001 which includes 32 FM channels and 8 wavetable channels. One of the first software-based polyphonic synths included on phones was miniBAE, developed by Thomas Dolby’s audio technology company Beatnik.^[10] It is an optimized version of Beatnik Audio Engine, which was previously used in products such as WebTV. The first phone to include this synth was the Nokia 3510, released in 2002.^[11]

Types[edit]

«Truetone» redirects here. For other uses, see True Tone.

• Monophonic: The original ringtones play only one note at a time.
• Polyphonic: A polyphonic ringtone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. Later, synthesized instruments could be included along with the composition data, which allowed for more varied sounds beyond the built-in sound bank of each phone.
• Truetone: A truetone, also known as realtone, mastertone, superphonic ringtone, is an audio recording, typically in a common format such as MP3 or AAC. Truetones, which are often excerpts from songs, became popular as ringtones. The first truetone service was started by au in December 2002.^[12] «My Gift to You» by Chemistry was the first song to be distributed as a truetone.^[13] This truetone (in Japanese chaku-uta) was released in time for Chemistry’s concert tour in Japan.^[14]
• Sing tone: A sing tone is a ringtone created in karaoke style, combining a user’s recorded voice with a backing track.

Encoding formats[edit]

Most modern phones support ringtones in MP3 format, and other common audio formats such as AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MIDI are often supported as well. Less common formats include:

• 3GP: A multimedia container format that can be used for video ringtones.
• AMR: Audio compression format specialized in speech used by Nokia before mp3 became standard.
• eMelody: Older monophonic Ericsson format.
• iMelody: Monophonic format developed by Ericsson to replace eMelody.
• KWS: Kyocera’s ringer format.
• MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
• Music Macro Language (MML), originally used in early computer and video games, later used in BASIC implementations and ringtones
• .nrt / .rng / .rt / .ext: Nokia’s monophonic format.
• Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Allows users to share ringtones via text message.
• PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ringtones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
• PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include MIDI, sampled (PCM) audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events.
• QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software. Especially well-suited for simple vocal recordings.
• RMF: a polyphonic format with embedded audio used on Symbian and Danger Hiptop devices.
• RTTTL/RTX: Nokia-developed text formats for Smart Messaging.
• Samsung: Proprietary key press format.
• Siemens: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
• Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
• SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension «MMF» or «MLD».
• SRT: Sipura ringtone for Sipura Technology VoIP phones.
• Mobile XMF: Many of Nokia’s 2004-2013 phones support this format.

Generation software[edit]

A ringtone maker is an application that converts a user chosen song or other audio file for use as a ringtone of a mobile phone. The ringtone file is installed in the mobile phone either by direct cable connection, Bluetooth, text messaging, or e-mail. On many websites, users may create ringtones from digital music or audio.

The earliest ringtone maker was Harmonium, developed by Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, and released in 1997 for use with Nokia smart messaging.^[15][16] Some phone manufacturers included features for users to create music tones, either with a «melody composer» or a sample/loop arranger, such as the MusicDJ software included on many Sony Ericsson phones. These often use encoding formats only available to one particular phone model or brand. Other formats, such as MIDI or MP3, are often supported; they must be downloaded to the phone before they can be used as a normal ringtone.^{[original research?]}

In 2005, «SmashTheTones», now «Mobile17», became the first third-party solution for ringtone creation online without requiring downloadable software or a digital audio editor. Later, iPhones included the ability to create a ringtone from a song purchased with the iTunes library.^[17]

Commercial sales and popularity[edit]

In September 1996, IDO sold Digital Minimo D319 by Denso. It was the first mobile phone where a user could input an original melody, rather than having to use preloaded melodies. These phones proved to be popular in Japan, with a book^[18] being published in 1998 providing details about how to customize phones to play snippets of popular songs, selling more than 3.5 million copies.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998 when Radiolinja (a Finnish mobile operator now known as Elisa) started their service called Harmonium, invented by Vesa-Matti Pananen.^[19] Harmonium contained both tools for individuals to create monophonic ring tones and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air (OTA) via SMS to a mobile handset. In November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe (SoftBank Mobile) started a similar service in Japan.

Andy Clarke, while working for UK phone provider Orange, helped created the B5 Ringtone License with the UK’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society in 1998. In 1999, Clarke registered ringtone.net and setup what is believed to be the world’s first «legal» ringtone business. Scott Memphis, leader singer of Sunday Morning Sanctuary, wrote a 2010 hit entitled, «Ringtones & Lullabies» inspired by with the B5 Ringtone Licensing of 1998.

The fact that consumers were willing to pay up to $5 for ringtones, made mobile music a profitable part of the music industry.^[20] A significant portion of sales went to the cell phone provider.^[21] The Manhattan-based marketing and consulting firm Consect estimated ringtones generated $4 billion in worldwide sales in 2004.^[16] According to Fortune magazine, ringtones generated more than $2 billion in worldwide sales during 2005.^[22] The rise of sound files also contributed to the popularization of ringtones. In 2003 for example, the Japanese ringtone market, which alone was worth US$900 million, experienced US$66.4 million worth of sound file ringtone sales.^[21] In 2003, the global ringtone industry was worth somewhere between US$2.5 and US$3.5 billion.^[21] In 2009, the research firm SNL Kagan estimated that sales of ringtones in the United States peaked at $714 million in 2007.^[23]

Decline of popularity[edit]

SNL Kagan estimated U.S. sales of ringtones in 2008 declined to $541 million, as consumers utilized third-party software and tutorials to create ringtones themselves.^[20] Another reason for the decline of ringtones is due to the increase of mobile devices in the late 2000s having internet connectivity, allowing consumers to download full songs from marketplaces such as iTunes and Amazon, rather than buying excerpts for $5 through text.^[24] The technological advancements of smartphones is also considered to be a factor in the decline of ringtones, with consumers shifting their focus to software such as games and social media.^[25] The decline of ringtones has further continued throughout the 2010s and 2020s, with many people setting the ringtone to silent; Sensor Tower reported in 2021 that ringtone app downloads decreased by 20% from 2016 to 2020.^[26]

Cult following[edit]

Preloaded ringtones have also developed a cult following over the years. A Twitter account named Ringtone Bangers + More launched in 2020, posts preloaded ringtones from mobile phones, as well as other music related to technology such as demoes from keyboards and software installation background music.^[27] The account has also published interviews with composers who worked on ringtones.^[28] Thomas Dolby, who founded Beatnik and later Retro Ringtones, stated he is «pleased to see an upsurge of interest in classic ringtones»,^[29] while several composers who worked at Nokia have expressed surprise over the interest in ringtones.^[30]

See also[edit]

• Zip tone
•  Telephones portal

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ringtones from How Stuff Works (old article, deals with monophonic ringtones)
• «Ringtone FAQ — UCAN». ucan.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. — Consumer guide to ring tones, from Utility Consumers’ Action Network (UCAN)

A ringtone, ring tone or ring is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. Originally referring to and made by the electromechanical striking of bells, the term now refers to any sound on any device alerting of a new incoming call—up to and including recordings of original telephone bells.

Electronic telephones, especially smartphones, are manufactured with a preloaded selection of ringtones. Customers can buy or generate custom ringtones for installation on the device.

Background and history[edit]

A telephone rings when the telephone network indicates an incoming call, so that the recipient is alerted of the call attempt. Landline telephones typically receive an electric alternating current signal, called power ringing or ringing signal, generated by the telephone exchange to which the telephone is connected. The ringing current originally operated an electric bell. For mobile phones, the network sends a message to the recipient’s device, which may activate a sound, or a visual or vibrating indication.

On a POTS interface, this signal is created by superimposing ringing voltage atop the −48 VDC already on the line. This is done at the Central Office, or a neighborhood multiplexer called a «SLC» for Subscriber Line Carrier. (SLC is a trademark of Alcatel-Lucent, but is often used generically.) Telephones with electromagnetic ringers are still in widespread use. The ringing signal in North America is normally specified at ca. 90 volts AC with a frequency of 20 hertz. In Europe it is around 60–90 VAC with a frequency of 25 Hz. Some non-Bell Company system party lines in the US used multiple frequencies for selective ringing. Ringing voltage is produced by various sources. Large central offices used motor-driven generator sets for both ringing and other signals such as dial tone and busy signals. In smaller offices, special sub-cycle^[1] magnetic oscillators were used. Typically, solid-state oscillators have replaced them. Originally this voltage was used to trigger an electromagnet to ring a bell installed inside the telephone, or in a nearby mounted ringer box. Fixed phones of the late 20th century and later detect this ringing current voltage and trigger a warbling tone electronically. Mobile phones have been fully digital since the early 1990s second-generation («2G») devices, hence are signaled to ring as part of the protocol they use to communicate with the cell base stations.

While the sound produced is still called a «ring»,^[2] some phones electronically produce a warbling, chirping, or other sound. Variation of the ring signal can be used to indicate characteristics of incoming calls. For example, ringing bursts with a shorter interval between them might be used to signal a call from a given number.

In POTS switching systems, ringing is said to be «tripped» when the impedance of the entire telephone line (local loop) is reduced when the telephone handset is lifted off the hook. This signals that the telephone call has been answered. The telephone exchange immediately removes the ringing signal from the line and connects the call.

The ringing pattern is known as ring cadence, in which the high voltage ring current is switched on and off to create the pattern. In North America, the standard ring cadence is two seconds of ringing followed by four seconds of silence. In Australia and the UK, the standard ring cadence is 400 ms on, 200 ms off, 400 ms on, 2000 ms off. These patterns may vary from region to region, and other patterns are used in different countries around the world. Some central offices offer distinctive ring to identify one of multiple telephone numbers assigned to the same line, a pattern once widely used on party line (telephony).

In many systems, including North America Bellcore standards, Caller ID signals are sent during the silent interval between the first and second bursts of the ringing signals.

The caller is informed about the progress of the call by the audible ringing signal, often called ringback tone. Power ringing and audible ringing are not generally synchronized.

Seven different gong combinations for the «C» type ringer were included in the model 500 and 2500 landline telephone sets. These gongs provided «distinctive tones» for hearing-impaired customers and also made it possible to distinguish the specific telephone that was ringing when several telephones were placed in close proximity.^[3] A «Bell Chime» was also offered, which could be set to sound like a doorbell or to ring like a standard telephone.

While rings, ringers, ring signals, or what might be viewed as the call signals which are the predecessors of ringtones, date back to the beginnings of telephony, modern ringtones appeared in the 1960s and have expanded into tunes and many customizable tones or melodies.^[4] Arguably the first ringtone (in the modern sense) appeared in the movie Our Man Flint in 1966, where the head of the secret government agency had a red phone that connected directly to the President and rang with a distinctive musical ringtone.^[5]

Following a 1975 FCC ruling which permitted third-party devices to be connected to phone lines, manufacturers produced accessory telephone ringers which rang with electronic tones or melodies rather than mechanical bells. People also made their own ringers which used the chip from a musical greeting card to play a melody on the arrival of a call.^[6] One such ringer, described in a 1989 book, even features a toy dog which barks and wags its tail when a call arrives.^[7] Eventually, electronic telephone ringers became the norm. Some of these ringers produced a single tone, but others produced a sequence of two or three tones or a musical melody.^[8] Some novelty phones have a ringer to match, such as a duck that quacks or a car that honks its horn.

Polyphonic ringtone technology dates back to 1999, when the Yamaha MA-1 sound chip was introduced, including four 2-op FM synthesis channels.^[9] Ringtones played on the MA series chips are in the MIDI-based synthetic music mobile application format (SMAF). It was succeeded by the MA-2 in 2000, which includes 16 channels with support for ADPCM samples, and the MA-3 in 2001 which includes 32 FM channels and 8 wavetable channels. One of the first software-based polyphonic synths included on phones was miniBAE, developed by Thomas Dolby’s audio technology company Beatnik.^[10] It is an optimized version of Beatnik Audio Engine, which was previously used in products such as WebTV. The first phone to include this synth was the Nokia 3510, released in 2002.^[11]

Types[edit]

«Truetone» redirects here. For other uses, see True Tone.

• Monophonic: The original ringtones play only one note at a time.
• Polyphonic: A polyphonic ringtone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. Later, synthesized instruments could be included along with the composition data, which allowed for more varied sounds beyond the built-in sound bank of each phone.
• Truetone: A truetone, also known as realtone, mastertone, superphonic ringtone, is an audio recording, typically in a common format such as MP3 or AAC. Truetones, which are often excerpts from songs, became popular as ringtones. The first truetone service was started by au in December 2002.^[12] «My Gift to You» by Chemistry was the first song to be distributed as a truetone.^[13] This truetone (in Japanese chaku-uta) was released in time for Chemistry’s concert tour in Japan.^[14]
• Sing tone: A sing tone is a ringtone created in karaoke style, combining a user’s recorded voice with a backing track.

Encoding formats[edit]

Most modern phones support ringtones in MP3 format, and other common audio formats such as AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MIDI are often supported as well. Less common formats include:

• 3GP: A multimedia container format that can be used for video ringtones.
• AMR: Audio compression format specialized in speech used by Nokia before mp3 became standard.
• eMelody: Older monophonic Ericsson format.
• iMelody: Monophonic format developed by Ericsson to replace eMelody.
• KWS: Kyocera’s ringer format.
• MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
• Music Macro Language (MML), originally used in early computer and video games, later used in BASIC implementations and ringtones
• .nrt / .rng / .rt / .ext: Nokia’s monophonic format.
• Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Allows users to share ringtones via text message.
• PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ringtones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
• PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include MIDI, sampled (PCM) audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events.
• QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software. Especially well-suited for simple vocal recordings.
• RMF: a polyphonic format with embedded audio used on Symbian and Danger Hiptop devices.
• RTTTL/RTX: Nokia-developed text formats for Smart Messaging.
• Samsung: Proprietary key press format.
• Siemens: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
• Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
• SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension «MMF» or «MLD».
• SRT: Sipura ringtone for Sipura Technology VoIP phones.
• Mobile XMF: Many of Nokia’s 2004-2013 phones support this format.

Generation software[edit]

A ringtone maker is an application that converts a user chosen song or other audio file for use as a ringtone of a mobile phone. The ringtone file is installed in the mobile phone either by direct cable connection, Bluetooth, text messaging, or e-mail. On many websites, users may create ringtones from digital music or audio.

The earliest ringtone maker was Harmonium, developed by Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, and released in 1997 for use with Nokia smart messaging.^[15][16] Some phone manufacturers included features for users to create music tones, either with a «melody composer» or a sample/loop arranger, such as the MusicDJ software included on many Sony Ericsson phones. These often use encoding formats only available to one particular phone model or brand. Other formats, such as MIDI or MP3, are often supported; they must be downloaded to the phone before they can be used as a normal ringtone.^{[original research?]}

In 2005, «SmashTheTones», now «Mobile17», became the first third-party solution for ringtone creation online without requiring downloadable software or a digital audio editor. Later, iPhones included the ability to create a ringtone from a song purchased with the iTunes library.^[17]

Commercial sales and popularity[edit]

In September 1996, IDO sold Digital Minimo D319 by Denso. It was the first mobile phone where a user could input an original melody, rather than having to use preloaded melodies. These phones proved to be popular in Japan, with a book^[18] being published in 1998 providing details about how to customize phones to play snippets of popular songs, selling more than 3.5 million copies.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998 when Radiolinja (a Finnish mobile operator now known as Elisa) started their service called Harmonium, invented by Vesa-Matti Pananen.^[19] Harmonium contained both tools for individuals to create monophonic ring tones and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air (OTA) via SMS to a mobile handset. In November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe (SoftBank Mobile) started a similar service in Japan.

Andy Clarke, while working for UK phone provider Orange, helped created the B5 Ringtone License with the UK’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society in 1998. In 1999, Clarke registered ringtone.net and setup what is believed to be the world’s first «legal» ringtone business. Scott Memphis, leader singer of Sunday Morning Sanctuary, wrote a 2010 hit entitled, «Ringtones & Lullabies» inspired by with the B5 Ringtone Licensing of 1998.

The fact that consumers were willing to pay up to $5 for ringtones, made mobile music a profitable part of the music industry.^[20] A significant portion of sales went to the cell phone provider.^[21] The Manhattan-based marketing and consulting firm Consect estimated ringtones generated $4 billion in worldwide sales in 2004.^[16] According to Fortune magazine, ringtones generated more than $2 billion in worldwide sales during 2005.^[22] The rise of sound files also contributed to the popularization of ringtones. In 2003 for example, the Japanese ringtone market, which alone was worth US$900 million, experienced US$66.4 million worth of sound file ringtone sales.^[21] In 2003, the global ringtone industry was worth somewhere between US$2.5 and US$3.5 billion.^[21] In 2009, the research firm SNL Kagan estimated that sales of ringtones in the United States peaked at $714 million in 2007.^[23]

Decline of popularity[edit]

SNL Kagan estimated U.S. sales of ringtones in 2008 declined to $541 million, as consumers utilized third-party software and tutorials to create ringtones themselves.^[20] Another reason for the decline of ringtones is due to the increase of mobile devices in the late 2000s having internet connectivity, allowing consumers to download full songs from marketplaces such as iTunes and Amazon, rather than buying excerpts for $5 through text.^[24] The technological advancements of smartphones is also considered to be a factor in the decline of ringtones, with consumers shifting their focus to software such as games and social media.^[25] The decline of ringtones has further continued throughout the 2010s and 2020s, with many people setting the ringtone to silent; Sensor Tower reported in 2021 that ringtone app downloads decreased by 20% from 2016 to 2020.^[26]

Cult following[edit]

Preloaded ringtones have also developed a cult following over the years. A Twitter account named Ringtone Bangers + More launched in 2020, posts preloaded ringtones from mobile phones, as well as other music related to technology such as demoes from keyboards and software installation background music.^[27] The account has also published interviews with composers who worked on ringtones.^[28] Thomas Dolby, who founded Beatnik and later Retro Ringtones, stated he is «pleased to see an upsurge of interest in classic ringtones»,^[29] while several composers who worked at Nokia have expressed surprise over the interest in ringtones.^[30]

See also[edit]

• Zip tone
•  Telephones portal

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ringtones from How Stuff Works (old article, deals with monophonic ringtones)
• «Ringtone FAQ — UCAN». ucan.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. — Consumer guide to ring tones, from Utility Consumers’ Action Network (UCAN)

A ringtone, ring tone or ring is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. Originally referring to and made by the electromechanical striking of bells, the term now refers to any sound on any device alerting of a new incoming call—up to and including recordings of original telephone bells.

Electronic telephones, especially smartphones, are manufactured with a preloaded selection of ringtones. Customers can buy or generate custom ringtones for installation on the device.

Background and history[edit]

A telephone rings when the telephone network indicates an incoming call, so that the recipient is alerted of the call attempt. Landline telephones typically receive an electric alternating current signal, called power ringing or ringing signal, generated by the telephone exchange to which the telephone is connected. The ringing current originally operated an electric bell. For mobile phones, the network sends a message to the recipient’s device, which may activate a sound, or a visual or vibrating indication.

On a POTS interface, this signal is created by superimposing ringing voltage atop the −48 VDC already on the line. This is done at the Central Office, or a neighborhood multiplexer called a «SLC» for Subscriber Line Carrier. (SLC is a trademark of Alcatel-Lucent, but is often used generically.) Telephones with electromagnetic ringers are still in widespread use. The ringing signal in North America is normally specified at ca. 90 volts AC with a frequency of 20 hertz. In Europe it is around 60–90 VAC with a frequency of 25 Hz. Some non-Bell Company system party lines in the US used multiple frequencies for selective ringing. Ringing voltage is produced by various sources. Large central offices used motor-driven generator sets for both ringing and other signals such as dial tone and busy signals. In smaller offices, special sub-cycle^[1] magnetic oscillators were used. Typically, solid-state oscillators have replaced them. Originally this voltage was used to trigger an electromagnet to ring a bell installed inside the telephone, or in a nearby mounted ringer box. Fixed phones of the late 20th century and later detect this ringing current voltage and trigger a warbling tone electronically. Mobile phones have been fully digital since the early 1990s second-generation («2G») devices, hence are signaled to ring as part of the protocol they use to communicate with the cell base stations.

While the sound produced is still called a «ring»,^[2] some phones electronically produce a warbling, chirping, or other sound. Variation of the ring signal can be used to indicate characteristics of incoming calls. For example, ringing bursts with a shorter interval between them might be used to signal a call from a given number.

In POTS switching systems, ringing is said to be «tripped» when the impedance of the entire telephone line (local loop) is reduced when the telephone handset is lifted off the hook. This signals that the telephone call has been answered. The telephone exchange immediately removes the ringing signal from the line and connects the call.

The ringing pattern is known as ring cadence, in which the high voltage ring current is switched on and off to create the pattern. In North America, the standard ring cadence is two seconds of ringing followed by four seconds of silence. In Australia and the UK, the standard ring cadence is 400 ms on, 200 ms off, 400 ms on, 2000 ms off. These patterns may vary from region to region, and other patterns are used in different countries around the world. Some central offices offer distinctive ring to identify one of multiple telephone numbers assigned to the same line, a pattern once widely used on party line (telephony).

In many systems, including North America Bellcore standards, Caller ID signals are sent during the silent interval between the first and second bursts of the ringing signals.

The caller is informed about the progress of the call by the audible ringing signal, often called ringback tone. Power ringing and audible ringing are not generally synchronized.

Seven different gong combinations for the «C» type ringer were included in the model 500 and 2500 landline telephone sets. These gongs provided «distinctive tones» for hearing-impaired customers and also made it possible to distinguish the specific telephone that was ringing when several telephones were placed in close proximity.^[3] A «Bell Chime» was also offered, which could be set to sound like a doorbell or to ring like a standard telephone.

While rings, ringers, ring signals, or what might be viewed as the call signals which are the predecessors of ringtones, date back to the beginnings of telephony, modern ringtones appeared in the 1960s and have expanded into tunes and many customizable tones or melodies.^[4] Arguably the first ringtone (in the modern sense) appeared in the movie Our Man Flint in 1966, where the head of the secret government agency had a red phone that connected directly to the President and rang with a distinctive musical ringtone.^[5]

Following a 1975 FCC ruling which permitted third-party devices to be connected to phone lines, manufacturers produced accessory telephone ringers which rang with electronic tones or melodies rather than mechanical bells. People also made their own ringers which used the chip from a musical greeting card to play a melody on the arrival of a call.^[6] One such ringer, described in a 1989 book, even features a toy dog which barks and wags its tail when a call arrives.^[7] Eventually, electronic telephone ringers became the norm. Some of these ringers produced a single tone, but others produced a sequence of two or three tones or a musical melody.^[8] Some novelty phones have a ringer to match, such as a duck that quacks or a car that honks its horn.

Polyphonic ringtone technology dates back to 1999, when the Yamaha MA-1 sound chip was introduced, including four 2-op FM synthesis channels.^[9] Ringtones played on the MA series chips are in the MIDI-based synthetic music mobile application format (SMAF). It was succeeded by the MA-2 in 2000, which includes 16 channels with support for ADPCM samples, and the MA-3 in 2001 which includes 32 FM channels and 8 wavetable channels. One of the first software-based polyphonic synths included on phones was miniBAE, developed by Thomas Dolby’s audio technology company Beatnik.^[10] It is an optimized version of Beatnik Audio Engine, which was previously used in products such as WebTV. The first phone to include this synth was the Nokia 3510, released in 2002.^[11]

Types[edit]

«Truetone» redirects here. For other uses, see True Tone.

• Monophonic: The original ringtones play only one note at a time.
• Polyphonic: A polyphonic ringtone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. Later, synthesized instruments could be included along with the composition data, which allowed for more varied sounds beyond the built-in sound bank of each phone.
• Truetone: A truetone, also known as realtone, mastertone, superphonic ringtone, is an audio recording, typically in a common format such as MP3 or AAC. Truetones, which are often excerpts from songs, became popular as ringtones. The first truetone service was started by au in December 2002.^[12] «My Gift to You» by Chemistry was the first song to be distributed as a truetone.^[13] This truetone (in Japanese chaku-uta) was released in time for Chemistry’s concert tour in Japan.^[14]
• Sing tone: A sing tone is a ringtone created in karaoke style, combining a user’s recorded voice with a backing track.

Encoding formats[edit]

Most modern phones support ringtones in MP3 format, and other common audio formats such as AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MIDI are often supported as well. Less common formats include:

• 3GP: A multimedia container format that can be used for video ringtones.
• AMR: Audio compression format specialized in speech used by Nokia before mp3 became standard.
• eMelody: Older monophonic Ericsson format.
• iMelody: Monophonic format developed by Ericsson to replace eMelody.
• KWS: Kyocera’s ringer format.
• MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
• Music Macro Language (MML), originally used in early computer and video games, later used in BASIC implementations and ringtones
• .nrt / .rng / .rt / .ext: Nokia’s monophonic format.
• Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Allows users to share ringtones via text message.
• PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ringtones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
• PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include MIDI, sampled (PCM) audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events.
• QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software. Especially well-suited for simple vocal recordings.
• RMF: a polyphonic format with embedded audio used on Symbian and Danger Hiptop devices.
• RTTTL/RTX: Nokia-developed text formats for Smart Messaging.
• Samsung: Proprietary key press format.
• Siemens: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
• Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
• SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension «MMF» or «MLD».
• SRT: Sipura ringtone for Sipura Technology VoIP phones.
• Mobile XMF: Many of Nokia’s 2004-2013 phones support this format.

Generation software[edit]

A ringtone maker is an application that converts a user chosen song or other audio file for use as a ringtone of a mobile phone. The ringtone file is installed in the mobile phone either by direct cable connection, Bluetooth, text messaging, or e-mail. On many websites, users may create ringtones from digital music or audio.

The earliest ringtone maker was Harmonium, developed by Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, and released in 1997 for use with Nokia smart messaging.^[15][16] Some phone manufacturers included features for users to create music tones, either with a «melody composer» or a sample/loop arranger, such as the MusicDJ software included on many Sony Ericsson phones. These often use encoding formats only available to one particular phone model or brand. Other formats, such as MIDI or MP3, are often supported; they must be downloaded to the phone before they can be used as a normal ringtone.^{[original research?]}

In 2005, «SmashTheTones», now «Mobile17», became the first third-party solution for ringtone creation online without requiring downloadable software or a digital audio editor. Later, iPhones included the ability to create a ringtone from a song purchased with the iTunes library.^[17]

Commercial sales and popularity[edit]

In September 1996, IDO sold Digital Minimo D319 by Denso. It was the first mobile phone where a user could input an original melody, rather than having to use preloaded melodies. These phones proved to be popular in Japan, with a book^[18] being published in 1998 providing details about how to customize phones to play snippets of popular songs, selling more than 3.5 million copies.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998 when Radiolinja (a Finnish mobile operator now known as Elisa) started their service called Harmonium, invented by Vesa-Matti Pananen.^[19] Harmonium contained both tools for individuals to create monophonic ring tones and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air (OTA) via SMS to a mobile handset. In November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe (SoftBank Mobile) started a similar service in Japan.

Andy Clarke, while working for UK phone provider Orange, helped created the B5 Ringtone License with the UK’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society in 1998. In 1999, Clarke registered ringtone.net and setup what is believed to be the world’s first «legal» ringtone business. Scott Memphis, leader singer of Sunday Morning Sanctuary, wrote a 2010 hit entitled, «Ringtones & Lullabies» inspired by with the B5 Ringtone Licensing of 1998.

The fact that consumers were willing to pay up to $5 for ringtones, made mobile music a profitable part of the music industry.^[20] A significant portion of sales went to the cell phone provider.^[21] The Manhattan-based marketing and consulting firm Consect estimated ringtones generated $4 billion in worldwide sales in 2004.^[16] According to Fortune magazine, ringtones generated more than $2 billion in worldwide sales during 2005.^[22] The rise of sound files also contributed to the popularization of ringtones. In 2003 for example, the Japanese ringtone market, which alone was worth US$900 million, experienced US$66.4 million worth of sound file ringtone sales.^[21] In 2003, the global ringtone industry was worth somewhere between US$2.5 and US$3.5 billion.^[21] In 2009, the research firm SNL Kagan estimated that sales of ringtones in the United States peaked at $714 million in 2007.^[23]

Decline of popularity[edit]

SNL Kagan estimated U.S. sales of ringtones in 2008 declined to $541 million, as consumers utilized third-party software and tutorials to create ringtones themselves.^[20] Another reason for the decline of ringtones is due to the increase of mobile devices in the late 2000s having internet connectivity, allowing consumers to download full songs from marketplaces such as iTunes and Amazon, rather than buying excerpts for $5 through text.^[24] The technological advancements of smartphones is also considered to be a factor in the decline of ringtones, with consumers shifting their focus to software such as games and social media.^[25] The decline of ringtones has further continued throughout the 2010s and 2020s, with many people setting the ringtone to silent; Sensor Tower reported in 2021 that ringtone app downloads decreased by 20% from 2016 to 2020.^[26]

Cult following[edit]

Preloaded ringtones have also developed a cult following over the years. A Twitter account named Ringtone Bangers + More launched in 2020, posts preloaded ringtones from mobile phones, as well as other music related to technology such as demoes from keyboards and software installation background music.^[27] The account has also published interviews with composers who worked on ringtones.^[28] Thomas Dolby, who founded Beatnik and later Retro Ringtones, stated he is «pleased to see an upsurge of interest in classic ringtones»,^[29] while several composers who worked at Nokia have expressed surprise over the interest in ringtones.^[30]

See also[edit]

• Zip tone
•  Telephones portal

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ringtones from How Stuff Works (old article, deals with monophonic ringtones)
• «Ringtone FAQ — UCAN». ucan.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. — Consumer guide to ring tones, from Utility Consumers’ Action Network (UCAN)

A ringtone, ring tone or ring is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. Originally referring to and made by the electromechanical striking of bells, the term now refers to any sound on any device alerting of a new incoming call—up to and including recordings of original telephone bells.

Electronic telephones, especially smartphones, are manufactured with a preloaded selection of ringtones. Customers can buy or generate custom ringtones for installation on the device.

Background and history[edit]

A telephone rings when the telephone network indicates an incoming call, so that the recipient is alerted of the call attempt. Landline telephones typically receive an electric alternating current signal, called power ringing or ringing signal, generated by the telephone exchange to which the telephone is connected. The ringing current originally operated an electric bell. For mobile phones, the network sends a message to the recipient’s device, which may activate a sound, or a visual or vibrating indication.

On a POTS interface, this signal is created by superimposing ringing voltage atop the −48 VDC already on the line. This is done at the Central Office, or a neighborhood multiplexer called a «SLC» for Subscriber Line Carrier. (SLC is a trademark of Alcatel-Lucent, but is often used generically.) Telephones with electromagnetic ringers are still in widespread use. The ringing signal in North America is normally specified at ca. 90 volts AC with a frequency of 20 hertz. In Europe it is around 60–90 VAC with a frequency of 25 Hz. Some non-Bell Company system party lines in the US used multiple frequencies for selective ringing. Ringing voltage is produced by various sources. Large central offices used motor-driven generator sets for both ringing and other signals such as dial tone and busy signals. In smaller offices, special sub-cycle^[1] magnetic oscillators were used. Typically, solid-state oscillators have replaced them. Originally this voltage was used to trigger an electromagnet to ring a bell installed inside the telephone, or in a nearby mounted ringer box. Fixed phones of the late 20th century and later detect this ringing current voltage and trigger a warbling tone electronically. Mobile phones have been fully digital since the early 1990s second-generation («2G») devices, hence are signaled to ring as part of the protocol they use to communicate with the cell base stations.

While the sound produced is still called a «ring»,^[2] some phones electronically produce a warbling, chirping, or other sound. Variation of the ring signal can be used to indicate characteristics of incoming calls. For example, ringing bursts with a shorter interval between them might be used to signal a call from a given number.

In POTS switching systems, ringing is said to be «tripped» when the impedance of the entire telephone line (local loop) is reduced when the telephone handset is lifted off the hook. This signals that the telephone call has been answered. The telephone exchange immediately removes the ringing signal from the line and connects the call.

The ringing pattern is known as ring cadence, in which the high voltage ring current is switched on and off to create the pattern. In North America, the standard ring cadence is two seconds of ringing followed by four seconds of silence. In Australia and the UK, the standard ring cadence is 400 ms on, 200 ms off, 400 ms on, 2000 ms off. These patterns may vary from region to region, and other patterns are used in different countries around the world. Some central offices offer distinctive ring to identify one of multiple telephone numbers assigned to the same line, a pattern once widely used on party line (telephony).

In many systems, including North America Bellcore standards, Caller ID signals are sent during the silent interval between the first and second bursts of the ringing signals.

The caller is informed about the progress of the call by the audible ringing signal, often called ringback tone. Power ringing and audible ringing are not generally synchronized.

Seven different gong combinations for the «C» type ringer were included in the model 500 and 2500 landline telephone sets. These gongs provided «distinctive tones» for hearing-impaired customers and also made it possible to distinguish the specific telephone that was ringing when several telephones were placed in close proximity.^[3] A «Bell Chime» was also offered, which could be set to sound like a doorbell or to ring like a standard telephone.

While rings, ringers, ring signals, or what might be viewed as the call signals which are the predecessors of ringtones, date back to the beginnings of telephony, modern ringtones appeared in the 1960s and have expanded into tunes and many customizable tones or melodies.^[4] Arguably the first ringtone (in the modern sense) appeared in the movie Our Man Flint in 1966, where the head of the secret government agency had a red phone that connected directly to the President and rang with a distinctive musical ringtone.^[5]

Following a 1975 FCC ruling which permitted third-party devices to be connected to phone lines, manufacturers produced accessory telephone ringers which rang with electronic tones or melodies rather than mechanical bells. People also made their own ringers which used the chip from a musical greeting card to play a melody on the arrival of a call.^[6] One such ringer, described in a 1989 book, even features a toy dog which barks and wags its tail when a call arrives.^[7] Eventually, electronic telephone ringers became the norm. Some of these ringers produced a single tone, but others produced a sequence of two or three tones or a musical melody.^[8] Some novelty phones have a ringer to match, such as a duck that quacks or a car that honks its horn.

Polyphonic ringtone technology dates back to 1999, when the Yamaha MA-1 sound chip was introduced, including four 2-op FM synthesis channels.^[9] Ringtones played on the MA series chips are in the MIDI-based synthetic music mobile application format (SMAF). It was succeeded by the MA-2 in 2000, which includes 16 channels with support for ADPCM samples, and the MA-3 in 2001 which includes 32 FM channels and 8 wavetable channels. One of the first software-based polyphonic synths included on phones was miniBAE, developed by Thomas Dolby’s audio technology company Beatnik.^[10] It is an optimized version of Beatnik Audio Engine, which was previously used in products such as WebTV. The first phone to include this synth was the Nokia 3510, released in 2002.^[11]

Types[edit]

«Truetone» redirects here. For other uses, see True Tone.

• Monophonic: The original ringtones play only one note at a time.
• Polyphonic: A polyphonic ringtone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. Later, synthesized instruments could be included along with the composition data, which allowed for more varied sounds beyond the built-in sound bank of each phone.
• Truetone: A truetone, also known as realtone, mastertone, superphonic ringtone, is an audio recording, typically in a common format such as MP3 or AAC. Truetones, which are often excerpts from songs, became popular as ringtones. The first truetone service was started by au in December 2002.^[12] «My Gift to You» by Chemistry was the first song to be distributed as a truetone.^[13] This truetone (in Japanese chaku-uta) was released in time for Chemistry’s concert tour in Japan.^[14]
• Sing tone: A sing tone is a ringtone created in karaoke style, combining a user’s recorded voice with a backing track.

Encoding formats[edit]

Most modern phones support ringtones in MP3 format, and other common audio formats such as AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and MIDI are often supported as well. Less common formats include:

• 3GP: A multimedia container format that can be used for video ringtones.
• AMR: Audio compression format specialized in speech used by Nokia before mp3 became standard.
• eMelody: Older monophonic Ericsson format.
• iMelody: Monophonic format developed by Ericsson to replace eMelody.
• KWS: Kyocera’s ringer format.
• MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
• Music Macro Language (MML), originally used in early computer and video games, later used in BASIC implementations and ringtones
• .nrt / .rng / .rt / .ext: Nokia’s monophonic format.
• Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Allows users to share ringtones via text message.
• PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ringtones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
• PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include MIDI, sampled (PCM) audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events.
• QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software. Especially well-suited for simple vocal recordings.
• RMF: a polyphonic format with embedded audio used on Symbian and Danger Hiptop devices.
• RTTTL/RTX: Nokia-developed text formats for Smart Messaging.
• Samsung: Proprietary key press format.
• Siemens: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
• Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
• SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension «MMF» or «MLD».
• SRT: Sipura ringtone for Sipura Technology VoIP phones.
• Mobile XMF: Many of Nokia’s 2004-2013 phones support this format.

Generation software[edit]

A ringtone maker is an application that converts a user chosen song or other audio file for use as a ringtone of a mobile phone. The ringtone file is installed in the mobile phone either by direct cable connection, Bluetooth, text messaging, or e-mail. On many websites, users may create ringtones from digital music or audio.

The earliest ringtone maker was Harmonium, developed by Vesa-Matti Paananen, a Finnish computer programmer, and released in 1997 for use with Nokia smart messaging.^[15][16] Some phone manufacturers included features for users to create music tones, either with a «melody composer» or a sample/loop arranger, such as the MusicDJ software included on many Sony Ericsson phones. These often use encoding formats only available to one particular phone model or brand. Other formats, such as MIDI or MP3, are often supported; they must be downloaded to the phone before they can be used as a normal ringtone.^{[original research?]}

In 2005, «SmashTheTones», now «Mobile17», became the first third-party solution for ringtone creation online without requiring downloadable software or a digital audio editor. Later, iPhones included the ability to create a ringtone from a song purchased with the iTunes library.^[17]

Commercial sales and popularity[edit]

In September 1996, IDO sold Digital Minimo D319 by Denso. It was the first mobile phone where a user could input an original melody, rather than having to use preloaded melodies. These phones proved to be popular in Japan, with a book^[18] being published in 1998 providing details about how to customize phones to play snippets of popular songs, selling more than 3.5 million copies.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998 when Radiolinja (a Finnish mobile operator now known as Elisa) started their service called Harmonium, invented by Vesa-Matti Pananen.^[19] Harmonium contained both tools for individuals to create monophonic ring tones and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air (OTA) via SMS to a mobile handset. In November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe (SoftBank Mobile) started a similar service in Japan.

Andy Clarke, while working for UK phone provider Orange, helped created the B5 Ringtone License with the UK’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society in 1998. In 1999, Clarke registered ringtone.net and setup what is believed to be the world’s first «legal» ringtone business. Scott Memphis, leader singer of Sunday Morning Sanctuary, wrote a 2010 hit entitled, «Ringtones & Lullabies» inspired by with the B5 Ringtone Licensing of 1998.

The fact that consumers were willing to pay up to $5 for ringtones, made mobile music a profitable part of the music industry.^[20] A significant portion of sales went to the cell phone provider.^[21] The Manhattan-based marketing and consulting firm Consect estimated ringtones generated $4 billion in worldwide sales in 2004.^[16] According to Fortune magazine, ringtones generated more than $2 billion in worldwide sales during 2005.^[22] The rise of sound files also contributed to the popularization of ringtones. In 2003 for example, the Japanese ringtone market, which alone was worth US$900 million, experienced US$66.4 million worth of sound file ringtone sales.^[21] In 2003, the global ringtone industry was worth somewhere between US$2.5 and US$3.5 billion.^[21] In 2009, the research firm SNL Kagan estimated that sales of ringtones in the United States peaked at $714 million in 2007.^[23]

Decline of popularity[edit]

SNL Kagan estimated U.S. sales of ringtones in 2008 declined to $541 million, as consumers utilized third-party software and tutorials to create ringtones themselves.^[20] Another reason for the decline of ringtones is due to the increase of mobile devices in the late 2000s having internet connectivity, allowing consumers to download full songs from marketplaces such as iTunes and Amazon, rather than buying excerpts for $5 through text.^[24] The technological advancements of smartphones is also considered to be a factor in the decline of ringtones, with consumers shifting their focus to software such as games and social media.^[25] The decline of ringtones has further continued throughout the 2010s and 2020s, with many people setting the ringtone to silent; Sensor Tower reported in 2021 that ringtone app downloads decreased by 20% from 2016 to 2020.^[26]

Cult following[edit]

Preloaded ringtones have also developed a cult following over the years. A Twitter account named Ringtone Bangers + More launched in 2020, posts preloaded ringtones from mobile phones, as well as other music related to technology such as demoes from keyboards and software installation background music.^[27] The account has also published interviews with composers who worked on ringtones.^[28] Thomas Dolby, who founded Beatnik and later Retro Ringtones, stated he is «pleased to see an upsurge of interest in classic ringtones»,^[29] while several composers who worked at Nokia have expressed surprise over the interest in ringtones.^[30]

See also[edit]

• Zip tone
•  Telephones portal

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ringtones from How Stuff Works (old article, deals with monophonic ringtones)
• «Ringtone FAQ — UCAN». ucan.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-10. — Consumer guide to ring tones, from Utility Consumers’ Action Network (UCAN)

Хочешь новых прикольных рингтонов? Выпрыгни в окно, %username%!

Лепра

Рингтон — музыкальный сигнал, издаваемый мобильным телефоном при поступлении входящего звонка/SMS. Свистоперделка в своем кристаллически чистом виде. Свистит, пердит, мигает и неимоверно радует.

Разновидности[править]

Эти типы рингтонов были популярны на заре мобильной связи в этой стране (то есть когда телефон перестал быть атрибутом только «Новых русских»). В нынешнее времена такое можно встретить только у олдфагов, коллекционеров и нищебродов.

Монофония[править]

Единовременно играется ровно одна «нота» — пачка прямоугольных импульсов, в которых несущее колебание определяет частоту (тон) писка. Если паузы между писками равны по времени самим пискам, это можно назвать промодулированным униполярным меандром. В том же случае, когда из однотонного пищания длительностью импульсов составлена какая-то мелодия, уместно называть широтно-импульсной модуляцией. Иными словами, пищит громко и противно или тихо и неслышно, как правило сопровождается монохромным экраном с оранжевой, зеленой, синей или, реже, белой светодиодной подсветкой.

Во времена зарождения мобильной связи существовали в продаже книжки с монофоническими мелодиями для разных моделей телефонов. Запись мелодий в таком виде поражала непосвященных, что не мудрено, поскольку каждый производитель телефонов изобретал свой формат для записи мелодий. Хотя человеку, который хоть немного разбирается в музыкальной грамоте, запись типа 1C#2/2D2/8G#1 в принципе понятна. Пример инструкции для телефонов LG.

16a1 16b1 16d2 16b1 8.#f2 8.#f2 4.e2 16a1 16b1 16#c2 16a1 8.e2 8.e2 16d2 16#c2 4b1 16a1 16b1 16#c2 16a1 4d2 8e2 8#c2 8b1 8a1 8- 8a1 4e2 4d2 4-

Пример записи монофонической мелодии в формате Nokia Composer

Псевдополифония[править]

На телефонах, позволявших воспроизводить ноты длительностью 1/16, 1/32 или короче, умельцы очень частой сменой тона добивались эффекта звучания «как будто полифонии», что во времена монофонических телефонов казалось очень крутым. На производство одного псевдополифонического рингтона уходили недели, поэтому к моменту появления телефонов с полифонией такие рингтоны так и остались раритетом. Из обычных владельцев телефонов никто не слышал про чиптюн, в котором этот прием использовался с 80-х годов.

Полифонический[править]

Позволяет использовать разнообразные MIDI-инструменты, записывается в формате MIDI (General MIDI). Однако из-за различных MIDI-синтезаторов в разных мобилах играет по-разному. Кроме того, большинство инструментов звучат как говно. А на нормальных телефонах с встроенными банками семплов (например, на Sony Ericsson или олдовых Philips) звучит весьма кошерно; мелодии, изначально написанные в MIDI, звучат вообще заебись.

Есть ещё вариация MIDI, а именно SMAF — полностью аппаратная реализация в виде чипов Yamaha, в основном встречающаяся в виде чипов MA-3 и MA-5 (кстати даже в двух-трёх моделях Сименс 55-65 серий), где уже был набор из четырёх вариаций классических банков и возможность управления виброй и миганием светодиода (как правило, трёхцветного) теми же нотами, плюс возможностью проигрывать на всё те же ноты в канале ударных по 1-3 сэмпла низкого (8 кГц/1 бит, MA-5 16 кГц) качества, которые с трудом влезали в лимит памяти несколько десятков килобайт.

Существовал отличный сайт mmf-pro, народ с которого делал с многих известных рингтонов и просто треков первоклассные MMF, но к закрытию сайта быдлом и просто халявщиками, которые не знали даже нот, MMF в основном были сведены собственно к паре сэмплов из любимых говнотреков без всякого MIDI и переходу в чистые PCM-форматы, вроде AMR — то же, но уже со звуком ужасного качества. Гламурные кисо лет пять назад от такого писали кипятком и срали кирпичами, а люди, у которых нормально работали уши — плевались. К счастью, с широким распространением mp3 это убожество (AMR etc) практически ушло в небытие… Туда ему и дорога.

Реалтон (наши дни)[править]

Реалтоны зародились ещё лет 10-15 назад, но массовое явление приобрели лишь ближе к концу нулевых, когда «телефон с проигрывателем mp3» стал нормой. Реалтон — это реальный, «волновой» звук, обычное аудио, записанное в цифру. Как правило, сегодня реалтон — это MP3. Намного реже встречается WAV или другие форматы (AMR, MMF, WMA, flac, iMelody, тысячи их.). Хотя какие-нибудь простецкие LG вполне себе могут лишь пищать полифонией. Меж тем с LG всё и начиналось, если их реклама не врёт — первым MP3-телом был LG G1800, имевший лимит флешки в 64 мб (sic!), херовенький диктофончик для wav/amr и неебически облезающий корпус, отчего он быстро становился бомж-китаем и гопоту больше не интересовал.

Откуда оно берется[править]

Собственно это и есть основной смысл и цель существования рингтонов — откуда-то их взять (поиграться и стереть — это уже так, мелочи, ведь что-то с ними делать надо). В этом процессе, в коммерческо-разводочном экстазе слились воедино стремление быдла выделиться и коммерсантов от сотовой связи — срубить на этом бабла. Так что основной поток проникновения рингтонов на мабилы — это скачивание («Всего 30 рублей! Копейки!») этого говна с разнообразных виртуальных магазинов, автоматов-автокормилок и прочих мобильно-коммерческих источников. Обьединив миллионы хомячков в одну могучую струю и ни копейки не тратя кроме как на рекламу, ОПСОСы рубят вполне заметную прибавку к прибыли.

Вообще, есть два основных пути достать рингтон: платный и бесплатный. Платным является заказ мелодии через какой-нибудь сервис, вроде 4242, 5555 и прочих, реклама которых в те годы размещалась практически везде: в газетах, журналах, на радио и ТВ, и даже в школьных тетрадях. Бесплатным является загрузка из интернета и передача в телефон с компа, либо же передача с телефона кореша по IrDA-порту, Bluetooth или Wi-Fi.

Монофонические мелодии пересылались в виде обычных SMS-сообщений, понятных правда только самому аппарату — если телефон поддерживал приём мелодий, то заказываемый рингтон можно было послушать и сохранить, а если не поддерживал — то в SMS-сообщении приходили нечитаемые символы или квадраты. Помимо пересыла, мелодию, в большинстве аппаратов, можно было «вбить» через «Composer». Код мелодии в этом случае искался в интернете или переписывался с аппарата кореша. Коды мелодий отличались у разных производителей: мелодии от Ericsson не подходили к Nokia и так далее, поэтому при заказе мелодии с говносервиса или поиске её в интернете, нужно было искать мелодию для конкретной марки аппарата. А вот внутри марки телефоны были совместимы — мелодию с Nokia 3310 можно было передать SMSкой или переписать через Composer в Nokia 1100, например. Модели Nokia, оборудованные полифонией или воспроизведением mp3 также часто совместимы с монофоническими мелодиями (и чёрно-белыми картинками). Полученную с говносервиса мелодию не всегда можно было переслать SMSкой на другой аппарат — даже там была защита от «пиратского копирования», но вот зайти в Composer и перетыкать её символы в другой аппарат вполне можно было.

Полифонические рингтоны нельзя пересылать через SMS, но можно через MMS, однако говносервисы присылали их не MMSкой, а ссылку на мелодию SMSкой, и дабы скачать вожделенный рингтон, нужно было пройти в Интернет и выкачать его по ссылке, что создавало дополнительные растраты средств на счёте: мало того, что сам рингтон стоил около 30 рублей, так теперь приходилось платить ещё и за WAP или GPRS-трафик, кой в те годы был весьма не дешёв (особенно мобильный dial-up — WAP-доступ со звонком ОпСоСу). Более того, у многих пользователей в мобилках интернет был либо вообще не настроен (отчего ОпСоС показывал хуйс вместо вожделенного рингтона), либо настроен не правильно (отчего ОпСоС снимал овердохуя У. Е. за скачивание вожделенного рингтона). Зато полифонических рингтонов было навалом в этих ваших интернетах, всяких разных, от «Хитов горячей двадцатки» до различной редкости, в отличие от описанной выше монофонии с её кодами. Если пользователь желал поставить на звонок мелодию из любимой аниму, в случае с монофонией он рискнул соснуть хуйца, так и не найдя кода, а вот найти midi-файл с подобным контентом не составляло труда. Даже сидя в интернетах с диалап-соединением, midi-рингтонами можно было обкачаться, часовая карта диалап-доступа стоила как один рингтон, а накачать за час можно было over 9000 (в отличие от mp3, на скачку которого приходилось иногда убить более часа, midi-файлы, являясь набором полифонических нот, весили несколько килобайт, а то и байт, и качались на раз-два).

Реалтоны же, являясь «волновым звуком», весили в разы больше. И хоть реалтон представлял собой не полный трек, а только самую мякоту, вырезанную из оного и сильно пожатую, всё равно, трафик такое жрало на ура, поэтому качать такое при дорогом WAP-соединении было, мягко говоря, накладно, а вот при GPRS — терпимо.

Канонический анекдот:

Анекдот зародился после того, как по всем каналам зомбоящика постоянно транслировалась реклама в стиле: «ЧП в зоопарке! Обезьян накормили горохом! Хочешь этот пердеж для рингтона на своем мобильном? Отправь слово goroh на 4242!», ну а население, конечно, обрадовавшись такому простому способу, не требующему напряжения мозгов, яростно слало запросы на 4242. Так как количество быдлорингтонов вплотную приближалось к заветному числу, а также принимая во внимание интеллектуальный уровень отправляющего запросы, история про задроченные клавиши 4 и 2 выглядит уже не анекдотом, а суровой констатацией реальности. Sad but true.

Альтернативный путь — покупать рингтоны в коллекциях, для монофонии это были книги-каталоги с кодами для ручной вбивки через Composer, для полифонии — болванки, где таких мелодий могло быть over 9000 в midi/mmf, или несколько сотен в mp3. Также, в продаже можно было найти диски с «компьютерным караоке» — коллекции караоке-файлов в формате .kar и проигрыватель к ним, записанные на болванку. Так вот, оные .kar-файлы есть ничто иное, как midi с прикрученным к ним текстом для пения. Берём .kar-файл, меняем ему расширение на .mid, заливаем в телефон и получаем рингтон в виде длинной караоке-мелодии. Но так как 95% населения не способны даже на это, то особого подрыва рынка не происходит. Зато, как и в любом МЛМ, продавец перестает тратиться на рекламу — хомячки все сделают за него сами. Один догадается (старшие товарищи подскажут), как скачать рингтон с любимым Ебланом или этаким пидорским прононсом «вам звоняяяят», а еще десять, услышав такой звонок у соседа и неимоверно страдая от того, что у них такого нет, таки понесут свои копеечки в кассу.

Исторически, на заре мабилизации населения этой страны, были особые любители, набивавшие любимый музончик вручную, в вышеупомянутом формате буквенноцифровой записи, и ещё более извращённые умы, резавшие на рингтоны и экспортировавшие в MIDI табулатуры песен для программы GuitarPro, кои по сей день водятся в тырнетах в открытом доступе. Сейчас и те, и другие маньяки почти повывелись.

Обладатели монофонических телефонов могли перелопачивать midi-рингтоны в формат Nokia Composer и вбивать в монофонический телефон, софтина называлась «Midi to Ringtone». Обладатели телефонов, чьи функции исключали поддержку midi, но обладали поддержкой mmf, конвертировали midi в mmf, благо форматы почти идентичны. Из mmf можно было вытащить реалтон, если оный им обладал, и конвертировать в mp3 или amr, ну и так далее.

На продвинутых телефонах (собственно, по современным понятиям — практически на любых) есть возможность поставить на звонок любой звуковой файл, кроме, пожалуй, mmf и прочих недоформатов, выдранный из любого любимого звука или записанный самостоятельно. Наиболее пряморукие мобилодрочеры вырезают от 10 до 120 секунд любимой (скачанной с этих ваших интернетов) mp3 с помощью софтины вроде mp3trim pro (или полноценного звукового редактора типа Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, спизженного разумеется, или бесплатного, например AudaCity, функций которого под обозначенную задачу хватает с головой) и заливают на мобилу с компьютера через кабель, кардридер, Bluetooth или через облако.

Также, с расширением мобайл-возможностей стала популярна просьба «перекидывания» рингтонов в наполненном людьми помещении ради показать невъебенно хорошее разбирательство в современных трансах, хаусах, митале, альтернативной сцене и т. д.

Школьникам опять же развлечение. Раньше они обменивались вкладышами от жвачек Turbo и Love Is, теперь они по голубому зубу обмениваются мелодиями и прочей шнягой.

А я милого узнаю по рингтону[править]

Слыша рингтон, уже можно делать выводы о хозяине мобилы:

• Анимешники — ОСТы из всяких разных аниме, возможно, Caramelldansen…
• Битард — Never gonna give you up. Мелодия является предметом особой гордости для владельца телефона, так как он считает, что с её помощью рикроллит окружающих, однако они об этом не догадываются. Впрочем, битардам не звонят вообще, рингтон им не нужен.
• Быдло — самая распространённая и обширная категория. На звонке имеет один из нижеперечисленных вариантов:
  • 1) Самая дебильная встроенная мелодия во всём телефоне: для Nokia знаменитая «зубная боль», для LG и Samsung их ещё более худшие высеры (для Самсунга его «знаменитый» Дам-Дам-Дам), от которых уши наизнанку выворачиваются.
  • 2) Какая-нибудь голосовая петросянщина — из мобил-магазина или откуда-то скачанная, тоже древняя и сильно заезженная.
  • 3) «Былинная» р-р-р-рюсская попса от конца 80-х до наших дней, может быть поцреотический высер Любэ или Газманова.
  • 4) «АК-47», Гуф, Баста, Заебаста, 228-лето-осень-папиросим и прочий пих-пох-яга-стайл.
  • При этом — НЕПРЕМЕННО С ГОЛОСОМ!!!
• Гламурное кисо — песня с первых мест текущей 10 (20) MTV, МузТВ, а также «гимн Фабрики звёзд», Дома-2 и т.п.
• Говнари — Арея. Или КиШ. Или Сплин. Или еще что.
• Гопота — раньше музыка из фильмов «Бумер», «Бригада» и проч., сейчас: шансон типа Круга, пих-пох-яга-стайл навроде Гуфа, «АК-47», или какой-нибудь долбёжный (дабас) клубнячок.
• Жлобы — что-нибудь государственно-военное, от гимна СССР или песен времён ВОВ (особенно популярно у коммуняк) до какого-нибудь Любэ (у поцреотов).
• Консольщики — музыка из Супер Марио, Соника, Крэша Бандикута или ещё какой старой консольной игры.
• Объебосы — колбасня, записанная на диктофон в одном из клубов или скачанная где-нибудь Вконтакте или с зайцев.нет
• Рэпперы — как нетрудно догадаться, рэп разной степени серьёзности и поэтичности — от 50 Cent и Ноггано до Триады и ИМ.
• Радисты — из олдфагов, не забывших дядюшку Морзе. Фамилия звонящего набирается «морзянкой», что крайне удобно: владельцу понятно, кто звонит, без вынимания трубы из кармана. Остальным слышится неведомый писк.
• Небыдло — дабы выебнуться, ставят либо незаезженные классические мелодии, либо аранжировки из расово верных совковых заставок, либо самые нераздражающие встроенные (в том числе, обычные звонки типа «дзынь-дзынь» или звук олдоватого советского телефона).
• Нищеброды — обычно стандартная, ибо телефон простой, нет коммутации с компом, а качать с 4242 жаба душит. Алсо, обычно пищит громко, ибо телефон монофонический. Либо вообще ничего за неимением мобилы.
• Интернетчики — Як-цуп-цоп, Арам-зам-зам, Трололо, «Упячка, я обращаюсь к тебе», гимн Вконтакте, разнообразные ремиксы на Йаааазя канули в небытье, сегодня молодое рачьё котирует: Гимн МДК, «Пришла и анусы всем дёрнула нам сомалийская борда», «Бомбануло! Бомбануло! Скорей беги, пиши в комментах „КОКОКО“!», «САП, ДВАЧ, МУР-МУР-МУР! Я ЛАМПОВАЯ НЯША»!, или другой интернет-мем.
• Спектрумист — либо кусочек файла, записанного на магнитофонной кассете, (особенно если этот файл — графический), либо любимый чиптюн.
• Тупая пизда — какая-нибудь попсятина, исполняемая женщиной, либо музыкальная тема из «Секс в большом городе». Тема песни — несчастная любовь, младший подвид обычно ставит себе какого-нибудь Басту и прочий попсорэп, какого-нибудь дебилана или сранеток, либо что-нибудь навроде детского смеха/плача и т. п.
• Школота — любая мелодия из вышеперечисленных, порой даже классика! Естественно, что особо популярны у будущих ч0тких поцанов пих-пох-яга-стайл типа того же «АК-47», «Гуфа», «5 плюх», «Слим» и прочих «Птах», а также всякий «ниибаццо тИж0лый» рокопопс с закосом под митал, либо клубнячок драм-н-басс. У бабской аудитории популярны Ранетки, Билан, Бис и прочая, у эмарей и прочих педовок естественно Токио Бордель, у других неформальных личностей обычно какие-нибудь «Эвенесенс». Алсо, у раздолбаев популярна голосовая петросянщина или камеди-клабщина, на родню стоит заебавшая мелодия «Ё-моё, мама звОнит», за которую просто хочется взять и уебать. На SMS обычно петросянщина вроде «ЛОЖИСЬ СМСКА!11», либо длинная полноценная mp3-мелодия, нахуй на SMS не нужная. У школоты победнее, но шарящей в компах на уровне advanced user’а (уже не ламер, но ещё не хацкер) стоит то же самое, но в уебанском AMR-подобном формате, ибо мобила нищебродская. Могут также встречаться радиоперехваты боевых действий, всякие воздушные тревоги, перестрелки и радиокоманды (часто из любимой КэЭс) и прочие «сИрьёзные вещщщи, а не гАвнАрэп какой-тА». ЧСХ, сирена ГО таки может кого-нибудь заставить отложить кирпидон-другой, но скорее заставит это сделать какого-нибудь совка, а братья и, особенно, сёстры по разуму не оценят, ибо IRL не слышали в 99,9 % случаев.
• Обладатели олдоватых мобил — за неимением полифонии и тем более mp3-звонка, ставят либо какую-нибудь стандартную, либо морочатся с кодами мелодий (особенно с их поиском), либо с «Midi-to-Ringtone», скачивая Midi и превращая её в набор команд монофонии. Музыкальные личности пытаются сочинить сами. Выходит какой-нибудь «Чижик-пыжик» или «В траве сидел кузнечик»
• АГПнутые — военные марши типа Soviet March у совкофагов, «Прощание славянки» у монархиздов, третьерейховские марши у фашиков. А то и рэп наподобие такого. Ватный хит сезона
• Военный — звук автоматной очереди, например, и голос анально покаранного разнообразными ваххабитами, например: «Братан, Чечня на связи, возьми трубку». Или же голос рации «Борт 604 вызывает базу», «Четыреста пятнадцатый, я база, ответте!»
• Задрот — какой-нибудь трек из любимой игрушки.
• BBSовики / Web 1.0 интернетчики — трели модемов.
• Нормальные люди — никто не знает, какая музыка у них на рингтоне, потому что нормальные люди в общественных местах включают вибру и выключают звонок.

Кроме того, быдло, говнари и объебосы склонны «прошивать» свои мобильники таким образом, чтобы громкость их говнорингтона, и без того излишне завышенная на некоторых аппаратах, составляла 150—200 % от возможностей динамика, и расслышать, какой именно высер играет, было очень проблематично. Тем не менее, они очень горды этим и искренне думают, что окружающие кирпичами срут, когда слышат что у них «громче всех». Также следует отметить увлечение, в основном быдла или гопников, прослушиванием смехуечков или «музончика» в компании таких же интеллектуалов.

Впрочем, вывод о необходимости отправки в биореактор можно делать уже по самому факту наличия любого описанного выше звукона. Одним словом, всех человеков — фтопку. А первым делом — авторов этого раздела, пока они не успели претворить свои уебанские проекты в жизнь.

С другой стороны, использование определенных рингтонов может быть своеобразным видом троллинга IRL.

xxx: сегодня опытным путем установил средний процент любителей порнухи утром в метро. ххх: поставил на мобилу звонком начальные фанфары кинокомпании «Private»… xxx: почти у половины вагона в момент звонка подозрительно забегали глазки…

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Рингбэк-тон («гудок»)[править]

Отдельно выделяется особо мерзостный подвид мобильного быдлоконтента — мелодии (и текстовые петросянщины типа «вы соединены с администрацией президента»), проигрываемые не у вызываемого абонента, а у звонящего, вместо сигнала контроля посыла вызова.

Расовое название — «рингбэк-тон». Да-да, вместо знакомых с детства длинных гудков, вы слышите фрагмент творчества Тимати, Верки Сердючки, Ареи, Кати Огонёк, Стаса Михайлова или группы Ленинград в весьма сомнительном качестве. Целью данной услуги, по мнению пиарщиков, является замена «скучных гудков» прогрессивным музончиком и демонстрация утончённого музыкального вкуса абонента, но выходит, разумеется, как всегда.

xxx: Ну почему до сих пор нет такого сервиса «Поставь гудок!» xxx: Отправьте sms с кодом xxxx на номер yyyy, и независимо от того, какую мелодию поставил придурок, которому вы звоните, вы услышите нормальные гудки!

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Вдвойне радуют рингбэк-тоны, в которых музыка внезапно прерывается и какой-нибудь голос говорит «Алло», «Перезвоните попозже», «Ваш звонок очень важен для нас» или просто кричит.

xxxx: У мегафона есть услуга.. МОл когда тебе звонят вместо привычными гудками наслаждаешся мелодией) я себе поставил мелодичная такая мелодия, а потом резко жуткий крик.. xxxx: за день мне набило рожу 2 человека, один уронил телефон с моста, другой с болкона)

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Является платной услугой ОПСОСа, стоимость зависит от потребительской ценности заливаемого в уши дерьма — первые строчки MTVшных чартов, как правило, ценятся дороже. По-научному называется RBM (Ring Back Melody).

Существенным недостатком является также невозможность немедленно взять и уебать субъекта, самоутверждающегося столь странным образом.

Дальше всех пошел Мегафон введением услуги «входящий бонус». То есть вместо быдломелодии звонящий будет слушать рекламу, вежливо предоставленную Мегафоном. Пиздецовость этого даже не в том, что двести заёбанных человек стоят всего тридцать рублей. Пиздецовость в том, что реклама прокручивается жертве перед фактическим звонком, а не вместо него, и только после этого звонок пройдёт на аппарат того дегенерата, который воспользовался этим выблядством, то есть вместо того чтобы просто не засчитывать недокрученные рекламки, их нужно обязательно дотерпеть до конца, чтобы достучаться до Его Величества Крохобора (про увеличение времени отклика, особенно если дело срочное, можно даже не говорить). Иными словами, шансы рано или поздно получить за пользование этой услугой разводным ключом в ебло практически стопроцентные — это просто вопрос времени.

Успокаивает только тот факт, что некоторые ОПСОСы (МТС в частности) позволяют невозбранно поставить Рикролл в качестве гудка, что может вызвать баттхёрт у звонящего (рикролл на МТС — заслуга Беоланды).

Впрочем, все тот же МТС осенью 2009 года отличился и автоматически бесплатно заменил некоторым абонентам скучные гудки на всякую модную хуиту. Понятное дело, что через пару недель данная услуга стала платной, что вызвало порядочное бурление говн. Особая прелесть данной схемы заключалась в том, что узнать об изменениях сам абонент не мог, а звонящие обычно стеснялись спросить его напрямую: «Зачем ты эту хуиту поставил, идиот?»

Алсо, в мире есть обратная ситуация — например гудок насильно практикуется ОПСОСами другой страны; в качестве музыки стоят местные Димы Биланы и всякие Тимати, то есть подлость ещё та. Меняется на нечто нормальное естественно за деньги.

На самом деле[править]

Идея рингтонов порочна по своей сути. Если человеку сильно нравится какая-то мелодия или песня, то какой же ему кайф по сто раз на дню слушать ее первые пять секунд, каждый раз собственноручно обрывая воспроизведение?

C другой стороны, в условиях поголовной мобилизации населения, рингтон нужен тупо для того, чтобы отличать свой мобильник от других и понимать, кто звонит, пока ищешь телефон. Картина маслом: в автобусе слышится Nokia Tune, и половина пассажиров начинает судорожно хлопать себя по карманам. Кошерно поставить на мабылу вибрацию, и тогда даже с плеером в ушах ты почувствуешь, что тебе звонят. А лучше вообще иметь плеер в телефоне, чтобы ответить на звонок одним нажатием, не снимая наушники, вместо всех этих судорожных дёрганий в маршрутке с криками ГОВОРИ ГРОМЧЕ ТЕБЯ НЕ СЛЫШНО!!!1

Таким образом, хороший, годный рингтон состоит из:

• Тихое начало, не заставляющее вздрагивать, если звонок застал тебя в безмятежном состоянии духа;
• Резкие звуки разных частот, которые сложно заглушить монотонным шумом транспорта;
• Повторяющийся паттерн, хорошо различимый по отрывку хоть из соседней комнаты;
• Уникальность, не позволяющая перепутать;
• Ничего общего с музыкой, особенно той, которую ты любишь и не хочешь заставить себя возненавидеть.

Проще говоря, ничего общего с предлагаемым быдлоконтентом хороший, годный рингтон иметь не может, и должен компилироваться владельцем за 15 минут в звуковом редакторе из пары вступительных барабанных дробей и дальнейших зацикленных колотушек по кастрюлькам. Также некоторые ставят на СМС рингтон типа «тык-тык, час тишины, тык-тык, час тишины, тык-тык», что заменяет отсутствующую у многих аппаратов напоминалку о непрочитанной СМС. Однако не все телефоны понимают тишину правильно — или проц, или даже аналоговый оконечный каскад некоторых особо мудацких девайсов все два часа жрёт батареи по полной программе (подробности понятны и интересны только радиолюбителям, поэтому лесом их).

И да, не забывайте, что б-гомерзкий з-йчик Ш-фель изначально суть маскот очередного говнопродавца говнорингтонов. Не в силах человеческих сказать что-то хуже про ЦА этого быдлоконтента, чем об этом говорит этот такой простой и такой безжалостный факт.

См. также[править]

• Мобилодрочер/Мелодии
• Crazy Frog
• Тот самый вожделённый тысячами пердёж обезьян.
• «Ультразвуковой» рингтон

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