• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?

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      7 months ago

      Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.

      • gregorum@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        additional fuckery

        Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

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          7 months ago

          Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.

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            7 months ago

            That’s what I’m saying. “Additional fuckery” is really putting it mildly compared to what we all really had to go through.

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          7 months ago

          every phone had a different format, i remember the Razr had a deprecated tool to convert .mp3 to a format it could read and limited it to like…30sec audio snippets?

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      7 months ago

      Well first of all who actually has their ringer on anymore

      And secondly it was WAY more of a pain in the ass back then