Mp3? These young whippersnappers and their modern shenanigans. 8 bit MIDI is all the sound you’ll ever need on your cellphone!
I actually made some cash in 8th grade making ringtones. All i did is looking up what buttons to press on the 3210 on the internet. The weird part was that pretty much strangers would just give me their phone over night because i was too lazy to print it out and do it in school. Rumours were around that i had some weird ass set-up at home like deadmau5 to turn axel f into a midi. I was just using altavista and pressed buttons.
That pre internet era was amazing … that sweet spot where the internet was just starting to grow but not everyone had it yet.
My brother had a thriving business at around 1997 1998 1999 ripping custom CDs for people. He kept a library of 40 GB hard drive of mp3 and everyone thought he was a god that could make custom music CDs. I played a few of them a while ago and they are absolute crap but at the time no one cared what they sounded like as long as it was new and customized to what they wanted.
The amazing thing was, his business appeared and disappeared in a matter of about two years. One moment everyone wanted him … then everything and everyone moved on and his business was done.
Crazy thing is… that’s what Trevor Noah did as a youth in South Africa. Had a whole bootleg CD burning business until his setup died and they couldn’t get the files back.
So he turned his life around and became extremely famous in the US.
Polyphonic Ringtones? Ha! We had to type in some strange numbers to get beeps to change their tune!
I tried so hard to figure that shit out but never managed to actually make anything good (I have zero musical talent), but we had this one friend in the group who had, so they’d always have one of our phones, composing our ringtones lol… I feel old 😂
Not having to download one via scammy SMS but being able to type them in yourself was WILD
Aww yeah that’s the tune to funky town
I typed in some Wario Land music on my Nokia’s 10-key pad. And then didn’t use it because it sounded like ass.
I used to have the Monkey Island intro midi as a ringtone. It would start real quiet giving me time to either go somewhere I can talk or if I just wouldn’t notice it would become loud enough to notice later.
I had a midi background for my Angelfire web page.
Of course, that’s what he means with “converting to a ringtone”
Name/link your 🔥 MIDIs
It’s still like that with iphones
Real nerds learned how to create SP-MIDIs and structured them to degrade gracefully no matter how limited your phone’s synth chip was.
every time someone reposts this I wonder if this is one of those AI generated photos in which everything in the photo looks vaguely identifiable but it’s not really identifiable because it’s AI and not real. But the man is a man. I know that much.
No I can see some stuff I can recognize
ah ok
