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Title: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: jingle.boy on April 06, 2022, 12:13:08 PM
Everyone's got a device.  What sounds do you use for your ringtones?  I'm a TV show theme kinda guy

My standard incoming call is the Simon and Simon theme.
When my boss or wife rings, it's the Star Wars Imperial March
Team-mates ... A-Team
Family members .... Adams Family
Alarm/Timer - Magnum P.I.

Text tone is just a standard submarine ping.  Also have some standard text tones for different family members.

What else is out there?
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TAC on April 06, 2022, 12:15:55 PM
Wait! I can make tones for different people?


My ringtone is the beginning to Where Eagles Dare.
My text tone is the beginning of Master Of Puppets.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: cramx3 on April 06, 2022, 12:21:07 PM
No tones, I cannot stand rings and noises coming from phones.  I don't even keep my phone on vibrate anymore either but my smart watch will vibrate if someone does call or text.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Chino on April 06, 2022, 12:21:16 PM
I ringtone is this dope track called "Default"
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: El Barto on April 06, 2022, 12:21:24 PM
TOS communicators. The chirps for text messages, and the two beeps for a voice call. They're authentic samples, so if I happen to have classic ST on it does annoy me. I've never bothered to personalize ringtones. In truth the only personalization I want is a different [very quiet] tone for people not in my address book so I don't have to take it out of my pocket, but Android doesn't seem to be on board with that yet.

I did use a sonar ping for a while. And I swore off using music as a ringtone because you're forced to respond to it. Two beeps I can ignore just fine. A song that plays continuously until the call is dropped is bothersome.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Lonk on April 06, 2022, 12:24:09 PM
I stopped using ringtones about 10 years ago. I keep my (personal) phone on silence/vibrate at all times, unless I'm expecting an important call.

My work phone though I just have the standard tone the phone had when I received it, which is a "Ding" for text/email and some hyper sounding xylophone for calls.

When I was using ringtones, I would usually take a guitar solo, edit it to 15-20 seconds and use that. I think the last one I used was SoC first solo.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Adami on April 06, 2022, 12:24:39 PM
My phone is always on vibrate. My main wake up alarm is Jump by Van Halen though, sometimes an alarm is The Final Countdown.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: King Postwhore on April 06, 2022, 12:28:50 PM
My Main ringtone is The Kids In The Hall theme. 

My wife 's ringtone is Where Eagles Dare.
My Brother's Ringtone is The Barney Miller theme.

When I owned my own phone, my ringback for those calling me was, Beer by Psychostick.

I've never used my cell phone for a wake up alarm.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Lonk on April 06, 2022, 12:39:07 PM
Wait! I can make tones for different people?

Depending on the phone, if you go to a contact and click on settings you might see "Set ringtone" which would give that person and individualized ringtone. In other phones you can do so by "Editing" the contact info and finding the ringtone field through there.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 06, 2022, 12:42:27 PM
Wait! I can make tones for different people?
Not sure if serious
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: cramx3 on April 06, 2022, 12:44:41 PM
Wait! I can make tones for different people?
Not sure if serious

For all we know Tim's got one of those cell phones from the 90s

(https://www1.pictures.livingly.com/mp/YPq6Q_8u1qXl.jpg)
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: faizoff on April 06, 2022, 12:47:26 PM
For the longest time, I had the Imperial March as my ringtone. Now I just use the default ones.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: hunnus2000 on April 06, 2022, 12:52:34 PM
My current ringtone is a song called Transcending Time by some Grammy award winners called Dream Theater. Ever heard of them????  :hat
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: King Postwhore on April 06, 2022, 12:56:33 PM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: XJDenton on April 06, 2022, 01:12:02 PM
Default Nokia ringtone. You know the one.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: ProfessorPeart on April 06, 2022, 01:16:45 PM
My ringtone is that awesome proggy interlude in Opeth's The Lotus Eater. Custom made it myself.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Ben_Jamin on April 06, 2022, 01:23:45 PM
My notification tone (text message is considered a notification) is the beginning of Earthshine by Haken.

My ringtone is the middle build up section in Measure of A Life by Arch Echo, when the drums come in.

I used to like making my own ringtones easily in Audacity. These are fine for me and I don't have a desire to change them. I also tend to leave my phone on vibrate most of the time and am able to personalize the vibration pattern, so calls are shorter, rhythmic pulses, while texts are a bit longer pulses. I found that setting pretty useful.

I also used to have the ending piano of Milliontown as my notification tone, but it was hard to hear at times and I would barely notice the piano playing.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: pg1067 on April 06, 2022, 01:51:45 PM
It's been so long since I had a ring tone that I have ZERO idea how to use anything other than the many preset tones that come with the phone.  My phones (one personal and one work) are set to an "old-fashioned" (i.e., '70s/'80s) phone ring, and I think my personal phone just makes a beep when I receive a text.  However, I rarely have the ringer on.

If I remember correctly, the last non-standard ring tone I had was the intro to Tom Sawyer.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: senecadawg2 on April 06, 2022, 02:09:05 PM
My ringtone is a clip from Agalloch's Our Fortress is Burning, but I sometimes swap that out for a clip from 2112
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Dublagent66 on April 06, 2022, 03:40:39 PM
When my phone rings it sounds like a phone, not the theme music to Barney. :lol


My current ringtone is a song called Transcending Time by some Grammy award winners called Dream Theater. Ever heard of them????  :hat

I think so.  They had a greatest hit 30 years ago right?  :rollin
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TAC on April 06, 2022, 04:16:23 PM
Wait! I can make tones for different people?
Not sure if serious

For all we know Tim's got one of those cell phones from the 90s

(https://www1.pictures.livingly.com/mp/YPq6Q_8u1qXl.jpg)


Hey, what's wrong with my phone??

(https://i.etsystatic.com/18906097/r/il/a740f3/3709629315/il_fullxfull.3709629315_o2ds.jpg)
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: wolfking on April 06, 2022, 04:27:26 PM
I ringtone is this dope track called "Default"

Haha, same here.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: lonestar on April 06, 2022, 06:17:40 PM
Ring tone is Sam Ermelini's solo from Another Day Slips By.


Text tone is a sneeze.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Snow Dog on April 06, 2022, 08:09:20 PM
Phone call tone is the intro to Rush’s Ceiling Unlimited.

Text tone is the standard “Calypso” tone.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: KevShmev on April 06, 2022, 08:11:04 PM
The only time I used a ring tone is on my alarm for waking me up in the morning.  I change the song I used every so often, and since I like being slowly woken up and not jolted out of my sleep, it is always a song with a mellow or soft intro.  Right now, it is Big Log by Robert Plant.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TAC on April 06, 2022, 08:15:04 PM
The only time I used a ring tone is on my alarm for waking me up in the morning.  I change the song I used every so often, and since I like being slowly woken up and not jolted out of my sleep, it is always a song with a mellow or soft intro.  Right now, it is Big Log by Robert Plant.

Obviously a cue to use the bathroom as soon as you get up.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: KevShmev on April 06, 2022, 08:17:31 PM
The only time I used a ring tone is on my alarm for waking me up in the morning.  I change the song I used every so often, and since I like being slowly woken up and not jolted out of my sleep, it is always a song with a mellow or soft intro.  Right now, it is Big Log by Robert Plant.

Obviously a cue to use the bathroom as soon as you get up.

After eating my morning Bran Flakes, yes.

 :eek :eek

 :lol :lol
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Cool Chris on April 06, 2022, 08:34:20 PM
When my boss or wife rings, it's the Star Wars Imperial March
Team-mates ... A-Team

Nice! My last phone had the Imperial March for my wife. Now it is It's Raining Tacos.

That A-Team intro is seared in to my brain. That intro dialogue starts, and I wish I was locked up in a maximum security stockade just so I could promptly escape.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: MrBoom_shack-a-lack on April 07, 2022, 12:51:04 AM
I ringtone is this dope track called "Default"
Yea I also rock the default, however as my alarmclock I have Earthside - The Closes i've come which starts mellow and then full on which tends to do the trick if I have a heavy morning.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Zydar on April 07, 2022, 12:56:10 AM
I'm also using one of the default ones. I want my phone to sound like a phone, not a jukebox :P
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Deadeye21 on April 07, 2022, 02:27:04 AM
My ringtone is the opening lead guitar lick from As the City Takes the Night by Voyager. My text tone is the synth breakdown riff from Metropolis (the riff that plays under JP’s solo)
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Stadler on April 07, 2022, 07:11:19 AM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Stadler on April 07, 2022, 07:19:40 AM
I have a couple;
- My dad's is "Closer To The Heart".   
- My daughter's is the ascending keyboard part about 4:00 into "Awaken" by Yes.
- My ex-wife's is the intro to "Hear About It Later" by Van Halen.
- My wife's is the intro to "Women In Love" by Van Halen.
- My brother's is "The Seeker" by The Who.

I have others I use for alarms and what not:  "You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll" by Ozzy, "Monkey Man" by The Rolling Stones.   A couple others.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: jingle.boy on April 07, 2022, 07:52:04 AM
I have a couple;
- My dad's is "Closer To The Heart".   
- My daughter's is the ascending keyboard part about 4:00 into "Awaken" by Yes.
- My ex-wife's is the intro to "Hear About It Later" by Van Halen.
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My wife's is the intro to "Women In Love" by Van Halen.
- My brother's is "The Seeker" by The Who.

I have others I use for alarms and what not:  "You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll" by Ozzy, "Monkey Man" by The Rolling Stones.   A couple others.

 :rollin :rollin
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: MirrorMask on April 07, 2022, 08:08:14 AM
I use the vibration and I don't make calls, it's all Whatsapp for me.

Yeah, way to be a buzz killer  :D
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 07, 2022, 08:14:48 AM
My general ringtone is the Marvel Studios fanfare.

I also have specialized ringtones for my kids.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Evermind on April 07, 2022, 09:18:00 AM
Riverside - Guardian Angel for incoming calls
Arstidir - Shine for alarm

I change it up every ~2 years or so.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: pg1067 on April 07, 2022, 09:36:02 AM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Stadler on April 07, 2022, 09:38:47 AM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Perhaps the same reason they're called "tin cans"? 
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: bosk1 on April 07, 2022, 09:58:06 AM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Because tin was widely used as foil before aluminum and the name stuck long after the product ceased to be widely used.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil   https://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/09/history-of-tin-foil/
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 07, 2022, 11:51:43 AM
In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Adami on April 07, 2022, 11:53:55 AM
In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol

I have an apple TV remote and call it a remote, but I'm 99% certain that if I had cable and a remote control for that, I'd still call it a clicker.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: hefdaddy42 on April 07, 2022, 11:56:12 AM
I love you.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: pg1067 on April 07, 2022, 12:03:28 PM
Thanks to Bosk for googling what I was too lazy to google.


In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol

This was the remote for our downstairs TV when I was growing up.  My mother called it the "magic plunker."  The second picture is of the inside of a similar model.  It made the channel and volume by banging two pieces of metal together.  Occasionally, jangling a set of keys would have the same effect.   :lol

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xtUAAOSw435iP1lF/s-l225.jpg)

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Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: ProfessorPeart on April 07, 2022, 12:29:02 PM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Probably the same reason I call my Puffs Plus with Lotion, Kleenex.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TAC on April 07, 2022, 12:29:49 PM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Because tin was widely used as foil before aluminum and the name stuck long after the product ceased to be widely used.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil   https://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/09/history-of-tin-foil/

I use the term "tin foil" all the time. Or..foil.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: cramx3 on April 07, 2022, 12:56:07 PM
Yeah, I still use the term tin foil.  It really doesn't occur to me that it's aluminum foil even though the package says so  :lol
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Stadler on April 07, 2022, 01:57:57 PM
No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record". 
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TAC on April 07, 2022, 01:59:04 PM
No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record".

Yes. I even refer to a new CD as a new album.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: pg1067 on April 07, 2022, 02:42:24 PM
No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record".

Yes. I even refer to a new CD as a new album.

Well...it is.  CD is just one format in which you can buy an album.  In the Columbia Record & Tape Club days, you could buy albums on LP, cassette, 8-track and reel-to-reel.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TheCountOfNYC on April 07, 2022, 04:14:13 PM
My text tone is the vocal line leading up to the F#5 in Learning to Live

My phone ringtone is the repeating Octavarium vocal line at the end of the Intervals section.

My vibrate is set to the rhythm of the intro for YYZ.

Yes I am a giant nerd.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: jingle.boy on April 08, 2022, 04:45:29 AM
Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Simple - one syllable vs four
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Stadler on April 08, 2022, 07:09:31 AM
Plus, al-loo-MIN-ee-yum sounds funny.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: pg1067 on April 08, 2022, 09:45:23 AM
I'm gonna go off script and start calling it indium foil.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: jingle.boy on April 09, 2022, 05:51:23 AM
I'm gonna go off script and start calling it indium foil.

Still too many syllables.
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: MoraWintersoul on April 13, 2022, 01:50:32 AM
Back when I had Androids, I used a lot of different sounds, am too lazy to figure out how to achieve the same on an iPhone, but this is what they were:

ringtones - the outro of Learning To Live, that cool riff in On Rich And Poor by Amorphis, that one cool keyboard bit in OSI's Dirt From A Holy Place, and Oblivion by Grimes in 8-bit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0vMYKN5GZE).

the two SMS tones I used instead of the vibration sometimes were a clip of Lumpy Space Princess from the cartoon Adventure Time saying "hey gurl" and - how did I even come up with clipping this out and using this, I was so annoying - a clip of Stu Block screaming "METAAAAAL" during that one DVD Iced Earth filmed while he was there :lol
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: a51502112 on April 13, 2022, 05:44:35 AM
Mines EVH's Eruption, the tapping part. When it goes off, people are like, WTF is that?
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Sir GuitarCozmo on April 13, 2022, 07:00:23 PM
I Can't Drive 55
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Post by: dparrott on April 14, 2022, 03:57:09 PM
I sync my ringtones to my sports wallpaper, this summer it's the Space Cowboys https://youtu.be/Axrlhj5zbds

Before it was Lithium by Nirvana for the Seattle Kraken
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: TheRich13 on April 15, 2022, 08:07:12 PM
My main ringtone is the beginning of Under a Glass Moon ,
When my wife calls it’s Erotomania , and when my brother calls it’s the chorus from The Silent Man.
He is a man of few words …
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Bolsters on April 15, 2022, 09:19:57 PM
The Super Bomberman 3 battle options theme (https://youtu.be/9BPBD0O0J18)
Title: Re: What's your ringtone(s)?
Post by: Spider In The Sky on April 15, 2022, 11:21:29 PM
Breakthru by Queen. When I had a flip phone it was from the very start with the beautiful a capella intro and everything, but since I have a smartphone that doesn’t seem to let you record your own ringtone, it’s the same song but starting from the “Now!” When the baseline kicks in and the tempo picks up.