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I just downloaded a ringtone off the net which I thought would work with my Sanyo V1 2300 cell-phone.
It came in as a midi file, and wouldn't work.
Anyone out there know how to convert this file to one that will work on my Sanyo V1 2300 phone? Or do you have a program that can do this?
I'd appreciate your help. I could send you the midi file if there is a conversion you could do that would work. Thanks......I just gotta get this "Any Griffith" whistle theme on my phone!!
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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I was at a restuarant yesterday when a cell phone rang loud enough for half of the restauant to hear. Apparently, high schoolers love having these porn moans and groans as thier ring tones.
They all giggled as she let it ring for as long as possible.
-------------------- Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Posts: 1328 | From: Centreville, VA | Registered: Oct 2000
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There was an article in the newspaper several months ago that talked about ringtones and the MILLIONS of dollars a year being spent on downloading them at $2-$3 a piece.
Does this strike anyone else as stupidly wasteful?
How many people are out there trying to figure out a way to make ends meet, how to pay off their bills and other people are spending good money on annoying little songs for their cell phones?
Would it kill you if your phone simply, say RANG?????
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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Yup I think it's wasteful too. Nothing really more annoying than hearing some cheeeesy, cheery ringtone in a movie theater or anywhere for that matter.
Stevo
Happy Ringing!
-------------------- Stevo Design Illustration Logos Sign Design Clip Art www.stevo-design.com Posts: 1680 | From: Edmonton Ab Canada EH! | Registered: May 2001
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I thought that this was the letterheads bullboard, not the phoneheads bullboard.
Honestly the phone comes with about 10 or more different ring tones, what more do you need?
I personally find it annoying to hear some of these ringtones that kids have today
I do find some of the ones that are basically sound bytes from a popular song of the past, but for whats its worth, I'm NOT going to pay for it.
A cup of COFFEE is more important to me than a ringtone. Oh and why should I pay $3.00 for a cup of coffee at starbucks when I can go to the corner store and get a freshly brewed cup of coffe for half that price.
But then how many ringtones are there in a can of one shot or on a roll of vinyl? LOTS of em
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Well, considering I gave about 7K to people in need last year, I guess I don't feel too guilty about wanting "the Andy Griffith theme song whistle" on my cell phone.
The real question is what did you do to help the poor and downtrodden? It's one thing to fantasize about redirecting other people's money to those in need...but a completely different thing to actually do it with your own.
The one I'm trying to convert was a web freebie, so I guess I wasn't too "stupidly wasteful."
You may want to cash in that expensive laptop, which is a luxury and donate the proceeds to the needy, or cancel those magazine subscriptions, or maybe quit going out to eat and donate those funds as well.
Judgementalism aside, I'd still be interested in some concrete advice on the original question.
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I cant agree with you more on the topic of the nextel phones Todd.
How did we survive all these centuries without the personal communication devices we carry throughout our day?
My biggest problem with them isn't that they exist. They're a tool just like a paintbrush and a ladder. But some people need to grasp reality by the horns and realize that life can go on without it. Ever watch how some people seem to live with that thing in their ear all day long? I guess they are too into gossip. I would love to see their cell phone bill for the month.
I watched a woman at a funeral talking the whole time during the services the ride to the cemetery and during the little service at the grave site, how disgraceful and disrespectful. And lets not even get into the people that have to be in the supermarket yelling into their phone because they think the other person cant hear them. Well jeeze the people on the other end of the store can hear them clearly, get a new string for that phone connection pal.
It wasn't meant as a personal attack however I can see how you saw it as one. It was meant as a general statement.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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I'm with ya there Harris.....I keep editing the crap out of my post - maybe I've over-reacted to some of the responses here...so I deleted the Nextel reference so as not to offend Nextel users.
I personally use the "vibrate" mode on my phone 75% of the time. I'm just a big Andy Griffith fan, and figured it would be kinda fun...and besides, I needed something to counter the rapper ringtones...hehehe.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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" personally use the "vibrate" mode on my phone 75% of the time"......and you keep the pjone in your front pants pocket???????????hahahahahahahahahahahahaha ITS A PHONE FOLKS.....thats it! i have a $29.95 SPRINT setup of 300 anytime minutes, nite and weekends free..........ive had this since 2001, and have NEVER EVER used all 300 minutes in a month!!!!!!! my original phone lasted almost 3 years....set it down one day and someone set a cold drink next to it....it was hot, the drink sweated water all over my phone, killed the battery. was gona buy a new battery...it was $48.00!!!! then the guy at radio shack said i was eligble for $150 NEW PHONE FREEBIE!!! told me to pick out a new phone up to $150..and it was free....so i went with a SANYO RL 2000. all the bells and whistles, can be set up walkie talkie, d/l from computer, color lcd, 47 different ring tones...etc etc and it was $199.00 so spent the $50 i had intended to....got a new phone.....AND THATS ALL IT IS...and all its used for!!!!!! was flipin channels last nite...saw the latest greatest, TEXT MESSAGE PORN....no joke....was showin pics of these gals, with a text message # for each....iam a touchy feely kinda guy, so i like things in "life size" hehehehe how good can porn be or how desperate you gota be to watch porn ON A 1 INCH LCD SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I myself can't stand to let my phone ring in public. Doesn't matter where I am...I'm not just talking about a movie theater, I mean at the supermarket, on the street, anything. So, my phone is literally on vibrate 100% of the time. In my situation, there's no reason for my phone to make noise and annoy people and embarrass me. Now, some people (like many ladies) don't keep their phone in their pocket, so vibrate wouldn't work so well for them...and some people want EVERYONE to know when they get a call (like the people who dig their phone out and WAIT before answering it). Not me.
Now, if you DO need your phone to make noise to alert you that you have a call, at least make it a good one. I love Andy Griffith (causing most of my 20-something friends to look at me strangely when I stop channel-surfing to see what ol' Sherriff Taylor is up to), so that works for me
-------------------- Ryan Long Magic Light Neon Sign Co. Crawfordsville, IN Posts: 132 | From: Crawfordsville, IN | Registered: Jul 2005
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What I would like to know is why are women the biggest offenders? Almost every time I am driving anywhere I see 80% of all women on the phone while driving. This is not meant to be chauvinistic but an actual fact from observation.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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Women are bigger phone users period...something about the inability to stop talking for more than 5 minutes.
We had friends over this weekend...the guys are all quiet and watching football...the two women who came sat and jabbered incessantly for HOURS. I finally had to go in and cook dinner to get away from it.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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quote:Originally posted by Kimberly Zanetti: Would it kill you if your phone simply, say RANG?????
WHY do phones have to have funky rings? I honestly don't get it, I suspect Harris may be right, it's the need to be the center of attention. My phone stays in truck when I visit a customer. If I take it into a store, restaurant with me, it's cause I'm expecting a call (it's on vibrate 95% of those times, other 5% I forget to change it) and when it rings, I excuse myself!
And while we're at it, why do people find it necessary to YELL into a cell phone? If your service is so bad that you have to scream to be heard, hang up & use a real phone!
And another thing, I don't understand why people have to have camera phones. My cordless phone at the house has no camera, never has, I've survived. The corded wall phone I grew up with had no camera, I survived.
I used to run title searches at the courthouses. You got familiar with others who were doing the same thing. We all had cellphones. If we had a question & needed to call the office to check something, you would hear the person in the corner, practically whispering so as not to disturb others. Thanks to camera phones, no cell phones are allowed in courthouses anymore. So now, if you have a question, you have to leave courthouse, if you're lucky it's only about a 10 minute walk to the closest parking space you could find, call the office, then walk back. You're looking at 1/2 hour wasted because some idiot decided the world couldn't survive without having a camera built into their phone.
Phew, I feel much better after that rant.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Thank God everyone is different. Wouldn't it suck if we were the slaves of someone else's ideas on "how it should be?"
Heck, we'd all be driving beige minivans.
Let's umpack this a bit more - - - who ever decided that the common "b-r-r-r-r-i-n-g" should be the standard?
Should we have to accept that ring by default simply because a bespectacled Alexander Graham Bell wasn't fortunate enough to have today's technology at hand; and therefore used the only choice available?
And how unquestioningly conditioned and programed are we to think that's how it *should be.*
I find the traditional "ring" to be annoying in it's own right.
I for one am glad for diversity and personalization. I would think most artist types would rather buck such traditional mundane accoutrements in favor of something more exciting - something with a bit of panache.
After all, how'd you like it if someone said, "hey, your sign has to look just like OP's (not that that's a bad thing)?"
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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I like personalization, diversity, and panache -- I just don't like to hear them while I eat dinner Sometimes an audible ringer is acceptable, and in those situations a funny/creative/whatever ringtone is cool. I don't need to hear my phone to know I have a call (on vibrate, in my pocket), so the only reason for me to have an audible ringtone would be to alert others to the fact that someone is calling me. It's not ringtones that bother me, it's people leaving their phone ringer cranked up when they really shouldn't.
Todd, you said your phone is on vibrate 75% of the time, so you obviously "get it".
-------------------- Ryan Long Magic Light Neon Sign Co. Crawfordsville, IN Posts: 132 | From: Crawfordsville, IN | Registered: Jul 2005
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Kimberly, you drive a Jag, right? That oughta be worth a couple tens of thousands of ringtones.
For the record, my phone's ringtone is "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly for those that live in caves)
It's the least annoying tone (it's a cool tune anyway) that the little bastard came with, it's also tough to hear as it tends to blend in with noise.. unlike the other totally annoying beeps and bloops the phone came with.
Now my mom's motorola... it's got this ring tone that sounds like a slide whistle first sliding down in pitch then back up, with two "pops" at the end.. something about that tone just cracks me the hell up every time!
Pick your poison.. everyone's got something that they see as an extension of their personality.
While I wouldn't spend good money on ringtones, I also wouldn't waste it on expensive cars or houses or fancy furniture or clothing. I'd waste it on music or jetskis or customizing the truck or TOOLS or photography gear.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Why Women Talk So Much A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on the average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day. She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say. Looking stunned, He said, "What?"
My ring tone by the way is the ABC NFL theme song... at least till the super bowl.
-------------------- Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Posts: 1328 | From: Centreville, VA | Registered: Oct 2000
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I like my ringtone (B-52's-"52 Girls") I don't know how many times I have been at Borders or the mall, a meeting or the bank and the stock ring tone goes off and it's the person next to you. I assign ringtones to certain people so I know if I want to answer it or not, of I have vibrate only then I have thier avatars/titles to see who it is. I got a new phone a couple of months ago with all the bells and whistles (bluetooth/memory card/mp3 player/camera/video/computer-USB hook-up) just to try it out. I find myself text messaging a lot more and even check my e-mail. Ive used it to get direction and look for places like restaurants and hotels. This is all recent, before I hated having a cell phone, now with my wife being sick and going to doctors, treatments and hospital, it has been great having it for more than a phone.
By the way, the And Griffith whislte theme song would be a sweet ringtone.
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-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1538 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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For the record, my phone's ringtone is "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly for those that live in caves) SON...i got stoned more times and laid more times to that song.....when it was popular....then you can imagine....that was back when you either 8 track cassettes or 33 1/3 lps....i was cool i hada ROBERTS reel to reel tape deck....and it would play one side of the tape(7" reel)for 3 hours.....and then play the other side for 3 hours!!!!! how cool is that....hehehehehehe
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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country boy - aint got no shoes - aint got no stinkin ringtones either - lucky my ol phone still works - it's an old siemens - been submerged several times in lakes - display goes out on occasion (thopugh it's been working last 6 days)- been dropped off several roofs onto pavement - but; it still works - over 3 years old now - I refuse to upgrade till I totally kill this one - Kimberly - no concern of mine whut people spend their hard-earned on - it's all the (jingle) sound of commerce - folks don't really NEED to drink $300 bottles of wine either, but they do - my weakness happens to be seafood - shellfish in paticular - love to splurge on shrimp, oysters, scallops, etc. - -expensive but very low fat & healthy - specially the oysters - -
-------------------- Carl Wood Olive Branch, Ms Posts: 1392 | From: Olive Branch,MS USA | Registered: Nov 1999
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Too bad that song was a whole album side long, OP...altho it musta been nice to get 37 minutes of sleep after that initial minute. I hate my cell phone's ring but don't care enough to change it. I wish I didn't have a cell phone. Love....Jill
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