[ahmedfromtunis]

It's been months since I started looking for the file for the Chirp1 ringtone in Cisco phones, to no avail.

It turns out that the ringtone is procedurly generated by the phone in realtime, and no such a file exists.

It sad to learn that not everything we make can be stored for high fidelity reproducibility later on.

[jasonjayr]

A lot of Console music is distributed as the machine code that is fed to the synthesizer chip. Emulators have been built to faithfully reproduce that sound from the same code.

You'd have to build an emulator for the Cisco phone and extract the code that generates that sound. I'd wager it's just a routine in ARM that is creating the sound on the main CPU...

[ace2358]

Do you have a recording of it you can share for those of us who have never been in a corporate environment :)

[snvzz]

Best listened to with suit and tie cosplay, to get into the role of corporate employee.

[snvzz]

There's always sampling, which should be audibly transparent with even late 80s technology.