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by BozeWolf 478 days ago
Nice to see something different here! Like the first two the most. They are the simplest ones.

Long story short: I once did a project where I trained cows and attached mobile phones to them to literally call them to come to the milkingrobot. But what kind of ringtone do you pick for a cow? Ended up with a 90s/00s style classic telephone ringtone.
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francescobonomi 478 days ago
Glad you like them! Keeping it simple was the goal. Indeed I stopped at 4 variants, and they already feel like too many :D

Then you fall into the trap of making them a bit more original, and then a bit more, and then a bit more. But that would defeat the initial purpose of the project.

Hahaha, I'm interested in the project with the cows, did you manage to train them? Anyways yes, the 90s style classic phone ringtone is an all time classic and used it for many years as a ringtone

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Brian_K_White 478 days ago
It's good to have a few to differentiate the different sources, call, txt, signal, random app, etc.

Plus different people hear different tones differently,

and different tones or patterns are better in different environments. An otherwise ideal sound might be very difficult to hear in someone's work environment, and some other sound that is functionally equivalent but just at a different pitch or with a different speed of repeating pattern or pulse would stand out much better.

There's lots of reasons for a wide variety that are hard practical functional and not expressing individual style.

A long time ago on a Treo my favorite was a bird chirp, because it was a natural sound that carried (for the same reason it carries for actual birds) but mostly because it clearly contrasts from all the artificial sounds I was surrounded by. It's nothing like any other beeper from a microwave or dead battery or open fridge or anyone else's phone for that matter.

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francescobonomi 478 days ago
That makes a lot of sense. 101 for example will hardly be heard in a crowded place.

I think these ringtones (especially 101 and 102) are more for people who almost always have their phone on silent and when they decide to turn on their ringtone they still want something very subtle

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