[f-securus]

I think custom ring tones were on their way out before the first iPhone was released. Personally, hearing a portion of a song you love daily is the quickest way to ruin the song. Ring tones were a fad IMO. A piece of bling that wasn’t worth the cost.

[mynameisash]

> Personally, hearing a portion of a song you love daily is the quickest way to ruin the song.

I sort of agree with you. A few years ago, I joined a new team at work that had a really bad on-call rotation (lots of tech debt, bad TSGs, etc.). I got paged in the middle of the night many times, and I was always stressed about how the hell to resolve the issues. So I developed a bad stress reaction to my ringtone.

After I left that team, I changed my ringtone to the theme from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. It always makes me smile now when I get a phone call.

[autoexec]

Ringtones didn't cost anything to anyone with 5 minutes which is all the time it took to take an MP3 and copy it to your phone. Songs getting tiresome isn't a problem when you can change it every week, but there's also no reason to limit yourself to songs either. Any sound or bit of audio can be saved as or converted to an MP3 and made into a ringtone. Personally, I'm fond sounds or BGM from video games and sound effects from old cartoons.

[mysite124]

The reason is more that songs are really not a good fit for ringtone. The compositions, duration, melody, and sound must all be setup differently.