I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.

Hearing that randomly in public from someone else’s phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.

I should do that again. It’s funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.

Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.

On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.

On my Samsung phone, it’s just a list. There’s a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I’ve never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn’t be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.

Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a “install Bixby” screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don’t want and never asked for).

I once made the mistake of setting Pushing Me Away by Linkin Park as my wake-up alarm.

I can’t listen to that song anymore…

I set timers for my work, this is only my last 3 hours shift and I have 5 of them.

For an 8 hour shift I’ll get like 15+ alarms 😅

could be worse. you could pick a song you like as your alarm tone, and panic when u driving listening to your ipod or spotify.

mine was NJ Legion Iced Tea by A Day to Remember

Folks use Merzbow’s Iguanodon as a regular ringtone?

I hate every song I’ve used as a ringtone except my current one, which has been the helldivers theme since basically the launch of the game. It’s just too damn good.

Isn’t it amazing how we become so conditioned to specific sounds. Iphones have us trained like we were dogs