• GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.

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      6 months ago

      additional fuckery

      Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

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        6 months ago

        Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.

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          6 months ago

          That’s what I’m saying. “Additional fuckery” is really putting it mildly compared to what we all really had to go through.

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        6 months ago

        every phone had a different format, i remember the Razr had a deprecated tool to convert .mp3 to a format it could read and limited it to like…30sec audio snippets?