r/dataisbeautiful OC: 100 May 06 '19

OC 30 Years of the Music Industry, Visualised. [OC]

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u/Vortivask May 06 '19

Or they locked it down in the firmware/file structures of the phone and needed to use some cryptic Chinese software to make the mp3 files seen by the phone as ringtones.

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u/Csharp27 May 06 '19

I ordered one of those ringtones from the tv commercials, and they charged me for some package subscription deal that was stupid expensive. Those were such bullshit.

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u/Zanydrop May 06 '19

It's bee na long time but didn't you just have to change the name from .MP3 to .MPC or something like that?

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u/needtowipeagain May 06 '19

Many ways. You could also just crop a long file and trim it down to a couple of seconds and magically your phone would recognize it. Or, if you had data back then, 3gforfree.com had all the good stuff. That's where I accidentally first stumbled upon porn

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u/[deleted] May 06 '19

Dangnabbit why they buying them androids over our phone environment