For the love of god, can someone please explain to me why I can buy a song off of iTunes for less than a dollar, but a ten second ringtone for my phone costs $2.49?
It just doesn’t make sense to me. And even if I bought the song from iTunes, there’s no possible way that I know of to make that song into a ringtone (I have a Cingular Razr), and so I’d have to buy it again.
Also really annoying? Buying a ringtone from my phone, but being unable to preview it before buying it. Yesterday, I had a chorus from an All-American Rejects song stuck in my head, and thank got the title of the song was in the chorus, or I’d have had no idea which song it was. Also lucky was that I happened to want the chorus for the ringtone, other wise there would have been no point to buying it.
Sigh. And this is the reason I hardly ever try to buy ringtones, never mind the last time I bought one it was a “polyphonic” which just sounds like crap. Why do they even bother selling those still? Are their people who like to hear that crap?
And lastly, why is it that the ringtones I pick always end up being annoyingly quiet, with no way to make them louder. I spent that cash to no hear my phone ring, apparently.
I get so frustrated with technology sometimes.
It bothers me when people have bad experiences like that and blame it on “technology”. Technology is not the problem, it’s the being that issue it, the people that decide how you’re going to use it and what you’re going to want. Technology didn’t make the ringtone sound crap or make it too quiet whoever made it did.
Being frustrated with technology doesn’t mean I’m blaming it, as you say. I know that it’s only what people make of it, and my point is, why is all this stuff programed to work this way, when it seems so counterintuitive to me.
I mean, who decided how much a ringtone was going to cost? Who thought polyphonic was still a good idea when for the most part all the phones that have the ablitity to buy ringtones can play regular music? Who thought not being able to preview before you buy was a good idea?
My point is, when it come to phones, everything is behind the curve. Phone technology hasn’t quite caught up to where it should be, compared to what we expect it to be. There’s a large gap between what’s possible, and what we can do.
No, my bad experiance isn’t the fault of the technology, it’s mine because I want to expect what it isn’t designed to do. And that’s why I get frustrated with it. I know what it can do, and it kills me that it’s not being used for it’s potential. Even with something as trivial as ringtones.
Hey, my phone just goes bleep, bleep. I always thought that’s what they’re supposed to do. But yes, assuming you want it to say something else, you’d expect that the people offering you this stuff would at least make the user experience worthwhile. Which they don’t, which leads me to think it all just about the quick cash. How about some user-friendly, community driven, web ringtone site?
You’re spot on in this post! HAHAHA!
I don’t just hate the ringtones, I hate the cellphones. I can’t stand it when the phone rings while im at home, let alone having it ring when im away. As far as ringtones go, why anyone would want there phone to chime like a mono A.M. radio station through one side of a broken set of headphones is beyond me too.
Well, I just always wanted my cell phone to sound like a regular house phone when it rang, and I don’t think I’ve ever had one that could do that. They all have to sound like something else, for some unknown reason. If it sounds like something else, chances are it won’t register that I’m hearing a phone when it’s buried in my purse, or I’m driving and have the music up way too loud, or I’ll jump and think it’s my phone when somebody else nearby gets a call. If it would just sound like a real phone, it wouldn’t sound like all the rest. Other than that, I’m with SkeptiC and I hate it when it rings anyway, whether I’m at home or away.
I made my own Hendrix ringtones and then some Zeppelin ones and then Pink Floyd and then they all got quiet when assigned as ringtones, but played loud…….hmmmmm. I then deleted them all and just put the Hendrix ones back on and they rang loudly again. Apparently, if you use too much space on your phone, it lets you keep using more, but rings faintly as a punishment for being so greedy. I am a programmer and am used to being told that I have used too much space…..I guess the phone wanted to teach me to troubleshoot, instead of just being told what the solution would be.
I hope this helps. My phone is a Samsung SGH-X507
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