How do I go about getting this on my phone:
et these files on my phone.Tech Help
by John Cole| 43 Comments
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by John Cole| 43 Comments
This post is in: General Stupidity
How do I go about getting this on my phone:
et these files on my phone.Comments are closed.
jeffreyw
Worst thing ever was the invention of fucking rings tones. I was chatting with a neighbor and I hear someone holler “hey you” and I’m lookin around to see who the fuck was so fucking rude and the neighbor pulls his cell phone out of his shirt pocket, which answered my question.
Mike E
GEICO is fukking brilliant in positioning their brand. The Neandersexuals campaign is now past annoying (as is the money googly) but everybody now knows their car ins.
Adam Collyer
That.was.awesome.
Thanks John, I spent a good minute and a half with my roommate just playing that and cracking up hysterically.
And if anyone knows how to get that on my LG Voyager (which is not a smartphone, unfortunately), I’ll be indebted to you forever.
MikeJ
Print the word “gecko”on a piece of paper.
Put the paper atop your phone.
Use a largish hammer to force it into the phone.
Even if you don’t thank me, those who are near you IRL will.
Punchy
That’s precisely the over-the-top annoying ring that will eventually cause someone riding in the train or subway car next to you to stand up, rip your phone out of your hands, and stomp it to death. Also, see co-workers and peeps in line behind you at Popeye’s.
Edit: I see me and MikeJ think alike
Carrie
You used to be cool, right?
Morgan
Thanks, John. Despite the negative comments of some here, I may have to make that my ringtone for at least a little while. :)
What kind of phone do you have?
jeffreyw
And don’t even get me started on those fuckers with a cell phone voice that is twice as loud as their fucking conversational voice, like they are yelling across the god damn street at a long lost buddy.
steve
I generally use the Bluetooth on my Mac to transfer the file to my Samsung phone.
Morbo
So, you’re the last one, right?
Nicholas Beaudrot
This worked for me when I was setting my ringtone to a random .wav file:
Find the audio in some form … there are ways to extract the audio from Youtube if you can’t find it anywhere else.
Convert it to mp3. You can use CDex if you don’t have anything already.
Rename the .mp3 file to a .mid file
Using whatever email-to-MMS converter your carrier provides (on verizon you send email to [email protected]) email the .mid file as an attachment.
You can then save the clip as a ringtone that you can select.
Eric U.
@jeffreyw: My wife does this. I have to hold my phone away from my head to avoid the overload.
Eric
FWIW, to put this onto my iPhone, I just dropped the file into iTunes. No idea how it works on a different phone though.
My coworkers thought the ‘ring a ding ding ding dong’ ringtone was fantastic the first and second time. Now they hate it, which actually makes me love it more.
Jill (aka jwh186)
John,
I’ve extracted the audio and am opening an application to convert it to a .mid file, as suggested, and will email it to you.
Hope you’re shoulder is feeling better!
Jill (aka jwh186)
John,
Obviously meant your shoulder
PurpleGirl
I don’t think I want it as ring tone on my cell but I like the sound. May download to my desktop for random giggles.
Clownshoes
You could just go to the Geico web site. The audio files are available there for download as mp3 or m4r files.
http://www.geico.com/about/commercials/music/ringtones/
You will need to figure out how to get them onto your phones yourselves since each phone may require different methods.
JenJen
Oooh. I want the Travelocity Gnome singing “da la da da da deee-deee duh.” Seriously, I love that commercial, and I am not a lover of commercials (hence my early-Tivo adoption).
burnspbesq
I don’t know whether it is in the current version, but there used to be a feature in iTunes that would allow you to isolate a snippet from a song and turn it into a ringtone. Was teh awesome. When I am in an airport or a conference, and I hear the beginning of the intro to the live version of “Sweet Jane,” I don’t have to guess whose phone is ringing.
The Raven
You need to specify the make and model of phone you are using–each one is different.
Steeplejack
Off topic, but Rear Window just started on BBC America. I can’t decide whether Cole should or should not see it. The parallels are painful. Except for Grace Kelly. Cole needs a Grace Kelly.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Wow. That feature alone could almost get me to use iTunes. Or maybe motivate me to read up on Audacity to see how to do it there.
RareSanity
Uh…what phone do you have?
It seems like people know you have an iPhone, is that’s true, just download it to your computer, import it into iTunes, and drag it to the “Ringtones” playlist.
I actually have an Android phone, so if you wanted instructions on that or a Blackberry, I could post them.
Jennifer
Funny you should bring this up. I just got a new blackberry storm, and was wanting a good ringtone. So I go to the Verizon online store and find out they want $2.99 per ringtone, and most of them aren’t cut in a way that makes them annoying.
So I went to the crackberry.com website and found out how to make ringtones out of any mp3 file. They have a pretty good collection of free ringtones people have made and uploaded to the site, but they still didn’t have exactly what I was looking for. I’ve got my heart set on “Boogie Chillen” by John Lee Hooker; also want a good snip of “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” by Hank Williams Sr, and various and sundry other clips of tunes.
None of them will be as good as what I’ve got on my personal cell though – it’s the Peanuts theme music. It makes everyone happy.
Jon
@20 – Grace Kelly, in that movie, is the single hottest human female ever created. I will brook no argument.
Mike E
@Steeplejack:
Rear Window is Lord. Yikes, Grace Kelly is TEH hot.
JGabriel
John Cole, if we were out in public together and your phone went off with that ringtone, I’d punch you in the neck.
Maybe not right now, because of the whole “I’m a crip with a shattered shoulder from saving a widdle puppy” routine. But eventually.
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Steeplejack
@Jon:
Well, her entrance never fails to knock me out of my chair.
Kiril
I don’t know what kind of phone you have, but why not just connect it to your USB port and drag it?
dr. bloor
Please, Cole, tell us this is the pain medication talking.
Ruckus
@MikeJ:
FTW. I always like proper technical instructions.
What I notice is that the more annoying the tune/tone is, the louder people have it set. It’s like wearing a pink shirt, green tie and orange pants, it shows you are either tone deaf or hate/like to piss off your fellow humans. But other than that it’s just fun.
matt
That ringtone is badass, don’t listen to the haters.
nilsey
ha, i would suggest throwing your phone at the computer, as hard as you can, while that youtube clip is playing.
i guarantee that something good will happen if you follow those instructions.
TBogg
Obviously, it’s the drugs talking.
Walk back towards the light, John.
salparadise
Most phones these days will accept an mp3 as a ringtone, so there shouldn’t be any need to convert this to anything.
If your phone has a microSD card slot – get a microSD card (you can find them for about $5 just about anywhere) – copy it to the card & pop it in your phone.
Alternately, you may be able to connect your phone to your PC with a USB cable (provided you have the right kind for your phone) & you can copy it there – you may need some kind of “connection suite” for your make of phone go download it if you haven’t already.
Mattsky
John you really must be a masochist. First you became a Democrat now this ring tone. What else? A bull whips or a cane perhaps?
BruceK
I just use an MP3 of the Universal Studios 1950’s telephone ring stock sound effect, myself.
Bad Horse's Filly
Is someone monitoring John’s meds? Please. I leave for an afternoon, come back and, well, this happens.
Jules
http://www.phonezoo.com/ringtone/144135719/geico-boss-tone.htm
Follow the instructions to have the tone sent to your phone (for FREE!).
No, I don’t work for the site linked, but have used it in the past with satisfactory results.
Wile E. Quixote
The only thing that could make your phone more annoying to those around you than having that ringtone on it would be is if it burned coal as well.
Shawn
The funniest ring-tone story: Our company added this item to our before take-off check-list:
Electronic Devices- off Capt/FO
Apparently some pilot had a ringtone that was the same as the cockpit “Windshear” alert and it went off on the take-off roll because they had not shut their phones off. The captain aborted the take-off before the crew figured out what had happened. Ah, well, red faces all around…
f.y.i… we frequently don’t shut our phones off in the cockpit because we sometimes need to talk to Maintenance or Dispatch right before take-off. Most of us remember to shut them off before we roll down the runway, but there’s that 1%…
Dan in New York
Hey John,
Just download the ringtone as an mp3, then go here:
http://www.mobicious.com/ringtones/new
Upload the file and send it to your phone. This is easy, safe, and free– one of the best free tools on the web. Enjoy!
Notorious P.A.T.
The first time I saw that commercial I thought “If I had a cell phone that is the exact ring tone I would get” )