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[Doc]

One of my favourite gags in a tv show is when a character's phone will play the shows theme song, Boston Legal did this a bunch and I never got sick of it. To this end I need to work out what my theme song is so I can provide my viewers with the same enjoyment.

[theinevitable]

I have been trying to do a gag where my phone plays the Keyboard Cat song, but so far it isn't working out.

[nDed]

I looked that up and apparently keyboard cat is dead. 

E: How is the song not working?

[Carlos del Vaca]

My ring tones:

• For my wife:  the electric piano lull, then the big splash from American Analog Set's "Come Home Baby Julie Come Home."  My wife is not named Julie, it just seemed like a good ring tone.
• For work-related callers:  the "Powerhouse" theme from old Warner Brothers cartoons.
• For non-work/friend type people:  the opening of the Hold Steady's "Stuck Between Stations."
• For unknown callers:  Mantronix, "Who Is It."  (see what I did there?  I'm so fuck*ng clever I can't stand it!)

[CortJstr]

My ring tones:

• For my wife:  the electric piano lull, then the big splash from American Analog Set's "Come Home Baby Julie Come Home."  My wife is not named Julie, it just seemed like a good ring tone.
• For work-related callers:  the "Powerhouse" theme from old Warner Brothers cartoons.
• For non-work/friend type people:  the opening of the Hold Steady's "Stuck Between Stations."
• For unknown callers:  Mantronix, "Who Is It."  (see what I did there?  I'm so fuck*ng clever I can't stand it!)

I have one Hold Steady song (Chips Ahoy) and I like it, but it sort of bugs me because the singer sounds exactly like the dude from Sugar High in Empire Records. So every time that song comes on I have a big high school flashback when we all loved that movie.

[wombat]

I used to have a recording of my dog barking as my ringtone. But then Verizon disabled the ability to do that kind of thing and I can't convince the Technical Staff that that is a valid reason to change providers.

[theinevitable]

I really dislike the Hold Steady.

nDed: it's not working in the way where, Apple won't let me use just any old file as a ringtone.
I heard that if you just change the file extension it will let you do it, but my computer seems to be too smart for that. I end up with a file like, cat.m4r.m4a, not cat.m4r like I want.

[JorgeFabregas]

I really dislike the Hold Steady.

nDed: it's not working in the way where, Apple won't let me use just any old file as a ringtone.
I heard that if you just change the file extension it will let you do it, but my computer seems to be too smart for that. I end up with a file like, cat.m4r.m4a, not cat.m4r like I want.

Are you using a Mac or PC? If using a PC, then you generally have to go to the file properties to change the extension (at least this is the way it is in XP). Unless you have your folder set to display extensions--then you might be able to edit it without going into the file properties.

[Ben-San]

I have a ringtone where my phone vibrates and buzzes like it's really angry about something.

[wombat]

Oh god, that reminds me. Saturday evening I put my cell on vibrate in case the Technical Staff called while I was out at a loud street concert with the pugs. You may recall my earlier complaints about never being able to reach him on his cell when he is out of town, so I didn't want to risk missing the call.  He didn't call, of course, because of some typical elaborate series of mishaps that left his phone inoperable.  So since the phone never vibrated, I never got a chance to be reminded it was set that way and turn it off.

So the next morning, I went outside to sit on the patio with my laptop, and the very instant that my butt hit the chair, the phone started to vibrate, and I thought I had sat on a HUGE buzzing stinging insect, so I LEAPED up screaming and dropped the computer on the other chair.

The computer seems to be fine, so this is funny. Holy shit, that 'vibrate' setting does not mess around.

[greenkoolayd]

i have a clip of an instrumental latino/punkabilly song called 'malaguena' by the band calavera.  it looks like my blackberry wont let me use voice recorder notes as custom ringtones for specific contacts.  unless i havent figured out the trick, yet...

[AugustWest]

So the next morning, I went outside to sit on the patio with my laptop, and the very instant that my butt hit the chair, the phone started to vibrate, and I thought I had sat on a HUGE buzzing stinging insect, so I LEAPED up screaming and dropped the computer on the other chair.

The computer seems to be fine, so this is funny. Holy shit, that 'vibrate' setting does not mess around.

That sounds like it would have been really, really funny to see.

My phone is always on vibrate.  I'm in and out of courtrooms where you have to have the ringer turned off, plus I can't hear the dang thing ring when it's in my pocket anyway.

[wombat]

I'm sure it was.  I really have a big problem with stinging buzzing insects. It was a sad waste that no one was watching.

[nDed]

My ring tone is the Metal Gear codec alert because it sounds innocuous enough to normal people and allows me to identify nerds in public.

it's not working in the way where, Apple won't let me use just any old file as a ringtone.

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Yeah, like Sr. Jorge said, you probably just have to set up your folder properties to display file extensions.

[theinevitable]

YES!

I think this just worked.

Except, I forgot, I never figured out how to get just the audio from keyboard cat. I'm sure i can find it easily, but I have to run to class right now.

So for now my ringtone is the opening guitar bit of "California Sun" (Ramones cover).