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mysite124 commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays

f-securus · 4 days ago

I think custom ring tones were on their way out before the first iPhone was released. Personally, hearing a portion of a song you love daily is the quickest way to ruin the song. Ring tones were a fad IMO. A piece of bling that wasn’t worth the cost.

mysite124 · 4 days ago

The reason is more that songs are really not a good fit for ringtone. The compositions, duration, melody, and sound must all be setup differently.

mysite124 commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays

bsenftner · 4 days ago

Around 2007 I was talking to music labels about customized ringtones, working with people that could modify vocals in songs to change names and such. The idea being songs could be personalized with people's names and business names, and coming from the labels that own the songs, everyone would be happy and making revenue. I spoke with pretty much all the business development people at the major recording labels, even had a champion biz dev guy from Warner Records promoting the idea, but the larger recording industry socially hated the people in the ringtone industry. They loved the revenues, but the people they disliked and were quietly working to end ringtones simply because they hated rubbing elbows with them, they'd get in physical altercations with the ringtone people. I remember hearing "the crazies of hip hop are nothing compared to the insane ringtone crews."

mysite124 · 4 days ago

What a shame, now some people are archiving ringtones on Youtube, and I just learn how many bangers / talented composition are there for this genre.

mysite124 commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

picafrost · 5 days ago

Physically written materials are such a huge part of our archaeological understanding of the human past. In my mind digital materials are always dangerously close to non-existence, even if cloud redundancy and our apparent inability to fully delete things from the internet make us feel digital materials are well protected. The persistence of this data basically boils down to magnetic fields. Without power, these will degrade much faster than even papyrus.

Assuming civilization as we know it today does not persist, how much of the knowledge and culture we've created will be recoverable in the future? We have more books than ever, but what about first-hand materials, journals, notes? I can't help but to feel that digital sieves like Google and the Internet Archive are our Library of Alexandria moments in waiting.

mysite124 · 5 days ago

yeah sadly both things can be true, the data we value for privacy is incredibly sticky, and the data with sentimental value to us is incredibly fragile.

mysite124 commented on The End of Handwriting wired.com/story/the-end-o... · Posted by u/beardyw

mysite124 · 5 days ago

I thought about this idea a while ago: handwritting is also important for ideographic system like CJK, because that's how new character are invented and circulate.