Most annoying ringtones

[US81]

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For some unknown reason, for my brother it's the iPhone iOS 6 default (the marimba). I guess I should change that but at least I know it's him when he calls.
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I play marimba (and percussion in general) in a wind ensemble. It's fun to play the ringtone "live" before a concert begins and catch people checking their phones.

[1995hoo]

When I get a "VIP" e-mail, I have my phone set to play this announcement by HAL:

http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/message.wav

I used to use that as the new e-mail sound on my office PC. It freaked some people out.

[SSOWorld]

When I get a "VIP" e-mail, I have my phone set to play this announcement by HAL:

http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/message.wav

I used to use that as the new e-mail sound on my office PC. It freaked some people out.

try posting a link that's accessible please.

[1995hoo]

When I get a "VIP" e-mail, I have my phone set to play this announcement by HAL:

http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/message.wav

I used to use that as the new e-mail sound on my office PC. It freaked some people out.

try posting a link that's accessible please.

It works fine when I tap on it, and I just tried it on a different device and it worked fine there too.

[Takumi]

I also get a 403 error when I try to open it. Is it your own website, by any chance?

[1995hoo]

I also get a 403 error when I try to open it. Is it your own website, by any chance?

It is not, no. I'll find another link later this afternoon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[PurdueBill]

Being from South Jersey, my ringtone is of course:

Nice.....that's my ringtone too.  Calls get the opening, texts the commercial bumper.

[vdeane]

The HAL link works for me if I copy the URL, go to the site's homepage, then past the URL into my browser.

[Pete from Boston]

Won't open in Tapatalk, but will with "Open in Safari."

[US81]

I have most if not all of my rings and alerts/alarms programmed as sound effects rather than ringtones. To me, and I hope to others, the sound effects I have chosen are a little less intrusive than typical ringtones. I am attentive to turn it to silent/off for concerts, meetings and such.

I used to leave it on vibrate nearly all the time, but my latest phone vibrates subtly/quietly enough for me to fail to notice even when the phone is in my pocket. --A far cry from the old days when the Nokia vibrate was loud enough to wake the dead in time to watch the phone dance off the nightstand, across the floor and out the door with the cat stalking it.

[1995hoo]

The HAL sound can be found on the following page as a .WAV, an .MP3, and an iOS ringtone. Look for "message."

http://www.gotwavs.com/Movies/2001.html

[Roadrunner75]

Nice.....that's my ringtone too.  Calls get the opening, texts the commercial bumper.

I'll have to snag the bumper, maybe to do something different for the ringer for awhile.  Don't think I want that much for the texts, though.  At the office, I can always tell my phone from afar (and so can everyone else, who are mostly Central/North Jersey NYC news-bred folks).

Semi-threadjack, but here's a cool site with hundreds of TV news theme songs going back to the 70s; you can search by region: http://www.southernmedia-nmsa.com/

Nice - Brought back some memories for the other Philly stations.  Of course channel 6 (Action News) has had the same theme for longer than I've been around, with the very brief and failed switch to a classical version of the tune in the 90s.  Don't mess with success.

[busman_49]

I can't stand the whistle tune (apparently from an Old Spice commercial?) people use for text messages.

The most annoying one is the one that is your own ringtone, but not your own phone.

I haven't come across that problem as of late.  I don't think too many people use the TPIR mountain climber yodel as a ringtone.  The comments I've gotten range from "What is that?" to "It's the mountain climber guy on The Price is Right!"

[Henry]

I also hate that AT&T tune that is used now. Using it in its advertisements is fine, but on actual phones, it becomes overkill.