Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring, Mango Phone (Ringtones)!

We hate ringtones. There, we said it. We don't need to hear electro burping/farting/chicken cooing remixes, MIDI tones from the late 90s, or an auto-tuned Will.I.Am every freaking time we're in public. It's called sound pollution people and it's unnatural. What ever happened to the classic ring? The same exact ring from the original telephone, when Alexander Graham Bell couldn't have begun to imagine what he had created. But no, everyone and their dog wants "I Gotta Feeling" as their ringtone.

Now Microsoft has begun approving of this sick ear torture and is even planning to provide tools in Mango and new Zune functionality in order to encourage it. Not only has Microsoft added the necessary APIs for developers to add a new 'Save as Ringtone' feature to their sound-hungry apps, they've also made it available for basically any app. Plus now with this addition, users themselves will also be able to create new despicable custom ringtones for their Windows Phones. Mercifully they have decided to pose a few restrictions in order to reduce the amount of Justin Bieber ringtones available to the world, and so users have to make sure their next work of paralyzing annoyance follows these guidelines:

• 39 seconds or shorter
• smaller than 1 megabyte (MB)
• saved in MP3 or WMA format
• not copy-protected (i.e. DRM free)

Finally, Microsoft has also made the horrid tunes of our eardrum's death syncable through the Zune desktop software. As long as files are labeled with 'Ringtone' in the Genre section, they will sync to a new 'Custom' area of ringtones and will not get jumbled in with that new Beyonce album you just picked up. Plus Mango will be shipping with a few new preinstalled ringtones from the get-go, just in case you wanted pointers on how to make your own.

All of this makes us sick. Enjoy your victory you tone deaf bastards.

(Oh and in case you were wondering exactly what the heck that headline is referencing, we suggest you watch the video embedded just past the break...and don't suggest to make it your new ringtone this Fall.)

Source: Windows Phone Blog