Old RTTTL Ringtones

Uncle Doug

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I haven't used any of the old picaxe ringtone libraries in years and my search has led to a dead end. The "Basic Commands" part of the manual states that there are over 1000 tunes for download at "picaxe.co.uk" but that site doesn't exist, replaced by the "picaxe.com" site, and I don't find the tunes files there. Can anyone direct me to a good link? I know I can download free ringtones all over the place but that's not what I want. Is it true that the latest rev of the manual is 7.9.2 from 2015?
 

papaof2

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I have several zipped files of those ringtones from 2008 through 2014, covering things from Abba to YMCA. The files are from 50K to 2MB. I can attach here or make them downloadable from one of my web pages.
 

papaof2

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Third zip file is 2.17MB and will have to be split to upload it here. I can't see why - it only has 10,000 tunes in it ;-)
Maybe later.
 

J G

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Seeing this thread reminded me of some of my earlier attempts at getting rttl ringtones to work. Personally, I had a fair bit of trouble getting the wizards to convert the ringtones into something that sounded even vaguely familiar, so in the end I attempted to write a Musescore 3 plugin to convert simple musescore files into PICAXE tunes. It is pretty buggy, but hopefully it will be of use to someone at some stage: https://github.com/jgOhYeah/PICAXE-Libraries-Extras/tree/main/MusescoreTuneConverter
 

lbenson

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Seeing this thread reminded me of some of my earlier attempts at getting rttl ringtones to work. Personally, I had a fair bit of trouble getting the wizards to convert the ringtones into something that sounded even vaguely familiar
Ditto. For a very long thread which includes getting picaxe to do a reasonably decent job of playing real fiddle-type tunes in the ABC notation (and other ABC tunes), check this out: https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/please-point-me-to-some-step-by-step-basics-to-code-the-picaxe-using-blockly.30716/page-10#post-323451

When I looked through the picaxe ringtone collection (and others), most familiar titles I looked at were just snippets. If that's all you want, the ringtones should be fine.
 
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Uncle Doug

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Ditto. For a very long thread which includes getting picaxe to do a reasonably decent job of playing real fiddle-type tunes in the ABC notation (and other ABC tunes), check this out: https://picaxeforum.co.uk/threads/please-point-me-to-some-step-by-step-basics-to-code-the-picaxe-using-blockly.30716/page-10#post-323451

When I looked through the picaxe ringtone collection (and others), most familiar titles I looked at were just snippets. If that's all you want, the ringtones should be fine.
The RTTTL zip files are here

I just want to thank everybody for their help.
 
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