Hello list, Yes, believe it or not, I am actually posting a message which could be considered on-topic! ;)
I have had an idea for years, but have not searched to see if anyone has already implemented it. My idea is to have my cell phone (my FreeRunner, of course, which runs QtMoko v14) dynamically generate a ringtone for incoming calls: the ringtone would be a monophonic sequence of tones or notes corresponding to the sequence of digits in the calling phone number. I think this would be cool because I could identify the caller by the ringtone alone: I would not need to read the display. The initial version could hard-code the mapping of digits to notes; a subsequent version could read the mapping from a file, like Keynote does (see below). Has anyone already implemented this? Which search terms should I use to get relevant results from Google Search or maybe Bing? In 2002, I found an MS-DOS program (I think; or maybe it was for Windows?) which read a phone number on the command line and wrote a .wav file of the (DTMF?) tones a touch-tone phone uses to dial the phone number. I thought it was cool because I could hold a handset’s mouthpiece up to the PC speakers (I mean the stereo speakers connected to the line-out or speaker-out jack, not the PC speaker inside the case! :)), then play the .wav file to dial the phone number. I should try to find that program again. I think it was written in Turbo Pascal or Borland Pascal, but I forgot if it was open-source; I used the author’s binary. I think it was called TCHTONE? If Timidity++ works on QtMoko, I could try to figure out how to read the calling phone number, map its digits to General MIDI notes, then feed the MIDI sequence to Timidity++. I already have experience mapping digits to General MIDI notes in my “note” and “Keynote” programs. I wrote both in C while I was learning to program (well, I am always learning! :)), but I did not know what I was doing then so the source is gross. I probably should have used an interpreted language, such as Perl or Python, instead of a compiled language, such as C, though. Keynote is for Windows only, but note is cross-platform: in 2004 or 2005, I had it running on MS-DOS and FreeDOS, Windows 98 Second Edition (AKA Lose98 Second Failure. Yuck!), Windows 2000 Professional Edition and/or Windows XP Professional Edition, Linux v2.6.x with glibc (multiple distros, but I settled on and used Gentoo the most), and FreeBSD v4.10, maybe v5.0 too. I used GNU development tools (GCC v3.x, binutils, make, ...?) on all platforms: DJGPP on MS-DOS/FreeDOS, MinGW on Windows, and native GCC on Linux + FreeBSD. Anyway, note uses ALSA on Linux to play notes with Timidity++’s ALSA sequencer interface, so I could probably reuse that code on the FreeRunner. Anyway, enough rambling. How much interest would there be if I cobbled together a “ringnote” or dynamic ringtone (“dynringtone”?) program? :) I use only QtMoko on my FreeRunner, so I would need people to help support other distros. Brolin PS: How many Openmoko users make their own ringtones? I used OpenMPT on Windows to save one of my favourite chiptunes, Random Voice - Monday (MOD format) [1], as a PCM .wav file, then used LAME to encode the .wav file as an MPEG audio file so I could use it as my ringtone on my Nokia 6103b (Series 40), then my FreeRunner, since neither Series 40 nor QtMoko supports module formats as ringtones. [1] <http://www.fladen.net/> -- Sometimes I forget how to do small talk: <http://xkcd.com/222/> “If you have to ask why, you’re not a member of the intended audience.” — Bob Zimbinski, <http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
