An idea the world REALLY doesn't need... [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

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... but which amuses me greatly to contemplate nontheless: cell phones which recognize ABC notation (or some other similarly compact and thumb-enterable music notation) in SMS messages they receive, and can play the tunes sent that way. To be really obnoxious, they could play the message instead of using the normal "new text message arrived" sound if the message contained music.

Hey, at least the tunes would have to be short, with the 160-byte limit on SMS messages.

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Melody:G4G4C8C8A2B1
or something like it. The number, in the example, is the portion of a note. Possibly, number of 8ths the note lasts would be better.

Add in a tag for other voices, and it could actually play decent Midi-style short tunes.

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Why do you think I suggested ABC?

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I think that would be really cool! I wonder if there's a way to invoke this script?

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You've got fiendish ideas slowly coalescing in my skull. Mixing in

hobbitblue's comment below, I'm thinking a custom-ringtone-programmer back end for that script could be a cool thing.

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Now you've done it! You've inspired me to be geeky!

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You're aware of the ring tone composer type programs you can use to make up your own music and hten sms the ringtone to your own phone, I assume? Could easily do that and send to another phone, surely? (I did Oak and Ash and Thorn for Forest's phone, nice and unique :) )

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I'd forgotten about those (not having had a phone that could do that trick, AFAIK). Can you compose&send frome one phone to another on the fly, or do you have to get on a computer?

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The computer based programs give you more scope, with notation based readouts... I'm not sure about phone to phone, though I do agree it would be a niftycool thing :)

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you are making an assumption that things like codas and repeats are not in the ring code :)

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Thinking specifically about stripped-down ABC ...

Unless you implement the "P:" header, I don't think there's any way to specify "repeat more than twice" in ABC (though I'll have to go reread the docs). Without P:, repeats can at most double the length of the tune (but really long notes -- a melody made up entirely of breves for example -- could take a while to get through).

With the P: header, you can have a lot more repetetetitions. But I was kind of counting on that getting left off.

If you use (or invent) a different notation, these comments about ABC go out the window, of course.

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Agh. Do not let Madison Avenue hear about this idea. It would open a whole new *dimension* of spam, as you start getting adevertising jingles SMS'ed to your phone...

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strangely, my old phone had, as an undocumented feature, the ability to program in your own ringtones in a slightly braindead version of ABC (which is how i got something at least close to the theme from dvorak's 9th symphony as my ringtone, which i LOVED in my first phone and wasn't an option in my second...)

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