There’s one thing on my old Nokia phone that I needed to find a iPhone equivalent for and it’s one of those inconsquentials you don’t believe is important unless you realize that you miss it. A lot.
For over a year now, my alarm clock was the stock Nokia “Airport Terminal” ringtone. Nothing more than some well-recorded airport ambience (indistinct background conversations, a distant announcement bell followed by a vaguely European announcer, sounds of people walking) it was the perfect thing to wake up to in the morning. Nothing shrill, but insistent enough to actually do the job of waking me up. Since switching to the iPhone, I needed some airport ambience – the cute robot voice, although cute, wasn’t going to cut it.
I figured that some airport field recordings had to be somewhere on the net and some judicial searching led me to The Freesound Project and mind-croggling huge repository of tens of thousands of different sounds from everywhere. Pretty much anything you can think of is there – follow the geotags, metatags, or choose one at random. Searching on “airport” brought up a good selection of sounds and after a short GarageBand conversion, I’m now waking up to the sounds of a departing flight to Milan from the Dubai airport.
Man you’re an unusual guy. Sometimes it’s “unusual” in a “how cool, I wish I had thought of that!” way, and sometimes it’s just “wow, I don’t know a single other person with random airport background noise as their ringtone” way.
I have a reputation to maintain.