Notification Sounds

I'm curious what other people use for their notifications--if they have something special to them or something unique, or if they just use the defaults on their phones.

I use the Blazer trumpets. Here's a link to the whole song: http://www.thebaldfacedtruth.com/audio/OriginalTrumpets.mp3 and here is the notification-length one http://thebaldfacedtruth.com/audio/TrumpetsBFT.mp3 (@Speed_Gibson, you might want these).

I don't use a ringtone for calls most of the year, since my phone is mostly on silent all the time, but during football season I change it to the Oregon State fight song.

What do you use?

 

My phone is always on silent. It is rarely anywhere further away than arm's reach, so I can hear the vibrate if I don't feel it.

 

I don't use notification sounds either.

My ringtone is one of the ones available on iPhone (can't remember what it's called).

However, I have the studio version of this set up as my alarm to ensure that every one of my days is heroic:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g5KYv2oqXk

 

If I don't have it on vibrate, I have a guitar blues riff.
Dah-dah-d-d-dun.

 

This is kind of a funny topic for me. For the most part I couldn't care less what my notification sound is; so long as my phone does something to tell me that I have a call or text I don't especially care what. So that's pretty much always whatever the default is for the current version of Android. There is, however, one notable exception: my pager for work (which goes to my phone by way of email-to-SMS) absolutely must use the Merope notification tone. This one:

http://android.playwap.mobi/load/Android%20Tones/Notifications/Merope.ogg

I set it to that many years ago because it was the most annoyingly attention-getting notification tone the phone shipped with. I now use an app that triggers only when I get a text from the email-to-SMS service and specifically plays this sound. It no longer ships with the default Android notification sounds, so for a while I had to go find it every time I would get a new phone or wipe my current one to factory defaults. Eventually I wised up and stuck it up on Google Drive.

Over the years I've developed a sort of conditioned response to that sound. It can get my attention in a way that nothing else can. It can even rouse me from a dead sleep, which is a miracle in and of itself. So my pager always has to make that sound, lest I accidentally ignore it.

And if you don't think it's annoying, try cranking the volume up when you play it. It gets my attention. Frequently everyone else's. I think Magpie has learned to tune it out successfully to the point where she doesn't actually hear it anymore.

I can't fathom having an email notification sound. My phone would never stop going off.

 

Can confirm--you do get an absurdly high number of emails. I don't envy you. My auntie works as a "traffic control person" for a major tech company; she tells the factories what they should be making. She also deals with an absurdly high number of emails. It boggles my mind.

 

I use Sleep as Android to track my sleep, so my phone is kind of tucked next to my pillow. The app keeps my screen dim and clicks into airplane mode. When I wake in the morning from the smart alarm, airplane mode turns off. It's plugged in and charging the whole time.