Silent Ringtone

You guys read about that conductor who stopped his performance mid-symphony because someone (Patron X) didn’t turn off or silence their cell phone?

We’ve all been interrupted mid-event, mid-meeting or mid-sentence by our own “Eat something” Bell Tower or the “Cancel abortion appointment!!!!” Marimba. It’s embarrassing. Then I remembered a thing a friend made a few years back that solved this problem. It’s the Silent Ringtone.

It’s an aac file of digitally pure silence that works perfectly as a vibrate-only alarm. Unfortunately, it’s a minute long. Ringtones can only be 30 seconds long. They used to allow minute long ringtones in iTunes. Now it’s only 30 seconds max.

So here’s one that’s 11 seconds and works just like the extended mix used to.

Quiet.m4r

Add it to your iTunes library, sync your phone and set your alarms to use Quiet.

For more pure digital silence, check out the Silent Podcast.