Remember those CD single/ringtone hybrids that were saddled with the awful name “ringles”? A post on Coolfer just reminded me that the initial announcement of the format came almost a year ago, but ringle nation doesn’t seem to have really taken off: Amazon has 118 results for the search term “ringle,” but some of them are just for artists with that name, and many of the listings for the actual ringles themselves only have secondary-market copies available. Not that I’d be surprised that something so ill-advised would die on the vine, but man, that was even quick for the Internet age.
Whither The Ringle?
August 14th, 2008 // 6 Comments
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Probably ‘cos anyone with mp3s and even the most basic sound editor can make their own ringtones.
Also, it sounded a little too much like “ringworm” for most folks’ comfort zones.
Damn, the Wikipedia page is ONE PARAGRAPH: [en.wikipedia.org]
The format also shares its name with a town in Wisconsin.
Oh ringle. A word that will forever stand in the shadow of it’s cooler and more popular brother “cassingle”.
I assumed it was associated with Pringles.
Ringleberry