Compact MIDI

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Name Compact MIDI
Ontology
Released 1999

Compact MIDI is a proprietary variant of MIDI files designed for ringtones on mobile phones, originally created by the Japanese company Faith, Inc. and adopted by NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.[1] Its main rival was Yamaha's Synthetic Music Application Format.[2] Cool MIDI ringtones were a big industry. Laugh all you want, it was the 90's.

Sources

  1. http://www.faith-inc.com/corporate/history.html
  2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46473864_Mobile_Innovation_and_the_Music_Business_in_Japan_The_Case_of_Ringing_Tone_Melody_Chaku-Mero_Research_Note
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