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howto: Make a ringtone from any MP3

Everyone in your office jump when you hear that tired old Nokia ringtone? Most modern cell phones support custom ringtones that can embarrass
alert you when it's your phone that's got an incoming call. Google up "ringtones" and you'll get tons of sites that will charge you a few bucks per tone. Pshaw! With some free software and a few minutes, you can make as many custom ringtones as your heart desires out of any MP3 in your music collection without paying a dime. Here's how.

Ringtones for the homephone

The Magic Ringtone MP3 ringer gives you the ability to use any MP3 file as your incoming ring on your home phone! Load your favorite song and you'll hear it every time someone calls. The songs can be loaded from your computer using the supplied USB cable; so you can change the song as often as you like!

Any MP3 file will work, so you can use sound bites from movies, recordings of your kids or anything else you can imagine!

Get it here

rTunes ringtone site

Some of the more newer ringtones Here at the rTunes ringtone site. Check out the CTU 24 Realtone...

Free tone for Verizon customers at new years eve

If you are a Verizon customer, you're in luck. Get your free ringtone at the Verizon Wireless Get It Now website on new years eve (31st of dec)
Be sure to text 'tone' (no quotes) to 2007 and get instructions on how to get the free ringtone.

Nielsen RingScan unveils its mastertone sales data

This week, Nielsen RingScan unveils its mastertone sales data, and Billboard publishes its inaugural mastertone chart, a clear indication of the song snippet's stature. (See previous post)

As album sales sag (down 5% this year), the constant busy signal in mastertone sales is giving the music industry hope for a turnaround. With Informa Telecoms and Media projecting a $6.8 billion mastertone business by 2010, labels are salivating over profit and promotional opportunities.

The mastertone's rise is evident in a comparison of Nielsen's RingScan and SoundScan data. In the week ending Nov. 12, Akon's Smack That was the No. 1 mastertone, with 164,000 sold. It was No. 2 on the digital chart after selling 104,000 downloads. Beyoncé's Irreplaceable sold 124,000 mastertones and 79,000 downloads.

In recognition of the mastertone's commercial and cultural clout, the Recording Industry Association of America, which has certified album sales for 47 years, recently introduced Master Ringtone Sales Awards by inaugurating 128 gold and platinum artists.

The ringtone market "is a big hip-hop place, heavily driven by teens, and they're veering to mastertones," says Geoff Mayfield, director of charts at Billboard, which will introduce its Hot RingMasters chart on Friday and transfer polyphonic rankings to its website. "The diminished polyphonic market is becoming more adult-leaning."

Top 10 Mastertones - 2006

Here are the top 10 Mastertones for 2006.
Don't have a good mastertone site yet. But check these out int the meantime: rTunes Ringtone site

By Rank - Artist "Title" - Units Sold

1 - Akon "Smack That" - 1,220,000
2 - Justin Timberlake "Sexy Back" - 1,130,000
3 - Hinder "Lips of an Angel" - 1,090,000
4 - Ludacris "Money Maker" (Pharrell Chorus) - 900,000
5 - Jibbs "Chain Hang Low" - 870,000
6 - Justin Timberlake "My Love" - 780,000
7 - Beyonce "Irreplaceable" - 690,000
8 - Lil' Scrappy "Money In The Bank" - 580,000
9 - DJ Unk "Walk It Out" - 580,000
10 - Bow Wow "Shortie Like Mine" - 570,000

Sony ringing teens only for 'Messengers'

Is this cool or what? To promote the upcoming supernatural thriller "The Messengers," Sony Pictures has included in its dossier of digital-marketing tools a ringtone kids can hear

Ultrasonic ringtones -- ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not adults -- are a featured aspect of the film's promotional campaign, which is geared toward a teen audience and inspired by the movie's story line about a young female protagonist insisting she hears voices that her parents cannot hear.

"The fact that only kids can hear it winds up being a thematic fit with the notion in the film that her parents don't believe her," said Joe Epstein, executive director, worldwide digital marketing strategy, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group. "We wanted it to be really relatable to teens conveying to this target audience that this is a character a lot like them along with this sense that kids and young adults are better conduits to the paranormal."

In the film, 16-year old Jess, played by Kristen Stewart, encounters ominous spirits in her new home, which only she and her 3-year-old brother can see and hear.

full story at the Hollywood Reporter

Ringtone makers, make your own ringtones- never pay again.

Ringtone makers, make your own ringtones- never pay again!
There are a number of ringtone makers on the market, I will see if I can review a couple of them. This is the review of Ringtone Maker 2006 by Magix, never pay for tones again!
Well, that sounds too good to be true right? let's see if this program can really live up to it.

First -Ringtone Maker is pretty simple to use, well organized. What can be tricky is editing the tunes because the screen is chockfull of controls that really don't appear at first glance to say what they mean. But looking beyond this it's dead simple to use. You can edit four tracks at once.






Feature summary :

• Video ringtones easily created from photos, video clips and music
• Supports polyphonic ringtone output
• Support for wallpaper & logo exporting
• Filter, timestretching and pitchshifting
• MAGIX Remix Agent 2.0 as a perfect base for ringtone loops

Here's how it works. Choose a song, sound or voice clip, pull it into the editor and change a number of parameters. it's as simple as dragging the song of yor choice into the editor and start moving about to the part of the song that you want as your ringtone.
You get enough help - a help feature at the beginning of the program guides you along the whole process of creating your perfect ringtone. After your done you can send the tone to almost all bluetooth enabled phones.

In summary, this is an excellent program for starting ringtone makers.
You can buy Magix Ringtone maker 2006 here