How to Create or Download mp3, Polyphonic and Nokia Ringtones

September 2, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Your phone rings for 20 seconds but your mp3 ringtone is a full-length song which not only a waste of memory space, but it defeats the purpose of having it as your favorite ring tone when what you want is the chores halfway into the song to play as your tone, not the beginning of the mp3 song.

Ever heard of Audacity? This is where the free open source Audacity comes in, it is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. What it does is it’ll trim your mp3 down to the exact 30 seconds chores you always wanted.

1. Download Audacity (free) and LAME mp3 encoder (free)

2. Install Audacity, unzip LAME mp3 encoder, you’ll need the LAME file in step 4.

3. Launch Audacity, using the Zoom and play buttons, locate the 30 seconds of your song you want to be your ringtone. Use the select tool to highlight the 30 second ‘ring tone’, from the Edit menu, select “Trim.” Screen shot below.

4. Hit ‘Export Selection as mp3′, a new window will pop up requesting for the LAME mp3 encoder, select ‘yes’ and locate the file in your hard drive.

5. Volla, you’re done. Transfer the mp3 to your ringtone and wait for a call.

P.S. Audacity is a powerful mp3 editor, be creative and browse around Audacity’s editing tool for effects such as ‘fade in and out’.

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Download Free Ringtones - Mosquito Ringtone and Condom Ring tone

August 29, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 17 Comments 

Download Free Ringtones Mosquito Ringtone and Condom Ring tone

BBC is at it again, in collaboration with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the BBC has created a unique mobile ringtone in an effort to promote the use of condoms and in turn prevent the wide spread of AIDS.

I have to admit that the ring tone is catchy, though it can be somewhat embarrassing if broadcast in public but the entire point of the project is to make condom more socially acceptable in developing worlds, sexual relationship is still pretty much a taboo in developing world.

Download the Free Condom ring tone [700kb]

Talk about ringtones, do you happen to know that ‘Mosquitotone’ for mobile phones has a high pitch which adults cannot hear? This has become the favorite ringtone for teenagers in classrooms, which is something I do not understand because won’t it be better to put the phone in vibration mode? What is the big difference?

Here too is a link to a BBC page where you can hear (and download) a 256kbps mp3 of the actual Mosquito sound - Download Mosquito Ringtone. Please note that some adults can hear the ‘Mosquito tone’, it depends on their age and hearing capabilities, it varies from person to person, if that is the case, visit freemosquitoringtones.com for a varities of Mosquito Ringtone with varies higher frequency.

Download Free Ringtones Mosquito Ringtone

From a business point of view, the ringtone market may appear to be on the decline, but it is not quite dead yet so to speak, in fact it is still relatively alive and kicking in third world countries such as Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, India, Brazil and many more. One of many reasons is the lack of internet access, availability of computers and the high cost of mp3 mobile phones.

Another common question arise is how do we convert Mp3 files into Nokia Ringtones, Samsung ringtones, Sony ringtones and others? This may seems irrelevant to first world readers but just for information sake, Media Convert is a free web converter that convert your Mp3 To Polyphonic Ringtones or any other format according to your phone, from Nokia Ringtone format to Samsung Ringtone format.

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