Research Labs intros Ringer 1.0 iPhone ringtones software

Pixel Research Labs has introduced Ringer 1.0, a new iPhone ringtone creation and editing tool for Mac OS X.

Users can choose any non-protected file from their iTunes library or any media file on their system that can be opened by QuickTime - MP3, AAC, MOV, MP4, M4V - and turn it into a ringtone.

[via MacWorld]

Make the favorite part of a song your ringtone

Mobile music and entertainment company mSpot introduces mspot.com, the mobile music site that lets users personalize their phones by turning their favorite part of any song, up to 30 seconds long, into a ringtone. SOAWorld Magazine explains how it works.

Users pick a song from mSpot's catalog of over 400,000 titles, and use the site's simple editing tool to drag the start and end points to capture up to 30 seconds of their favorite part, even adding an optional fade in and out feature at each end if they like. Once the highlighted piece is finalized and previewed, users save and download the cut as a ringtone for $2.99 a pop. Takes about one minute, start to finish, and users don't need to download software or subscribe to a service.

Ringtone Recorder app

Ringtone Recorder is a new iPhone app that lets you record anything and make your own iPhone ringtones.

Using the built-in iPhone microphone you can record up to 30 seconds of audio of anything.

You can also set a unique ringtone for each person in your iPhone phonebook.

How to:

1. Record your ringtone
2. Select Download It and specify your email address
3. Go to your computer and check your email. You will receive an email with an m4r attachment
4. Save the m4r attachment to your computer
5. On your computer, open iTunes and select File > Add to Library. Select the m4r file that you saved in step 4
6. Synch your iPhone with iTunes and the ringtone will transfer to your iPhone.

Send Songs Via Email With Your iPhone

Song Sender is an application that reads your entire library, creating a list of the music on your iPhone. If you tap on a song, the screen will fade out and give you a list of options: Play the song, stop playback, send to email, or send to ringtones.

[via iPhoneMatters]

Razz Tones Expand Ringtone Market With Personalized Voice Content

Razz.inc has announced the launch of Razz Tones,, a user-generated voice ringtone service.

"Razz’s web-based application allows consumers to create custom voice ringtones by combining one’s voice with entertaining sound clips and background music. Consumers can choose from Razz’s expansive catalog of TV characters, music, comedians, and effects to help create a truly personalized ringtone.

Razz Tones can be shared with friends via SMS, email or audio widget, which can be published to any website or social network such as MySpace, Facebook or Tagged. For published widgets, users can select from dozens of skins to further personalize their ringtone content."

[Press release]

Telecom Italia Mobile Launches User-Generated Ringtone Site

Telecom Italia Mobile is launching a user-generated ringtone site called MyTones which will let users create and upload ringtones, where other users can stream or download them, and comment on them.

People who create popular ringtones will be rewarded with prizes such as free top-up credits. [via Moco News].

Phone Sherpa expands services for musicians

Seattle's Phone Sherpa, a 22-month-old startup that lets cell phone users create customized ringtones and wallpaper, is expanding its product line, reports Seattle Intelligencer.

"It has added a service that lets musicians, music promoters or recording studios create ringtones, and then sell them on their own Web pages, using an interface and payment-processing supplied by Phone Sherpa.

The new offering also lets visual artists sell their art as cell-phone wallpaper, or screen backgrounds, from their own sites.

Kakophone: DIY Ringtone

The Kakophone is a music-composition machine. Select a serial number and a magic code and the kakophone will create a ringtone in your chosen style.

Try different magic bar codes to produce results ranging from slow to fast, happy to sad, experimental to melodic.

The ringtone composed will always be different and virtually unique, with a total of one hundred thousand billion possible combinations.

To keep things interesting, the kakophone is reconfigured every day at midnight, meaning that even if you enter the same serial number and magic code, the machine will create a different tune from one day to the next.

[via Neotorama]

"The Teen Phone" allows you to composer your own ringtone

A new phone caught my eye on New.com, reporting from the CTIA show in LA; The Teen Phone from LG.

"The new low cost phone, which came out last week, is being sold by Verizon Wireless and comes with a cool feature that allows you to compose your own ringtone.

Coolringer

Coolringer is freeware lets you create ringtones for your mobile phone or Skype. [via The Red Ferret]

In their own words:

Coolringer is a smart engine that clips the “coolest” part of any song on your computer, creating a ringtone file that you can use on your mobile phone or in Skype. Simply right-click ANY mp3 and select ‘Make a mobile ringtone’ or ‘Make a Skype ringtone’ and Coolringer takes care of the rest, giving you a sweet ringtone with the best part of any song.

Red Devil Ringtone

KTF has started a new ring-tone service, which allows users to remix and download anthems of national football teams to mobile phones.

KTF is an official sponsor of the Korean national team.

[via The Korea Times]

Virgin Mobile launches Bites with Musiwave

Virgin Mobile has partnered with Musiwave.com for the launch of its Virgin Mobile Bites app, a slew of "fun, cheeky and irreverent Bite-sized boredom busters" that include downloadable full-length digital music tracks and videos. FierceMoCo

"Musiwave provides subscribers to the service with more than 400,000 music tracks and videos from artists like Robbie Williams, Coldplay and Beyonce.

Two of the other features for the app are called "Dancing Dads" and "Bites Boy." Dancing Dads features user-generated content of, you guessed it, dancing dads. Viewers then vote for the grooviest dad dancer. Ugh. Bites Boy "is a character that will do anything asked of him by Virgin Mobile customers, no matter how wild or outrageous. "

Xingtone Promotes Independents

Los Angeles-based Xingtone, a ringtone provider for cellular phones, announced yesterday that it is debuting a solution that allows independent artists to market, sell and deliver their own ringtones, reports socalTECH.com.

"The firm said that it is offering a turnkey e-commerce store for independent content owners to sell ringtones from their own websites. The new stores will allow anyone to create their own ringtones, upload them as MP3 or other files, set prices, and manage payments and delivery of the ringtones.

The new stores will allow anyone to create their own ringtones, upload them as MP3 or other files, set prices, and manage payments and delivery of the ringtones."

'Note'-worthy contest seeks new ringtones

Professor Tod Machover of the Media Lab is creating his own buzz with an MIT make-your-own-ringtone competition using Hyperscore, software developed at MIT that allows composers to write music with computer graphics.

The contest started on Monday, Jan. 9, and entries will be accepted until midnight Saturday, Jan. 21.

"The original version of Hyperscore -- part of our Toy Symphony project -- allowed kids to compose music for orchestras around the world," Machover said. "Now you can even carry your masterpiece with you, right in your cell phone."

Ringtone submissions will be judged by a panel that includes Machover; David "The Edge" Howell Evans, guitarist for U2; MIT Professor Marvin Minsky; and award-winning Hyperscore inventor Mary Farbood, a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab.

Participants must have an MIT e-mail account. For more contest information and to enter, visit www.h-lounge.com.

[via MIT news office]

Wippit launches DIY ringtones

Wippit, the UK's third largest online music service, has launched a 'DIY-ringtones' service, reports Macworld.

"The service lets ringtone buyers edit songs from the company's catalogue online, so they can choose to use whichever specific part of a song they like, or even the full tune. The Ringtone Editor then converts the results into a format that's compatible with their phone and a download link is sent to that phone.

Tones cost from 99p each and are available internationally. Music from Cooking Vinyl, Cherry Red and Craze records is currently available through the service."

More on making/mixing your own ringtones.

Home-made ringtone

Tutorial explaining how to make your own mp3 ringtones.

(via Mobile blog.it)

Mobile Music Mixing Mañanna

As the industry for mobile music content and services continues to expand, OEMs, network operators and content providers are looking for new ways to establish connections with music oriented consumers. One new area is interactive mobile music services such as phone ringtone "remixers". Hayden Porter explains in detail on Sonify.

"A ringtone remixer is an application enabling a user to compose or arrange a piece of music from pre-composed patterns. After completing the composition, the user can save the "remix" as a ringtone to the phone or send it to another user as an MMS message. These services are typically aimed at young music oriented consumers who are interested in dance music trends, and who spend money on mobile content.

Ringtone remixers are a natural step in the evolution of phone customization and personalization.

Recently, EMI (music label) announced a deal with Orange U.K. to distribute content for its Fireplayer ringtone remixer platform and Levi (clothing manufacturer) released its MAX ringtone remixer to enhance its brand with young consumers. So, there is obviously an interest to stake a claim in this new area of interactive mobile music services.

An Emerging Industry

There already appears to be a small but growing industry for ringtone remixing. At the time of this article, there are at least three OEMs, (Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Philips) providing pre-installed ringtone remixers on more than 25 phone models, several networks including Orange UK, Cingular and ATT, promoting a ringtone remixer service and as many as five software development companies providing licensable ringtone remixer applications.

java.com Ringtone ReMixer

This looks cool. From favorite Red Ferret Journal.

The java.com Ringtone ReMixer gives you the power to create custom mixes of the hottest hits on your PC browser and send them to your mobile handset. From your PC browser to your mobile phone, it is easy to compose your own custom ringtones and caller IDs.

Bleep.com launches a new tool for the creation of custom real music ring-tones

This is the third article in a just a few days on yet another "create your own ringtone" service/application, so I'm opening a new category, "Make / Mix your own ringtone(s)".

This times, it's UK-based independent music site Bleep.com which is launching a new tool for the creation of custom real music ring-tones.

The online tool 'MYORMR – Make Your Own Real Music Ring-tone', developed by FasPay Mobile Technologies, allows the user to edit and create the exact ring-tone they want working directly from the original song on the Bleep.com site, reports DMeurope.

"The service enables the Bleep.com customer to work directly from the music on the site and create a ring-tone from the exact segment of the song they want to hear."

Other "make your own ringtones" or "mix your own ringtones" applications

-- Tooki Ringtones - turn your humming into a ringtone

-- Magix allows users to create their own ringtones from existing music files.

-- SSEYO miniMIXA allows amateur DJs to create mixes with their cellphones,