Friday, October 20, 2006
Ringtones for you and Chewbacca too!
Have I got a treat for you today. I skipped out of last Friday because of, you know, stuff going on (what do you call it? Ah yes, life got in the way.) So I’m making up for it today with something extra special. Well, it’s extra special if you have a cell phone that is capable of using MP3s as ringtones.
One of the things I love about my old Motorola V400 (well, it’s old by cell phone technology standards. Wireless companies expect you to switch phones every year, but I’ve kept mine for at least three, maybe even four years.) is that I can transfer files back and forth between it and my computer. Even better is that I can set specific MP3s to be used as ringtones.
It’s very limited on space. I can’t remember how much it’s got, but a few full-sized MP3 songs would just about fill it up. When a phone rings it doesn’t ring for 3-4 minutes either, so using a full MP3 as the ringtone is pretty much a waste of space. I’ve figured out that my phone rings for 19 seconds before going into voice mail, so I’ve cropped some good MP3s down to about that long to conserve space. That way if the song has a very quiet or inappropriate beginning you’re not stuck with it. I’ve cropped out what I thought was the best part of the song, most suitable as a ringtone.
The program I use to do this cropping is called Audacity. It’s free to download and use. I love free. Free is good. Free and easy to use is even better! I love this simple little program. I may dedicate a post to it later. For now I’d like to share the ringtones I’ve created for my phone, aren’t I generous? And I’m going to be even more generous by leaving these on the server instead of deleting them after a week. I rock! Okay, enough patting myself on the back. Here they are for your downloading pleasure…
- Armik - One Summer Night (I use this one for my “Soft” profile, for when I need a quieter ring, like in the office.)
- Cirrus - Back On a Mission
- Eve - Blow Your Mind (short version for notification sounds)
- Eve - Blow Your Mind (19-second version for ringtone. I used this one as my first MP3 ringtone ever. I was so proud of it! I used it for like 2 years.)
- New Order - Confusion
- Barry Harris featuring Pepper Mashay - Dive in the Pool
- Barcode Brothers - Flute (Kind of short, but you can use it as either a notification sound or a repeating tone.)
- Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
- Bubby Sparxxx - Heat It Up (I use this as my current ringtone, just made it last week.)
- Outkast - Hey Ya
- Joan Jett - I Love Rock ‘n Roll
- Pat Benetar - Love is a Battlefield
- The Cars - Magic
- Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
- Wiseguys - Start the Commotion
- Justin Timberlake - What You Got
- Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now (I used this one for about a year as a change of pace from the first one.)
- Touch and Go - Would You...
And, as a special little bonus, here’s Chewbacca! I use this to notify me of incoming text messages and voice mail. It makes people laugh every time. Rrrrraaaaauuugh-aauuurrghhhh!
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