Quality (nonspammy) ringtone sites?

February 14, 2006 12:49 PM

Does a quality, non-spammy, free (CC-licensed?) Ringtone site exist?

I just got the SE z520 w/ mp3 ringtone support. Which sent me looking for ringtone sites, but if you type anything +ringtone into google you get back utter crap. There's got to be a nice looking site with a couple of non-annoying ringtones out there, right?

And if no site like this exists, I'm building one, post a link to your fav (non-commercial) mp3 ringtone and I'll collect, consolidate, and make available.

posted by rschroed to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Not sure if this suits your needs, but a friend of mine told me about this site, which allows you to create ringtones from your own mp3s and send them free to your phone.

I haven't used the service, so don't know how well it works.
posted by luneray at 12:57 PM on February 14, 2006

You might check out the results of the Ringtone competition sponsored by Harmony Line, a recent spin-off of the Media Lab that is commercializing Hyperscore, a community music creation something-or-other software. (news article)
posted by whatzit at 1:05 PM on February 14, 2006

Response by poster: Yeah, I saw that the other day, pretty cool but not what I'm looking for. I'm rocking the Bluetooth for transfers, works great. But my ideal site should probably link to that one.
posted by rschroed at 1:05 PM on February 14, 2006

I've used luneray's site and it worked perfectly.

A++++, would convert voice to ringtone again.
posted by unixrat at 1:46 PM on February 14, 2006

There's Wolfram's tones site.
posted by MsMolly at 3:09 PM on February 14, 2006

I've also used luneray's site. It didn't work for me, so I e-mailed the guy in charge, and within 10-20 minutes he had it all set up so I (free user) was the only one in the premium lane. Then it worked perfectly.

A+++++++++++++, would convert "Bananaphone" to ringtone again.
posted by booksandlibretti at 3:21 PM on February 14, 2006

Response by poster: Wolfram's cool & fun, but not free and there's no direct download as far as I can tell.
posted by rschroed at 3:39 PM on February 14, 2006

Disclaimer: a friend of mine is the back-end programmer for this site.

www.ringranger.com allows you to mix your own custom ringtones from a crapload of loops and samples--not all electronic; covers a huge variety of genres--right on the website. Pretty nifty.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 5:09 PM on February 14, 2006

I think part of the reason you're having trouble finding what you want is that you misunderstand it.

You have MP3 ringtone support and you're rocking the Bluetooth. You don't need "free ringtones," you need "free mp3s". Then just stick the MP3 file on your phone with Bluetooth and rock out.
posted by majick at 6:49 PM on February 14, 2006

I'm with majick - I used audacity to make mp3s into manageable ringtones. It took ten minutes maximum (and only because I was unfamiliar with the programme), hey presto, a ringtone I actually wanted to own up to! And for extra customisability download the sony ericsson themes creator (Mac or Windows) and make your own themes with potatoshop (or your image editor of choice). Much nicer than the commercial versions.
posted by featherboa at 9:10 AM on February 15, 2006

Response by poster: Majick, I get it. and I've done what you've suggested. (Shadrach!) But I really don't want the latest single as a ringtone, I want something that sounds like a phone should sound. Looks like I'll be forced to create my own.
posted by rschroed at 6:19 PM on February 15, 2006