Comments on: Quality (nonspammy) ringtone sites?

Question: Quality (nonspammy) ringtone sites?

rschroed — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:49:15 -0800

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.

By: luneray

luneray — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:57:53 -0800

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.

By: whatzit

whatzit — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:05:08 -0800

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)

By: rschroed

rschroed — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:05:24 -0800

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.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:46:55 -0800

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

A++++, would convert voice to ringtone again.

By: MsMolly

MsMolly — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:09:24 -0800

There's Wolfram's tones site.

By: booksandlibretti

booksandlibretti — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:21:58 -0800

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.

By: rschroed

rschroed — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:39:51 -0800

Wolfram's cool & fun, but not free and there's no direct download as far as I can tell.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:09:54 -0800

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.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:49:37 -0800

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.

By: featherboa

featherboa — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:10:38 -0800

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.

By: rschroed

rschroed — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:19:26 -0800

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.