Thursday, June 4, 2009

Ringtone Basics

You can save songs from a CD to your computer or from your CD to an MP3 player. To save songs from your computer to a CD you would “burn” the CD which basically just means saving the songs to the disk.

However you listen to it (CD, MP3 player, IPod, online music service like Rhapsody) chances are you are listening to that song in MP3 or .wav format.

Cellphone ringtones are in a different format.

That is why you cannot just burn a CD to your computer than then upload that to your phone. There is a conversion step in between which we'll walk you through. It's not complicate. Think of converting music into a ringtone like this: sometimes you have to convert numbers differently to conform to a different system. All we're going to do here is take a file and convert it to be read properly by a different system.

Additionally, you probably don't want the entire song, but rather a chorus or maybe a few funny lines from a comedy CD. You can do anything, so be creative. All you have to do to achieve this is fine the file, use a free software to isolate the section you want to use as a ringtone. Next, convert, save and send to your phone (we'll walk you through step-by-step).

Don't overcomlicate this or let your imagination get the best of you on how many steps are involved. This is easy--adn before you know it you'll have a ringtone unique to you that you made for FREE.