Ringtones?

[Darek]

Sort of a dork-tastic thread, but I spent about an hour yesterday bypassing Verizon's insistence on blocking all things free so I could make my own tones and put them on my new phone. It got me wondering what other people have on their phone that's Rustic related. As of now I've got the intro to Troublesome as my default tone and part of PSC's Wasted for a buddy of mine. Still trying to come up with some other ideas so I figured I'd throw this out there.

If anyone is having issues, or wants to know how to make and apply their own tones, feel free to post or PM me.

[onlycrayons]

Dork-tastic indeed.

I have the live intro to Month and a Half and the portion of Rock Like War following "sing along." My wife has the intro to Gretchen My Captain.

I've had mixed success with creating my own, I'd be interested to know your method.

[notreally]

Right now I've got the chorus to the RBTH version of Check as my main ringtone. I used to have the post-chorus guitar riff to Simple Song.

[willwood]

For the longest time I hate "Wasted" as my ringtone, but I quit drinking so I ditched it. funny though... I always forgot to turn it off too when at work so it would start to ring and I would hurry to try to answer before it said fucked up and wasted in front of customers.

I got wasted from myxertones.com while it still worked with verizon, but I've been able to get a couple RO songs doing a voice memo that sounds ok. I actually found out using my laptops speakers pretty low volume, and holding the mic about a foot away works better than good speakers.

I got Cherry and Sledgehammer and RLW

[notreally]

I have a razr with AT&T and I can just bluetooth ringtones to myself.

[willwood]

Ah I didn't know you could do that..from your computer? Do you need to buy software, or is it something you can download for free?
My phone is bluetooth, but also verizon, so that might make it not work....ha

[notreally]

If you right-click in iTunes you can choose start and stop times for a song. Then, convert that to an MP3(under the advanced drop-down menu). I have a MacBook and it has bluetooth built in, so its a really easy process from there.

[Jeff]

my friend has used a program called tonethis to make his own ringtones.. i just downloaded it (inspired by this topic) so I can't vouch for it yet, but try it out if you feel like it.. seems to have a bit of potential.

check it out here: www.tonethis.com/

edit: quality isn't too great, but I've only had the electronic ringtones before due to crappy phones and a personal feeling that paying to have a fancy ringtone is unnecessary

[Darek]

Well, for me the last two phones I've had supported MP3s and "music" tones so it's just been a matter of getting them on the phone once I cut out the part I want using Audacity. (I never bothered trying to get or make tones other than full music tones since they all sound ridiculous as far as I'm concerned) Verizon LOVES to make things nearly impossible without paying them (no memory card to phone transfers and no bluetooth transfers), which I guess I understand from a business standpoint, but I want to be able to choose what I use for a tone not pick from their selection. Both my current phone (MOTO W755) and previous phone (MOTO E815) have micro SD cards. With the E815, once I made the tone all I had to do was put it on the card, send it in a Pix message to a number that didn't exist and then go to my Outbox and save it (thanks to Verizon who disabled direct card to phone transfers). They've since wised up to that so now there's an extra step. Verizon will now re-compress any MP3s sent and they sound like crap so before I put it on the card I change the file extension from .MP3 to .MID. It doesn't change the quality of the sound clip, just fools Verizon into leaving it alone when it's transfered. You can still do it if your phone doesn't have Micro SD, you just have to email it to your phone (comes across like a text) at [e-mail]. Then you still have to send it to yourself in a text message before you get the option to set it as a tone.

Yes, it's laborious and annoying but thanks to Verizon it's the only way to do it without a data cable and voiding the phone's warranty. Obviously this is just how I do it so your results may vary but if anyone wants more detailed instructions shoot me a PM.

I just made a new one with the intro to Long Division and I think I'm going to do the intro to Outlaw Biker as well. I like the instrumental parts since the vocals always sound a bit tinny on phone speakers.

[onlycrayons]

www.funformobile.com/pages/ringtone/uploadRingtone.php

Here's a ringtone uploader I've used with some success. It works with my Verizon phone. The file can't be too big or too long. You upload the file and it sends you a data message with the tone attached as a .aac

It can take a while, like 24 hours.

[dgillyerek]

I have an old verizon phone and the program bitPM works for me via bluetooth connection.