cellphone music ringtones

[tubenit]

Anyone know of a FREE or super low cost website to get good music ringtones?

The stuff on my Verizon phone is quite lame. 

I'd like to get something like  Jeff Beck's "Going Down" or something of Larry Carlton's etc.......

I read a little over the net about making your own and it sounds more complicated than it's worth.

Thanks, Tubenit

[EL34]

Wish I could help but I have never owned a cellphone.
 

[tubenit]

 

have never owned a cellphone.

Wow!

I did some more research on the site that I thought was FREE and it's NOT free to everyone and there can be some hidden charges.  So I deleted the previously posted website.

Tubenit

[PRR]

> sounds more complicated than it's worth.

Nah. If all is well, you clip 30 seconds, save as MP3 encoding but with a .MIDI extension, email it to your phone, and "Save as Ringtone".

> my Verizon phone

Then all may not be well.

there's gold in them thar bleeps: The San Jose Mercury News reports that ringtones are a $3-billion global market

Stephanie gets grounded after she buys some ringtones from a commercial she saw on TV and her parents receive a bill for $30.

...pay-to-play content providers have their panties in a wad over these new DIY ringtone options

With that kinda money falling out of the sky, the cellfone companies have every incentive to MAKE IT DIFFICULT. "Panties in a wad" indeed.

They own the code that runs your phone. Taking-out the "Save as Ringtone" feature is trivial. Adding code to check that a ringtone file has "VERIZON" stamped inside it is not hard.

DO NOT pay money for a "conversion service". Don't even reveal your true (financial) identity to such folks. That's just asking to get screwt. The only thing you might really-really need is a hack to bypass Verizon(etc)'s deliberate lock-in. And while it may not be illegal to use a self-owned copy of a tune on Verizon's cellfone, they won't like the lost income, and they control the phone.

[supro66]

Wish I could help but I have never owned a cellphone.
 

I still use mine

[Shrapnel]

They own the code that runs your phone. Taking-out the "Save as Ringtone" feature is trivial. Adding code to check that a ringtone file has "VERIZON" stamped inside it is not hard.

DO NOT pay money for a "conversion service". Don't even reveal your true (financial) identity to such folks. That's just asking to get screwt. The only thing you might really-really need is a hack to bypass Verizon(etc)'s deliberate lock-in. And while it may not be illegal to use a self-owned copy of a tune on Verizon's cellfone, they won't like the lost income, and they control the phone.

What can they really do? Do what Apple did, cry jailbreaking it will void the warranty? They can't stop you using a phone that's unlocked, as long as you register it. Same goes for a jailbroke phone.

Some phones will let you put MP3 files on them and use the phone as an MP3 player, some will haev a micro-SD card that with an adapter, you can load the same way, including ring tones.

I can't vouch for Verizon as I use Sprint. T-Mobile isn't exactly in my area. ATT wanted a HUGE deposit, Verizon was in the middle, and Sprint was the cheapest deposit... that was back almost four years now. Cricket didn't interest me as 1" outside of a covered city = roaming charges.

There is free software to make ringtones though. such as The Ringtone Maker 5.2.5

[Frankenamp]

My wife is a ringtone freak. Avon mgmt has one ringtone, her upline has another, her downline has another, and so does the local manager she really hates (special tone) Step daughter has one and when I call it's "save a horse-ride a cowboy" Me, I'm so cheap and ATT is so piratical (phone has a button that charged me $2 every time it was accidentally pushed) I disabled all data. The old rotary bell tone is good enuff and it's free. Wife got a new blackberry torch and ATT wanted to charge her AGAIN for all the ringtones she allready bought! The crooks at the company store told her that they couldn't transfer over the tones... (read wouldn't). Well Whaddayaknow, there's a little micro-SD slot in the new phone under the battery, just like in the old blackberry phone. She just transferred the tones from the old phone to the chip... and from the chip to the new phone. A little inelegant, but it worked! with a couple minor quirks the "old" tones copied right over to the new phone. I'm waiting one more year until the contract runs out, and then I'm gonna see who has the best plan. I have tonnes of rollover minutes that are unused- but I know that my luck is such that if I downgrade, sumthin'll happen and I'll end up with monster overages like what used to happen to the wife. (she is afraid to admit it but I know she got nailed for about $300 in overages before on her 69 dollar plan that would have been free on the 99 dollar plan.)