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Old May 26, 2008 | 11:48 PM
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usually ill get them from friends with bluetooth.

how do you all get yours? what do you use to make yours?

mines the ring tone from the movie crank right now where the phone sounds like the battery is going dead.
im trying to find ringer off ironman where tony calls rhodes (terrence howard) whens hes flying in the jet fight sceen.


video worked once and now it wont load again

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/vide...-take-calls.php
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Old May 27, 2008 | 04:20 AM
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CDMA phones need BitPim, I believe. most of those phone have proprietary systems for ringtones and you need to gain access to the phones system to edit.

blackberrys and others like them can use MP3 files easily so not much problem there
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Old May 27, 2008 | 08:47 AM
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i have the sony 580i slider. i can use mp3 fine.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 08:57 AM
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www.myxertones.com is where I get mine from its free and they have a lot.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 09:22 AM
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i make all mine, $20 a year for the software and its easy to use. myphonefiles.com
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Old May 27, 2008 | 09:31 AM
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i have a mac, im sure there is similar software for windows for free but this is what i do.

1-Pick out the song in itunes or any other software that plays music (even have done it from myspace music/ect)
2-queue up the part in the song i want to create my ring tone
3-open a free program called "audio hijack pro" - http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
4-start hijacking my audio (i usually create ringtones that are ~35 seconds in length)
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Old May 27, 2008 | 12:15 PM
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They were a huge pain to make for my early RAZR. I used Audacity to convert various sources to the right format (MP3's IIRC) and bit-rate. I had to use some odd freeware to access the phone's directories and transfer my tunes. Even then not every created tune played correctly as a ringtone.

My main ring is now the Green Hornet theme song from the Kill Bill soundtrack CD. Found some other classic TV themes on a big collection site, forget the name.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 12:24 PM
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Acquisition - free audio program. Add the LAME mp3 converter, open an mp3, and trim the track to 30 sec.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 12:26 PM
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I have had a RAZR now i have a SLVR and Motorola has this thing called a Motorola Phone tools. You can upload pics onto your phone and ring tones.

I basically made a bunch for myself. Free is the best part. I have different ringtones for certain people. From songs to Movie/TV theme songs. Even have one of a song i downloaded of a song i heard in Italy and now use that as my friends ringtone since she was with me over there.
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Old May 27, 2008 | 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by quaa,May 27 2008, 10:31 AM
i have a mac, im sure there is similar software for windows for free but this is what i do.

1-Pick out the song in itunes or any other software that plays music (even have done it from myspace music/ect)
2-queue up the part in the song i want to create my ring tone
3-open a free program called "audio hijack pro" - http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
4-start hijacking my audio (i usually create ringtones that are ~35 seconds in length)
^^ this is the old way that takes forever and you have to learn a program.

This is the best, easiest and free way to do it. Takes 30 seconds to do a ringtone and you dont need anything but itunes.

Follow these steps and you can make anything in your itunes library a ringtone.

This is for Windows, most steps are the same in MAC, i just dont know the menu options MAC has to change them
-Open iTunes
-Right click the song you want to be a ringtone
-Click "Get Info"
-Goto the options tab
-Check mark start time and stop time and input the corresponding time you want (You need to have figured out what time frame of the song you want to be your ringtone)
-Click OK
-Right click the song in iTunes again and click "Convert selection to AAC" (this will create a duplicate of the song in M4A format of the part you chose
-Right click the duplicate you made and click "Show in windows explorer"
change the extension of the file to MP3 and save it in a ringtones folder or somewhere easy for you to find it
-Load it on your phone

This is also a good trick if you have a iPhone. you just change the extension to M4R instead of MP3 and sync to your iphone
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