Originally published February 23 2006
Stop paying for ring tone songs you already own
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
This instructional article relates how to transfer songs you already own to your phone, thereby avoiding outrageous ring tone charges. To transfer a song, you will need a cell phone with MP3 ring tone support.
Online stores typically charge more to send a song snippet to your cell phone than they do to download a whole song to your PC.
Even if they sell you one that works on your phone and deliver it to you successfully, you'll still have to pony up more cash every time you want to switch your ring tone.
Listening Post columnist Eliot van Buskirk Listening Post Record labels love it when fans buy a ring tone of a song they already own -- the industry claims $4 billion in ring-tone sales to date.
Putting a snippet of a CD track or MP3 file on your phone is actually very straightforward -- not to mention free, if you already own the song.
Warning: The Fall has proven to be a severely addictive listening experience, and there are something like 40 full-length albums to purchase.
If you don't already have this, Audacity is a good open-source program you can download for free, and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
You'll also need the LAME library for Windows, Mac or Linux.
If you're creating your ring tone from a CD, rip the song you want as a WAV (Windows) or an AIFF file (Mac).
Using iTunes, specify this type of ripping in File/Preferences/Advanced/Importing.
It's a good idea to specify a new ripping location, too, so the ripped song doesn't end up lost in the rest of your collection.
If you're creating your ring tone from an MP3, just copy that MP3 into a new folder so that your ring-tone editing won't affect the version of the song in your digital music collection.
Once you have the song as a digital music file (whether WAV, AIFF or MP3), run your audio-editing software.
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