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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
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Posted on May 30 2008 06:07 PM
Cough, cough....ahem...
I just got a new crackberry and I'm itching to have some cool surf ringtones! —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11062 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on May 30 2008 06:17 PM
Oh yeah. Well let me finish with a certain project in hand and then we'll see. —Danny Snyder Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on May 30 2008 06:21 PM
No worries. You have many plates in the air right now. Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on May 30 2008 06:22 PM
But anyone else: please feel free to create some ringtones. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 1342 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on May 31 2008 06:01 AM
Brian - I uploaded one ringtone as a test. If it works, I'll add more. Lemme know. |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 12:43 PM
Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 02:02 PM
There's always the do-it-yourself approach. I am not really a cellular sort of person, but I was curious about ringtones when my daughters started sprouting them, so I did a little looking into it. In general, you can usually find a piece of software than is able to generate them either for your model of phone, or for some standard format of ringtone file (yes - working standards anyway) that your phone understands. There are generic packages for sale in computer stores or online, and usually the phone maker has something, too. A little research is called for, of course. I started in a computer store and at the web site of my daughters' cell phone vendor of choice and worked inward like any good veteran of a series of math classes. Another issue is making sure you have whatever hardware is needed to allow you to upload the file to the phone. The options vary with the phone. With T Mobile there was an expensive BlueTooth solution and a cheapo serial solution. Or was it a USB solution? I forget the details. Generally what you end up with is a sort of graphical music editor that lets you maneuver start and stop bars on a graphical display of a sound file. You can play the intervening selection to decide if you have what you want. When you are happy you generate the file and transfer it to your phone. The editor may or may not allow you to add effects like echo, fade, voice over, and additional sounds. It may or may not allow you to append together several scraps from the same or several files. I'm not sure if this process is considered legal or not, assuming we are starting with a file that you have purchased media for and are only using the ring yourself. That is, are you just playing a short fragment of a song on the player of your choice, which happens to be a cellphone instead of your car stero, or are you applying a commercial product for a new use? Let us assume the first. Having purchased my software and looked over my Real Player selection, I was able to generate a decidedly cool, if somewhat obtrusive Datona Mona ring tone, but lacking an actual cellphone it was never tested. I would have bought the daughters Slacktone CDs (any time, kids) so that they could test it, but by that point that had decided that ring tones ate into their storage for pictures. Or at least it was not worth storing any special ringtones for Dad ... Hmm. Maybe the problem was that they were afraid I would call them when they were in a public place or with friends? Note that some bands participate in commercial ringtone marketing schemes. For example, Susan & the Surftones did at one point. Maybe still. Haven't looked recently, but if you get desperate ... after all, what is a cell phone without a surf tone? |
Joined: Sep 27, 2008 Posts: 1149 Damascus, Maryland
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 02:02 PM
If you have an iPhone, iTunes will let you create a ringtone from any song you've purchased. I didn't realize it was just for iPhone when i was playing with it, but you can set the start point anywhere in the song, and run up to 30 seconds. Wish they had it for other phones. Will "You're done, once you're a surfer you're done. You're in. It's like the mob or something. You're not getting out." - Kelly Slater |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 02:43 PM
Yeah, I know I can make my own from my own CD collection, but I wanted a super cool Danny Snyder ring tone. Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11062 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 03:10 PM
Danny Snyder Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 03:18 PM
I was thinking the same thing Danny! —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 1099 4 faces. (Where the buffalo roam)
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 03:44 PM
Brian, would you be willing to share this tech info? (until such time we can get a supercool Danny ringtone) |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 04:16 PM
What?! You don't have his CDs? Man, you may be too late! No, wait, you can use the first few bars of Claire de Lune off the SG101 downloads. Warning, do not assign this one to an ex-girlfriend if you are married, because it is (a) beautiful and (b) thick with a sort of "what might have been" quality. More of a Yesterday Men sort of song altogether. Anyway, doing that would be a good way to become history. |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 07:42 PM
Well Tuck outlined the process in some detail on the previous page. But for my phone, all I have to do is plop down an mp3 in a certain directory in the phone's flash memory. Connect the phone to my pc via USB, then drag & drop a mp3 file into a designated directory. Then use my phone to pick that ringtone. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11062 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 08:02 PM
Danny Snyder Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Joined: Sep 02, 2006 Posts: 3166 Denver, CO
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 08:05 PM
You'd also need a sound editing tool to edit down and/or augment the basic song file. Even a 1:40 song would be a bit long for a ringtone. (I once put a 10 minute song on my answering machine for a message to see if I could do it and then forgot to switch back to the regular message after the experiment. My easily irritated boss of the time was not that amused.) Based on my limited experience you want to be able to clip out some short characteristic segment of the file, fade it a bit at the ends, maybe give it some echo and maybe add a more ring-like sequence at the end: teke-teke-teke-teke-rrring. The editing may entail first converting the mp3 to some other format for editing and then back. If you have a typical analog audio to digital program it might work as an editor in a pinch. They usually have a way to clip one track out of several that come in as one large file. Just clip out a really small piece. The phone I was targeting did not use mp3 format files, but it would have been nice if it had. Sounds like they're getting smarter. |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 15 2009 08:13 PM
Yeah, you definitely need to edit the file first. Audacity is a good free (as in speech and as in beer) program for such a purpose. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 17 2009 03:38 PM
Danny uploaded some ringtones. Check 'em out. Thanks Danny! —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Oct 12, 2008 Posts: 580 San Antone, TX
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Posted on May 19 2009 01:36 PM
My current alert tone for texts, voicemails, and emails and what not is a reverb crash. The Phantomatics on Facebook |
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11062 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Nov 20 2009 12:23 AM
Your welcome Preston. Are you a surf music fan or here because of the ringtones? —Danny Snyder Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Thanks Tuck. I think the word you may be looking for is (b) Wistful. A good way to describe the emotion of that beautiful piece of music (Debussy's not mine)