Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Want to convert songs from your CD into Mp3 ringtones?

Mp3 ringtones are the most popular mobile accessory for all mobile users because to hear actual song snippets or live recordings of your near and dear ones has a great appeal. Along with the mobile phone users, any listener to these ringtones is also pleased. MP3 ringtone is much attractive and compelling for the one who hears in comparison to artificial polyphonic and midi ringtones.

MP3 ringtones comes in different formats available for all possible genres whereby dialogues are taken from the movies, humorous parodies, sound effects but among all these the most admired mp3 ringtones is the music ringtones. It is really cool when you hear your favorite song snippet when you receive an incoming call.

To get mp3 ringtones has become even easier now through the advent of the internet. There are many websites that sell mp3 ringtones of the most popular songs for download. And all this is possible with few clicks of the mouse that you can download your favorite mp3 ringtone into your mobile phone. But what if the song you want to have is not anywhere? It’s quite simple to make your won mp3 ringtone with the help of your own music sources such as CD. So if you have a computer and compatible software installed then following steps need to be applied by windows user:

1. You require downloading some freeware applications from the internet such as Lame and audacity. Then install the application into your computer.

2. Next insert the CD having your mp3 songs and open the free windows media player. Click on the "rip" button and either rip the entire CD or only the track you want to have.

3. Open the particular sound track or mp3 in audacity and edit the song by selecting that portion which you want to make as your ringtone. You need to decide how long you wish to make your ringtone.

4. Select the last two seconds from your selected portion and give a fade out effect but this is optional to do.

5. Next you have to export the selected mp3 portion as a WAV file.

6. Open lame and Razerlame GUI and tweak the desired file size and quality that you wish to have.

7. Add the WAV file to the Lame process, hit the encode option and you will get the finished product as your personalized ringtone.

For more information log on to t-mobile-ringtone.info

Olivia Andrews, writer of t-mobile-ringtone.info is a freelance journalist and has written many reviews on subjects such as finance, education, health, entertainment, music, gifts, crafts, travel, apparels and mobile phones.


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