Everything You Need To Know (Plus What You
Don't) About Ringtones

If you've browsed the internet at all, you've likely seen many
advertisements for ringtones. Some of them are free, some are
not. Of course, they are ringtones for your mobile phone. Other
phones just use plain ringtones, and are usually not
customizable.

Mobile phone manufacturers originally designed mobile phones
with customizable ringtones so that you could easily tell if if
it was your phone ringing when you're with a group of people.
Things change though, and mobile phone ringtones are now much
more than a convenience – they are an art form, even a fashion
statement ("I'm cooler than you 'cause my ringtone is cooler
than yours...").

Mobile phone ringtones come in three basic varieties:

Monotone: Most monotone ringtones are something akin to your
plain old ring that you might find on a touch tone phone. Or
perhaps they are a beep, beep, beep. Either way, these are your
Plain Jane ring tones.

Polyphonic: These ringtones use multiple tones to create
melodies. Polyphonic, of course, just means "many sounds".
Polyphonic ringtones are usually MIDI files. MIDI files are not
actual audio files. Instead a MIDI file is a set of instructions
that tell the player (in this case your phone) what instrument
sounds to play and when. Polyphonic ringtones are a great
upgrade on standard ringtones, but they still don't really
sound like a real audio recording.

MP3: These are the Rolls-Royce of ringtones. They are actual
MP3 audio files of the original recording. You can usually
purchase and download to your phone MP3 ringtones of your
favorite songs for a couple dollars each. They will sound
nearly identical to the original recording, just lower quality.
The recordings are also often edited to make them suitable for
use as a ringtone.

Customized ringtones can provide you a lot of fun with your
phone – you can make your phone "you" with ringtones.


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