Cell Phone Ring Tones - Convert Your Own Ring Tones

It is actually amazing how society - and I suppose this is especially prevalent among young people, can take a perfectly ordinary device and turn it into a fashion accessory, a games console or an entertainment device. And come to think of it, these days one almost does not buy a 'cell phone with a camera built into it', but in some cases, 'cameras with cell phone capabilities'!

Cell phone manufacturers originally certainly did not consider adding sophisticated features such as polyphonic ring tones, customized wallpapers and logos and digital camera capabilities, however, as time went by and they realized that they had to add these new features to phones to gain and keep the competitive edge, they have started to build in more and more functionality into their phones.

Growing alongside this phenomenon is the rise of software and gadgets that assist in the management of cell phone ring tones, wallpapers and games. One such example is the cellular phone ring tone converter that assists with downloading ring tones from the Internet, and also with transferring ring tones from one phone to the other.

Once the conversion of the piece of music has been done, it needs to be transferred to your cell phone. This transfer can be achieved by directly keying in the melody, or by making use of an SMS transfer, or even directly downloaded to your phone from the Internet

So how do ring tone converters work?

Ring tone converters can be either downloaded from the Internet as a free trial from the popular software download site - Download.com, or bought commercially (look for Coding Workshop Ring Tone Converter). You can also make use of some free utilities on the Internet itself such as Uniring. This will convert any Nokia (NokRing) or RTTTL format ring tone into the format used by your specific cell phone.

There seem to be a variety of software options available, so which one would you use where?

For the scenario where you have music or songs on your PC in one of the following formats - WAV, MP3, MMF, AMR, QCP, you can use the converter that is available from Download.com to convert into ring tone format.

Apart from that, your can also use the free service of Uniring to convert from NokRing or RTTTL, or some of the more sophisticated software packages that run on your PC (look for the CodingWorkshop Ringtone Converter) to convert any piece of music and export to one of the following formats: Nokring, eMelody V1.0 (.emy), iMelody V1.2 (.imy), RTTTL, My Melody, Kyocera (.kws), Samsung PCLink (.amf), Motorola binary (*.vrt), Nokia binary, wave (.wav), Smaf (.mmf) and Midi (.mid) file formats.

To get the ring tone downloaded into your phone very much depends on the technical capability of your phone. These phones all have different technologies for entering ring tones into the phone. Some allow you to enter the melody in through keying in the ring tone directly into the phone, others allow the download of the ringtone through SMS, and with others you might have to connect to your PC through a data cable.