Information at djnitrogen.com/sharetones-android.html

San Francisco, CA – DJ Nitrogen, creator of the Sharetones ringtone sharing platform, announces the new Sharetones App for Android. Sharetones lets users to turn songs on their Android phones into ringtones, alarms and notifications. Sharetones is the only Android app that lets users get virtually unlimited ringtones direct from their handsets without needing to edit their own waveforms or pay the high prices from carriers or third party sites.

Sharetones matches the music on an Android phone with user-generated “ringtone recipes” stored in the Sharetones cloud - giving the Android user instant access to a huge and growing selection of ringtones. Sharetones handles the matching in the background, so all the user does is preview and select. During the introductory period, Sharetones gives Android users unlimited ringtones for free.

“We are really excited to be launching Sharetones for the Android platform,” says Chris Sindoni, DJ Nitrogen CEO. “So far the feedback has been great. It’s a simple concept really - Sharetones are ringtones you share. We match your music with someone else’s recipe to give you a ringtone, instantly.”

Sharetones for Android is built on the DJ Nitrogen content collaboration platform that lets users legally share their mash-ups and remixes with others who own the same source content. The ringtone “recipes” are created and shared by users of DJ Nitrogen’s Sharetones desktop applications or the new Sharetones add-on for the Songbird Media Player. Each of these applications features full audio editing capabilities, resulting in a huge database of custom ringtones. “Sharetones for Android helps complete the ecosystem loop” says Boris Ratchev, Product VP and leader of the Sharetones for Android development team. “It gives casual music fans access to over 65,000 recipes created by our desktop app users.” Serious DJs can still use the Sharetones Windows or Songbird app to send custom ringtone edits to their Android phones.

About DJ Nitrogen:

San Francisco based DJ Nitrogen is changing the way consumers and media providers engage with digital media by empowering an ecosystem that unleashes user creativity,  protects copyright holders and delivers incremental revenue to media companies. The company has several patents (issued and pending) for the technology that powers its platform, including the “recipe sharing” technology that lets users legally share remixes and mash-ups of copyrighted content. CEO Sindoni and the development team are veterans of numerous large consumer Internet brands and start-ups. Visit www.djnitrogen.com for more information and to download a free Sharetones product.

Contact:

Bill Hensley
VP Marketing
DJ Nitrogen
bill.hensley@djnitrogen.com
San Francisco, CA
415.869.8859 x716

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Now, Songbird users can make and share unlimited ringtones with Sharetones by DJ Nitrogen. Sharetones matches the music in a user’s Songbird music library with “ringtone recipes” made by other users of DJ Nitrogen products giving instant access to a vast and growing database of ringtones. Just a couple clicks sends the ringtone to a user’s mobile phone via sms.

If we don’t already have the ringtone you want, right click on any song in your music library to create your own with our audio editor. Once you create a ringtone its recipe is shared with all Songbird users so anyone with the same song can also enjoy your ringtone.

FREE during beta to all Songbird users. Enjoy!

As you’ve likely read, a Federal jury  found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $1.9 million, That’s $80,000 each for 24 songs.

User’s of DJ Nitrogen’s Sharetones don’t need to worry about the legality of sharing ringtones. That’s because with Sharetones users only share the metadata what we call the “recipe” - for songs they already own. The simple ideas can save you a lot of money.

DJ Nitrogen rocks Mobile Incubation Week

Last week DJ Nitrogen joined several other innovative mobile companies at Microsoft’s Window Mobile Incubation Week. While we didn’t take home the top prize, we received rave reviews on our legal solution to sharing content. Most of you who follow us will think we’re just about ringtones - Sharetones as we call them - but that’s just the start. DJ Nitrogen connects the ecosystem with benefits for users, providers and copyright holders alike.

This video captures CEO Chris Sindoni, VP Product Boris Ratchev and Developer Ilan Caspi during the event discussing the DJ Nitrogen platform, Windows Mobile and the Mobile Incubation Week.

It’s been a very busy few months at DJ Nitrogen - sorry we’ve been rather quite on the blog - but we’re happy to present the newest addition to our lineup of custom ringtone products - Sharetones. What is a Sharetone? It’s a ringtone you share. Share-tone. Hmmm… that was simple enough. But isn’t sharing content illegal? Not with DJ Nitrogen’s patent-pending platform. Sharetones makes it simple (and legal) for users to create, consume and collaborate on custom ringtones from the music they own. We align ringtone “mash-ups” with user “match-ups” - that is: users can only see ringtones for songs already in their collections.The more songs you own, the more ringtone recipes you have access to. Over 50,000 different ringtone recipess (Sharetones) are sharing through the DJ Nitrogen Sharetones platform right now.

To celebrate Sharetones, we’re offering free ringtones. Whether you use an iPhone or any MP3-compatible phone, try Sharetones now and get free ringtones with no further obligation.

Try Sharetones now at: http://www.djnitrogen.com/sharetones.html

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Interesting story from NPR about the power of ringtones in Tibet.

All Things Considered, February 25, 2009 · Police in Tibet have swept markets in recent months looking for banned music. Chinese state media report that police have arrested several suspects for allegedly downloading to their cell phones music that the government considers “reactionary.”

Woeser, who goes by only one name like many Tibetans, is one of Tibet’s most outspoken authors. Recently, the Beijing-based writer has been blogging about the hidden world of reactionary ringtones, subversive songs and dissident downloads.

(The full story is at the link above.)

This is either good news for music fans - many of whom discover new music by sharing it - or just another tact to punish those fans who share too much. The RIAA will now focus on getting ISPs to threaten choking offenders’ bandwidth or even terminating access for those users sharing music. Since a lot of users would rather give up their right arm before losing broadband access this seems like a strong hammer.

A few interesting views on the subject:

From CrunchGear 12/19/08

From Mashable 12/19/08

From The Wall Street Journal 12/19/08

Clearly there are just not enough music awards shows. But at least this one was reasonably entertaining and rather short. Good review on Yahoo Music.

The iPhone was the top selling handset in the third quarter, followed by the Motorola Razr and Blackberry Curve.

The Razr held the top spot for the previous 12 quarters.

Of course, all are compatible with DJ Nitrogen’s Ringtone Lab.

AT&T posted their 3Q earnings earlier today. Not surprisingly, they reported strong gains from their wireless devision this quarter. AT&T saw 2.4 million iPhone 3G activations this quarter, with 40% of which were new to AT&T. As you can imagine, the company greatly values smartphone subscribers like iPhone owners due to the expensive data plans that have “significantly higher [average revenue per user] and lower churn than postpaid subscriber average.”

Rest of story is at iPhoneAlley.com

“Oh No You Didn’t” from the Mercenaries 2: World In Flames game/commercial was the top ringtone among users of the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab last week. Here’s the link to the track from the Pandemic Studios site: http://www.pandemicstudios.com/mercenaries/downloads.php.

With the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab, you can listen to all the “Oh No You Didn’t” ringtones made by Ringtone Lab users, or you can make your own.

Some of you have heard that DJ Nitrogen is giving away free evaluation copies of our very cool Ringtone Lab for the iPhone. But you have to know where to look - or be a reader of this blog because it’s rather hidden at DJ Nitrogen. Click here for Free iPhone Ringtones and download the Ringtone Lab. This free version only works with the iPhone and it won’t be free forever, so get it now and sync all the free iPhone ringtones you’d like. Consider it a perk for owning a very cool phone. It’s fast, easy, and as we said, free. Don’t bother with all that “Here’s how to get free ringtones using iTunes” stuff. You know, like “Go to the “Options” tab, then find the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes to set your length… Right-click on your “ringtone length” song and choose “Convert Selection to AAC” plus four or five other steps.

Skip all those steps - just get the Ringtone Lab for the iPhone while it’s still free.

The Copyright Royalty Board ruled to keep royalties on CDs, downloads, online streaming services and ringtones broadly unchanged, imposing a “truce” between music labels, songwriters and digital music services such as Apple’s iTunes store.

Unlikely they’ll do so but it makes for a juicy threat.

Of course we know Metallica is too loud and “Death Magnetic” the dynamic range of a jackhammer, but it’s not just Metallica. Lot’s of music tries to be louder now and the result is less dynamic range. While dynamic range might not be particularly important for your ringtone, it does make a difference in the musical experience.

(Great article from the Wall street Journal, complete with interactive graphics.)