April 2010
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Sharetones now has over 100,000 Android users
Not too long ago, Sharetones passed the 100,000 user mark for our Android app. And we’re closing in on 200,000 user-edits ringtone recipes sharing among users. The most popular ringtone sharing right now is Rude Boy by Rhianna. Sharing legally we should say - that’s the beauty of Sharetones.
February 2010
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WatchCNET Video review of Sharetones for Android - 4.5 Stars!
Sharetones now integrates the Ringdroid ringtone editor and takes it a step higher with fade-in and fade out for each tone created.
January 2010
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CNET Gives the New Sharetones for Android a 4.5... →
CNET likes the new Sharetones for Android, which now integrates the Ringdroid editor with Sharetones’ smooth fade-in/fade-out and patented ringtone recipe-sharing technology.
From CNET:
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on January 21, 2010
Here’s how to take the guesswork out of ringtones. Start with your own music collection on the phone. Sharetones compares your list to its...
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Sharetones is one of the 30 best Android apps... →
Sharetones, by DJ Nitrogen, turns music on your Android phone into ringtones, alarms and notifications. Share ringtones legally with others who like the same music as you.
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BMI Sues T-Mobile Over Ringback Tones
On December 19, 2009 performance rights group Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against T-Mobile’s US operation. The lawsuit was filed with the US Federal Court in Los Angeles, CA last month.
BMI claimed it had licensed ringback tones to the major wireless carriers, but that T-Mobile had not agreed to the deal. The performance rights group said the suit...
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WatchThe new Motorola Backflip demo’d at CES. It sports an interesting design with a touch screen and touch pad behind the touch screen. Plus, a flip-over keyboard - hence the name. DJ Nitrogen loves it because, as an Android phone, it will absolutely rock with Sharetones, freeing up every song on the phone as a legally shared ringtone.
(Video from Digital Trends)
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Concert review: Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve... →
Sounds like a great show, but what caught our attention was the “coordinated cell phone ringtones” during Pink Floyd’s Money.
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MySpace Replaces Embedded Imeem Playlists With Ads →
Technology acquisitions and integrations are never easy, as MySpace and imeem illustrate.
(story from Wired)
November 2009
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Motorola Droid off to a well covered start
Lot’s of press lately on the Droid. Is it a big hit for Verizon? An iPhone killer? A turnaround for Motorola? Here’s what some of our favorite sources are saying. One thing we know for sure - Sharetones for Android downloads have surged since the Droid launch, more than doubling comparable period downloads of Sharetones for iPhone. What’s really cool is that Sharetones lets Droid...
October 2009
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DJ Nitrogen receives patent for recipe-based...
San Francisco, CA – DJ Nitrogen, creator of the Sharetones™ family of ringtone apps, announced today that it has been granted Patent No. 7,610,044 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. “This is our core process that lets users legally share ringtones between their mobile devices and enables providers to unlock users’ music with pre-edited ringtones,” said DJ Nitrogen CEO Chris...
September 2009
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Sharetones adds Ringtone Ratings for Android
The latest Sharetones for Android phones released to the Android Marketplace September 29th. Sharetones matches the songs on Android users’ phones with ringtone “recipes” for those same songs, made by users of the Sharetones desktop apps. This gives Android users instant access to ringtones.
Since these recipes are user-edited, the new ratings feature allows the Android users...
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Apple confirms iPhone ringtones are $1.29
In yesterday’s press event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the iTunes store will now sell pre-cut ringtones for $1.29. This is a big improvement on the old Apple model of paying for the song twice - the second time for the privilege of editing your own ringtone. Of course the 25,000+ users of Sharetones by DJ Nitrogen have found an easier and less expensive way to get custom ringtones...
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Apple to Finally Offer Pre-Made iPhone Ringtones →
Yes, Apple has realized that:
1. There is still plenty of life left in the ringtone category.
2. The old Apple model (buy it twice) wasn’t working.
3. Services like Sharetones are a much better deal for anyone wanting iPhone ringtones.
July 2009
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Sharetones for Android 1.1 Takes Off
DJ Nitrogen recently released the latest upgrade to its Sharetones ringtone app for Android, and the new Sharetones 1.1 app has already outpaced the original Beta launch.
The latest Sharetones is significantly faster when checking a user’s song library against the DJ Nitrogen ringtone recipe database, particularly important for users with large music collections on their phones. Sharetones...
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DJ Nitrogen powers unlimited ringtone sharing for...
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...
June 2009
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Sharetones now makes ringtones for the Songbird... →
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...
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This seems rather excessive →
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...
April 2009
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Free ringtones from Sharetones
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...
February 2009
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'Reactionary' Ringtones Spark Arrests In Tibet →
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...
December 2008
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The RIAA Stops Suing Music Fans?
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...
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The Grammy Nominations Hit Prime Time →
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.
November 2008
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The top-selling phones in the U.S. in the third... →
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.
October 2008
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iPhone 3G Raking It In For AT&T, Too →
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...
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"Oh No You Didn't" Is The Top Ringtone at DJ...
“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”...
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It's true, you can get Free iPhone Ringtones with...
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...
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Panel of judges imposes truce between music... →
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.
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Apple Threatens to Close iTunes Store Over... →
Unlikely they’ll do so but it makes for a juicy threat.
September 2008
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Turn Down That Metallica Ringtone! →
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,...
Busy week: MySpace Music, T-Mobile/Google/HTC G1
While Congress debates the $700 billion question, MySpace and T-Mobile/Google spent this week rolling out their latest, each seeking to create a new standard.
MySpace aligns with the major labels and launches the new MySpace Music with downloads from Amazon.com (without leaving MySpace Music), an uncertain number of songs (but lots of them to be sure) and an infinite number of playlists (of up to...
August 2008
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How to get free ringtones from the Ringtone Lab
We’re giving away thousands of free ringtones through the Ringtone Lab standard edition. We call it the Land Run. Here’s how it works:
Download the program and load your music library. Songs with available ringtones will appear with one or more ringtones labeled blue. If a song doesn’t have a blue ringtone you can make one for free. (Yours will be green.) That is a lot of...
iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their... →
From GigaOm today:
The iPhone App Store is red hot: In its first month, more than 60 million software programs were downloaded, and it generated about $1 million a day in sales. That information comes from Steve Jobs in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. In his interview, Jobs says the developers took home $21 million in the first month, of which $9 million went to the top 10 developers....
More Beatles Ringtones at the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone...
One of my favorite features in the latest version of the Ringtone Lab is the little icon in the ringtone column that shows where in the song each ringtone comes from. For an example, let’s look at that Let It Be ringtone discussed in the last post.
The first line tells us that eight different ringtones from Let It Be have been made by DJ Nitrogen users. The one highlighted in green is the...
The Beatles Catalog on DJ Nitrogen
Continuing with that last post about classic artist ringtones:
Today I ripped a few of my Beatles CDs to my Dell laptop, thinking that I’d turn a song or two into ringtones. I shouldn’t have been surprised that almost every song on each CD had multiple ringtones made and shared by DJ Nitrogen users. There were already seven ringtones of the song “Let It Be” - the album...
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All those iPhones - 800,000 a Week
About that last post: Of course we’re thrilled that these new iPhone users, regardless of their country, will be able to turn any songs in their music collections into ringtones using the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab. They can access ringtone recipes made by others or create new recipes from songs they own.
Every day we’re impressed by the vaiety of ringtones made by DJ Nitrogen users....
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Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week →
This was reported today by Tech Crunch:
“Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. This is “above current full capacity” and there may be some concerns with quality control.
Apple sold just 6 million of its first generation iPhones.
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July 2008
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iPhone owners are the heaviest users of the DJ...
Recent users of the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab are more likely to be sync’ing their ringtones to an iPhone than to any other phone on the market. They also create and share the most ringtones. “iPhone users appear to be very happy with our Ringtone Lab for the iPhone,” says DJ Nitrogen CEO Chris Sindoni. “Our top users have each created over 30 ringtone recipes just in the...
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EU Cracks Down on Mobile Content Scammers →
You probably saw a story like this last week (the link above is to DailyTech.com). Unfortunately, many in the mobile content market are doing their customers a serious disservice - they see them as targets, rather than customers.
At DJ Nitrogen, we don’t hide our service pricing deep in the fine print. It’s right where you can see it, which we think is a much better way to treat our...
June 2008
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The Filter →
Peter Gabriel’s music, movie, tv and video recommendation site is now in a public beta. There are lots of interesting ways to tweak your personalized filter, the recommendation engine behind the service.
For music, songs are limited to 30 seconds, so unlike a service like Pandora, the Filter is focusing on just recommending music you may not own.
Its probably too early to tell, but as they...
BBC NEWS | Health | Smoking link to hearing loss... →
Dr Erik Fransen, of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, one of the lead researchers, said that the ability to pick out high frequency sounds was damaged in smokers and the obese, although to not as great an extent as those exposed to very loud noise in the workplace.
He said: “The hearing loss is proportional to how much you smoke and your body mass index (BMI).
“It starts getting...
May 2008
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Apple in mobile music talks →
“Apple is currently in talks with record labels about mobile music, reports the New York Times. “Several label executives” have apparently confirmed that Apple has approached some of the major music companies to try and expand its music available to the iPhone direct, and to other mobiles, via iTunes. Apple is said to want to offer more ringtones and also “answer...
The 100 most clichéd clichés in pop song titles →
“Andy Baio has been writing about The Whitburn Project - a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Chart since 1890. Those 37,000 song titles use a vocabulary of fewer than 9,000 different words.” Click through for the top one hundred words….
Now in the U.K., iPhone ringtones with the DJ...
Download at www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html New desktop application empowers iPhone users to make and – for the first time – legally share ringtones. Now available to U.K. iPhone users, the Ringtone Lab is only £4.99 for unlimited iPhone ringtones. Read the full release at djnitrogen.com
“Everyone’s a grazer, collecting a bizarre group of work on his hard drive. Take...”
– Lefsetz Letter - Another great quote from Bob.
DJ Nitrogen announces easy iPhone ringtones with...
Download at www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html San Francisco, CA – DJ Nitrogen announces the public beta release of the new Ringtone Lab for the iPhone, specifically designed to meet the ringtone needs of iPhone users. The Ringtone Lab is one of the most advanced ringtone editors available and is the only product that lets users legally share iPhone ringtones with other users. Ringtones...
Zoomoozik.com, LLC, Launches ZooTones, A...
Southaven, MS./ San Francisco, CA. Zoomoozik.com, the world’s first all-digital music label, announces ZooTones, a new desktop ringtone application that empowers fans to make MP3 ringtones from their favorite Zoomoozik artists’ songs, and to legally share their creations with other fans who own the same songs - a first in the industry. ZooTones, which serves ringtones to customers of all...
April 2008
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Ringtone Lab for iPhone Available
April 24, 2008 For Immediate Release DJ Nitrogen Announces Beta Release of a New Ringtone Lab, Exclusively for iPhone Users DOWNLOAD at DJ NITROGEN.COM San Francisco, CA – DJ Nitrogen announces the public beta release of its Ringtone Lab product, specifically designed to meet the ringtone needs of iPhone users. The Ringtone Lab is one of the most advanced ringtone editors available, and...