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 songs!
Be the first person to make a ringtone for that song, and you can send it to your phone for free. It’s easy. Do it again. There is no limit to the number of free ringtones.
You’ll need to register with us before you can start sending the ringtones to your phone, but this is a great way to get started with DJ Nitrogen and get lots of ringtones for free. Try it now before somebody else gets to your favorite songs first!
iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage? -
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. One of the biggest selling app: Sega Corp’s $9.99 Super Monkeyball game, which sold more than 300,000 copies in 20 days. (iPhone as a gaming platform isn’t such a crazy idea after all!)…
That is a lot of Monkeyball!
The best way to get custom ringtones to your iPhone is still the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab at http://www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html
Unlimited ringtones, sync’d throught iTunes for one low price.
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 one I made and the blue ones were made by other users. The red section in each waveform is the ringtone location within the song. Note that mine looks similar to the second ringtone from the top. That’s because I used it as a starting point, adjusted its start, stop and fades and saved it as my own.
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 version. After listening to a few, I found one very close to what I wanted, lengthened it a bit and added some fades and it was perfect.
At the current rate, the entire Beatles catalog will have ringtone recipes at DJ Nitrogen, available for all users to share legally.
Check it out at www.djnitrogen.com
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. They’re not just from the latest T-Pain collaborations, but even go back to the 60’s with classic tracks from artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival and Van Morrison.
Check out the Ringont Lab for the iPhone at http://www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html
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.
Foxconn factories will be able to ramp production up significantly over time, says our source. But at current sell rates, the company is producing iPhones at a run rate of over 40 million units per year, well beyond early estimates
of demand for the product of 25 million over the 3G product lifecycle.
Apple is continuing to add countries - the iPhone is available in 23 countries today, and another 50 will be added this year. We’ve heard that Foxconn was initially told to expect sales of up to 40 million units in the first year, but that those numbers are being revised upwards sharply.
About 1 billion mobile phones were sold worldwide in 2007, says Gartner (Nokia sold about 435 million of them).”
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 last week, which indicates they like the easy sync through iTunes.”
The Ringtone Lab is fully 3G and 2.0 compatible. It’s free to download and try, works in any country and still features an introductory price of only $9.99.
Check it out at http://www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html
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 customers.
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 add more content, this could be a good way to learn about new music and videos.
BBC NEWS | Health | Smoking link to hearing loss risk -
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 worse once you have smoked regularly for more than one year.”
He said that, unlike some parts of the body, once damage had occurred, there was no prospect of recovery.
“Once the damage is done, it’s done. It does not repair.”
From rifflet:
A rifflet is a piece of a song—a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat or something else entirely. Share your rifflets and combine them with others, or even upload a finished song.
Here’s the catch: every rifflet must be less than 60 seconds. The idea is to only upload a part of a song, or an idea for a song, or just a couple of guitar chords you think are cool. Then, you can download parts of other people songs (like a drumbeat) that you can combine with your ideas.
If you’re a dj, you can use all these great pieces of proto-songs for remixes without worrying about royalties or copyright restrictions, because these sounds are all on this site for the purpose of being remixed.
There is another site (currently a private beta) called MixMatchMusic that is offering a similar service, but they will be tracking each sample, and promise to pay royalties for contributions to songs featuring your samples.
“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 tones” [ringback tones] that are described as customised sounds that a caller hears instead of the usual ringing sound.”
Will this be ready by the June announcement? I don’t think so….
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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….
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.