DJ Nitrogen News

iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:50:00 -0700

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.

More Beatles Ringtones at the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:09:21 -0700

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.

The Beatles Catalog on DJ Nitrogen

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:35 -0700

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

All those iPhones - 800,000 a Week

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:53:26 -0700

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

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:12:29 -0700

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).”

iPhone owners are the heaviest users of the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:25 -0700

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

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:31:34 -0700

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.

The Filter

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:41:49 -0700

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 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

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:35:36 -0700

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.”

artistspaid: From rifflet: A rifflet is a piece of a song—a...

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:50:00 -0700

artistspaid:

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 in mobile music talks

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:46:20 -0700

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 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….

cultrvultr: Driver’s License as Ableton Live MIDI Controller...

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:07:24 -0700

cultrvultr:

Driver’s License as Ableton Live MIDI Controller (via db3ll) This guy has also turned pennies and a piece of paper into a drum controller!

The 100 most clichéd clichés in pop song titles

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:59:25 -0700

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 Nitrogen Ringtone Lab

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:46:07 -0700

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 a look. The..."

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:26:51 -0700

“Everyone’s a grazer, collecting a bizarre group of work on his hard drive. Take a look. The Chipmunks can sit next to Edith Piaf. Someone can like Kenny Chesney and AC/DC.”

- Lefsetz Letter - Another great quote from Bob.

This is a really cool online tool called the Hobnox Audiotool....

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:21:18 -0700

This is a really cool online tool called the Hobnox Audiotool. It is essentially an upgraded flash version of the old Rebirth program with Reason style patching. Its a whole lot of fun and reminds me of all the time I spent on rebirth.

yvynyl:

Free Music Studio Means No More Excuses | Listening Post from Wired.com

DJ Nitrogen announces easy iPhone ringtones with the new Ringtone Lab for the iPhone

Tue, 06 May 2008 18:03:47 -0700

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 easily sync to the iPhone via iTunes, with no hacks or modifications required. Powered by DJ Nitrogen’s patent-pending mobile content collaboration platform, this new Ringtone Lab for the iPhone works in any country and with any recent version of iTunes.

As with all DJ Nitrogen products, the Ringtone Lab for the iPhone lets the user make ringtones and save the “ringtone recipes” for any MP3 songs on the user’s computer. The ringtone recipe is the data that defines the ringtone – start, stop, fade, etc. A user can browse, share and build upon ringtone recipes created by other members of the DJ Nitrogen community, but only for songs that the user already owns - thus respecting artists’ copyrights. Users never share actual audio files, only the “ringtone recipes.” The ability to share ringtone recipes gives users access to a wide and growing library of ringtones for the music they love, with multiple ringtone recipes available for the most popular songs. And with the Easy-to-Expert editor, novices and audiophiles alike can have cool iPhone ringtones.

During the limited-time public beta, the Ringtone Lab will be priced at only $4.99 for unlimited iPhone ringtones. This price will increase to $9.99 upon official launch. Even at $9.99, the Ringtone Lab for the iPhone delivers unlimited ringtones for the price of one iTunes album.

“We are excited to be launching this version of the Ringtone Lab exclusively for the iPhone. iPhone users will no longer be limited to buying ringtones through iTunes, and our recipe-sharing technology means they can legally share their iPhone ringtones with any DJ Nitrogen user, even users of our private-labeled non-iPhone products,” says Chris Sindoni, DJ Nitrogen CEO.

Like DJ Nitrogen’s flagship Ringtone Lab, this new Ringtone Lab for the iPhone can be distributed by affiliate partners under the “Powered by DJ Nitrogen” program.

About DJ Nitrogen:

San Francisco based DJ Nitrogen’s mobile content collaboration platform is an industry-first legal way for consumers to share the copyrighted media they send to their mobile phones. The company has several patents pending for the technology that powers its platform, including the “recipe sharing” technology. The Ringtone Lab and its private label counterparts are the first products to launch from the platform. CEO Sindoni and the development team are veterans of large consumer Internet brands and start-ups. Visit www.djnitrogen.com for more information and to download a Ringtone Lab product.

Media and distribution partner inquiries, contact:

Bill Hensley
VP Marketing
DJ Nitrogen
415.869.8859 x716
bill.hensley@djnitrogen.com

Zoomoozik.com, LLC, Launches ZooTones, A Collaborative Ringtone Editor Powered by DJ Nitrogen

Fri, 02 May 2008 22:13:53 -0700

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 major US carriers, is powered by DJ Nitrogen’s mobile content collaboration platform.

ZooTones lets fans of Zoomoozik artists create ringtones and save the “ringtone recipes” for any MP3 format songs on the user’s computer. The user can browse and build upon recipes created by other members of the ZooTones community, but only for songs that the user already owns, thus respecting artists’ copyrights. This gives users access to a wide and growing library of ringtones for the Zoomoozik music they love, with multiple ringtone recipes available for the most popular songs.

“We searched the web to find the ultimate customized ringtone product for our customers, and the DJ Nitrogen platform provided the best choice,” says Michael Sharf, Zoomoozik’s CEO. “Their full-service solution lets us focus on what we do best, while meeting our customers’ mobile needs and ultimately putting more money into the artists’ hands.”

A new user’s first ringtone is free, and if a ZooTones user creates a ringtone from a published MP3 that doesn’t yet have a ZooTones ringtone recipe, he/she will get that ringtone for free as well. Beyond these free opportunities, users can select from three pricing models including two convenient monthly plans.

“We are thrilled to be providing the ringtone solution for Zoomoozik,” says Chris Sindoni, DJ Nitrogen CEO. “Their fervor for assisting the unsigned artist is ideal for our innovative technology that respects both artists and their fans.”

About Zoomoozik:
Since 2007, Zoomoozik has been an online music community for bands, fans and the industry as the world’s first all-digital record label, retail and distribution site for MP3 downloads and streams. It is a data base of unsigned groups with valuable consumer information for A&R execs, publishers, promoters, booking agents and record companies, a resource for artist questions on legal and business issues and most importantly providing “robot” management and consultation. “For the first time in the history of the music industry, artists will be in control using tools provided through technology to steer their own careers and make their own decisions. We are all excited at Zoomoozik to be a part of this revolution and help develop the technology and the platform that will drive the future of the music industry. DJ Nitrogen will help us offer ringtone technology that serves the artist most efficiently,” states Rory Rogers, Director of A&R at Zoomoozik.com.

About DJ Nitrogen:
San Francisco based DJ Nitrogen’s mobile content collaboration platform is an industry-first legal way for consumers to share the copyrighted media they send to their mobile phones. The company has several patents pending for the technology that powers its platform, including the “recipe sharing” technology. CEO Sindoni and the development team are veterans of large consumer Internet brands and start-ups. Visit www.djnitrogen.com for more information.

For additional information or a sample copy contact:

Guy Connor
VP of Marketing
Zoomoozik.com
949-468-7110
guy @ zoomoozik.com

For DJ Nitrogen information, contact:
Bill Hensley
VP Marketing
DJ Nitrogen
415.869.8859 x716
bill.hensley @ djnitrogen.com

Ringtone Lab for iPhone Available

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:31:00 -0700

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 is the only iPhone solution that offers legal ringtone sharing powered by DJ Nitrogen’s patent-pending mobile content collaboration platform. Ringtones easily sync to the iPhone via iTunes, with no hacks or modifications required. The Ringtone Lab for the iPhone works in any country and with any recent version of iTunes.

As with all DJ Nitrogen products, the Ringtone Lab lets the user create ringtones and save the “ringtone recipes” for any MP3 format songs on the user’s computer. The user can browse and build upon recipes created by other members of the DJ Nitrogen community, but only for songs that the user already owns - thus respecting artists’ copyrights. This gives users access to a wide and growing library of ringtones for the music they love, with multiple ringtone recipes available for the most popular songs.

During the limited-time public beta, the Ringtone Lab will be priced at only $5.00 for unlimited ringtones. This price will increase to $9.99 upon official launch.

“We are excited to be launching this version of the Ringtone Lab for the iPhone,” says Chris Sindoni, DJ Nitrogen CEO. “iPhone users will no longer be limited to buying ringtones through iTunes, and our recipe-sharing technology means they can legally share ringtones with and DJ Nitrogen user, even users of our co-branded non-iPhone products.”

Like DJ Nitrogen’s flagship Ringtone Lab, this new Ringtone Lab for the iPhone can be distributed by partners under the “Powered by DJ Nitrogen” program.

Media and distribution partner inquiries, contact:

Bill Hensley
VP Marketing
DJ Nitrogen
415.869.8859 x716
bill.hensley @ djnitrogen.com

ToneLab featured on Yahoo! News

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:11 -0700

ToneLab featured on Yahoo! News: ToneLab from Digital 1 Audio, the first “Powered by DJ Nitrogen” ringtone application, was just featured in the business section of Yahoo! News. More detail about the product is available on the Digital 1 PCDJ site. More information about the “Powered By DJ Nitrogen” program is available on our partner page.