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.

CNET 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.

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 growing database of user-cut ringtones and returns matches. After previewing and picking, Sharetones will extract metadata information about the sample ringtone and rip your own song to match it, including fade-ins and fade-outs. Bottom line: the only person’s music you touch is your own.

If that sounds complicated, don’t worry. The application’s interface is straightforward. You’ll see the ringtone matches appear—tap one to preview or save and rate the song. If there aren’t any matches in the Sharetones database, you’ll see a link to make your own. The integration of the Ringdroid ringtone editor means you can fashion your ringtones from the app and automatically submit it to the Sharetones database for other users. There’s also a new search bar in this version, so you can quickly locate specific songs.

Here’s what we’d like to see in the future: an in-preview navigation to scroll forward or backward through ringtone options, and a way to tag favorite ringtone matches from a deep results list. While we’re heartened to see the editing software included, Sharetones should also consider partnering with a traditional ringtone seller if they want to become a true one-stop shop. While not every user is willing to pay for ringtones made from their own songs, some will, especially those looking to acquire ringtones in bulk.

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.

The 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)

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 users get ringtones that were made by users of the Sharetones’ iPhone-owning customers.

Selected reviews and updates:

cNet - Initial Motorola Droid Sales Look Good

Engaget - Motorola Droid Review

Tech Crunch - Think the Droid launch was a letdown? Not so fast

SF Gate: Smartphone smackdown: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

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 Sindoni. “We believe this is the future of the ringtone business.”

The patent covers the method of sharing ringtone content independent of the audio content used to generate the ringtone. DJ Nitrogen refers to this as the recipe-sharing model. The “ringtone recipe” is the meta-data that extracts the ringtone from the full audio track, including start and end points, fade in/out and effects. DJ Nitrogen matches music on a user’s phone or media device with the ringtone recipes created by other users. These recipes are stored in the DJ Nitrogen cloud. Each recipe is made available to everyone in the DJ Nitrogen ecosystem who owns the source audio. This gives users instant access to a huge and growing selection of ringtones for music they love. The platform is fully compliant with copyright laws because users share only the recipe; they never share the source audio content. In the same manner that users share these recipes, providers can deliver professionally pre-edited recipes to their subscribers using the patented DJ Nitrogen process.

DJ Nitrogen leverages the explosive growth in smart-phones and the trend in full track music downloads to these mobile devices. The ringtone recipes are created and shared by users of the Sharetones ringtone editing applications, including Sharetones for the iPhone. The company’s new smart-phone apps, starting with Sharetones for Android, complete the ecosystem loop. They give music fans access to a huge catalog of ringtones, including over 95,000 recipes created by Sharetones users. The recipe matching happens in the background, so smart-phone users just preview and select their ringtones. The patent granted today also covers DJ Nitrogen’s process for checking if the source audio sought by the shared recipe is not available on the local device and automatically obtaining a licensed copy of that audio. This enables ringtones to be the point of music discovery, encouraging full track purchases from partner music retailers.

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 added revenue to media companies and carriers. The company has several patents (issued and pending) for the technology that powers its platform. 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
415-869-8859 x 716

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 to rate them up or down, thus bubbling the best edits to the top.

The new Sharetones also features enhanced speed and adds a waveform graphic that shows the location of the ringtone within the song.

Sharetones is a new breed of ringtone solution, leveraging the trends in whole-song downloads and providing a social ecosystem for makers and consumers of music ringtones.

Sharetones is compatible with all Android phones, including the G1 and MyTouch. As the name implies, Sharetones are “ringtones you share.” It doesn’t matter what type of phone you have, and since what is really being shared is the metadata that defines each ringtone recipe, Sharetones is a truly legal method of sharing ringtones.

More information is available at www.djnitrogen.com.

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 1.1 also makes it easier to assign ringtones directly to contacts from within the app.

Android users can download Sharetones for freee at the Android Marketplace.

By the way, it looks great on the new myTouch!

More information is at djnitrogen.com.

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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