Or you could be like me, and have a cell phone so ghetto that it makes MIDI sound like live music by comparison :)

Once I upgrade phones, though, I do refuse to pay for somebody to supply me with a ringtone. I've got better things to waste bread on.

man, no kidding, I don't understand this at all. There is now a free ring tone service that the phone companies and labels are pissed about - you use your own recordings so there is no copyright issue.

Man, I'd off a dozen record company executives to have a tune I wrote become a popular ring tone.

Well, maybe that isn't saying much. Nonetheless, I'd be honored; and grateful for the free advertising.

Has anyone yet come up with software that, like, totally fries the brain of anyone using cutesy ringtones of any kind? One of my first edicts after the Revolution will make it a capital offense if your phone makes any other sound that just, you know, "ring ring."

ya know, i can't even change the ringtons in my cellphone...and i sort of make fun of all those cutesy ringtones.

but if i could download 'em, i'd want "InnaGoddaDaVida".

none of the young ones would think it was funny, but I sure would!

This is totally generational: over 30, "this is the most stupid waste of time and money imaginable"; under 21, "how can you stand that stupid ring-ring shit?"

no doubt about that. modern kids have grown up with phones...everybody has em and they're a part of the culture.

me, i got one because i was having an addition on my house and needed to be able to get in contact with the various contractors during the day.

my plan is a whole 150 minutes a month. i think the most i've EVER used is about 20 minutes.

I'm 31, and I downloaded this program when I saw it linked on bookofjoe.com. I put off getting any kind of fancy phone for a while and mocked a coworker's phone that didn't even have a "ring ring" option, but once I stepped up to the camera phone, I haven't looked back. One buddy who calls me gets the Soprano's theme song, another "Yo Diggety" by Blackstreet, and so on. So far only the Soprano's is full voice and music. That will probably change with this software. :)

"Yo Diggety"? Did you just say "Yo Diggety"?

Er, sorry. No Diggety. See what happens when you have only the four-part MIDI rendition?

Oh yeah, this is the company I was talking about in comment #2. Joe is always ahead of the game. Except in catagories: dude, this is "software," it says so in the first sentence. It is only tangentially about "music." And stuff about iPods, real or virtual is similarly not "music." Rock on.

You can use Xingtone for free. They allow you to only use their five free songs without paying, so as long as you have a wav file you want to use, just rename your file and replace one of theirs. Then in the program the program will think it is their file. Voila.

I tried Xingtone but the 5 you can try are only with music they provide. ToneThis let's you try 5 with your own music - and it's cheaper.