Download Free Ringtones
Ringtones are music (or sounds) that mobile or cell phones can make when a message, email, or incoming phone call arrives. Over the past few years, cell phones have become more popular than landline phones – due to a number of reasons, including cost and portability. As mobile phone users have become more savvy, people now personalize their ringtones according to personal taste and these snippets of music have become one of the mostly personalized add-ons to our phones.
Why do we need ringtones and why use them?
There are numerous reasons, but here are a few to consider:
1. Just For Fun: People like having different ringtones to be unique. They can be funny which makes them appealing to most people.
2. Identify: Without having to even look – one can easily determine who is calling them just by remembering their assigned ringtone.
3. Determing Callers: Advanced features allows us to put different ringtones for different groups or individuals.
4. Personality: Ringtones help in determining the personality of the user itself. For example: a man who has a small clip of a rock song as his ringtone probably is a fan of rock bands, rock music and all sorts of rock and roll tunes.
5. Freedom: Any sound file can be used as a ringtone, making us free to choose among different sounds all over the world. Even better, it is now possible to create or download free ringtones – making them affordable for everyone.
Types of Ringtones
Basically there are four types of ringtones: monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, true ringtones and video ringtones.
1. Monophonic Ringtones
These are simple tones which play a series of musical notes one at a time.
2. Polyphonic Ringtones
These advanced form of monophonic ringtones can play several musical notes at a time and sounds are generraly much more appealing than monophonic ringtones.
3. True Ringtones
True ringtones are also known as mp3 ringtones. True ringtones are most often a portion of a song or a music file.
4. Video Ringtones
A small amount of video when used as a ringtone it is called video ringtone. Generally, the video is a looping video played seamlessly. These are the most recent addition to the ringtone genre and a result of advanced smart phone features and the larger screens they now use.
Ringtone formats
Ringtones can be found all over the web for free if you know how to search for them. The different encoding formats used for making ringtones is also extensive. Some of the basic formats used for ringtones are: mp3, amr, aac, 3gp, midi, mid, and more.
Ringtone composition
People who have a cell phone may at some point want to compose their own personalized ringtones. Nowadays you can make your own ringtones using simple software built into the cell phone itself. A common ringtone is made through a language known as RTTTL ( Ringing Tone Text transfer Language), developed by Nokia. Development of ringtones is also done via computers and laptops.
Why you might not want to use ringtones
1. Irritating: Certain combinations of musical notes produce a high pitch which can be more than mentally irritating.
2. Disturbance: Use of ringtones in places like hospitals, the library and movie theaters is generally frowned upon.
Ringtones are an exciting part of cellular phones. Apart from all the advantages they provide us, ring tones also some disadvantages which cannot be ignored and are usually a result of misuse by the owner. Cell phones have become a necessity and ringtones and the perfect way to express yourself. Go buy a ringtone today. If you can’t afford one, try making one yourself or search for free ringtones on the Internet. You’ll be glad you add this technology to your life!
