My mobile phone is just deceased, fatal. My first clue: The display on the LCD was upside down and back. I did not even think it’s even possible, but yes, this is what happened. Quick way to AT & T store and the cute new phone in your hand. I was able to on my numbers, but we are downloaded tunes old phone is deceased.

Ringtones, a market that did not exist 10 years ago, have become a revenue stream for mobile phones, which will stick to the unprecedented cruelty. After I got my new phone, I was quickly immersed in the lucrative and controversial world of odd ring. Keep on reading, why tunes have become big business, and how you can beat the system.

Ringtones: The Beginning

First, what history. When mobile phones first came, had several options for personalizing your phone, none of them particularly interesting. What happened to master tones (snippets of real images, unlike most of the songs synthesized in the phone) and a huge market open. Now tunes are big business. Reports of a few years ago said that the ringtone industry deserves more than 5 billion dollars per year.

Find great tunes online and find the overwhelming choice. You can mosquito show that only young people can hear. You can download the ringtone that your dog will be heard. (Seriously, what is good, right?) You can ringtones to specific callers, so I know exactly who is calling. Beethoven for your mother, Pussycat Dolls for your girlfriend, and the theme of Monday Night Football for your best friend. Fun Stuff.

How do you

After I got my new Nokia 6085, it was time to shop for the ring. It begins innocently enough. You can search for the seemingly thousands of websites. Most try to subscribe to a ringtone service. Do you really need to change tones, which often? Maybe we really need to level, because there are so many of these companies.

Do not want to have scammed, I just came to AT & T ringtone website. He had hundreds of possibilities, and it was so simple, oh-click and trade. There were a few free downloads, but most were 2.49 U.S. dollars a 20-30 second clip. After auditions video clips, my choice is automatically sent to my phone with just a few clicks painless. Does not any easier? But a few minutes later I realized that in those few minutes I had grabbed with a value of $ 15 ring tones, automatically charged to my phone. I will call every two or three days. I’ll never to use them.

Now, to $ 2.49 pop, I wonder – why are they so expensive? Some of my select the songs that I’ve already purchased and downloaded from iTunes to 99 cents, or 89 cents Amazon. Why am I paying so much less, probably less good quality version?

Even after paying a premium for ringtones, plus calls to buy and download it to your phone, some carriers do not you stay forever. Yes, your ringtone May fell. So, you have to pay three times as many for the 30-second clip of the song, and you do not agree to keep it.

Why can not I use iTunes songs as ringtones?

Put simply, if you are an iPhone, it’s a no-go. Strange, I know. If you selected one of the phone owner, it is not as simple as sending music to the phone. If your song is available as a ringtone (it will be a little bell icon) that you have to pay 99 cents per download, but there is the rub. You have to pay 99 cents to another retag it as a ringtone. The good news is that you can use the program to adjust to the collection of songs that you want to use.

The reason why we all have to pay so much melody to do, as always, copyright and royalties. When you download a song, pay 9 cents royalties. However, the recent ruling, the royalties for ringtones to 24 cents per song.

Backdoor free ringtones

However, there is a backdoor that lets you avoid paying taxes. Masterton, you can create a ringtone from a CD you’ve ripped, but you need a software program to do this in the proper format. It is really difficult and not so easy to find software, on-line.

Although there are simple solutions to free music, service providers are still carrying out the killing for them. Many people wonder why the phone charge so much for them. The answer is obvious: because they can. The real question is: Why are we all willing to pay so much?(dvice)