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Sonic Wallpaper
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AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringtones
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 4:32 PM
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ToneThis is a desktop application for delivering personalized and third-party content to your phone. Unlike traditional content stores (ringtones, wallpapers, videos, games), ToneThis sits on your desktop enabling you the freedom to select and personalize your own content for delivery to your cellphone.
ToneThis desktop software allows you to create MP3 ringtones, truetones, realtones, cellphone wallpaper and mobile video ringtones using your CD, MP3, WAV, iTunes, image (JPEG, GIF, BMP), and video (AVI, MPEG) collection. Create an unlimited number of cellphone ringtones, wallpapers, and videos. Access to mobile music, image, and video content. Access to mobile games. Almost all US/Canada/EU/AU carriers supported.
* 400,000+ users
* Both a free and upgrade version
* Windows only
* Most popular 'mobile' download at Download.com
* Download ToneThis here
For an overview of ToneThis, watch this interview and demo with Raj Singh, founder of ToneThis:
http://www.podtech.net/home/3993/lunchmeet-tonethis-gets-your-media-on-your-cell-phone
When you first see the demo of the software, take note of the right side panel.
ArtistServer has partnered with ToneThis to provide music with Creative Commons licensing and currently loads as the default content provider when you launch ToneThis. The mp3 used in the demo is by an artist on ArtistServer - very cool! Check out the screenshot below:
This is a great opportunity for artists to gain more exposure and take advantage of a great marketing tool - ringtones. We are serving over 110,000 page views to more than 60,000 unique visitors per month within the ToneThis application alone!
Not all songs are available through ToneThis, only those with one of the following Creative Commons licenses:
* Attribution
* Attribution Share Alike
* Attribution Non-Commercial
* Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
* Public Domain
If you are an artist on ArtistServer, and want your music available on ToneThis, make sure you have selected one of the previous licenses, and make your song available for download.
The ToneThis panel also provides an 'artist' view, which lists artists who have music with the proper Creative Commons license. Only artists with upgraded accounts are listed.
ArtistServer also supports ToneThis as a ringtone transfer method for the ringtones artists upload with their songs. When using the ToneThis transfer method, the mp3 will first be downloaded to your local copy of ToneThis, then you send it to your phone. While the final download step is similar to what ArtistServer already offers, ToneThis has gone several steps further by providing detailed support for mobile networks around the world, and for 100's of phones.
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Kylo
Joined: 02/16/05
Location: San Francisco
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 2:02 PM
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Extremely cool feature. I just d-loaded Janner's Rubba as my ringtone and I've got a new wallpaper instantly... 
Nicely done!
Thanks!
(There is though, an extremely annoying pop-up ad at the bottom of the tone this program- and the designer of that should get his/her finers placed in a pot of boiling water.) 
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringt
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 2:55 PM
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the software has ads unless you upgrade the app - which is something like $20.
Glad to hear you tried it out  
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Kylo
Joined: 02/16/05
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9:54 AM
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Have you guys ever seen a pop-up that came on WHEN YOUR DESKTOP starts up!?!? 
That same god damn pop up seems to have found a way for itself onto my hard drive. It really gets in the way too; takes up 1/4th of my screen.
All of my programs were shut down when I shut down...
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringt
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:51 AM
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ToneThis is a very legit app - I honestly don't think it came from ToneThis - but if you can provide more info about the advert, etc - I can contact the CEO/president at ToneThis and look into it. I have the app on my pc and haven't seen any issues - free version too.
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A Bit Crusher
Joined: 01/26/02
Location: Tilburg
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie....
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 11:05 AM
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Will definitely have a look soon.......
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P9FM
Joined: 03/29/02
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RE AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringt
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 3:38 PM
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Can Pictures we have on AS be downloaded as wallpaper?
Is there a Mac version?
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Indie Ringt
Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 7:09 PM
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P9FM,
no - they don't have a mac version - sorry. do you have an intel based mac? have you tried VMware Fusion? http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ lets you run windows on a mac.
you should be able to download photos on AS - then send them through tonethis - there may be a means to use the tonethis: protocol on photo urls and send them directly from a Web page, but I'm not sure.
BTW I released my Lucy Mix! here's the song page... http://www.artistserver.com/artist/song.cfm/a/9/tid/18036/Sonic_Wallpaper I hope you enjoy it!
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P9FM
Joined: 03/29/02
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RE: AritstServer and ToneThis Serve Up Thanks
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 3:46 PM
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I am pretty much a luddite when it comes to cell phones.
I love the remix - its been added to the Lucy station. Hope you had fun with it.
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