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MP3 Ringtones - Inject your own grove into your daily grind.
Mobile phones have become one of the most prominent status
symbols. It has gone beyond a mere tool to make and receive
calls. It's an expression of identity; a fashion statement; and
with Mp3
ringtones, a way of injecting your own groove into your
daily grind.
An Mp3 is a compressed audio file. For years, music lovers have
exchanged these files on the Internet, playing them on their PCs
or from dedicated Mp3 players. But then the mobile phone
companies latched on to a brilliant idea: why not use those
music files as ringtones, replacing the dull and sometimes
annoying clanging sound that has been the trademark alert for
incoming calls.
There is a wide variety of Mp3
ringtones, as wide as the range of music itself. From Mozart
to Madonna, the Beatles to Britney Spears, or even commercial
jingles, national anthems, cartoon themes, gospel music, nursery
rhymes, even beat poetry. If you've ever hummed it, sang it, or
tapped your feet to it, there's an Mp3 version waiting to be
played on your phone.
Mp3
ringtones can also be a good measure of how a movie or a
sitcom has infiltrated into pop culture. There are ringtones
that are actually snippets from famous scenes of Harry Potter or
Lord of the Rings; while themes from The Brady Bunch bring
smiles to anyone who has ever watched the show.
But there's more. Mp3
ringtones aren't even limited to just music. You can pick
from a wide variety of sounds. A baby crying. A cow mooing. A
woman moaning in ecstasy (how's that to break the monotony of
your board meeting?).In the Philippines, when wiretapped phone
calls between the president and an election commissioner
revealed possibility of election fraud, fragments of that phone
call were even used as Mp3
ringtones--either as a sign of protest or to make fun of the
situation.
All these ringtones are easily downloadable, but for those who
truly want a unique sound they can even make their own
ringtones. Some record the voices of their children. Others save
romantic missives from a loved one. People also record the
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laughter of friends, or a fragment from a child's Christmas
performance, or even a beloved pet's barking. While other people
may not appreciate the Mp3, the fact that it has a personal
meaning makes those ringtones music to the owners' ears.
So why do people use Mp3
ringtones? The same reason they pick the shirt they are
wearing: it reflects the owners' personality. When they say my
phone, they mean it in more ways than one. Sociologists say that
people are driven to express identities in external symbols. It
is part of our communal nature: this is me, this is the group I
belong to. Primitive societies wore jewelry beads and animal
teeth; some developed tattoos; and later on, developed clothes
and other accessories. The phone is no different. Like feathers
on a tribesman cap, it signals to everyone else who we are.
About the author:
Philip Nicosia is the webmaster of Ringtones.lt, a site
specialising in the different genres of ringtones, including polyphoni
c ringtones, true tones and
mp3
ringtones.
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