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Ring-Tone Barons? Japanese Record Companies Raided

Posted by timothy on from the economy-based-on-pokeman dept.

PuceBaboon writes " The Asahi Shimbun is reporting that officers from the Fair Trade Commission raided several major record companies in Japan, including Sony Music Entertainment, Toshiba EMI and Avex, on suspicion of creating a monopoly for the purpose of maintaining artificially high prices on... telephone ring-tone tunes."

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  1. Er, MP3s? by kahei · · Score: 1, Redundant


    1 -- plug phone into USB port
    2 -- drag MP3 files into phone, unplug from USB port
    3 -- set one of the MP3s as the ringtone
    4 -- profit!

    This seems to work pretty well for me... am I missing something?

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    Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
  2. it's very easy by Doppler00 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I make my own ringtones all the time with MP3s or Oggs. All I you need to do is open up the song, convert it to 16KHz, 8bit mono WAV format, and then upload it via bluetooth to your phone phone. I do this all the time with my Nokia 3660. Sure it take a little bit of time, but it's a lot better than paying a silly $1.50 fee or whatever for a ring tone, especially if all you get is a ugly sounding MIDI file.