Ringtone Expressions - How to create mp3 ringtones

How to make mp3 ringtones for your phone the best and easiest way possible.

You may have wondered how to make an mp3 ringtone for some time now. In most cases, finding and putting a ringtone on your phone is done by searching for mp3 ringtones, or trying to make a ringtone manually with special software. Then one must also put the ringtone on their phone device. And despite the fact, that this may involve a learning curve and a lot of time spent, your mp3 ringtones may still not sound the way you wanted them, or the ringtone you have found does not play the part of the song or sound that you wanted in the first place.

Welcome to Ringtone Expressions, the best, fastest and coolest way to make mp3 ringtones.
In this article we will show you how to make mp3 ringtones in the fastest and least fussy way ever available. If you are looking to learn how to make ringtones, look no further! This guide will show you how to make ringtones from your mp3 music file collection, and also how to transfer it to you phone in record time. You have just found the perfect solution to all your mp3 ringtone needs!

With our software and service you can make as many mp3 ringtones as you want, and you can do this your way, selecting your source songs, and other sounds. Ringtone Expressions supports a very large number of phones like a dream and after you go through the steps shown below, we will have you making mp3 ringtones and sending them to your phone in literally a few seconds every time! No need to buy individual ringtones ever again, when you can create as many ringtones as you want, specifically made to your liking and style and choosing any part of your favorite songs and sounds.

So what is Ringtone Expressions?
Ringtone Expressions is a service which allows you to create ringtones as you want from your mp3 music file collection, music purchased from Amazon or iTunes or even websites such as YouTube and any other website that uses Flash based audio or video players. We will even show you how to make an mp3 ringtone from your computer's microphone!

In addition, Ringtone Expressions can help you express your phone ringtones in Twitter and Facebook as it is integrated and provides a quick and easy way to send your new phone ringtones directly to these sites, and provides a way for you friends to listen to your new ringtones.

Before we start, it is worth saying here that Ringtone Expressions supports a very large number of phones, such as iPhones, Palm Phones (including the new Palm Pre phone), BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Smartphones, HTC etc. etc. In case you do not find your phone listed, your phone is very likely still supported, but you will need to select one of the generic types, as shown in the instructions.

The Guide:

A) Installing Ringtone Expressions

You can start learning how to make mp3 ringtones immediately, just follow the steps below:
1) Download the Ringtone Expressions Software here.
2) Install it on your PC.
3) Launch the software after installing.
4) Under the "My Phone" heading on the top left of the application, click on the text "Standard Cellphone" or the name of your phone if you have already changed it, and then click on "Change Phone".
5) If you have not done so already, you will be asked to sign in to your account. You can create a free trial account by clicking on the "Sign Up Here" button in the Sign in Screen. Once you complete the Sign up form you should be able to Sign in with your new account. Once signed in you should see the Change Phone screen.
6) In the "Change Phone", you should see a list (the one of the left most part of the screen) of cellphone manufacturers and providers. Find the one corresponding to your phone and click on it.
7) In the next list, you should now see a list of devices corresponding to your manufacturer. Here you can select your specific phone that you want to use. If you cannot find your phone, please the note below after step 10. 8) If required, you can change your phone number.
9) Finally, click on "Select This Phone".
10) Now you can start learning how to create mp3 ringtones. See our next guide below this one.

NOTE: If you cannot find your specific phone, you have two options. 1) If you know your phone is compatible (for example has the same system as one you know and saw in the list of devices), you can select that one and continue the guide above.
2) If your phone is not listed, but you know that your phone supports custom ringtones, you can simply click on the "My Phone Is Not Listed" link under the lists. Then, on the ringht side of the screen you will see a short list of generic phones that you can use. Select one of these and enter a custom name in the box provided. After selecting a generic phone, you can select that one and continue the guide above.

B) Making Ringtones from mp3 files.

This may be the most common way that you may use Ringtone Expressions if you want to make mp3 ringtones from your existing music collection. Follow the guide below, you will see exactly how to create mp3 ringtones using Ringtone Expressions and you will have a favorite ringtone on your phone in just a couple of minutes:

1) If you have not done so already, open Ringtone Expressions.
2) In Ringtone Expressions, you have several ways of opening mp3 files.
(You can also open Wav and Ogg files directly if you have such files in your collection). The most common ways are:
-The easiest way to open a music file is to simply drag and drop it on Ringtone Expressions.
-You can also find the song file in your computer with Windows Explorer, and then right click on it. In the right click menu you should see a menu item called "Create a ringtone with Ringtone Expressions".
Click on that and Ringtone Expressions Will open your file. -You can drag and drop a file from iTunes to Ringtone Expressions.
-In Ringtone Expressions you can click on the side links on the left, "My Music Folder" or "Browse Computer" to open any sound file you want.
3) After you have loaded your sound file or song inside Ringtone Expressions, you will see a bar with a playable region as shown in the picture below.

To select where your ringtone will start and stop. If this is your first time doing this, play around with these controls to get a feel on how to use them.
4) You can, at any time, preview your ringtone by clicking on the Preview button.
5) Repeat steps 4 and 5, until you are happy with the sound of the ringtone. When happy proceed to step 6.
6) When happy, click on the "Create Ringtone" button. This will create the ringtone and bring up a new window, that is the sending to phone screen. In the screen, you will see either one or two choices, depending on what phone you have. Generally speaking you have either both or one of the following choices for sending your newly created ringtone to your phone:
- Send to your phone directly (if you have connected it to your computer by cable)
- Send to your phone via an SMS Text message
- Send to your phone via iTunes. (This choice is for iPhones only)
NOTE: In the send to phone screen, there is also a check box at the bottom called "Send to my Social Sites". If you enable this option, after sending your ringtone to your phone, you will be given a chance to express this ringtone to your Twitter and/or Facebook account.
7) When you have decided how you want to send your ringtone to your phone, click the relevant button. (In some cases you will have only one button showing here, so in that case, for you there is no choice)
8) Just before sending your ringtone, you will be asked to give it a name. Ringtone Expressions does a good job of choosing a name if it finds the information in your song file, but if you want to change the ringtone name, it is done at this point. Once clicked and accepted the new name, the ringtone will be sent to your phone.
9) Depending on how you have chosen to send your ringtone to your phone, one of the following things will happen:
- If you sent it by SMS, you should get a message on your phone, containing a link to your ringtone.
- If you have send it directly, then your ringtone is already on your phone, all you have to do is use your phones settings to assign the ringtone.
- For iPhones only, your ringtone should have been sent to iTunes.
all you have to do now, is to simply sync your phone with itunes and your new ringtone will be transferred to your iPhone. 10) Done! How easy was that? Now you know how to make a ringtone for your phone! Was that not easy and super quick?

Thats it! There is a lot more that Ringtone Expressions can do for you that we have not gone into in this guide, but we think that this was a useful introduction on how to make mp3 ringtones in the coolest, fastest and easiest way possible. We think that you will agree that this is definitely the way to go. Just imagine the cool and unique mp3 ringtones you can make, that nobody else will have except you!

So now you know how to make mp3 ringtones and you have no need for searching for ringtones for you specific phone any longer. The trial account of Ringtone Expressions allows you to create a limited number of ringtones but once you subscribe you can create as many as you like for a fraction of the cost of buying them individually! And do not forget, you can express your personalized ringtones, with your friends automatically via Twitter and Facebook too! Give it a try and we are certain you will never regret it!