Ring tones changing everything we do ???

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The newest entry in the world of digital music, this little upstart has quickly burgeoned into a $4 billion/year behemoth--it's even got its own place on the Billboard charts! From monophonic and polyphonic to today's more sophisticated "full music" ring tones, the face of music is changing again.

In a time when consumers are somewhat hesitant to pay any money for their digital music when they are still able to find plenty of music for free using peer-to-peer file sharing networks, ring tones are being snatched up for as much as $2 dollars per ring tone, more than twice the amount of purchasing a higher quality full version of the same song on one of the many popular music downloading services.

People choose ring tones as they choose clothing purchases...
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From choosing kitsch songs with just the right amount of irony to choosing your favorite love-to-hear-it songs, getting ring tones for your phone is a fun and exciting process. Whether you're purchasing ring tones to help identify who's calling by picking a friend's favorite song, or changing your ring tone for a little variety every week, you (and millions of your friends) are buying ring tones in hoards.

And if there's one piece of great news for record executives in a time of rampant file-sharing/pirating of music, it's ring tones. In fact, the $4 billion revenue from ring tones makes up almost a third of the US music revenue for 2004--and so far, ring tones are only getting more and more popular.

But an interesting point to keep in mind is that consumers usually buy ring tone versions of songs they already own. Unfortunately for record executives (but not consumers), there are already tools available that, with a little know-how, can turn your MP3s into full-fledged music ring tones. At the moment this may not be the quickest and easiest way for a ring tone user to get a nice sounding ring tone to their phone, but given time it should be no more difficult than ripping your cd collection to MP3s.

Though not all phones can support full music or MP3 ring tones, more and more new phones come packaged with this ability. Given time (that's all it ever takes), we'll all be enjoying our purchased digital music collection in the form of easy-to-make personal ring tones. Right now ring tones are the new MP3, but only time will tell what direction the music industry will turn next.