We’ve not been slouching here around the Kilika Music Studios of late. A lot of behind the scenes activity has in fact been taking place. One interesting development, to me anyway, is that on a whim I decided to see if I could create some ringtones. I never really cared too much for the stock ringtones that came with my Verizon phone and I thought, “gee wouldn’t it be cool if I could turn some of my songs into ringtones?” ”Yeah, it would.” came the answer.
I have a unique sense of humor or perspective I suppose…..for some reason when I hear the word “ringtone” I think of “toe rings”….but as you can see, I don’t have any.
At long last, I set to work to figure out how to do it. Along this journey, I discovered the nice folks at Myxer (www.myxer.com) had put a system in place to let me do exactly what I was after. So I went through their process and created some ringtones with some of my tunes and put them on Myxer’s site. Well, I ran to the window and threw open the sash, and what to my wondering eyes should appear in less than a month, with no advertising at all and without even yet being included in Myxer’s official catalog, I have had over 100 downloads of my ringtones. That is pretty amazing to think that there are over 100 people walking around with one of my songs playing now whenever their phone rings. What a great country! The only glitch is that if you have a Verizon phone (like me!) Verizon will not allow you to download these ringtones from Myxer. They in their corporate wisdom are thinking you will go and buy a ringtone from them instead. LOL. Well, in a future post I will give some details on a Verizon workaround for all of you suckers like me who were left out in the cold.
In case you missed it, here is how you can get my ringtones:
- From your mobile phone, Text CHRISHARTZOG to 69937 (MYXER) to get my content directly from your phone…Or,
- You can also visit my site from your phone, simply go to: http://m.myxer.com/CHRISHARTZOG…Or,
- Via your PC on the web, go to : http://www.myxer.com/CHRISHARTZOG/…Or,
- Or if you want, use the widget below to browse through all ringtones.
And for the day when this post is buried in my archives, I created a permanent Ringtone page where you can check back for new content.
More from Chris Hartzog at Myxer
If that weren’t enough, I an continuing to work on my second CD, “Lost In Your Arms of Love” and I am about 50% complete. I don’t know what it’s called when you do this, but I took a prior song, “Do You Really Believe” and modified the title and rewrote some of the lyrics and changed some of the instrumentation and I am rerecording the entire thing. I guess it’s like a derivative work, but since it’s my own song I don’t know if that term is correct. Maybe some copyright attorney out there will tell me the answer some day. For this version I had to sharpen up my keyboard skills a little bit and move the papers off of it. At any rate, here is a sample of a few bars of the new “Do You Believe“.
The Of Ringtones and Samples by Hartzog Chris, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
