The software may seem a bit eye-candy but in fact it is just looking a bit better and flashier than most similar programs without looking “creamy” at all. Basically, its GUI is split in 2 regions and in the upper one all buttons have been placed while the lower part of the screen has been designed to house the waveform sines of the audio media you want to process.

MP3 to Ringtone Gold is so simple that I really have to make an effort to see what's to be written here so you won't get bored and I am not ridicule... I guess that even those who have never used such a software before will not spend more than some

 Selecting a region of the waveform is a very visual operation and I am sure that anyone will be able to create exactly the ringtone they wanted: the background of the sine-view is light blue and the waveform is cyan; selecting with your mouse cursor renders the new portion whose color is bright orange thus being extremely visible due to the (a bit too) high contrast. What can be rather hard to accomplish is “cutting” (selecting) the exact region from an audio track without any zoom tools and no manual numeric adjustment: you just have to be a bit lucky or have a very steady and sure hand to make the perfect cuts, especially in a large file.

The solution in this case is to gradually split the large audio file in gradually smaller parts so it will become more visually accessible and you reach the precision required by certain types of ringtones. Back to the ringtones, the MP3 to Ringtone Gold can produce MP3, MMF, AMR ,qcp and WAV files as a result of audio processing so you have a wide range of formats to choose from, even adapt to your phone's specific requirements.

Setting up the generic work-parameters of the MP3 to Ringtone Gold is a much easier thing than you (and even I) have been expecting: the Options menu pops up a new window in which are the few tweakable things for both MP3 and WAV formats. I guess it's futile to explain you how to use checkboxes and sliders, drop menus and the OK button :). Nevertheless, I'll add that you can easily opt for mono, joint or stereo output at a multitude of MPEG qualities form which I'll name only the “insane”, “studio” and “voice” ones.

As well, you can produce ringtones with samplerates between 8 and 48 kHz and bitrates ranging from 8kbit/s up to 320kbit/s; you can re-scale the volume enveloped for both channels independently or linked and manually set the quality of VBR files. The WAV files have all traditional controls (8-16 bits, 8-48kHz) while the AMR has also numerous settings for quality.

The almost 30 dollars the producers of MP3 to Ringtone Gold ask for registering this program may seem a bit of a high price but think about how much would a ringtone made by other people costs in your favorite online store, divide the MP3 to Ringtone Gold's price and see how many ringtones you can get; and then think that with MP3 to Ringtone Gold, you pay just once and then you can produce millions of such files, even get to become a ringtone seller, who could tell..

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