PhoneZoo
I have two real song files on my LG8100 Verizon cell phone that I purchased through Verizon (accidently). They’re pretty neat, but its kind of awkward standing in line at the grocery store, and a song starts blaring from my hip. I always swore I wouldn’t be “that guy”. I usually stick to the ol’ vibrate option.
A friend was telling me a really convoluted way to hack songs onto my cell phone, which was just too confusing for me to even try to attempt.
Welcome PhoneZoo. This makes the whole process easy, well… it should.
You first have to create an account, which is a really simple process. Next, you pick your cell phone/service and confirm that PhoneZoo can reach your cell phone (done with a brief text message). After this, your ready to go.
The first problem I noticed was an error letting me know that my phone was not supported. But, it suggested trying anyhow. My guess is this error comes up for every phone.
I attempted to upload a song. I’m on a Macintosh, using Firefox, which might be the problem. I wasn’t able to clip contents of a song as your supposed to, and upload to my phone.
My next option was to choose from the list of already uploaded songs. I browsed the list. All of the songs, from actual artists, are unavailable due to copyright legalities. I picked some cheesy organ solo (no copyright), and exported it to my phone. Within seconds I received the file. I opened it, and it played loud and clear on my cell phone. I followed the instructions and saved it to my sound files. From here, I tried to select it as my ring tone. No such luck. The file was no where to be found.
I submitted a ticket to the site. If I hear of a solution, I may try this again. Otherwise, I’ll write this off as another “one hit wonder” website, that may or may not be around in the near future. Give it a shot - if you get it to work, let me know!