{"id":933,"date":"2010-01-25T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2014-09-06T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T22:00:02","slug":"getting-classical-ringtones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/01\/25\/getting-classical-ringtones\/","title":{"rendered":"getting classical ringtones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter now has a mobile phone and wants a piece of classical music to use as a ringtone. I&#8217;ve been looking at various sites but found the selection rather limited, unless you go for a converted MP3 file from a site like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bomb-mp3.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.bomb-mp3.com\/', 'this');\">this<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t have much confidence that the result would make a good ringtone, or indeed that the phone could handle ringtones in true tone format (it came with minimal documentation).  The best selection I&#8217;ve found so far is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booseyradio.com\/?p=tones\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.booseyradio.com\/?p=tones', 'Boosey and Hawkes');\">Boosey and Hawkes<\/a>, though it&#8217;s still not very extensive. (To give an example: the Strauss family are represented only by the <i>Blue Danube<\/i> and <i>Radetsky March<\/i>.) Have I missed something?<\/p>\n<p>I can of course write one for her and turn it into a MIDI file, using the process described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/04\/12\/midi-manuvres\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m very sorry that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporary-classical.com\/live.jsp?page=http%3A%2F%2Flive365.com%2Fstations%2F20classics%3Fplay&amp;bottom=play_tip.jsp\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.contemporary-classical.com\/live.jsp?page=http%3A%2F%2Flive365.com%2Fstations%2F20classics%3Fplay&amp;bottom=play_tip.jsp', 'Contemporary Classical Internet Radio');\">Contemporary Classical Internet Radio<\/a> has apparently gone off air. I used to listen to it quite regularly when online (except when it was playing Xenakis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter now has a mobile phone and wants a piece of classical music to use as a ringtone. I&#8217;ve been looking at various sites but found the selection rather limited, unless you go for a converted MP3 file from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/01\/25\/getting-classical-ringtones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[552,553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}