Ringtone Media Studio 2 Provides Online Storage of Personal Mobile Media

August 29, 2006 – Avanquest Software recently announced exciting mobile content creation and storage enhancements to its popular Ringtone Media Studio cell phone multimedia customization software.

Ringtone Media Studio 2 expands on Avanquest’s popular all-in-one software suite for mobile ringtone creation and image-editing, with the new My Locker Studio component providing users online storage of personalized mobile content and easy over-the-air (OTA) download to mobile devices. My Locker Studio provides up to 5MB of online storage for personal media files and gives mobile subscribers anytime, anywhere access to their customizable ringtones, wallpapers, video clips and other mobile content by sending a simple SMS message link for direct download of content to the mobile device.

Ringtone Media Studio 2 also expands on the easy creation of ringtones from a user’s existing music collection and customization of polyphonic ringtones, through its new DJ Studio component, enabling new creative possibilities for compiling and mixing pre-recorded samples of Electro, Blues, Rock, Dance and World rhythm music played on a variety of instruments.

Ringtone Media Studio 2 provides user access to a free 10,000-piece online media library of continually updated and refreshed wallpapers, ringtones and video samples, while the software’s expanded range of cell phone content creation and sharing options is compatible with more than 800 mobile phone models available on the market today.

“Ringtone Media Studio 2 lets mobile phone users of all ages and technical levels express their individuality through easy personalization of their mobile phones,” said Bob Lang, President, Avanquest Mobility Software. “Available on the web and at thousands of retail outlets nationwide, Ringtone Media Studio 2 gives consumers more options than ever before for mobile ringtone and image customization, storage and transfer, without the high costs associated with repeat digital content purchasing.”

Ringtone Media Studio 2’s four easy-to-use creative studios provide all the tools consumers need to create high-quality music ringtones and customized images and easily transfer them to their mobile device via over-the-air download, Bluetooth or infrared:

• DJ Studio enables music ringtone creation by drag-and-drop on six instruments tracks of music from among hundreds of pre-defined instrument samples played in World Music, Blues/Jazz, Rock, Dance and Electro styles;
  
• Melody Studio allows custom ringtone creation through modification of existing MP3, audio CD and MIDI polyphonic files, using the mixing console, audio effects and a voice recorder;
  
• Image Studio enables custom design of wallpapers and screen-savers using touch-up, cropping or modification of images, pictures or screen captures stored to a PC, as well as special effects, frames, symbols and text;
  
• Video Studio lets mobile phone users create custom video clips or slideshows of compiled images, adding text, sound, music, special effects and transitions to original video clips and images or visual content selected from the online media library.

Ringtone Media Studio 2 is compatible with all leading audio and video input formats, including MP3, WMA, WMV, AAC and MPEG4. Ringtones, wallpapers and videos are automatically converted to the appropriate file format for more than 800 models of mobile devices, including the latest Smartphones based on the popular S60 and Windows Mobile platforms.

Ringtone Media Studio 2 is available over the Web and at thousands of retail outlets across North America, at $24.95. A trial version of the product is available online at www.shop.avanquest.com/usa

SOURCE Avanquest Software