Go Hollywood with a free "In a world" ringtone

You know those movie trailers that begin with the narrator intoning the familiar words "In a world...."? Beau Weaver, a Hollywood narrator and diehard TUAW reader who does a lot of those trailers, was asked by his friends to create an iPhone ringtone that played on the same phrase. He did, and he'd like to share it with TUAW readers for free.

Just pop over to Beau's website at http://www.spokenword.com/ringtone/, listen to the ringtone, and if you like it, follow our TUAW tutorial on how to create an iPhone ringtone from an MP3 with GarageBand. To download the MP3 for slicing and dicing in GarageBand, just Control-click the link and select Save Link As.

Thanks for the fun freebie, Beau!

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Louie

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html

Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose "In a world ..." phrase on movie trailers was much copied -- and much parodied -- has died, according to media reports. He was 68.

Don LaFontaine was featured as "that voiceover guy" on a recent Geico commercial.

LaFontaine died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, according to ETOnline, "Entertainment Tonight's" Web site. He died from complications from pneumothorax, a collapsed lung that causes air to build in the pleural cavity, his agent, Vanessa Gilbert, told "ET."

September 02 2008 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

Absolutely hilarious. I'm downloading it now.

August 25 2008 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hegemon

This mp3 file sounds absolutely AWFUL on my phone. Has anyone else had the problem? You can barely hear his voice.

August 25 2008 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MILE

Wow, I just realized that this is one of the few iPhone optimized sites that has actually optimized the comment feature as well...!? Nice job, TUAW...! :)

August 24 2008 at 11:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MILE

This is pretty cool, but it would be really awesome if he did some kind of voicemail message...! :)

I'd probably even pay for that...!

August 24 2008 at 9:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mike

don lafontaine sounds better

August 24 2008 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

beau, if you ever wanted to make extra money you should do personalized ringtones like this. I'd pay $20 for you to do one for me

August 24 2008 at 2:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

harrywolf

'Pick up the freakin' phone' - I used iToner.

August 24 2008 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dante

Also of note is Rogue Amoeba's MakeiPhoneRingtone, a small little freeware program you can use with any AAC file. I just imported the MP3 into iTunes, converted to AAC, dragged-and-dropped it onto the program window, and it was automatically thrown into my Ringtones folder. Simple and flawless. Get it here: http://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

August 24 2008 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

VDO

Dude you rock!!

August 24 2008 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom

I created two with Audiko, which also has iPhone formats and will always be free

Long: http://audiko.net/ringtone/Beau+Weaver/337949/In+A+World/en.html

Shortened: http://audiko.net/ringtone/Beau+Weaver/337931/In+a+World+(short)/en.html

August 24 2008 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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khirbat

Hi Tom, Thanks for doing this. Unfortunately, I get "Sorry, please try again later." each time I click on http://audiko.net/iphone/337949.m4r

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