Start-up company Pioneers of the Inevitable released an early test version of their open-source Songbird music software on Wednesday, with which they ultimately hope to undermine the dominance of Apple’s iTunes.

The small company is hoping to create “the Firefox of MP3″, a reference to the open-source Web browser that has eaten into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share.

Songbird is indeed built on some of the same open-source technologies as the Firefox Web browser, and hopes to tap into the community of independent developers that has helped add features to Firefox.

Different mobile phones support different type of ringing tones from simple polytones to upbeat polyphonic tones. The latest trend for ringing tones now a day is more compatible formats such as MP3, WAV, AVI, WMA. As we all know MP3 is the most popular amongst the others. It’s because of its easy compatibility.

You can actually use this format in creating your own MP3 ringing tones provided that your mobile phone is MP3 compatible and equipped with features that facilitates wireless transfer. Song are edited first in the computer using song editing softwares, some websites offers free downloads of this softwares. After downloading this softwares most of them offers applications that allows you to add certain effects to your ringing tones that makes it unique and distinct. Example of this software is WavePad.