Xingtones wants to enable users to export mp3 files to their cell phones as ringtones.

Copyright issues could crop up.

Next step: customizable images that appear [.mp3 files) in someone else’s phone, when you call.

(via BoingBoing)

” Some recording executives said Xingtone’s service, offered without any licensing from the labels, appeared to be encouraging yet another form of digital piracy.

“It’s much easier for them to license the content and sell it legitimately, than to encourage thievery,” said Jay Samit, president of digital distribution for EMI Recorded Music.”

The software converts MP3 files, or compressed digital music files, onto wireless phones, which would take the current ring-tone phenomenon one step beyond providing the robotic sounding renditions of tunes currently playing on phones.