Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby is a musician and the founder of Beatnik (previously Headspace) Inc., which created technologies such as MiniBAE and MobileBAE. He founded the company in 1993 and served as the CEO, but stepped down in 2002 but remained on the board. Beatnik developed the RMF format, used to play music on websites after downloading a plug-in. He wrote some tracks for the Headspace Music Library, consisting of RMF music.

Outside of his Beatnik work, he is famous for his songs, including hits such as "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!", both of which later received RMF versions.

Work with Beatnik
Dolby founded Beatnik in 1993, under the name Headspace.

After the dot-com bubble, Beatnik's main client was Nokia. He claims to have written some ringtones for Nokia, but it is uncertain if they were used, as the majority of early Nokia polyphonic ringtones were either written by Mikko Tillander or arranged from their monophonic originals by Ian Livingstone. He also claims that "[his] team" programmed the Nokia tune, meaning that Livingstone either worked face-to-face with Beatnik or he is just misremembering. Many publications often erroneously state that he created this version himself, but he has denied this.

Work with Retro Ringtones
Following Dolby's departure from Beatnik, he went on to found a company called Retro Ringtones LLC. This offered hundreds of polyphonic and audio ringtones for commercial use. While he wrote hundreds of them, many of them were created by other composers or licensed from elsewhere. In 2005, the company announced plans to launch their library to US carriers by July. However, by August the company started "undergoing a change of ownership" and by October the URL had become a domain parking page. It is unknown if the company was ultimately acquired by another company, or if it went defunct altogether.

Music tracks

 * Adelie Deflowered — Music & Arrangement
 * Algarve — Music & Arrangement
 * Homage — Music & Arrangement
 * Hyperactive! — Music & Re-arrangement [NOTE: An RMF version of the song of the same name]
 * Lost In The Greek Islands — Music & Arrangement
 * Moss Beach — Music & Arrangement
 * Parisian Cafe — Music & Arrangement
 * She Blinded Me with Science — Music & Re-arrangement [NOTE: An RMF version of the song of the same name]
 * Sicilian Love Affair — Music & Arrangement
 * Sunlane — Music (with Brian Salter) & Arrangement (with Brian Salter)
 * Tavarua — Music & Arrangement
 * Valleys — Music & Arrangement

UI sounds

 * Fanfare-Mars — Music & Arrangement
 * Tell Me About Your Childhood — Voice