A method and system for providing an audible calling party identification and/or an audible calling/called party ringback services ("services") is disclosed. The system may include (and the method may perform the services in) a network having source, network, and destination nodes. The source and destination nodes may be equipped with ringtone-generation engines to generate ringtones. Each of the ringtones includes at least one audible tone.The method may include the source and/or destination node receiving from the network node information for producing a ringtone ("ringtone information"). The ringtone information is originated toward the destination node in response to the source node initiating a call to the destination node. After receipt, the source and/or destination nodes may generate the ringtone using their ringtone-generation engines and the ringtone information. After generating the ringtones, the source and/or destination ringtone-generation engines may provide them to users of the respective source and/or destination nodes.