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Can't longer play WMA as ring tone

Weird, my XDA 2 lost ability to play WMA's as ring tone. Use to fork just fine, I've had Fantasy.wma assign to it. Now I can onlu choose Default.
Any ideas? :roll: :?:

Hey Man! I also have the same Prob.. I can only play the Windows Default ring... it just happened by itself! any Help would be great....

Found it!
It was file association problem. It happened right after I've installed Conduits Pocket Player which plays various formats of audio files, including WMA. But for norma ringer funcionalty WMA format SHOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA PLAYER!. I've changed it back to Media player and now ringer works again. I used Resco Expolere to change this association back.
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I am glad someone could figure out the problem, but can anybody tell me where on the internet I can find wma ring tones for my phone.
Appreciate your help

Can anyone tell me how to set MP3 as ringtone?

Is there a software out there which would enable this to be done?
Thanks

jwlchung said:
Is there a software out there which would enable this to be done?
Thanks
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Ringtone formats available on XDA2 are .mid .wav and .wma
MP3 is not supported.
.wma does the same job, but at slightly smaller file sizes...
Third party software would be unlikely to help, as base OS support is what governs what can be used.

Thanks

There are loads of freeware converters on the net to turn your MP3 into a WAV or WMA.

MIDI as Alarm

Hi,
I read that it is possible to have MIDI files as alarm sounds so i put a midi file i use on my old SE in the windows directory and when i go to choose the alarm tone i don't see it. is this supported in MDA Compact? what am i doing wrong? please advise. thanks

were did you read this? afaik... you can use midi, wav, mp3, wma for ringtones (via caller id app) windows mobile uses wav and wma for ringtones, but wav only for alerts. hope this helps.

I think it was on the AlarmToday user forum. i thought something was wrong. anyway, thanks for replying, it's a shame that midi cannot be used for alarms i don't think it's a technical or logical impossibility but microsoft works in mysterious ways i suppose. if there's a workaround or a program that would do this i would greately appreciate it if someone could point it out. once again, many thanks

Well, if you have a midi player for pocket pc installed you might be able to pull it off with AlarmToday.
On their site I read:
"Powerful custom alarms to play music (including complete songlists, MP3, WMA, OGG or Realplayer), open documents or applications and much more"
This should in theory make it possible to create an alarm event that starts the midi player software with the midi file of your choice.

Why not convert your midi file to wav it's very simple and then you can use it as an alert?

Do you know the wav file type is so much bigger than the other types of audio?

I sure do realize that but why would you need a whole song for an alert. Change the stereo to mono and 16 bit to 8 bit and trim it down to a length that it needs to be as an alert and it will not be much if any bigger than the midi file.
If you can't live with the shorter version then you should stay with midi because you are right they take up much lesss room, but I myself don't want a whole song played for an alert. The longest one I would ever use would be 2 seconds then let it repeat again for each alert.
If you use this procedure you can have many wav files as alerts.
I've had a recording studio here in Nashville TN since the early 80's and over the years I found out that if you will bend a little there is always a way to get what you want. Let me know if you need any help with turncating your wav files

Thanks for your thoughts
stratguy said:
I sure do realize that but why would you need a whole song for an alert. Change the stereo to mono and 16 bit to 8 bit and trim it down to a length that it needs to be as an alert and it will not be much if any bigger than the midi file.
If you can't live with the shorter version then you should stay with midi because you are right they take up much lesss room, but I myself don't want a whole song played for an alert. The longest one I would ever use would be 2 seconds then let it repeat again for each alert.
If you use this procedure you can have many wav files as alerts.
I've had a recording studio here in Nashville TN since the early 80's and over the years I found out that if you will bend a little there is always a way to get what you want. Let me know if you need any help with turncating your wav files
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I still use a SE P800 smartphone and what you just wrote is what I had to do. WAV files are big but with a bit of creativity in making an alert or ringtones it is just to easy. " Ask and you shall receive"
X-man germ

Cool by the way where did you get that last part of your handle "germ" are you a musician:?:

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Cool by the way where did you get that last part of your handle "germ" are you a musician:?:
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No, I am not a musician. My username is just a nick name from my first name and the germ part is only short for Germany.

Cool thanks, germ is a term we use in the music biz. Thats why I wonered :lol:

Maybe my music taste in "Rage against the Machine" which leads left can explain why I choose my name. Power to the People.

Wat Software do U use to do this? I am looking for a software that can transform anything in everything (mp3, wav) from original CD's. and cut them in small durations. I don't find that...

I use CDex, which BTW is a free program. I love it

Need help !

Hi,
I was thinking that I understood well my QTEK S100 and I was happy but .......
Now ...... This very strange litle thing happen and I really don't know how nor why .....
My S100 doesn't play anymore the mp3 files as ringtones. The one I always use is still there in the right folder but doesn't work, just no sound. All the wav files and mid files works but none of my mp3.
I still can play my mp3s from my mp3 player but not anymore as ringtone.
An idea ? Help please, it's very frustrating
I don't understand and I have done nothing

You have installed a music player or any other software that makes itself the default player for MP3 files.
You need to uninstall that program or use a 3rd party program (this is one of them http://tillanosoft.com/ce/ptweak.html) to restore the mp3 file association back to WMP10.
MP3 ringtones will only work if WMP10 is the default player!

cool, thanks for the link, i have a problem with playing video's i record with my phone, .avi's are unknown on it so i guess if i associate them with wmp that that'd fix my issue.
thanks

Thanks
Many thanks, it works very well !

fone_fanatic said:
cool, thanks for the link, i have a problem with playing video's i record with my phone, .avi's are unknown on it so i guess if i associate them with wmp that that'd fix my issue.
thanks
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I'm not sure if wmp can play AVI. I use TCPMP (ex Beta Player) for DivX and AVI. It's a free program as well. Here's the link to download: http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1080

ring tone file format?

hi
i have just put some MIDI files on my xda mini, which play just fine with some of that integrated windows software.
unfortunately i cannot use them as ringtones. (i have put them in /windows/rings, where i found that o2 custom ringtone)
i think its simply the file format thats ignored by my magician.
what file formats are readable for the magician (wm 2003 in general?) for ringtone usage?
tia

wav, wma & mp3 shouldn't give you any probs. when you put them in the rings folder. Use mp3 patch to be able to select mp3 files as ringtone with file explorer.
regards, M

I'm using *.mp4 for ringtone.

What do you use to play them? Caller id?
Nice tag too.
M

I have converted from *.mp3 to *.mp4 using nero 6.1.Then I download TCPMP player and many plugins.After that I found that I can use the *.mp4 for a ringtone.That is! :wink:
Thank you for the tag...

Ok,
I got Nero & TCPMP, so going to try it out. I use oldphone for ring, but very curious whether this works.
M

yes its very bad.My ringtone now is Elize - Automatic.
Do yo know about the *.mp4 format?When not I tell you!

I use it for film, not for music. 'till now

it plays very very good the songs.About the *.mp4 format.It is smaller then the *.mp3.Normal the mp3 is about 4-5Mb and the mp4 is 1-2.With the same bitrate like mp3.That is.
Regards