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Wav file length and formats

Hi guys
Does anyone know if there is a limitation to what you can have as a ringtone?
I have done what *seems* right, it even plays on media player on the M1000 but I cannot get the wav to load in the "Add Ring Tone" section.
Does the file have to be some obscure wav format or no longer than say 20 seconds etc?
Has anyone come across this problem as well?
Cheers
Ben

it have to be good old std wav which is called PCM
not sure if there are any length issues
try
looking if it shows up in sounds and notifications
or make sure the file is places in windows or windows\rings or something like that

Ok - I have tried a standard PCM wav and it still doesnt like it! Also tried a short 1 second one and that doesnt work!
Confused? I am!!!

did you put it in windows ?
did you put it in windows/rings ?
did you try and see if you could choose it under sound and notifications insted there you can choose both phone rings and others
add ring tones are mainly used for adding wma's

No MP3 Ringtone capability on XDA IIi

Hi All!
I'm a newbie to the XDAIIi scene but have owned a pocketpc and sony clie handheld device. My problem is that I cannot set MP3's as ringtones. Does anyone know of a workaround or is there any freeware or alternative software that will allow me to do this? I have even encoded some MP3's to .wma & .wav format with the right encoding specs, but to no avail!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Markai

using the free program cdex i've made many a mp3 to wma and played them as ring tones

markai said:
Hi All!
I'm a newbie to the XDAIIi scene but have owned a pocketpc and sony clie handheld device. My problem is that I cannot set MP3's as ringtones. Does anyone know of a workaround or is there any freeware or alternative software that will allow me to do this? I have even encoded some MP3's to .wma & .wav format with the right encoding specs, but to no avail!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Markai
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actually...you just place the mp3 under windows/ring folder...then you ca use mp3 as a ring tone

MPR Ringtones
Thanks for the help guys. All's well again. :lol:

siupiu said:
markai said:
Hi All!
I'm a newbie to the XDAIIi scene but have owned a pocketpc and sony clie handheld device. My problem is that I cannot set MP3's as ringtones. Does anyone know of a workaround or is there any freeware or alternative software that will allow me to do this? I have even encoded some MP3's to .wma & .wav format with the right encoding specs, but to no avail!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Markai
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actually...you just place the mp3 under windows/ring folder...then you ca use mp3 as a ring tone
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can the mp3 be read off from other directories in the storage card?

MP3 Ringtones on XDAIIi
cychiam,
MP3's can be read from anywhere on ur PPC, especially external storage cards, but if ur using them as ringtones, I believe they have to reside in the 'Ring' folder in the 'Windows 'directory.
An important note for anyone who has had problems, like me, getting to use MP3's as ringtones on ur XdaIIi is: If you have a third party piece of software installed on ur PPC like, Betaplayer or the DivX Player, you must uncheck the association it has with MP3's under the Players settings/options. Else it will prevent the Xda being able to associate itself with MP3's as ringtones! Took me the better half of two weeks to find this simple solution and the credit goes to someone else, I just found the answer on another forum.
Hope this helps someone.
Markai aka Mackaby007

wow, thanks 4 d nice tip...mp3 tones can now be seen..but they won't play as i click play..is this just normal?

Hi guys.. A little late in the day but much appreciated

SMS Ringtone Possible to have As MP3

I've searched the forum and found the correct place to select my message alerts however is it possible to select my own mp3 as a sms ringtone. i tried it but with no luck :x
Thanks

Although I've only barely looked into this, I could not get MP3 files working as "notifications" only ringtones. I even tried doing the old WAV-RIFF header on an MP3 file to see whether that worked, nope. In fact, I've tried all sorts of different WAV formats and none of the compressed ones (IMA/MS ADPCM etc) work, only plain old PCW uncompressed WAVs. WMA etc etc I've also tried, no avail, only WAV and MID files will show on the list and only uncompressed WAVs will play.
However, you can use mono instead of stereo and also drop sample rate to 22khz without any major loss of quality (considering the playback device ).
Basically, MIDI and WAV files in the \Windows\ dir of your Wizard are where the files are picked from for the drop down in notifications. If you add a standard MID or WAV to yours they will show in the list next time you access it (no reset required, just close and re-open notifications).
Whether notifications only support MIDI + WAV I've no idea, ultimately I just convert whatever sounds I need to a mono, 22khz, 16bit, PCM WAV, these end up more than small enough to not cause any lag and work perfectly as long as the sampel you're working with isn't too long.
If you only have the MP3 files and have no clue about what I'm saying then you need to do some reading possibly and grab a tool to convert your MP3's back to WAV.
Something like "CDEx" which is free and can recompress your MP3's directly to WAVs (configurable) will do fine and I've tested it at PCM/Uncompressed/22khz and the output WAVs work fine.
GL.

nice one mate, will give it a go

thanks Vap, worked through what you said and now have got my desired sms ringtone. thanks once again

Anyone tried Ringo Mobile 1.26?
Not only can you have mp3 sms tones but you can store them on your sd card.
I haven't tried it because I don't know how well it will go along with Phone Profiles which I also use, but I'm tempted to try.
Check it out on Handango

Phone Alarm
Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.

Kull: Tried it out and PA also plays mp3:s for text messages. Phone Alarm was really in awesome program. It's got a few bugs but it seems to be updated quite often. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Phone Alarm
kull said:
Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.
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I've tried to use PhoneAlarm, but when I've got it installed, it makes my Wi-Fi "unavailable"
Any ideas???
(Gigabyte g-Smart i128)

I don't have any issues with the wifi but I know there are some. This will be fixed by v 1.6 due any time now.

Re: Phone Alarm
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kull said:
Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.
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I've tried to use PhoneAlarm, but when I've got it installed, it makes my Wi-Fi "unavailable"
Any ideas???
(Gigabyte g-Smart i128)
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Haven't tried WiFi yet... busy getting a fix on the tones... ver 1.55 (beta) works fine with WAV tones.

Convert mp3 into ringtones using CDEx
Vap said:
While using CDEx to convert mp3 files to ringtones it is really important to follow Vap's advice. One will fail if one uses the standard setting for MP3->WAV conversion available in the program.
Here is what worked for my Charmer.
With a CDEx version 1.51 : go to Options, Settings, choose "Encoder" tab, in "Encoder" field choose "Windows MP3 Codec", in "Codec bitrate selection" choose "24 kBit/s, 22 050 Hz, mono" and you should be fine
Thanks Vap
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adding sounds help!

I realise this is a daft question guys, but I cannot work out what's going on!
I am trying to set a .wav file as the sound to play when a new email is received. I have placed the wav in the windows folder and it is shown in the sounds&notifications drop down.
problem is that the sound doesn't play when an email is received, or if you click the preview play button in sounds&notifications.
if I open the file in mdia player then it plays fine, help please guys!

Anyone help?

I can't remember exactly but I think I remember reading you have to have a .wav that is at a certain sound rate or something similar....
Does it work with another sound from the list?

It only seems to work with the sounds installed by windows. Any idea what sound rate/format wav i need?

I use standart wav settings, and they work without a problem, but if you want identical settings (as the ones used by default), use:
Sample Rate: 22,050 Hz
Bit-depth: 16 bit
Channels: Mono
The Sample Rate of the ATT Startup Splash is: 44,100 Hz

Strange, ive tried converting the file im after, but it still doesnt work. Does it matter which folder I put it in?

The wav files have to be in the Windows folder, otherwise they won't be listed.

thanks, finally got it working, man i was a biff!

Glad to know that.

Hmmm, slightly strange behaviour now. The email notification sound only plays when I get emails in my hotmail account. My gmail account doesnt seem to initate a sound?
ANy thing i can do to change this, seems odd?

Anyone understand why gmail doesnt start the sound but hotmail does?
Cheers guys

X1 Issue

Hi there Im not sure if its been posted here I tried searching but did not find anything.
So basically when I play my ringtone for like 2 seconds It's loud enough then it goes downn , is there any fix to make it loud like for first 2 seconds?
THanks!

Are you sure it's not from the audio file itself? Did you try with other files?

orelsi said:
Are you sure it's not from the audio file itself? Did you try with other files?
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There is no issue with the audio. It's always like that when i use .mp3 ringtone.
Maybe there is a better format for ringtones for xperia? like .wav but that would weaight a lot

patt2k said:
There is no issue with the audio. It's always like that when i use .mp3 ringtone.
Maybe there is a better format for ringtones for xperia? like .wav but that would weaight a lot
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I have never encountered that problem before. I sue mp3s for ringtones all the time. Check the settings in start-settings-phone.