I've searched all over the place for a solution but I don't see one.
I decided I wanted different sounds (notifications, alarms, ringtones) than the provided ones on my N1. However, no matter what I do, from downloading them to making my own, I can't get the volume right.
For example, there is a "thump" / "ding" Google Talk makes when someone IMs me that I wanted to set for my Google Talk notifications. I found the sound through one of Cyanogen's sound archives and uploaded it to my "notifications" folder on the sd card. Everything is fine, the phone finds the sound, lets me select it, etc.
However, the volume is FAINT... even if I turn up the notifications to full volume. I even downloaded one of the stock default notification sounds and that seems to be ok and works without issues. I have the same problem with my own ringtones. I've tried increasing the DB level in Audacity for these files and then they just sound distorted.
What gives? What am I missing / doing wrong?
Quick noob suggestion. I know you tried increasing the DB with that program, but maybe try putting the audio files into iTunes, pulling up the properties, then changing the volume up 50% or 25% from there then save changes, and pull the file to your nexus :O
Maybe there wont be distortion?
izmar said:
Quick noob suggestion. I know you tried increasing the DB with that program, but maybe try putting the audio files into iTunes, pulling up the properties, then changing the volume up 50% or 25% from there then save changes, and pull the file to your nexus :O
Maybe there wont be distortion?
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Lol, you're on a rooted N1 and you're actually suggesting I use iTunes? I won't be installing that cancer on my computer anytime soon.
I didn't know mp3 files had a "volume" property.
Look for mp3gain (should be on sourceforge), and then set the relative volume to 93dB. That's what I use for all my MP3s. From what I read it analyzes the track, looks for peaks, gets the relative change figured out and mods the header so any MP3 player will use the relative loudness. This doesn't "damage" the file in any way, and is completely reversible.
student.driver said:
Look for mp3gain (should be on sourceforge), and then set the relative volume to 93dB. That's what I use for all my MP3s. From what I read it analyzes the track, looks for peaks, gets the relative change figured out and mods the header so any MP3 player will use the relative loudness. This doesn't "damage" the file in any way, and is completely reversible.
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Thanks, I just tried it and it doesn't help
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Alright well i searched around and i couldnt really find anything.
I use a .wav song for my text messages and its getting a little annoying now because it plays the whole thing every time i get a text message...
Is there any way that i can stop the music once i hit a key just like a regular phone would?
--- I use an ATT Tilt.---
there is a program called mp3 trimmer. I would suggest converting your .wav to an mp3 and trimming it down to a much shorter length, like 10 seconds or somethign like that. I am not sure if mp3 trimmer will work with .wav files. You should then be able to save the new file to the ringtones folder, select that tone from the list of tones for when you get a txt, and wallah you have a new short ringtone.
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just like a regular phone would?
--- I use an ATT Tilt.---
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hilarious
but seriously, MP3Trimmer would be your best bet. If you have Audio Manager, you might already have it (it's inside Audio Manager)
good luck
in order to get the ringtone to stop playing you have to pres the red end call key. i have an tilt also and thats what i do to stop my ringtone and it works everytime
Howdyho.
I've seen questions on this subject arise on several occasions. I've got a few myself (have used the stock sounds until now), as this is the next thing that I'd like to tweak!
Now, I'm trying to find the proper registry keys that set which sound is used for what. I know I can config it all through the settings window, but I want to be able to shove it in my settings xml (I flash a lot). I've been looking everywhere, but can't find the keys! Who can guide me?
Next, does anyone have a good (free) source for ringtones (not music, ringtones) and other sounds that can be used? Something simple as a ringtone is not something I wish to pay money for, and I don't like using music so much. What does everyone else use?
I make my own. If you already have music you want to have as a ringtone, you can use a music editing app (I use fruity loops as a musician, but there are some free ones out there) to cut to the part of the song you want as a ringtone, and compress it to a small enough file (although as technology has advanced the need for compression isnt such a requirement anymore).
Not sure how far the law goes as to how small a piece of music has to be before it becomes a legal loyalty free "clip", and what XDA-Dev would alow, but if someone could clear it up, ill happily turn tracks into ringtones, if I have them in my library and someone requests it. (depends on the legality though!)
ringtones
as explained elsewhere on sms tones.
audacity is a great trim tool.
sms tones have to be WAV,and pasted into windows folder on device
ringtones can be mp3 and placed on card or device.
kleineyetie said:
as explained elsewhere on sms tones.
audacity is a great trim tool.
sms tones have to be WAV,and pasted into windows folder on device
ringtones can be mp3 and placed on card or device.
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try cool edit or aka adobe audition! gr8 for trimming mp3
Apologies if this has been asked but I've not found a thread so far for this problem.
I am using rom 1.61 and recently decided to add different ringtones to my most common contacts. The ringtones are just normal MP3 files, eg some are songs, some are stuff like TV theme tunes etc. They all play perfectly in any of the media players like coreplayer etc.
But when any person with a personalised ringtone calls me, I get no ringtone at all. The phone vibrates, and the speaker is on & volume turned up, but no sound plays.
Anyone know if this is a fault, or is there a setting I have missed or something?
Thanks
Jim
i had this problem with the same rom but i found that setting the ringtone through file explorer seemed to sort it out
Don't think that will help will it mate?
You can only set the current overall ringtone like that, and the problem I've got is that ringtones set that are different for various people do not play.
Actually, I just found something out, that when I've set these personalised ones for different people it has set itself as a default tone just to vibrate.
I've changed it to a proper ringtone now, but I'll have to get a friend to call me to see if this works now. I have a suspicion there's more to it than this......
Bump! Anyone?
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
raduque said:
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
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this problem has been driving me nuts too. but you putting it into words just gave me an idea, try the no media thing, so it prevents them from showing up in the settings lists, but then try going "oldschool" (lol) and using rings extended from the market. it was an app first released for the g1 to see and select ringtones on the sd card that the settings lists weren't picking up.
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where exactly did you put the .nomedia? and what kind of file was it? or was it the name of a file or folder?
i'm down to help figure this one out ucz this music player is starting to piss me off with it's badass look yet completely lacking in options.
ps: another good feature of the stock android music player was that if you hit the context menu while a song was playing, it had a "delete" option. this was great for someone like me who dumped tons of new music i just wanted to have on the phone, and when i party shuffled, i could be like, "WTF is this unworthy for mobile listening sh!t? *delete". haha miss that option so...
yep...this is bugging me too...i just download a game and all the SFX shows on my albums list...and the ringtones that i have download from zedge...however a easy solution for me is was creating playlists...i really like this phone and it getting better and better...specially now that i found out that there's a equalizer in the music player...excellent.
Hopefully there will be solutions for this little bugs...i'm still keeping my phone the way it is.
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
raduque said:
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
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thanks for the .mid tip. hoping something more substantial comes up, as i have tons of my own ringtones i made haha. let's keep on this as it could be included in a custom rom hopefully
First let me start by saying I'm by no means new to sgs phones this is my fourth.
I collected it Friday rooted it in the car park within the first minute, remapped the keys (what were they thinking with the menu thing) within the first hour etc etc
So all that said I am a little embarrassed by this.
I can't seem to set mp3's as default ringtones or notification tones.
I have copied the files into both the ringtones and notifications folders.
They are the same mp3 files I have used for all my sgs phones and they all play in the default music player but only one appears in the music lists. I can select this as a default but have no idea why that appears in the lists and none of the others do and I have no idea why. I've looked at files sizes, permissions, id3 tags everything I can think of to determine the difference between that file and the others.
I've tried various selection options but anything other than the default media selector appears to work but at the final stage the tone is selected as silent.
Funny thing is I can individually select them on a per contact basis but this would take forever. Even the usually reliable group ringtone app has let me down
I even tried copying the files into the system/media folders still no dice
Any ideas anyone?
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curioct said:
First let me start by saying I'm by no means new to sgs phones this is my fourth.
I collected it Friday rooted it in the car park within the first minute, remapped the keys (what were they thinking with the menu thing) within the first hour etc etc
So all that said I am a little embarrassed by this.
I can't seem to set mp3's as default ringtones or notification tones.
I have copied the files into both the ringtones and notifications folders.
They are the same mp3 files I have used for all my sgs phones and they all play in the default music player but only one appears in the music lists. I can select this as a default but have no idea why that appears in the lists and none of the others do and I have no idea why. I've looked at files sizes, permissions, id3 tags everything I can think of to determine the difference between that file and the others.
I've tried various selection options but anything other than the default media selector appears to work but at the final stage the tone is selected as silent.
Funny thing is I can individually select them on a per contact basis but this would take forever. Even the usually reliable group ringtone app has let me down
I even tried copying the files into the system/media folders still no dice
Any ideas anyone?
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Free mobile app
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Set them using estrong's File Explorer. When you have the mp3 long press and do "set as". That will cover your ringtone. Then when you go to pick the notification pick "estrong's" instead of Android system.
Yeah that didnt work, no matter what I did I couldnt get them to be recognised by the internal music player and therefore they were not selectable. Still have no idea why.
However I managed to redownload the ones I wanted the most and use the new versions so I am guessing something in my ringtones folder has some level of corruption or something along those lines
but the workaround is working so no major hassle just a tad annoying not knowing what the issue actually is
Maybe its because of the length of them. I'm using MP3 for all my tones. But I cut out 30-35 seconds for ringtones, usually my favourite part of a song... My text tones are from CM/Carbon..
This was on shipping firmware, the OTA update and any custom ROM I've been on. At first I put them in their respective directory on the internal storage, but now on custom ROM I just have a custom flash able zip to put them in the proper system folders..
Edit: this method may allow them to show in the settings menu. That's where I like my ringtones showing..
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