How to Make a Ring Tone

How to make a ring tone

from www.3gforfree.com (yeah there's a catch to that "free" to store your ringtones on there you gotta drop $7...nice right?)

This is a little bit of a higher quality tone when it works. Success rate depending on the mp3 your using. 160-192kbps works about 25-50% of the time. If this way doesn't

work I have another way. Just try both ways and find the way you perfer. I mix both these methods together.

Method #1 Success rate depending on the quality of the mp3 your using.

OK, to make any MP3 or WAV file your ringer, it's really not that complicated. It only requires 2 programs, both free and downloadable.

The first one is Qualcomm's PureVoice Converter (http://www.cdmatech.com/solutions/products/purevoice_download.html). This program converts WAV files into Qualcomm's special QCP format, which can be read by our awesome 3G phones (Samsung A500, Sanyo 4900, Samsung N400, and LG 5350)

- An important note about the Converter program -- to make it easier for you to run PureVoice, extract the downloaded file directly to the root directory of the C: drive (this means don't choose any directory when extracting it, only choose the C: drive itself). A directory will automatically be created called PureVoice.

The next program is the best one I came across for MP3/WAV conversion, but any program capable of converting MP3s into WAVs and changing the WAV's quality settings (ie. frequency, channels, & bitrate) will work. Its called Blaze Media Pro (http://www.audiotools.co.uk/convmp3wav.shtml).

OK, now that we have the two programs we need, here we go:

- First, open Blaze Media and go to the File menu and then Audio Editor.

- Next, open your favorite MP3 or WAV in the Audio Editor that pops up. You'll see the music load up and you'll probably also notice that this program is no simple converter. This is a full featured audio editor with all the bells and whistles. More advanced users will have a lot of fun playing with their audio files, but for now, let's stick to what's important.

- There a couple of different things you can do from here, but I suggest you select part of the audio file you want as your ringer by clicking and dragging on that section of the song with your mouse. You can hit the Play button (little triangle next to the red circle, just like on a VCR) to listen to what you selected. To change your selection, be sure and hit the Stop button first, then repeat the process until you find what you want. Remember, its your ringer, it doesn't need to be 30 seconds long (unless you're trying to impress somebody)...a few seconds of your favorite part of the song should be good enough.

- Once you have the part highlighted, click on the Edit menu and then click Copy. Then click on the File menu and click New. It will ask you if want to save your changes, just say No since you don't want to take the chance of messing up your original music file.

- The next screen will be exactly the same as before except no music will be loaded. All you have to do is click on the Edit menu