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How do you make ringtones for your phone using only freeware?
How do you make ringtones on Windows for your phone using only freeware?
and (Do we still have to worry about blowing out the speakers nowadays?) I just wrote this tutorial up (see below) for the Android ng, when I realized that there may be better ways to make a ringtone for your phone, from an existing audio recording. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mobile.android/HQPTDd0b2-s ==== cut here for how I made the ringtone === the question is how do you? I'm still confused about the problem and solution so please take this intentionally helpful post as just a suggestion. I'm not sure if the problem is: o finding ringtones o setting ringtones o making ringtones My prior post was on "finding" ringtones on the phone (dir /s/a/l/on/b). Googling, I found this which purports to help people _set_ ringtones on their phone to what they want those ringtones to be. https://www.androidcentral.com/adding-custom-ringtones-and-sounds-your-android If you want to _make_ a ringtone, bear in mind that it has been said (somewhere) that you can _damage_ the phone's speakers with a badly designed ringtone (is that true?). These Android apps purport to create ringtones: Zedge, by Zedge https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zedge.android Ringtone Maker, by Big Bang Inc. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herman.ringtone These solutions may help prevent speaker damage if that's really an issue: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_making_ringtones_and_ivr_messages.html https://www.groovypost.com/howto/freeware/easily-make-your-own-ringtones-free-audacity/ https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-create-free-ringtones-using-audacity-2438830 etc. Even if you don't need to prevent damage, this solution below that I tested on your ringtone is a general solution to make a ringtone out of anything. 1. Download this 3-second 16-bit ringtone from the list I provided earlier: https://www.redringtones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/our-man-flint-ringtone.mp3 Name: our-man-flint-ringtone.mp3, Size: 46393 bytes SHA256: F0F400592F50094C4780ECA643E942C66219B24D86BC74AC8F 1EECC3094F2394 2. GSpot freeware identifies the codec as "MPEG-1 Layer 3", 44100Hz 128kb/s 3. MP3Tag freeware shows no ID3 tags, so I added: Album = ringtone, Title = Our Man Flint, Artist = Our Man Flint 4. Audacity freeware shows it to be a stereo file with some blank spots: (It says 32 bit float, even though the original web page said 16 bit.) 5. Audacity:Analyze Plot Spectrum (shows a frequency analysis chart) http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=4429182ringtone03.jpg 6. Audacity:Effect Equalization (allows you to band pass filter) o Attenuate to -24dB from 20Hz to 300Hz & from 1000Hz to 20000Hz http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5351927ringtone04.jpg 7. Audacity:Effect Compressor (reduce high:low volume delta) Change the Ratio from 2:1 to 3:1 Uncheck the [_]Make-up gain for 0 dB after compressing 8. Audacity:Effect Amplify Change the "New Peak Amplitude (dB)" from 0.0 to -3 (dB) [or -2 dB] 9. Audacity:Tracks Stereo Track to Mono (merges both tracks to mono) 10. Audacity:Effects Fade In (on the first few seconds) Audacity:Effects Fade Out (on the last few seconds) 11. Trim & time shift (ringtones tend to repeat if less than about 20sec) [It's really hard to describe because I can't find the "Trim" selection that is clearly shown in the listed references!] So if you can figure out why Audacity 2.1.3 doesn't have that TRIM button, that would help others trim their audio to size.] 12. Audacity:File Export Export Audio myringtone.mp3 I would put all my ringtones in the same Android folder: /sdcard1/data1/audio/ringtone/myringtone.mp3 |
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