Treo 700p Ringtone Tutorial

[fondoo]

audacity worked great! thanks

i copied the wav file to a SD card and used Resco Explorer to open the file with Voice Memo. I was able to transfer the file, but VM would not play that wav file. i got an
error: the memo format is not supported. i could copy to ringtone and when selected as a ringer, it will not ring. has anyone experience the same thing?

[Teris]

I had lots of problems getting the ringtone to the phone, downloading the attachment, finding the file once it was downloaded and even getting the ringtone to play for more than 3 seconds or so. I finally got it to work after quite a bit of effort and with the help of a lot of other posts on here. Anyway, to help others, here are the steps I took for anyone else having the same problems (I have edited some other great intructions I found on this site). Again, to everyone that helped - thanks very much.

1. Download a freeware program called Audacity to your PC. Open Audacity on your computer.
2. Open up whatever full mp3 song you want to convert.
3. Hit stop. You can't edit a song while it's playing.
4. Figure out which 20-30 second part of the song you want to use as a ringtone. Highlight that part by click dragging in the display window. It will highlight that portion. Once it's highlighted, go to Edit, the hit Trim. You'll just have the portion of the song in the display window.
5. Go to Edit, then Preferences, then Quality. Change the sample rate to something low (like 11025Hz).
6. Go to File Format, then Uncompressed Export Format. Choose "WAV Microsoft 4-bit" (the top one, not the 2d one below), and hit OK. The small window will close.
7. Go to File, Export Selection as WAV. The popup window will give you name choice (make sure there are no periods in the name) and the type should be WAV. Save it to desktop.
8. Email the file to yourself (you must use gmail or another service supported by the phone.).
9. Open your email on the Treo (Key here is that you’ve already loaded your versa mail which comes with the treo – this app will locate your web-based email and download the emails to your phone, which allows your phone to load the attachments). Click on the file (or, more precisely, the little file folder next to the file) and it will “convert” it. Click on the little folder next to the song and click on “select viewer.” Set the choices to WAV and sounds. Then click on viewer to send it to sounds.
10. Open sounds and set it as a ringtone.

[Stillrockin]

Teris, your pain turned into a great reference for the next person trying to figure out how to make it happen! I have been a fan of audacity for a few years now. Its a great app for editing sound files! Thanks for taking the time to post this!

[Teris]

You're very welcome - hopefully it helps someone.

[sighup9]

9. Open your email on the Treo and download the attachment. You'll get a popup window on the Treo saying it can support it, do you want to install. Hit Install. It wil put it in the Voice Memo app.
10. Open voice memo, highlight the song, hit the menu button. Under Voice memo, the bottom choice is Copy to Ringtone. Select that and it will show up in your tones.

Greetings,

I have a 700p and get to step 9 no problem...

When I open the message with the attachment, a popup box appears that says converting- no install popup window. The converted WAV file plays fine but I have no way to save/copy it into voice memo...

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Teris]

Sighup, take a look at my slight revision 3 posts up from yours. It may help.

[sighup9]

Sighup, take a look at my slight revision 3 posts up from yours. It may help.

Got it; now I have the xylophone lead in to Frank Zappa's Cosmik Debris (looped 3x) as a bonafide Treo 700p sound (best "shatter" sound I've ever heard someone hammer out) - should have read a bit further in the thread. Thanks for replying.

I'm using Audacity PPC on the Mac and exporting as WAV (Microsoft 4 bit), IMA ADPCM at a Default Sample Rate Quality of 11025 Hz. Final imported size came out to 44 KB and sounds great.

[lareezy]

im following these directions perfectly, but i cant seem to get the file sizes to be below 1224 kb ...whats wrong? because of this, it takes for ever for the file to transfer on my phone... im only using 20 secs of each song.. whats wrong? does the length of the file name have anything to do with it? maybe its just a coincidence that my songs with the really short file name have a much lower file size? any help is appreciated

[lareezy]

also what im noticing is, on all the ringtones i have downloaded to my phone, 9 out of 10 times the song pauses after 2 or 3 secs for a quick second, then it resumes and plays perfectly after that. could that be caused by the big file size? it annoys me that i cant have it perfect, but so far i have learned to just deal with it..

[kdallen]

also what im noticing is, on all the ringtones i have downloaded to my phone, 9 out of 10 times the song pauses after 2 or 3 secs for a quick second, then it resumes and plays perfectly after that.

Check out post #52. I think someone else had the same problem and came up with a way to correct it.