I've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
xiaoali said:
I've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
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I just change the tags for artist and album to ringtone. At least it keeps them grouped together.
I just came across this from androidforums.com, posted by user keredini.
Get a File Manager (like Astro), mount the drives to your windows machine, or use the 'My Files' application to do the following:
Remember you have your internal SD card (the 16GB one that comes with the phone, it is located in the file system on the phone as \sdcard), and your external (removable) SD card that you provided (it is located in the file system on the phone as \sdcard\sd)
you need to create a folder on the internal SD card for your ringtones.
Create the following directory:
\sdcard\media\audio\ringtones
more than likely there will be a notifications folder in the same place, just create the new folder there. Move all your ringtones into that folder. Once the file(s) are moved, media scanner should run.
From there the ringtones will no longer show in the default media player (mine were also removed from cubed which is the player i use), but are still accessible when selecting 'Phone Ringtone' when assigning ringtones.
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Sounds like the solution we were all looking for. Thanks to the OP!
Edit: I just tried it out, looks like it didn't work for me
I put mine in sdcard\media\ringtones and Music Player doesn't see them.
xiaoali said:
i've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
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this worked for me!!!
backup the ringtone >
open music player and delete it from there >
convert ringtone to .wav (not .ogg) >
transfer it to phone >
you may need to open a file explorer and
manually open each sound to get them
to register in menus
reset your ringtones and notifications
***don't forget to reset sms notification
via: Messaging > menu > settings >
select ringtone
All I did was copy one of my nomedia files to my ringtones folder and they don't show in media player. With extended rings it doesn't interfer with setting it as a ringtone
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hi
how can i select music tracks as the ringtone please? When i go into options, notifications and alerts the sample tracks appear in the list but my own music i've put on the phone isn't there? Also could someone tell me how i can get the alerts etc as loud and as easy to recognise as possible as i keep missing calls etc. i've put all volumes up to max and turned vibration on whilst ringing .. anything else i can do?
thanks
Mitch92uK said:
hi
How can I select music tracks as the ringtone please? When I go into options, notifications and alerts the sample tracks appear in the list but my own music I've put on the phone isn't there?
thanks
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Put the mp3's on your storage card or drop them in the windows folder in file explorer, check sounds & notifications and your music should appear under the ringtone tab
Use the "File Explorer", go to your musicfile and tap and hold on it, and you can set it as ringtone
tarroyo said:
Put the mp3's on your storage card or drop them in the windows folder in file explorer, check sounds & notifications and your music should appear under the ringtone tab
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To use an mp3 as a ringtone you need to drop the files into My Documents/My Ringtones
For alert sounds use the windows folder.
I was having the same issue but does this mean the ringtones that i have on my SD card will be taking memory space from the device. I dont want to use my device memory for my music and ringtones. I found out that i can just add them directly to my Storage Card, but if i add them to a folder within the Storage Card, once i go to select a tone from the drop list it wont show any of my custom ringtones.
I've probably held down on a music track and seen "Add as Ringtone" probably a million time but when I read the initial question there was no chance in hell I would have even thought of it.
Thanks for reminding me.
I have the Touch Pro for Verizon and it has an MP3 Trimmer app. You can use this app to import an mp3 and trim it to the part of the song that you want, and set it as a ringtone.
bruin_84 said:
I was having the same issue but does this mean the ringtones that i have on my SD card will be taking memory space from the device. I dont want to use my device memory for my music and ringtones. I found out that i can just add them directly to my Storage Card, but if i add them to a folder within the Storage Card, once i go to select a tone from the drop list it wont show any of my custom ringtones.
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You can put your ringtones in a folder on your micro SD card, I have mine in: \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones
and they show up in "Sounds & Notifications"
But just as mrvanx stated above, you have to put them in: \Windows to have them show up for alerts, like new text messages.
I also use Audacity to trim my music files for ringtones, it works great.
Does somebody know how to force Leo to play ringtones with mp3 extension? I already added some mp3's to windows/rings folder, but system doesn't see them.
its probably easiest using the MP3 Trimmer on the phone under the "MULTIMEDIA" folder...
Put the mp3 file in the "My Documents"-folder in the root of the mobile, not on the SD-card.
That is to say:
root/My Documents/mp3file.mp3
This mp3-file will work for both ringtone and sms-tone.
Hiya!
I am very curious if my Random Ringtone app works on the Leo.
If anybody wants to try it that would be appreciated.
If it doesnt work I would of course make it work.
Thanks in advance...
HowdyKeith
and Random Ringtones
Meery Nwe yaer!
I have a folder called "my ringtones" in my documents on the device (not the sd card). Try adding some mp3's there! Works for me! You also wanna trim ur mp3's using a PC app couse the mp3 trimmer in WM sux bigtime!
Big thanks for You buddies for Your help but unfortunatelly - none works on my device. I already try to put my mp3 ringtone to My Documents and My Ringtones (later) folder as well, but system still doesn't see my mp3's . What's going on?. It can't be so difficult! Tell me - how do You set up Your ringtone on Your device? Settings/Sound&Display/Ringtone (or Notification Sounds)?
OK. After Soft Reset UMISS'es method works! Own ringtones are visible for system in My Documents folder. Thank You pal.
Gandalf67 said:
Does somebody know how to force Leo to play ringtones with mp3 extension? I already added some mp3's to windows/rings folder, but system doesn't see them.
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Hoi Gandalf
you should put the MP3 in : Computer\ HD2 T8585\\\My Documents\My Ringtones
Alarm sounds: are stored in the Windows dir
greetz
mp3 as ringtone
this setup is very simple:
take the built-in file explorer and go to mp3 folder. choose your favourite mp3 file, long tap on it and then "set as ringtone"
it works for me with my hd2
Ringtone
Pegasus
Indeed works like a charm. But then follows the second question:
How to make a MP3 for the other systems sound like Remainders, alarms, incoming email, incoming voice mail?
I've tried to put the files anywhere in the My documents folders, but no joy
someone? Please?
gr fred
MP3 for Remainders, alarms, incoming email
i searched for the current notification sounds and found them in the Windows Folder.
so i copied my mp3 into Folder \Windows
now i can chande the notification sounds into my mp3
have fun with mobile phone
Ringtones
Gandalf67 said:
Does somebody know how to force Leo to play ringtones with mp3 extension? I already added some mp3's to windows/rings folder, but system doesn't see them.
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Hello
Do NOT waste valuable space from main memory for the mp3 ringtone which placed in My documents or /Windows.
Place the mp3 files in the root of the SD card without folders. It will show up and works great and You do not have to worry about flashing any custom rom. The files in the SD card stays.
Good luck
Happy new year
MP3 alarms
pegasus013 said:
i searched for the current notification sounds and found them in the Windows Folder.
so i copied my mp3 into Folder \Windows
now i can chande the notification sounds into my mp3
have fun with mobile phone
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Pegasus,
Sometimes life is so simple. Thank you very much, your solution is the ONE. Works wonders.
reg. fred
for ringtones, u can have the mp3 in anywhere phone or SD memory, directly choose the file to be used as a ringtone in the file explorer...
for other notifications or messages or alarms, convert the file to wav and copy it to /windows folder ...then go to settings->menu->all settings->sounds and notifications n select the tune for the specific event.
HTC HD2 or iphone?
Hello guys. i was getting ready to buy an HD2 but now i see that simple things like diffirent mp3 for calls or for a caller or sms, alarms etc. are configured so hard, along with other hard questions like the difficult customizing of the hd2 have started make me thing again of the iphone. You people that alredy have an HD2 what do you suggest me? i do really care much about the easyness of synchronizing and the ability to synchro with other progs other than outlook. What would you suggest me?
Keep in mind,
if u use this Ringtone App u can change your ring directory as well as have multiple rings for each alarm.
thanks,
Keith
I used Mp3 trimmer to cut a song short. Now I cant seem to remove it from the device as I cant find it anyway. But it is still shoing up on the ring tone menu.
pegasus013 said:
i searched for the current notification sounds and found them in the Windows Folder.
so i copied my mp3 into Folder \Windows now i can chande the notification sounds into my mp3
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I dont seem to have a Windows folder on my HD2, but when trying to make the folder I was told I cant as it alreayd exists. Tryping the address into the bar tells me that it doesnt exist.... So I assume Windows Mobile Device Center is crap.
hgood1001 said:
Hello guys. i was getting ready to buy an HD2 but now i see that simple things like diffirent mp3 for calls or for a caller or sms, alarms etc. are configured so hard, along with other hard questions like the difficult customizing of the hd2 have started make me thing again of the iphone. You people that alredy have an HD2 what do you suggest me? i do really care much about the easyness of synchronizing and the ability to synchro with other progs other than outlook. What would you suggest me?
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There's nothing difficult in changing the sounds. As you can see, there are many ways how to do that and they all work (for most users). There is nothing more simple then just copy your desired ringtones to windows folder and then just set it up.
Buying an iphone would be a terrible mistake, it's an old and inferior device compared to HD2.
MP3 Ringtone on SD Card
It's not recommended to save MP3 or any other big files into device memory. copy your MP3 files only to your "Storage Card".
It's so easy, just copy your MP3 song(s) to "\Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones" folder (and if you don't have "My Ringtones" folder just create one).
ronenpg said:
It's not recommended to save MP3 or any other big files into device memory. copy your MP3 files only to your "Storage Card".
It's so easy, just copy your MP3 song(s) to "\Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones" folder (and if you don't have "My Ringtones" folder just create one).
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Yes it works fine.Thank you.
The best app for assign ring-tone:
VipPimRingTone(9.0)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328560
THIS MEET ALL YOU NEED!!
My HD2 just searches all storage card for any music files and puts them into library.
Some of them are ringtones and other useless stuff. So I don't want them to be in my music library
Is there a way to choose folder where audio manager should search ?
I'm not sure why your library is showing ringtones. None of mine ever end up in the library.
I had Fring and Talkonout installed on storage card. I both have mp3 files for ringtones.
I deleted them both from storage card and files disappeared but that is not a solution :/
Is there a way to choose music folder ?
marcio123 said:
I had Fring and Talkonout installed on storage card. I both have mp3 files for ringtones.
I deleted them both from storage card and files disappeared but that is not a solution :/
Is there a way to choose music folder ?
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i got the same problem. all music files show in my music library when i pressed update library. +1 on how to choose music folder and disregard the rest.
mine does the same. My HD2 came preinstalled with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game. The manila audio manager displays all the acc music files that came preinstalled... what a pain....
you can make HTC album to ignore some folders. Do the following:
Go to HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignore
and add a sting value with a name (choose whatever you want) and string (here you put the location of a particular folder)
So if I want HTC album to ignore My Music folder on my Storage card, I will add a new string value: name-My Music and string-\Storage Card\My Music
hope this helps
ah forgot to mention soft reset after that
Am I doing something wrong? I did a soft reset and still no exclusion from the folders I specified here:
Ignore not Ignored
Oh, should I rename that folder to ignore? Because my HD2's registry came like that with that folder called ingnored.
Maybe the TMOUS HD2 has the d added? Not sure why they would have done that.
marcio123 said:
My HD2 just searches all storage card for any music files and puts them into library.
Some of them are ringtones and other useless stuff. So I don't want them to be in my music library
Is there a way to choose folder where audio manager should search ?
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Tap Library - Playlist - New playlist (for example playlist 1)
Tap playlist 1 - Add songs - All songs (on bottom of screen) - select all songs you need - Done
Tap 1 song in playlist 1. Music player will play that song and library will update to playlist 1.
I'm sorry about my English, I'm Vietnamese.
Good English! I understood great.
But, I did what you said about adding a playlist & adding songs and it seemed to work great, but then later I went back to play the playlist & nothing played at all. It is strange that this default player doesn't work anymore since I tried the playlist trick. In fact, when I try to find anything to play, the "Music Tab" just hangs and never populates with MP3s at all. I think I bricked my Music Tab of my HD2 (I don't know if I said that right but it sounded good ). Well, at least I didn't brick the entire phone! Now I am forced to use Windows Media Player for all music, which I don't mind at all, but it was nice to use the other player while on the road.
I may end up trying what they say here:
ruscik said:
Well a lot of people noticed a problem with HTC Music tab. Library shows not only music but ring tones and other sounds. One way to stop it is to hide offending folders. One problem with that is if you hide for example ring tone folder you can not select your ring tones as they are hidden as well.
What I did is as goes. I have music on SD card, also there is tomtom, copilot and some other apps. I have hidden all of the apps that might have sounds so they do not show up in library. Obviously left folder with music not hidden.
That will take care of SD card.
For My Device sounds do steps below:
1. Start from removing your card and then going to music tab so it rescans and states no music found. (Skip to step 3 if you are starting from clean rom)
2. Go to registry editor of your choice and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng (for german it will be AudioManager_Ger)\Information
Delete all items in that folder. You will not be able to delete Information it self.
If you are on clean rom you will not even have that folder it is created 1st time when music tab finds music.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config
In there change:
"device_scan_path_path" from what ever there is to \Windows
"device_scan_path_path_0" from what ever there is to \Windows
"ring_tone_path" from what ever there is to \Windows
What this will do is exclude all files in windows folder. If you have any files in my documents they will show up. I assume if you just put "\" instead of "\Windows" it will exclude entire my device but did not test it.
4. Soft reset, insert your SD card and enjoy.
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I didn't want to do it that way, but it looks as if I may have to. I liked the first way better (...HTCAlbum > Ignored...)
(I removed "Music" from my Home Screen Tabs as there was no reason to have it there anymore)
I just create playlist and do nothing else. I needn't edit registry.
Hello everyone, I hope this post is in the correct forum.
I Googled extensively about applying custom MP3's as ringtones and have read conflicting answers. I have created a folder called ringtones on the sd card but the mp3's do not show up as options when trying to change the ringtone. And if someone else has posted about this, I apologize. Thanks
put your ringtones in media/audio/ringtones on the sdcard, the internal one
That's where my ringtones are I have them on my sd card I made a fokder called.ringtones also for videos and pictures idk why it won't work for you but try putting them on the internal memory
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The stock music player in not compatible with mp3s as ringtones..... i have changed to another Touchwiz music player that has it....
Sent from my Samsung Infuse 4G
EDIT:
Here is the Touchwiz music player that allows you to set mp3's as ringtones with out putting your music in a ringtone file...
spottedram said:
Hello everyone, I hope this post is in the correct forum.
I Googled extensively about applying custom MP3's as ringtones and have read conflicting answers. I have created a folder called ringtones on the sd card but the mp3's do not show up as options when trying to change the ringtone. And if someone else has posted about this, I apologize. Thanks
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Put the MP3s in a folder called "ringtone" on either your internal or external SD. No additional apps needed.
Thanks everyone. I will try each suggestion and post back with results.
Cheers
Sorry for the tardiness of this reply. Thank you Hoofadoo, your suggestion worked. They now show when I want to select a custom ringtone. And BTW, my mp3 ringtones are all over 300kb so for me it seems to be working.
Thanks everyone,
ringtones
Know this is an older thread but wanted to post what worked for me.
I have the Infuse 2.3.6 running Vagabond ROM 3.2 by Qkster.
I was able to get the mp3 ringtones to load by placing them in a folder "ringtones" on the externalsd.
I have stock rom and have never had a problem setting mp3 files as ringtones... I just open in music player and hit menu then set as ringtone
If you have media scanner running on every boot (typical scenario):
1. Copy the mp3 into a folder called "ringtones" on internal or external SD
2. Go to settings --> Sound and set the mp3 as ring tone
If you have media scanner disabled (like me):
1. Enable media scanner
2. Copy the mp3 into /system/media/ringtones
3. Reboot
4. Go to settings --> Sound and set the mp3 as ring tone
5. Disable the media scanner
6. (Optional) Reboot and verify if the ringtone is still there
I have been using the second method since my Captivate days and have used it on many many ROMs, and it worked on every ROM.
There is a default setting ringtone in my LGO3D. How to change customize that to use my own mp3 as a ringtone? Is it possible to set individual ringtone for each contact?
Thanks.
custom ringtones
I created a directory in mnt / sdcard that I named it audio, then I created ringtones directory in it, I put mp3 files there and then reset the phone, mp3 files appeared in a selection of tones
I manage to make it appear in my ringtone selection by placing the audio files in sdcard/media/ringtones. But now it make the audio not appear in music player. Default music player require it to be placed in sdcard/media/music folder.
Is there a way to make the ringtone files able to be browse and select? Any app recomendation? I tried ringo. But the audio files need to be places specific in the sdcard/media/ringtones.
I go into my music press and hold an mp3 song you want at it says use as ringtone
dno if that helps
this works
look on the market for "ringtone maker" it is free and you browse for a song on your library and then crop it and you can either set it is notification ringtone or default call tone
As for the contact assignment i have not tried this but just had a quick look in my contacts and i cant see an option for it.
Ringdroid
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Ok, found that ringo pro can do the trick. I hope there is a free way.