I have updated my Samsung Focus (on Rogers / Fido) to Mango and followed the instructions for setting a custom ringtone:
1. Under 1Mb
2. Under 29 seconds
3. No DRM
4. Set genre to "Ringtone"
I transferred the ringtone to my Zune collection then sync'd with my phone, but it is not displayed under the ringtone selection screen. Any ideas?
Did it actually sync? Can you find the file in the desktop zune?
I had the same problem with one ringtone that I made and I couldn't figure it out. I ended up using a different service (cutMP3) and it worked.
Don't know why.
I had some weird problems creating ringtones last night too.
I chopped up "I Am The Doctor!" from Doctor Who and named my two files "I Am The Doctor!" and "I Am The Doctor! 2". I went and changed the id tags correctly, but the 2 would never show up. That ended up being fixed by taking out the ! in the second filename AND song title in the tag.
Then I was making some for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. I named all the files based on game such as "L4D The Monsters Within.mp3" and "L4D2 The Monsters Within.mp3" to be able to tell them apart. None of my L4D ringtones showed up in Zune. I fixed this by editing the L4D files tag song title taking out the space between L4D and the title (So it would be "L4DThe Monsters Within"). This seemed to work, but is bizarre.
Edit: I used Audacity to chop up the songs. I would blame it, but one of the L4D files was only 9 seconds in the first place. Zune just must be really picky.
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Against me better judgment, I updated to the latest official AT&T ROM on my Fuze and now, for some reason, I can no longer use my custom ring tone. In the attached file, I have two files. "Team Fortress 2" is the ring tone I was using prior to updating my ROM and "TheMonstersWithout" was the song I was using for new messages. On the official ROM I'm using, I can see both as choices for new text messages, but "TheMonstersWithout" is the only on I can set as a ring tone.
Can someone tell me why I can't set the TF2 file as a ring tone? They're both in the same folder (\application data\sounds) that I used prior to updating and didn't have any problems.
Also, the Opera Mobile icon in the new ROM isn't the nice transparent "O" that was in the original ROM. Anyone know where that icon file is so I can set it back?
Edit #1:
In response to my second question, I adjusted the Opera Mobile.lnk file from:
21#"\Windows\OperaL.exe"
to:
21#"\Windows\OperaL.exe"?\Windows\OperaL.exe,-131
Edit #2:
Evidently, there's either a size limit or length limit on a ring tone. I trimmed the TF2 mp3 down to 10 seconds and it suddenly works... If anyone knows where you can set the limit size, I'd appreciate it.
Um... Forgot the file...
actually the reason you couldn't use your own tf2 ringtone is because the sound limit was reduced in the registry. Do a search on the term "updated fuze rom" I have posted the way to change this. Also don't forget you need total commander or a file explorer similar to it to work the registry.
I wasn't able to find the post you're referring to, mputtr. I did, however, find the solution in the Kaiser forums in this post. I'm quoting it here in case someone happens across this post searching for the same problem.
arizonamonte said:
I upgraded from WM 6.0 to 6.1 and now my custom ring tones that are over 500Kb do not show up in the pull down menu in order to select them for contacts. This fix is to edit the registry.
- Go into HKEY_Current User > ControlPanel > Sounds
- Delete the key of FileSizeLimit
- Done, You should now be able to set any MP3 as your ringtone.
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a quick search turned up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4011376&postcount=7
also, deleting themp3 is not usually a good idea because it'll count every single sound file. by adding 2 zeros will allow you to limit how many of the mp3s you will put in there so you dont get full songs and the like in there that you don't need.
Well, only if you keep every one of your song files in one of the few folders the system scans for ring tones. But if you're THAT bad at file management, you have bigger problems.
it's only as a good measure of precautions. Besides, I don't know what programs install in which folder, but in the end, it's always a good precaution.
Whenever I try to use my voice command to "play anything", it works (playing a random song). However, if I try to "play artist dave matthews band" it responds with "no artist information available." How do I tell my Fuze what artists are on the storage card?
BTW, I'm synching my phone with Windows 7 and the bastard child of ActiveSync.
Alright, so I took a step backwards and tried ripping my CDs anew with Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 to see if my old MP3s had something wrong.
(Don't judge me on my CD collection. A lot of these are from my angsty high school days.)
I ripped a Disturbed, Duran Duran, Blur, Insane Clown Posse and The Offspring and 'synced' the albums to my Fuze's storage card. Now, when I activate the voice command and tell it to "play artist", it only mentions the first four artists (omitting The Offspring). If I manually play anything from The Offspring and use the voice command "what track is this", it tells me 'such-and-such by The Offspring.'
I've checked the tags for the ripped Offspring songs against the Duran Duran songs and all of the fields contain comparable data (if it has something on the DD file, the same field on the O file has data).
Surely someone else has used their device's voice command and can give me some pointers as to what I'm doing wrong.
To anyone who might have been following this thread with a similar problem, I found what was wrong.
Turns out that, even though the tags were set correctly, they weren't. On a hunch, I pulled up a couple of files in easyTAG in Linux to see if there were some additional tags that were hidden or something from Windows 7. There weren't, but when I went to close the file, it asked if I wanted to save changes even though I hadn't changed anything. I said yes and tried the voice command again and BAM! It recognizes the artist, album and even genre. So when I got home, I downloaded an MP3 tag editor for Windows, loaded all my mp3s into it, saved them all, then put them back on my phone. Since then, everything is working wonderfully.
tl;dr version:
Open your music files in a tag editor and save them even if you don't change anything. Voice command should recognize the tags at that point.
I thought I had made a thread for this a while ago, but can not find it. Sorry if its a repost.
What I was wondering is whether or not someone who had an app, or the skilz to make an app, that can take a sample of an mp3/wma/ogg/flac/etc file, match it on say shazam or something then update the ID3 tag with the pulled info. With the option for it just to rename them automatically, or ask for your approval of changes. Much like how Album Art Grabber gets your artwork for you on mass, with little or no manual intervention. This would be great for a few reasons.
I have been finding myself using mp3 download apps on my phone a lot now, more so than my comp and these files are usually incomplete at best. a way to get these, then run this app to fix discrepancies would be awesome!
Its not that I'm lazy, I just have 10+ years of tunes on my external and a lot of them didn't get tags back in the day. Plus after that long, uploads, downloads, 4 computers, iTunes (ARGH!!! I HATE ITUNES!!!!!!) renaming and reorganizing have some in a mess. So when I transfer them, they usually all show up unknown, null, or DGOI.mp3. And renaming & tagging 1000s of songs one by one is not how I want to spend a week.
Hope this sparks an idea, or someone can point me in the direction of one that already exists. I'm sure one does for a PC, but I don't use mine for media other than movies. My phone is my music machine. If a PC solution is the only way so be it.
I don't know of an app that can do this but maybe someone could take the method that the app ,"MP3 Download", uses. First you search for a song and can preview then you can choose to download it. Once you have downloaded it you can goto edit tags and it has a download button... I don't know what database it uses or how it is configured but it will give you album art and is usually correct. I think it has to have the album name though.
Thanks! I'll try that on there, and my old iMusic Tao apk I still have.
Mixzing pro can do this
JD
How do i create them??
Cant find anywhere that shows us who to use the updates
Need to edit an mp3 (and wma i think) file to be less than 30 seconds and set its category (in zune or file properties) to "Ringtone". Sync. Mission Accomplished.
Also, they should be nonprotected. Try using audacity (plus the LAME plugin for mp3 exporting).
THIS
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Exactly what I said
OK, so have any of you guys actually TRIED To perform this, actually tried to follow his advice? I have and I don't get past 4 minutes and 19 seconds of this video. I will tell you WHY. In the updated Zune there is not OPTION ringtone or RINGTONE as was in his case for genre. Not only do you have to trim the ringtone to a smaller size but you have to change GENRE. AND RINGTONE is not an option available in my ZUNE. So what do we do NOW?
By the way, I use several phones and for that reason I need to use 3 Sweden for my smartphone, just so you know. AND to answer myself. Use a meta tagger editor to change the genre field to RINGTONE, that is the trick.
I've done 2 now and they work fine.
After you've trimmed and converted your file, add it to zune then edit the file and delete the genre and type ringtone.
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Edit: or as you say a mp3 tagger.
On another note, anyone know if we can do custom text alerts???
Hello.
I have the same problem.
How can i put costume tones in Text messages?
perbear said:
OK, so have any of you guys actually TRIED To perform this, actually tried to follow his advice? I have and I don't get past 4 minutes and 19 seconds of this video. I will tell you WHY. In the updated Zune there is not OPTION ringtone or RINGTONE as was in his case for genre. Not only do you have to trim the ringtone to a smaller size but you have to change GENRE. AND RINGTONE is not an option available in my ZUNE. So what do we do NOW?
By the way, I use several phones and for that reason I need to use 3 Sweden for my smartphone, just so you know. AND to answer myself. Use a meta tagger editor to change the genre field to RINGTONE, that is the trick.
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You don't have to choose from the list in Zune. Just type it in. The list is just a common set of genres, nothing more. -_-'
passeuser said:
Hello.
I have the same problem.
How can i put costume tones in Text messages?
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Custom ringtones are only for contact phone calls.
So we have to stick with the 10 anoying ones that came in the mango.
I think i will buy another phone with other OS.
passeuser said:
So we have to stick with the 10 anoying ones that came in the mango.
I think i will buy another phone with other OS.
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I believe there is a hack or someone is working on a hack to let you use custom alert tones. Try doing a search, and you'll find something.
But otherwise yes, by default, ringtones can only be customized for phone calls.
No, thats just stupid. I'll explain it. This is too easy and yall are making it complicated. I use Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 to adjust my ring tones to the appropriate size. Just make sure you set it as a WMA file when you encode. As far as Zune goes, no, "ringtone" is not in the drop down list, so you actually have to TYPE it the first time. After that it STAYS in your drop down list. YES it works, I've got 20 custom ring tones on my LG Quantum right now using this method. I lost all my custom ringtones when I updated to 7720. You can also generally get the right file size and type from http://audiko.net/ you can download your ring tones for free, sync them to Zune then sync them to your phone. BEAR IN MIND IF IT IS OVER 39 SECONDS IT WILL NOT COME UP ON YOUR RINGTONE LIST ON YOUR DEVICE, SO U MAY NEED TO DOUBLE CHECK IT AND USE THE EDITOR. Oh, and NO. WE CAN STILL NOT MMS audio or video or set custom tones... ive been trying to figure out how to do that for months... still have not been able to find a hack. I figured out how, but it seems that part of the OS is read only... so I can not seem to over right it with my own tones... Why? **** if I know... ask MS.
I just got a gear S3 but am finding it pretty hard to transfer music to it. I have thousands of songs on my phone but they are organized in folders, for instance:
/reggae/*.mp3
/hardrock/*.mp3
etc. etc.
I also have a folder called /favorites that has my top songs - around 100 or so, this is the folder I want to copy to the watch. I can't seem to find a way to select only this folder. When I go into the Gear app I just see a list of thousands of songs grouped by Track/Album/Artist. I can't possibly scroll through the entire list and choose my top 100 songs that are in my favorites. Nor can I go through the time consuming process of searching each song manually.
The whole thing seems rather retarded. Now, I am thinking I need to create a new folder called /s3, then duplicate all my favorites into that folder, then add a "S3_" prefix to all the files there, then transfer those to my phone, choose all files with S3_ prefix, transfer them, then delete it off my phone so I don't have duplicates on my phone. There must be an easier way?
You only need to swype from right to left and you will find a folders list into your mobile phone.
Easy
thanks, that works. I can start playing on my phone first and then control it on my watch so this way I will not upload anything to my watch and use the source as my phone.
So, I am able to use the bezel as well as the arrows to control the previous/next song as well as play/pause the current track. However, it would be nice if I can navigate songs on my phone and choose a specific song by folder directly from my watch. Is there such an app?
Right now I am using Poweramp on my Pixel XL and the watch controls it without issues, I am assuming it just sends a generic play/pause/prev/next command via Bluetooth which any music app understands. I am assuming the ability to navigate a folder structure to a specific song needs to have compatible apps on the phone as well as the watch.