How to make your own MP3 ringtones for Samsung a950

[admin_mvu]

MP3 Ringtones

• Download and install this http://www.free-codecs.com/download/LAME_ACM_Codec.htm, its the LAME ACM codec
• Convert the MP3 to a wave file (either the clip you want to use for the ringtone or the whole MP3)
• Open Sound Recorder in Windows
• If you converted the whole MP3, you will need to use the 'Delete before current position' and 'Delete after current position' functions to cut down the MP3 to about 30 seconds
• Go to File-Save As, type in a filename you want, make sure it ends in .mid (you probably will need to type the filename in quotes so that it uses the .mid extension and not .wav)
• Click on Change, choose MPEG Layer-3 from Format and choose whatever quality you want under Attributes (I used 44110 Hz, 128kbps CBR, Stereo and it sounds really good)
• Click on Save
• Copy the file to your TransFlash card under the MY_SOUNDS folder
• Put card back into the phone, go to menu, Get It Now, Get Tunes and Tones, My Sounds
• Find the file you just copied, and do Options, Move so that it moves it to the phone (if you leave it on the card, it takes too long to load and it probably won't play when someone calls)
• Set it as a ringtone
  
  It might be possible to copy the file right to the phone with BitPim under brew/16452/ms, it may end up freezing the phone, not sure.

[kfrei]

Originally Posted by admin_mvu

MP3 Ringtones
It might be possible to copy the file right to the phone with BitPim under brew/16452/ms, it may end up freezing the phone, not sure.

I used BitPim to copy a few MP3 songs directly to my phone as ringtones without converting them to wav files first. If you try the Play Clip feature before you reduce the play time to 30 seconds or so and click set, the program stops responding for about 10 minutes then it will resume. I suspect the bigger the song the longer it will freeze. If you use the Play Position button it doesn't freeze up. I didn't have any trouble with my phone freezing up at all but BitPim will turn the phone off after the transfer.

Ken