Who wants custom ringtones on Mango right now?
by James Schneider on July 15, 2011
I just recently procured a Windows Phone for a project that I am going to be starting up. And well I’m really loving it so far. I do miss a couple of items from the Apple ecosystem but I’ll leave that for another post when I can get around to it.
Now for the topic at hand, custom ringtones. If you are an early adopter and are on Mango there is a few simple steps to getting custom ringtones on your phone. Background I had several ringtones that I made for my iPhone 4 that are in the .m4r format. I used an awesome and might I add free audio tool called Audacity.
First things first go download Audacity I went with the new beta but you should be fine with the current release. Then you’ll need the FFmpeg import/export library plugin.
There are a few restrictions to the ringtone files:
- 39 seconds or shorter
- smaller than 1 megabyte (MB)
- saved in MP3 or WMA format
- not copy-protected (i.e. DRM free)
I fired up Audacity and opened up one of the .m4r files to convert and set the Project Rate to 16000 Hz to keep the file size under 1mb:
Then you click File –> Export and select WMA:
I converted a couple of my iPhone ringtones that were in .m4r to .wma files as shown here:
So now you fire up your beta version of the Zune desktop app and go to your Collections and you can drag and drop the newly created .wma ringtones that you created into your collection. Now you Edit each file and create a new Genre for it titled Ringtone.
Now sync up your phone and drag your new ringtones to your phone:
And there you have it, custom ringtones for your Windows Phone on Mango. Enjoy!
Category: Windows Phone | Tags: ringtones, Windows Phone, zune 10 comments »
July 15th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
I already have Audacity :) Now I’m waiting for Mango.
July 15th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
You don’t have to wait. :-)
July 16th, 2011 at 5:16 am
Just incase anyone wondered, tried it on nodo and everything added ok, it just didnt show up in the settings
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Under genre ringtones didnt show up under the scroll down tab..?
July 22nd, 2011 at 4:21 pm
@josh: When you first edit a song you have to enter Ringtone manually in that drop down.
July 28th, 2011 at 4:19 am
I’ve followed all the steps and confirmed through Zune that the .wma file is on the phone, but when I go to Settings > Ringtones & Sounds > Ringtone I don’t see it in there ?
July 28th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
@Gavin: Are you on a Mango version of the OS?
October 11th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
there’s also an awesome free app that will let you make custom ringtones. found it the other day — http://mobile17.com/
it worked really well and was super easy to use!
July 11th, 2012 at 4:45 am
I was trying do do the same on my Lumia 900.
I also used the genre to ringtone but it didn’t work.
Since I’am from Germany i tried it with the german translation of Ringtone (Klingelton) and then it worked :) Seems it also depends on the settings of your country.
July 11th, 2012 at 11:10 am
LOL! The measures people will go to for “windows mobile 7″. It’s gotta be easier to add a ringtone to a feature phone.
.:AB