Comments on: HOWTO: Make your own MP3 ringtones

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:06:46 +0000

Alright, so I have a Samsung slider phone thing (SGH-A737 to be precise). And this was great. I was so excited. Everything worked perfectly–until I tried to set the file I made as my ringtone. I copied it into the Audio folder with the other ringtones, but it won’t let me set it as a ringtone… I think it might have to do with the format on my phone. My file was, of course, saved as MP3. The other ringtones on my phone end in .mmf . Is there anything I can do?!

By: donald

donald — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:27:59 +0000

anybody wanna help? i got the 2nd generation chocolate from verizon and i can transfer the files fine but it only comes up in my sounds folder and i can’t set it as a ringtone. nor can i do that thing norm said by copying it to phone. any help would be appreciated.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:37:14 +0000

Thanks to Norm, that tip FINALLY got me going. It’s really irritating to have an MP3 player/phone that is intentionally counter-intuitive when it comes to using my MP3s for ring tones. I can’t believe people pay money for ring tones.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:47:19 +0000

I’m having the same problem as a couple of other people. I can’t find the Lame.exe to put in the RazorLame options

By: steve

steve — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:06:09 +0000

thank you so much. with this page someone like me can make ring tones now.thanks for posting this,i really appreciate it.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:10:39 +0000

Thanks for all your time and advice. I have followed your instruction but I am still having problems with locating LAME. I downloaded it, unzipped it and can’t make the darn thing fall in place.
I have a Razor2V9. I can connect my phone with a cable, do I need the bluetooth connection anyway?
I could use some more details…I am still pretty green when it comes to all this….

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:51:21 +0000

Thank you for your post. However I did not find Lame.exe (but lame.bat) after unzipping Lame-3.95. Can you help since I replace the directory with lame.bat and it did not work. Thanks.

By: Gibson

Gibson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:29:16 +0000

However WinLame is extremely user friendly. Minutes after downloading it, I had a 29 second 432 kb ringtone on my phone.

By: Gibson

Gibson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:32:37 +0000

I must be an idiot, because I can’t get Razorlame to work to save my life. It looks for a file that isn’t there, and the components listed on the razorlame website don’t seem to be downloadable, at least not for less than $750. I am by no means great with computers but as far as I can tell Razorlame is not exactly user friendly.

By: NJ

NJ — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:08:01 +0000

FANtastic! I thought this was going to take AWHILE before I found this tutorial and I didn’t believe it until I was done! Worked great on a Moto PEBL. I used a Mac to do this.

First I went to the iTunes preferences, Advanced tab, and Importing sub-tab to set the Import mode to make AIFF files. So when you say OK and right-click (ctrl-click) on any MP3 file, you can choose “Convert to AIFF” and it will make a file you can edit. To get to this AIFF file, just drag it to your desktop and iTunes will make a copy for you.

I fired up Sound Studio to edit my AIFF file… lopped off the end after 35 seconds… and saved the file back to an AIFF format…different name.

Drag this baby back into iTunes. Literally drag it and iTunes will have it. Go back to your Preferences->Advanced->Importing and set it to make MP3s… you want to make a CUSTOM .mp3… I went with 64 kbps, mono, 16.000 khz and got a decent file size. Say OK and then right-click/ctrl-click on your AIFF file to “Convert to MP3.” It will create your 30-second MP3 and you can drag this .mp3 to your desktop.

Now you’re ready to use the Bluetooth connection to get it onto your phone… that transfer took about 5 seconds and in 10 more I had Seger’s “Night Moves” as my ringtone…hahah.

Brilliant! Thanks!