Droid X Alarm & Txt Msg Sounds

[ScottiLuvr]

I downloaded some MP3s and was going to set one of them for my alarm.  Same goes for my txt msg notification.  I've not been able to get the MP3s to show up under the alarm sounds or the txt msg sounds.  I've gotten my ringtones set, finally, for most everyone except one person that I still can't get the MP3 to even show me where it is hiding.  

Julie

[gerio · Accepted solution]

I can't remember if there is a way to do this with just the phone's OS.

However, I use an app from the app market called "Ringdroid", a small free app used to edit and save ringtones.

Once installed, open Ringdroid and it will show a list of all the music and tones on your phone (if a particular tone isn't in that list, it's not on the phone). Select a tune, edit it if you wish, and click "save". A window will open asking you if you wish to save the tune as music, alarm, notification, or ringtone. Select what you wish the tone to be and click "save". You can go back and save the same

[ScottiLuvr]

Thanks!  The ringdroid app did the trick.  Only had one MP3 it distorted a bit, and it was the one I wanted for my alarm.  Oh well, I'll see if I can re-do it a bit.   Thank you for the help!

Julie

[dirkbonn]

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ScottiLuvr wrote:

Thanks!  The ringdroid app did the trick.  Only had one MP3 it distorted a bit, and it was the one I wanted for my alarm.  Oh well, I'll see if I can re-do it a bit.   Thank you for the help!

Julie

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I see  you already have it solved.  But I knew there was a way to do it without an app because I did it.  Here's how....

Click the alarm app.... (should bring up 3 alarms, I think)  then click the alarm you want to set...... this brings up a menu with one being "Sound".   When you click that, you get a choice of where you get the sounds. i.e. from ringtones, MP3, video, or vibrate only. (I guess this last one is for when you sleep with the phone on your forehead..... haha)  Anyway, pick MP3 or ringtone and your choices will show up.  I use a big band song called "Bugle Call Rag".   It's never failed to wake me.....

Anyway, just FYI......

[Ann154]

Create the following folders on your sd card and move or copy the mp3 files to the folder you want the sounds to play for. The files will automatically be listed in the proper ringtone list once again you reboot the phone.

/media/audio/alarms
/media/audio/notifications
/media/audio/ringtones

fyi this has been posted before and search should have been able to find it.

[gerio]

Ahh, bitten by the "post" button again!

You can go back and save the same tone as many of the save choices as you wish.

Now, when you open the list of ringtones, alarms, or notifications, you should your tone in the list of tones.

Like I said, there may be a way to do it without the app, but the app makes it so easy.

Geri O

[Ann154]

Either Gerio's or the method I posted works. I do know that as long as the folders and files in those folders are on the sd card, the phone will recognize the tones after a factory reset.

[gerio]

Ann, does Ringdroid put those folders you mention on the SD card?

I guess I could look....but being this early on Sunday morning I'd rather go back to sleep before I get ready to head out to church...))

Geri O

[Ann154]

After a few setbacks (no music on the Aria's sd card, wait for the computer to finish its scheduled virus scan, connect phone, copy music files, yada, yada), I am happy to report that Ringdroid does create the folders listed above on the sd card and save the created mp3 files to the folders.   

I just never used Ringdroid before because the HTC's phones have a built-in ringtone trimmer app.

EDIT:  UGH!!! I went to add the other ringtones I had made with my Eris and now I have a double listing in the ringtone list for the ringtone I made on the Aria.  There is only one file, but a double listing.  Not happy!   I had this problem when I would set music as a ringtone through the music.  The only way to clear it back to one listing per ringtone was a factory reset.

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gerio wrote:
Ann, does Ringdroid put those folders you mention on the SD card?

I guess I could look....but being this early on Sunday morning I'd rather go back to sleep before I get ready to head out to church...))

Geri O

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[Ann154]

A thought came to me this weekend about the double listing issue of the ringtone I mentioned below.  Ringdroid saved the ringtone to the list as "Princes of the Universe Ringtone", but the file it saved was "PrincesoftheUniverseRingtone.mp3.  (Slight Highlander and Queen fan ) When I added the addtional files (mp3 & ogg), the phone rescanned the sd card for new content and it must have seen the file without the spaces as a different file.  Therefore I got the double listing.  Tonight I went and used my file explorer app and renamed the mp3 to include the spaces between the words.  One reboot later, the phone rescanned the sd card and the double listing is GONE!

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Ann154 wrote:

EDIT:  UGH!!! I went to add the other ringtones I had made with my Eris and now I have a double listing in the ringtone list for the ringtone I made on the Aria.  There is only one file, but a double listing.  Not happy!   I had this problem when I would set music as a ringtone through the music.  The only way to clear it back to one listing per ringtone was a factory reset.

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[Ann154]

Actually I have never needed to use that app. Based on a different application I have tried, I would think it creates similar folders but not necessarily the same ones. When I get to a wifi connection later today, I will try Ringdroid on the HTC Aria that I have and haven't gotten around to transfer the tones from the Eris. I have got to get ready for church too and later a pancake feed as well.