How to make a ringtone for a cell phone

 

  By Olga Krovyakova - modified June 19, 2025, created April, 3 2019

Your mobile phone supports WMA or MP3 files but ships a dozen of wierd tunes?  Why not to set a favourite song or melody piece as a ringtone?

This example demonstrates how to achieve that having WMA or MP3 music files as an input and SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin and Windows Media Player as audio editor. In the example we will be dealing with WMA. If you plan using the audio track as ringtone, it’s necessary to trim the certain fragment from audio to decrease the size of a ringtone and skip boring parts.

 

Below you can find step by step tutorial.

1. Download and install SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin

2. Run the Windows Media Player. Plugin should appear in its window (Figure 1).

 

TRY WMP TRIMMER PLUGIN FREE

 

Figure 1

3. If you doesn't see Plugin, then enable the installed Plugin clicking the right mouse button and select from the list SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin (Now Playing-->Plug-ins--> SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin) as shown on the Figure 2.

 

Figure 2

The Windows Media Player window will appear like on Figure 1.

The Table 1 contains the SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin tool bar items description.

 

Item	Control	Description
	Start and end time edit controls	A start and end time interval of a media fragment.
	Current time edit control	Shows the cursor current time position
	Add Marker Remove Marker(s)	Add a new marker to the current slider cursor position. Remove the current marker or fragment
	Scissors button	Set the segment type: cut out our keep the segment
	Save button	Saves the selected fragment to a file
	Cut out button	Allows to open media file in Windows Media Player
	Turn off/turn on the audio	Allows turn off/on the audio on video file
	Story board or audio waveform off/on	Turn on/off the story board or audio waveform
	Invert time line fragments	Invert time line fragments: change the segment type
	Set audio silence	Allows to set audio silence for the chosen fragment or the whole file
	Minimize the plugin	Allows to minimize plugin interface view
	Jump to movie start/end	Allows to navigate to movie start/end
	Jump to previous/next K frame	Allows to navigate to previous/next K frame
	Play/pause	Allows to start the playback of media file or to set the palyback on pause
	Help button	Opens the page with online documentation
	Start voice over recording	Allows to start the adding of voice of over to the recording
	Voiceover settings	Opens voiceover settings
	Open About window	Allows to open About window
	Log out button	Allows to log out from your account

 4. To open the source audio file press the Alt button on the keyboard and choose File-->Open…. from the context menu (Figure 3). Or open your file using "Open Media File" button (Figure 4).

Figure 3

Figure 4

5. Select the audio file you want to use for the ringtone making  and double click on it  or use Open button (Figure 5).

Figure 5

6.Click on "Edit" button to enable WMP Trimmer Plugin extanded view (Figure 7).

Figure 6

7. Set the start time of fragment by moving the left marker at the biginning of the timeline to the start position of the fragment or use slider and Add marker button to specify the beginning of your audio file (Figure 8)

8. Set the end time of fragment by moving the right marker at the end of the timeline to the end position of fragment or use slider and Add marker button to specify the end of your audio file (Figure 8).

Figure 7

9. Move the mouse cursor to the segment you would like to be cutted our and click on the "scissors" button that will arise. 

Do the same for all segments you would like to be deleted.

10. To save the specified fragment to an output file click the "Save" button (Figure 8)

11. Enter the resulting file name (Figure 9)

12. Click the Save button (Figure 9)

Figure 8

Figure 9

12. When the task will be completed, the window SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin appears (Figure 10).

Figure 10

13. To pass into the folder with edited ringtone click the Yes button (Figure 11)

Figure 11

14. It is time to upload the result to a mobile phone and assign that as a ringtone. Usually it can be made through data cable or Bluetooth interface.

 

TRY WMP TRIMMER PLUGIN FREE

 

 

 About the author

Olga Krovyakova is the Technical Support Manager in Solveig Multimedia since 2010.

She is the author of many text and video guidelines of company's products: Video Splitter, HyperCam, WMP Trimmer Plugin, AVI Trimmer+ and TriMP4.

She works with programs every day and therefore knows very well how they work. Сontact Olga via support@solveigmm.com if you have any questions. She will gladly assist you!