How to make a ringtone for a cell phone

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.

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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).

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 time edit control	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
	Keep Selected Fragment Cut Selected Fragment	Set the fragment type   Set the fragment type
	Trim button	Saves the selected fragment to a file
	Cut out button	Allows to open media file in Windows Media Player
	Slider markers	Turn off/on the audio waveform
	Story board Off/On	Turn on/off the story board
	Zoom In Zoom Out	Increase the slider timeline resolution to make editing neighbouring markers more comfortable Decrease the slider timeline resolution
	Invert time line fragments	Invert time line fragments
	Set audio silence	Allows to set audio silence for the chosen fragment
	Minimize the plugin	Allows to minimize plugin interface view
	Jump to movie end/start	Allows to navigate to movie end/start
	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	Activates the list of possibility help buttons (Online and local)
	Online help button	Opens the How To page
	Local help button	Opens local help file

 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

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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).

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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).

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

10. Enter the resulting file name (Figure 9)

11. Click the Save button (Figure 9)

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

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

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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.