Steel guitar Cellphone Ringtones?

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

On another thread someone mentioned making a steel guitar intro into a custom ringtone for their cellphone. Can anyone explain how to do this? FWIW, I have Verizon Wireless.

Brendan Dunn · Posted 8 Jun 2005 12:00 am

I don't know for sure if it'll work with a Verizon phone...but Yamaha provides a free 'wave/aiff to mmf' utility called "WSC-MA2-SMAF" at:
http://smaf-yamaha.com/tools/downloads.html#wscma2s

There's one for Windows and one for Mac's...pick your favored flavor.

After un-zipping the program, it's extremely simple to use... assuming your intro is in either the wave or aiff file format and is already edited to the desired length ... just drop your file onto a little blue box and it is converted into mmf format for ringtones.
If you need info on how to load the ringtone into your phone, several methods are explained here:

http://smaf-yamaha.com/what/howto.html

There are some programs that have more features for getting the task done... like "Ring Factory", it specifies that it works with Verizon phones...but you'll have to fork over a little dough to get it.
http://woodfloorist.com/CJ/RingFactory/

Best wishes!
Brendan

[This message was edited by Brendan Dunn on 08 June 2005 at 01:56 AM.]

Tony Prior · From: Charlotte NC

Jim, you mean when you call someone on there Cellphone, you want there ring to be you playing Someday Soon on the Steel Guitar ?

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Karlis Abolins · From: (near) Seattle, WA, USA

Jim, I have a Motorola mobile phone. Motorola has a software and cable package called Mobile Phone Tools ($30 - $50 depending upon where you buy it) that hooks your (compatible) phone to your computer. It allows you to transfer picture and sound files to and from your PC. In my case I recorded a short sound clip from an old album I have, edited it and saved it as a wav file. I then transferred it to my phone. My phone has a procedure to make sound files into ringtones built in. If you have another brand of telephone, the procedure may be different.

Karlis

Jim Smith · From: Midlothian, TX, USA

No matter what you get to create/modify the sound clips, Verizon charges for their service to load them over the air. Check out BitPim at http://www.bitpim.org/ It's free and open source, and allows you to load and retrieve via a cable. I've used it for a couple of years and it's great!

If your phone is supported by them, it's definitely the way to go. If not, I would be willing to part with DataPilot software that I paid for and don't use anymore.

[This message was edited by Jim Smith on 08 June 2005 at 05:42 AM.]

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