![]() ![]() Send the file to the phone: In Windows Explorer, right click the file you created and choose “Send To > Bluetooth > Motorola Phone” (If “ Motorola Phone” isn’t listed, click “ Other…” and Windows should find it and allow you to select it. ![]() If your phone takes a memory card, you may have to temporarily remove the card from the phone to be able to send ringtones to it.Enter the same passkey in the dialog that pop ups on your computer. Click the name of your computer in the list and enter a four digit passkey when prompted and then press OK. P air your phone and computer: Start Bluetooth on the phone: Menu > Bluetooth > Link to Devices.Now that we have a properly formatted file we can send it to the phone.Click Options and select “32 kbps” in the “ Quality” dropdown and “ Constant” as the “ Bit Rate Mode“. Then choose “MP3 Files” as the type and enter a file name ( 10 characters or less not counting the “.mp3”). If an “ Edit Metadata” dialog pops up, press “ Clear” and then “ OK“. Export the ringtone as a 32 kbps MP3 file: Click File > Export.Change the sample rate to 8000: Click the “Project Rate (Hz) dropdown in the lower left corner of the Audacity screen and choose “ 8000“.Covert to Mono: Click on the name of the song (in the Track Panel to left of the waveform, where the downward pointing arrow is) and choose “Split Stereo to Mono”.Then Click Effect > Amplify and type -3 in the “ New Peak Amplitude” field and click “OK” The default compressor settings are fine for our purposes so just click “OK” without changing anything. (Optional but recommended to make the ringtone louder): Click Effects> Compressor.Drag the line up to about 4 db in the range between from 300 Hz and 600 Hz (see image, above). (Optional but recommended to make the sound less tinny): Click Effect > Equalization and use the mouse to click and drag the frequency line down to -24 db for the frequencies below 300 Hz and above 10,000 Hz.Click Edit > Trim in the menu to remove the rest of the file ![]() Select a 20 second section of the song that you’d like to use by clicking in the waveform and dragging the selection area to left or right with the mouse (image, top).Open the file you want to use ( File > Import > Audio) in the Audacity menu).What follows is a high level summary, refer to the original if you get stuck. Follow the excellent Audacity tutorial on making MP3 ringtones for Nextel phones.Download and install the Lame MP3 Encoder for Audacity.I recommend the Audacity 1.3 Beta as it’s much easier to use than earlier versions. Download and install Audacity, a free, open source program for Windows, Mac OX and Linux that lets you manipulate and convert audio files.An MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG or FLAC music file that you would like to use as a ringtone.All of this should be possible on other OSes but you will have to adapt the instructions yourself. These instructions are based on using Windows XP because that’s what I have. ![]() If yours doesn’t Bluetooth USB adapters are cheap.
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