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songs as ringtones...

sorry guys, but i have searched repeatedly on how to do this and came up with nothing.
is there a way to use mp3's as ringtones from the MicroSD card? i tried everything and i dont want to fill up precious memory on the phone with mp3's or cut the bitrate down to where it sounds like a bunch of midi files. paste a shortcut maybe? is there a app that can do this? i already know where to put them on the phone to use them, i want to directly access the mem card for ringtones, it doesnt ever come out of the phone anyways.
my Sony s710a read all the ringtones straight from the memory card, how in the world can i get the kaiser to do likewise?
thanks

I haven't tried this on the Kaiser just yet, but putting them in the root directory of the SD card has always worked for me, for the other HTC phones I have.

I haven't tried this yet, but in the "Audio Manager" application it shows me all the songs which are available to WMP (Inc. those on the SD Card) from here I can hold down on one with the stylus and I have the option to "Set as Ring Tone"

just make a folder on your sd card called "My Documents" with a folder inside that called "My Ringtones" ---- any song you have in my ringtones folder will show up on your ringtone list

go to the HTC Audio manager, select a song (mp3) you want, go to menu and select set as ringtone, then you will get the option to use as default ringtone or to copy the file to the ringtone folder.

HTC Audio Manager for Music

Hello everyone,
audio manager searches the whole phone for mp3s. since i have quite a few mp3 ringtones it is very annoying when htc audio manager thinks the mp3 ringtones are music files too.
is there any way that i can make htc audio manager only search a specific folder on my wings for music? this way i wouldnt have to remove the entries everytime or i wouldnt have to make new playlists every time...
thanks

no solution right????????

Sure...
Place your ringtones in the path noted in the registry value:
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\ring_tone_path
Default value: \My Documents\My Ringtones\
Done.
Now help with my _setup.xml

this solution doesnt work because the sound files from the windows operating system are still included in the default playlist of the player. so for example im listening to music, then suddenly i hear the "battery empty" sound and it scares the **** out of me because i think my phone ran outta battery AGAIN

that's interesting. those sounds don't show up in my library.

That is very weird, I dont have those sounds either, could you have changed something somewhere that import's every music file on the phone & card?

Guys I have a about 1 GB of music on my memory card and guess what the HTC Audio manager does not play music anymore. It shows me all the tracks I can scroll through the list but as soon as I press the button to play it pauses and then reboots the phone.
Howevr, I can play the same music via the windows music player. So there is nothing wrong with the memeory of the music tracks.
Any suggestions

Call HTC Tech support, reset the phone to default settings. Sounds like something is causing an error and then a reboot. Or something infected the phone and now its sick. I would reset the phone first then call HTC and see if they can help. Plausable they shipped it out with a bug...

I think the newer versions of the HTC audio manager uses a different registry entry device_scan_path and device_scan_path_path0
just enter where your music files are located under these entries and put the ringtones somewhere else. this worked for me.

I too am look to solve this problem... I had downloaded a bunch of extra sounds for my verious notifications. currently I have them stared on my sd card \Storage Card\My Documents. My Music is on \Storage Card\Music. When I start up AudioManager it finds the files in both folders. I changed the 2 registry key and put them both the same witch place the songs 2x in the library and I also tried leaving the second entry black. both occasions the files from noth folders were in there.

macaraballojr said:
I too am look to solve this problem... I had downloaded a bunch of extra sounds for my verious notifications. currently I have them stared on my sd card \Storage Card\My Documents. My Music is on \Storage Card\Music. When I start up AudioManager it finds the files in both folders. I changed the 2 registry key and put them both the same witch place the songs 2x in the library and I also tried leaving the second entry black. both occasions the files from noth folders were in there.
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Have you tried moving your ring tones and such music off the SD card and into the handset location for that type of audio file? Also check in audio manager, I havnt looked recently but I thought you could tell it to check only the SD card? Maybe I am just loopy (wouldnt surprise me)...

10332007 said:
Have you tried moving your ring tones and such music off the SD card and into the handset location for that type of audio file? Also check in audio manager, I havnt looked recently but I thought you could tell it to check only the SD card? Maybe I am just loopy (wouldnt surprise me)...
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I really didnt want to move them to the device cuz there are so many i dont have that much room on the device... And I been through the registry and program itself all weekend with no luck.

macaraballojr said:
I really didnt want to move them to the device cuz there are so many i dont have that much room on the device... And I been through the registry and program itself all weekend with no luck.
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I'm not suggesting you move your music, just the files that are not for musical enjoyment, the other misc sounds that get used for ring tones etc off the card. Its been a while since I have been in audio manager and will have to play around with it.

10332007 said:
I'm not suggesting you move your music, just the files that are not for musical enjoyment, the other misc sounds that get used for ring tones etc off the card. Its been a while since I have been in audio manager and will have to play around with it.
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THats what I am talking about also... I dl a zip file with a bunch of sound (not music) too much to move to the device

Hmm I recall Audio Manager having more options, but I am not always with it
If I have the time I can take a peak into the registry but others are more aptly suited for such an adventure.
For now my suggestion (if you have not already done this) is make play lists, I dont know how much you have as music and how much is random audio clips. You can also try going through and removing some of the audio clips you are not using? With playlists at least while the program may list all the music files on the card the ones you dont want to hear wont be in your playlists so you wont have to worry about them quite as much...

I have the same problem. I've modified also the registers but there is no effect.

Thx for help, i had the same problem on HD2

[Q]Does anyone know how to change the directory where your music is stored

Can you change the default directory that the audio manager looks for music.

hello there does anybody know how to do this.

Is there no way to do this?

when using the program advanced config there is a section 'locations'
here you can set
default storage location for audio files. standard set at my music

Redirecting music player
Installed advanced config and it does indeed let you set the default storage location for music (as well as loads of other stuff). Unfortunately the TF3D music tab does not look in the default storage location...
Basically what I'm asking is - how do I change my Diamond so that when I scroll to the Music tab in TF3D it displays music saved on the internal storage rather than music stored in the (tiny) program memory.
Please help!

I've just created a directory "MP3" on the internal storage and it will always find it there somehow. Don't know if I'm lucky or so but had no problem with all ROMs I've tried so far.
But I do always set the default directory for 'downloaded music' to this MP3 directory.

Basically what I'm asking is - how do I change my Diamond so that when I scroll to the Music tab in TF3D it displays music saved on the internal storage rather than music stored in the (tiny) program memory.
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I have exactly the same issue, it's doing my nut in, someone help PLEASE!!!

But I do always set the default directory for 'downloaded music' to this MP3 directory.
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How do you do that then??

@#[email protected]#$ Ringtones in WMP Library.

Is there a way to keep ringtones out of the library in WMP? They are in there on my main memory library. I have tried deleting them, but the won't go away.
the main problem is that if I use MS voice command and say "Play anything", the darned ringtones start playing.
I have tried setting library to Storge Card, but apparently that setting doesn't prevent MS voice command from grabbing stuff off the internal memory library.
What a pain.
Any solutions/suggestions?

Delete your ringtones

you should try moving your ringtones to the appropriate location where ringtones "should" be kept on the device. try moving them to your windows/rings folder. then update your library. the ringtones should disappear!
that's what happened to me when i scanned my device for music, it picked up all audio files since i had my ringtones on my storage card. i tried moving my ringtones to my device, and it still picked it up in scan. then i moved it to the rings folder in windows directory, scans didnt pick nothing up anymore.

Remove ringtones from WMP library without moving or deleting from storage
ewingr said:
Is there a way to keep ringtones out of the library in WMP? They are in there on my main memory library. I have tried deleting them, but the won't go away.
the main problem is that if I use MS voice command and say "Play anything", the darned ringtones start playing.
I have tried setting library to Storge Card, but apparently that setting doesn't prevent MS voice command from grabbing stuff off the internal memory library.
What a pain.
Any solutions/suggestions?
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People are making this too complicated and/or painful.
I agree that it is stupid that WMP imports ringtones in the first place, but it's a stupid computer program and all it knows is to search for file types.
So, here's what I did that eliminated them from library without moving or deleting them on my Storage Card:
1) Menu>Update Library... adds frickin' everything 'ya got
2) Library>Storage Card>My Music>Artist . . . you will see first listing (at least in my case) is "Unknown". Check this out - this is all the ringtones, alert sounds, etc. Delete all from Library, but not from Device.
3) Repeat step 2 on "My Device", deleting all Unknown from Library, but not from Device.
I hope this solves the problem for you as it did for me.

Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
Kraize

you should try moving your ringtones to the appropriate location where ringtones "should" be kept on the device. try moving them to your windows/rings folder. then update your library. the ringtones should disappear!
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This sounds reasonable, but updating the library, they still come in from the 'new' location, which is My Ringtones.
1) Menu>Update Library... adds frickin' everything 'ya got
2) Library>Storage Card>My Music>Artist . . . you will see first listing (at least in my case) is "Unknown". Check this out - this is all the ringtones, alert sounds, etc. Delete all from Library, but not from Device.
3) Repeat step 2 on "My Device", deleting all Unknown from Library, but not from Device.
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Well, as I noted about deleting them they wouldn't go away, I do find that deleting them the way you say, they appear to go away form Unknown. But they are still in the library somehow, because they do play.
There is no way in the library to search for a song to locate it. Bringing up all songes, they don't come up sorted. And not knowing how/where else they are in there, I can't delete them.
This is so frustrating. Something must be wrong with the WMP library. Moving down through the list of songs, I see some listed 3-4 times.
Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
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I was actually thinking this was the solution, and thought I was setting my default library by select from the pulldown in the LIbary of Storage Card.
But...Advanced Config? Where is that? I have searched though the menus, and options of WMP, and find no Advanced Config.

ewingr said:
But...Advanced Config? Where is that? I have searched though the menus, and options of WMP, and find no Advanced Config.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070

Kraize92 said:
Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
Kraize
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I've installed Advanced Config. I do not see any option on that to set the Default Library. I do see an entry for Default Location for Audio files. I don't interpret this to be the same as a 'default library'. The only entry there for anything to do with WMP is an entry to establish teh default music player.
Do I need to customize it or something to set teh default Library location?

just take the easy route like i stated earlier, just move all your ringtones and custom sounds to the windows/rings folder or straight to the windows folder and it solves this problem. no need to config anything.

NguyenHuu said:
just take the easy route like i stated earlier, just move all your ringtones and custom sounds to the windows/rings folder or straight to the windows folder and it solves this problem. no need to config anything.
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You must have missed my reply that I tried that and it didn't work, post # 6. Thanks for the advice though.

MP3 as ring

I try to copy a mp3 file or a shortcut to the folder \Windows\Rings, but i cannot choose a mp3 in my telephone.

Herbert188 said:
I try to copy a mp3 file or a shortcut to the folder \Windows\Rings, but i cannot choose a mp3 in my telephone.
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internal storage\my documents is the right way to do it because after a hard reset you'll still have them there and you don't use precious device memory.

Tank you!
After hard reboot i found the rings from \windows\rings too (not the shortcut).
But the internal storage\my documents is the right way!!!

If you want to put them on your device memory, the correct location is \My Documents\My Ringtones.

poedgirl said:
If you want to put them on your device memory, the correct location is \My Documents\My Ringtones.
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This might work for rings, but you will find it untrue for SMS notification.
In which case, "My Documents" root will work.

SMS notifications are put in windows folder inside internal storage