Wife wants a ring tone putting on her phone. The ring tone is the Scout
song Ging Gang Goolie etc. The phone is a Nokia 6303, but the manual
does not mention putting ring tones onto it. It has been suggested that
I use the recorder facility on the phone, but I'm no too sure.

Dave

Dave wrote:
> Wife wants a ring tone putting on her phone. The ring tone is the Scout
> song Ging Gang Goolie etc.

Time for a divorce?

On 12 Mar, 16:11, Dave <daven> wrote:
> Wife wants a ring tone putting on her phone.

You need three things to do this easily:
* A phone that plays MP3s, not just magic ringtone files (anything
mainstream in the last few years)
* A phone that connects easily to a desktop PC (anything in the last
few years)
* Minimal fiddling

Download a copy of Audacity as a sound editor.

Find an MP3 of the whole song, or make your own by recording a
jamboree (I presume that if you want this, you know where to obtain
it)

Slice it up into 20 seconds or so with Audacity, just to save a bit of
space.

Upload it to the phone. Most phones (and probably a 6303, although I
don't know how old that is) support some sort of USB / Bluetooth /
memory card that will allow you to connect them to a PC well enough to
do a simpel file transfer. The target directory is important and will
be the one with the ringtone samples in it.

Fiddle with the phone's own menus to choose the track you want.

If it's a recent Nokia, you put contact names into "groups" and attach
the ringtone to a group, not to individual numbers.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> Wife wants a ring tone putting on her phone. The ring tone is the
>> Scout song Ging Gang Goolie etc.
>
> Time for a divorce?

Could I afford it?

Dave

Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 12 Mar, 16:11, Dave <daven> wrote:
>> Wife wants a ring tone putting on her phone.
>
> You need three things to do this easily:
> * A phone that plays MP3s, not just magic ringtone files (anything
> mainstream in the last few years)
> * A phone that connects easily to a desktop PC (anything in the last
> few years)
> * Minimal fiddling
>
> Download a copy of Audacity as a sound editor.

I've got that. It was used to remove the verbal intro from the music.

> Find an MP3 of the whole song, or make your own by recording a
> jamboree (I presume that if you want this, you know where to obtain
> it)

I've got an edited version of what she wants.

> Slice it up into 20 seconds or so with Audacity, just to save a bit of
> space.

Yes, I did wonder about the length.

> Upload it to the phone. Most phones (and probably a 6303, although I
> don't know how old that is)

Only a couple of months I think.

> support some sort of USB / Bluetooth /
> memory card that will allow you to connect them to a PC well enough to
> do a simpel file transfer. The target directory is important and will
> be the one with the ringtone samples in it.

She doesn't have a USB lead for it, but I do have a bluetooth and
infrared dongles.

> Fiddle with the phone's own menus to choose the track you want.
>
> If it's a recent Nokia, you put contact names into "groups" and attach
> the ringtone to a group, not to individual numbers.

Noted all and I'll print it out for later

Many thanks

Dave

"Dave" <davenpat> wrote in message
news:nz2d
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> I've got that. It was used to remove the verbal intro from the music.
>> I've got an edited version of what she wants.
>> Yes, I did wonder about the length.
>> Only a couple of months I think.
>> She doesn't have a USB lead for it, but I do have a bluetooth and infrared
> dongles.

It does have a mini USB connector


>> Fiddle with the phone's own menus to choose the track you want.

i.e. upload it to the memory (or better still spend a fiver on a 2 Gb Micro
SD card).

Within the phone software, navigate to the folder you saved it to, and when
you've found it, select the 'Options' button. Scroll down to the 'use tone'
option and select 'Set as Ringing tone'.

OG wrote:

snip


>> She doesn't have a USB lead for it, but I do have a bluetooth and
>> infrared dongles.
>
> It does have a mini USB connector

Yes, and I have found the connector in the box. I just need to find my
USB extension cable now.

>>> Fiddle with the phone's own menus to choose the track you want.
>
> i.e. upload it to the memory (or better still spend a fiver on a 2 Gb
> Micro SD card).

I've located the slot for it. Can I pre-load the card with the ring tone
prior to fitting it? I have a reader / writer adaptor that will accept
the card and plug into my computer.

> Within the phone software, navigate to the folder you saved it to, and
> when you've found it, select the 'Options' button. Scroll down to the
> 'use tone' option and select 'Set as Ringing tone'.


I'll have a play with it when I am feeling a bit better, I have a bad
chest at the moment.

Thanks for your help and time

Dave

My nokia can take the ringtone from any folder on it.
And although its possible to have separate ringtones for groups or
individuals
its easier just to set it as the default ringtone for General mode.


My ringtone is Summertime.





Dave wrote:
[..]

george [dicegeorge] wrote:
> My nokia can take the ringtone from any folder on it.
> And although its possible to have separate ringtones for groups or
> individuals
> its easier just to set it as the default ringtone for General mode.
>> My ringtone is Summertime.

As I can't find the ring tone on my computer, I'll make a new one and
put it onto a memory stick and get our son to do it. It's the easiest
way for me :-)

No comebacks, no hassle :-)

Dave

"Dave" <davenpat> wrote in message
news:nz2d
> OG wrote:
>
> snip
>>
> Yes, and I have found the connector in the box. I just need to find my USB
> extension cable now.
>> I've located the slot for it. Can I pre-load the card with the ring tone
> prior to fitting it? I have a reader / writer adaptor that will accept the
> card and plug into my computer.

Yes, you can do that. No problems. You can also pre-load some podcasts/music
files as well.

>> Within the phone software, navigate to the folder you saved it to, and
>> when you've found it, select the 'Options' button. Scroll down to the
>> 'use tone' option and select 'Set as Ringing tone'.
>> I'll have a play with it when I am feeling a bit better, I have a bad
> chest at the moment.

Not good.

> Thanks for your help and time

No problem.

I don't know about you, but if you're interested . . .
at first I didn't see the point of using the Nokia Suite to synch with my
PC, but after suffering a dropped phone which threatened to lose all my
saved contacts and calendar entries I think I see the point now.

If you ever lose or damage your phone beyond repair, you can backup
everything from your computer.

In my case I'd cracked the screen, but using the software and the USB cable
I could read and reply to emails without relying on the phone's screen.

The software also synchs with Outlook, so you can keep track of
diary/calendar entries on your phone or on your PC.

Oh, and if you do damage your screen - there are city centre repair places
that will do it for about £30, but for lots of popular phones you can buy
replacement screens for less than £20.

"OG" <owen> wrote in message

> In my case I'd cracked the screen, but using the software and the USB
> cable I could read and reply to emails without relying on the phone's
> screen.
>

meant to write 'texts' rather than 'emails'

OG wrote:

> I don't know about you, but if you're interested . . .
> at first I didn't see the point of using the Nokia Suite to synch with
> my PC, but after suffering a dropped phone which threatened to lose all
> my saved contacts and calendar entries I think I see the point now.
>
> If you ever lose or damage your phone beyond repair, you can backup
> everything from your computer.
>
> In my case I'd cracked the screen, but using the software and the USB
> cable I could read and reply to emails without relying on the phone's
> screen.
>
> The software also synchs with Outlook, so you can keep track of
> diary/calendar entries on your phone or on your PC.
>
> Oh, and if you do damage your screen - there are city centre repair
> places that will do it for about £30, but for lots of popular phones you
> can buy replacement screens for less than £20.

Many thanks for that info. I never thought about using it that way. I
have some ones dead phone in front of me at the moment. I'm going to
have a play with that later.

Back to the ring tone, wife is a happy bunny now. I stripped out the
part of the song she wanted and edited it and our son put it onto her
phone as an MP3. The only problem I had was that Audacity could not
export the ring tone as MP3, so I had to download a DLL.

Many thanks to all who have contributed to this project.

Dave