Razor & adding music as ring tone to microSD card

I have a Razor which I've added a MicroSD card to. I first copied an MP3
file to the card in the hopes of using it as a ring tone. The phone doesn't
see the MP3 file. I suspect this could be for two reasons; 1) the wrong
format for the sound file? Should it be a WMA? 2) The file wasn't placed in
the proper folder on the microSD card. After adding the card and taking it
back out again I noticed that a large directory structure had been created.
I placed the sound file at the root of this structure. Is there a place in
that structure it should be for the phone to see it as a ring tone? Or will
none of this work? I'd rather not use the CD that came with the phone to
sync data.

Any help appreciated.

JW

"Jerry West" <jw@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:12t2nb8fka6pc5a@news.supernews.com...
>I have a Razor which I've added a MicroSD card to. I first copied an MP3
>file to the card in the hopes of using it as a ring tone. The phone doesn't
>see the MP3 file. I suspect this could be for two reasons; 1) the wrong
>format for the sound file? Should it be a WMA? 2) The file wasn't placed in
>the proper folder on the microSD card. After adding the card and taking it
>back out again I noticed that a large directory structure had been created.
>I placed the sound file at the root of this structure. Is there a place in
>that structure it should be for the phone to see it as a ring tone? Or will
>none of this work? I'd rather not use the CD that came with the phone to
>sync data.

I tried everything, but as far as I could tell, VZW has completely locked
this down so the only way you can download a ringtone is to pay for their
service. I finally ran a cable from the audio out on my computer to the
headset input on the phone and loaded a sound clip that way, which I was
then able to use as a ringtone. It gets converted to analog and then
re-encoded, but on the phone's tiny little speaker, the loss of quality
isn't really noticeable.

On 2/14/2007 10:18 AM, Nick Danger wrote:
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> "Jerry West" <jw@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:12t2nb8fka6pc5a@news.supernews.com...
>> I have a Razor which I've added a MicroSD card to. I first copied an MP3
>> file to the card in the hopes of using it as a ring tone. The phone doesn't
>> see the MP3 file. I suspect this could be for two reasons; 1) the wrong
>> format for the sound file? Should it be a WMA? 2) The file wasn't placed in
>> the proper folder on the microSD card. After adding the card and taking it
>> back out again I noticed that a large directory structure had been created.
>> I placed the sound file at the root of this structure. Is there a place in
>> that structure it should be for the phone to see it as a ring tone? Or will
>> none of this work? I'd rather not use the CD that came with the phone to
>> sync data.
>
> I tried everything, but as far as I could tell, VZW has completely locked
> this down so the only way you can download a ringtone is to pay for their
> service. I finally ran a cable from the audio out on my computer to the
> headset input on the phone and loaded a sound clip that way, which I was
> then able to use as a ringtone. It gets converted to analog and then
> re-encoded, but on the phone's tiny little speaker, the loss of quality
> isn't really noticeable.
>
>
Y'all might find your answers here:

http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/Motorola

Regards
--
Ted
I wasn't born in Texas but
I got back here as soon as I could
(Don't forget to take out the trash)

When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most
trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.

On 2/14/2007 4:18 PM, Ted wrote:
> On 2/14/2007 10:18 AM, Nick Danger wrote:

My apologies for the double sig in above post. Wish I could blame it on
M$ but my bad.

--
Ted
I wasn't born in Texas but
I got back here as soon as I could
(Don't forget to take out the trash)

Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve
death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to
them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-- J. R. R. Tolkein