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How to use Ringdroid
Updated Jan 1, 2010 by dmazz...@gmail.com

Here are some videos that show people using Ringdroid!

Learn how to use Ringdroid from CNet Video
Watch this video of Noah Kravitz of phonedog.com creating a ringtone using Ringdroid!
Ringdroid - Android App Review
How to put Ringtones on Droid HD

Put songs on your SD card

The first step is to copy songs onto your SD card. Connect your handset to your computer using the supplied USB cable. Your handset will now appear on your computer just like a disk, CD-ROM, flash drive, or external disk would. Copy MP3 files and other audio files to your SD card, and then unmount the drive and disconnect the USB cable.

Android supports common file formats like MP3 and AAC (iTunes, unprotected). It does NOT support WMA files.

Tip: Download songs from the Amazon MP3 store

Use the Amazon MP3 application to purchase music. Any MP3 purchased via Amazon can be edited using Ringdroid.

Comment by john.p.g...@gmail.com, Jan 11, 2009

"ERROR WRITING FILE" - Solution - Use Audacity (or whatever) to convert your file to 44100Hz Mp3. Using Audacity, I downloaded LAME v 3.98 ("lame_enc.dll") then pointed Audacity to the .dll through the File Format preferences and then manually change the project rate to 44100Hz (lower left corner of Audacity). When you drop your audio files into Audacity, just Export Multiple as MP3s and your good. I hope that makes sense and works for everyone else. I'm having no trouble making ringtones with RingDroid? now.

Comment by harryper...@gmail.com, Feb 16, 2009

This is an AWSOME app. Nice work!

Comment by j.cabato...@gmail.com, Aug 7, 2009

Works great for me. Awesome app to make your own ringtones.

Comment by j.cabato...@gmail.com, Aug 7, 2009

Another thing. To delete the song you don't want anymore all you gotta do is LONG PRESS ON THE SONG YOU DON'T WANT..

Comment by nic.m...@gmail.com, Sep 30, 2009

Ringdroid has a problem in reading Traditional Chinese file name (but ending with extension.mp3). Could this language support feature be added in future release? Thanks!

Comment by BVernet...@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2009

This program works great erxcept for the fact it killed my alarm clock on my HTC Droid Eris. I tried to save a song as an alarm and not only can i not use the saved song, but now no alarm audio works. I have done ringtones and notifications, but the alarm function does not work and now killed my default alarms too! Please help!?!?!?!?

Comment by geoffrey...@gmail.com, Dec 2, 2009

I have the exact same problem "The Ringdroid (process com.ringdroid has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." on my droid. I was able to open a file the first time. I exited did some file system maintenance and came back and cannot open anything

Comment by GramG...@gmail.com, Dec 3, 2009

Try this: install app "mountusb" its a shortcut for mounting and unmounting the sd card. Anyways, when you get a force close in ringdroid simply launch mountusb - it will tell you to connect to computer which is fine - dont actually connect it though. Then retry ringdroid. Has fixed my force close issues. Is a pain, but this (ringdroid) is such a wonderful app it is worth it. Good job developers!

I believe this may occur due to some flags not being set correctly but who knows. I can open one sing fine, maybe two or three, but after that i get errors and this did the trick for me.

Comment by Porlockj...@gmail.com, Aug 15, 2010

It's a fine app if you ever figure out how to get new files into it. But the note here about putting songs on the SD card is as useless as the CNET video that's recommended and a couple of others I looked at. The little problem: you can connect to your computer and drag files onto the SD to your heart's content, but Ringdroid won't see them if they're not in the right place, and nobody is telling you what the place is.

This problem might be special to the Droid Incredible, or might not; if it's widespread, why has no one posted the simple answer to how to make it work for real? Anyway, here's the answer if you have HTC Droid Incredible and a Mac to connect it to. It should be easy enough to apply with any other combination.

First you have to connect. Plug the USB cable in, and tell your Droid to connect as a Disk, not Charge Only. (There's a notification pull-down once you've connected the cable, or maybe something else if you have a non-Incredible.)

Your Mac Finder will now show two (2, TWO) volumes open, both named NO NAME . One of them will have a folder called media, and in it is one called audio, and in that will be ringtones. Or something. I suspect that on a clean new phone none of these might exist. I'll get to that one in a moment -- well, way down at the bottom in fact.

If these exist, then sure enough, you can drag MP3s or whatever right into the ringtones (or music or notications or alarms) folder. If Finder shows you any one of these, in fact, you can create any of the other folders for yourself, putting it neatly inside audio along with whatever is there. Careful about getting the names right.

If you dragged some music into ringtones, then it will be available as a ringtone in your Settings as soon as you get back to using the phone -- but first you have to disconnect.

Eject those NO NAME volumes. On the phone, set the connection to Charge instead of Disk.

Now the stuff you stored will be available in Settins, in the places you expect them in. And Ringdroid will be able to work on them, whichever place you put them in. Edit one -- like, you probably don't need a whole music track to use as a ringtone? -- and store it back. You can change the name from what Ringdroid suggests. When you next connect to the computer, you'll see this new file just where you expect it.

OK, so maybe none of that exists when you first look in Finder. I don't know if this will happen, but here's how to fix it, I think. Disconnect and go back to the phone. Bring up Ringdroid and edit some darn thing. And store it back using the floppy-disk icon. Doesn't matter what you store it as, ringtone or whatever.

Now when you reconnect to the computer, you'll find that media stuff somewhere. I think. And you can esily carry on from there.

Happy ringtoning. The edit feature is very nice, and don't forget you can zoom in to find the exact place where the music pauses so that it cuts off cleanly.

Comment by remus...@gmail.com, Oct 29, 2010
Porlockjunior, THANKS SO MUCH. I've been trying to do so many things to create my own notifications from using mobile17 which doesn't send songs to my phone, to changing m4a's to mp3's and loading them onto my SD card through a mac only to find that ringdroid doesn't find it.
Comment by Alex.Mor...@gmail.com, Feb 3, 2011

Nice idea. Finally an answer. Thanks Prolockj

Comment by louis.zb...@gmail.com, Feb 20, 2011

I am having similar problems in that Ringdroid is not finding a song that is under the music file on my SD card.

Comment by sathapat...@comcast.net, Jun 29, 2011

Is there a way to send ringtones? I want to send one to my wife

Comment by janetde...@gmail.com, Jul 20, 2011

I am having a problem with ringtones vanishing from my phone. I created some ringtones for my HTC Inspire (AT&T) using Ringdroid. Everything worked beautifully. I found the app very easy to use. One day, when I turned phone on, my selected ringtone had vanished. Phone had been turned off and on several times with nothing gone. I was able to put it back on, but every time I turned phone off, it disappeared.

Someone suggested creating folder called "ringtones" and moving files there. I did that and that worked for a while. Last night I turned phone off to charge and this morning the 4 ringtones I created with Ringdroid were gone. How do I keep this from happening? I know other people have had the same problem.

Comment by Chaotic...@yopmail.com, Sep 19, 2011

Needs to show WAV files. Especially those from H1, H2, or H4

And allow raping them into high bitrate mp3

Comment by pikappap...@yahoo.com, Nov 21, 2011

I assigned a ringtone to a contact but it is not working properly. If I set the created ringtone to my default it works fine. I am running Ringdroid 2.5 on a Samsung Intercept. Thanks in advance.

Comment by h.quayef...@gmail.com, Jan 3, 2012

Whenever i try using songs on my sd card its says its too big

Comment by joytatum...@yahoo.com, Jan 10, 2012

The songs are breaking up when they play the one that I have set for notifications how can I fix it??

Comment by laurenis...@gmail.com, Jan 11, 2012

My question is... i am looking for an app on my so that i may be able to create ringtones for my phone using songs on my sd card... this i have had success... the problem i facing now is that i want to be able to incorporate more than one song in a mix... i have been searching through apps on my phone for about two to three hours... i am finding it difficult to find... does such a thing exist as an application for a mobile device?

Comment by slevindo...@gmail.com, May 25 (42 hours ago)

has anyone had the problem where everything that you have set up through ringdroid just disappears and you are back to a default ringtone for the phone and all contacts. I had about six contacts with special ringtones that worked just great and then suddenly all ringtones were a droid default tone. Anyone had this happen and know how to prevent it?


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