This chapter discusses contents of the Options window: what certain items mean, what they do and how you can use them. But first of all, let's discuss the main idea of Ringtone Creator's projects.
Ringtone Creator allows you to apply the same conversion to a group of ringtones and thus save time on doing the same thing to different ringtones. Your workflow will consist of the following steps:
– add sound files into your project
– set conversion options (described in this chapter)
– define output folder or file
– run conversion
This workflow seems obvious, and if you also think so, we've done a good job of creating a tool, which is powerful and easy to use.
Q: what if I need to apply two groups of options to the same set of ringtones?
A: you may need to do the job twice. If conversion options for both groups don't intersect, you can perform both conversions in a single run.
Here's the Formats configuration window:
This window allows you to select the target formats and their options. Let's describe all formats / options in details:
| Format / option | Explanation |
| RTTTL / RTX (monophonic) | Meta-format for representing monophonic ringtones |
| Explicit scales | Put scale numbers for each note (override default scale shifts) |
| Find cycles | If the ringtone is represented with a repeating pattern, this option will “fold” all such pattern occurences. Applies to RTX only |
| MIDI / MIDI 0 / SP-MIDI (polyphonic) | The most popular formats of polyphonic ringtones |
| Compact | Remove all textual information (except name) and modify the ringtone in a way to preserve quality but reduce file size |
| No vibration notes | Remove all vibration messages |
| Normalize vibra channel | If vibration channel of the source ringtone is polyphonic, it'll be brought down to monophonic |
| IMelody 1.0, 1.2 (monophonic) | EMS (Enhanced Messaging System) official ringtone format(s) |
| Compact | Remove all textual information (except name) |
| Explicit scale | Put note scales for all notes, overriding a default scale |
| Find cycles | Identify cycles in a ringtone and put the cycle identifier instead of repeating the same contents several time |
| No vibe, led or back | Ignore all control messages for vibra battery, led or backlight management |
| No carriage returns | By default, music information is split in 70-characters lines. This option allows having a single long string containing the ringtone information (please be careful, because the resulting IMelody file will be non-compliant with the standard) |
| No volume changes | Ignore all volume-related messages in a ringtone. Volume of a resulting ringtone will be constant |
| eMelody(monophonic) | Ringtone format for old Ericsson phones. Compatible with EMS |
| Headers | * None: don't write any headers (default); * Detailed: write all headers |
| Extended eMelody | Write output in the extended format, which supports dots |
| No 128-byte limit | Write the whole melody ignoring the 128-bytes limitation |
| Nokia (binary, text) (monophonic) | Nokia proprietary (Smart Messaging) format. * Binary stands for 8-bit encoding; * Text stands for 7-bit encoding |
| Explicit scale | Override default scale shifts and specify scales for each note |
| Find cycles | Identify cycles in a ringtone and put the cycle identifier instead of repeating the same contents several time |
| Insert User Data Header | Prepend the ringtone with additional User Data Header, thus making your file ready for transmission |
| Motorola (monophonic) | Motorola proprietary ringtone format |
| Yamaha SMAF MA 1, 2, 3, phrases (mixed) | Yamaha proprietary ringtone format (very popular) |
| Read only | Make ringtones read-only (disallow saving and forwarding). This mode is sometimes called “preview mode” |
| No transfer | Allow playing and saving a ringtone; disallow forwarding |
| Replace Crash Cymbal | Certain phones have problems playing notes with the Crash Cymbal instrument, so this option replaces this instrument with a similar sounding one |
| Sagem 1.0 (monophonic) | Sagem proprietary format |
| Sagem 2.1 (polyphonic) | Sagem proprietary format |
| WAVE (PCM) | Generic PCM-based format |
| Channel count | Allows specifying whether the target sound must be monophonic or stereophonic. No checkmarks mean that the number of channels will be determined based on the source sound file |
| Type | Takes one the following values:
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| Sample Rate | Takes one the following values:
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| AU (PCM) | PCM-based format by Sun Microsystems |
| Type | Takes one the following values:
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| Sample Rate | Takes one the following values:
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| MP3 (PCM) | Loss-Compressed PCM files |
| Mono / Stereo | Default – don't make any changes
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| Bitrate | Takes one the following values:
This format will be disabled if MP3 codec is not configured properly in Codecs window |
| Use ABR | Set this flag if you want to use Average Bit Rate instead of Constant Bit Rate |
| AMR NB (PCM) | Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow-Band format by 3GPP |
| Bitrate | Takes one the following values:
This format will be disabled if AMR NB codec is not configured properly in Codecs window |
| AMR WB (PCM) | Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide-Band format by 3GPP |
| Bitrate | Takes one the following values:
This format will be disabled if AMR WB codec is not configured properly in Codecs window |
| Qualcomm CMX (mixed) | Qualcomm CMX |
| Version | Takes one the following values:
Please note that versions prior to 3.0 don't contain PCM data and are in fact polyphonic and not mixed. |
| Copyrighted | Takes one the following values:
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| Content origin | Takes one the following values:
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| Wave encoder | Takes one the following values:
QCELP-13K option will be disabled if Pure Voice? external QCP converter is not configured properly in Codecs window. |
| Number of loops | Repeat ringtone as many times as specified in text field. Valid values are from 0 to 15. 15 means Infinity repeating. |
| Macromedia Flash (PCM) | Macromedia Flash .swf format. It's not a ringtone format, but it's very convenient to store your ringtone previews in. Available with Unwiredtec Impression Engine plugin only |
| EMS (monophonic) | Extended Messaging Service-compatible ringtone format. It incorporates IMelody format plus EMS header |
| Compact | If checked, write minimum IMelody ringtone information |
| Number of messages | The maximum number of EMS messages you want to split the ringtone into |
| AIFF (PCM) | Audio Interchange File Format by Apple |
| Channel Count | Takes one the following values:
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| Type | Takes one the following values:
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| Sample Rate | Takes one the following values:
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| Mixing method | Takes one the following values:
Applies to 1-channel (monophonic) sound files only |
| Qualcomm QCP (PCM) | Qualcomm QCP |
| Rate | Takes one the following values:
This format will be disabled if QCP codec is not configured properly in Codecs window |
Let's discuss four extremely useful buttons you may choose to use:
Select All – select all formats available to you. Default options will be used if you haven't changed them some time ago.
Clear All – Opposite to the previous operation. Options will not be reverted
Note-based ringtones – Choose only formats representing note-based ringtones (monophonic and mixed in the table above)
PCM ringtones – Choose only formats representing PCM-based ringtones (PCM and mixed in the table above)
A couple of final words: if you want to convert note-based or mixed ringtones into PCM formats, you'll need Unwiredtec Sound Engine plugin. Without this plugin installed, you'll get empty PCM files after such conversion.
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