Make Your Mobile Ringtone For Free

Why would you pay money for sites offering mobile ringtones while you can make your own easily and free? Almost all the modern mobiles have the capability of setting mp3 files as ringtones. Let us find out how we could make and customize our mobile ringtones the way we like.

I will use a free program called Audacity , it's a free, open source and powerful program for editing and recording audio. Download the program if you do not have it, also make sure to download the free Lame Mp3 Encoder from the same site. Install Audacity and let us start (Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported by Audacity).

Click Edit > Preferences (Ctrl+P), click the File Formats tab, click the Find Library button, in the Export Mp3 dialog box click Yes and browse for the lame_enc.dll file (where you have extracted the Lame Mp3 Encoder which you have downloaded earlier) in order to export your files as mp3.
Change the Bit Rate to at least 128 for a good sound quality and click Ok.
Drag and drop any wave or mp3 file you want, if you have a ram file, you can read How to convert ram to mp3 tutorial.
What you are seeing now is the waveform of the left and right tracks of your song because it is a stereo file. Click the play button to play the file until you are close to where you want your ring tone to start then click the stop button (The buttons located at the top of audacity).
Now click the Zoom in button and click exactly where you want your mobile ringtone to begin. Use your eyes and the Play button to make sure you are in the right place, you can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard for fine-tuning the location and the space bar to Play/Stop.
Click Ctrl+B to add a label track and a new label where your cursor is, click on the label and type Start. You can move the cursor to this Start location anytime by clicking on the little arrow of the start label.
You can repeat the same steps, add a label for the ending of your ringtone and select the waveform between the Start and End labels.
If you want your ringtone to fade out at the end, select about 1 minute starting from the Start label and drag your mouse while looking at the status bar located at the bottom of audacity that will show you your selection length so far. The mouse cursor will change to a pointing hand meaning you are in selection mode.
Click Edit > Move Cursor > To Selection End, Press Ctrl+B to add a new label and name it End.
Select about the last 8 seconds before the End label and click Effect > Fade Out. Notice the change in the waveform.
Click Project > Edit ID3 Tags, type the title and artist and click Ok.
Extend your selection until you reach the Start label, click File > Export Selection As MP3 and save your file.
Upload the mp3 file to your mobile phone and enjoy.

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