Please help a newb out eh?

[Ironbar]

Hey folks. I just got a new Droid the other day. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, however I'm having a real problem with the whole ringtone issue. Please forgive me.

I've been cruising the Internet for the last two days loooking for instructions on how to download new ringtones for the Droid. In virtually every example I've found, the person relaying the instructions communicates as if I already know the technospeak needed to successfully complete the task. Alas I do not.

Is there anyone out there willing to take a crack at giving me the "Downloading Ringtones for Dummies" version of how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

[astronaut]

There is a section of this forum called Droid FAQs. You can find a ton of stuff there. The specific topic you are asking about is covered here:

How to download and Use Ringtones

[Sasquatchs Droid]

Hey folks. I just got a new Droid the other day. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, however I'm having a real problem with the whole ringtone issue. Please forgive me.

I've been cruising the Internet for the last two days loooking for instructions on how to download new ringtones for the Droid. In virtually every example I've found, the person relaying the instructions communicates as if I already know the technospeak needed to successfully complete the task. Alas I do not.

Is there anyone out there willing to take a crack at giving me the "Downloading Ringtones for Dummies" version of how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Im with you IronBar. Ive searched and found the same fg thing. Its drivin me nuts!!

[scottypinthemix]

here's how I did it b4 I knew my way around the phone:

I installed ringdroid
made a ringtone and saved it
Then I made a notification tone and saved it

ringdroid created a /media/audio/ringtone directory and a /media/audio/notifications directory on the SD card

Once those are there, you can edit MP3s and USB them into those folders so they show up as options in ring tones and notification tones.

[Backnblack]

And by USB them into the folders means, Plug the Droind into your PC, pull down the notification bar, Mount the sdcard, Now your PC can see it as a drive and you can drag and drop....

[scottypinthemix]

And by USB them into the folders means, Plug the Droind into your PC, pull down the notification bar, Mount the sdcard, Now your PC can see it as a drive and you can drag and drop....

yes. my bad for being a little vague

[UNOME]

Scottypinthemix, you stated, "here's how I did it b4 I knew my way around the phone:"...I did dload ringdroid and was able to make a ringtone a Notification, which before, I'd search for ringtones that I had manually drag/dropped via USB that for some reason only gave 1 out of the 6 .mp3 files availability and that availability was only for Ringtone and NOT for Notifications. Can you elaborate on what you mean by kow your way around the phone, if I want to remove ringDroid and still have success with classifying Ringtones vs. Notifications in the future?! Thanks...as I have been reunited with my all-time favorite text notification!!

[listenman20]

well if you haven't figured it out yet....those things that come in to your phone and make the notification bar light up are your notification tones. and you have ringtones for when you actually get a call. on the droid those are 2 separate things. you may put your homemade file in ringtones but when you go to set up a notification it's not in that group to be selected. so what you may want to do is get astro file manager app so you can move tones around on your phone without having to plug in. but otherwise any tone you place in your ringtones folder will need to be put in your notifications folder to show up there as well. the tones don't have to be in both folders, unless you want to use it for both. basically if you want your mp3 of larry the cable guy telling you that you have a text message you'll need it in the notifications folder. or him saying "answer the phone, stupid" will need to be in your ringtones folder. and additionally if you want him saying "wake up sunshine". that will need to be in a folder labeled alarm. so it will show up in our alarm tones.

[PhoenixGTR]

You can also download soundboards from the market which will put the sounds in the right directory from the app.
I dl'ed a Star Wars and a Star Trek one, and set my notification sound to R2D2. Still working on getting different notification sounds for different events. When I got the Droid the notification sound for everything was "Droid". When I set R2D2 as notification, it's there except when the phone starts up and the SD card initializes, now for some reason it rings instead of being R2D2--I guess that makes sense if it's before it accesses the SD card--but why that sound changed from the apparent default of "Droid"and how to change it back is something I'm still trying to work out (anyone know?)

Idl'ed ringdroid too but haven't made any tones with it yet cos it doesn't edit wma files yet; had to convert to mp3. Looks very user friendly though
In the meantime Mabilo Ringtones is pretty good.

[b00mb00mchuck]

Got one word for ya

Zedge

Download it from the market and it solves all these problems for you...

Gives you ton's of ringtones and wallpapers to download with one click...

You can preview them before downloading...

Includes adult content

And let's you use any ringtone for anything on your phone.... even alarm clock

Edit: if you uninstall the zedge app.. you keep the ringtones... but you lose the ability to use them across all your notifications... but as you learn more about your Droid it won't matter because you will be able to copy them to whatever folder you choose...