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Another newbie question.... ringtones

Possibly another obvious question here for you (yawn) my appologies...!
Ive downloaded a few ringtones for my XDA and loaded them onto activesync>mymobiledevice>windows>rings
So, to use them, it should be a simple case of start>settings>phone>ringtone then select the one i want.
However, they dont show in this menu, and i cant find them anywhere else.
Am i missing something?
Thanks
Matt

I don't have the answer to this. Just joining you in the question. Sticking mp3's in the windows/rings directory (of my xda 2) doesn't do the trick. Weird.

Doh. Found the answer: (by using the search button: doh x2)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=18609&highlight=himalaya+ringtone+problem

Ok so now i have it working... i didnt seem to do anything different, my tones have now simply appeared under ringtones - but they wont play! The standard pre-set tones play, but my loaded wav files wont!
Can anyone tell me why? :evil:

wav is an odd std and they differ in format really
if the wav is not acpm type they cant be played
wma is kinda like mp3 and those also works but only for rings not for std pda notifications

SOLVED! make the HTC Music Player (TF3D music tab) library IGNORE specific folders?

Anybody know how to make the HTC music player (think it's called AudioManager) on the TF3D music tab completely IGNORE specific folders when its creating the library?
I have a folder into which I save recorded phone calls (yes, its legal here in Minnesota, I checked). But if I want to have the music player play ALL songs on random, I'll be driving along listening to music and all of a sudden the next song is a friggin phone call I saved. Kinda lame.
Anybody know how to fix this? I know there is a registry key to make the HTC Album ignore specific folders, so I tried copying that key into the Audio Manager area of the registry, but it didn't work (of course).
Greatly appreciate any help!

I save my ringtones on my SD card so that they're easier to recover after a hard reset or a new ROM flash. To prevent the music player from picking them up, I save them into a zip file. In your case, you'll have to manually move the file into the zip every time you finish recording a call. If that's sounds ok to you, then you can give this a shot.

Yeah, that'd be alot of work for me right now. I'm going through some crap which requires me to save at least a couple calls a day, so having to constantly re-zip stuff would get pretty cumbersome.
Actually though, I might try that. I think the player only refreshes the library when run for the first time, after which you have to delete the .vol file in the Application Data -> HTC -> AudioManager folder. So if that's true, I could zip what I currently have, force the library to refresh, and then unzip and leave them alone.
I'll see if that works, and the player doesn't automatically refresh the library and find those files again.
Thanks for the suggestion...

SOLVED!!!
Sweet!
While using Resco Explorer to try your suggestion, I stumbled upon the solution! I was looking to see if I could zip them directly with Rescoe, which you can't do, when I had another idea.
Using Rescoe, all I had to do was make the FOLDER with the audio files I did NOT want included in the library a HIDDEN FOLDER. Then went to the music tab in TF3D and bam! Those files were no longer in the library!
Sweet!!!
So thanks for your suggestion, it was that alone which made me figure out this unbelievably easy way to pull this off!
Oh, and sure enough, the call recorder still works and has no problem storing the recorded phone calls in the hidden folder. I'm using ACR - Automatic Call Recorder, in case anyone is wondering. It's FREE, and works great.
Thanks!

The Finish In Touch
I Know, double posting, but it's the real solution and i've been searching all over the forum, so to help others i've answered this thread as well.
Here's what i did and found:
EDIT REGISTRY
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig]
"device_scan_path_type_0"=dword:00000001
"device_scan_path_path_0"="\My Documents"
"device_scan_path_path"="\My Documents"
"music_player_time_mode"=dword:00000000
"music_player_mute"=dword:00000000
"music_player_shuffe"=dword:00000000
"music_player_loop"=dword:00000000
"music_player_index"=dword:00000000
"ring_tone_path"="\My Documents\\My Ringtones\"
"uid"=dword:000113E5
"drag_mute_timer"=dword:00000000
"Resume_play_delay_time"=dword:000007D0
"music_player_volumn"=dword:00000064
"Request_Memory"=dword:00300000
"Enable_ForcePrevious"=dword:00000001
"enter_suspend"=dword:00000001
"disable_mute_hotkey"=dword:00000001
ADD new STRING
"sd_exclude_path_path_0"="\My Ringtones"
ADD new DWORD
"sd_exclude_path_type_0"=dword:00000000
Each folder you want to exclude needs a STRING and a DWORD
The number in above example (_0) is the number of the "folder set" if there's already a number just add 1.
The DWORD 1 means device 0 for storage card
For example if i'll add another one:
folder on device "\My Documents\Recordings"
ADD new STRING
"sd_exclude_path_path_1"="\My Documents\Recordings"
ADD new DWORD
"sd_exclude_path_type_1"=dword:00000001
Restart device (soft reset), no need to hide any folders

Thanks for this
Hi Softappz,
Thanks for this solution just tried it on my HD2 and it's banished those pesky ringtones from the player

Doesn't work for me when I enter
"sd_exclude_path_path_0"="\Program Files"
"sd_exclude_path_type_0"=dword:00000000
It finds some ring tones in the sub-folders. Do I have to specify every single sub-folder?

This will serve me a lot! thanks

Didn't work for me. So I used the solution found here.
Quick note: Total Commander did not make sub-directories hidden as well. I had to mount my sd on my pc and manually set any folder I wanted as hidden. It all works flawlessly now

I still can't get the reg entries to work. I've looked into hiding folders and this doesn't work either.
The only way I can find to do this is to hide the actual audio files. This can be done in total-commander - but as akpidis found out if you want to hide sub-folders and files then you will need to do this from a PC. You can select multiple audio files from total commander (you can even do a search for all .mp3 files in sub-folders) and then set them as hidden, which may be better than hiding all files and folders from PC.
Hope this helps someone. (I'm using TouchFlo2.1)

sms ringtone

Is there a way to have different ringtone for different peoples sms messages?

BUMB would like to know also
and i cant make custom tones for my SMS

Same here

so far the only way I have done it is to rename the sound I want to one of the default sounds name (ex. Alert-High) and over write it in windows folder.
I thought there was a registry add to add custom sounds to the list but I cant find it.
This doesn't allow custom sounds for different people but it allows A custom sound for SMS/MMS

Try Qorefunctions
they make a program called InBox Tones that is supposed to do the trick.
I used in on my Fuze but it kept crashing or hanging, probably overwhelming the system resources. I'm optimistic it will do much better on the Tilt 2 but haven't gotten around to checking it out yet
Good luck!

try the Ringo Mobile
http://ringomo.com/windows.php
I use this program a lot of years and it is working perfectly (some time I have to delete the file /My Documents/ringo.log because increases very much!)

yeah i had this same problem. i ended up moving the sound file to windows/rings. it wont read them from "my ringtones"

Where are the ringtones/alerts?

Alright go easy on me guys. I searched the rhodium forums and all the results pretty much showed me to all the various rom's that are available, i guess the word ringtone, alerts or w.e must be in each one.
is there any packages out there somewhere for some custom ringtones? I want a bigger selection than whats available on my phone now. Any ideas?

You can use whatever mp3 file you want. Just put it in the "application data\sounds\" directory and you'll be able to select them.
I personally just cut out a part of a song to use as a ringtone and then use movie/tv quotes as SMS and email notifications.

HTC Media Player or WMP Help

Okay Ive looked everywhere for this question or answer, and it doesnt seem to exist, so I'll ask. Is there a hack, registry edit, or some unknown key sequence to add files to the library? Now before you all go nuts, I am not talking about the update library command. I have near 400 ringtones, plus mp3's plus videos. When I hit update library it updates everything it finds. I dont want that, I want to be able to choose what to add and not have to do it one file at a time. Is there a way to choose a folder and have it scan that folder only so this way the ringtones dont get added to the library?
And as a comment, it really sucks that there is no way to select more then one file, like selecting 10-15 files at a time in file explorer, really didnt want to add a third party software for such a simple command

is there a way to manage playlist from computer with any program rather than using the tf3d library? its kinda long to create many playlist
thanks