how Can i play windows media files as ringtones

[Guest MacKay1323]

Is there any way i can use music off of my window media player as ring tones or is there any way at all can i just use the muisc from my pc as ring tone

[Guest shadamehr]

HTC Tornado devices can ALREADY, out of the box, use wma files as ringtones mate - not sure what you are asking, unless, quite understandably, you are new to smartphones and never knew this.

SO hopefully, it helps to tell you that you can use them as is - no need to convert.

Though being a small speaker on the phone, they dont need to be massive 360K bitrate songs - they can easily work as 64K or 96K files, to save room.

But the tornado based devices, just as most other newer Windows Mobile Devices - ney all, what am I saying - all of them - can use wma files as ringtones.

You can even save them on Memory Card, as long as they go in a folder called "Storage Card\My Documents"

[Guest shadamehr]

Further to your email to me mate - I prefer to answer on here so other people can also see the answer...

Ok, to do this you do the following...

Connect your phone to your PC by ActiveSync, by whatever means you usually do this - i.e. the cable, or via Bluetooth. I am assuming you know how to do this already, as it's a lesson in itself if not, but usually one of the first things you have to learn to do with your phone.

Ok, once the phone is connected and ready, click on the EXPLORE icon, on ActiveSync, on ytour PC.

This will open up a normal browser window, where you can browse the files and folders on your phone.

Right - with me so far? If so, you need to browse to EITHER, the Storage > My Documents folder, if you are storing them on the phone, OR the Storage Card > My Documents folder, if you want to store your ringtones, on the memory card if you have one.

Then, this is the easy bit... Using another, normal Windows Explorer window on your pc, browse to the files you want to use as the ringtone (the Windows Media Audio files you have as songs).

Now simply drag these files from the folder window on your pc, into the folder window you opened before showing the My Documents folder ON YOUR PHONE. (in layman's dirty terms, "find the songs you want on your pc, and then drag and drop them onto the correct folder on your phone")

Once it has copied them across, they are now in the right place.

You will now find that if you go into the settings menu on the phone, "Start > Settings > Sounds", you will now be able to set one of these songs as a ringtone.

Additionally, in your contats list, when editing each individual contact, you will be able to set an individual ringtone now, the same way.

Try this, and let us know how you get on.

Please make sure that these files really are .wma files you are trying to use though.

(mp3 also works automatically now on SOME windows smartphones, and that was what I was getting confused with at first, in my original post).