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Andy Sjostrom
08-05-2002, 08:50 AM
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/downloads/installringtones.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/downloads/installringtones.asp</a><br /><br />I used to not care at all about ring tones. Who needed them? What was the difference between the default ring tone and the ones I could have paid for? They all sounded beep-beep-beep, anyway. Enter Pocket PC Phone Edition and the ability to use any Wave-file as a ring tone! Is this is the end for all those US$1 beep-beep-beep ring tones schemes?<br /><br />I have sampled (recorded) a couple of favorite music tracks and use those as my ring tones. Now, Microsoft releases five Ring Tone Packs with sounds, music and songs tailored as ring tones. My favorite is the men's choir singing that I need to pick up the phone! Go check them out!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/ring_1.jpg" />
PlayAgain?
08-05-2002, 09:18 AM
Does anyone know how I can extract the sound files from the setup.exe? I'd like to try these on my Nokia since they sound quite intriguing (being Welsh, I love the sound of a male-voice-choir)!
Jonathon Watkins
08-05-2002, 01:01 PM
How would you play them on your Nokia? Nokia don't even have poymorphic phone, let alone the means to get a .wav onto them do they?
EllenBeeman
08-05-2002, 01:27 PM
Does the PPC Phone Edition let you assign a different .wav ringtone to specific contacts? One of our Nokias lets us do that with ordinary ringtones, but it'd be great to be able to customize so the ringtone is a wave file like "Ben is calling, Ben is calling!", for example (Ben being one of my business partners who calls me frequently.)

---Ell
pt
08-05-2002, 02:54 PM
Does anyone know how I can extract the sound files from the setup.exe? I'd like to try these on my Nokia since they sound quite intriguing (being Welsh, I love the sound of a male-voice-choir)!

just say no to nokia.

cheers,
pt
PlayAgain?
08-05-2002, 02:58 PM
How would you play them on your Nokia? Nokia don't even have poymorphic phone, let alone the means to get a .wav onto them do they?

Sorry, I wasn't being very clear - I have a Nokia 9210 Communicator. I've had the same WAVs as ringtones for ages (I wander between Star Trek and Blues Brothers WAV profiles) and thought that these that Nady mentioned would be nice - shame I can't hear them :cry:
pt
08-05-2002, 03:06 PM
Sorry, I wasn't being very clear - I have a Nokia 9210 Communicator. I've had the same WAVs as ringtones for ages (I wander between Star Trek and Blues Brothers WAV profiles) and thought that these that Nady mentioned would be nice - shame I can't hear them :cry:

i think having cool and compelling content for pocket pc phones is supposed to cause you do reevaluate your current phone (nokia 9210) and get this one. microsoft is going to have oodles of wavs, and i'm sure there's going to be tons of people doing rings packs, just like the pocket pc theme sites have over 20,000+ themes now!

cheers,
pt
adamz
08-05-2002, 03:44 PM
Yeah, I wanted to hear these ringtones, too. But I guess they're not really WAV files? I guess they won't work on my GSM/GPRS Wireless Pack for the iPAQ, eh?
I'll just have to live with real WAV files like the one of Meg Ryan's fake orgasm from "When Harry Met Sally". :)
pt
08-05-2002, 03:53 PM
Yeah, I wanted to hear these ringtones, too. But I guess they're not really WAV files? I guess they won't work on my GSM/GPRS Wireless Pack for the iPAQ, eh?
I'll just have to live with real WAV files like the one of Meg Ryan's fake orgasm from "When Harry Met Sally". :)

they're really real wav files.

if the gsm/gprs pack supports wav files, then these will work, but they're intended for a pocket pc phone edition.

cheers.
pt
innersky
08-05-2002, 05:00 PM
Does anyone know how I can extract the sound files from the setup.exe? I'd like to try these on my Nokia since they sound quite intriguing (being Welsh, I love the sound of a male-voice-choir)!

You can install this setup on any Pocket PC. After installing the .wav files are in \Windows\Rings. Just copy them afterwards back to your computer. :)
adamz
08-06-2002, 10:46 PM
Got 'em. They work just fine on the GSM/GPRS Wireless Expansion pack from Compaq. The voice quartet ones are quite cool indeed! :) Ha!