Did you hit enter once before pasting the link on the body of the message?? You'll get that message if you don't. I tried it this morning on my v400p and it worked perfectly. 😉

Not a clue who anthony is... But if you know of any other free d/l sites... share the wealth... Another is: sengir.org (It's noty great... but it's free... i prefer rousso) ;)

i just use cingular's site to get them for free ;)

Garland said:
i just use cingular's site to get them for free ;)

pretty soon Qpass will come down on that Garland... and you know what I mean... ;)

speck said:
First of all you have to make sure that the bitrate of the *.mp3 is 40Kbps... Anything higher than that is unrecognized... Second of all it's easier to mms the *.mp3 to the phone than try and d/l from a site... Just e-mail the *.mp3 as an attachment to yourmobile#@mms.mycingular.com

ive used higher than 40k bitrate files without a problem. i has that same problem before, and i think it just has to do with the type of encoding the mp3 is using, (ie. MP3Pro or otherwise) im not at home, so i couldnt tell you mp3 type works best.

It makes sense that encoding software may have something to do w/ it... I personally use the default software that came w/ my Sound Blaster Audigy and everything higher than 40Kbps has simply not worked for me. I guess the best thing to do for you is what I had to do... Trial and error.

I make my own .mp3 tones @ 96kbps and have no problem transferring to my phone via datacable or bluetooth.

We're talking about the v400 here.

I'm talking about the v300/v400/v600/v180/v220 and a630. Their all the same! I've tried them on all these phones and they all work.

Minus the bluetooth transf part right? ;)

The v600 / a630 and when it launches, v3 and v551 have bluetooth.

I had set the bitrate down to 32k, figuring that the file would be smaller and I wouldn't need a higher bitrate anyway; it's just a ringtone after all.

Unfortunately, mailing myself at mms.mycingular.com is a hit-or-miss proposition. I can e-mail *from* my phone to anywhere fine. But, 9 times out of 10 when I try to send e-mail *to* my phone it comes back with a "Recipient unknown" message. This happens even if I reply to a message from the phone.

The odd part is that every now an then it works.

I tried talking to the Cingular folks at the store I got the phone from and their response was 1) we really don't know much about e-mail on those phones and 2) can't we sell you a Blackberry if you want e-mail. 🙄

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I would actually talk to tech support or even go as high as data support... That error should not be occuring, I have seen it once before on a friends phone and he had to get it trouble shooted on the phone... just don't call on the cell phone.

The best way to get "free" ringtones is ,of course, to make them yourself. I had a little trouble when I first started doing this because I was getting an unknown file type error. If you run into that, just make sure your bitrate on your mp3 sample is low enough that it encodes at nothing higher than mpeg - layer 2. Layers 3 and 4 do not work. Once you have that done, just upload it to the free webserver of your choice and type in the link under "go to URL" in webaccess. I'm not at home, so I can't look up the exact bit rate I use, but just experiment a little and you'll find it. The only charges you'll incur are from the data transfer, at either 1 cent per kilobyte or whatever package you're signed up on. There's no way to get around...
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ralph_on_me said:
The best way to get "free" ringtones is ,of course, to make them yourself. I had a little trouble when I first started doing this because I was getting an unknown file type error. If you run into that, just make sure your bitrate on your mp3 sample is low enough that it encodes at nothing higher than mpeg - layer 2. Layers 3 and 4 do not work. Once you have that done, just upload it to the free webserver of your choice and type in the link under "go to URL" in webaccess. I'm not at home, so I can't look up the exact bit rate I use, but just experiment a little and you'll find it. The only charges you'll incur are from the data transfer, at either 1 cent per kilobyte or whatever package you're signe

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Well, I have finally gotten this to work. I did a couple of things so I'm not quite sure what fixed it, but...

First, I switched codecs from the Lame MP3 Encoder to the Windows MP3 Codec. Then, I increased the bit rate from 32k to 40k. I noticed that as a side effect the frequency jumped from 11khz to 22khz.

This worked. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it was the codec, the bit rate or the frequency, but it worked. I just used the go to url function and downloaded the result from the web.

Thanks all. Now I just need to get my mms mail problem fixed.

Ah, the sweet smell of success.

I tried doing that through MMS a while back but it converted the file to .amr and sounded like crap...