mp3 as ringtone

I just got a sony ericsson w810i cell and to my surprise it wont let me use my mp3s as ringtones, it says in the manuel that you cant use copywrited mp3s. Is there a way to fix an mp3 so the phone cant recognize it as copywrited? These are all music that I get from cds I have purchased myself.

ive never heard of a copyrighted mp3. i didnt think that format could contain a protection that would discern it as such. I know wma can do that.

I never knew they could be copywrited either. The only reason I think that, is in the manuel it says you can't use them and on the phone it will use mp3's that came w/ it for ringtones but not the ones i put on there.

burn it to a cd and then rip it back to your hard disk without copywritting it

i have a music phone from kyocera (i know they are different companies) but i have never had a problem yet with copyrighted mp3 ... do you use any sort of memory card and i'm assuming that its the mirco SD if you do use one. If you do just get a Card reader and copy it to the folder where your saved sounds are such as the last place that you go into before you save a new ringtone. or you can get an audio trimmer such as jetaudio and cut the songs down to parts you like or watever and you can save it as .mp3 and up the bitrate and then try it as a ringtone ... Good luck


Btw you can get jetaudio by googling jetaudio6 COWON America

easy fix, switch the format to .midi and make sure it under 300kb, it will work. However all phones have a 300kb limit unless you purchase the phones that have the mp3 players built in.

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Originally posted by hads312

I just got a sony ericsson w810i cell and to my surprise it wont let me use my mp3s as ringtones, it says in the manuel that you cant use copywrited mp3s. Is there a way to fix an mp3 so the phone cant recognize it as copywrited? These are all music that I get from cds I have purchased myself.

Hey I just got the same phone last week and I was wondernig the same thing...other then that I love the phone...its AMAZING alot better then the Motorola V551 that I had (Piece of Crap...had to replace it 3 times in under 2 years)

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Originally posted by IrishCharm

easy fix, switch the format to .midi and make sure it under 300kb, it will work. However all phones have a 300kb limit unless you purchase the phones that have the mp3 players built in.

Hey Irish you say its easy...hahah but I still have no clue on how to switch the format to .midi. is there some place that I can go to figure it out? and yeah the Sony Ericsson w810i has an mp3 player built in to it.

Yeah, the W810i is a sweet phone. I had the previous version, s710a, and the memory cards it used to hold mp3's would only go up to 128mb which was stupid so I switched to this one. I got a program the switched mp3's to midi's and the songs come out sounding like garbage so thats a no go. Anyone else have any other ideas?

Try getting a program to convert to aac format, my n70 plays mp3`s no problem for ringtone and i`v had aac format working too. I`ll try doing some searching for a program that does it as i use my nokia pcsuite to convert to aac.

Cool. That would be great if u could let me know what program will do those kinds of convertions.

just google it

AAC format doesn't work either. My phone can't even play that format as music. Any other ideas? I'm out