Yesterday I had occasion to play with HTC Touch Dual smartphone. Nice phone, comfortable formfactor, a bit crappy keypad. No WiFi or GPS but HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE present so it can be used for browsing net.
And it has nice ringtones :) I grabbed few of them to use with my SE k750i phone but they were in WMA format and my phone handle only MIDI or MP3 ringtones. So converting is required…
How to convert WMA to MP3 then? There are many ways.
First method require use of Mplayer and Lame:
mplayer -ao pcm:waveheader ringtone.wma lame -h audiodump.wav -o ringtone.mp3
Second way require GStreamer and lame plugin:
gst-launch filesrc location=ringtone.wma ! decodebin ! lame ! filesink location=ringtone.mp3
As a result I got ringtones in format accepted by my phone.
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Third way uses ffmpeg (lame support must be enabled at compile time)
ffmpeg -i ringtone.wma -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128k ringtone.mp3
I used to do the same. With my current phone, nokia chocolate, you pretty much have to void the warranty to get a free tone.
Don’t ask your phone company they will most likely tell you that you cant load outside audio as ringtones. I guess they want you to buy them from them. But yeah. External audio converted works great.