You can use just about any format. One of the sites I love for ringtones is: Zedge.net

Everything on that site is free. If you copy it to your SD card.. you can go to the music icon and just open the music file.. and hit menu and do set as ringtone. That is the simplest way.

Oh and I prefer MP3

 

** My folders had to be setup this way to read tags and avoid putting alarms and ringtones into Music lists for stock Music player:

Root of SDCard:
* create folder call it music and put *.mp3s in there for playback and listing in default music app
* create folder called media, under it create folders "Alarms", "Notifications" & "ringtones". Use these for those files and they will auto list for you

DOne other ways mixes songs and ringtones and notifications and such all together in media player.

 

Here's what I have:

\sdcard\media\audio\ringtones\

I imagine you would want the following for alarms and notifications:

\sdcard\media\audio\Alarms\
\sdcard\media\audio\Notifications\

In the ringtones folder I dropped a bunch of .mp3 files. The mp3 files showed up on my list of ringtones for use.

I tried Ringdroid but the ringtones it created were really crackily and not good sounding.

I got a bunch free ringtones from here: Ringtone by title | CrackBerry.com

Enjoy.

 

You might consider searching for sound effects, etc... instead of ring tones specifically.

As others have already mentioned, you just have to put the audio file in the right place.

I wanted a better sounding bell telephone ringer than the stock ringer. I found a sound effects website with a great sounding old school bell telephone.

It wasn't necessary, but in my case, I used audacity (a free audio editor) to shorten the silent space at the end of the audio file, and I boosted the volume slightly.

There are tons of great samples out there to find... just broaden your search instead of only searching for ringtones.

-SF

 

As I listed above, the stock player and ringtones and such worked in the folder layout as I had listed

<root>
music
media
> ringtones
> alarms
> notifications

 

I have good news for you! There is a Zedge app for Android now, just search Market for "zedge"!

- Stig (CTO@Zedge)

 

Downloaded today.. installed.. played. Love it. Not only is it easy to apply ringtones/notifcation sounds..but its a solid app too.

I was already a Zedge Fan.. but I just showed this app to a few buddies of mine who were on the edge about getting android phones.. and now they are. lol

Cheers Stig for the heads up!

 

Wow, thanks! Looks like a great site!

-SF