Owners of phones with built-in Windows Phone OS know how to put music on a call (“Nokia Lumiya” - a lineup that we will discuss today) not easy. What is this connected with, why is it so difficult to set your favorite ringtone to a ringtone and why are smartphone manufacturers putting such restrictions? Only they probably know the answers to these questions. But you should not be upset. He who seeks, as you know, will always succeed. The main thing is not to be nervous, calmly deal with all the intricacies of the case and emerge victorious from the current situation.
Let's try to figure out what is here and how. On “Lumiya”, you can put music on a call using the already built-in ringtones. There are quite a lot of them provided by Microsoft. Yes, and manufacturers of phones under the brand name "Nokia Lumiya" on smartphones fill in enough ringtones. But it’s much more pleasant to listen to your favorite ringtone and thereby emphasize your taste, style, originality and personality. So, to the point.
What is important to know about setting ringtones?
Not all models with the name “Nokia Lumiya” are the same. They have different versions of Windows Phone OS. And this can play an important role in setting a ringtone as a ringtone. If the device has OS Windows Phone 7, then you will have to tinker a bit for installation. How to put music on a call? Lumiya 430 and other similar models have one feature, which we will talk about below.
Call Composition Restrictions
Manufacturers have established the following requirements for melodies that are set as a ringtone:
- music file format can only be used MP3 or WMA;
- the melody must be without DRM protection, that is, the media material from which the ringtone will be made, is freely available, not protected from downloading;
- the size of the future signal cannot exceed 1 megabyte;
- its length is 39 seconds.
If at least one of the above conditions is not met, the ringtone cannot be downloaded. Such conditions were not created to complicate the lives of users, but to protect other people's intellectual property from encroachment. The corporation is reinsured against legal red tape. You never know what.
Create a ringtone for Lumiya
In order for the future melody for the smartphone to be downloaded to the phone, you need to trim it. If you remember, it should be no longer than 39 seconds. To do this, you can use one of the many editors who work online. You can also download one of the applications to your computer, this is how it is easier for anyone to work.
After that, load the melody into the program and select the passage that you like most. We need to make a segment, we recall, no more than 39 seconds. To do this, it is not necessary to look for a stopwatch. Typically, such editors have a timeline. It should be noted that the passage can be cut out from anywhere in the composition, for example, from the chorus or somewhere in the end, it does not matter at all. You need to select your favorite passage by dragging the menu slider to the desired position.
After trimming, you need to “make friends” a melody with the operating system.
Entering ringtone data
If the desired segment is ready and saved on the PC, you can proceed to the next step. The simplest solution to the question of how to put music on a call on Lumiya will be the following algorithm.
- The first thing you need to do is launch the Zune app on your smartphone.
- Then you should connect the device to the computer via a USB cable.
- Move the saved section of the melody from the PC to the Zune program. After dragging and dropping, a short composition will appear under the name “ringtone”.
- Right-click on the specified file and select “Modify” in the menu that appears.
- Now you can edit the data about the future ringtone: come up with a name, indicate the group or artist of the composition, any other information.
- The most important point in this filling process is considered the column "Genre". In this field you need to enter the word ringtone in Latin letters without quotes or brackets.
- The final step will be to save the changes made. To do this, just press Enter or click OK.
Sync edited passage
Almost everything is ready, and we figured out step by step how to put music on a call on Lumiya. Now you need to install the melody on your phone. To do this, right-click on the desired file and select the section "Synchronize with ...". Here, at the place of the ellipsis, the smartphone model should be displayed.
If the synchronization is successful, then you can find your creation in the ringtone folder in the "Custom" section. You can find it by going the way: “Settings” - “Ringtones-sounds” - “Ringtone”. Then a standard ringtone setting is made.
Ringtone for smartphones with Windows Phone 8
Naturally, not all of the above methods will work and even more so. In the modern world, users are used to getting quick results: they wanted, pressed, received. Therefore, the need to cut a melody, transfer it from a computer to a smartphone and only then perform actions to set a ringtone in most cases causes at least outrage. It is clear that such a murmur reached the manufacturers of smartphones and developers of the operating system for phones. Of course, they did not begin to change the intellectual property policy, but solved the problem in another way: they created a program that simplifies the lives of impatient users. Here is another way to put music on a call on Lumiya. The official website says that there are no restrictions on the duration of the melody for the call, but practice shows something else. Without tempting fate and wasting our nerves, we’ll figure out how to put music on a bell (“Lumiya 535” or similar models require such an algorithm).
“Creator of tunes”, or Saving nerves
If your smartphone has a version of the operating system Windows Phone 8 and higher, the simplest answer to the question of how to put music on a call (Lumiya 520 or another close model can get more personality in this way) is to use a special program. This application is called “Ringtone Maker”. It is present immediately in the factory settings of the device. If such a program is not in the smartphone, it is easy to find on the manufacturer’s website and download it to the phone. To maintain safety, in order to avoid unnecessary headaches and possible problems in the operation of the device, we strongly recommend that you use only the manufacturer's official website. In order to set the melody as a call to the smartphone, you need to do the following operations.
- Go to the menu and find this program.
- Find the “Ringtone Creator” section.
- Then you need to find the section "Select a song." In this menu, a list of all the songs that are placed on this phone model opens: melodies on the device itself and songs that are present on the flash media.
- Next, select the option you want from the list provided, simply by clicking on its name.
- After that, a section will open in which you can cut the desired passage. The rule of 39 seconds has not been canceled, however, in this version of the program, you can select a section of the composition with a length of 40 seconds. A little, but you don’t have to do all these steps on the computer, and thanks for that.
- The final step after choosing the right part of the melody will be to save it to your smartphone. To do this, click "Save" or check the box "Set as ringtone."
Everything, a new and for some time favorite ringtone is ready to use.
Alternative option
In the new versions of Lumiya smartphones, one more option for installing ringtones is possible. The length of the composition does not matter. For example, consider the Lumia 540 model. How to put music on a call on it?
Installation algorithm
- Download the WindowsPhone app.
- Using the instructions, install this program on a PC.
- Launch the application and select the desired composition.
- Transfer the melody to your smartphone, best of all in the Ringtones folder.
- Saved tunes will thus be in the “Custom” section.
Everything is ready. You can use the ringtone as a melody for general calls or set to a call for a specific subscriber.
For the lazy or for those to whom none of the methods have approached
In extreme cases, there is another way to set the ringtone. On the Internet there are a sufficient number of sites on which people are not too lazy, tailored tunes to the requirements and uploaded already trimmed compositions to the Network. You can easily find and upload them to your smartphone.