Ringtone - Ring Tone Encoding Formats

Ring Tone Encoding Formats

  • 3GP: A multimedia container format that can be used for a video ringtone. Defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project 3GPP for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones and may be used for but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.
  • AAC: Some phones like the Sony Ericsson W810i support ring tones in ".m4a" AAC format. The iPhone supports ring tones in ".m4r" AAC format. The ".m4r" format is exactly the same as the ".m4a" format other than the possibility of including DRM style copy protection in an ".m4r" file.
  • AMR: Audio compression format specialized in speech used by Nokia before mp3 became standard.
  • FLAC: Smartphones that play FLAC audio files out-of-the-box such as BlackBerry and Android-powered ones often allow FLAC files to be set as ringtones.
  • eMelody: Older monophonic Ericsson format.
  • iMelody: Most new phones that don't do Nokia's Smart Messaging are using this monophonic format.
  • KWS: Kyocera's ringer format.
  • MID / MIDI: Popular sound format.
  • Morse code: Text files with a .MORSE extension get converted into morse code songs.
  • MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
  • MP3: Most phones support ring tones that are mp3 format.
  • Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Nokia phones can receive ring tones as a text message. Ring tone tools can create these text messages. This allows anyone with a compatible phone to load their own ring tones in without a data cable. There are other phones besides Nokia that use this.
  • Ogg Vorbis: default on Android powered phones.
  • PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ring tones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
  • PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include MIDI, sampled (PCM) audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events
  • QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software. Especially well-suited for simple vocal recordings.
  • RTTTL: A popular text format for ring tones.
  • RTX: Similar to RTTTL with some advanced features. Also the octaves are different on RTX.
  • Samsung1 & Samsung2: Samsung keypress format.
  • Siemens Keypress: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
  • Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
  • SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension "MMF" or "MLD".
  • SRT: Sipura ringtone for Sipura Technology VoIP phones.

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