The audacity of Audacity

[sewaneeangel21]

I downloaded Audacity to create ringtones and after about an hour, I figured out how to cut a sample and save it to my BB curve. I made about 15 of them and they loaded onto my phone. I checked them and they played beautifully. HOwever, when I set one of them to be my main ringtone, it doesn't work!!!!! It starts to play but then stops after 5 seconds, restarts, and then stops again. HELP ME! I thought I was so smart for creating my own ringtones but now I feel like an ***** because they don't work. I saved them as .wav because that was the only way Audacity would let me save them to my computer. What did I do wrong?

[Brimly]

Hmm. I think you need to export them as mp3s. Click on file and it should be one of the options iirc.

[sewaneeangel21]

When I tried to export them as mp3's, it told me something about I need LAME library to do it and when I searched online, I couldn't find anything about a LAME program to download. Any ideas?

[Brimly]

Hmm. I remember something about this but not enough to help you. I'll check it out and get back to you.

[scottlucky13]

Just posted this in a different thread. But i use MP3 Direct Cut.

mp3DirectCut - editor to cut, fade, split and record compressed mpeg audio

I just open up the song then pick what section i want to save as my ring tone. then save my selection and move it over to my phone. Works great for me.

[Brimly]

Well I found a link for you to download the LAME file but I need 10 posts before I can link it so I'll email it to you.

[sewaneeangel21]

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate that and hopefully it will take me out of this ringtone misery

[fonebrkr]

You need then LAME driver to save as MP3s.
I can pull the link to it in a bit from my pute if you didn't find it.
You're almost there, don't give up on it yet.

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[mariadee]

The lame_enc.dll is needed to export mp3's from audacity.. It can be found here --> DLL-files.com - Download of lame_enc

[yogi]

Thanks for the links.

[sewaneeangel21]

Thanks for all the links. I actually continued to export the ringtones as .wav and then when I transfered it over to the Media Manager I converted them to mp3's before placing on my BB. Thanks again!

[Wongster360]

Originally Posted by mm_style

The lame_enc.dll is needed to export mp3's from audacity.. It can be found here --> DLL-files.com - Download of lame_enc

Here's the installation instructions from the Audacity Website FAQ

Windows

1. Go to the LAME download page.
2. Under "For Audacity on Windows", left-click on the link "libmp3lame-win-3.97.zip" and save the zip folder to anywhere on your computer.
3. When you have finished downloading the ZIP folder, unzip it and save the file lame_enc.dll that it contains to anywhere on your computer.
4. The first time you use the "Export as MP3" command, Audacity will ask you where lame_enc.dll is saved.
5. In case of difficulty, please view our more detailed instructions at the Audacity Wiki.

[Adlen]

Not reading all replies but...

You can use AltoMP3 for converting WAV to MP3, that's what I do with Audacity. Also in Profiles > Advanced > (menu key) > edit you can change 'number of beeps' to 1.

[milsman2]

THANKS soo much for the tip with audacity, now I'm free to get all the ringtones I wanted to play all the way through the song without stopping and looping after a 10 second play!