Ringtones? Frustrated.

[TCRicker]

Okay, I have read and re-read the instructions in wiki on how to make a ringtone, though when I open up a song and edit it to the 20 seconds I want it to and pressing play all I hear is robotic screeching? And it goes super fast for about 2 seconds? I have tried numerous songs and the same thing happens each time. What am I doing wrong? Thank you so much for your help.

[waxcylinder]

You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support. Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3.

The screech is Audacity 1.2's inelegant way of telling you that it can't handle the file type you've given it - in 1.3.x a more appropriate and informative error message appears.

If this is the case you have two basic options:

1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports

2. play the file in any music software that supports that particular file format and record it in Audacity.

There's a free program called SUPER by erightsoft that can convert most media file types. If you can convert the files to WAV files that should fix the problem.

WC