Phone Audio File Formats

Ordinary audio file formats aren’t weird enough; most mobile phones also support a special ringtone format called Ring Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL). Modern mobile phones also support MIDI, MP3, WAV, and a host of other audio file formats. Audacity does not support RTTTL or MIDI, but you can use it to prepare audio clips for RTTTL or MIDI conversion with other software. Chapter 3, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Chapter 12 tell all about cleaning up your audio files, using different audio formats and quality levels, and special effects.

RTTTL

RTTTL is a text language invented by Nokia that describes ringtones and is designed to be the universal cell phone ringtone language for easy ringtone transfers. This is what it looks ...

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