Question : whats the best format for sending a song to your phone to set as a ringtone?
i have a verizon wireless new chocolate phone, and when i send a song from my computer to the phone it has to be in .wav format and have a sample rate of 22050 Hz, at least thats what verizons website says when i try to upload songs to send to my phone

i’ve tried recording myself playing a little 3 second lick on my acoustic guitar to make it my ringtone, and it sounds great quality on my computer when i record it (i have a lot of good music recording programs and equipment)

but when i change it to 22050 Hz it doesnt sound as good, i was wondering if there were any tips on how to record your own ringtones to sound good when you play them back on your phone
phone recording equipment

Best answer:

Answer by N-Rue 7
wav, because most of cell-phone could play it (have a built in decoder for wav). actually mp3 are preferable because of it’s small size, but most of cell-phone couldn’t play it.

my advice is to convert the wav into mono (most of cell-phone doesn’t play stereo anyway), this will save about half of the original file size. then you could lower the sample rate.

A standard stereo wav file with 44KHz sample rate ussually uses about 11-12 Kb/minute (about 11x standard mp3).
convert into mono will make it to be about 5-6 Kb/minute, and lower the sample rate into 22Kb (matching your phone capablity) will be about 3-4 Kb/minute.

If you play a file with higher sample rate then your phone ability, cracking noise will come out from your phone.

hope this help
GBU