Holiday Ringer Styles :-)

[Tom Dillon]

I am looking for some holiday related ringer files. I am not too swift with making ringers and I just had a customer ask for holiday ringers. If anyone is willing to share their ringers, it would be appreciated.

[bcowley]

I don't have any, but it is not terribly difficult to create one with a .wav file. Here is a link to instructions:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_callmg/3_0/admin_gd/3_0_9/a3rings.htm

If you can't find any Christmas music to clip a sound bit from, maybe you can use Windows media recorder to record yourself saying HO,HO,HO! :)

-Brian

[dconstantino]

I have been converting waves to raw/pcm and following the instruction. I can get them to play they sound terrible like a lot of static. Can someone from Cisco turn me on to some christmas ringers now and not second quarter of next year. :)

[abertram]

The files must be saved in a 8-Bit Rate meaning 8000 samples per second. Also they require u-law ADPCM formatting. Lastly the file needs to be a .raw file for referencing in the CCM xml doc.

A great program to do this with is AWave Studio. You can take any sound clip and use the re-sample feature to resample at 8000 hz, then the program gives you the formats to save the file in, one being U-Law. Once I have the .ulaw file, I simply rename the file through the command prompt to a .raw file and it works great. I'm sure there is possibly an easier method, but I am no sound wizard by no means, so I do it this way. It's a good way to work in some comical sound bytes for our client demos.

Cheers

[abertram]

By the way, if you're having too much difficulty getting it to work, send me the sound clips and I can convert them for you.

-Adam

[dconstantino]

I got them working thanks for your help.