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Part III: Going Multimedia with Your Storm

Recording Your Voice

4. Stumble on a ring tone you like.
5. Press the menu key and touch-press Set as Ring Tone.
You see a screen allowing you to choose the profile to which this ring
tone applies (check out Chapter 3 for a quick refresher on profiles). You
can choose All Profiles, Normal Profile Only, or Cancel.
6. Touch-press either All Profiles or Normal Profile Only.
That ring tone plays when your phone rings on the profile you selected.
A ring tone is similar to a music file and includes the same music formats:
✓ ACC: Advanced Auto Coding format, used by iTunes
✓ AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate, a popular audio format for mobile transmis-
sion and mobile applications
✓ M4A: A subset of ACC for audio only
✓ MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a popular audio format for
musical instruments
✓ MP3: MPEG Audio Layer 3, the most popular music format
✓ WMA: Windows Media Audio, a Microsoft audio file format
If you're familiar with audio-editing software, you can make your own ring
tone. Save the tone as one of the formats just listed and copy it to your Storm
(see the "Working with Media Files" section, later in this chapter, to see how
to copy files from your PC to your Storm). The Internet has a plethora of ring
tones, and many are free. The only possible harm you get from downloading
one is being annoyed with how it sounds. The default Home page on Browser
(mobile.blackberry.com) has links to sources of ring tones; touch-press
the Fun and Pages link on the Home page.
A feature-packed smart phone like your Storm should come with a voice
recorder, and it does. Within Media is Voice Notes Recorder, a neat recording
application. Now you can record your billion-dollar ideas without having to
type every detail:
1. Touch-press Voice Notes Recorder.
The Voice Notes Recorder application launches, sporting the simple and
clean screen shown in Figure 12-4.