How to set ringtone for incoming call to listen to music

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What is the difference between a Ringtone and a Ringback Tone?
Ringtones can be downloaded to your phone and played by them. You’ll hear a ringtone when someone calls you (if your phone isn’t set to vibrate or is in silence mode.)

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Use music to customize your smartphone
What to Know
How to Make a Song Your Ringtone
How to Tweak a Song to Make it the Perfect Ringtone
How to Set a Ringtone for a Specific Contact
How do I put music on incoming calls?

Ringback Tones cannot be downloaded to your phone. Rather, a Ringback Tone is played by your carrier network to your callers. It’s that ringing sound you hear when you call and try to connect to someone.

What is a Ringback Tone and what does it have to do with LISTEN?
A Ringback Tone is that ringing sound you hear when you try to call someone. Your carrier network provides this sound to your callers when they are trying to connect to you. With LISTEN, you have the option to replace that ringing sound with music or voice status messages. This way your callers can hear the latest music hits or a personalized message from you. It’s whatever you want to play to them!

What kinds of Ringback Tones does LISTEN have available?
LISTEN has thousands of Ringback Tones available in our catalog! It ranges anywhere from the latest music hits like Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande or Drake to classic artists like Frank Sinatra or John Lennon. The LISTEN catalog also has popular television and movie soundtracks available to play to your callers and we are continually adding on new content each day.

What is a ‘Status’ Ringback Tone?
In addition to playing music ringback tones to your callers, you also have the choice of using a ‘Status’ ringback tone to play to your callers when you are too busy to answer the phone. For example, you can select one of our pre-recorded ‘Driving Status’ messages to play to your callers when you’re behind the wheel. (e.g. “Sorry, the person you are trying to call is driving and can’t take your phone call right now.”)

How long can a Ringback Tone play to a caller?
Up to 40 seconds, depending on the carrier.

Why did you create a Ringback Tone service?
The worldwide market for Ringback Tones is estimated at $4 billion (source: MultiMedia Intelligence), so we recognized a significant opportunity to bring Ringback Tone technology to smartphones. But ringback tone technology hasn’t evolved into the smartphone era, which is why we created LISTEN. There is a huge opportunity for us to innovate and make the experience better and across multiple devices for the smartphone users today.

Use music to customize your smartphone

Updated on October 23, 2021

What to Know

Make a song a ringtone: Go to Apps > Settings > Sounds and Notifications > Ringtones > Add. Tap the song, then tap Done.
Use part of a song as a ringtone: Download the RingDroid app, tap the song file you want to edit, tap Trim, then use your finger to select a clip.
Set a ringtone for different contacts: Go to Contacts, tap a name, tap Edit > Ringtone, choose a ringtone, and tap OK.

This article shows you how to make a song a ringtone, set ringtones for various contacts, and trim a song to tweak a ringtone. To follow most of these steps, your Android smartphone needs to be running Android 9.0 Pie or later.

How to Make a Song Your Ringtone

In a few simple steps, you can turn your ringtone into something more personal than the standard ringtones included with your smartphone. Here's what to do.

On your smartphone's home screen, tap Apps.
Tap Settings.
Tap Sounds and Notifications.
If it's not listed under Quick Settings, scroll down to find it.
Tap Ringtones > Add.
Choose a track from the songs already stored on your phone.
You can also tap albums, artists, or folders, as well as search by name, if you have a lot of audio files on your smartphone.
Tap the song you want to use.
Tap Done.
The song or audio file is now your ringtone. Just retrace the steps to change it again.

How to Tweak a Song to Make it the Perfect Ringtone

With some songs, you might not want the opening riff as your ringtone. If you want to pick out a clip from a song, you need a dedicated app to do the job.

The RingDroid app is one of the best, and it takes seconds to use and trim down a song with. Here's how to trim a song.

Download and open the RingDroid app.
Tap the song file you want to edit.
Tap Trim, then drag your finger around the clip, cutting it down to just what you want to hear.
Tap download.
Tap play to hear a preview.
Tap Save.
Tap Use As.
Tap Ringtone, then tap Done to set the ringtone.

How to Set a Ringtone for a Specific Contact

Want to set a different ringtone for different people, so you know exactly who's calling? It's simple enough, once you know how.

Tap Contacts.
Scroll down to the person you want to add a custom ringtone to, then tap the contact's name.
Tap Edit.
Tap Ringtone.
Choose the ringtone, then tap OK.
Tap Save.