How to Create Custom Ringtones for Cisco IP Phones - Using Audacity (free software)
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Timeline: Quick look at how to create custom ringtones for your Cisco IP Phones.
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - One of Cisco’s Doc on Custom Ringtones
1:21 - Using Audacity to convert .MP3 to .RAW
4:50 - Staging and configuring files for TFTP
6:54 - Uploading files and restarting CUCM TFTP Services
9:42 - Setting up Cisco 7975 with new custom ringtone and test
10:46 - Closing
Thanks man, I used to do this many years ago with Sony SoundForge but I've been having a hell of time with Audacity. You saved me a bunch of time.
This is exactly what I needed, thanks!
No prob!
My rings are started and then sometimes end with a cracking noise. What did I do wrong?
Hi! Just wanted to leave a thank-you for this video. I run a small asterisk-based home phone system with a couple of old cisco phones (a 7945 and a 9971). They are both re-flashed with the sip firmware, and the ringtones in raw or pcm format load fine from the /tpftboot directory. The ringlist.xml , and distinctiveringlist.xml files do need to be carefully edited. I've tried to tidy up /tpftboot by placing the ringtone files in a sub-directory, but it doesn't seem possible for the phones to retrieve them via a directory path in ringlist.xml files. Is it possible to craft the ringlist files to make that work? Thanks, again, for the help here!
Hey no prob! I would think so but it's been a while but I can test it later this weekend on a 9971. Is your TFTP server windows or linux based? The latter is touchy with case sensitivity and permissions. Worse case you could make soft links but would defeat the purpose of the cleanup :) I too run Asterisk and it was my home phone system back in 2005 until I was able to get CUCM :)
Has an easier way been found to do this? I have a SPA525G2 Cisco phone. Some MP3 files play and some don't.
This works well for me, but I am struggling with cached network settings. I have a test CUCM which I have the new ringtone all set up on and this works fine. However, when I move the phone to our live system (I don't want to put any custom ringtones on the live system itself), it has cached the network settings for the test system. If I try to manually set the correct network settings on the phone itself for the live system it resets the phone and I lose the ringtone. Is the custom ringtone stored on the phone itself? If so, how can I move the phone to a different system without losing the ringtone?
Hey Polo Person, yes the ringtone is stored on the phone. Once the ringtone is on the phone and moved to the live system, in the security settings just delete the TLS file so it'll accept the new TFTP server settings without wiping out the rest of the phone config and losing the downloaded ringtone. Just out of curiosity, what model phone are you using?
Thank you man for your effort, however the ring tone became noisy after uploading, I'm wondering! so what the audacity version did you use?
I don't recall but I don't think the version should matter. Unfortunately I don't have those phones readily available to test on the latest version. I still have them, they're just all in a box rn. :)
hi , i want to inventory serail number all ip phone on my company . how to do this ? thank you.
Hey DisclpieofGoD, probably the easiest way is make sure you have "Cisco Bulk Provisioning Service" enabled from the serviceability menu. Then back on your CM administration, goto "Bulk Administration", import/export, and click export. Then give a file name for what you want to download and toward the bottom under "device data" select the checkbox for "phone". Then you can choose to run immediately or schedule it for later. Whichever one you chose after submitting, go back to "Bulk Administration" and at the bottom is "job scheduler". From there you can see the status and when it' shows completed, click on jobID and you'll have a .tar file you can download. Then just use 7zip or something to extract it and you'll have an excel .csv file with all the phone data including device ID which is SEP+MAC.
but can't fine serial number right? i want to check all Serial number on ip phone for buy SmartNET. T T
That is correct. Sorry miss-understood what you were asking. I'm not sure of a native way to do it off hand. I'll research that and get back to you! Good question BTW :)
wmx99 thank you for your support.
There is a program called "Serial Grabber" that scans a subnet and any phone with the web interface enabled will get inventoried with the serial number. There is another one I found that uses excel on uccollabing.com but takes forever to run. I had to run a wireshark to make sure it was working. Took about 15 seconds per IP. :)
Does this work with SIP?
If you're referring to the phone models, yes they support SIP.
Damn it! This is way too involved and I'm running out of time! Can you send us the file?