Ring Tones

The list of available ring-tones is specified in a file called Ringlist.xml which the phone downloads from the provisioning server. A maximum of 50 <Ring> entries can be defined.

<CiscoIPPhoneRingList>
  <Ring>

DisplayName link

The name of the ring-tone when displayed in the list of ring-tones. Must not be longer than 25 characters.

<DisplayName>NAME</DisplayName>

FileName link

Name of the file to download, must end in .raw or .rwb and must not be longer than 25 characters.

    <FileName>FILENAME.raw</FileName>
  </Ring>
  ...
</CiscoIPPhoneRingList>

Using SoX link

Ring-tones are raw PCM (no header), u-law encoded with 8-bits per sample, mono at 8000Hz between 240 and 16080 samples (2 seconds) in length. The example below shows how a .wav file can be converted to .raw using sox.

~$ sox ring-tone.wav -t raw -e u-law -b 8 -c 1 -r 8000 ring-tone.raw

Wideband Ring Tones link

The 7800 and 8800 series phones use wideband ring-tones. The list of available wideband ring-tones is specified in a file called Ringlist-wb.xml which is in the same format as Ringlist.xml. Wideband ring-tone filenames must end in .rwb.

Wideband ring-tones are raw PCM (no header), signed-integer encoded with 16-bits per sample, mono at 16000Hz between 240 and 160800 samples (10 seconds) in length. The example below shows how a .wav file can be converted to .rwb using sox.

~$ sox ring-tone.wav -t raw -e signed-integer -b 16 -c 1 -r 16000 ring-tone.rwb

Alert-Info link

The phone can be made to play a different built-in ring-tone by using the Alert-Info header.

Bellcore-dr1 or Bellcore-dr2	Play the user selected ring-tone
Bellcore-dr3	Basic ring-tone 1
Bellcore-dr4	Basic ring-tone 2
Bellcore-dr5	Ring once
Flashonly-Ring	Ring silently
Precedence-Ring	Ring constantly

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