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RTX Format
What is RTX ?
RTX stands for Extended Ringtone Format.
It is a simple text-based format used to create ringtones that can be uploaded to a mobile phone.
Most cellphone manufacturers support RTX. RTX is a backwards compatible extension of RTTTL
You can find a example of a RTX ringtone below:
Muppets:d=4,o=5,b=250:c6,c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,8a,8p,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,8e,8p,8e,g,2p,c6,
c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,a,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,d,8d,c
The Format Specification
A RTX ringtone can be devided into 3 parts, which are separated using a colon:
- The title.
- Default parameters, like: default duration, pitch and bpm.
- The actual songdata.
The title
The title of the song, it can have no more than 10 characters.
The title of the song in the example above is 'Muppets'
Default parameters
The following parameters are supported in this section:
| d |
Default duration |
| o |
Default octave |
| b |
Default bpm (beats per minute) |
| l |
Looping (number of times the song is repeated) |
| s |
Default style |
If these parameters are not specified, the following values will be used:
Duration: 4, Scale: 6 and BPM: 63 ( :d=4;o=6;b=63: )
The following values are valid for the duration parameter:
| 1 |
a full note |
| 2 |
a half note |
| 4 |
a quarter note |
| 8 |
an eighth note |
| 16 |
a sixteenth note |
| 32 |
a thirty-second note |
The following values are valid for the octave parameter:
| 5 |
Note A is 440Hz |
| 6 |
Note A is 880Hz |
| 7 |
Note A is 1760Hz |
| 8 |
Note A is 3520Hz |
The following values are valid for the style parameter:
| N |
Natural |
| C |
Continuous |
| S |
Staccato |
The following values are valid for the looping parameter:
| 0 |
No looping |
| 1-14 |
Loop n times |
| 15 |
Loop infinite |
The default BPM can be one of the following values:
25, 28, 31, 35, 40, 45, 50, 56, 63, 70, 80, 90, 100, 112, 125, 140,
160, 180, 200, 225, 250, 285, 320, 355, 400, 450, 500, 565, 635, 715, 800 and 900.
The songdata
The last section of the string contains the actual songdata.
All the notes are separated by a comma. The notes are encoded as follows:
[duration] note [scale] [special-duration],[duration] note [scale] [special-duration], etc...
If the optional values 'duration' and/or 'scale' are left blank, the default parameters from the second
section of the RTX string are used.
The following notes can be used in a RTX string:
| P |
Pause |
| C |
Note C |
| C# |
Note Cis |
| D |
Note D |
| D# |
Note Dis |
| E |
Note E |
| F |
Note F |
| F# |
Note Fis |
| G |
Note G |
| G# |
Note Gis |
| A |
Note A |
| A# |
Note Ais |
| H |
Note H |
Examples:
| 8f#5 |
1/8th Note Fis, Octave 5 |
| 8d5 |
1/8th Note D, Octave 5 |
| 8p |
1/8th Pause |
| c5 |
Default length, Note C, Octave 5 |
| 8d |
1/8th Note D, Default octave |
How to send a RTX ringtone to a mobile phone ?
To send a RTX ringtone to a mobile phone, it first has to be encoded and compressed before
it is send to the mobile phone as 8 bit data.
The SMS and MMS Toolkit has a built in encoder to convert RTTTL or RTX data into 8 bit data.
If this data does not fit into a single SMS message (140 bytes) it will be splitted, and reassambly data is added.
The following code describes how to send a ringtone to a mobile phone through a connected cellphone or GSM modem
in just a few lines of code. Before you can use this code, you have to download and install the
ActiveXperts SMS and MMS Toolkit.
If you do not have a GSM device connected to your computer, you can also
try the second sample that sends the ringtone through our SMPP demo provider.
Send a RTX Ringtone through a connected GSM phone or modem:
Option Explicit
Dim objRingtone
Dim objGsm
Dim objMessage
Dim objConstants
Dim i
Dim nNumDevices
Dim strDevices
Set objGsm = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsProtocolGsm" )
Set objMessage = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsMessage" )
Set objConstants = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsConstants" )
Set objRingtone = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsDataRingtone" )
nNumDevices = objGsm.GetDeviceCount()
strDevices = "*** Enter one of the following device names *** " & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For i = 0 To nNumDevices-1
strDevices = strDevices & objGsm.GetDevice( i )
strDevices = strDevices & vbCrLf
Next
strDevices = strDevices & "COM1" & vbCrLf & "COM2" & vbCrLf & "COM ..." & vbCrLf
' Set Logfile
objGsm.LogFile = "c:\RingtoneDemo.txt"
' Set Device
Do
objGsm.Device = inputbox( strDevices, "Input" )
Loop until objGsm.Device <> ""
objRingtone.LoadRTTTL ( "Muppets:d=4,o=5,b=250:c6,c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,8a,8p,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,8e" &_
+ ",8p,8e,g,2p,c6,c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,a,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,d,8d,c" )
objRingtone.Encode
' Set recipient
Do
objMessage.Recipient = inputbox( "Enter the recipients phone number." , "Input" )
Loop until objMessage.Recipient <> ""
objMessage.Format = objConstants.asMESSAGEFORMAT_DATA_UDH
objMessage.Data = objRingtone.EncodedMessage
objGsm.Send ( objMessage )
If ( objGsm.LastError <> 0 ) Then
WScript.Echo ( "Error " & objGsm.LastError & " : " & objGsm.GetErrorDescription ( objGsm.LastError ) )
WScript.Quit
End If
WScript.Echo "Message successfully submitted."
Send a RTX Ringtone through the ActiveXperts SMPP demo server:
Option Explicit
Dim objRingtone
Dim objMessage
Dim objSmpp
Dim objConstants
Set objSmpp = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsProtocolSmpp" )
Set objMessage = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsMessage" )
Set objConstants = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.SmsConstants" )
Set objRingtone = CreateObject ( "ActiveXperts.Ringtone" )
objSmpp.Server = "smpp.activexperts-labs.com"
objSmpp.ServerPort = 2775
objSmpp.SystemID = "AX008"
objSmpp.SystemPassword = "812056"
objSmpp.SystemType = "SMPP"
objSmpp.ServerTimeout = 5000
objSmpp.SystemMode = objConstants.asSMPPMODE_TRANSMITTER
objSmpp.LogFile = "c:\RingtoneDemo.txt"
objSmpp.Connect
If ( objSmpp.LastError <> 0 ) Then
WScript.Echo "Failed to connect to ActiveXperts SMPP Demo Server" &_
& vbCrLf & "ERROR " & objSmpp.LastError & " : " & objSmpp.GetErrorDescription ( objSmpp.LastError )
WScript.Quit
End If
objRingtone.LoadRTTTL ( "Muppets:d=4,o=5,b=250:c6,c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,8a,8p,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,8e,8p" &_
+ "8e,g,2p,c6,c6,a,b,8a,b,g,p,c6,c6,a,8b,a,g.,p,e,e,g,f,8e,f,8c6,8c,8d,e,8e,d,8d,c" )
objRingtone.Encode
' Set recipient
Do
objMessage.Recipient = inputbox( "Enter the recipients phone number.", "Input" )
Loop until objMessage.Recipient <> ""
objMessage.Data = objRingtone.EncodedMessage
objMessage.Format = objConstants.asMESSAGEFORMAT_DATA_UDH
objSmpp.Send ( objMessage )
If ( objSmpp.LastError <> 0 ) Then
WScript.Echo ( "Error " & objSmpp.LastError & " : " & objSmpp.GetErrorDescription ( objSmpp.LastError ) )
WScript.Quit
End If
WScript.Echo "Message successfully submitted."
objSmpp.Disconnect
There are many working samples included with the product.
You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/xmstoolkit.
The ActiveXperts SMS and MMS Toolkit is a SMS development component (SDK). This control can be used by any Windows development platform,
including Visual Basic .NET, Visual CSharp .NET,
ASP .NET (VB,CS),
ASP,
Visual Basic,
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA),
Visual Studio/Visual C++,
Borland Delphi and
C++ Builder,
PHP,
ColdFusion,
HTML,
VBScript and any other ActiveX/COM compliant platform. The SMS and MMS Toolkit is an ActiveXperts Software B.V. Product.
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