Play RTTTL files in your browser
The text Nokia's phones shared ringtones as: a name, a tempo and a line of notes. Play one right here as the phone beeped it, and keep it as MP3. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your sound starts playing the moment it opens, its whole waveform across your screen.
- Its whole waveform • Press or drag to jump
- Back and ahead 10 seconds • Half, 1.5× or double speed
- Show tags • Title, artist, album and cover
- Export • Save as MP3 or WAV
About RTTTL
Nokia made RTTTL so its phones could send ringtones in text messages, and from the late 1990s ringtone sites, magazines and forums passed tunes around as lines of RTTTL. Collections of thousands of them live on, and Arduino and other boards still play them through a buzzer.
An RTTTL is one line of text in three parts: the tune's name, its defaults (d for a note's length, o for its octave, b for beats a minute) and the notes, each a length, a letter from a to g or p for a pause, a sharp, a dot and an octave, like 8c#6. RTX adds a style, s for staccato or c for continuous, and l for how often it loops.
Filepeek turns the notes into MIDI on your device and plays them on a square wave, as the phones beeped them, in its MIDI player with the tune's waveform. Show tags gives the tune's name, and Export saves it as MP3 or WAV. A file named .rtttl that isn't a ringtone opens as text.
Ring Tone Text Transfer Language
.rtttl • .rtx
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- Nokia
Inside the file
- Holds
- A name, the defaults and the notes
- Each note
- Length, letter, sharp, dot, octave
- Played on
- The phone's buzzer
- Markup
- One line of text
Opens in every browser
Filepeek plays RTTTL and RTX ringtones in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers show them as a line of text.
- YouChromePlays through Filepeek
- YouEdgePlays through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxPlays through Filepeek
- YouSafariPlays through Filepeek
Apps that open RTTTL
- WindowsFew apps play it • Ringtone converters online
- MacFew apps play it
- iPhone and iPadNo app plays it
- AndroidFew apps play it
Questions
How do I play an RTTTL ringtone?
Drop the file on this page or choose Peek an RTTTL, and it plays at once on a square wave, as a Nokia did. A tune copied from a page plays too: paste its line here.
Can I turn it into an MP3 for my phone?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as MP3, and set it as your ringtone like any other song.
Why does it sound like a beeper?
That's how Nokia's phones played them: one note at a time on a simple tone. Filepeek plays them the same way, on a square wave.
What's the difference between RTTTL and RTX?
RTX is RTTTL with two more settings: a style, which shortens each note for staccato, and a loop. Both open here the same way.