Learned a way around the audio converter in BitPim for adding ringtones

After going through arduous process of figuring out how to get BitPim running on Mandriva so that I can get back to somewhat hacking my phone, I was confronted by the good old brew protection message on the /motorola/shared/audio folder. So I went to use their little add ringtone feature which I know from previous uses of BitPim under different operating systems does work for my phone. So I went ahead and imported my song, let the stupid converter convert an Mp3 into an mp3 (retarded i know) then i went to press the button to play the clip and it completely froze up on me. Had to go back to terminal and press Ctrl+C to close out.

Argg. annoying - so I opened back up and went back through and decided to try and move the handles around to trim the song down and got a huge exception error report. Shit I thought - now I gotta figure out how to fix this. Well, I haven't figured out how to deal with that exception to get the audio converter working, but I did figure out how to completely bypass it. All I need to do is to convert my audio with a different application and then when I want to add it using BitPim's add ring-tone feature I have to do the following:

Hold Shift while clicking the "add ring-tone" button

Simple as that - no more worrying about converting something that is already ready for the phone. No worrying about a stupid exception error. Just plain old add the ringtone to the offline data and press the sync to phone button using the add feature. Happy days indeed!!