eMelody is a ringtone exchange object format defined by Ericsson for their mobile phones.

According to the AT-command Online Reference manuals for the R320s, the R520m, the T39m, the T68 and the T68i, an eMelody has the following format:

where:

• <name> is the title of the melody
• <composer> is the composer of the melody
• <melody> is the Ericsson ringtone notations
• <version> is the version number of the eMelody format, "1.0" is the current definition
• <CR><LF> is line-break symbol used by DOS and Windows

All except the grayed lines are mandatory. Lines between BEGIN:MELODY and END:MELODY do not have to be in order.

An eMelody object name must be ended with .emy, for instance: MyMelody.emy.

Here is an example eMelody taken from the Ericsson AT-commands Online Reference:

In EriTones 2.0 and onwards, a custom field is added for user comments. The field is named X-NOTES:. It may be followed by up to 255 characters.