What program should i use to put music on my phone? and make the song small but sound good still.
oooh ooooh let me guess... windows media player?
Well i guess i sounded stupid by putting the question of what program to use to put the songs on to the phone. But what program should i use to convert the file into a smaller one without making the song quality crap?
Small MP4 files...
I use dbpoweramp to compress mp3's into mp4 files with an enhance aac plus encoder. I use tcpmp player to play them, but WMP will play them as well... there is just a noticeable pop every now and then in WMP.
http://home.case.edu/bes7/db_EnhAACPlus_710.zip - to the plugin for dBpoweramp
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=7107&page=1&pp=15 - to the original thread about it.
This is the pluggin to use... I compress the mp3's down to 32kbit stereo and they sound amazing. A typical 4mb mp3 turns out to be around 900kb or so... you can store TONS more music... and there is very little quality loss.
Hope this is helpful...
Mark
Thank you.. thats what i was looking for
Well i downloaded the file and unziped it to my desktop. Now im confused as what to do with it. when i try to run the programs from inside the folder a black screen pops up then goes away. Im new to all of this stuff So any help would be great thanks
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Hi...
why is it that when i play a movie on WIndows Media, it lags? like it skips.
the file im playing is a .wmv file. This movie is stored on a 1GB SD card. is it because i have too much stuff on my card? i have used about %50 of the card. please help.
is there another player that doesnt lag. or is the problem with me having too much stuff on the card?
pocketMVP have an cache option you can turn on but i dont think it support wmv but most people get divX and mpg anyway
also make sure the video size is not much bigger then what the screen can display otherwise it just require tons of extra transfer which is not being displayed
still need help
Hm, i'm using Gsplayer or WinamPAQ for audio files. In my opnion they are the best.
I had the same problems with hi-res ish large downloaded .wma files aswell.
The reason is stated above.
If you rip the wma. file to something your ppc can handle you wont have a prob.
Hi all,
how can I donload a free sw to convert audio (such as mp3, ogg ecc...) into WMA?
Get iTunes from Apple.com. Converts to any format you like and it's free. It's also an awesome replacement to Windows Media Player.
the best converter
the best is DBPowerAMP (www.dbpoweramp.com)
you can almost convert any sound file to almost other sound file of diferent class.
WAV to MP3, MP3 to WMA, WMA to AIFF, etc etc
You just download the main system and download the codecs for what you need to encode/decode.
jimmy-bish said:
Get iTunes from Apple.com. Converts to any format you like and it's free. It's also an awesome replacement to Windows Media Player.
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itunes doesnt convert to wma. It converts to aac or m4a format
Use to default wmp10 to encode ur files
Sunny
You could use the newest Windows Media Player. Just connect your phone to your computer, and go into the WMP library and select the files you want WMA'd and Sync them. It will then convert and copy them to your phone automatically. Quite handy.
Of course.. Nothing can beat Microsoft.. WMP 10.. Amazing.. COnverts anything and improved features like selecting the quality in kbps and also converts video.. Simply amazing..
Only one issue, after synchronizing to yr mobile, wen u delete an item in mobile, it gets added again wen u connect again.. Maybe thers some option to make it delete in PC which i din find yet or WMP 11 will have it..
I tried power video converter for videos but WMP gave me the best clearity in the lowest size...!
Regards
Carty..
hi all,
I know that you guys put ton of mp3 on the miniSD card but do you guys use some tool to make the size smaller?
i can't imagine storing the mp3 in its original size (5M)..
If you have used some tool to make the size smaller without the audio quality degrading too much, please list your tools here.Thanks
Depends on quality minimum with mp3 for music is 128kbps, but I use wma which has an equivalent quality at 64kbps so uses half the space. Give it a go, windows media player will rip wma,s and you can compare quality.
Thanks...
I remember reading someone using some other tools to compress mp3 and play with tcmcp player...can't find it anymore
On another note, i use tcmcp for mp3 but it doesn't have any hard button mapping to Next, Fast forward...etc....
Tcmcp seems like a popular player here but how can people get on with this lack of full feature?
baraider said:
On another note, i use tcmcp for mp3 but it doesn't have any hard button mapping to Next, Fast forward...etc....
Tcmcp seems like a popular player here but how can people get on with this lack of full feature?
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Options/Settings/Select Page/Hotkeys
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Options/Settings/Select Page/Hotkeys
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Duh...i didn't notice that select page...so lame.
So i have Mortsaver and tcpmp and i set all the buttons for tcpmp Next, previous...
but when i turn on mortsaver to make my 8125 a mp3 player, the buttons do not work anymore...some setting in mortsaver I need to set up?
I'm ready for another duh moment
I don't use mortsaver, so I can't help out there.
google for advanced WMA workshop...
great, try VBR (variable bit rate compression), this will make the program decide what bit rate to use depending on the quality of the original flie... use WMA format, you will end up with files that are 1/3 the sie of the original files with almost the same quality...
I am still waiting for my xda mini s, so I am not sure that WM player can play VBR WMA files
Regards,
Mohammad
Check out http://www.fenice.info/mp3reenc/readme.htm and also have a look at DB Power Amp (allows you to right click on an mp3 or a folder full of Mp3s and re-encode to a lower bitrate or wma).
Dear all
I'm trying to get any music player for songs with extension .cda, but no sucsess.
This files are very small and if converted to wma or mp3 it will take much much space.
This type of songs.cda comes with cd
Best Regards
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Dear all
I'm trying to get any music player for songs with extension .cda, but no sucsess.
This files are very small and if converted to wma or mp3 it will take much much space.
This type of songs.cda comes with cd
Best Regards
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You can't do that. I'm not sure how it precisely works. But a .cda file cannot be played at all. Its some kind of index file used by cd's, but you can't simply copy these files. There's no other way than converting cd's to wma or mp3.
.cda is just a shortcut to pcm waw file on cd. waws are uncompressed with data flow of around 10MB per minute. Mp3 is roughly 1mb per minute. In other words .cda just points where to look for the file like .lnk files (shortcuts). Info here.
I have searched in vain but I cannot find an answer to the following question about TCPMP. I have used it for years on several generations of PDAs, but I cannot find a way of showing the Album cover when playing wma files. Built-in Microsoft WMP does it, but TCPMP apparently cannot? I tried the commercial version of Core Player which does do it, but I found it too messy to use the program (e.g. odd large fonts on my VGA device, Loox N560, making playlists unviewable).
Has anyone found a way of making the album art display whilst playing a track, please?
TCPMP does always display a folder.jpg if (there is one) when playing music from the same folder.
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TCPMP does always display a folder.jpg if (there is one) when playing music from the same folder.
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Thanks for that.
I think it only works when the files are mp3 but not when the folder contains wma files. All my folders have a "folder.jpg" file in with the wma music tracks but they do not display. I wonder why they do with mp3s and not with wma... or am I doing something wrong? Each folder has multiple wma tracks, a
folder.jpg and an AlbumArtSmall.jpg and a playlist file ***.m3u. I can make TCPMP show the Album cover if I include the Folder.jpg in with the selected tracks in a Playlist, but it just sticks on displaying the picture and doesn't play the wma tracks!
Help!
If anyone is interested anymore? ... I have performed exhaustive tests and these are the results.
If I have a folder with mp3 files and a Folder.jpg the picture shows when playing any of the mp3 files in the same folder. If the folder contains only wma files and the Folder.jpg the picture does NOT display. So it looks like TCPMP is programmed to show the Folder.jpg only when playing mp3 files in the same folder and NOT other formats like wma.
I even tried putting a silent mp3 track in the playlist in front of the wma tracks. Whilst playing the silent track (about 3 seconds) the folder displays but as soon as the first wma file of real music starts, the album cover picture disappears. It is obviously hard coded into TCPMP! Shame. I ran audio tests awhile back and the quality of the wma files was the same as mp3 files, but at half the sampling rate and therefore creates files half the size. So I took the decision to encode all my collection of CDs in wma. I have all the album covers in with them. The only option is to re-encode all the wma files to mp3.... oh blimey that is a big job! But at least I now know what is happening?
Has anybody hacked TCPMP to solve this? Unfortunately I don't have the skills to do it..
i also use wma although its from microsoft. Just use S2p ! its much better for music and fingerfriendly, but has no playlists.
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i also use wma although its from microsoft. Just use S2p ! its much better for music and fingerfriendly, but has no playlists.
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Thank you for this helpful suggestion. I have S2P now installed. It has a beautiful GUI! I had not discovered it. And I love the revolving windows and the album covers. And I am tempted to use it, BUT I have a 16Gb SDHC full of music in folders and the thousands of tracks just scroll up for ever.. finding stuff will be hard. The absence of user designed playlists is a bit of a shame. However, the arrows on the left are good and get me to the folders just fine. I have just discovered the tap on the album cover gives the playing position etc, Brilliant. Thank you so much. It is such a samll program too!
If only TCPMP had this interface (the commercial Coreplayer has an awful interface in my opinion)...... But thank you so much.
I would still love a way to solve the TCPMP version though.....
he he ! AC's Apps are the best ! try s2u2 and s2v. I think a playlists feature will come because developing continues. tcpmp is the best freeware videoplayer but i think core and tcpmp are not experts for music.
I forgot: you can also try HTC Audiomanager. i think newest version has Albumview (not sure) and Playlists (sure) ! search here
Thanks for the new pointer to HTC prog. I forgot to mention that I am using this all on the VGA Loox N560 not a smartphone. I kept wondering what the "No Service" at the top LH corner meant! Silly me! I tried running WiFi while it is on and a little WiFi icon appears too helpfully, but how on earth you can use it I have not - yet - a clue... but I will persist. I have been listening to lots of stuff and it sounds great. And I love the automatic screen backlight save (which I have reset to a longer time in the Registry).
The other AC stuff seems geared to mobile phones rather than a traditional PDA like mine. But I will try the HTC prog when I find it. Thanks again to bluemetalaxe.
fingerstoo - I also just downloaded TCPMP and found the album art was not displayhing for my WMA files, and stumbled across this thread.
I bought a 16GB MicroSDHC earlier this week and transferred ~9GB music (~4200 tracks) to it and have found that it brings my Tmobile Dash (Excalibur) to a painful crawl.
Switching between tracks (especially as you get towards the end of the library) is very slow, and it can take upwards of a minute or so to start a track.
I'm curious about why you're looking for a non-WMP solution to maintaining your library.
I'm wondering if you're not keen on sticking with WMP for the same reasons (thus validating my theory that this is a common problem based on the number of files in the library), or if you are just looking for additional features not found n WMP.
Would you mind sharing your experiences with WMP to let me know if you have found the same, or if it's just me?
Thanks in advance.
use mortplayer.. has every function youd ever need!
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fingerstoo - I also just downloaded TCPMP and found the album art was not displayhing for my WMA files, and stumbled across this thread.
I bought a 16GB MicroSDHC earlier this week and transferred ~9GB music (~4200 tracks) to it and have found that it brings my Tmobile Dash (Excalibur) to a painful crawl.
Switching between tracks (especially as you get towards the end of the library) is very slow, and it can take upwards of a minute or so to start a track.
I'm curious about why you're looking for a non-WMP solution to maintaining your library.
I'm wondering if you're not keen on sticking with WMP for the same reasons (thus validating my theory that this is a common problem based on the number of files in the library), or if you are just looking for additional features not found n WMP.
Would you mind sharing your experiences with WMP to let me know if you have found the same, or if it's just me?
Thanks in advance.
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Yup, WMP has problems with large numbers of files. But the real reason why I got hooked on a replacement was because of the inability to play Divx video. I became obsessed with small size video files and making them play without freezes or pixel artefacts/glitches. TCPMP won hands down. Mind you it took huge amounts of experimentation with sampling rates, codecs etc to get consistent high quality results. The other factor was to make good use of a VGA size screen. The higher sampling rates and this together needed a good player and PC video conversion software. TCPMP remains the winner. Having used it extensively for video, all I want to do was continue to use TCPMP for audio as well. It seemed to have good control of playlists, plenty of tweakable audio controls (more than WMP) and support for a wider range of audio formats ogg for example. The onlt thing that frustrated me was not seeing the familiar album cover. I own the CDs so why shouldn't I see the cover as it plays (if I want). And I discovered, as you see from this thread that the covers appear as mp3 tracks play but not wma! Obviously coded in.
Having tried S2p, I will probably use that for audio and stick with TCPMP for video. I use an old copy I bought of CD-DA to rip the files from CD. I like to be incontrol of my libary mannually. It annoys me when WMP on the PC wants to take control of transferring and syncing my music. I want total control myself, thank you! Although I used to use the PC WMP to rip files , I have found again that the flexibilty and file conversion features of CD-DA are more helpful for me.
I worked (albeit a long time ago) 9 years for the BBC in video/sound hence my interest in all these things. Perhaps this explains my obsession with being in control?
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use mortplayer.. has every function youd ever need!
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Thank you for pointing me again to Mortplayer. However, I have tried various versions of this over the last few years. But undeterred, I tried the very latest version off Mort's site. Although I agree that it has bags of functionality and does indeed show the album cover, I just cannot stand that GUI.
Bluemetalaxe suggested S2P above. I am pleased with this because IMHO S2P looks so cool and is easy to use (even a shade of HTC and Apple GUIs in there too?). So for me, it's TCPMP for video and S2P for audio from now on.
I am a fan and user of Mortscript though. Mort seems better at writing clever and sophisticated "backroom" code rather than swish GUI design? I think he needs a graphic designer to hel him improve his GUI. I follow the Mortscript thread on this site every day, like many thousands of others.... brilliant.