Back in the days of WM 6.1 on my other device I had a built-in notes sound recorder application that recorded wav files. In the wm6.5 roms it no longer appears to be included.
Does anyone know of a small footprint wav similar to the old one where I can choose the bitrate?
notem
Well off hand I've got nothing for you that does wavs but maybe you'd prefer something that does what you want but in mp3 on the fly, letting you adjust the bitrate and mono/stereo. Doesn't seem to let you record straight to wav but you can convert formats back and forth after a recording. Save a lot of space with mp3...
NoteM is the name. Give it a whirl and if it's not what you had in mind say so and I'll dig for something else.
HTG,
Doug
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I don't know how big the footprint is has and it isn't free but VITO AudioNotes does what you want plus in addition to helping you take your voice notes you can set it on voice activated mode to stash the phone somewhere and spy on people. $7
Now you may have zero interest in this but while we're on the subject you can use your phone as a multitrack recorder with MeteOR.
Microsoft Recite may be up your alley. IIRC it lets you take your voice notes and then you can later search for your old notes using your voice. That's about all I know about it. They discontinued it but I've still got a copy for you here.
Doug
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Hi,
I can't play MP3's as ringing tone. Also can't play MPEG & AVI within Windows Media Player. Could someone please help. I have only recently purchased my XDA, so any pointers would be muchly appreciated.
I have updated to the new rom version 172181 and still have this problem.
Could someone please advise.
Many thanks.
Steve.
Windows Media Player doesn't support AVI and Mpeg formats on Pocket Pc devices.
To play mpeg formats you need PocketTv or others programs.
To play AVI files you need a BetaPlayer or Simply install Album Program from XDA2.
Also,You can't play Mp3's as ringtone because you need to convert first them to Wav files or Midi..To convert use any Wav-Mp3 Converter on i-net.
Good Luck!
Im currently looking into and seriously considering writing a program that allows more formats of music/sound to be used as ringtones, i quite like the sound of MMF and MOD files and i think they wud sound cool as ringtones. I hear that windows mobile uses VOIP to handle incoming calls so im hoping that the API is accessible and i will be able to write a program which "monitors" phone activity and will intercept incoming calls etc. If anyone has any knowledge on this that they are willing to share please do so
Marc
yeah that would be usefull of cause most people just use converter programs on the pc to make all those formats into wma and use them that way
because it would require some programming to play the good old mod formats because you need the sample file aswell to play the patteren of the mods
True, there are some pocket pc MOD Dlls though that i could perhaps make use of, they may not be freeware but a lot of applications distribute fmodce.dll so i could just make use of that if it were present on the users device. Id also like to see the midi mapper on the xda changed as well coz in my opinion its pretty crap!
Marc
Download the Lemmings Clone from Jacko Biker.
It contains full source code - that does also include a MOD Player LIB.
( eVC 3 and 4 compatible )
That is a good starting point to improve this LIB ( However, it works already very good and stable )
Cheers,
Scorpion
ok, ill take a look at it sometime today. is there any requests for what people would want in my app so i can put it into the design?
ok, ill take a look at it sometime today. is there any requests for what people would want in my app so i can put it into the design?
If you try are looking for lemmings you'll find it has vanished from nearly everywhere, apparently thanks to SONY contacting the site owners to have it removed.
http://www.professor-oak.com/lemmings/
Anyway, I found a chinese site which still has it. If that happens to vanish, I've got a copy if anyone needs it. (FYI It's not brilliant - seems to have no volume control and exiting requires a soft boot).
http://down1.tech.sina.com.cn/download/pda/2004-05-08/5095.shtml
ghuth
Hi,
I read that it is possible to have MIDI files as alarm sounds so i put a midi file i use on my old SE in the windows directory and when i go to choose the alarm tone i don't see it. is this supported in MDA Compact? what am i doing wrong? please advise. thanks
were did you read this? afaik... you can use midi, wav, mp3, wma for ringtones (via caller id app) windows mobile uses wav and wma for ringtones, but wav only for alerts. hope this helps.
I think it was on the AlarmToday user forum. i thought something was wrong. anyway, thanks for replying, it's a shame that midi cannot be used for alarms i don't think it's a technical or logical impossibility but microsoft works in mysterious ways i suppose. if there's a workaround or a program that would do this i would greately appreciate it if someone could point it out. once again, many thanks
Well, if you have a midi player for pocket pc installed you might be able to pull it off with AlarmToday.
On their site I read:
"Powerful custom alarms to play music (including complete songlists, MP3, WMA, OGG or Realplayer), open documents or applications and much more"
This should in theory make it possible to create an alarm event that starts the midi player software with the midi file of your choice.
Why not convert your midi file to wav it's very simple and then you can use it as an alert?
Do you know the wav file type is so much bigger than the other types of audio?
I sure do realize that but why would you need a whole song for an alert. Change the stereo to mono and 16 bit to 8 bit and trim it down to a length that it needs to be as an alert and it will not be much if any bigger than the midi file.
If you can't live with the shorter version then you should stay with midi because you are right they take up much lesss room, but I myself don't want a whole song played for an alert. The longest one I would ever use would be 2 seconds then let it repeat again for each alert.
If you use this procedure you can have many wav files as alerts.
I've had a recording studio here in Nashville TN since the early 80's and over the years I found out that if you will bend a little there is always a way to get what you want. Let me know if you need any help with turncating your wav files
Thanks for your thoughts
stratguy said:
I sure do realize that but why would you need a whole song for an alert. Change the stereo to mono and 16 bit to 8 bit and trim it down to a length that it needs to be as an alert and it will not be much if any bigger than the midi file.
If you can't live with the shorter version then you should stay with midi because you are right they take up much lesss room, but I myself don't want a whole song played for an alert. The longest one I would ever use would be 2 seconds then let it repeat again for each alert.
If you use this procedure you can have many wav files as alerts.
I've had a recording studio here in Nashville TN since the early 80's and over the years I found out that if you will bend a little there is always a way to get what you want. Let me know if you need any help with turncating your wav files
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I still use a SE P800 smartphone and what you just wrote is what I had to do. WAV files are big but with a bit of creativity in making an alert or ringtones it is just to easy. " Ask and you shall receive"
X-man germ
Cool by the way where did you get that last part of your handle "germ" are you a musician:?:
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Cool by the way where did you get that last part of your handle "germ" are you a musician:?:
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No, I am not a musician. My username is just a nick name from my first name and the germ part is only short for Germany.
Cool thanks, germ is a term we use in the music biz. Thats why I wonered :lol:
Maybe my music taste in "Rage against the Machine" which leads left can explain why I choose my name. Power to the People.
Wat Software do U use to do this? I am looking for a software that can transform anything in everything (mp3, wav) from original CD's. and cut them in small durations. I don't find that...
I use CDex, which BTW is a free program. I love it
Is there an audio recorder in the Universal for recording lectures and other stuff? Can anyone recommend a good audio recorder for the Universal please?
Resco?
The built in Notes app has record function right? But well, ofcourse it's not that powerful
it does, and you can adjust the quality of the recordings in both resco and the inbuilt notes recorder.
however, you are really going to struggle trying to save entire lectures in audio due to file size.
You will need a big storage card.
simon_darley said:
it does, and you can adjust the quality of the recordings in both resco and the inbuilt notes recorder.
however, you are really going to struggle trying to save entire lectures in audio due to file size.
You will need a big storage card.
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Simon,
Are you using Resco Recorder on your Universal? If YES, a few question please. An hour of lecture would probably take about how much SD Card memory? I can store it directly to my SD Card right? Can you comment on the clarity and quality of the recordings using the Universal please.
To everyone: Thank you for responding. If any of you guys & gals still have any suggestions or comments, it would be nice before I go purchase Resco for my Universal.
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To everyone: Thank you for responding. If any of you guys & gals still have any suggestions or comments, it would be nice before I go purchase Resco for my Universal.
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Have you first tried the built-in one? Maybe it will suffice?
START>PROGRAMS>NOTES
Then MENU>View Recording Toolbar
You can set in options to save to SD Card
If ti is not enough, then go for resco
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Have you first tried the built-in one? Maybe it will suffice?
START>PROGRAMS>NOTES
Then MENU>View Recording Toolbar
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When cuteangelica suggested it from notes I did not find it there, silly me, it is hidden. Looks like this will do the trick. Thanks again everyone for your patience. Saved me 20 bucks.
you can also access it by pressing and holding the voice dialler button next to the camera button.
resco is also for recording music from internet, and convets wav to mp3 and back, and also to extract or cut down wav and mp3 so you can use for ringtones.
resco can also let you reduce quality on conversion to reduce sizes.
but I use notes for simple recordings of voice.
I use NoteM, it works well, saves direct to SD card as MP3, and is free.
Cheers,
Steve
Anyone here can convert mid to wav ?
i been trying to find software for my apple to do this, where i do not have access to a peecee i dont know how to do it.
If someone could convert these
http://www.m3nf.com/TLZone/ringtone.zip
I be so greatful, email me @ m3nf(at)m3nf.com
Your wizard should be able to play midi. You probably need to convert only those messages tone.
Update: Attached 2 message tones in mp3. Using standard sound card midi-wav.
Yes they work fine as ringtones, but i like to use them as message tones, but unable to convert them into wav for them.
I'll convert the files for you with professional instrument sound libraries (think a 2GB piano, for starters). Just give me a little time.
If I posted them as MP3s (to save space), would you be able to then convert them to WAVs?
Yes i have software for that so that would be really great, many thanks for your time
Done the first, AutumnSky...
The board won't let me post MP3s, so here
I'll be on vacation until Sunday, so I won't be able to get any more done until then.
Many thanks, i very greatful for your time.
midi 2 wav recorder
you can use this app, but it is not free
http://www.midi2wav.com
Thanks for the link, but as first post say i use a apple mac computer, so i am unable to use what most of you do .
Thanks again thou.
Hi,
Sorry in advance if this is already on the forum but I have been looking for ages and cant find it.
I changed the sound quality of the voice recorder to some silly low rate as I was running out of memory. I now have a 2gig mem card but cant remember or find how to change it back... I think I must have used a bit of trial software which has now run out and gone....
Any ideas?
Chears,
DGL
Dont use built in voice recorder - its rubbish. Use Notem 1.21 much better sound quality and uses much less space as it records in mp3.
Get it here http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=626
Thanks for the lead but I ideally just want to change the quality back to 44.1khz and on the storage card.
I tried this program and for some reason it wouldnt record... just sat there....
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Thanks for the lead but I ideally just want to change the quality back to 44.1khz and on the storage card.
I tried this program and for some reason it wouldnt record... just sat there....
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Sorry forgot to say - needs to be installed on main memory to work.
For standard recording format - goto settings\input\options and you can change the quality to 44.1Khz
It's amazing isn't it. i was looking for it for hours (badly obviously) and I just found it, thought I would put up here for others and you just have.
Thanks anyway Mark.
DGL
NoteM it's a really great prog!! For mp3 recording I've used the eye-candy resco's one.. But surely this beat it!! It seems integrated with the ROM's one!! and u can actually install even in the storage folder (the first time u open it it displays the playlist screen: u simply have to click close in the file menu :wink: ) another really cool thing is that it converts from mp3 to wav, perfect to make sms tones..
A must have!!
MocciJ