Hi,
Anybody know how to use MIDI Ringtone on XDA ? What software we need or may be somebody has ring tone colection (like default on PPC 2003 : Terresterial, Mystic, Fantasy, etc) want to share.
Thanks in Advance
Sandy.
yeah any ideas anyone?
I saw some people were doing it.... wondering how
thanks
I remember reading a thread about it somewhere. There was program you need to use to save the midi file in a ringtone compatible different midi format.
I don't understand, one of the features and options that makes our phone unique is the choice of WAV ringtones, It always turn heads when my phone rings. And now with WM2003 is even better, since supports WMA, hence better quality. Why in the world would you want a $500 phone, sound like a cheap Nokia?
If you want choice?. there are plenty of ringtones in my website. If you want to save space in your ppc, convert it to a WMA
my .02 cents
Actually.
If it were a midi file and the soundbank (instruments) were good midi files would sound great. AND they would be tiny.
The issue I had / have with the XDA is how quiet the ringtones are if the WAV isnt normalized or properly created.
Furthermore..
WAV files that are clipping (louder than 0db gain) make popping noises when played back. So there are numerous reasons.
It is compelling that you can have a WAV file.. but..
personally, I think an MP3 is a better idea for WAV ringtones and a midi file is a much smaller foot print.
BTW.
I now have a Sony Erisson T610
beautiful screen and colors..
The XDA isnt very pretty....
The T610 has great sounding ringtones. Way better than the Adlib sound card you remember from Midi in the past.
Thats my 34.87 worth.
BeDammit!!
Microsoft finally paid them off....
http://www.beincorporated.com/
anyone can recommend a good WAV to WMA converter??
Bedammit said:
.....personally, I think an MP3 is a better idea for WAV ringtones and a midi file is a much smaller foot print.
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.....Windows Media Audio (WMA) is smaller and sound better than an MP3. and again, Windows Mobile 2003 supports WMA ringtones, so you can have high quality ringtones, without the hefty memory requirements of a WAV.
just FYI, you guys DID know that there is a SEARCH button function in this forum, all those questions that you guys are making have been already answered.
Anyways, the easiest WAV-MP3-WMA converter is dbpowerAmp which can convert back and forth pretty much every format there is out there. and pretty easy too and FREE.
again, you might want to do a search,..for converter
and for a program to use midi files ?
*raises an eyebrow and smiles at him meekly*
I did try a search for "midi ringtone" AND "midi 2003" to see if I could find the solution but all I got was ... how do I do this... how do I do that... why wont 2003 play midi ring tones.. so I added my question to the bottom of one of those... maybe the forum should have a read only section called F.A.Q ???
btw... the main reason I want to use midi is for what bedammit was saying...
1. mp3s would be god for ringtones... but someone (IE microshaft) wont support the standard (Shocker)
2. midi files are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy smaller than mp3 or wav and so I can fit far more dodgy tones than any current nokia brick.
3. midi files are fantastic for notational purposes outside an XDA... also with a decent set of sound banks (that o/b manufacturers cant include because of cost) you get extremely realistic quality... Sblive plat is what I use the now but if you get a turtle beach or something more than an off the shelf quazi soundcard then you will *NOT* be able to tell the difference. Unfortuantly like many things in life, these superb boards are being priced out of the market because people don't realise they only get what they pay for !.
4. wav is pish as far as signal to noise ratio goes.... so much of those many mbs is just noise and nothing more... you wanna pay $500 for that?
5.WHY THE HELL would anyone pay $500 for a phone that has the pishest speaker on earth integrated in the first place? I dont know... I did...you did... we ALL did... headphones are fine.... but the speaker sucks '.'
6 WHY THE HELL pay $500 for a phone your going to fill the fast flash memory up with wma/wav ringtones (remember how slow it is reading from SD) most multiple ringtone progs dont work correctly unless all tones are in flash. Maybe that's why MS 'forgot' to put it into 2002PE ?
7. talk about quality and then mention WMA ? that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one LOL
http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1862&highlight=midi
ahhhhh Greg, yir a hero
6 instruments eh? bleh....
must be too expensive also to add real midi playback on your $500 phone lol...
god you can emulate an AWE32/64 on a PC these days yet Microsoft dont know how to store more than 6 voices on a $500 phone. What value for money :roll: you can buy a pci soundcard with 128 voices for £20...
that other link to www.acoustica.com seems interesting... I'll give that a go when I have time
although if I was doing it that way I'd be as well using WMP9 on 2k3EE.
Go for wma if you have to guys coz MS really dont have a clue what midi is.
cheers, again Greg
Ian.
The dispensing of Crack on Xda-developers
Attn:
It appears that crack is being dispensed on XDX-DEvelopers.com.
Reports have been issued that an un-named source from Miami has stated that MP3s are better sounding than WMAs.
As an audiophile and a music producer.. I can tell you that this is a difficult question to answer without defining your basis for comparison. However...
To solve this now...
Most MP3s are encoded with an older compression codec than WMA 9s WMA codec (assumming that is your comparison for WMA if it isnt... well all bets are off previous versions of WMA are not as high in quality as many mp3s). Low bitrate MP3s (as in mp3s below 128kbs) are better in quality in many circumstances, but most people dont encode or download low bitrate for fidelity reasons.
Furthermore... your choice of player has a role in all the confusion. So make sure you ARENT using an older player/ decoder.
So..
Go out get yourself some good speakers AND headphones and test it yourself.
Make sure you have a NEW MP3 encoding codec from a reputable encoder.
Like hmmm LAME running on say.... CDex.
Next go get a good mp3 player (Sorry folks... I cant say Windows Media player is going to play fairly EVER, as they had OS's to sell.
Try Winamp.
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html
http://www.cdex.n3.net/
http://ekei.com/audio/
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/2606/7/
http://www.mp3-tech.org/tests/wma9/
Now.
Just say no to drugs and WMAs
Bedammit
read about MP3s
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926617/flingerfcoman-20
fair enough... mp3 support out the box with Microsoft is pants... but then again the max is 96kbs is it not? wonder why... no anti competitive practices o fcourse... well why would that be possible ? you can pay MS an extra $20 and get 128kbs+
and yeah there are soooooooooooooooooooooo many better alternative players.. I like winamp personaly
It appears that crack is being dispensed on XDX-DEvelopers.com.
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so what you going to do ? sue XDA developers for providing a medium for users to copy/crack files on? I doubt that... its already been tried and the VCR companies won that one.
I dont see the XDA developers condoning piracy....
and anyways, newsgroups are so much better for that sorta thing *coff*
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Attn:
It appears that crack is being dispensed on XDX-DEvelopers.com.
Reports have been issued that an un-named source from Miami has stated that MP3s are better sounding than WMAs.
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hehehe, you guys are funny.
Nossie, I think he is reffering to the crack that you smoke, not the crack that you hack!
Ok, dudes, cool, to each its own, but we are talking about the tiny little speaker of the Xda!. I knew that the midis file were only 6 instruments, you guys want phone that can emulate AWE32/64????
NAME ONE PHONE that has that feature!.
You guys are making comparison between MP3, and WMA, yeah, in a regular, HI-FI speaker they might be a difference, but... ARE you planning to attach one to the itsy-bitsy XDA, just to hear a "HI-FI" ringtone???.
the only reason to choose WMA over MP3 or WAV, is for the size, which for a regular user sounds around the same each, but the WMA is smaller size.
another feature that the midi doesn't have is voices, and other real sounds, that only a WAV/MP3/WMA can make
Yeah, the midis are smaller, but how many midis are you planning to have? I have like 10 ringtones, and that's more than enough for me.
Of course, to each its own, if you like it.....go for it
anyways are guys planning to give a concert everytime the phone rings???
crack.. hehe...
reminds me or a girl in london.
Pants..
that too.
BTW ppl pants are underwear and if something is pants it sucks..
how strange.
Bedammit!
:lol: LOL
"And now with WM2003 is even better, since supports WMA, hence better quality. "
WMA better quality then wav hhhmmmm
that would be like saying that jpg looks better then uncompressed TIF's
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better quality compared to WAV....and smaller size
"better quality compared to WAV"
how would it be better quality then wav when wav is just raw sample data with a header telling if it's stereo, samplerate and number of bits ?
unless WMA support a higher bit resolution or samplerate
then it will be just another lossgiving noreflective transformation of sampled data like mp3 and ....
SIZE DARN IT, SIZE!
ok, tell me what you rather have, a 1MB ringtone in a WAV or a 100K Ringtone in a WMA
(now discuss with me that that is not the right number for the conversion)
for the Xda speaker phone, the ringtone would sound pretty much the same, the speaker of the XDA is a crappy speaker, a regular listener would not make a difference for it.
I guess I'm either deaf, or I am the only that has a crappy speaker on the phone, and your XDA phones came with HI-FI YAMAHA Surround sound speakers,and 10GB memory and you guys actually can tell the difference of the WAV/MP3/WMA on the phone.
In short, WMA is the best solution for saving ringtones on THE PHONE, is good enough quality and is reasonably small.
Remember guys, this is a forum for the XDA, not for the PC, so: there is no Winamp, no HI-FI Speakers, no lots of memory, no AWE32/64.
The comparison between the TIFF and JPG are not good, if you had to use your digital pictures and watch it ONLY in your camera (as the ringtone that you listen to it ONLY in the phone), you could use JPG anyways, and very little resolution, since the size of the little screen wouldn't matter to the eyes, (now you can dispute that you have not 20/20, but bionic vision, and that you see beyond human). If you were to make a ringtone, to use it in the PC, or some other hi-fi equipment, then yeah, all you guys comparisons will have avail, but again, the XDA speaker is not the best quality.
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:?:
stratguy said:
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
I have tried umpteen times to get my ppc6800 to see the new mid. files loaded onto my phone, i do not know when there is a new text until its too late to reply,
I put the mids in windows folder, ring folder and every where else, still the drop down list does not show them. HELP ME PLEASE , before i revert to my caveman tactics of beating this thing into the rocks until it makes me smile!!
WHY would anyone, anyone put out a phone, that by default has only a smigent of a notification to let u know that u have a text or e-mail?? I would understand if u could make it repeat, and or LOUD, but u have a better chance of hearing a nat fart than u have of hearing their default sound!
So if anyone out there has fixed the problem and would like to share the answer, PLEASE help me..
Put them in documents and settings.
I just tried that
Thank u for ur reply, i did as u said, even soft started, and two wav files showed up, in the drop down menu, but they make no sound.
charlie
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I have tried umpteen times to get my ppc6800 to see the new mid. files loaded onto my phone, i do not know when there is a new text until its too late to reply,
I put the mids in windows folder, ring folder and every where else, still the drop down list does not show them. HELP ME PLEASE , before i revert to my caveman tactics of beating this thing into the rocks until it makes me smile!!
WHY would anyone, anyone put out a phone, that by default has only a smigent of a notification to let u know that u have a text or e-mail?? I would understand if u could make it repeat, and or LOUD, but u have a better chance of hearing a nat fart than u have of hearing their default sound!
So if anyone out there has fixed the problem and would like to share the answer, PLEASE help me..
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Are you trying to use it for the ringtone or the reminders/alarm?
For ringtone it should work. But for reminders and alarm you can only use .wav files. and you should put the wav file in windows folder.
I put all of my MP3's into the Ringtone folder and they work fine. For alerts and txt msgs I put the .wavs or .mp4 files into the Windows directory and they work.
Maybe it doesn't support midi?
Use QuickTime and export your MIDI files to WAV. That's what I do.
Not to be an @ss, but why use midi when you can use mp3's?
Possibly because there are many songs out there that were produced purely as Midi files. Or maybe the guy composes his own stuff on Midi?
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Not to be an @ss, but why use midi when you can use mp3's?
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Because MP3's are much slower to start playing.
If you load a Midi or WAV it'll play right away, mp3's can take 2 or 3 seconds to start playing.
Hi there Im not sure if its been posted here I tried searching but did not find anything.
So basically when I play my ringtone for like 2 seconds It's loud enough then it goes downn , is there any fix to make it loud like for first 2 seconds?
THanks!
Are you sure it's not from the audio file itself? Did you try with other files?
orelsi said:
Are you sure it's not from the audio file itself? Did you try with other files?
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There is no issue with the audio. It's always like that when i use .mp3 ringtone.
Maybe there is a better format for ringtones for xperia? like .wav but that would weaight a lot
patt2k said:
There is no issue with the audio. It's always like that when i use .mp3 ringtone.
Maybe there is a better format for ringtones for xperia? like .wav but that would weaight a lot
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I have never encountered that problem before. I sue mp3s for ringtones all the time. Check the settings in start-settings-phone.