Guest Gnome Posted October 9, 2004 Report Posted October 9, 2004 Hello one and all. I've recently upgraded my SPV to the newer C500, and I'm quite impressed with it so far. Any good tips to get the full potential out of it? On my old fone, I had a Green Day track for a ringtone, and remember having to convert it from an MP3 to a WAV file. Is this true again for the new C500? Was suprised they swapped from SD to a mini SD card, but then again, the space-saving contributes to the weight and size of the new fone. Thanks,
Guest Skunkchild Posted October 9, 2004 Report Posted October 9, 2004 you should eb able to use anu .wma (windows media player) file as ringtones now. Memory card behind the battery seems to be a good idea to me now after I just lost a 256 from my e200 whilst out on thew lash.
Guest olly_k Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 yeah don't use WAV for ringtones WMA MUCH better quality and smaller too (even stereo!) - for some reason doesn't work for alarms or email / sms alerts though ^_^
Guest pisquee Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 If you are using decent settings then WAV will always be better quality than a compressed file type (wma, mp3, aatrac etc etc)
Guest olly_k Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 If you are using decent settings then WAV will always be better quality than a compressed file type (wma, mp3, aatrac etc etc) I don't think anyone would ever argue that mate, but compare file size between WAV and WMA, then listen to the results, why would you want WAV? The only thing I have found is that for whatever reason the sound settings for Alarms, email, SMS etc mean that the phone seems to only search for WAV, which means you are back to 8bit 11Khz. For ringtones WMA is the only choice IMHO...
Guest pisquee Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 "WMA MUCH better quality and smaller too (even stereo!)" I can't argue with you on the smaller file size, and so didn't - but you specifically said that WMA was much better quality, to the point you felt you had to shout it. You even then went on to imply that a wav couldn't be in stereo.
Guest olly_k Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 yep I see your point I could have put it much better, sorry :oops:
Guest pisquee Posted October 10, 2004 Report Posted October 10, 2004 Sorry, I am a sound engineer, so if someone says something sound related then i will pick up on it! :-)
Guest scottt Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 There is no point in stero as ringtones as the phone only has one speaker = mono
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Unless you have a hands free kit? 5.1 surround ring tones, bring it on!
Guest crafty Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 what i don't get is why the C500 won't play mp4 ringtones - my E200 did it perferctly! Small files size and unlike wma, won't show up in WMP. So annoying when you're listening to music with your phone in your pocket and it plays your ringtone file...
Guest olly_k Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 There is no point in stero as ringtones as the phone only has one speaker = monoI was refering to the fact stereo WMA's are smaller and much better quality than 11Khz Mono WAV - I have already stated that I didn't explain very well it was very late when I posted :roll: what i don't get is why the C500 won't play mp4 ringtones - my E200 did it perferctly! Small files size and unlike wma, won't show up in WMP. So annoying when you're listening to music with your phone in your pocket and it plays your ringtone file... are you putting ringtones in the correct folder? (app datasounds) non of my ringtones show up in WMP.....
Guest crafty Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 ahhh didn't realise they didn't show up if they're in App DataSounds - i always put mine on my SD card ^_^ cheers for that.
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