polyphonic ringtones

[Guest crimminsky]

I read this earlier on the newsgroup and it works :D

visit a samsung T100 ringtone site, one that allows you to listen to the ringtone or download the mp3 preview, save the file to your PC then use an MP3 to WAV convertor,

activesync the new wav file to your SPV sounds folder and hey presto, polyphonic ringtones on your SPV :( :( :P

All credit goes to the guy on the newsgroup (cant find his post now)

[Guest crimminsky]

:oops: :oops: :oops:

just realised it was kernowmagic who posted it on this forum, no wonder I couldn't find his post on the newsgroup :oops: :oops: :oops:

[Guest pibrahim]

Erm, its not polyphonic though? Its simply a normal wav file.

Polyphony is normally used to refer to midi files.

[Guest SAL9000]

If you get Wingroove, you can convert MIDI to Wav. :D

It works fine, but files are quite big.

Any way to start a line ring tone from the SD card? :?:

[Guest crimminsky]

Erm, its not polyphonic though?  Its simply a normal wav file.

Polyphony is normally used to refer to midi files.

Erm, I think you'll find polyphonic means playing more than one note at a time, so yes they are polyphonic ring tones! :roll:

[Guest pibrahim]

I know what polyphonic means.

We normally use it to refer to midi files whenever its discussed here, and in general phone terms! How many wave files *aren't* polyphonic?

Basically, this whole post is no nearer to getting us to play polyphonic midis, its simply reiterating that we can play wavs on the phone, which we all know :D

[Guest crimminsky]

:evil: why are you being so negative, the ring tones I have on my SPV are identical to the one on my mates T100, say yes we are nearer to getting polyphonic tones....we have them!!!

Albeit they take up a lot of space on your phone. :cry:

[Guest pibrahim]

I'm not being negative, I'm being frank!

The fact is, we can play wav files. These can sound similar to midi files, but they're a lot bigger (especially to sound decent quality) and the fact is, support for polyphonic midi files is nowhere to be found, and its very irksome!

The midi files on my Samsung S100 (like T100, but with GPRS/infra-red/java/etc) had better bass, greater fidelity, etc.

[Guest kernowmagic]

Polyphonic Ringtones

That's a popular feature in Japan's DoCoMo phones and starting to appear in some western phones. A polyphonic ringtone is basically just like a regular ringtone except that you can play many notes at the same time, for a more musical result. Polyphonic ringtones can sound just like a small orchestra.

In North-America, Sanyo took the lead in 2001 by introducing two phones developed for Sprint PCS (the SCP-5000 and SCP-6000) and able to receive full MIDI files for use as ringtones. The phones contain no less than a small sound card with various instruments, which means that their ringtones can include bass, piano, guitar and drums in a single melody. That's a major step forward.

Alcatel has also announced, during the summer of 2001, that they would release the Alcatel OneTouch 511 phone, which will feature polyphonic ringtones but the company hasn't provided further details.

In Japan, DoCoMo, the most important cellular service provider with it's i-mode system, has phones that can receive ringtones with up to 16-voices (16 notes can be played at the same time!) in a format called MFI (Music for i-mode). There is also another format called SMAF, reportedly developed by Yamaha and used at least in some taiwanese phones called "Okwap".

[Guest budda]

One example to pick up some Polyphonic "preview" tones in mp3 format is http://64.94.46.167/latestringtones/en/uk/...ngtones/latest/

[Guest adrianfox]

For all those confused, think of it like this:

With proper polyphonic support, you're phone can be thought of as playing the actual instruments to make the ring tones, where as when using WAVE files the phone is really just playing back a recording.

Don't know if that helps.

Adrian