real songs as ringtones...

[Guest fattytl]

wel i just joined your little forum here and thought i would share something that i have been using for sometime now...

if someone wants an mp3 as a ringtone...we all now we have to convert this ringtone to a wav. and since only about 30 secs are needed we then have to cut the song... now all of this can be done very easily with many programs... but here is the kicker if you have done this... you already know that a 30 sec clip of a wave (that's stereo, remember it did come from an mp3) is still about 5 to 6 megs.

enter Cool Edit Pro 2.0

now this program can not only convert ANY audio media into a .wav. it will also allow you to cut the song to maybe the chorus only...or maybe the begining only...whatever you want... it also has a sampling converter.

good old F11, function 11. you can take the stereo .wav of 5 megs and make it about 900k.

if you have this program or you can get ahold of it here is the specs of the sample converting i am doing...

change:

sampling rate: from 44100 (cd quality) to 32000 (tape quality)

channels: check the mono & make sure left mix is 50% and right mix 50%

resolution: from 16 bit (cd quality) to 8 bit (tape quality)

dither: make sure enable dithering is checked and dither depth is 1 bit

hit enter and determining on your processor speed... 10 secs later your have a compressed stereo to mono wave that sound just as good as a 6meg file but only about 900k

and that's it... i imagine a lot of you have figured this out with other programs or this one but now with caller2picture all your friends can have thier favorite song as thier ringtone... if you need any help (besides locating the software) message me

attached is a sample... please excuse the song... i listen to punk,ska and emo but this song is so damn popular i figured it would be a good example

~fattytl

[Guest fattytl]

i guess the attachment is too big so i will cut one real quick and attach it

[Guest fattytl]

just kidding i read the ules on allowed file extentions and here we go

50 cent.zip

[Guest Lojt]

This is kinda old news sorry :|

Heres a sticky thread from the help and advice forum: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3235

[Guest midnight]

700k is still too big, all the 30 sec clips i do are between 400-500k :wink:

simple reason is, you dont need that quality what you are talking about, 16000 sample rate is fine for the tiny spv speaker

[Guest Berserk]

The best choice is to run soundforge and save your wave samples at 22000hz 8 bits mono, you get a high quality wav which is around 500k, I guess 22000hz is really the best you can do, going higher would be quite useless, as midnight said, you wouldn't hear any difference as the spv speaker is not a DTS or 5.1 sound system ;)

anyway, I use soundforge cause it optimizes the wav files a lot and you get smaller files that with any other sampling program

don't forget to take a look at my prodigy samples in another recent post on that forum in the customisation section :)

[Guest woof]

I find that using a IDSN modem 64 kbps format is brill, it bring out a full song, 3 mins or so, at 1.2MB which yes it quite alot but the sound it really good. You could nip down to Dial Up 56 Kbps format but its surprising the 8Kpbs difference make, it sound terrible. Obviously near CD is better but your eating up a lot of space then. I convert all my songs in to IDSN format and it sounds very good.

By the way, get one of the 7 remix's of In Da Club cause that one is crap, Mary J Blige one is pretty good, as is the overplayed beyonce one.

Rusty