hello, developers.
is there any way to put mp3's on my device, but change them into a smaller file? convert them to different extention?
You could re-sample them to a lower bitrate (Google: "resampling mp3"), or play them from a large SD-card.
I compress all my Mp3's using X-ing MPEG Encoder (now owned by real).
I use the 64kbs setting with small loss in quality over CDs, but I can fit humongous amounts of MP3's into 64Mb. However I use 128Mb SD cards for more storage and can compress an entire feature film down to 70Mb!!
Windows Media Player 9 will automatically copy and resample files to any portable music device or card. Works great. I resample everything to WMA 64k, get double the space with little quality loss. It does this via playlists, so it is easy to switch your music around.
thanks rustek.
but where did you get this x-ing mpeg encoder?
Hi,
if you have windows media player 8.5 on your xda, then you should be able to play mp3 and wma files.
You can actually get good quality sound out of a compressed wma file, at 64 bit rate or lower
use www.dbpowerAmp.com tool to covert the source file to any bit rate you want. Follow the codec insallation on the website.
i managed to get a 5mb mp3 file, down to a 900k wma file, and it sounded very reasonable on the xda.
For low bitrate WMA is the way to go. Keep your eye's on Windows Media Player for support for MP3pro, this is on par with the WMA encoding rates v quality.
hi all,
does anyone have a cab file of any mp3 player? i left my cable at home so im planning to install it from other PDA.
thanks! :lol:
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wich is the best program and why ?
should i keep my original windows-media player wich wont play mp3 or is there a better one out there .....???
The original Media Player DOES play MP3 files. However, I prefer WMA format at 64k, which doubles my storage space with very little loss in quality (as far as what you can hear from the PPC even with good headphones). Unfortunately, the two excellent aftermarket players do not support WMA. So, if you want to play MP3 files, I recommend withMP3 (expensive, more mature) or PocketMusic (free, good but not perfect, early version release). The URL for the latter is www.pocketmind.com; I don't recall the URL for the other one.
With the windows media player keep the bit rate below 160k and the MP3's will play without issue, or got to Tools setttings, Audio & Video and allow the device to play unsupported files.
Jason
Media Player
Hi!
My Choice is the PocketMVP Player.
He plays DIVX and all other formats.
And the Price is ZERO!!!
Lock at http://www.pocketmvp.com
Stevie
Well, the site is down so I can't go try it out. Does it actually play WMA format?
Media Player
Try This :
http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/index.htm
Stevie
I see no evidence that it plays "all other formats." In fact, considering the author's anti-MS rant, I see reason to believe it will NOT play WMA.
Hi
I wonder if anyone can tell me... how to play mp3 files and movie files say avi , mpg etc with the new windows media 8.5? I don't seem to be able to use the xda to play a simple mp3 file after I use activesync to transfer the file into the xda. It may a be simple software problem or do I need special codecs for these files to be played?
Sorry if it is a silly question.
Cheers
Hi, if you have the pocket pc 2002, and windows media player 8.5, you should be able to play mp3 files without any issue.
Try downloading a small mp3 file from the net to check. sometimes, if you dont have an SD card, and only a limited memory, and you try and copy a large mp3 to your xda, it cuts off half way when you run out of storage memory. This leaves your file corrupted, and hence you cant play it.
Close all your running apps. Adjust your memory settings, to increase storage area. Choose an mp3 file that is much smaller than available space (eg. ringtone from some website) and copy that to your xda.
Thanks
Hi
Thanks very much for your reply. Thot nobody is interested to answer a silly question like that. Indeed I think the mp3 file I tried to play is corrupted. Got windows media player to play other smaller mp3 files after your advice. However, can windows media player play mpg files at all? Always seem to get message that the movie file cannot be played.
Thanks again.
Smaslift
Hi
cant remember if media player 8.5 can play mpgs. However if you install pocket divx player, you should be able to play most file formats. Ofcourse it wont play all mpgs, or all avis, it depends on the codecs used, however common ones, especially divx are playable.
http://www.projectmayo.com/projects/detail.php?projectId=9
Just to let you know, Media player 8.5 can't play mpeg.
PocketTV is another alternative.
movie file size
HI
Thanks for info. Installed both pocket tv and divx and both are great. Only thing is size of movie files are too big. I have tried using VirtualDub to play around with movie compression but still hasn't found the optimal size to reduce a movie to be sensible for use in pdas. What is the screen size and how else besides the screen size can one use to reduce movie file size?
Cheers
Some good guides here:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/
Hi
In virtual dub, you need to ensure that you are specifying a codec for video compression AND audio compression.By default virtualdub does not compress the audio, hence the file tends to be quite large.
You may want to install some more audio codecs to give you a better compression. Try installing the WMA codecs, or get Windows Media player 9 on your system.
WMA codes
Hi
Thanks for replies. I have Windows Media 9 on my system; how to use it to get the audio compression with Virtual Dub?
Cheers
Vic
in the audio menu on virtuadub, you need to select Full Processing Mode. Then the compression option will become selectable. You can then pick an audio codec. Be aware not all audio codecs will be available on your xda. Use Windows Media Audio codecs, have a look at:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-wma.htm
does anyone know how to use mp3 files as ring tones? is it possible?
you need to use Mp3 to wav converter and convert the mp3 to a wav file, then put the wav file under \Windows\Rings and it will work...but take note, its pretty big after conversion to wav
hence why i wanted to use mp3s as ringtones rather than wavs in the first place
Is there no way that you can trick the software into accepting the mp3 file as a wav?! Ive tried using a .wav extention, but that doenst seem to work either.
Jeenious said:
hence why i wanted to use mp3s as ringtones rather than wavs in the first place
Is there no way that you can trick the software into accepting the mp3 file as a wav?! Ive tried using a .wav extention, but that doenst seem to work either.
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not possible at all...you must put the wav into Windows\Rings directory then go to select the ring tone as your default ringing tone..it should work just fine
Ofcourse it wouldn't be that hard for someone like the maker of PhonExt to create a program that wil let you run whatever you want when someone calls...
you can convert them to WMA which it makes the files smaller than MP3 and they sound just as good. that is of course if you have WM2003
You can use dbpowerAmp.com to convert the wav files into smaller bitrate, mono channels etc. This will make the file sizes much smaller... however, quality will start to suffer.
Yorch said:
you can convert them to WMA which it makes the files smaller than MP3 and they sound just as good. that is of course if you have WM2003
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Yorch, what program do you use to convert the mp3 files to wma??
brilliant then! problem solved. i can just use WMA.
I convert mp3s to WMA via "Windows Movie Maker". Simply drag the mp3 onto the timeline, then save the "movie" as a WMA.
dbpowerAmp is an excellent solution (and FREE) and super easier to use. Now if you happen to have the XP Plus Media Edition, it comes with a little prog that lets you convert audio back and forth, very easy.
By the way anything that you convert to 64Kbps on a WMA will come with excellent quality as a ringtone.
You can also use the free Windows Media Encoder to convert Mp3 to wma.
With this great utility you can also directly convert all your movies ,divx etc to wmv pocket pc format!!!
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
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does anyone know how to use mp3 files as ring tones? is it possible?
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There is not a piece of software for ppc2002 that does is job good.
Simply convert them to wav with this great tool
:lol: 8)
Wow!
three years later
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So I haven't had any luck getting WMA lossless files to play on the 4.0. The vendor descriptions all state WMA support but the manual doesn't mention WMA. When I try to play any of my WMA files I get a "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file" message. I've tried with the file on both the internal memory and on the SD card with no luck.
Has anyone else run into this? Thanks in advance for everyone's help.
Andrew
Either use another media player app or convert your WMA files to a type that is more widely supported. Personally, unless you own a Zune, there should be no reason to keep your audio in WMA, especially since the Galaxy player handles FLAC all day long without issue. Not to mention that if the SGP is capable of playing WMA, your files are most likely DRM'd, which would be throwing that error.
yeah i would recommend converting your music to mp3. wma has very limited suport and why waste space on your device just for an app that will play a few files?
just google "wma to mp3 converter", there are many free programs that will easily convert your files.
which format are you guys using for music on your xperia s'?
i have all my music backed up in apple lossless or flac, so i can re-convert to any format that's best.
i've currently got most stuff already in ogg at approx 64kbps for my ipod mini.
but sony media go doesn't seem to recognise these files/i can't import them in to the media library.
so i'm thinking of converting things to AAC (M4A) which media go does recognise.
are there any differences in performance/battery life etc between these formats?
and i remember reading somewhere that the built in music app supports gapless playback, is this just for mp3? or also for other formats like ogg and m4a?
im normaly use MP3... but its not a question of belive in this format, ist just because the most files im download (legal) are in mp3 320kb/sec
Ogg 64kbps is horrible .
A song should be at least in mp3 128kbps with decent encoder .
been using ogg at 64 for a while now, it's perfectly listenable on a portable device, and have managed to reduce my music collection down to around 10Gb by using it
was just curious to see if anyone prefers m4a, but seems that maybe most people are still using mp3?
I personally use .wav and .midi
But on a serious note, I use mp3 and some flac ( on another player).
Sent from my LT26i using XDA
320 .MP3s. All the way. Reasonable size, great quality and low overhead for playback. That or V0 compressed.
320 mp3 or FLAC (it's what I tend to get/rip)
I paid for PowerAmp it plays pretty much anything...
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:laugh: great sound quality @ midi... Dolby digital 5.0 sounds like a SID against
AAC 256 bitrate from MP3 320 bitrate
http://www.mediafire.com/?6ifhe31zuhvdrgd
AAC is much more effective that MP3. Same quality -20%. -5% of quality, -40% of size.