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there is no midi codec. you cannot convert mp3 to midi or midi to mp3 with dmc. -
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If you are trying to change the mp3 into a midi to put on a cell phone, just rename the extension from .mp3 to .mid, that will work.Comment
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How is that possible? If I do this, Windows Media Player for instance cannot even play it, although it can play both mp3 and mid files OK.Originally posted by ferris209Comment
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Well, I was putting custom MP3 ringers onto my Verizon LG VX6000 phone, after some work and buying a USB cord, I figured it out. All I did was make the File Explorer in Windows XP show file extensions. After that I renamed the file into .mid from a .mp3. Worked like a charm, the .mid file was still played by Dbpoweramp Player and it played on my Midi ringer only cell phone. Are you trying to put it on your phone, if so, what kind of phone and what exactly are you trying to do. I may be able to help you out.Comment
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Oh, I thought you meant that it actually converted it to mid. Dbpoweramp Player probably just tries all the different ways to play a sound file until it finds something that works. WMP will do this with various audio files (I have tried to interchange extensions of mp3 & wma) but not with mid, because that must require quite a different process.Originally posted by ferris209
If it worked, it means the cell phone player module may be similar to the dbpoweramp player in processing. Interesting undocumented feature
The only trouble may be that an ordinary mp3 is a very huge file compared to mid. Unless you first convert your mp3 to mono, very low bit rate (maybe 8kpbs) and something like 8KHz. Even then it's a big file compared to mid. And the audio quality will be very very poor. I just did that with a 3 minute song and it ended up about 150KB which must be too big for a cell phone. I guess some cropping of the duration of the sound file is required.To my way of thinking a sound file suitable for a ring tone should have less bass and more treble in order to be able to hear it properly also.
Right now I am not trying to add ring tones because I don't even have the transfer cable yet (for Sony Ericsson z200), but I may want to try something like that one of these days with a particular audio file for which I have the original wav format (which I can convert to mp3 easily). On another cell phone (Siemens S55) we have, we had downloaded a mid file that worked on somebody else's cell phone (Siemens M55) but when played there it had been sped up a lot, so obviously it needed some other modification for compatibility, despite them being very similar phones.
BTW, do I need a USB transfer cable or is a serial cable OK?Comment
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What I did was use Dbpoweramp and ripped my favorite music from the CD to a 56 kbps mp3. Then I went into my Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (very expensive program, you can find one called Audicity for free) and clipped the song down at the half way point, that made most songs about 300 kb to 550 kb, which is pretty good. As far as the difference with the USB vs. serial cable thing, I don't know, but I know where you can go to find out. These two links will get you to a couple of forums of cell phone guru's who can help you tremendously, Howard Forums being the best.
www.howardforums.com
Hope that helps ya' out.
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P.S. = When I ripped those files, I used 44100 khz, it didn't seem to make too much of a difference on the file size, only added about 60 kb to any file, and I found that lowering the KHZ made the song sound SOOOOOO TERRIBLE.
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Thanks. I didn't realize a cell phone could store files that big. Other ringtone files are just maybe 10K-20K (as midi files) from what I've seen. I assumed that this is an acceptable file size. I wouldn't want to be trading phone book or message space for ringtone space though.Originally posted by ferris209
I have loads of programs to edit audio files with, since we have a home recording studio, that's not a problem.
At 56kbps the mp3 files is sort of on the upper end of lo-fi. Did you then keep about a minute of the song to have it at 300k?
I'll be checking those sites beforeI decide which cable to buy. There's a significant price difference between teh serial cable and the usb one. For the Siemens cell phone we have a serial cable and it seems to work fine for it.Comment
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I listen to Classic Country music, so I usually kept the first sung verse then the instrumental bridge and I usually cut the music off there. Makes pretty good ringers, you really don't need any more than 45 seconds to 1 minutes of music per song anyways.
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in order to change mp3 to midi you have to find softwear that will change the bit rate to something lower to at least 60 the best for web sites is 30Comment
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No you don't change mp3 to mid. Mid is not an audio format. It's set of isntructions and data which go hand in hand with a midi soundbank you may or may not have on your pc. A mid file has to be entered by actually playing a midi keyboard or by using a midi compositin program (e.g. Anvil, Logic, etc).
You can approximate the melody of an audio file into mid using some programs, by picking a single instrument to reproduce the detected melody, but the result will be very lousy at best. Totally not recommended.Comment
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