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Joseph Huber wrote:
> Yes.
> Sanyo MM7400.
> I bought the Batman theme ringtone from Sprint, which showed up
> as a midi ringtone in bitpim.
Thanks for the info. I'm just totally puzzled by all of this.
The phonebook and wallpaper worked easily. Then I tried to
get a ringer to the phone, have worked hard for _lots_ of hours
trying to make it work, and no results.
I purchase all of my music. The various news sources make it
clear that I may well be in the minority these days. And all
I want to do is load a 30 second clip on my phone.
And nothing works.
I've done google searches, I've read the back archives on bitpim,
I've experimented endlessly. Nothing works.
win xp home + sp1, bitpim 0.7.33, Sanyo scp-5500 (Sprint VM4500)
I have (purchased) Ahead Nero which reads and writes in many
formats, but not .mid. _That_ appears to be the basic problem.
For all of us who have a gazillion CDs, everything is in .cda.
That shouldn't be a problem. I can write mp3, mp4, wma, wav,
and many more formats. But not midi. Nobody but musicians and
cell phones appear to be midi oriented. I got a freeware qcp
translator. That didn't work either. The cell phone manufacturers
don't document _all_ of the necessary information. That has
resulted in a huge amount of largely contradictory opinions
(unfounded beliefs, in many cases) on the internet. Some believe
that mp3 works. Some that mp3 simply renamed as .mid works.
Some that file size as small as 16k for a _ringer_ works.
(Even shortened and converted to mono I've never gotten a ringer
file that small.) Converting to mono (probably necessary).
16k resolution and 16 bit depth. No, it's 8k resolution
and 16 bit depth. No, it's 144k resolution. Everyone has an
opinion, most are contradictory, and none of them work
(if you don't start out with midi).
I wonder how much the cell phone carriers paid the cell phone
manufacturers to obscure this issue this badly.
$2.50 for three months for a ringer I don't even want.
Even our teenager refuses to do that any more. Even at his
tender age he recognizes it as a ripoff.
Follow the money.