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shrinking mp3's for phones
as the title suggests, is there any program that would allow me to do this as i have a song i would like to put on my phone but when i try to transfer it it says 'file to large'
thanks in advance
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yep, you can re encode it at a lower bit rate.
i use www.dbpoweramp.com but mp3 is no longer free, its only a 30 day trial, but if you only need it for one song...
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yep, you can re encode it at a lower bit rate.
i use www.dbpoweramp.com but mp3 is no longer free, its only a 30 day trial, but if you only need it for one song... ![]()
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Download FREE media monkey from www.mediamonkey.com , get the track you want and convert it into mp3 at a loweer bitrate! simple and FREE!
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Download FREE media monkey from www.mediamonkey.com , get the track you want and convert it into mp3 at a loweer bitrate! simple and FREE!
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Use DietMP3.. I swear by the program - and its so easy to use. I can manage about 60 MP3s on my LG8150 using it:
http://www.eniacjia.com/ |
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Use DietMP3.. I swear by the program - and its so easy to use. I can manage about 60 MP3s on my LG8150 using it:
http://www.eniacjia.com/ i have a NEC e616v with 19mb memory in it, how many do you reckon i would get on it with this programme?
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i have a NEC e616v with 19mb memory in it, how many do you reckon i would get on it with this programme?I got 25 + on a e228 useing Windows Media Encoder |
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Also check to see if your phone can also play them in a different file format. Nokias can play AAC music files as well as MP3's, I find that 80-96kbps in AAC can sound as good in most cases as a 128-160kbps MP3.
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i have a NEC e616v with 19mb memory in it, how many do you reckon i would get on it with this programme?
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well, roughly 400K per file.. so work it out
![]() thanks for all your suggestions guys ![]() also what settings do you have to get one down to 400k? as i can only get them down as far as about 1.5mbish
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Use DietMP3.. I swear by the program - and its so easy to use. I can manage about 60 MP3s on my LG8150 using it:
http://www.eniacjia.com/ David |
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I can only find a trial of this, how much does it cost? as i was sick of it only doing half a song.
David says it costs $14.99 |
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yeah it used to only do half, now it does the whole thinkg but only fifteen of them, might buy it one day though.
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nice
thanks for all your suggestions guys ![]() also what settings do you have to get one down to 400k? as i can only get them down as far as about 1.5mbish ![]() |
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Choose cellphone, telephone quality and stereo as your options when setting up.
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i tried that and when i try to play them on my phone, the phone wont open the files
![]() you'll have to convert to .mp3 first! |
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maybe your phone won't play .wma extensions?
you'll have to convert to .mp3 first! when i use dietmp3 it will convert the mp3 to a smaller size when i do cell phone, fm quality, mp3 and mono it will play fine on the phone, now if i change from fm quality to telephone the phone just says unable to open file and it has been converted to an mp3 file
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maybe it cant handle certain bit rates or encoding types, like VBR, or maybe a mixture of both?
if it can handle aac, i would use that at the lower bit rate, just to throw some more confusion in the bucket
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maybe it cant handle certain bit rates or encoding types, like VBR, or maybe a mixture of both?
if it can handle aac, i would use that at the lower bit rate, just to throw some more confusion in the bucket ![]() ok so how do i go about shrinking them to a decent size?
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Originally Posted by neo6776
LLF
ok so how do i go about shrinking them to a decent size?![]() for best results, always start with a CD source and rip that directly, or to a wav and then convert ![]() then select AAC, chose the lowerst biteate and hit convert |
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ok so how do i go about shrinking them to a decent size?