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Old 12-02-2008, 17:52
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I had sound recordings on my old phone in WAV format and have transfered them onto my new phone. Would they be better quality if I converted them to mp3, or is WAV better quality?
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Old 12-02-2008, 19:06
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WAV is too big to warrant that format on most modern phones, and you can receive a very good quality MP3. If you are ripping them yourself the higher frequency (Hz) the better the quality, but the higher the frequency the bigger the mp3.
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Old 12-02-2008, 20:24
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If your new phone is one of the latest, see if it supports AAC, this I've found to be better than MP3, with less compression and smaller file sizes when encoded at 128kps. WAV is generally an uncompressed file which is OK to use if you're ripping a CD to your hard drive.
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Old 12-02-2008, 22:40
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Thanks guys. My new phone does support ACC. The ring tones I have on my phone are 3gp files and ACC type.

The sound files I transfered from my old phone were AMR files and then I let Windows convert them to WAV, so they weren't WAV to start with, like I thought.

How do I convert the AMR or WAV to ACC or mp3 to put on my new phone?
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Old 13-02-2008, 10:32
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WAV is better than MP3 but 10 times bigger.

You can't improve the quality by converting it from one thing to another.

If it's bad quality in WAV, it'll be slightly worse in MP3 because the conversion loses you a bit of quality. The only advantage is that it'll take up less memory.

Imagine a 2 megapixel photo. It would be quite blurry. Taking a picture of it on a 10 megapixel camera is not going to improve it, even if what you end up with is 10 megapixel instead of 2 megapixel.
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Old 13-02-2008, 23:43
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Ok, thanks. So I guess it's not worth converting it from WAV if it' only a couple of sound files lasting a few seconds each.
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Old 14-02-2008, 02:53
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If they're only a couple of seconds long, and if you've got ample spare memory, then yes you're probably better off not converting them.

If they're longer files, or if memory is scarce, then you would do very well to convert them to MP3 or AAC - especially so if you plan to use them as a ringtone or text-message tone; the speaker in your phone is hardly top quality, it'd be very difficult to hear the quality loss of compression using a phone speaker at ringing volume!
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Old 14-02-2008, 15:16
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Ok, thank you.
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Old 24-03-2008, 10:29
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Wave is the better format than any other, if you convert them to any other format the quality may be reduced. So it is better to use the wave..or if you wish to convert the wave to mp3, you can use the good audio editor for converting, like FlexiMusic Wave Editor for getting the better audio output after converting into another format.
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