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can the 4400 play mp3's?
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Posted by: soundelement

Can it be done using bitpim. And has any one figured out the speaker on the 6000 ver. 6?

Posted by: acemilo

Nope. It will only play midis and qcps.

Posted by: braclark

I've done it on my 4400B. When I dragged it over to bitpim, it renamed it to a mid file. If you're having problems, try a lower quality (I used 16 kbps and 16kHz).

Posted by: syclone

hmmm

ive tried putting mp3 on my vx4400b many times - according to qualcomm who makes the chip inside the phone it should be able to play them, i can get them onto the phone but all i ever hear is about a second of static

perhaps it works ONLY with 16kbps and 16khz

braclark - did mono/stereo make a difference? i'd hope mono to save space. also what version of bitpim are you using, and do you know the sw version of you phone?

Posted by: syclone

edit - IT DOES WORK!

mp3 on vx4400B - follow the directions in the vx6000 thread guys - i think it needs to be 16kbps and 16kHz mono ONLY, nothing else i have tried works. i'm using macos 10.3.2 and a program called amadeus with bitpim 0.62. I had to manually change .mp3 to .mid, but it does work. bitpim won't let you do more than 64Kb - so you should be able to get around 45s of music depending on the quality. hope that helps

Posted by: braclark

I have version 10 and BITPIM .62.

I guess you figured out, mono works. Since there is only one speaker, there is no need for stereo anyway.

Here is how I figured this out.
I'm a firefighter, and I've been looking for a siren ringtone for a while. Someone e-mailed me one (siren.mid), but for some reason it wouldn't play in winamp. It would however play in media player. I found this as odd, so I checked what codec media player was using to play that file, and sure enough it was an audio codec. Since it was over 64k, bitpim wouldn't let me send it, so I threw it into my sound editor (goldwave - GREAT program) to shorten it. When I clicked on SAVE, the SAVE AS box came up, and I had to choose what format. So I scrolled to the very bottom of the list (16kbps/16kHz/Mono) and saved it as that. This first file, I renamed to MP3. Later, I found out that you don't have to rename it. If you drag an MP3 to bitpim from explorer, it renames it to .mid for you.

Posted by: pianoman41

24000 works too and you get a little better sound quality than 16000. 32000 works as well but the file size starts to get too big and the sound improvement isn't noticeable over 24000.