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vx4600 mp3tone experience needed!
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Posted by: vamp

I have been able to successfully upload mp3 ringtones to my 4600 via bitpim as midis. The tones are all ranging 14-30 seconds long, and about 150-250 kb. I have not however, been able to get any of them to play at all, not even as media preview. If someone out there has been able to successfully use mp3 ringtones on their vx4600, could you please tell me what BitRate you have used successfully? And if you have any input and experience please let me know. Thanks.

Posted by: danielzink

please read this thread:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...threadid=379256

Posted by: vamp

Thanks a lot man. That post was for 4400, but it provided a ton of information. I found that my songs weren't working because apparently my mp3 quality convertor wasn't doing it right or something. The dbPOWERamp program worked like a charm. I'm busy putting 80-bitrate-stereo mp3 tones on my phone. They're taking up a ton of space (15 second clips at around 240kb each) so I'm probably going to go down to about 64 quality or something. But thanks again. My 4600's gonna make a lot of friends jealous =).

Posted by: vamp

Anyways, thought I would post the steps and items that I used to put mp3/midi tones on my vx4600 in case some are wondering:

1. purchased a 10$ cable from eBay, just like this one from the same seller: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...5704603261&rd=1 and installed the driver on the cd that it came with. Restarted Comp.

2. installed BitPim .7 test-11 (currently newest version on site - http://bitpim.sourceforge.net)
- set BitPim to vx4500
- used mp3 editor to trim clips from songs (i use GoldWave)
- used dbPOWERamp converter http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm to change mp3 clips to anywhere between 16-80 quality (mono & stereo both work).
- went to My Computer/Tools/Folder Options/View/ and unchecked "Hide extensions for known filetypes", which allows you to easily change the .mp3 to .mid on your clips by simply renaming
- plugged cable into USB port and phone
- hit Ringtone tab in BitPim and clicked on Add button and added the tone. then went to Data/Send phone data and once the status bar on the bottom of BitPim displayed Ready, it was done.

Notes: Song quality for a 4600 mp3 tone can probably exceed 80bitrate, but the files were getting a little too big for me, so I stopped at 80 stereo. For some reason my file sizes for 80 stereo and 80 mono songs were the same size. I had always thought mono files would be smaller...Oh well. For some songs mono might actually sound better as a ringtone, it's all about trial and error.

Hope my information comes to help someone, and please feel free to drop comments. Thanks.