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Phone(s):
1: Personal - Too Many.. see link in my signature
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3: Work - T-Mo 8320, 8800, BB Pearl, Backups: Blackberry 8700, 8800, 7290, 7230
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Provider(s):
Personal - Verizon Wireless (CDMA) | Work - T-Mobile (GSM)
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Joined: Dec 2002
From: Wilmington, DE
Posts: 14,050
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Originally Posted by DOG_JR911 USA
...2. right click on file and select save as
3. save as all file and add .midi to end of name
ex. austinpowers.midi
even if it means making it a midi if its a mp3
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Like I said above....
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Originally Posted by Mark_Venture
...BUT for the .MP3 ones you'll still have to rename as .MID, or when downloading, change the "Save As Type" to ALL FILES *.* and change the file name in the box to xxxxxx.MID before you press the "save" button.
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BUT this is NOT MAKING a MIDI file. It is the same as RENAMING it.
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Originally Posted by DOG_JR911 USA
...4. the mp3 quality sucks and u cant ude it as a ringer so make it a midi
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You are NOT converting MP3 to Midi. You are RENAMING.
There is a BIG difference. CONVERTING an MP3 to Midi would loose all "human voice" or "real sound" and sampled sounds. Consider the 50Cents_InDaClub.mp3 vs 50cents.mid or Better_Off_Alone.mid vs Better_Off_Alone.mp3 on my ringer page. The .MP3 has singing and is the original recording. The .mid is not the original and has no voice. The .MID's were done with a MIDI keyboard. The tones being played back when using the MIDI files as ringers is created by the tone generator on your phone. So assuming a good speaker and accurate tone generator, the Midi files will sound "cleaner."
MIDI files (musical instrument digital interface) hold just the instrument position number and what note to play type information, they do NOT contain the sound itself. That is why they are so small. Think of it this way... 20 years ago, you could buy a casio keyboard for $99. Unlike today's complex SAMPLING Keyboards, the casio had like 15 or 20 instrument sounds built in. that was all it could play. If you didn't like the "drum" sound, too bad that is all it had. If you wrote your own music and wanted to sample your own sounds (like a clip of your voice) and use that as a note that played when you press keys? you could NOT. Well, that is what Midi is. There are predefined instrument sounds generated by a tone generator only. Because each Midi device can use different tone generator chips, instrument sounds can (and usually will) sound different on each. While the sound position might indicate a guitar sound on both devices for example, on one device it might be Accoustic Guitar, on the other device that sound might be an Electric guitar sound. And an Acoustic guitar on one tone generator chip, might sound different then the Acoustic guitar sound on another Tone generator chip... So MIDI files I have that sounded good with the Correct instruments playing back on my old ORIGINAL ISA Creative Labs SoundBlaster sounded different when played on my SoundBlaster 16ASP with WaveBlaster add-on Midi device, and sounds different from my Soundblaster Live, which sounds different on my brothers Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard and sounds different when playing on my phones. Heck, even playing the same midi file on my Moto T730 can sound different then my V710.
Where as MP3 is an actual recording of the sound. The original true wave form sound. It can contain voice, real world sounds, etc. And the same file, played on different devices will sound exactly the same (audio quality of the output device not with standing) because the actual SOUND is stored in the MP3 file. |
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