How To: Cropping MP3 & Saving To Phone in MPT

Cropping MP3 Data

Another way would be to take an MP3 file and use a wave editor-

Those of you who have Nero 7 will find a good wave editing program called Nero Wave Editor, others can find free wave editors out there on the Internet.
In my case, I use Wavelab (with several plugins) for editing.



1) Anytime you cut out a clip of audio, it's a good idea to NORMALIZE your audio. This ensures the volume of your audio is at it's maximum levels.

2) Add your fade in or fade outs AFTER you normalize your audio.

3) Save your file where you would keep your ringtones on your computer and using Cincy's great steps above, upload as a ringtone using MPT.

4) After saving your file, try messing around with any effects your editing program might have. Sometimes you may get good results making your ringtones unique!

5) Optional - convert your ringtone to a mono track to save some space. Ringtones are mostly heard through your phone's speaker so you really don't have to have it in stereo. Personal preference really- I save mine in stereo.

This isn't a BETTER way- just a different approach.

I have a sample of my work- it's a ringtone I use for text messages. The sound is a simple AT&T Text To Speech run through a vocoder, EQ, 4 voice pitch, and compressed heavily.

download here
(you may need to right click and save as)

Enjoy!

Darren E

 

I too would like to thank Cincyball for the great tutorial. I'm a noobie and had little trouble getting MPT going after careful examination of the tread. I can't say I wasn't nervous while seem editing, but it all worked out for my wife's and my phone. Studio is working great. Verizon sure is sadistic!

Does anyone out there know a seem edit to "unlock" the phone so that it can be used by any network. I've got a year to go with Verizon, but I'd like to have a universal phone to play the field.

 

:thumb: Thank you both. The othe day I was trying to do this and got too frustrated and transferred the entire song to the handset. This way will be much better and save me some memory.

 

That won't work even if you could unlock providers- Verizon/Alltel and Sprint work on CDMA technology (Code Division Multiple Access) which is proprietary cell phone technology by a San Diego company, Qualcomm.

Other phone companies use GSM (Global Systems for Mobile) because of it's worldwide standard.

The rest I believe are still using TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) developed by Motorola.

Each one of these technologies are standards which require special hardware and software and are not cross platform capable. Not until they start making CDMA/TDMA/GSM multi-functional chips will you see something like this. And I'm not sure the top chip manufacturers are willing to integrate their proprietary technology!

 

Wave editors

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.mymusictools.com/download/wave-editor/

I have not tried any of these but if you want a free way to edit your mp3s.
Here is a good start!

 

Dang...that's too bad! I was hoping for some freedom...

 

Ok, I am a bit confused. What exact format should a ringtone be in? I have learned that is is not .wav. If its a mp3, are there any specific things that I should know b4 I create the file?:loony: http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/images/smilies/new/loony.gif
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Not sure if this is the place to post this but I have a few questions about ringtones.

1. I have gotten MPT to do the crops and whatnot. No prob. I can transfer them to the phone. However if I move the cropped ringtones to any other folder or the memory card they are not available to use. Am I safe to assume that ringtones must be stored on the phone in the "root" directory?

2. Wallpapers when chosen to be moved to the card also indicate a letter "c" in the thumbnail. Again it seems they must be stored on the phone instead of the card to be used.

3. It seems like any mp3's I store on the memory card make it there but are not viewable when I access my music. I get a "player error" "Music is not available. Does the music player in the phone require the tracks to be in WMA format?

It seems to me that the only real function of the trans flash card is to sync up WMA's (all my stuff is in mp3 format and would have to be converted) and then make a play list.

Any help is appreciated. thanks.

 

Thanks again.

I guess the card's main use would be basically to store wma's if you plan on using the phone as an Ipod. At least I can get the ringtones and the wallpapers changed easily. I would not say that the whole "data sync" process is quite as described by the advertisements. Seeming the phone and getting rid of the damn verizon advertisement was the best though .
:browani:

 

that driver tool made my v3m undetectable

 

What driver tool?? We can possibly help you if you elaborate a little more.

Give us an explanation of the steps you took before rendering your phone undetectable.

 

MPT DriverTool.exe installed with MPT version 4.21
installed cause had no multimedia apps on MPT and now phone is not connecting to MPT at all

sorry probly wrong place to post

 

This thread helped me out quite a bit, I needed to do a few seem edits to get the mpt. to light up the multimedia icon. after that things went better.

http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/razr-phones/59219-getting-your-v3c-m-connected.html;)

 

For instructions on Audacity read on,

1. Obtain Audacity and Lame from the following locations.

• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

2. Install Audacity to your computer.

3. Extract the lame_enc.dll file and place in the plugins folder for Audacity, e.g. c:\program files\audacity\plug-ins (yes it does have a hyphen in the name)

4. Launch Audacity and on the menu select Edit > Preferences.


5. Select the File Formats tab at the top followed by the Find Library button in the bottom right.
(Note the Bit Rate drop down box to the left, I'll refer to it in step 8 below.)


6. You should see a warning box stating that Audacity does not export MP3's but rather uses the Lame library to handle the encoding. Click the Yes button.

7. Browse to the location you stored the lame_enc.dll file (see step 3 above) and select Open.


(Note: in the future, you'll beable to go from step 5 to 8 as Audacity will remember where the library is located.)

8. Adjust your Bit Rate, this is the drop down I mentioned earlier, to the desired output, I have a KRZR with lotsa memory so I use 128 for ringtones.

9. Open an audio file with File > Open or by dragging the audio file into the Audacity window.
(Note: It's best to use a raw WAV file as re-encoding mp3 files will result in loss of quality regardless of bit rate settings. But for a ringtone, you may not notice it unless you do it few times.)


For this demo, I chose Oingo Boingo, When the Lights Go Out. The first 30 seconds are pretty good for a ringtone as you'll hear.

10. Once the file is opened, hit Play (big green arrow) and find the part of the song you want, you'll notice that this particular song is about 4 min long. When you locate the part of the song you want, the first 30 seconds in this case you'll want to select it.

To select a portion of the audio, just click and drag on the sine wave. A selection will show a slightly darker background in the sine wave window.

11. Zoom into your selection my using the magnifying glass or the 3rd icon which is Fit selection to window. This will allow for more precise editing and cleanup of the edges.


12. If you move your cursor over the selection start and ends, the cursor will change to a hand, this will allow you to adjust the start and ends of the selection so you can fine tune what you want to be your ringtone.


13. After locating the exact portion you want to keep, you can trim the excess off with the following button.


At this point, you have an approximately 30 second ringtone which you can now export to an mp3. You can also export it as a wav file and make additional changes like a fade out on the last few seconds.

If your done and don't wish to add any additional changes, skip to 18 below.

14. To export as a wav, on the menu goto File > Export As WAV and save the file where you wish to keep your ringtones. You can see Export as MP3 a little further down.


15. To do a fade out, select the last few seconds of your audio, you can fine tune this as you did in step 12 above.


16. On the menu, select Effect > Fade Out.


17. Notice the change to the last part of the sine wave?


At this point you can play the modified portion to hear how it will sound, make additional changes as you see fit or just export it as an mp3.

18. On the menu, goto File > Export As MP3. Assign a name and location to your ringtone and click Save.


19. You should see the export progression like the following, if not, then something went wrong and you'll need to connect to the Audacity forums to resolve.


That pretty much does it. My recommendation at this point is to play around with the various features of Audacity, get familiar with it and enjoy.

Here's a 64bit version of the file I just worked on, it's an mp3 ready to be saved to your phone. You can preview it ... here ... and you can download it ... here ...

 

Ok, so I'm knew to this whole thing... I have cingular and I just got the new red razr and I want to put mp3s as my ringtone... do I need MPT in order to do that? I downloaded WavePad but I have no clue how to get the files from my computer to my phone... I think that's what MPT is for. I have a USB cable already. If MPT is what I need where do I get it? Please help!

 

Can you get MPT for free or do you have to buy it. Seems kind of lame that Motorola charges for something meant for their phones like this. Any help is welcomed!! Thanks!

 

yeah, I was not sure about that. I thought they were just charging an arm and a leg to the USB cable. Basically tey are charging because now you don't have to pay them for ring tones and what not. Got it. Thanks for the help. That link is great.

P.S. that code does not work. It does not accept any codes right now. But $29 is no big deal!

 

Thank you so much for your help! I talked to 3 different Cingular representatives and each one of them told me something different to do... you were the only one that told me to do the RIGHT thing! Thanks! One more question... is there a way to convert iTunes songs that I have purchased from the iTunes store that are in .m4p format to .mp3 in order to send them to my phone?

 

So I can't use the songs that I PURCHASED from iTunes the way I want to... hmmm... that kinda sucks! Damn Steve Jobs... Anywho, thanks for your help!

 

Cincy, I didn't see this mentioned anywhere but if it is, I apologize for repeating.

In your directions, after accepting the cropped file, go to save to pc and in the name of the file, highligt everything and delete it, type in the name this way "name.mp3"
In the save as type drop down box select "mp3 speech amr file (*amr) and save it to your pc where you know where it is....

When it gets saved to the pc it is saved as just a .mp3 file.

Then you can test it and make sure it is what you wanted and upload it to your phone.

The trick is to make sure the name has the .mp3 extension in the name drop down window......

 

So I've got plenty of MP3s that have been converted directly to WMAs through V Cast Music Essentials on my Verizon Razr V3m, but I wasn't sure if there is anyway to actually use any of them as ringtones which is kind of what I had in mind to use them for when I bought the phone. I read that if you have Mp3s on there it will work, but it seems to convert them straight to WMAs if I put them on with the programs I have. I guess my questions are:

1. Is the phone capable of using ringtones of Mp3s I have put on off my cpu...?

2. ...and if so, how do I go about putting Mp3s onto the phone without them being converted to WMAs first?

Thanks!

 

Ok im new here and i tried to read as much as i could before posting any questions i had that have already been answered.

I tricked the MPT software by unplugging the USB cord during autodetection twice in order to be able to manually select the drivers and change it to v3mm without having to do any seems.

MPT recognizes my phone and connects just fine. i can upload my phonebook and create a backup and it works perfectly.

What i dont get is that the moment i click on Multimedia Studio and the MMS window opens, i automatically lose connection to the phone. if you hold the mouse over the icon in the task bar at the bottom right of the screen next to the date/time, it says "Modem Management Disabled" i close the MM studio window and the connection comes right back up for about 2 seconds b4 i lose connection. the phone icon on the MPT phone then says " Mobile not connected" and does not recognize a connection to my phone unless i unplug it and plug it back in. It doesnt really matter though b/c the moment i open up the Multimedia Studio window i lose the connection again.

Is there something i'm missing here?