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Due to the fact that I can't afford an iPod, not in this lifetime anyway, I thought I'd settle for a phone with an MP3 player on it. However, does anyone know how you actually get the songs onto it? And the phone I'm after has a 64mb card in it. How many songs will that hold? I thinking that the average song in WMA is about 4mb... so am I right in thinking about 16 songs worth here? |
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWhat phone are you looking at mate?
Is the card upgradable? SD cards are *relatively* cheap these days.
MP3's roughtly work out at 1meg per minute.
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years ago1 mb a minute, so I'm looking at about an hours worth of music then? That 'scool.
I'm looking at a Nokia 3300 -
st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agoCheck it actually plays WMAs, a lot of them don't. I've got a T610 (and had a T68 beforehand) with the Ericsson HPM-10 MP3 addon device whcih plugs into the arse of the phone. It came with a 32mb MMC card (and a reader, and only cost £30 at the time) which will hold about half an hour of stuff really, but only MP3s.
If the phone takes MMC then its about £25 for a 128mb card. The larger ones are slightly harder to find. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTo be honest I'm fine with 64mb. But that's worrying me, that it may ONLY take MP3. All my music is in WMA format. Damn.
Well, I've got 14 days to cancel the phone anyway, so that's not a problem.
Anyway to convert WMA to MP3 easily? -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoDepending on how good your ears are you will probably lose a bit of quality as your re-encoding something that's already been compressed.
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brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNokia 3300 plays MP3 and AAC only. Converter software can be found here (I haven't tried it myself)
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFuck it.
What a son of a bitch.
Is there anyway to sort of, erm… Put a CD in the drive, click "Record" and have it record in MP3 format instead of WMA? -
st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI was ripping my music with WMP because I preffered the track info it was providing, but then I thought about the WMA compatability issues, so switched back to CDEX, but I'm now back with WMP with an MP3 plugin. Best of both worlds. -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWhereja get the plugin from Ste?
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAs for how you get songs on there, it's probably the same as everything else you can put on the phone - Blutooth (slow), IR (slower) or serial/USB cable. -
st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou'll find them here. Its as easy as playing a kazoo.
IFYSWIM.
edit: forgot to end me tag.
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIFYSWIM ?
Not heard that one!
So basically it's a case of convert my songs from WMA into MP3 then linking the PC and phone with a cable and tranfering?
Great. Next question, which cable? -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIFYSWIM(sic) - IF you see what I mean
As for the cable, you use the one you get with the phone. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoCool. So cable is provided, will plug into PC. Got Firewirte, USB and Headphone, it'll fit one of them. Especially if I try hard enough. 
Now the opnly problem is converting WMA into MP3... -
st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt'll be a USB cable, or if they're shit then it'll be a COM one. Or it might even be a USB MMC reader thing, which you can always buy so you don't have to have the phone plugged in and you can just transfer the files like its another drive on your PC. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOh yeah, I forgot about card writers. They'll probably be faster than going via the phone, definitely if they give you a crappy old serial (COM) cable.
I've never heard of a phone coming with a card writer, though a USB one is only probably about 20 quid or so. -
Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoLutz wrote:
Let me get this right... They want me to *pay* to encode in MP3 format?!
IFYSWIM ?
Not heard that one!
So basically it's a case of convert my songs from WMA into MP3 then linking the PC and phone with a cable and tranfering?
Great. Next question, which cable?
/hands over a cup of warm piss to M$
There you go lads, that should be enough to keep you going for a while, please don't take any more.
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, it's not right. Just got a link from my Dad for the one he uses, $9.99.
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI wonder if it's available on Emule/Kazaa
/strokes no existent beard
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st3ph3n 2,833 posts
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Registered 20 years agost3ph3n wrote:
NUDGE NUDGE.
Its as easy as playing a kazoo.
Its not MS that asks for the money, its those cheeky plug-in makers.
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Mike_Hunt 23,524 posts
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Registered 19 years agoTrue - but it wouldn't have been too difficult for them to include it in WMP would it?! Gits.
I didn't use a kazoo, however I did play the tune "Little Donkey" and that helped.
NUDGE NUDGE
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eviltobz 2,511 posts
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Registered 20 years agoremember that when recording mp3s you can choose a bit rate, i have a puny 16mb memory stick duo in my p800, but by dumping the quality i've got 15 songs on it. quality is obviously much reduced, but it allows me to have a soundtrack on my way to and from the pub on the weekend. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years ago*bumpage*
Does anyone have the Nokia 3300 ? I swapped to a 6820 on an upgrade, but I've since gone back to the 3300.
However I SWEAR I had my alarm clock has a song, rather than a normal "beep, beep. Beep, beep"
But I cant' find out how to change it... if I can that is, I might be making it up. -
brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoLutz wrote:
Now the opnly problem is converting WMA into MP3...
It would be just as easy to re-rip them from your original CDs. You do have the original CDs, don't you? -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agobrokenkey wrote:
Lutz wrote:
Now the opnly problem is converting WMA into MP3...
It would be just as easy to re-rip them from your original CDs. You do have the original CDs, don't you?
*ahem*
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brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agofair enough, didn't read the dates.
On a Nokia 3220 on my desk I can change the alarm tone by going into Calender, Alarm, Alarm Tone, Ringtone and then selecting the appropriate one. -
GamingArena 90 posts
Registered 17 years agoGet a D500 Samsung. Not only are they the best phone you can get they also have 93mb of memory for loads of MP3 storage. -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agobrokenkey wrote:
My calendar and Alarm are not together though.
fair enough, didn't read the dates.
On a Nokia 3220 on my desk I can change the alarm tone by going into Calender, Alarm, Alarm Tone, Ringtone and then selecting the appropriate one.
@GA: The Mrs is getting that, but in April. My contract dopesn't expire for a while, and I'm happy with this phone. Besides, I've got 128mb of space. ;P -
Most phone MP3 players suck... especially the ones where the battery life gets sucked dry.
For £50 you can get a 256mb mp3 player that takes AAA batteries. Cheaper and better really.gif)
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