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Music format for P900 |
sfaguy
Joined: Nov 06, 2002
Posts: 442
From: San Francisco, CA
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Has anyone tried wma format for the phone? It's not one of formats it supports in the user's manual, but I thought I would ask since wma is smaller than MP3. |
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KSE
Joined: Nov 18, 2003
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Officially WMA's will not work on the P900, it only being able to play MP3's and a handful of less well known, and indeed used, formats...
I haven't tried it myself, but that may be because I know that MP3's and WMA's are totally different... with most computer based players requiring different codecs to enable such playback...
The best you can hope for at present, is support for OGG Vorbis... through the installation of OggPlay(er?) on your phone to play them... these are comparable, although obviously not identical, to WMA's in that they are around half the size of the average MP3...
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Gore Vidal (Although I didn't write it, from my perspective, I couldn't agree with it more!) |
Neyo
Joined: Dec 22, 2003
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From: Oxfordshire, England
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I was curious as to see whether it could handle AAC. I beamed over an AAC track I ripped in iTunes, with a .m4a file extension, it worked fine. Altho it was only accessible as a 'video'. Pretty cool  |
KSE
Joined: Nov 18, 2003
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Is that not because the video player use ACC as it's audio format...
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Gore Vidal (Although I didn't write it, from my perspective, I couldn't agree with it more!) |
Neyo
Joined: Dec 22, 2003
Posts: 120
From: Oxfordshire, England
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Maybe, i don't know an awful lot about this fone yet... |
superas_1988
Joined: Sep 05, 2003
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From: Xanthi.GR
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@sfaguy
Why don't you use mp3 PRO? It's already supported (even in my P800) so you don't need to install anything, plus you get file size and quality similar to .OGG. Try it guys, it's the simplest and best solution.
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john-se
Joined: Aug 11, 2003
Posts: 196
From: Philippines
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what are the settings for the mp3 pro??? |
superas_1988
Joined: Sep 05, 2003
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From: Xanthi.GR
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I usually set mp3 PRO CBR 56 kbps.
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riflogic
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
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From: London,UK
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Is it not possible to change WMA to MP3 somehow?? By the way how do u get MP3 pro or more appropriately in my case what is MP3 pro?
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switchbitch
Joined: Apr 29, 2003
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Go get www.dbpoweramp.com music converter and download all the codecs. Youll be sorted.
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riflogic
Joined: Jun 17, 2002
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Ok thanks for that. Another query though along the same lines. How can quicktime .MOV files be played on the P900. Thanks. |
Lundmark
Joined: Jun 10, 2003
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From: Stockholm, Sweden
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The difference in filesize isn't all that huge, and the myth of that OGGs should sound better than MP3s when compressed is exactly that: a myth. There are differences, surely, but if it's better... nah, I wouldn't say that.
I reckon you'll conserve more memory by not installing an OGG player, and keep using MP3.  |
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Posted: 2004-02-08 03:25
