Quick guide: Mp3's on your phone without a datacable

I dont know if this is the best way to do this or not, But this is how i've done it with my vx6000. If anyone knows a better way to do it, let me know.

first step, download something like
sound forge that will let you convert your mp3 to wav files.

crop down the music file to what you want the ringer to be. I dont know what the max length is that the phones will accept, but I can do a 10 second clip on my vx6000 with no problems.

once you've gotten the mp3 cropped to the seletion you want, convert it to a mono file and change it to 8,000hz. (in soundforge, choose the 'resample" option from 'process' tab.

you should now have a MONO cropped file at 8,000hz. You can go ahead and save it now.

now you need to convert the file to .qcp
you can use qualcomm's converter here: http://www.cdmatech.com/solutions/products/purevoice_download_sdk.jsp
(The vx6000 might be able to play mp3's as well - but qcp is what the phones save audio files as some i'm assuming its the native format for verizon phones.

So once you have your made qcp file, you'll need to manually change the extension to .midi (even though its not a midi file, verizon will strip any sound attachments to your phone unless its a .midi file)

now if you have a vzwpix.com account, you can upload this file to that and then send it to your phone, or just regular email and send it as an attachment. (yournumber@vzwpix.com)

check your phone, it should say new message- and you'll hear it play your new file. Now save the sound file and do with it whatever you want.

hope this helps

worth a try i guess

is all of that free?

how do u make it into a smaller file though?

Not sure if .qcp is native format or nt, but after I download a ring tone, I usually change the name. When I do this, after changine name to what I want, I hit save and it says, "tone saved as 'name of tone.mid." So I guess my question is... Where does the .qcp come from?

Hunter

if you ever email your self a picture message with a sound attached from your phone, it sends the sound as a QCP file.

(at least if you recorded the sound yourself-- if you send yourself a standard midi ringtone - it may leave it as a .midi file.)


again-- im not really sure on all the details of this - or even if its the best (or right) way to do it. It does work on my VX6000 though.

use sound forge-- crop it down to a reasonable size, make it mono, and resample it at 8,000hz. that will cut down on the size a lot. And then the QCP converter will further compress it.