Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Is it this or is it that ringtone

So I wanted to have Is it this or is it that as a ringtone on my new Nokia 6300. So I found a wmv and downloaded the link. I guess mp3 would be the right format so I had to:
  1. Strip the audio out of the the file.
  2. Convert some sort of windows format to mp3.
  3. Bluetooth it onto my new phone.
  4. Select it as a new ringtone for my profile.
"Easy peasy Japenesea." Ella would say. It was, sort of.

From this forum thread on Ubuntu it is very easy from the command line.

ffmpeg -i video.wmv audio.wav

(Does anyone know how to go the {{{ }}} wiki thing)

Then from this post it reminded that LAME does the mp3 conversion. I should have remembered that one.

lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new input.wav output.mp3
At this point if you might be wondering what all of this means if you have never used Linux.  If you do know then I am using OpenSUSE 10.3 on a dual core 939 AMD Athlon

Linux 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 20:01:04 UTC x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Then the tricky bit came. For some reason I could not just drag and drop the mp3 into the phone when I opened it up by typing in the Nautilus address bar:

obex:///

But it would drop it onto my old Nokia 6230i phone. So I did that and then bluetoothed the file from one phone to the other phone. Mission accomplished but I may need to sort out why Nautilus thinks there is no space on my new phone.



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