music on my keitai

[james]

i have an older keitai, w42ca (g'z one). was curious about playing music on it via the sd-audio player.

does anyone here have experience transferring their cds / mp3 library etc to their phone?

i have a freeware encoder that can take mp3 and other formats and transcode to 3gpp aac+. i was poking around looking at the sd card contents via my pc's card reader but there was nothing to indicate where audio files can / should be stored in such a way that the phone could retrieve them. am i locked out?

is there any alternative to programs like sd jukebox?

[ttjereth]

i have an older keitai, w42ca (g'z one). was curious about playing music on it via the sd-audio player.

does anyone here have experience transferring their cds / mp3 library etc to their phone?

i have a freeware encoder that can take mp3 and other formats and transcode to 3gpp aac+. i was poking around looking at the sd card contents via my pc's card reader but there was nothing to indicate where audio files can / should be stored in such a way that the phone could retrieve them. am i locked out?

is there any alternative to programs like sd jukebox?

A lot of older phones need to have music/sound files converted to an oddball format that most general programs don't support. There are several freeware Japanese programs floating around the web to convert for specific phone models/lines. What's the maker and model?

[james]

A lot of older phones need to have music/sound files converted to an oddball format that most general programs don't support. There are several freeware Japanese programs floating around the web to convert for specific phone models/lines. What's the maker and model?

casio w42ca (g'z one). i'm really wondering if it's just a matter of knowing the directory structure but would definitely be interested in figuring out the format / bitrate it should use. might have another flip through the manual but a cursory glance didn't reveal much.

i've been playing around with mediaencoder which can take my files and convert them to 3gpp aac+.

[ttjereth]

casio w42ca (g'z one). i'm really wondering if it's just a matter of knowing the directory structure but would definitely be interested in figuring out the format / bitrate it should use. might have another flip through the manual but a cursory glance didn't reveal much.

i've been playing around with mediaencoder which can take my files and convert them to 3gpp aac+.

I know for my phone it's not just directory structure but also file name. The files have to be named in a very specifc manner (e.g. ex10001A1, ex10001A2 no extentions) or else the phone just ignores them. But mine requires way too much effort to convert things for the phone overall.

Take a look at these:
http://hayatomo.cocolog-nifty.com/diary/2006/07/w42ca_b080.html

There's a lot of info here at answer #1 (A1)
http://virus.okwave.jp/qa2716936.html

Apparently the phone is also Lismo (au Music Port) compatible and you can put songs on it using that as well, but they need to be played using a separate player on the phone rather than from the SDJukebox player. I don't have too much specific knowledge about it, but seems like a good place to start. Also seems Lismo has better compression so a 4mb aac file ends up only being 1.5mb with Lismo, but the format is proprietary so you can't use those converted files on other devices I suppose.

[james]

Apparently the phone is also Lismo (au Music Port) compatible and you can put songs on it using that as well, but they need to be played using a separate player on the phone rather than from the SDJukebox player.

good point! i'd forgotten about this completely. last night i googled for lismo which took me to some useless and obnoxious flash intro page. once i got past that though, i found the usb driver specific to my phone and the lismo software. i have a feeling this will do what i want, but i bailed early and have yet to install it.

i'm going to pilfer my wife's micro sd card for a little while to test this stuff out and see if it does what i want. if it does, i'll pick up my own and dump a bunch of stuff on it.

i'm sure you'll be waiting on bated breath for the results