Need to Convert .wav to .aac

[Stoic Joker]

I know I had a program that did this, but I can't find it. I'm trying to make a ring tone for my cell and aparently the phone (Nokia 6350) wants .aac files only.

Any suggestions?

tia

[rgdot]

SUPER might

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[mouser]

super can do almost anything.. but it's so confusing to use i would leave it as a lost resort

[lanux128]

super can do almost anything.. but it's so confusing to use i would leave it as a lost resort

-mouser (June 12, 2010, 10:20 PM)

surely you meant as a last resort!

the UI definitely brings tears to my eyes whenever i attempt to use it..

[wr975]

I know I had a program that did this, but I can't find it. I'm trying to make a ring tone for my cell and aparently the phone (Nokia 6350) wants .aac files only.

-Stoic Joker (June 12, 2010, 07:47 PM)

Xrecode can do this.

http://www.xrecode.com/

Last freeware version: http://www.xup.in/dl...e_I_final_2.6.0.zip/

[Stoic Joker]

Last freeware version: http://www.xup.in/dl...e_I_final_2.6.0.zip/

-wr975 (June 13, 2010, 05:59 AM)

Thanks folks, this one took care of it just fine (and on Win7 x64). Only hiccup was that converting from .wav to .aac directly destroyed the file (without error). But converting from .wav to .mp3 then to .aac worked fine.

So now when my phone rings, it sounds like (I think it should) a phone ringing not a spaceship, symphony, TV commercial, or zoo trip.

I even created a silent ringtone that I can assign to "Special" people that I wish to auto-magically ignore (hehe).

[wr975]

I like the idea with the silent ring tone... clever! 

FWIW, here're my three most-used ring tones:
http://www.xup.in/dl...ndard.ring.tone.mp3/
http://www.xup.in/dl...ard.ring.tone.2.mp3/
http://www.xup.in/dl....miss.important.mp3/

[scancode]

http://www.xup.in/dl...ndard.ring.tone.mp3/

-wr975 (June 13, 2010, 12:38 PM)

Why can't we be friends?

[cranioscopical]

super can do almost anything.. but it's so confusing to use i would leave it as a lost resort

-mouser (June 12, 2010, 10:20 PM)

surely you meant as a last resort!

-lanux128 (June 13, 2010, 02:15 AM)

Or at a lost resort… Club Atlantis, for example.

[Renegade]

...But converting from .wav to .mp3 then to .aac worked fine.

-Stoic Joker (June 13, 2010, 11:04 AM)

You should avoid  converting like that (WAV > MP3 > AAC). Both MP3 and AAC are lossy formats, so you lose quality every time you encode a new file. Use something like WAV > FLAC > AAC as you will not lose quality there. Or better yet, just use FLAC.

[Stoic Joker]

Or better yet, just use FLAC.

-Renegade (June 13, 2010, 08:13 PM)

I'm not sure if the phone will take a FLAC file, but I'll keep that option in mind.

[Renegade]

Or better yet, just use FLAC.

-Renegade (June 13, 2010, 08:13 PM)

I'm not sure if the phone will take a FLAC file, but I'll keep that option in mind.

-Stoic Joker (June 13, 2010, 10:05 PM)

DOH! I forgot about that. :S I don't know of any phones that will play FLAC. They're all pretty much scared off by the potential patent problems involved with open source stuff.

[JavaJones]

Somehow I doubt the phone's speaker will be able to reproduce the nuances in an audio file with enough fidelity that you could hear the difference between WAV->AAC vs. WAV->MP3->AAC. But of course as a general rule it's bad to compress more than once to a lossy format (generational loss).

- Oshyan

[Renegade]

Somehow I doubt the phone's speaker will be able to reproduce the nuances in an audio file with enough fidelity that you could hear the difference between WAV->AAC vs. WAV->MP3->AAC. But of course as a general rule it's bad to compress more than once to a lossy format (generational loss).

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (June 14, 2010, 02:05 PM)

Some phones allow the use of decent quality ear phones. Though you're right -- phone speakers are generally extremely low quality. (I really wonder how the telcom industry hasn't managed to improve the quality of voice telephony in a hundred years...)