Miksoft Mobile AMR Converter, AMR Music Converter that I Used

Miksoft Mobile AMR Converter is PC application that can convert wave music (*.wav) to amr (*.amr) and vice versa. I'm just using it to convert wave to amr, because if converted wav from convertion amr to wav, the quality isn't good. This application was made by Miksoft. Actually, as you see the picture above, this application was made for Sony Ericsson phones, but since all S60 phones and some S40 phones had support amr file, you can use this.

Well, I use amr file for my Nokia 3200, since it can't play mp3 files, but you could use this also for the reason of space, because amr file has small size than mp3 file (there was a phone that support mp3 files but didn't have memory card). To use this application to convert a wav file to amr, you should have wav file that has property 16 bit with 8 kHz sampling frequency to convert (to have this, you could you music converter application like I used), because if you use another wav setting, you'll get a worse quality amr file.

Some phones, like my Nokia 3200, has limit for a file size, my Nokia 3200 has limit about 50 kb per files. So, if that's your case (like mine), you should cut the music for only some second that has a part you like and convert it (to do this you can use music editor like I used).

Audacity, PC Music Editor Application

Audacity is a freeware music editor that was made on sourceforge project. With this you can cut or add effect to a music file. Actually, I'm using it for cut my music file, since I don't have a good knowledge in music file. To cut a music file using this application, just delete the unnecessary part from the part and delete it, then save the remaining one (the one that we want to keep), or you can just cut the part you want and paste it in a new project (blank).

You might think, why I suppose to do this? Well, sometimes we want it to make the music file your phone ringtone (because ringtone can only be heard in about a minute before a phone call being picked up or ignore) and/or you want to add it to a theme you made with Theme Studio.

You can also use another software like Nero Wave Editor to do this, if you already have Nero Burning Rom, it's a big chance you already have it, but it's not a free application, but it has also ability to burn CD or DVD (you can get this ability also from another freeware program, just search the net).

Free Mp3 Wma Converter, Music Converter Application

Free Mp3 Wma Converter is a freeware PC application to convert your music file. It was made by Koyote Soft. Of course you can use PC Suite Music Manager to convert your music, but sometimes it failed to do the convertion process. Also this software has ability to add/edit music tag like title, album name, etc, but this software can't convert to m4a like Music Manager.

Well, for me, since m4a files can't add genre tag, I don't really like it, so I convert my music to aac with this software. If you want to use PC Suite Music Manager, you can combine it to Free Wma Converter. As you know (or you don't know), when you convert using PC Suite Music Manager, sometimes it failed to convert a music file, in that case you can use Free Mp3 Wma Converter to convert it first to wav file, then convert the converted file using PC Suite Music Manager (2 times convertion).

Of course, if you have another music converter application like Easy CD-DA Extractor by Poikosoft, you can use just the application to do the convertion of your music file (I mean without 2 times convertion like I do above). But it's not a freeware, and If you don't mind about that, you can use it, I've already tested it, it's a good software, and I'm still searching if there's a freeware application that has ability like this one. If you know one, let me know, ok!

Anvil Studio, Make/Edit Your Midi/Polyphonic Tones

Anvil Studio is a PC application to make or edit midi files (*.mid). It was made by Willow Software. I've already used this application since I've got my Nokia 3200. I'm not really good using it (until now), since I don't really good in music, and I don't really understand the complex of the application, so I was just using it to edit some polyphonic tones that was created by other people.

You know that some phones have specific channel limitation or there's some instrument that a phone can't play, so with this application, you can delete some channel from an original midi file that you have (because the sounds from that channel/instrument can be delete without any major change to your hearing) or change the instrument that couldn't play by your phone with the one that had almost similiar sounds that can. Of course, you must experiment by yourself to find what best to your phone.

Actually, the past version of Nokia PC Suite had the ability to make any midi files to compatible midi files to your phones, but they cut it down now, classic N-Gage also has built-in phone application to edit midi files. I know that many phones already have ability to play mp3 music now, but there's still some (and also new) that can't, so what the reason for Nokia to cut the ability from their new PC Suite? Ask Nokia! Anyway, if you still using the past Nokia PC Suite that has ability to convert a midi files, you can combine Anvil Studio with this, because sometimes when I was using the PC Suite conversion, the sounds of some channel still can't be played in my phones, in that case, edit it again with Anvil Studio.

MBM Converter, Editing S60 Theme Easier

When you made S60 theme using Theme Edition, you'd be taking much time to made it using any picture editor application you have. Then if you want to make a theme with some elements from another theme or you want to edit a theme that was made by another people (maybe because you don't like the way they made it), or you just want to take some elements from another theme, you can use MBM Converter by CequenzeTech.

First, you can use Sis Editor like I used to extract a symbian theme file (sis extension), then search in the extract folder for an mbm file extension, after you find it, use MBM Converter to extract it, then use the elements which you like to your theme. If you want to edit a theme to your satisfaction, make a new theme with some elements that you like from that theme and change some elements you don't like. It's simple, and there's much free theme on the net nowdays.

Note: Some commercial theme mbm file cannot be extract (or maybe all), I've already tested some. I thought it must be because they protect their work from being taken by other people.

SISWare, The Sis Editor I Used

This sis editor I used to see and extract file in a sis file. SISWare was made by CequenzeTech. It can be used to extract any sis file. Some other sis editor fail to view or extract sis that spesifically designate for symbian ver. 9. You can also see the resource of the sis file.

Well, actually I only used it to view file that will be add to my phone if I install the sis file and see if some of it can be usefull for me. It also can sign an unsign sis file, but I prefer manually sign it. Actually, there's many advance use of this application other that that, but I don't understand how to use it (hiks..). So, that's all, I hope this information can be usefull for you who has more advance knowledge than me (or not).

Carbide UI Theme Edition, The Symbian Theme Maker that I Used

You can make a theme for your Symbian Phones with this PC application. I used this application now to make my theme. You can combine your skill with image through photoshop and used it here for your satisfaction.

Actually, this application was made by Forum Nokia to support their software developer, but you can used it for your personal used, just like me. Now, it has version 3.2, but I still used version 3.1, because I think it still same with minor add.

This is a good wysiwyg application for a theme maker (although, some component might not have preview). In the past time, I used Theme Studio to handle my theme, until this software come. I notice the big difference in use and speed of this two. I prefered Carbide UI. I used it in my PC that was running Windows XP SP2 with 512 RAM and this application can also handle with a bit slower but not that slow as Theme Studio has.

This application can make theme for S60 2nd Edtion and S60 3rd Edition (since S60 1st Edition don't have theme menu). Above screenshot is Carbide UI Theme Edition, and below is Theme Studio, which was made also by Forum Nokia