[oakleez]

I know there are many threads with "post your ringtones here" but I'm sick of the boring and/or low-quality midi ringers, I feel that qcp is being neglected...

I know qcp are far from "high" quality... but they're the best option as far as I'm concerned.

I find that they make great ringers as long as you have an isolated instrument (guitar solo with no symbols crashing). Anyways here are a few that I made and use daily... they came out pretty good.

Guns N Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" intro riff

Snoop Dogg's "Gs and Hustlas" (short version)

Snoop Dogg's "Gs and Hustlas" (long version)

INXS "Devil Inside" guitar riff

The Vines "Ride" (song from the new iPod commercial)

Please post your favorite QCPs here, if you want them hosted on the web just let me know.

[rubiediamonds]

i have no problems with my ringers i have made spanish rap even seals loves divine i also amplify them to make clear and loader when they play.. i have not run into problem with and melody.. the only thing theremust be no gaps in the songs that sound like air waves horrible .. then i havet o delete that and mesh them .. take to long..

[rubiediamonds]

also make a gcd file for you songs this way they can download from there cell phones.
if you dont know how i can send you a snippet yu can save as a template

[oakleez]

What programs do you use? I dont necessarily "amplify" mine, I resample them and then normalize them so they are the loudest possible without clipping (I use soundforge 7.0) Also why would you bother making gcd? can you send those from phone to phone? I backup all my stuff on my pc anyways so I dont see the need for that.

Originally Posted by rubiediamonds

i have no problems with my ringers i have made spanish rap even seals loves divine i also amplify them to make clear and loader when they play.. i have not run into problem with and melody.. the only thing theremust be no gaps in the songs that sound like air waves horrible .. then i havet o delete that and mesh them .. take to long..

[Abhay]

If one of you could post the best possible way to create qcp ringtones without the distortion, it would be greatly appreciated

[oakleez]

I believe mine above are juuust about as good as you can get with this insane amount of compression (most .qcp files are about 1-1.5kb/s... 10 times more compression than the average mp3 and 1000 times smaller than raw cd-audio... not much breathing room.)

Here's what I do:

1. Find a wav or mp3 that you want
2. get a good sound editor (I use Sound Forge 7.0)
3. load the file, isolate the part of it that you want (delete the parts you dont want in your ringer)
4. RESAMPLE it to 8,000hz but keep it as 16-bit. (important)
5. convert it to mono or isolate either the left or right channel (I prefer the latter rather than mixing the 2 channels together, with this much compression the less stuff you have going on the better.) Next, and most importantly, you want to NORMALIZE the file, which makes it as loud as possible without clipping. In sound forge you do this by going to process --> normalize.
6. you should now save your ringer as an 8khz, 16bit, mono wav file.
7. go here and download both the player (currently v1.3.2) and more importantly the converter (v3.0)
8. extract the converter into a directory with your .wav file, and go to a windows command prompt
9. at the command prompt type "pvconv nameofyourwavefile.wav" without the quotes and using the name of your .wav file. (this will convert your .wav to a .qcp file which you can use with the focus uploader or any other uploader.)
10. post your .qcp file here and share the wealth!

As for the distortion, you're going to get it no matter what if there are many frequencies in use at once (avoid bass and symobols at the same time, etc) because of the insane amount of compression, this format cannot handle a lot going on at once... which is why I recommend an isolated instrument for best results (check out my guns n roses guitar riff one above... it'd sound like poop if another instrument was present.)

If something such as super low frequency bass is messing up your results, you can try messing with an EQ in your sound editor before saving/converting the wav file also.

Originally Posted by Abhay

If one of you could post the best possible way to create qcp ringtones without the distortion, it would be greatly appreciated

[Abhay]

Thanks Bud, Much appreciated

[oakleez]

here's the "Do It!" phrase from Starsky and Hutch in qcp:

Do It!

[syn92]

how do i get these on my treo 600?

[Bohemian Iconoclast]

The word you want to use in your search is "uploader."

Here's a good one (what the heck): http://focus.imagetech.net.au/

[hibbt]

Originally Posted by syn92

how do i get these on my treo 600?

as far as i know...the treo doesn't support .qcp

[Bohemian Iconoclast]

It would be a real shame if you couldn't d/l a program to do that. The thing plays MP3s.....it should do qcp. I don't know the specs, but you'd think....

[poorlyduck]

Originally Posted by oakleez

I believe mine above are juuust about as good as you can get with this insane amount of compression (most .qcp files are about 1-1.5kb/s... 10 times more compression than the average mp3 and 1000 times smaller than raw cd-audio... not much breathing room.)

Here's what I do:

1. Find a wav or mp3 that you want
2. get a good sound editor (I use Sound Forge 7.0)
3. load the file, isolate the part of it that you want (delete the parts you dont want in your ringer)
4. RESAMPLE it to 8,000hz but keep it as 16-bit. (important)
5. convert it to mono or isolate either the left or right channel (I prefer the latter rather than mixing the 2 channels together, with this much compression the less stuff you have going on the better.) Next, and most importantly, you want to NORMALIZE the file, which makes it as loud as possible without clipping. In sound forge you do this by going to process --> normalize.
6. you should now save your ringer as an 8khz, 16bit, mono wav file.
7. go here and download both the player (currently v1.3.2) and more importantly the converter (v3.0)
8. extract the converter into a directory with your .wav file, and go to a windows command prompt
9. at the command prompt type "pvconv nameofyourwavefile.wav" without the quotes and using the name of your .wav file. (this will convert your .wav to a .qcp file which you can use with the focus uploader or any other uploader.)
10. post your .qcp file here and share the wealth!

As for the distortion, you're going to get it no matter what if there are many frequencies in use at once (avoid bass and symobols at the same time, etc) because of the insane amount of compression, this format cannot handle a lot going on at once... which is why I recommend an isolated instrument for best results (check out my guns n roses guitar riff one above... it'd sound like poop if another instrument was present.)

If something such as super low frequency bass is messing up your results, you can try messing with an EQ in your sound editor before saving/converting the wav file also.

I folollowed all instruction u said by getting sound forge and purevoice player + converter but when I tried to convert the .wav to .qcp its giving me 0kb size of the file, plz it will be nice from u if u can explain to me why it doesnt work for me and the big favor if u can give us the screen shot using sound forge because it kinda complicated.

TIA

[oakleez]

heh, i dont really have time to do all that... if you use soundforge to end up with an 8khz, 16bit, mono wav file you should be fine... as that's the exact format that QCP will demand... beyond that I have no clue why you're getting a 0 byte file...

As for sound forge, open an mp3, delete the parts that you dont need, double-click either the left or right channel, go to edit-->copy then file-->new (44,100khz, 16bit, mono), then edit-->paste into the new file so it's mono instead of stereo. then go to process-->resample and put in 8,000 for the sample rate. Then go to process-->normalize to make it slightly louder. Now just go to file-->save-as a microsoft wav file.

assuming your file is called blah.wav, you should just have to type:

pvconv blah.wav

and it will spit out blah.qcp.

Originally Posted by poorlyduck

I folollowed all instruction u said by getting sound forge and purevoice player + converter but when I tried to convert the .wav to .qcp its giving me 0kb size of the file, plz it will be nice from u if u can explain to me why it doesnt work for me and the big favor if u can give us the screen shot using sound forge because it kinda complicated.

TIA

[one2ku]

8. extract the converter into a directory with your .wav file, and go to a windows command prompt
9. at the command prompt type "pvconv nameofyourwavefile.wav" without the quotes and using the name of your .wav file.

could you please explain how to do this? i don't know what you mean.
thanks