software advice

[p7389]

hi i would like to make am mp3 ring tone for my phone the sony ericson p900 i have the sound that i would like to play on my phone but i need advice to transfer the sound from dvd to my machine in mp3 format so as to be able to then transfer it to my phone i own the dvd and am not sure even if it is legall to do so but all i need is to transfer a piece of intro music from dvd to my machine i can find the track on the net but only as a stream and i know so little about this that i cant save this from the site so if anybody can help or sujjest some software to do this i would be so gratefull

[barneygumble742]

get a copy of audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net).
also i think you'll need lame_enc.dll. you'll need to download lame_enc.dll and install it somewhere i think. its required to convert .wav to .mp3. because i use and like winamp, this is what i do:

download and install audacity
download and install winamp
download lame_enc.dll
copy or move lame_enc.dll into c:\program files\winamp\plugins (by doing this, winamp can take advantage of it as well)
run audacity and its going to ask you to find lame_enc.dll so go to winamp's plugin folder and select it from there.

now you're ready to record .wav (or mp3) using winamp and edit the mp3 using audacity.
and ready to record/edit using audacity using the line/in as the source.

i don't know ANYTHING about cell phones. i just got a basic nokia with default ring tones so good luck with the second part.

[Aedan]

For the P900, it's generally a better idea to put things like ringtones, backgrounds and so on actually on the memory card. That way you don't use up the phone's rather limited internal memory on big things like ringtones or backgrounds.

If you already have a memory stick reader, and an adapter for the duo cards, then you can easily place the file on the memory stick duo!