MP3 -> AMR April 6, 2007

I wanted to upload my Girl’s song to my nokia 5140, but this nokia does not play MP3 audio format, so I had to investigate how to hear it, and I found that this nokia like other nokias plays AMR audio format.

With our great friend ffmpeg I read that I could convert MP3 to AMR, but I need to do something first (patch it and then compile it). Right now I’m using a computer with Ubuntu edgy so I searched the web for information for this operation, and I’ve found this. As you may see that tutorial is somehow out of date, so you may have to make some changes like after you build the package you’re going to have to also install the codecs that were produced. And add them to the file preferences too.

When we got all that done we may convert MP3 to AMR, I just wanted a part of a song to be converted so this is what I did,

myuser@mycomputer:~$ ffmpeg -i bacilos.mp3 -ss 00:01:09.5 -t 00:00:29.2 -acodec amr_nb -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 32 carito.amr