Simple basic mp3 to midi converter

[gavstar]

I'm looking for something simple and free to mess around with creating midi files from mp3s to send to my phone to use as ringtones.
Any suggestions? Cheers!

[arcturus]

This may be of use.

[gavstar]

Right OK, thanks for the link. So any idea how to create a ring tone from a song in my own collection? Not that I'm tight, it's just I have songs I'd rather use than the usual crap you can get on the web.

[thepassenger]

Depends on the phone really.
My nokia 6600 (and most comperable units) will let you punt mp3/wav files to it for use are ringtones, assuming you have enough memory.
However if you have to have a midi file try hunting around on-line, don't try search for ringtone's but song X MIDI otherwise you'll most likey end up at one of the ringtone sellers websites.

Unfortunatley there is no real way to go directly from mp3/wav to midi.

[john_p]

What phone do you have?

The best MP3 to MIDI converter is a trained musician wouldn't bother using a converter but I'm sure the MIDI you want is somewhere on the web .. what song is it?

[Gavstar]

It's a Nokia 6820. I haven't decided on a particular tune yet, as wanted to play around and see which ones sounded best. The phone can play realtones as opposed to these crappy polyphonic jobbies, so maybe i should juct create a low bit-rate mp3 or whichever bit of the tune i want. I thought it would be easier than that though.

[john_p]

MP3 the only way then! Just transfer it onto the phone via Bluetooth, IR or if you get stuck, FTP/WAP. Should support most formats?

If not you can get MP3 to AMR converters, might be one on the PC suite.

[LaurenceFrost]

MP3 -> AMR
There's one on the Nokia website called Nokia Multimedia Converter IIRC.