3230 music playing, interesting note — Nokia 3230 — All About Symbian Forum Archive

epoc 03 Aug 2005, 15:50

Just got a 3230, and luckily, all of the mediocre to bad things about this phone affect me very little-i have an ipod, so i don't use it for mp3s, don't mind the pre-beep, don't mind the camera delay, etc, so I'm quite happy with the phone (i paid 29 euros with contract extension).

But...i found something interesting. My old phone was the Nokia 7250, and I had purchased the Nokia DT-1 music stand for it, and almost never used it. It was more of a gimmick.

For fun, I tried to put my new 3230 in the stand, and there were two plastic tabs that prevented it from going in. I broke off these tabs and it actually fits.

Now here's the kicker-mp3 playback over the music stand is amazingly good for this phone. The headphone-mp3-playback is terrible, as is the mp3-playback over the internal speaker, but using the music stand, it's quite good. Still mono, but a million times better than the headphones or internal speaker.

Interesting...maybe the crap mp3 quality is more because the speaker and headphones are crippled?

hirenm 10 Aug 2005, 05:33

hi can u tell me how can one convert the mono mp3 to stereo by using some of the external headset or by doing something else........

N/A 10 Aug 2005, 10:10

You can't convert a mono MP3 to stereo (if the file has only one channel stored, there is no magic that can find the other channel where it doesn't exist).

Note that most MP3 files are really stereo already (i.e., the file includes a left and right speaker track/channel). It is just that phones like the 3230 cannot play both of them, but only one of them; and some phones can also mix them and play the combined result, if the hardware doesn't support stereo output).