What Is - Supported audio formats
Article Number: DB-00497

Description

The supported audio formats on BlackBerry devices are the following:
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Additional Information

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) - The supported formats include MPEG2 and MPEG4, as well as HE-AAC / AAC+. The supported sample rates are 8 KBps, 11.025 KBps, 12 KBps, 16 KBps, 22.05 KBps, 32 KBps, 44.1 KBps and 48 KBps. The supported channels are all configurations of mono and stereo (Note: Depending on the BlackBerry Device Software version, AAC+ may not support parametric stereo ).
AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) - The supported AMR-NB rates are 4.75 KBps, 5.15 KBps, 5.9 KBps, 6.7 KBps, 7.4 KBps, 7.95 KBps, 10.2 KBps, and 12.2 KBps; and the input must conform to RFC3267 Section 5 on the Internet FAQ Archive web site.
MIDI - Partial support of MIDI on older BlackBerry devices refers to a buzzer capable of buzzing at various frequencies and volumes. All other BlackBerry devices support polyphonic MIDI.
MP3 - Currently, the supported format is MPEG-1 Layer 3; the supported sample rates are 32KHz, 44.1KHz, and 48KHz; and the supported channels are 1 (mono) and 2 (stereo).
ADPCM2 - This is a proprietary sampled audio format.
WAV - The supported encodings include PCM, uLaw, and aLaw. The supported sampling rates are 8 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz with 8-bit and 16-bit depths in mono or stereo.

MPEG-4 (.m4a) audio format is also supported by the Blackberry Pearl.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't notice it was already listed, please delete

I have tried EVERYTHING with WAP program converting files into some of these supported files. I dont know how to transfer them using Desktop Manager and I've tried e mailing the files to my account but It wont let me open the attachment. What can i do to get these on my phone to use as ringtones!? Please Help!

Hello Stripes. You should probably have started a new thread rather than add to this one.

Thsi is a VERY commonly asked question. VERY, VERY COMMON.

You can not e-mail ringtones. You must upload them to a web site and then download them using the BB Browser.

There are some very good sticky threads FAQs at the top of the Ringtones forum.

Good luck!

BB pearl users, for audio files how can the BB store the most music? & which format?

the more "Kbps" is lower in the mp3/music file, the less Mb- then you can put more music on the phone