A property extension for mobile content. A tool that helps you identifying sample based ringtone files. It enhances your normal windows explorer with the capability of displaying all important data from your mobile content file. Features Quick format recognition Exact format specification Complete meta-data extraction Visual sample display Audio sample playback and more..

Quick format recognition

The maybe most important feature of this tool is to allow the user to quickly get an overview on what format sub-classes/versions of files he is working with. Everybody who has ever handled SMAF or PMD files will by now have understood the reason for the existence of this tool. For the interested non professional, the challenge should be explained first;

Many sample based ringtone formats have evolved since their first introduction. One very wide-spread ringtone format and great example would be Yamaha's Synthetic Music Application Format a.k.a. SMAF. It has, by today, done four big evolutionairy steps. The first generation was called MA1. SMAF MA1 usually manifested itself in two "flavors" (handyphone and mobile uncompressed). As usual in this market, handsets ate only one of those flavors, depending on the handset-model and vendor / carrier. The good thing was that later, starting with the next SMAF evolution called MA2, the handsets usually ate both flavors (additionally to the downward compatiblity). Trouble now was that both evolutions traditionally use the same file-extension for this format; .MMF, triggering a lot of confusion in the market and already on a producer's workstation.
That certainly did not change when MA3, MA5 and now MA7 were introduced. Without the Mobile Content Shell Extension, when browsing with your windows explorer, it is impossible to tell which phone a file will work on.

The Mobile Content Shell Extension displays the format version within the icon shown by your normal windows explorer. Actually its not just the explorer, every windows application that shows file-icons using the standard methods will now show the new, more helpful icons.	Format subclasses / versions indicated by the file-icons provided
For formats supporting protection mechanisms (e.g. SMAF), this icon will display a little lock for files that are save-protected. It may at this occasion be noted that all file-type-icons were manually rendered at 16, 32, 48, 128 and 255 pixel in square (the latter two usable for Vista only).	Protection status indicted by the file-icons provided
As this tool is a so called "standard shell extension", its not only the Explorer that now knows which icon to display. Even Outlook now identifies those files by their content.	Format subclasses / versions indicated by the file-icons provided
Exact format specification
The Tool-Tipp extension is a feature allowing you to see all available content details by simply hovering with your mouse over the file.	File attributes shown as a tool-tipp
Complete meta-data extraction
All meta data encoded into the file will be extracted and displayed on various occasions.	Meta data as displayed in the property page extension
Visual sample display and audio sample playback
The sample data is extracted and displayed. You can even play the sample for control and quality assurance purposes. Note:This tool will not play any sequence data, just samples. Only the longest playing sample that is contained in the ringtone file will be displayed / playable. This is a current restriction for this tool applying to RMF-, MMF- and the CMX-format (mixed media formats).	Sample Display

If you fiddle a lot with mobile content, this little tool a helper you cant efford to miss - serious!

Supported Formats Beatnik Rich Music Format (RMF) Panasonic (MFM) Qualcomm Compact Media Format (CMF/CMX); CMX2,CMX3,CMX4 Qualcomm Purevoice (QCELP) Yamaha Synthetic Music Application Format (SMAF); MA2,MA3,MA5,MA7

Installation Get the free download from this site. Go through the setup-procedure as advised by the installer.

Usage
Simply right click any file you want to analyse, select properties and activate the "Summary" tab.

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Please note, this tool has only been tested on Windows XP and it may fail to work for other systems.

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Published on: 2003-09-07 (8976 reads)