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Music file formats and parameters

BlackBerry Media


The information below was excerpted from BlackberryForums.com (here):
The following Audio formats (including extensions) are supported:

  • ACC – audio compression formats AAC, AAC+, and EAAC+
  • AMR – Adaptive Multi Rate-Narrow Band (AMR-NB) speech coder standard

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 KBp.

AMR files must conform to the standards specified in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) document RFC3267, Section 5, on the the Internet RFC Archive web site.

  • MIDI – Polyphonic MIDI (.mid, .midi, or .smf)
  • MP3 – encoded using MPEG Part 1 and Part 2 audio layer 3

Supported sample rates are 16Khz, 22.050Khz, 24Khz, 32Khz, 44.1Khz and 48Khz.

  • WAV – supports sample rates of 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

Supports WAV files created using audio codec GSM6.10.

Note: Playback of WAV files received as email message attachments requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server® software version 4.1 Service Pack 2.

  • WMA 9 Standard Profile Decoder
  • WMA 10 Professional M0 Profile Decoder

WMA 9 Profile Decoder and WMA 10 M0 Profile Decoder are only supported by BlackBerry Device Software 4.2.1 or higher. See KB05419 for more information.
The following Audio file extensions are also supported:

  • .avi containing PCM, MP3, and AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+
  • .3gp containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+
  • .mp4 containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+
  • .mov containing MP3, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+
  • .aac and .m4a containing AAC, AAC+, and eAAC+

Note: BlackBerry smartphones do not support streaming music over Bluetooth® wireless technology to a Bluetooth headset.


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Julie says:
Jul 8, 2008 - 01:07:44

Hi I was just wondering I have been searching everywhere for this answer the short cut keys to change prev and next song are 4 and 6 but when Im running my music but not in the music player application is there a short cut so that I dont have to go back into my music just to change the song???

Kelly Carter says:
Jul 8, 2008 - 08:07:01

Julie,
The “shortest cut” I know is, while you are on the Home Screen or in most applications, to press the Menu Key, select Now Playing, and click the trackball. That returns you to the Media Player where you can change songs. Press Escape key to return back to where you were originally. Only a few extra clicks.

If you think about it, once you leave the Media Player, the keyboard functions need to return to their “normal” purposes or you couldn’t dial a call, etc.
Kelly

Julie says:
Jul 8, 2008 - 11:07:26

Ya that completely makes sense i just wasnt sure but thank you for the info! your website has helped me out so much i’ve had my BB pearl for about 2 weeks and ive learned so much about using it through your website

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