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BitPim for Debian
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device permissions
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I second the upstream developers' recommendation of running BitPim as
a regular user rather than root. However, for this to be possible,
you will probably first need to configure appropriate device
permissions. If your system runs udev (installed by default) and you
have a USB-connected phone that BitPim fully recognizes, it should
suffice to edit the settings in /etc/default/bitpim according to that
file's comments. Otherwise, you can define local rules akin to those
in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_bitpim.rules.
mp3 ringtones
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Many of the phones BitPim supports allow users to upload ringtones in
the popular MP3 format. Although BitPim offers to convert WAV files
to this format, please be advised that such conversion *will not work*
on a stock Debian system, as patent concerns prevent Debian from
distributing any MP3 encoders via official channels.
On the other hand, uploading existing MP3 (or, for that matter, MIDI)
ringtones as is should still work. Moreover, you can ease this
restriction by installing an unofficial version of the ffmpeg package
with support for MP3 encoding; at the time of this writing,
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ has such packages.
-- Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>, Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:38:59 -0500
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