March 09, 2006
Sony DRM Packager and HID Editor
I own a Sony Ericsson K700 mobile phone on the Vodafone network and have wanted to set an MP3 as my ringtone, but it has never worked and I did not know why. Well I have just found out that Vodafone disable the ability for MP3 files to be set as ringtones unless they have DRM information. Vodafone do this to force you purchase ringtones from their Vodafone Live service. Well now sony has released a development kit that allows you to add your own DRM information to MP3 files so they can be uploaded to the phone and actually set as your ringtone. The application is simple to use and on a mac where you can use the bluetooth file browser to upload the DRM'ed MP3 file the whole process is extremely easy.
The other Development tool sony has released for the mac is an HID editor. The HID are definitions for the Bluetooth remote control feature that Sony has on a number of their phones that allows users to connect their mobile phone to a mac and control different applications.
Both the DRM Packager and HID editor are available from the Sony Ericsson Developer site (see below)
Links
Sony Ericsson Developer Site
