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Sound Juicer is a reliable audio CD ripper. But customizing the MP3 format output is a pain at first. Information about configuring the GStreamer pipeline is scarce. This is a simple guide on customizing the MP3 format. Goto Preferences > Format > Edit Profiles The most important part of creating a customized output format is the pipeline settings. By default, the default MP3 profile gives you: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=6 !  id3v2mux This setting above will gives you a moderate quality, variable bit rate (128 to 256 kbps) and true stereo sound. If you want a higher variable bit rate, set the vbr-quality=4 . You can change this to a constant bitrate of 256 kbps: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 bitrate=256 !  id3v2mux This setting above will gives you a constant bit rate of 256 kbps and true stereo sound. These are only simple examples. To get more information about options available via the gstreamer lame

How you use your phone is according to your personal preferences. Thus this makes the battery's life (per charge) of Nokia 5800 used by 2 different person varies. Some might claimed that their phone actually lasts up to 4 days but some might claimed their phone will only served them less than a day. Below is a list of actions you can do to make your Nokia 5800 battery last as long as possible. Use it as a guide. Do not switch off the phone Switching off and on (restart) the phone will actually consumes significant amount of battery power. A few restarts of the phone will drain your battery power significantly till dropping the first battery indicator bar on a fully charged battery. If you are required to switch off the phone, use the Offline mode instead. You can easily switch to Offline mode by switching to Offline profile.  Menu > Settings > Personal > Profiles Turn down the screen brightness level to the lowest The LCD display is very power hungry. Setting the screen br

Symbian has an added security measure that built into it's OS v9.x phones which will requires you to sign your Symbian applications before installing them. Only applications and games from trusted developers that have developers' certificate are pre-signed with that certificate so that you can install them directly.  In order to sign your unsigned Nokia 5800 XM applications, you need to get a certificate and sign them yourselves. Get Your Certificate (Pre-Requisite) Goto  OPDA . Register as an user. Provide your IMEI number. The certificate will be ready for download in 10 to 12 hours time. Sign Your Unsigned Application Offline Signing Download  SignSISTool . Download your Certificate and Key files from OPDA . Download your unsigned application. Sign the unsigned application with the SignSISTool with your downloaded certificate, key and unsigned application. Online Signing Download your unsigned application. Goto  OPDA online application signing . Select your certificate. Uplo