Playlists in Windows Media - JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General

Hi
I have all my songs on my storage card. I can play them fine directly from the storage card, going through the file explorer.
However they dont work when in windows media and using the playlists, even though I can see them all. I get the error message "Cannot play the file. The file is either corrupted or the player does not support the format you are trying to play"
Any ideas??
Thanks
HPJ

I've given up on Windows Media and now use TCPMP for playing my audio files. One of the main reasons I dislike Windows Media is because it's such a pain to create playlists. It seems like they went out of their way to make it difficult. TCPMP let's you create playlists on the device very easily. My audio files are a mix of mp3s and .wma files and it plays them all just fine.
TCPMP also plays lots of other media types, but that's all I'm using it for at this point.
And it's free! (Though you can give a donation if you find it useful )

You can also try WinamPAQ v1.0 Beta[/url]. Also free, if you used Winamp on the PC before, this is a fine copy. Works great also.
Download it here: http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=706

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Playing GSM compressed WAV files?

My voicemail-emails have attached GSM compressed wav files.
Of course that's good because uncompressed files would be much too large, but how can I playback those files?
Can I somehow download additional wav codecs for the pocketpc or is there a good player which can do it?
You only get those MP3 file players and nothing else...
I've tried BetaPlayer (pretty good divx player) which supports wav files, and I get the message "Audio Codec not found".
Problem solved
I just noticed that the WAV file was added to my pocket outlook notes since I put it in the My documents folder.
It can be played as an outlook note.
However, strange that pocket windows media player and other players don't support it.
windows media player dont support any non ms format apart from mp3
and this goes for both audio and video
dont know the format so i cant help i would prob search around for as many players i could using google looking for that feature if i were you
otherwise i suppose you can find a converter for the pc wihtout too much problems

Transfering music from an iTunes playlist to my MDA

Success! I found a little application which works on Windows XP, reads a fixed playlist (Treo Smartphone) from iTunes and copies the associated AAC files to a flash card in a fixed directory (\audio). The application is called Mass Storage Synchronizer, was written by Tea Vui Huang and can be found here. It is designed to work with the Treo's Palm OS but by using the copy to flash card function (in my case mini SD in a SD adapter), I had no problem reading the files on my MDA. He suggests creating MP3's but I had no problems with AAC files.
Pros:
Very easy to use.
Copies AAC files from an predefined iTunes playlist (Treo Smartphone).
Uses .bat files with java script and vb script.
Files playback with TCPMP and Media Player 10 Mobile.
Cons:
Fixed playlist in iTunes (Treo Smartphone).
Cannot playback protected AAC files (you have to burn a CD and Rip them back into the iTunes library).
It does not copy the playlist file.
The .bat files runs through multiple drives to find the flash drive, it forces an error for every one it does not find and you have to click continue. I just modified my .bat to only go to drive F:; my SD drive.
I have some screenshots on my blog here.
honestly why dont you make it where the person sets the drive or something like that instead of cycling
Have you considered using this?
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/playlistsync.htm
I tried a similar app called ppctunes but the copy was so slow via ActiveSync that it was almost unusable.
It looks like Playlist Sync has the same issue. [/url]
i use itunes agent
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ita
Thaks for the tip!
Thanks for the tip rsramirez, it looks very promising. I will try it out.
rsramirez said:
i use itunes agent
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ita
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How do you actually use this app? I've installed it, but I dont know what to do next
Here is a post with a some screen shots that walk you through install and configuration of a "Generic Device" (flash drive).

Media Player/HTC Music Player and iTunes/iPod Use

I currently have all of my music (15,000+ songs) set up for use with Itunes/iPod. I would like to try to use Windows Media Player with the HD2. However, I am concerned about letting Media Player access my files that are currently cataloged in iTunes.
1. Can I set up Media Player so that it accesses the mp3 and m4a files but doesn't copy or move the files from the iTunes folder?
2. If I add the music to the Media Player system, can I rate the music in the Media Player without changing or disrupting the music files themselves?
3. Can Media Player playlists be created without disrupting the iTunes system?
If you currently are using Media Player/HTC Player AND iTunes/iPod successfully, can you tell me if there are any issues that need dealing with? Up until now I've been manually copying music to the HD2. Unfortunately, there seems to be some sort of corruption issue if I delete files that I've added to playlists from within the HD2 Player. I'm assuming that using Media Player to create lists is easier and more secure than creating lists from manually copied files.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
-Bob-
The easiest way I recommend which I my self did is Find your Itunes library on your computer copy it to your HD2's storage Card and from there do whatever you like.
hagba said:
The easiest way I recommend which I my self did is Find your Itunes library on your computer copy it to your HD2's storage Card and from there do whatever you like.
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From my original post: "Up until now I've been manually copying music to the HD2. Unfortunately, there seems to be some sort of corruption issue if I delete files that I've added to playlists from within the HD2 Player."
As far as I know you should delete songs from the folder that you have your music in it usually on your storage card that should not be any problem,another way is that you use the ActiveSync to sync your music files from your computer to your device,in this way whenever you add or delete a music file on your PC it will be automaticaly synced to your Phone,this sure is the better way.

how can i play lossless music (wav) ?

how can i play lossless music (wav) ? use hd2 wp7
This is not easiest way but I did get this to work in playing wma lossless music on my HD2 Winmo 7.5.
First create WMA lossless files with spec of 16bit 44.1K.
This is where you will go off-road..
Find a link on web on how to turn the winmo phone into a usb drive.
i found a link on wpcentral.
Goto the usb drive'd Winmo 7.5 phone and look for folder named Music.
Inside create the folder you wish and copy those wma lossless files you want.
These files will show up in the phone as "Various Artists", so they won't catalog properly.
So, go back to the usb drive'd winmo phone. Go back to the Music folder where you copied those wma files. Right Mouse click on one of those wma files. A choice to create Playlist should be there. Create one.
Rename the playlist as you please. Then right click on the file and goto properties. Then goto "references" tab. Select all the wma file names and "drag" them into the "references" tab. You may have to rearrange the order of the songs, but there are buttons allowing you to do this.
After everything looks right save this file.
Then, look for folder called PLAYLIST. MOVE the .pla (playlist) file you created into this folder.
unplug the winmo phone and you should be able to play this "playlist" full of wma lossless files.
there maybe easier way to do this... but I have not found a method on the web..
The way i do it is, first of all, convert the wavs to wma lossless with a converter. I use dbpoweramp.
If you have wav\ape\flac\cue files, get a virtual drive emulator like daemon tools and load the cue file in that, then get dbpoweramp or zune software to convert.
I then sync the music with the zune software to the phone. Done.
There is a minor bug. This happens on a few builds of wp7 ive tried.
music skips when trying to play from phone speaker.
If you use headphones or an external speaker the music does not skip.
personally, the audio quality of the phone is not as good as a real zune hd. I would convert to mp3 instead.
check the size of those files you transferred using zune.. i have tried your method.. however, even when the files are only "sync'd" not convertered, they were fraction of the original files..
the sync problem seems random to me. try to transfer one album at a time and check that theyre synced before continuing

[Q] Music loaded from PC via USB won't play

As the name suggests, I'm having some issues with audio playback on my new Iconia. I transferred all my music from my HTC Evo, to my PC, then to the Iconia using Acer's downloadable drivers. If I open the folder via a market downloaded file explorer...I have no issues. It is when I try to play the files in absolutely anything else that I get errors. Just FYI, the files are a mix of .mp3 and .wma files. Any thoughts?
Chlballi
Edit: I'm using File Explorer HD, and only the .mp3 files are playing within the explorer...the .wma files prompt for an app and fail
you can use windows media player to sync music
As far as I know, the WMA format isn't supported in Honeycomb natively.
I had the same problem but its was with google music. I tried power amp from the market and all my music plays fine now. And all my files are wma.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock
i ended up doing something similar with MortPlayer--still wish it would've worked with Google Music...I was realling digging the UI of that one. Oh well, at least my music plays now. If anyone ends up with a thought or a workaround for the native Iconia app, keep us posted here. I'd love to see a device where all of the stock software worked as it was intended!
Chlballi
Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi
chlballi said:
Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi
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Yes. I did mention WMP above.
But I only did sync MP3 files, not WMA files. So I don't know about WMA part. MP3 is recognized and played flawlessly using stock music player.
Another note, if your music info (ID3 Tags) is not in English, make sure you have proper character encoding before syncing. Otherwise, they will be displayed as garbage. I think all ID3 Tags should be converted to UTF8, not sure, just used Foobar2000 to fix all my Japanese-title music.
After exchanging my first Iconia to BB for some other issues, I did as you mentioned with using the tablet as an external mp3 player in WMP and everything worked flawlessly! Thanks I also found a great .apk to be able to mount my NTFS HDDs to the tab without issue. So I'm in great shape now!
Chlballi
I tried an experiment with the music -- after syncing the music to my tablet using WMP, I noticed that it placed all of the files into the music folder within the root sdcard (internal memory) and google music pp worked great. I moved all the files from that folder to a folder created on the external_SD, and the app fails like before. Apparently the Music app that comes with our Iconias cannot see anything outside of its native internal memory
Chlballi

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