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Last night i sent a song (wma file) via infa-red from my friends laptop my my xda ii, i cannot set this as a ringtone, can anyone help!
ive tryed add new ringtone and the file does not appear on the list, ive searched for the song but the only way i can find the file is if i go to windows media player and go to playlist (im not sure where the actual file is kept), but there is no option to set as a ringtone.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!
have you tryied to copy it in the windows/ring directory ? i guess it must be in there to be considered as a ringtone.
How do i do that as i cannot find where the file is kept?
How do i do that as i cannot find where the file is kept?
then do a search on the name of your file
your xda is like a pc in that way
you cant just place files where you like and asume
that every program search the whole mem looking for all files of formats it knows
well if you have a soft like resco explorer you can make a "find" on the device to look for wma files, i do not know exactly where IR files are stored, look in the temp directories or my documents ...
Ive done a search for the song name but no items found the only way i can find the song is by going into windows media player and going on to playlist! Does anyone know where files are copied to when recieved via infa-red, maybe that will help?
my bet is that they are put somewhere in the my documents dir
if you go into the playlist of mediaplayer
and click the I icon
you get the info of a song / media file
then scroll down a bit and it display the path to the file
It cannot be found, if anyone knows where songs are kept when sent over via infa-red please let me know!
Thanks!
Rudegar ive done that and it says location /My Documents but when i go to my documents theres nothing there (sorry bout previous msg, sent before i got yours)
Rudegar ive done that and it says location /My Documents but when i go to my documents theres nothing there (sorry bout previous msg, sent before i got yours)
but it does play ?
i just did a test trying to use the find in the start button to find a file and it dident work
then i tried using total commander to search for the file and it found it all 3 places i had the file
i would if you dont feel like browsing after the file using file explore
install total commander it's free and much better then file explore
Hidden File?
Hi,
without checking, it just popped in my mind.
Maybe your file is hidden.
Have you tried the 'show all files' option (thats if you use the standard file explorer).
In case you don't know how to activate, just tap and hold inside the directory and select 'show all files'
Hope this helps....
fabolousxda
The XDA2 uses WAV files for ringtones. i got a free file converter off the net and turned wma's into wav's. I use the cradle to transfer the file directly into the windows/ring folder and it always works, neva used the beem function as its not great. Good luck wit the problem
Michael
mlee2 said:
fabolousxda
The XDA2 uses WAV files for ringtones. i got a free file converter off the net and turned wma's into wav's. I use the cradle to transfer the file directly into the windows/ring folder and it always works, neva used the beem function as its not great. Good luck wit the problem
Michael
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Nope, it can use EITHER WMA or WAV formats. I use a WMA file personally, and my phone came with some WMA ringtones pre-installed
Well, i can only say from experience what has worked. If the problem was with WMA then possibly try WAV but again its your own choice.
Michael
Hey!
Is it possible to define a folder where the music library should get all the music? I have files from G-Alarm and so on in it but can´t find a solution how to delete them outta the library..
Same problem here, every sound file type is shown there...
anyone an idea??
Annoying as hell... HTC needs to update this to allow us to point to a specific folder! I tried googling the issue but didnt come up with a solution...
Have you tried HIDDING the specific folder using an alternative explorer (like Resco explorer or Total Commander) ? In Total Commander, long press on the specific folder, choose "properties". There you can choose the attribute "system" and click on "recurse subdirs" so it applies to all files under that folder. This works to hide image files from the ALBUM, so there's a good change you'll fix this using the same method.
By the way, talking about Music library, do you experience some crashes of the music player after adding new files using mp3 cable? If so, this thread might interest you. I think there are problems with the way the player handles the ID3 tag of mp3.
Read this and relay the info, please.
I tried hiding some folders but then they get shown no where! For example: tried to hide g-alarm folder and the alarm tone also disappeared in the G-Alarm app... never expected crashes!
but the volume up & down buttons dont really work while i´m in the music app! when im on the home screen and mp3s are playing in the background, volume keys work perfectly no idea
I even went into the registry to HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config and changed the device scan path and fooled around with other stuff... nada... everytime after a soft reset, it still had ALL the system sounds and stuff in there.
Also, in that same registry folder, there is a ring_tone_path entry which probably explains why some of the ring tones don't show up....??
Can someone who knows a little more about this stuff enlighten us?
hello,
a workaround:
create playlist with one ore two files (songs).
after than close today-htc-sense.
open \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\playlists\name-of-your-playlist
and put all your wanted songs in it (i mean, you have to write/edit the file)
tip: use cmd (dos) for trickies like "dir c:\folder\with\my\songs\ > c:\playlist"
you will get on c:\ a file with name "playlist". this could be use for editing "manila-playlist". put this file after finished back to \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\playlists\ and starts your today-htc-sence.
i know, its a little bit grrrr and looks like work for end-of-life, but i say its a workaround and after three or four playlists you will be a profi.
Found a solution.
This will only work if you have your music on SD card. I also have tomtom maps there but no actual tomtom so for me it is only music on sd card.
1. Start from removing your card and then going to music tab so it rescans and states no music found. (Skip to step 3 if you are starting from clean rom)
2. Go to registry editor of your choice and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng (for german it will be AudioManager_Ger)\Information
Delete all items in that folder. You will not be able to delete Information it self.
If you are on clean rom you will not even have that folder it is created 1st time when music tab finds music.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config
In there change:
"device_scan_path_path" from what ever there is to \Windows
"device_scan_path_path_0" from what ever there is to \Windows
"ring_tone_path" from what ever there is to \Windows
What this will do is exclude all files in windows folder. If you have any files in my documents they will show up. I assume if you just put "\" instead of "\Windows" it will exclude entire my device but did not test it.
4. Soft reset, insert your SD card and enjoy.
I have been trying to figure out how to make a custom music playlist in Mediascape on the Xperia X10. I have searched all over the web and came up with only the Media Go option to create playlist from the PC. Anyone know a way to create one from the phone itself?
I think that the playlists do not work in mediascape. I´ve created a playlist in the Media GO aplication and import into the phone but I can´t see them in mediascape...
But if I open for example Meridian player - playlist´s are there and works fine.
See my post >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659893&page=2#13 << about the other media player in the phone, Its quite easy to do and playlists can be created and edited very easily and show in mediascape automaticaly.
Your not alone mate, I posted on this about a week ago.
It's seems that as good as MediaScape is, it doesn't offer the basic ability to create playlists.
Now there are workarounds for creating playlists on the x10 itself which MediaScape will recognise.
1. Install Astro file Manager from the market (free)
- Navigate to your Music folder on SD card
- Locate a track and long press, you should get a "Music Options" button.
- Within Music options you can either set as "ringtone" or "Add to a Playlist". (Please note this only seems to work with certain files i.e MP3)
2. Install Astro file Manager from the market (free)
- Navigate to /System/app
- Locate the sndroid Music player called "Music"
- Long press and select open as
- Select Audio
This will bring you into androids bult-in media player that SE have carefully hidden.
It loads your media library and allows you to create playlists easily, which will be instantly picked up by MediaScape.
You can always create shortcuts to the music app.
Long winded i know, and i'm suprised and disappointed that SE didn't include this facility in the Scape.
Thanks a lot for all the helpful info. So sad that mediascape is handicapped by lacking this feature. Would be nice to just be able to do all this in mediascape.
Any way of creating a link for this on the home screen??... and slightly off topic.. is there a standard android photo viewer hidden away too?
Mediascape detects the .m3u playlists in my music folder though.. Now I just have to find out how to make those playlists.
Hi all - I've sussed this out... download an app called "AnyCut" from the market... in here you can add all sorts of different things.. one of which is under the "activity" option.. called "Music" this is the stock android music app (mentioned by baggyb above).. this way you'll have a link to the music app on your home page which you can then use to create your playlists...
I have a bunch of audio books I keep in /sdram/abooks and use MortPlayer which can be configured to use any particular directory.
Problem is the music player now lists my audio books. I want the music player to just list my music files (i.e. what I put in /sdram/mp3). I can't seem to find any way to do that?
Is there an alternative app that will do that? (will have to be in the free section of Market as the powers that be prevent us non-americans from searching through paid apps, go figure).
madsere said:
I have a bunch of audio books I keep in /sdram/abooks and use MortPlayer which can be configured to use any particular directory.
Problem is the music player now lists my audio books. I want the music player to just list my music files (i.e. what I put in /sdram/mp3). I can't seem to find any way to do that?
Is there an alternative app that will do that? (will have to be in the free section of Market as the powers that be prevent us non-americans from searching through paid apps, go figure).
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extract the attached file on your pc, then copy the .nomedia file inside the folder to those folders that you don't wish to have them show in either Photo or Music Player...
Hope this helps,
Kiay
Thanks for the suggestion. Creating an empty .nomedia file in a directory seems to stop the media player from looking into this directory for media files. It isn't the best way to do it though, imagine you have to go through this process every time you install software that creates a directory on the sdram card. I can't understand the developers of the media player didn't at least make it an option to limit the search for media to certain directories.
I added the .nomedia file into the desired directories but the unwanted songs are still visible in the native HTC music player.
Is there a way to refresh the track list somehow?
same here, probably we've to restart the phone.
I solved his by connecting the Desire to PC via mass storage and disconnecting again. The SD card got "refreshed" this way
MortPlayer Music (free on Astroid Marked) lets you define a directory for music files.
When I connect my via USB cable to my home PC it let's me sync music to my phone but the albums don't show up in the music player on the phone, instead they're put into my Astro file manager app. Now is this because the music I ripped from CD to my PC are reading it as a WMA file and how can I correct this cause the Amazon MP3 app store doesn't have some of the albums I'm trying to load to my phone. Thx in Advance.
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Music Player (default one) show your mp3's using ID3 tags not folders. If you put in diferent folders, it doesn't change anything. If your firles have wrong ID3 tag entries, this couse a problem in showing it correctly. This is why some files cannot be sorted by albums, artists.
Try to use AIMP Advanced Tag Editor for Windows to fix/check files tags. Especialy try to fix ID3v2 tak, and copy (using special button) ID3v2 to ID3v1.
Thx for the intel, it's appreciated.
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