Hello,
I'm rather concerned with all that excitement about HTC audio manager. I've tried it with my finely tagged music and noticed it doesn't properly support ID3v2.4, since every non-latin1 character (encoded as UTF-8 in the tag) appeared as-as, i.e. has been interpreted as ASCII instead of Unicode. Other players like Pocket Player have no trouble reading these tags.
Can anyone confirm this? Am I missing something that makes Audio Manager so great for everyone except for me? Any workarounds so I can join the party?
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Hi,
maybe someone can help me.
My problem with the MS Media player build in in Windows Mobile 5.0 is, that it does not save the last played file or album from Media Database.
I always have to reselect a song from db, when I restart the media player. Is there some registry tweak like "save last played file" or "save last position in Media Lib"?
Thanks so far
This is a pain. I have some audio books in MP3 format that I listen to. When I pause it and leave it for a while, when I come back it's forgotten which file it was playing which means I have to remember the name of the file and where it was in the file.
Can someone recommend a fix for this or a new MP3 player that will remember track (and position)
Thanks
This is an issue, but I also find the problem on the PC version. if somebody could tell me how to make the PC and PPC version remember the last played song would be great.
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does somebody, anybody, anywhere know how to solve this?
GS Player is great in all respects, including this, but it is frustrating that something so simple and so blatantly obviously required hasnt been implemented.
Does anyone know of a media player that can handle multiple audio streams?
What about 1 that can show embedded MP3 lyrics?
I have many videos that have 2 audio streams, 1 English and 1 Spanish. I would like to be able to switch between them like I do on my iPhone. I'm really looking forward to dumping the iPhone, but currently have to carry it around with me along with the Desire in order to use it as a video player.
I also listen to Podcasts in foreign languages that have the transcripts embedded in the MP3s using the standard lyrics tags. The iPhone shows these "lyrics" as the track is played, but the Desire can't do this. Given that the audio is in a foreign language it's handy to be able to see a transcript in case you don't quite catch a word.
I've also noticed that most players, including the standard one, don't pick up "none standard" genres. All my stuff that is in Spanish has the genre set as "Spanish" which isn't a "standard" MP3 genre. As such the Desire shows them up as "unknown genre". They are tagged as such as my media center at home supports free text as a genre so it makes them easy to filter them out of the music listing when the wife's using it (she doesn't speak Spanish). The iPhone also supports this free text genre and doesn't have a problem.
Thanks
Dae.
daesimps said:
Does anyone know of a media player that can handle multiple audio streams?
What about 1 that can show embedded MP3 lyrics?
I have many videos that have 2 audio streams, 1 English and 1 Spanish. I would like to be able to switch between them like I do on my iPhone. I'm really looking forward to dumping the iPhone, but currently have to carry it around with me along with the Desire in order to use it as a video player.
I also listen to Podcasts in foreign languages that have the transcripts embedded in the MP3s using the standard lyrics tags. The iPhone shows these "lyrics" as the track is played, but the Desire can't do this. Given that the audio is in a foreign language it's handy to be able to see a transcript in case you don't quite catch a word.
Thanks
Dae.
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try wikitunes. it at least has lyrics.
I can't find an app called wikitunes.
Do you mean tunewiki? If so, I have that installed but it doesn't pickup the "lyrics" that are embedded in the MP3 but instead tries to download them off the Internet. Since I am listening to a paid subscription podcast the "lyrics" aren't available online since they are embedded in the MP3s. Tunewiki, however, won't show them for some reason.
Dae.
daesimps said:
I can't find an app called wikitunes.
Do you mean tunewiki? If so, I have that installed but it doesn't pickup the "lyrics" that are embedded in the MP3 but instead tries to download them off the Internet. Since I am listening to a paid subscription podcast the "lyrics" aren't available online since they are embedded in the MP3s. Tunewiki, however, won't show them for some reason.
Dae.
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yeah i meant tunewiki sorry it didnt work for you
Hi all,
I am still on original firmware JF3 but from what I've understood the problem persists even with latest firmware :
FLAC tags are not displayed on the stock audio player.
Some would suggest to switch to an alternative audio player but I like this one quite a lot, espacially the drawer function on the lock screen to control the player without having to unlock the screen.
Has anyone heard of a way to correct this? This is big trouble for me as all my music is on this format. On my former music player Samsung YP-Q1, it had also taken several formwares to display FLAC tags correctly but I expected Smsung to handle that from the start with such a top rated smartphone.
Anyone interested
Back on the subject, no news?
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Back on the subject, no news?
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agree this one of the (minor) critics I have, its annoying.
I have a lot of FLAC files as well and it's 50/50, some work perfectly with the tag, others don't. I'll have to take a look, i think it has to do with the tag version
Did you find a pattern? Is it ID3 tags vs. FLAC tags? If so, which version of ID3 works?
I've tried many different apps and tag types, but never got them working in FLACs on my stock (JF5) Galaxy S. I'm still hoping there is a way to get them working or that some new fw fixes this.
If someone knows how to get tags working for FLACs please share it with us...
Anyone looking into this at all? It's exremely annoying indeed!
I use Tag&Rename for my taggin. I have tried lots of music apps and a number of firmware updates... nothing has worked.
Did you try another software? try mediamonkey for instance. If it does not work maybe you can use mediamonkey for using folders instead of tags. (genre by genre or artist by artist or both? )
This is a workaround but tags allow alternative sorting by gender which is what I miss.
The stock firmware already uses the folders by default as it doesn't recognize the tags, not exactly the same thing you say of course because here it does it only with one folder depth.
This is a pretty frustrating question but I just can't seem to find the answer anywhere else.
When using the default music player, I like to listen to music in categories. Naturally this would be a great application of the Genre View. The problem here is that even though I manually tag the files with either winamp, windows or any other program, the application just ignores them and decides to group them into whatever genre it feels like.
I subsequently tried Mixzing but it seems to do the exact same thing.
I can't help but wonder if they share the same sort of media engine, samsung designed and somehow failing me at this point.
Anyone have any input?
Bumping myself after 3 days, sorry this is just too annoying to let go so easily.
So nobody else's vibrant ignores MP3 tags data at will? It's just me?
I heard this was a fix in Froyo, but this is pretty annoying. It essentially makes the payer useless for large volumes of music.
Same S D D
Albums show up as Genre's on My Vibrant
Yes, the stock music player and most other players on the market including Mixzing use the underlying Android music database. This is why the tags will be identical between players. The use of the Genre tag in the database sucks. It should be Genre -> Artists -> Albums -> Titles like all ipods do.
As for tags, always use ID3 v2.3 tags if at all possible. 2.4 has less compatibility. MP3Tag is very good.
I'm happy with the stock HTC Music player, but what I don't like is that there is no duplicate deletion function for playlists, rather if the song is on a playlist twice, my only option is to DELETE THE SONG FROM MY SDCARD!
I also am unable to edit the tags (like if on my computer I've edited the tags so a song is like "Aira Mitsuki - Fantasy.mp3", it might show up on my Android as "Aira Mitsuki - Shintakemodo.mp3" (and it'd be in Japanese characters, and no that translation is not correct, just typing random transliteration haha).
Anyone know of an addon, or must I use a different player?
~ I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2 and everything stock (unlocked but not rooted, living in China haha).
I would suggest doubleTwist, but if dupes are an issue then you can usually locate them using a file manager, like Astro or something
Honestly, the bigger concern is tag editing.. the duplicate files is inconsequential.
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I'm happy with the stock HTC Music player, but what I don't like is that there is no duplicate deletion function for playlists, rather if the song is on a playlist twice, my only option is to DELETE THE SONG FROM MY SDCARD!
I also am unable to edit the tags (like if on my computer I've edited the tags so a song is like "Aira Mitsuki - Fantasy.mp3", it might show up on my Android as "Aira Mitsuki - Shintakemodo.mp3" (and it'd be in Japanese characters, and no that translation is not correct, just typing random transliteration haha).
Anyone know of an addon, or must I use a different player?
~ I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2 and everything stock (unlocked but not rooted, living in China haha).
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you are talking about editing the ID3 tag or the file name? Not sure if it makes a difference though. I am also using the Stock HTC Player in connection with iTunes Playlists (will be synct with HTC Sync). No issues like that yet, I am always adjusting the ID3 tag in iTunes itself (for instance for Thai songs).
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what I'm referring to is editing the filename and the id3 tags/properties. As well, is there a way to select songs and create a playlist from your computer, and then have the phone recognize it? going through manually and adding 1 song (or a group of songs from 1 artist) at a time to 1 playlist on my phone is ANNOYING (I have 1300 songs on my SD card)
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Honestly, the bigger concern is tag editing.. the duplicate files is inconsequential.
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Ok I misunderstood the issue, but maybe that's something that could be quite useful! And maybe even integration with gracenote or musicbrainz to retrieve data for the track(s)? This is waaaay out of my league I'm afraid but anyone who can do this, I'd happily accept commission for the idea