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Media panel using WMP?

Is anyone seeing the media panel playing their tracks in WMP?
Anyone know why it'd doing this? I'd much rather it play the tracks in the media panel interface.

I think I've just found the answer myself. It only seems to play MP3s and not WMA, etc.
Pretty crap.

The reason is that the file association part... it is assoicated with Windows Media Player and NOT the SE Media Panel...
I reckon they might be a way to edit the assoicated part in the phone some how but I am not the best person for this...
Anyone who can advise...???
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Anyone???
Is it possible... to associate to the SE Media Panel rather the Windows Media Player???
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importing/playing .M4A music files to my Touch HD

Hi Guys...
I'm struggling here, I've surfed the wiki, the FAQs and the web and these seems as though it should be simple but...
I've tried (a) dragging and dropping into the device music folder and (b)importing through syncing with my PC's WMP 11 both with equal success - none to be exact. I can see the name of the file but it won't play.
I've treid some MP3 ring tones and they work OK but I can't listen to those on the tube each morning. Mearly all my music is in iTunes as M4A's which are stated as being compatible and supported - but they don't play.
Any idea's, am I missing CODECs ??? Anyone got an idiot guide for getting music out of iTunes into my HTC ???
Thanx for your help as always...

This one puzzles me.
ALL my music on the HD is in M4A format (because it seems more space-efficient than MP3). It plays no problem with the unbuilt players.
My files weren't from iTunes though. I make them using the Nero codecs on the PC.

m4a from iTunes on touch HD do not work
Hi out there,
I am facing the same problem, I can see my m4a files on the Touch HD but they won't play. After converting them into mp3 it's fine but this is a hassle and the instructions say it can play m4a. Any news on this would be highly appreciated.
The songs are iTunes + and thus DRM free, so this cannot be the problem.
Thanks for sharing any advice,
cheers,
levallier

Hey guys,
I had this problem aswell since I copied my iTunes directory to my SD card. I decided to buy some music player software for my phone since I use it alot so.
Now I'm using Pocketplayer and I've had no problem since .
Regards,
/a

WMP 11 and m4a files
I too am having the same problem. My files are from iTunes and DRM free but they will not play. I believe the problem is that the ROM I have is using WMP 10.3 and only has a WMP 11 skin. I have not found a way to 'upgrade' WMP to any other version..
levallier said:
Hi out there,
I am facing the same problem, I can see my m4a files on the Touch HD but they won't play. After converting them into mp3 it's fine but this is a hassle and the instructions say it can play m4a. Any news on this would be highly appreciated.
The songs are iTunes + and thus DRM free, so this cannot be the problem.
Thanks for sharing any advice,
cheers,
levallier
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Try to create an AAC-version...
Hey... I had the same problem: My bought, DRM-free iTunes Plus files did not play on my Touch Diamond2 even though all metadata - including coverimages - showed up nicely in the TF3D Mucis app. After a little research in here, I tried to use the "Create AAC version" option in iTunes and PRESTO - all my music was playable again. I suppose this is due to some incompatibility with the wrapper Apple uses around m4a-files.
If you want to keep track of which files are "originals" and which are AAC-converted versions you can create a smart playlist in iTunes and select by type...

core player have no problems playing any m4a files I got both own conveted and itune bought mind you non drm
and even if one got drm files one can convert them to non drm without any problems using itunes now that apple drop'd drm

I use coreplayer to play both m4a and m4b files. Yes I know its not free, but its well worth it IMO.

Any Freeware for syncing media to HD2 other than WMP 11?

Anything out there for free similar to itunes (sorry for mentioning that word) better than using WMP 11?

maybe try media monkey, it's pretty good (the best I think, much better than Itunes and wmp anyway)
nice username by the way, haha

Not very imaginative I know
I have used media monkey before but I wonder about image syncing ? I'll have a go maybe and try

If only they allowed Zune 4.0 to sync with WM phones

Noob Needing Help with Media Player/HTC Player

I would like to use Media Player to manage my music. However, I also have an iPod that I'd like to continue using. Currently iTunes contains 15,000+ songs. I would like to put about 1000 songs on my HD2. Can someone tell me:
1. Can Media Player manage mp3 and m4a files?
2. Can I keep all of my music in the current iTunes directories?
3. Can I use Media Player without creating duplicate files?
4. Will all Media Player playlists be independent of iTunes and not cause problems?
5. Can ratings be added to mp3 and m4a files in Media Plyer without corrupting the files for iTunes?
I saw a instruction list somewhere on this forum that had a step by step setup process for Media Player to the HD2., but can't find it. Can someone point me to it.
Thanks in advance.
-Bob-

all you need is itunes agent - have used this for quite a while to sync music to my former N82 and my present HD2.
ita.sourceforge.net
Follow these steps:
1) Create a playlist in itunes with the songs you want to copy over
2) connect your memory card via a USB card reader (or connect the HD2 in data transfer and not active sync). It is important that the memory card is represented as a drive in Explorer
3) Follow the instructions on the itunes agent documentation: ita.sourceforge.net/docs.html
let us know how it went...
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vivek310 said:
all you need is itunes agent - have used this for quite a while to sync music to my former N82 and my present HD2.
ita.sourceforge.net
Follow these steps:
1) Create a playlist in itunes with the songs you want to copy over
2) connect your memory card via a USB card reader (or connect the HD2 in data transfer and not active sync). It is important that the memory card is represented as a drive in Explorer
3) Follow the instructions on the itunes agent documentation: ita.sourceforge.net/docs.html
let us know how it went...
p.s - mods: unable to post external URL's. Could you pls verify my account? Thanks in advance!
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Works well, nowhere in the instructions did it mention you manually have to set up your device in the preferences, but yeah, once you do that it's smooth sailing.
It's actually pretty amazing you can sync with iTunes, never thought that would be possible.
Have to give the phone a soft reset for Sense's music player to display the newly synced songs unfortunately. It's a real shame they couldn't bring this core part of the phone up to scratch and make it useable. If I wasn't tech savvy I would really, really despise this phone.

Lets see how long it takes Apple to stifle this innovation. Hopefully they wont find it as its a small sourceforge project...

Shhhh! Don't tell anyone!

rebecker said:
I would like to use Media Player to manage my music. However, I also have an iPod that I'd like to continue using. Currently iTunes contains 15,000+ songs. I would like to put about 1000 songs on my HD2. Can someone tell me:
1. Can Media Player manage mp3 and m4a files?
2. Can I keep all of my music in the current iTunes directories?
3. Can I use Media Player without creating duplicate files?
4. Will all Media Player playlists be independent of iTunes and not cause problems?
5. Can ratings be added to mp3 and m4a files in Media Plyer without corrupting the files for iTunes?
I saw a instruction list somewhere on this forum that had a step by step setup process for Media Player to the HD2., but can't find it. Can someone point me to it.
Thanks in advance.
-Bob-
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Thanks for the responses. I have Pocket Tunes, which is OK for moving iTunes music to and from the HD2. However, I'm specifically interested in understanding how Windows Media Player works with HTC's player for organizing music.
-Bob-

iTunes and HD2

Just did a search on the forum and noticed that no one had mentioned iTunes Agent (http://ita.sourceforge.net/).
"iTunes Agent is a tiny application which rests in your system tray, constantly looking for devices being connected to your system. If a device it recognizes is connected it enables you to manage it via a playlist in iTunes. You may even associate your player with a Smart Playlist, such as "Party Shuffle", and always have a new collection of tracks on your player!
When you are done modifying the list of tracks for your player you can synchronize it with two small mouse-clicks!"
I thought it was good to mention as i have a itunes server service which i use for music and also a ipod touch and keeping them all in sync inc HD2 and any other device is very handy.

http://www.binaryfortress.com/itunes-sync/
This does a similar sort of thing, doesnt need to start with windows and hide in your tray though!

itunes and HTC HD2
Can itunes be downloaded and purchase the songs, games, and music on the
windows os? Are the games scaled to work on the HTC HD2? If so, how do you do this?

nuke1201 said:
Can itunes be downloaded and purchase the songs, games, and music on the
windows os? Are the games scaled to work on the HTC HD2? If so, how do you do this?
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music will work videos might work and games defiantly wont work at all.

itunes sync
Found a very good free app (doubletwist) that syncronizes itunes / iphoto/ video libraries between the Mac and any storage device. I have been using it on the HTC HD2 for a week and it syncs all the playlists from itunes and even photos and videos. it is linked to amazon music store and content can be downloaded directly. The interface is just like itunes and seems very very easy to use...just select your device from the panel, select playlists and click sync....all the playlists created get recognised by the HTC sense media player.. google doubletwist and download ...and you are all set.....

doubletwist
doesn't work for me. my hd2 is running windows mobile 6.5 and while the app recognizes my device after it's plugged into my computer and also sees the itunes files and playlists, nothing shows up after the supposed sync takes place.

Interested in such an app for my HD2 on WM 6.5
Tried Itunes agent, not really user friendly and didnt manage to add my HD2 on it.
Ive got loads on myusic on itunes, would like to put one of my playlist songs (around 500 mbs of music) on my HD2.. is there a simple way? Copying items from itunes doesnt seem to work.. and there is a mix of MP3 files and AAC files... will they read allright on HD2?

If they where bought from the iTunes store..and no explicitly DRM free, then no, they will not work no matter how you copy them to your device.