Hi Everybody,
Up to 3 hours before I considered iTunes the curse of the iPhone platform. Since then I have been trying to sync my music to my HD2. Now I consider iTunes a blassing...
So my problem is relatively simple. These are my requirements:
I want to transfer songs from my library to my HD2 and convert them on the fly to lower bitrates.
I want album art to be preserved at the transcoded files.
My player of choice used to be Winamp. Unfortunately though, it has two severe problems: it doesn't copy album art to the transcoded files and it fails to link the device's transcoded copy with the media library's master. So if I hit "sync" on aplaylist twice, the whole list gets transcoded AGAIN. Let alone that I dont have album art...
Then I tried WMP12 on Win7. There I didn't get too far: the transcoded files *have* to be WMA and my HD2 fails to play them at all! To make things worse, the files dont even seem to have tags at all, they all appear under "unknow artist".
Does anybody have *ANY* solution to this? I really want to avoid transcoding files manually and I don't think that I will manage to do it...
Related
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.
No matter if I used media sync with Windows media, or my iTunes interface program....I would only get about a 1/4 of the album art to load and show up.
Even using mp3 tag the Xperia wouldn't see but maybe 1/2 the albums.
So I had to sit there and "update album info" over and over on the PC's windows media player. Each time it may or may not grab album art, or it may only grab a little bit of info, or it may or may not create the folder.jpg file.
So I ended up having to open both sets of folder and transfer the folder.jpg for every album one by 'effing one.
I am just complaining so sorry for the b*tch fest. I know others here feel my pain so it is good to complain to people who can sympathize.
BUT GOOD LAWD can't Microsoft improve such a simple, stupid function?
Pants isn't it...
At least it's the windows side rather than the mobile side that's at fault for a change.
I tend to find the album art on amazon, (the mp3 off the USA site has decent cover art) and drag it to the cover in WMP. Is a bit quicker.
FWIW there's a PPC prog to do this automatically, it's not perfect and can get a bit confused.
adn on the pc this post might help..
http://lifehacker.com/software/albu...ary-into-shape-part-ii-+-album-art-231476.php
i didnt find it too hard, i just use itune to grab the album art, and copy the entire itune folder over to the storage card, all album arts showed up fine
I have tried different apps (Windows Media Player, iTunes, Tag & Rename, Winamp and so on) and I have found one app with perfect handling of album art: Easy CD-DA Extractor. It adds album art perfectly within the ID-tag and the file. No problems with "folder.jpg" and such things.
It works perfect on my Xperia X1 with Pocket Player and OggVorbis. And I have tried MP3 and AAC with it without any problems. Even album art and eAAC+ works perfect both on X1 with Pocket Player and my Nokia E90 (who has strict requirements regarding album art, other apps can´t add them correctly but Easy CD-DA Extractor can).
Try that app and be happy.
I tagged mine in the latest version of mp3 tag. It embeds them and they worked fine, for some reason media monkey and the previous version of mp3 tag couldn't do it so they would appear in the media panel (or my ps3)...
Shame about media monkey, its a really nice media management software...
WMP, Mortplayer and S2p all fine,but media panel(orig or pubba prog) only see similar to urs...1/4.
My music is on SD and synced directly from MP11..
Any solutions?
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I tagged mine in the latest version of mp3 tag. It embeds them and they worked fine, for some reason media monkey and the previous version of mp3 tag couldn't do it so they would appear in the media panel (or my ps3)...
Shame about media monkey, its a really nice media management software...
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??? I can't comment on the phone, but I use Media Monkey to tag my MP3 with text info and album art, and it shows up on the PS3 fine... Maybe it's a setting somewhere? I just use the defaults for adding album art in MM.
I only use MP3Tag to label the filenames; I find MM allows me to tag more info to an MP3 than MP3Tag does.
media monkey works for me too - I can see album art in wmp, core player, tf3d and media panel.
I guess it is all depend on how the images are stored and referenced on your PC? some players just read folder.jpg, others look at the id3 tags instead, if you make sure you have all bases covered, ie tags point to folder.jpg it should work
Your problem is not with the Xperia then, your subject title is misleading. Use tagscanner to apply the album art, works on every file.
mp3tag
Same, I use mp3 tag, because I have 4 monitors I just sit there with amazon on one, mp3 tag on another, xperia on another and my music folder on another. Drag the art from amazon to mp3 tag, use the music folder to drag the stuff i want to change to mp3 tag, then when done drag it all to xperia.
I gave up trying to get automatic album art a long time ago, I do it all myself for old music, anything I download normally has the art embedded and when I'm ripping CDs i never seem to have a problem with art.
But I guess not everyone is legit
hey there,
just found out that the touchflo media player is able to read m4a files. this filetype saves a lot of disc space and the files still have a good quality, at least for audiobooks.
but there is a problem. the order of the media files, even if tagged correctly etc, often appears wrong. i already tagged them again with Mp3tag v2.43, but still they appear in the wrong order. especially for audiobooks, this is unacceptable.
another thing is, that it seems as if it does not read the cover tag... no image is shown.
OR shall i clean the cache of the media player? if so, how can i do it?
thx in advance!
Solved.
a) The cover.jpg has to be in the same folder (sometimes i am pretty dumb!)
b) Edit the tags manually, and then clean the device eg with SKTools.
mp3 to m4a converter:
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Audio-Converter.htm
mp3/m4a tag editor
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
This may seem a stupid question to all you clever people My previous phones have sort of integrated the music and video's from my storage card to the video and music icon's on the phone.( never had windows phone)
Can I only access these files via file explorer/storage card????
Can anyone help????
Music
Ok don't panic.
Good on you for taking the plunge.
It is not like itunes which is a clunky, crappy way to do things.
Do you have a pc?
If so, use Windws media player to convert cd's to mp3's.
Or use Nero.
I personally use Nero, but there are many ways to convert files to mp3.
If you already have mp3's then all the better.
You can copy them to your sd card and then go online and the HD2 will find album cover art for your music.
pm me if you want help.
Paul
Hey guys,
I mostly listen to songs encoded in FLAC and often times my Galaxy S would totally mess up the tags. It seems it doesn't recognize the FLAC or FLAC ID3v2 tags.
- Most of them would be "UNKNOWN"
- Last letter of the album tittle would be missing
- A lot of blank files that would crash the player if i tried to play them
- A duplicate copy of the album would appear with no album art and unplayable songs.
- And also, songs would skip 1/10th of a second, i can live with that but still annoying. Upgrading to JPK solved that issue
First thing I did was make sure my tags were correct using Mp3tag (using v2.45) and that there was only 1 album cover (sometimes u have several, which messes up the album art)
Once my tags are all in order, and this is key, when u copy ur files (or your entire folders) to your phone, make sure there are no .CUE or .M3U copied on your phon
I found that removing these extensions solved all of my problems. They seem to confuse the phone.
On an other note, the JPK media player seems different as there are only 4 tabs on the top, i can't seem to be able to filter by Genre, or maybe i can't find it.
Hope this helps.
Will
Thanks for the idea, but that's certainly not my problem. I'll check my FLAC files with MP3Tag.