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.
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Hi guys,
just noticed a problem when I use my desktop to sync windows media player playlists with my jam. When I sync 3 playlists across it copies all of the music files to the storage card, but not the actual lists themselves which means I have to reconstruct the playlists on my device or listen to all 3 sets of music together in a jumble.
Any idea where I'm going wrong?
Thanks
8Ball
Good question.
I can create playlists on my PDA but I can't save them. Once I close the program, they're gone.
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
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.
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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-
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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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.
where in the sdcard can I put the music I have in my pc so it shows correctly in the player in the phone?
Create a folder named music.
Actually, music can be wherever you want it to be, in whatever folder you want. There's a media scanner process that runs every so often that scans your SD card and finds music files wherever they may be. Typically the stock media player can see all media files found by the scanner, but if you're using a third-party player, it might only look certain places for the files.
Off the top of my head, Meridian lets you choose which folders it will look in for media files, whereas doubleTwist appears to be hard-set to only look in certain locations for media files, such as Music and Videos (it seems to ignore any audio files I have in my notifications and alarms folders).
If in doubt, then yeah, just put your music files in a folder called Music.