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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.
I took my PAYG Samsung Galaxy S II back to O2 (UK) for a refund today, after 2 days of use. Love the speed, thinness, screen quality and size. TouchWiz is dire - but can be replaced with Launcher Pro. I could not live with the fact that most of my music files came up with <unknown artist> and no cover art. I use DoubleTwist to synchronise (after a fashion!) iTunes playlists to my Android devices. The same music files that appear correctly on the Nexus S and the Xoom would not show the artist/cover art information on the SGS2. So I know the files are tagged correctly. I also tried a direct copy of music files from my iMac to the SGS2, but same issue. Tried the stock music app as well as DoubleTwist and the Samsung Music hub - the media details were missing whatever the player.
I have spent many hours getting my media files correctly tagged and cannot live with a device that ignores all my hard work. May seem a small point and I can't understand how this could happen.
Has anyone else experienced the same problem and is there a cure?
Did you try PowerAmp? That works perfectly fine...that scans all the tags and brings up the details. I never use the stock music player cos it's not that good imo.
Everything else sucks compared to PowerAmp.
I think Doubletwist was your problem, I've seen another user at Androidforums who had the same thing, his files were fine when he just sideloaded them.
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I think Doubletwist was your problem, I've seen another user at Androidforums who had the same thing, his files were fine when he just sideloaded them.
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I agree DoubleTwist is far from ideal, but it has worked OK to move music to the Nexus S and the Xoom - with all information complete. I also tried side-loading an album that showed with no artist information or cover art after the DoubleTwist sync and it made no difference. PowerAmp may be a good player on the device, but does it handle music transfer (from a Mac), as I need to move music in an iTunes playlist to my phones - too cumbersome to move files individually.
im using FLAC files with winamp and had no real issues, tho i did notice this morning that some tracks arent in the correct order but id have to check my tagging before i make assumtions
other than that not had one problem with them, you sure you didnt really want to take your phone back anyway seems a small matter to return such a nice phone for when it can probably be fixed
I'm not an iTunes user, so I don't know what the other softwares are, but I am aware there are several other options you could try to sync across from iTunes. Maybe give some others a try?
Found the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062137&highlight=media
Seems that the SGS2 does not recognise artists (and presumably cover art) tags if the file is in M4a format. That would explain why some of my files were OK and others not. Most of my iTunes library is in M4a format, purchased from iTunes. Way too much work to convert everything to MP3 and no reason why this popular format is not supported, as it is supported on every other Android phone (including my Samsung Nexus S).
It was me that started that thread and I still have not found a solution, which is annoying, hopefully someone smarter than me will find an answer!
Just seams an odd thing as no other phone I've ever had has had this problem! And I'm not going to convert all my music either! Maybe someone will get the stock music app working?
It is really strange as I tried the Samsung Music Hub, the stock music player and DoubleTwist and they all could not read the tags. So it must be something that Samsung has done to the file format on this particular phone. I doubt it is an application fault, so it is up to Samsung to acknowledge and fix this oddity. I returned mine and will now wait for the HTC Sensation.
I 'm tested the m4a file at i9000 music player, than...it's can't display anything .m4a pic & Song iD, but can playing the music...
before ...i used the i9000 & LG 2X, it's all fine.
I9100 don't support the m4a ID?
I'd guess it's a bug as I've had the same issue. I store most of my music as FLAC on the PC and transcode it before sticking it on a mobile device. If it's an option for you it reads the tags from the ogg and mp3 files that I've tested files just fine. Foobar2000 will transcode your pretty much pain free, but I'd understand if you'd rather not go down that route.
Hopefully it will get fixed soon as I've got some music as m4a and I don't really want to use one lossy codec after another just to get the phone to read the tags.
Same problem here. The funny thing is that m4a files worked on my SGS on 2.3.3 (JVH).
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Same problem here. The funny thing is that m4a files worked on my SGS on 2.3.3 (JVH).
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exactly! it's weird.
Same here - the embedded album art is not shown and some tags were missing.
I've heard that KE7 doesn't fix this problem...
gorko122 said:
Same here - the embedded album art is not shown and some tags were missing.
I've heard that KE7 doesn't fix this problem...
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it doesn't
So i bought isncr to sync my music & playlists from itunes. It works fine apart from the playlist tracks being inverted i.e. 1st track is now the last track & vice versa. Very odd as when i look at the m3u files they are listed correctly ...
I'm running 3.1 at the mo....
Does anyone know why this happens?
dino_Donis said:
So i bought isncr to sync my music & playlists from itunes. It works fine apart from the playlist tracks being inverted i.e. 1st track is now the last track & vice versa. Very odd as when i look at the m3u files they are listed correctly ...
I'm running 3.1 at the mo....
Does anyone know why this happens?
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It's because iTunes is a horrible behemoth of garbage piled on garbage. I'm serious.
But the m3u files created by isyncr are correct so nothing to do with itunes... it must be how the samsung music app reads and displays m3u playlists.....?
Does this happen in other music players? My guess is not.
If I recall, this happens with the default player on the Samsung Fascinate, so I'm not surprised that it is happening in another Samsung music player.
-Justin
Does this happen in other music players? My guess is not.
If I recall, this happens with the default player on the Samsung Fascinate, so I'm not surprised that it is happening in another Samsung music player.
-Justin
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I only have the Samsung player installed as it is rather nice. I just wanted to confirm that it was a player issue which it sounds like....Hopefully a future update will fix it....
Anyone know how to overcome this? I have lots of deep playlists which are now in the wrong order :-(
Is there a setting for the Samsung player?
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Sure does
I am just curious, how are you going to listen to the files if it runs?
Headphones? headphones amps? hi-fi sound system? dock?
I use headphones and jdlabs amp
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sparky_boi said:
Sure does
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With the stock google music player?
Chad_Petree said:
With the stock google mjusic player?
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No, I tested. Play Music won't run it. I used MX Player.
WMP; flac
Guys, I was used to synchronize my audio library from WMP to my Android device. There are both MP3s and FLACs in the library. Since I have Nexus 4, WMP doesn't sync flac to Nexus, it writes "the player might not support the file".
I haven't found any option how to make WMP to do it. PlayerPro in Nexus plays flac without any problem. is there any setting in the devices? Or am I missing some application? The truth is, when I click on flac file in Astra file manager, it writes "Activity not found"...
One more thing. Even when I try to simly copy flac file to Nexus in widows through My Computer, it writes me that the device doesn't support that type of media...
No.
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EDIT:
I was wrong about this. Android does support FLAC natively since 3.0
Not natively, for whatever reason.
Meaning it must be implemented by a third party and some paid music players have gone that extra step.
Simpler (free) music players tend to play whatever file formats are available by the Android OS.
The default Google player and Apollo do NOT support FLAC.
Your question should be "which music players do support FLAC?"
capo56 said:
Guys, I was used to synchronize my audio library from WMP to my Android device. There are both MP3s and FLACs in the library. Since I have Nexus 4, WMP doesn't sync flac to Nexus, it writes "the player might not support the file".
I haven't found any option how to make WMP to do it. PlayerPro in Nexus plays flac without any problem. is there any setting in the devices? Or am I missing some application? The truth is, when I click on flac file in Astra file manager, it writes "Activity not found"...
One more thing. Even when I try to simly copy flac file to Nexus in widows through My Computer, it writes me that the device doesn't support that type of media...
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I get the same message when I copy .mp3, or FLAC files directly to my device via a Windows box. Also, try Solid Explorer, it makes the other file managers look outdated.
I play FLAC all the time with Poweramp. If the Nexus 4 had OTG, I'd be using FLAC a lot more. However, what I normally do is download files to my phone with Dsub from my Subsonic server. I force Dsub to limit the bitrate to 320kbps, and Subsonic will automatically transcode FLAC to 320kbps. I highly recommend checking out Subsonic. It really helps you work around the small amount of space we're given in the Nexus 4. I can essentially carry my HUGE collection of music wherever I have an internet connection.
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No, I tested. Play Music won't run it. I used MX Player.
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That's weird - I've been using the standard Play Music on my Nexus 4 to listen to FLAC files and it's been working fine. Unless I've misinterpreted what the OP is asking! Basically I just copy FLAC files to the Music folder, hit the 'Refresh' button in the Play Music settings and everything's okay.
pete_n said:
That's weird - I've been using the standard Play Music on my Nexus 4 to listen to FLAC files and it's been working fine. Unless I've misinterpreted what the OP is asking! Basically I just copy FLAC files to the Music folder, hit the 'Refresh' button in the Play Music settings and everything's okay.
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Weird indeed. I couldn't play a FLAC file with Play Music as well but I've come across reports of people having no problems with it. I did test only one file and had the DRM service disabled. I was running stock 4.2.1 at the time.
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Weird indeed. I couldn't play a FLAC file with Play Music as well but I've come across reports of people having no problems with it. I did test only one file and had the DRM service disabled. I was running stock 4.2.1 at the time.
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Are you trying 16-bit or 24-bit FLAC files? I don't have any 24-bit ones to test so can't confirm that they work, but definitely haven't had any problems with literally hundreds of 16-bit FLAC files. Like yourself I'm also running stock 4.2.1 with no hacks/root etc. I haven't installed any other audio programs either. Prior to my Nexus 4 I was also able to successfully play FLAC natively on a Note 2 (running 4.1 I guess?) and HTC One X (probably running 4.0 but I can't remember now).
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Not natively, for whatever reason.
Meaning it must be implemented by a third party and some paid music players have gone that extra step.
Simpler (free) music players tend to play whatever file formats are available by the Android OS.
The default Google player and Apollo do NOT support FLAC.
Your question should be "which music players do support FLAC?"
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This is wrong, android has had native support for playing FLAC files since android 3.0, I remember playing FLAC files with play music just last month.
Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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DarkhShadow said:
This is wrong, android has had native support for playing FLAC files since android 3.0, I remember playing FLAC files with play music just last month.
Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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I see. Thank you for the correction.
It is strange then that it doesn't work for some of us. I will investigate this further.
I used Play music app and it play a few of my flac files...
I guess all players in the mobile world support flac.
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TestingCharts said:
I guess all players in the mobile world support flac.
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In your dream, only in the Android world. Ask Apple or Microsoft about their feeling about open standards.
For Honeycomb and newer, flac is supported on a system level. Flac is not supported by defauit for Gingerbread, but you can install certain music that have Flac codec.