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Dvd Onto Phone

Right i got the dvd in my pc and wana get it onto my phone. ive downloaded shampoo and burn but when i try to open the dvd using the software it says it cannot open it. how do i get the dvd in my pc onto my phone.
in very easy explanation please.
ive read loads of posts on here and got all the software you all told me to get but i cannot seem to work out what to do.
do i copy the dvd from my dvd player in my pc direct onto shampoo and brun? when i do it says its not correct format.
please help thank you gareth

SlySoft CloneDVD Mobile
Use this:
http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonedvd-mobile.html
It will do everything for you, simple point & click, its not free though but I use it and it does a good job.

Acala DVD to Pocket PC Movie also works well.
http://www.cutedvd.com/

Right thanx for help but when i try to open up the dvd with these software it says the dvd is protected from being copied, its lord of the rings how do i work around it so i can copy it and watch it on my phone?

you need to rip it to your hard drive first. Use DVD Decrypter to rip it first then use your program. DVDD will remove the protection and a few other thing is you need it. Just google it as it is availible many many places on the net and is free.

Use fairuse wizard lite - its free and does the job nicely. Just put dvd in choose a couple of settings and size (i.e. 320x ...) and it ouputs file in xvid form that the pocket core player can play. It works on copywrited dvd's too.
here http://www.fairusewizard.com/lang_en/fairuse_wizard_dvd_divx_xvid_backup_tool_light_edition.html

you need to rip it to your hard drive first. Use DVD Decrypter to rip it first then use your program. DVDD will remove the protection and a few other thing is you need it. Just google it as it is availible many many places on the net and is free.
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seems this software was purchased by another company and is no longer free and can not be downloaded from any of these sites anymore. Do you have a sort of "Pre-Ban" version you can post?
Edit: Found it here http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/DVD_Decrypter/4-75586-1.html

the best way to sync your music.

mediamonkey + rsync.
mediamonkey is by far the best and most robust batch id3 editor, converter, re-organizer, etc i've used.
unfortunately the sync kinda sucks with my N1. it has limited features (no ability to remove files from the N1 if you remove them from your library or move the folders around, etc)
enter: rsync (or grsync if you want a gui or are on windows)
usually what I do is on getting new music i'll add the music to mediamonkey (not the library just yet), then use the converter to lower the bitrate to 128kbps (i have a ton of music and don't mind sacrificing the barely noticeable quality difference for more space) and normalize the volume and re-organize them into /library/artist/album/track-title.mp3
then i'll rsync /android/Music with /library and voila.
note: i hated doubletwist. i did not have itunes and doubletwist wouldn't edit any of my mp3 tags. plus it was laggy and heavy.
sidebar: people hate on the android music player. its fantastic search function (partial searches ftw! i can search for "op orld" and it'll find "drop the world".) is indispensable.

I just dump everything into a folder on my SD card while it is mounted to my computer

Salling Media Sync
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copy all works fine, but takes a long time if you have a large sdcard and library. unless you copy to the same folder and select to not overwrite existing files, but then you don't get updates that you make on your desktop and this could lead to duplicate files, etc.
rsync does incremental updates (only sends what's been changed) and has an option to delete files from the destination folder if they're not present in the source folder.
both Salling and DoubleTwist require an iTunes library, don't they? DoubleTwist was absolutely terrible for managing my library when i tried it. it read some 2,500 mp3s and read the metadata for maybe 20% of them, and left the others as just the filenames. that was shocking to me. Salling does require iTunes, and i dislike itunes a good bit.

you onlyneed itunes to convert files to a usable format. ie, AVI to MP4 etc

mediamonkey for me too, its great for fixing up tags and getting cover art.
There are some ipods in our house, mediamonkey syncs those too as well as various other devices.

t4tav said:
Doubletwist
Personally I can't fault it
Plus T-Mobile are thinking of partnering with them to ship it with "select" Android phones
How about Banshee ?
Above is Linux only :/
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Yup, double twist in partnership for tmobile is out.
http://apps.t-mobile.com/doubletwist/
worth noting that it doesnt have the amazon mp3 store in it.

t4tav said:
Doubletwist
How about Banshee ?
Above is Linux only :/
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Actually, Banshee is available for Linux, Windows and OS X. The version released yesterday is supposed to include direct support for the Nexus One. Although when they advertised G1 support, it actually didn't work. They admitted that it didn't work when pressed and continued to advertise G1 support. It's not a terribly great player, but if I can drag and drop to my Nexus One AND transfer playlists appropriately, then I'll use it for that, but it doesn't really work too well for library management.

What Software and App work together? on Linux?
Doubletwist (Music,Videos,Podcasts,Playlists) does the job perfectly on windows and mac... but what about linux?
Banshee seems really good same as doubletwist except it puts everything into one folder it looks like. Music and Podcasts mix together with any app on my android device. Doubletwist had its own app which made it work correctly putting each media class into its own folder on the android device. Music=music podcasts=podcasts I used it all the time. Now I run only linux and would like something just as good.
App on LINUX laptop and App on device working together! Anyone have ideas? or at least a way to get banshee to put music in a specific folder on my android device and podcasts in another that I decide. If so I can just continue to use doubletwist app on android.
Please anyone with a solution?

I really thought you could get doubletwist on Linux.

I've been using rythmbox on linux. Its kind of a pain to sync playlists, and it took me forever to figure it out, but I hate banshee and I couldnt find anything else that works.

drewzee said:
I've been using rythmbox on linux. Its kind of a pain to sync playlists, and it took me forever to figure it out, but I hate banshee and I couldnt find anything else that works.
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drewzee does rythmbox have an android app? like doubletwist? so they talk pc to android.

winamp is nice, but the wireless sync needs to be fixed so it can directly send to sd card into a certain folder. Having 100s of artist folders on the main directory is annoying

I wish we could get the Zune software to work with android. :/

Previously, I was running rsync over ssh with Tasker to sync my music (and backup my SD) with my server
Since the command can sometimes take a while to execute (a new nand or several new albums etc) and there isnt any verbose output using Tasker, I just created a script that i can easily execute from BTEP and my music and other data are synced. this works for me

smot13 said:
I wish we could get the Zune software to work with android. :/
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Yes yes yes!! And that it worked on linux! I know its too much to ask for.
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pwig said:
I really thought you could get doubletwist on Linux.
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I have been trying to get doubletwist to work through wine. No luck. Got installed but it won't run. I'm using fedora 14 32bit. On dell xps1330. I'm more of an ubuntu user but need fedora for work.
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Why even sync it?
Audiogalaxy FTW

ErlyD said:
drewzee does rythmbox have an android app? like doubletwist? so they talk pc to android.
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Im not sure what you mean because I've never used doubletwist, but the nexus will show up in the side pane of rhythmbox. You can right click, and then decide which playlists you want to sync etc...
The reason why I said it was a pain figuring out, is because the "My Top Rated" playlist would not update on my phone when I added new songs to it. I found out after tinkering that in order for that specific playlist to update, I had to delete the .pls file from the sd card before syncing it.

Buying MP3 from DINC. Can I...

There are apps like Amazon MP3 and other like Shazam if I purchase the MP3 on my Incredible is it copyrighted just to stay on my device/Incredible? I would like to copy the MP3 to my laptop as well as put it on my wife's ipod...
Pls no legal stuff I am not going to resale the MP3 I just want to add the song on other devices that I own...
So again what protection if any will be on those mp3 that I buy from Amazon or Shazam that would stop me from sharing it on my other devices/PC?
TIA

I do it the other way around. I purchase and store on my workstation using a network drive (share throughout the house) and then move what I want to the mobile devices.
I've got a lot more music on the network drive than I would ever put on the mobile.
I move most of the files one at a time as I want them using AndFTP (using SFTP to my server which is the network drive). If I need to move a lot of files, I just plug in and make the sdcard a usb drive.

From a legal point of view, you'd have to read the terms of use you agreed to when you installed/used the app. I've used the Amazon MP3 store on my PC and I don't think they say anything about only putting the files on one machine.
From a technical point of view, if it is a standard mp3 file then there is no DRM that ties it to a specific device.
In general, I think you're fine in putting the file on whatever device you want.

FYI, the money from downloads and CD sales goes to the record company. Your not hurting the artist. If you really want to support them, touring is where 70% of their money comes from. Think about it, they're paid before the record comes out. Just a little bit of info, take it how you want.

With the amazon app you can put the mp3 on to any other device you want to just like ripping it from an owned cd
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Google "Tunee music" (it's not on market) and forget about Amazon MP3

The final answer: Yes you can take the mp3s off the device. they are Mp3's. Totally. I did it today to test.

Fretless said:
The final answer: Yes you can take the mp3s off the device. they are Mp3's. Totally. I did it today to test.
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Where are they on my Incredible? What's the path to get to them?
Thanks.
EDIT: found it. Right on the SD card.

[Q] Default location of media

I have a folder called music on my sdcard, and another one called video. When I run the media room app, it doesn't pick up that I have any music or videos.
Is there a specific folder these are supposed to go in to so that the media room picks them up?

I don't know about where to put them, but if you run doubletwist.. which is compatible and comes with the default SD card, or download it. You can have it sync a playlist for you. Then where it puts the music you could organize your self? Not a perfect solution, but would get the same result.

timbo1083 said:
I don't know about where to put them, but if you run doubletwist.. which is compatible and comes with the default SD card, or download it. You can have it sync a playlist for you. Then where it puts the music you could organize your self? Not a perfect solution, but would get the same result.
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doubletwist sucks. Try isync. I tried doubletwist on my Evo and it doesn't allow me to just download the music (it downloads every stinking file that's sound or video on my computer) like I was able to do while syncing my ipod through itunes (that's what we're looking for, something that syncs the same way itunes does). I haven't tried isync yet, but I hear it's more like we mac/ipod owners are used to.

yeah... I'm not a big fan of doubletwist.
It's funny that the Gallery 3D picks up all the media wherever I put it, but the media room app doesn't. The only one it was able to find was a pic I put in the download folder.

I agree double twist sucks.
WMP (windows media player) also recognizes it as a valid sync device.
/sdcard/Music/ARTIST/Album..... etc
Hope that helps.
You can also set up Winamp wireless sync by checking out the newest version of winamp, but that is temperamental at best.

[Q] Got a Movie with 'Digital Copy' - how do I put it on the Epic?

I ripped the Digital Copy of A Christmas Carol to my PC hard drive. Then I dumped it onto my phone (created a 'video' folder in the Media folder since it only had 'audio' and 'music' - the file won't play, it says to connect my PC because the license expired or something like that. And it disables my SD card until I reboot the phone.
Any ideas? I have a few blu-rays with Digital Copy and would love to rip a couple of the movies I own onto my SD card so I have something to do while waiting at various places....
Any suggestions would be great.

not sure, but are you freezing/preventing the DRM services from running with a startup manager or something? i know a lot of people do for battery reasons but i think it might have to do with that, might need to kick them on to watch DRM movies

using titanium backup pro i froze all 3 instances of DRM. i still get an error saying the code for the file is expired and I need to hook up to my PC...

Use AnyDVD with a Bluray ripper (I use Pavtube ripper) to watch your purchased BD on your phone. It will cost a small investment but it's worth it. I've never been able to get that Digital copy to work.