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Hi All,
I have recently been getting an error message in Windows Mobile Media Player (Windows Media Player) on my XDA Mini S saying;
"No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection"
And i cant seem to figure out why. I cannot play any videos or sound clips on my mobile, and i cannot find an alternative way to view video or sound files on my XDA.
Is there any chance anyone knows where i can download a new versionof Windows media player for my Windows mobile 5 device? or does anybody have any resolution for this?
Thanks for your time
I do not think there is a newer version to this problem but I was recently having trouble with WMP and I downloaded Pocket Player and have really liked it.
Doesn't seem to have that many bugs, has a today plugin (if wanted), is quite easy to use - maybe give it a try!
Where did you download Pocket Player from? and was it free etc... because i have searched on www.pocketgear.com and it is $19.99
To be honest, i really wasnt planning on paying for a Media player, however, if i cannot get the media player on my phone fixed, i will have no choice!
Thanks
Have you tried cold booting? Or TCPMP?
Yes PocketPlayer does cost you; I understand not wanting to pay for a media player especially since one that is supposed to work comes with the phone - i just couldn't deal with WMP.
Try TCPMC - its free and it may not have all the organizational features of WMP, but does play DivX files
robbiebrown34 said:
Hi All,
I have recently been getting an error message in Windows Mobile Media Player (Windows Media Player) on my XDA Mini S saying;
"No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection"
And i cant seem to figure out why. I cannot play any videos or sound clips on my mobile, and i cannot find an alternative way to view video or sound files on my XDA.
Is there any chance anyone knows where i can download a new versionof Windows media player for my Windows mobile 5 device? or does anybody have any resolution for this?
Thanks for your time
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i have same problem with u if u have fix it tell me i search but i'm not find solution
puputboy said:
i have same problem with u if u have fix it tell me i search but i'm not find solution
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you'd better try another media player such as RealOnePlayer (supports video and music) if you are interested you can try this...
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.
Hey guys, I noticed that my music + video tile isn't "live". It doesn't show the artist pictures when I'm playing music. I found a solution online, where they said to go to settings and ensure that "Connect with Zune" is ON. That isn't even in my settings, the only thing in my settings menu is "Zune Account Settings" which opens up IE and takes me to the zune website.
All my music is tagged correctly, and in the zune software on my PC it shows the artist and has information about them, so I don't know what's going on.
Hope someone more proficient can help me out.
Does it do this for common big artists? Like Jay-Z for example? Sometimes zune does not have the pictures for certain artists. If while playing music in the zune player, you see the artists picture in the background, then it will update the zune live tile, if all you see when viewing now playing is the album art on a black background, the live tile won't update.
wrxdrunkie said:
Does it do this for common big artists? Like Jay-Z for example? Sometimes zune does not have the pictures for certain artists. If while playing music in the zune player, you see the artists picture in the background, then it will update the zune live tile, if all you see when viewing now playing is the album art on a black background, the live tile won't update.
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All I see is the album art, including big artists like Jay-Z and Linkin Park.
Maybe its trying to tell you to listen to something else.
J/k. ;-)
Ok so I think the live tile will only update with zune pass music. I just added a song I downloaded off of the internet. A missing song to an actual zune marketplace album I had. When that song plays, there is no artist in the background, when another song from the same album but from the zune marketplace plays it does update the background (which then will update the live tile)
So from my testing it seems that you need zune marketplace content or possibly a zune pass.
Not a solution but hopefully it helps.
You can try to make sure that the files you're trying to play are properly tagged (i.e. the Artist Name, Album Name, Album Artist Name, Year, Genre, etc. are all correct according to the Zune database).
PocketNow posted up a "Zune Social Tagger" program that might make the Zune features work but I have yet to try it myself.
h**p://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/full-visual-experience-on-windows-phone-7-music-playback
None of my music was from Zune Marketplace, nor do I have a Zune Pass, and my tile works fine. As long as the tile shows in the Zune program before I sync, it shows on my phone. If it's not showing in Zune, then maybe the tags are wrong.
Attached is an image of my MetaData settings. Maybe you need to allow Zune to update AND Replace your MetaData as I have here...
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All I see is the album art, including big artists like Jay-Z and Linkin Park.
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try to update song the information in zune simply right click on the sone and click update album info it will go to the album online select the sone and it will update it... should work after that..
Thanks for all the replies guys, I'm going to use the Zune Social Tagger, and if that doesn't work, I'll try updating everything manually.
I'll report once I finish.
Cheers
So the situation has only gotten worse lol
My settings have already been the same as what SuperSport was saying. I tried the Zune Social Connect, and it's not really helpful, it doesn't link your music automatically, you have to go through one by one...so it's the same as just doing it through zune, right clicking and updating.
After I synced with my Focus, now the zune player on my PC NEVER shows the animations in the background anymore! and that's even with the correct tags, and it's linked through Zune and Zune recognizes the album, songs, and artist.
I'm so confused now...this is frustrating lol
Noticed you are in Canada. Zune music isn't yet available up here so I suspect some of the tie ins that it offers isn't going to show for Canaadian Live IDs. Hopefully when/if the service launches up here that functionality will start showing.
(note: not 100% sure this is the cause but know my tile doesn't update either)
Still loving the phone though!
I think I can explain what might have happened...the only thing that changed since my Zune on PC won't play any background artists is that I've switched my local from U.S. to Canada...could it be just because we are in Canada, we don't get the artist pictures?
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Noticed you are in Canada. Zune music isn't yet available up here so I suspect some of the tie ins that it offers isn't going to show for Canaadian Live IDs. Hopefully when/if the service launches up here that functionality will start showing.
(note: not 100% sure this is the cause but know my tile doesn't update either)
Still loving the phone though!
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Does the Zune software on your computer have all the artist playing in the background?
ghaith_d said:
I think I can explain what might have happened...the only thing that changed since my Zune on PC won't play any background artists is that I've switched my local from U.S. to Canada...could it be just because we are in Canada, we don't get the artist pictures?
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That wasn't it, switched back to US and still no animations =(
I don't play music much from my PC. Just tested Zune and it seems to pull up a collage of all album coverart it has registered in the background when playing music.
markcr said:
I don't play music much from my PC. Just tested Zune and it seems to pull up a collage of all album coverart it has registered in the background when playing music.
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That's what my Zune does now. It used to (if you had all the tags correct) show slideshows/pictures of the artist that is playing. Pictures that you probably never saw before, and NOT album art.
If it cannot show those pictures, it reverts to the album art of all the albums you have and it shows it in the background.
Music + Video Tile
I'm having the same issue as the OP.
I'm not sure if this is all related to Country Code or not, but this is my experience:
When I first got my Samsung Focus, I initially used a Windows Live account with a country code of USA. Under this account, Zune for WP7 worked as expected. It grabbed all the artist pics, bios etc from the Zune.net.
Due to a Windows Live Contacts issue, I decided to hard reset my Focus & use a Canadian Windows Live account. Since then, I've noticed that Zune for WP7 does not load any of the artist pics, bios etc from Zune.net.
I guess the only way to verify this is to perform another hard reset back to the USA Live account & see if the artist info loads again.
Music + Video Tile Works again
Rcon942 said:
I'm having the same issue as the OP.
I'm not sure if this is all related to Country Code or not, but this is my experience:
When I first got my Samsung Focus, I initially used a Windows Live account with a country code of USA. Under this account, Zune for WP7 worked as expected. It grabbed all the artist pics, bios etc from the Zune.net.
Due to a Windows Live Contacts issue, I decided to hard reset my Focus & use a Canadian Windows Live account. Since then, I've noticed that Zune for WP7 does not load any of the artist pics, bios etc from Zune.net.
I guess the only way to verify this is to perform another hard reset back to the USA Live account & see if the artist info loads again.
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I've managed to get the WP7 Zune to display all the extra artist details. From what I can tell, this functionality is dependent on your country code. What I'm clear on are the bare minimum settings that are required to get this to work.
For me, I factory reset my Focus. After the reset, I added a primary Windows Live account with a United States country code. At this point, I loaded some music but Zune wasn't pulling any artist info yet. I'm not sure if Zune just needed time to download the info or not. I didn't wait very long for the next step so this could be the only requirement to get this working. The 2nd country code change I made was in the Marketplace & it prompted me to choose a country. Canada was the default value but I changed it to USA. Even after this change, it took a few minutes before I started to see artist info. If everything is configured correctly, you should see the option to buy music in the Marketplace which I don't think Canadian accounts see.
At any rate, I hope this helps.
Cheers.
Similar problem
I get an artist image to show up on the tile, but on my phone it's a different artist than what's playing.
bennyj71 said:
I get an artist image to show up on the tile, but on my phone it's a different artist than what's playing.
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I shouldn't ask this, as I'm sure you know what you are looking at, but could it be another photo of the artist, not the one on the front of the album? I've noticed that a few times. It will sometimes show them in different situations.
Some forewarning: I tried this a few months ago and it didn't work. I am currently running Bionix-V. I have tried this on two Windows 7 machines and it worked on both. I do mean Zune Pass protected content too, not just the phone showing up in WMP as a syncable device.
Here is what I did:
1. In USB Settings, set it to prompt. Simply setting to Media Player should also work.
2. Connect to PC. In my case drivers where installed as it was the first time I had connected the phone since putting Bionix-V on there. The MTP application should start up automatically and connect.
3. After driver installation the auto-run dialog appears. The top option for me is Sync digital media to this device using Windows Media Player
4. After a few moments you should see the vibrant in the top right corner as a syncable device. The Next Device link will allow you to sync to the SD card.
5. Either wait for the slow as hell media search to find/update media, or simply use Windows Explorer to drag and drop into the right pane.
6. Sync!
7. A subsequent reconnection using this procedure resulted in WMP not finding the device. Repeating steps 1 and 2 was enough for WMP to find the device.
So that's what I did. Depending on response I may come back and put up a better guide. The moral of the story is that it's at least possible, possibly after a bit of star alignment since this previously didn't work. I just did this today so I'm not sure how updating the DRM time-bomb works, worst case is delete/re-add.
confused
I'm confused...
Are you talking about using your Vibrant with the Zune Pass service? (unlimited music downloads $x/mo, DRM makes sure music only plays when subscribing)
Does the Vibrant understand the Zune DRM? (I would find that surprising)
Are you just talking about the Vibrant showing up as a music device in Windows Media?
Robert
I pose the same question....
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Sorry for the confusion.
I do indeed mean that it accepts Zune Pass DRM'd WMA's. The Zune software won't work with it (it's strictly for Zunes). The key is using WMP. I honestly think the whole thing is a loophole in how WMP works with the Zune Pass content. I've used this method on a Cowon DAP for the last year or two. I wouldn't be at all surprised if WMP was actually downgrading the DRM to one of the older, more standard ones. Based on experience with my Cowon DAP though, the DRM is definitely still intact after being transfered to the device.
I'm not sure why it works now when it didn't work before though. Previously WMP wouldn't recognize my phone, even though the MTP app was running.
Further info for you, just checked the details in the default Music Player app on one of the tracks. Media type is audio/x-ms-wma. Further down is a "Right Status" section with the data
Type: Date
Validity: - 2011/3/16 22:44:36
yea, I've been doing this since I first got my phone. The songs do expire if you cancel your subscription or don't sync with Windows Media Player for a while - and there are quite a few songs that won't sync (because of their DRM licenses). It works ok though. Good enough if you want some of your music with you all the time.
Honestly, I love the Zune Marketplace subscription service and have always just been m'eh on my player. Still I find I use my Zune more for music than my phone though because with the player I can have all my music with me. I wish there was an Android Zune app, but we all know that will NEVER happen.
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yea, I've been doing this since I first got my phone. The songs do expire if you cancel your subscription or don't sync with Windows Media Player for a while - and there are quite a few songs that won't sync (because of their DRM licenses). It works ok though. Good enough if you want some of your music with you all the time.
Honestly, I love the Zune Marketplace subscription service and have always just been m'eh on my player. Still I find I use my Zune more for music than my phone though because with the player I can have all my music with me. I wish there was an Android Zune app, but we all know that will NEVER happen.
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You could always use audiogalaxy to stream all your music from your pc to your phone over the network
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Does this work with Andriod, WMP?
I'm super excited about getting my DVP in a few weeks. One thing I absolutely love about WP7 is the cool artwork that shows up in the music player and the lockscreen.
My question is - how does WP7 pick up the artwork? Does it download the images when needed, or does Zune download them and saves them on the phone? Will the images be cached?
I'm worried because mobile internet is pretty slow in this part of the globe
I have used several Zunes and I assume that WP7 since it uses the Zune interface for music it will work the same way (I'm waiting on my DVP to arrive). The artwork is downloaded using the Zune software on your PC and synced to the phone.
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I have used several Zunes and I assume that WP7 since it uses the Zune interface for music it will work the same way (I'm waiting on my DVP to arrive). The artwork is downloaded using the Zune software on your PC and synced to the phone.
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Does it also include the artist imagery that is shown on the lockscreen and everywhere else?
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Does it also include the artist imagery that is shown on the lockscreen and everywhere else?
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Lockscreen art will only be after the mango update. NoDo it will update the hub, now playing screen, and live tile only.
I wouldm assume all artwork is synced unsing the Zune Software. My ZuneHD shows all kinds of artwork associated with the artist I'm listening to and it of course has no always on data connection (only Wifi that I normally keep turned off).