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.
When using the musicplayer on the Diamond 2, I have discovered a problem!
It doesn't seem to read the ID Tags properly when playing musicfiles in m4a format! The tracks are not played in the right order!
When using MP3 everything seems ok.
Anyone else having this problem!
Before telling me to simply convert it to MP3: I have tons of music in m4a format which i use on my iPOD aswell. So it is quite overkill to have it all in various formats!
same problem but over a year gone! can anyone help?
sadly I have the same issue as well, I am unable to edit the ID3 tags to the M4A files of my itunes music, but all my MP3s are just fine. Whats up with this phone not reading the tags?
When transferring an album to the HD2 and then in Music opening gives a wrong sort order. I cannot make a distinction what the sort order is, but it is wrong. Any ideas?
Yeah me too I have this problem... Doesn't seem to be alphabetical order I don't understand the logic around the order...?
I have all my tracked numbered, and it still mixes them up
???
I hope you all have shuffle turned off.
Mine are all fine
>I hope you all have shuffle turned off.
Of course, but the problem is before playback, it's the order in which the songs appear in the player under the "album" view, they don't come under alphabetical order of the file name or mp3 tag...
They're in the correct order (alphabetical) when looking at them via file explorer though.
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>I hope you all have shuffle turned off.
Of course,
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I thought so, but you never know.
but the problem is before playback, it's the order in which the songs appear in the player under the "album" view, they don't come under alphabetical order of the file name or mp3 tag...
They're in the correct order (alphabetical) when looking at them via file explorer though.
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Just a thought, could it be that the songs are ordered by artist name? The HTC music player doesn't use the "album artist" tag, but the "artist" tag instead. Meaning that, although you have selected an album, it may well be that it treats the individual songs as seperated and group them by artist.
Anyway, best practice is to substitute all "artist name" tags with the "album artist" tag. That way, you don't have a gazillion artist under "artists" when you browse through you collection by artist.
I can recommend MP3 Tag editor, free and powerfull tool
All my songs are perfectly "tagged" in iTunes. Artist and album artist are the same. Songs are x from y songs. So on the HTC clicking on Artists it shows the artists perfectly sorted. When I click on the album of the artist, then the songs appears in random order.
And still I cannot see the way HTC orders the songs.
__BlackEyed__ said:
All my songs are perfectly "tagged" in iTunes. Artist and album artist are the same. Songs are x from y songs. So on the HTC clicking on Artists it shows the artists perfectly sorted. When I click on the album of the artist, then the songs appears in random order.
And still I cannot see the way HTC orders the songs.
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Aha, iTunes you say? Now you mention it, I have two albums I bought via the iTunes store and with those albums I have exactly the same problem as you described. I therefore suspect it has something to do with the apple m4a format.
I have no problems with the other 140 albums I have in my library (all in mp3 format).
Because it frustrates me to I'm gonna play a little bit with the MP3 tag editor and report back to this thread if I found out the magic trick.
(BTW do you also have a pile of the same album covers displayed when you play an album?)
Yep.
And also your conclusion is completely right. mp3 is fine, but m4a is wrong (and I have over 3.300 m4a's so it's quite an annoying bug for me).
have you tried tagging the music files manually? I tag all my mp3s with mp3tag (freeware) and I have no issues, windows and my hd2 always index them in the correct order with the album art included etc.
d3l1 said:
have you tried tagging the music files manually? I tag all my mp3s with mp3tag (freeware) and I have no issues, windows and my hd2 always index them in the correct order with the album art included etc.
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I suspect you would have to convert all the .m4a's to .mp3's then check the tags and then sync. Alternatively create a playlist for the offending album in the correct order.
I don't have any .m4a's but can't you just tag them like any other media?
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:
* Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
* Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
* Monkey's Audio (ape)
* Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
* MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
* Musepack (mpc)
* Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
* OptimFROG (ofr)
* OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
* Speex (spx)
* Tom's Audio Kompressor (tak)
* True Audio (tta)
* Windows Media Audio (wma)
* WavPack (wv)
I don't want to tag all these files again as they are perfectly tagged. HTC should fix this.
d3l1 said:
I don't have any .m4a's but can't you just tag them like any other media?
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
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I've tried it and unfortunately re-tagging them won't work. I think that the problems lies in the way the HTC music player is parsing the tags embedded in mp4 files (m4a)
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I don't want to tag all these files again as they are perfectly tagged. HTC should fix this.
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I agree with you on this one. For now the only option is to convert the mp4 files to mp3 files. One way to do it. And yes, it's a hassle
Why should HTC fix it? Its not their fault that Apple uses a stupid proprietary music format....
NZtechfreak said:
Why should HTC fix it? Its not their fault that Apple uses a stupid proprietary music format....
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I don't know what is wise, but I think that for some consumers it is a point of consideration. Anyway, for a producer like HTC it's a clever thing that they decided to support the Apple format.
NZtechfreak said:
Why should HTC fix it? Its not their fault that Apple uses a stupid proprietary music format....
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As I am experiencing the same problem with WMA-Tracks, I think HTC should really get into this. HD2 is running on a Windows platform, isn't it?
The problem still remains.
All songs are perfectly tagged (iTunes) and are according to the accepted format shown on the technical specifications on the HTC-site (aac, mp3 and m4a).
Any registry setting maybe?
I copied my music collection on to my phone (4,700 .m4a files which are eaac+ at 48kbits/s), which is about 350 albums with 1000+ artists. The stock music player plays them all fine and all the embedded album art and other metadata is all there. The only problem I get is when I select the 'artists' tab. I get a brief insufficient memory message, then the player closes itself.
Has anyone else seen this? Surely 1000+ artists shouldn't be a problem for a cutting edge superphone.
I'm thinking probably a bug that they've missed? Or it might just be to do with your firmware, what version are you using?
Robin.B said:
I'm thinking probably a bug that they've missed? Or it might just be to do with your firmware, what version are you using?
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Thanks for your reply. It's I9000ADJF1 that came with the phone.
So now that the 2.2 upgrade has broken the built in media player so that it no longer reads WMA tags, all my albums are found under the "unknown artist" heading
So what is the go to player that does not rely on the android subsystem (3 has the same problem) now?
PS
Converting to MP3 is really not an option.
I can't really help unfortunately, but can confirm Mixzing also suffers from this so guess it uses the same library as default.
I endured the ballache of conversion to mp3 although I kinda had been looking for an excuse to do it anyway.
Mushhushshu said:
I can't really help unfortunately, but can confirm Mixzing also suffers from this so guess it uses the same library as default.
I endured the ballache of conversion to mp3 although I kinda had been looking for an excuse to do it anyway.
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The problem is that WMV is the only en mass format that gives lossless.
MP3 is fine but doesn't give lossless.
The sound system in my BMW is happy playing MP3 and WMA and WMA lossless but the other lossless formats are not supported.
There is also the argument about 192kbps being better quality than a 192kbps MP3 but lets save that argument for another day
And lets remember, up until Sunday, everything was working just fine