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itunes m4a in SE player

I use itune agent to sync my itune playlist to my x1
and it's working out great apart
from songs i buy from itunes store
not acc drm songs mind you but the non drm itunes plus ones
that apple changed to
most my songs are m4a and they play just fine
but the songs i payed for make the media panel act up
it sounds like it's starting but then it quit
and look like it's using back and forth in and out of the
playing song mode
have anybody tried the same setup ?

mmh problem still exists here with R2, anybody found a solution? searched forums as well as with google but found no solution though

well tried the touchflow player and same deal
suspect they both depend on wmp to play music
and thats the culpit
if you try other players like coreplayer it works just fine
of cause that mean one can't use the se media panel for playing

yeah, theres no m4a decoder for winmo wmp I don't think.
will they play in wmp on desktop? I wonder if theres a codec we could copy across from there?

fards said:
yeah, theres no m4a decoder for winmo wmp I don't think.
will they play in wmp on desktop? I wonder if theres a codec we could copy across from there?
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I seriously doubt your statement that WM does not support the Advanced Audio Codec, ACC, (which is M4A - Mpeg 4 Audio) since AAC is one of the (official) audiocodec's used in the MP4 video container.
AAC is also alot easier to decode then MP3, which makes it even more strange that that would be the case.
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AAC is supported just fine in WM6 .
However I remember some problems caused by Itunes Pro AAC's, since they use INVALID TAG's. This was done to indentify the buyer.
You could have a look with some decent tagging software (foobar FTW ), and strip the non-standard tags from the music.

Whether it can decode the audio part of video isn't a debate. It's whether it can play M4a files natively.
There's various sources that say it can and it can't.
I can't get my bog standard DRM free M4a files that I download as part of the NIN|Ja tour sampler to play on my x1 using WMP.
I can get the same files to play using pocket player, ergo WMP does not support M4A

does anybody know exactly which tags mess up playability in media experience panel ?(before i start testing myself).
btw i do use foobar, however i dont see the tags mediainfo is showing me anywhere within foobar, i might be mssing something (e.g. the properties dialogue does not show my mail address)

I had this same problem, but solved it using a little utility call PutPinfInItsPlace. Here's a short extract from the "ReadMe" file:-
PutPinfInItsPlace
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Release 2, 20 June 2007.
Joshua King
Find more information about this tool at:
http://techtransit.blogspot.com
This is a simple tool to fix a compatibility issue between Apple iTunes Plus AAC music tracks and Nokia/Symbian mobile phones.
You can download the utility here:-
http://techtransit.blogspot.com/2007/06/putpinfinitsplace-itunes-plus-fixer-for.html
It takes seconds to process an album and simply corrects the tag structure of the header file.
Thanks,
joboy

yoboj said:
It takes seconds to process an album and simply corrects the tag structure of the header file.
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Yes. That is exactly what i meant with the invalid tags. Thanks for finding, i searched for it but i found nothing.
(i was under the impression Foobar could too though, but i don't buy from the Apple Music Store (big apple hater here, ) so i could not test it, sorry)

mxp: Album Art

I've recently started using my phone for music (slow, rite?) and have synchronised some of my albums from windows media player (PC) to my memory card. They all have album art, and on PocketWMP the cover arts show, but on the MXP they dont. I mean, some of them do, something like, 2 out of 30, but thats it.
I did happen to notice the default tracks provided on the phone showed the cover arts. Am I doing it wrong? Why do these cover arts show everywhere except for on the MXP album art displayer?
Btw, im using R2AA MXP, i dont like R3AA one.

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It works for some of my albums, just not most of them.

Use mp3tag application to add album art : )

I have same problem ....
All files syncro from PC hads its own cover art , but main panel shows only 5 % of cover art .
I have purchased pocket player , grate for streaming audio ( Tunner2 ACC+ ) , also for ape , ogg , acc ....
but I have same problem like main media panel .
so mp3tag its a mobile util or pc one ?
Can you tag other files than mp3 ? , like mp4, m4a , its the most I use .

ronniecross said:
I've recently started using my phone for music (slow, rite?) and have synchronised some of my albums from windows media player (PC) to my memory card. They all have album art, and on PocketWMP the cover arts show, but on the MXP they dont. I mean, some of them do, something like, 2 out of 30, but thats it.
I did happen to notice the default tracks provided on the phone showed the cover arts. Am I doing it wrong? Why do these cover arts show everywhere except for on the MXP album art displayer?
Btw, im using R2AA MXP, i dont like R3AA one.
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Send me a link to download a set of your mp3's... I'll see what's wrong with your mp3 tagging skills, I'll find the root of the problem, and I'll teach you how to tag properly .
And yes MXP is slow.

http://www.cduniverse.com/default.asp?cart=832989606 use that link copy album art in your windows media library then sync your phone. it works for me

http://www.cduniverse.com/default.asp?cart=832989606 use that link copy album art in your windows media library then sync your phone. it works for me. Hence you will find most album covers on that link

All of my album art always show on MXP, on Pocket Player, and on WMP.

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Use mp3tag application to add album art : )
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That free piece of software is a miracle for tag audio files
I did it manually and it worked grate , now , MXP , windows media player and pocket player displays correctly , cover art on mp3 , m4a .
THx a lot for information .
http://www.mp3tag.de

Can I do the same with video files ? ( mp4 )
I can see that xperia recorded videos are display correctly , I mean on , thumbnail image on MXP .
Wich software can help ?

I found an important point for me, the cover has to be changed to "front cover" if it's not in the mp3tag, some covers weren't assigned as a "front cover" and now I changed it and the covers are there.
I have the problem I don't know how to change all my covers on the PC to "front cover"? Anybody an idea with mp3tag, I can only change 1 album with the same cover picture at the time...

I figured out the problem I was having; when using WMP to syncronise my CDs, it auto-tags the tracks from the CD when putting them on my PC, with the data it gets from the net, so on the PC it's tagged. But all it does is create an image file in the folder that the tracks share - WMP logically picks that up. When you syncronise the tracks with your phone, it doesnt sync the album art... but...
If you manaully then tag your tracks, you will see that there actually isnt any album art tagged to the track, but if you tag it with the album art, syncing the track also syncs the image. I would imagine that im actually wrong and that the image actually always does get sync'd because WMP was picking it up on the device, but maybe the MXP doesnt pick up folder art, and only track art.

I figured out the problem I was having; when using WMP to syncronise my CDs, it auto-tags the tracks from the CD when putting them on my PC, with the data it gets from the net, so on the PC it's tagged. But all it does is create an image file in the folder that the tracks share - WMP logically picks that up. When you syncronise the tracks with your phone, it doesnt sync the album art... but...
If you manaully then tag your tracks, you will see that there actually isnt any album art tagged to the track, but if you tag it with the album art, syncing the track also syncs the image. I would imagine that im actually wrong and that the image actually always does get sync'd because WMP was picking it up on the device, but maybe the MXP doesnt pick up folder art, and only track art.
Oops didnt mean to double post, not sure what happened there

Music transfer problem.

Can any body recommend a decent program to transfer music my pc to my phone?
Media go is really slow on my pc, I tried the old disc to phone and that keeps putting music in the wrong order and instead of having 12 songs per album I keep getting 12 one track albums.
What are people using and any ideas why this is happening?
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I use the media go and mixzing on phone. Didnt find it too slow and i put 30alb on in one go.
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The thing is with the pc its only got about 512 ram and 1.6 ghz proccesor which I find quite funny as the phone is almost more powerfull than the pc lol
If I were to put 30 cds on at one go it would be an all night job.
I need something that's not so intencive on the pc but actually works properly. Ideas?
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steve.adams.x10 said:
Can any body recommend a decent program to transfer music my pc to my phone?
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The best and fastest method imo, "Copy and paste" it to your music folder.

steve.adams.x10 said:
The thing is with the pc its only got about 512 ram and 1.6 ghz proccesor which I find quite funny as the phone is almost more powerfull than the pc lol
If I were to put 30 cds on at one go it would be an all night job.
I need something that's not so intencive on the pc but actually works properly. Ideas?
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Buy a USB2.0 PCI adaptor =)
In case you dont know you're going 12Mbps. That's quite slow my internet connection could do better

XperiaX10iUser said:
The best and fastest method imo, "Copy and paste" it to your music folder.
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I agree, easiest and best way.

Thanks for your help and suggestions guys. I'm guessing the music must be currupt or something cos even copy and paste not making it go on in the right order and mp3s keep skipping.
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steve.adams.x10 said:
I'm guessing the music must be currupt or something cos even copy and paste not making it go on in the right order and mp3s keep skipping.
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Can't explain the skipping, but is your metadata all correct?, that could explain why it doesn't show correctly. What player are you using?

I'm sorry I have absolutly no idea what metadata is. I'm using mixzing and paid for the upgrade lisence.
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I'm sorry I have absolutly no idea what metadata is. I'm using mixzing and paid for the upgrade lisence.
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Metadata/tags is the properties in your files which can be edited....
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....and is what affects how players list tracks, so if I take 10 different tracks from 10 different artists, but edit the Album as "Selected remixes of the last 10 years", the player will list them all in the same album.
I have just started using MediaMonkey to go through my collection and update every track so I have the right album art displaying with Meridian on my phone, but still with some tracks the album art isn't being displayed at all but everything else is ok.

I understand what you mean now but its quite weird cos on my computer it displays everything in the right order with the correct tags.
I guess all I can do is blame some sort of curroption, it should be as easy as
1 take it from the external hard drive ( where everything is in the right order etc )
2 copy to pc ( still in the right order )
3 copy and paste to sd
But it all goes horribly wrong on the last step for some reason and it takes ages to sort it all manually but I may left with no choice
Thanks everyone for your help so far
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XperiaX10iUser said:
I have just started using MediaMonkey to go through my collection and update every track so I have the right album art displaying with Meridian on my phone, but still with some tracks the album art isn't being displayed at all but everything else is ok.
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+1 MediaMonkey is a great program for fixing all your ID3 Tags/Metadata/Album Art/etc not to mention a good music player too, highly recommend checking it out

rvictorg said:
+1 MediaMonkey is a great program for fixing all your ID3 Tags/Metadata/Album Art/etc not to mention a good music player too, highly recommend checking it out
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I've been a diehard Winamp fan for the last few years but MediaMonkey is my number 1 player from now on and the features it has makes it a breeze to organise your collection. I've got my mothers music collection on my external, every song artist and title is in CAPITALS , and have put off transferring it to my lappy because of the amount of work it would have taken to sort it out, and whilst I'll still have to go through each individual file, sorting the casing i.e "Artist - Song Title" from "ARTIST - SONG TITLE" can be done with a click, for the whole collection.

XperiaX10iUser said:
I've been a diehard Winamp fan for the last few years but MediaMonkey is my number 1 player from now on and the features it has makes it a breeze to organise your collection. I've got my mothers music collection on my external, every song artist and title is in CAPITALS , and have put off transferring it to my lappy because of the amount of work it would have taken to sort it out, and whilst I'll still have to go through each individual file, sorting the casing i.e "Artist - Song Title" from "ARTIST - SONG TITLE" can be done with a click, for the whole collection.
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Sounds like a good program then I'll give it ago. I just can't bring myself to sit there doing it manually, I spent long enough doing that on my old ipod and it is a grueling task. One click sounds good so I'll give it a blast.
Thanks for your contributions everyone
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How to Add Lyrics to The Music Player in Your Android Device(ICS ONLY, GB Not Tested)

Want to Add Lyrics to the music player of your Android device running ICS? Follow this guide and You shall be able to achieve that!
1. Download MP3Tag if you Don't already have it(http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html)
2. Connect your phone to your PC.
3. Go to MP3Tag, Press Change Directory...
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4.Select the Music folder on Your Phone.
5. A Big list with all the music in your phone will be presented. Right click the song you want lyrics on, and select Extended Tags...
6. Depending on the Song, you may or may not find a Field called "UNSYNCEDLYRICS" Mine did not have it, as you can see.
7. So, Since mine did not have it, I will press "Add Field..." On The Right.
8. An Edit Tag Windows will pop up. In the "Field" Section, type in "UNSYNCEDLYRICS". And in the "Value" Section, put in the lyrics of the song. Lyrics are easily obtainable, and you can find them by Googling SPACE
9. Press OK, and then press OK again in the second pop up window.
10. DONE! A Succes box should pop up.
11. Now You can go to your phone's music player, enable lyrics by pressing MENU button>Settings>Lyrics if you did not enable it already.
12. See the Lyrics:cyclops:
Thanks for taking your time to view this tutorial, and have fun!

FromiOSToAndroid said:
Want to Add Lyrics to the music player of your Android device running ICS? Follow this guide and You shall be able to achieve that!
1. Download MP3Tag if you Don't already have it(http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html)
2. Connect your phone to your PC.
3. Go to MP3Tag, Press Change Directory...
4.Select the Music folder on Your Phone.
5. A Big list with all the music in your phone will be presented. Right click the song you want lyrics on, and select Extended Tags...
6. Depending on the Song, you may or may not find a Field called "UNSYNCEDLYRICS" Mine did not have it, as you can see.
7. So, Since mine did not have it, I will press "Add Field..." On The Right.
8. An Edit Tag Windows will pop up. In the "Field" Section, type in "UNSYNCEDLYRICS". And in the "Value" Section, put in the lyrics of the song. Lyrics are easily obtainable, and you can find them by Googling SPACE
9. Press OK, and then press OK again in the second pop up window.
10. DONE! A Succes box should pop up.
11. Now You can go to your phone's music player, enable lyrics by pressing MENU button>Settings>Lyrics if you did not enable it already.
12. See the Lyrics:cyclops:
Thanks for taking your time to view this tutorial, and have fun!
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There's another method..albeit simpler.
1. Download this player http://www.aimp2.us/download.php Believe me its an awesome player...its free....awesome sound....small size...you wont regret.:good:
2. Right click the song you want to add lyrics to.....and select Aimp --> open in tag editor from the context menu.
3. Press the lyrics tab in the tag editor...paste your lyrics from the internet. Save...thats its!!!

The-Droidster said:
There's another method..albeit simpler.
1. Download this player http://www.aimp2.us/download.php Believe me its an awesome player...its free....awesome sound....small size...you wont regret.:good:
2. Right click the song you want to add lyrics to.....and select Aimp --> open in tag editor from the context menu.
3. Press the lyrics tab in the tag editor...paste your lyrics from the internet. Save...thats its!!!
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MP3Tag's got wayyyyy more features mate
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not working
not working on xolo b700 ics

Lyrics in Android
just install minilyrics dud ..:good:

musicXmatch
MusicXmatch is one of those apps that should be on any song enthusiast's Android smartphone. It sports a vast library of over 6 million song lyrics, and works with most third party music players, including ones from manufacturer overlays.
TuneWiki
TuneWiki bets on the social aspect of music lyrics, thus you can share and discuss the message they contain with your friends network. Lyrics can be instantly translated in more than 40 languages, and the TuneWiki music player even gives you bio snippets about the current artist.
Shazam
As one of the most popular music recognition apps, Shazam isn't leaving the other aspects of the listening experience to dry, and also incorporates lyrics engine in its music player.

do it from your cellphone
update friends! you can play lyrics in default android player. just download "pimp my music" and copy your lyrics in the mp3 and save it. restart your music player . voila! all done. enjoy lyrics for same song at any player that supports lyrics display.
tested at my jellybean samsung note.
other way to do by pc is always open for you, see first post.

Administr4tor said:
update friends! you can play lyrics in default android player. just download "pimp my music" and copy your lyrics in the mp3 and save it. restart your music player . voila! all done. enjoy lyrics for same song at any player that supports lyrics display.
tested at my jellybean samsung note.
other way to do by pc is always open for you, see first post.
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How bout trying this guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2459450

Try pimp my mp3 , it help to embed lyrics and album artwork to mp3 file. .
Comments plz..
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Pimp My Music - Tag Editor
nibil.pn said:
Try pimp my mp3 , it help to embed lyrics and album artwork to mp3 file. .
Comments plz..
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Yeah 'Pimp My Music' is the android app you need.. it will search for your lyrics or you can paste in your lyrics.
It even plays and the song and shows the lyrics with auto scrolling and LRC support.
So it can highlight words karaoke style
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i'm assuming this works for kk too?
i'll test to see if synced lyrics work, or if the will be at least read (yet no scrolling etc)

Thanks a lot to The-Droidster
The-Droidster said:
There's another method..albeit simpler.
1. Download this player Believe me its an awesome player...its free....awesome sound....small size...you wont regret.:good:
2. Right click the song you want to add lyrics to.....and select Aimp --> open in tag editor from the context menu.
3. Press the lyrics tab in the tag editor...paste your lyrics from the internet. Save...thats its!!!
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Works perfect!!!! Thank you very much. I downloaded the latest available version AIMP v3.50 Build 1224 Beta 1 and it was as easy as The-Droidster has described. I am impressed :highfive: :good: :victory:
Best regards,
Zenvidia
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MP3Tag's got wayyyyy more features mate
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Totally agree with you. Now that is what is true software development all about. Thanks to XDA developers and The Droidster and FromiOSToAndroid for sharing your knowledge :victory:
Just google for AIMP v3.50 Build 1224 Beta 1. Has lots of very useful features. It will be downloaded as zip file and I have checked it for virus and malware. It checked out fine. I was able to save the lyrics into a test mp3 file - super easy. Transferred the mp3 file from Win7 computer to my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Played it through the default 'Music' app in the phone and presto the lyrics are just there. Easy and simple.
Cheers!!!

How to use offline music

How can I use downloaded, offline Play music in other players?
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Downloaded from where? And also.... Try it and see?
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Copy your music files into a Music folder on the N7. Use any updated player to find the folder and play the music.

Kearkan said:
Downloaded from where? And also.... Try it and see?
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From Play music cloud. As in 'Keep on device'.
I'm sure he tried and not succeeded, that's why he's asking here.
Groid said:
Copy your music files into a Music folder on the N7. Use any updated player to find the folder and play the music.
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And where to find these files?
No music player has detected music from Play Music.

Google music stores all your offline music on the root of your phone (I believe), and renames all the songs. I don't think there's a way to use your offline GMusic songs in another player. I found the offline songs earlier but forgot where it was...
EDIT: Found it! Root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
Screenshot of directory:
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ClintvL said:
Google music stores all your offline music on the root of your phone (I believe), and renames all the songs. I don't think there's a way to use your offline GMusic songs in another player. I found the offline songs earlier but forgot where it was...
EDIT: Found it! Root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music
Screenshot of directory: http://i50.tinypic.com/spayw7.png
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Awesome!
Now let's try making a link to the folder. I tried
"ln -sf /data/...../files /sdcard/music"
but if failed.

issak42 said:
And where to find these files?
No music player has detected music from Play Music.
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I copied mp3 files from my computer (which are the same files I uploaded to Play Music) to a folder called Music on the sdcard of the internal memory. I opened Play Music, in settings I selected 'Choose on device music'. It found the music files I had copied, I selected a song and it started playing. I also chose 'shuffle all' and it continued to go through the songs. I can do this with Poweramp and a couple of other music players. The point is, if you copy music to the device, you can play it with any number of music players.

Groid said:
I copied mp3 files from my computer (which are the same files I uploaded to Play Music) to a folder called Music on the sdcard of the internal memory. I opened Play Music, in settings I selected 'Choose on device music'. It found the music files I had copied, I selected a song and it started playing. I also chose 'shuffle all' and it continued to go through the songs. I can do this with Poweramp and a couple of other music players. The point is, if you copy music to the device, you can play it with any number of music players.
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While this is completely true, it's beside the point. Play music is after all still a music player, of course it plays music from 'sdcard'. It will play any mp3s, even if they aren't stored inn your music cloud. What op was asking was, how to access those files, that are selected as 'keep on device' in play music, to use with power amp for example.
Honestly, even though I installed power amp on my n7, I barely use it, for mp3s I have on 'sdcard' I just got used to play music.
Edit: I just noticed doubletwist supports this, you need to be rooted though. Check it out on play store.
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