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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)

Music stops after 1 to 2 min

Hi all,
My TD2 has started acting very strange when playing music, after 1 to 2 mins it stops when using TF3D music player.
I read some other posts that had a similar problem and followed the fixes but it has not helped me.
My music stops even if the screen is alive (ie on mains adapter)
I tried removing all the htc album art and folder.jpg from the music folders but that has not helped.
I have also checked the micro SD power save settings to see if that was the problem but sadly not.
Im not sure what i should try next except a hard reset (i really do not look forward to restoring all my settings) so i hope you can share some more ideas
thanks

Just to add this problem is only present when using TF3D music player, but not when using core player

join the club
I only have this problem with win6.5
with 6.1 every thing is perfect
u canm use pocket player
it will not turn off the screen when playing but it will only go dim
and it will work good and its power consumption is good

I too am using 6.5 and manila 2.5, but im not sure what has been the cause of the problem.
Last week everything was working fine, the only thing ive changed since then is adding some more albums. I have tried removing the new albums but still the problem persists.
Very unusual

I just tested this on the ROM in my Sig and am not having this issue.
Perhaps it is ROM related? Are you all on the same ROM?

im using HG R6 same as you :S

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im using HG R6 same as you :S
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Interesting.
Then it would have to be either the way the music is stored, or an issue with your storage card.
I know that with cheaper storage cards, the data transfer rate is less than the higher quality ones.
FWIW, I don't have my music organized, just one folder for Music, sub folder for Praise and Worship Music and a second subfolder for recorded songs from Resco Radio (in case I already have the song in the music folder.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I tried copying the music to another SD card and the problem persists, so i think it is safe to rule out SD card fault
I have my music arranged on the card the following way
Music folder on root of the card
Inside music folder i have a seperate folder for each album
Inside each album folder there are the MP3's and folder.jpg
My music has been stored like this since i have had the device (since TD2 released in UK) and it has not been a problem before.
I think a hard reset at the weekend may the best solution

First, the get-outs. I don't use the HTC player, nor your ROM, nor even WM6.5, so I might be talking crap here. But, perhaps the problem might be corruption of the music database file, specially since it started since you loaded more albums on. I've seen this with other devices (specifically Cowon) before.
The database file seems to be AudioManager_Eng.vol, which is in \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\
Since you're considering a hard reset anyway, nothing to be lost from deleting this file (if it allows you to, you might have to shut down TF first) and letting the music player recreate it again.
Apologies in advance if a) this has been mentioned elsewhere b) it doesn't apply to WM6.5 any more, and c) it screws up the muisc player!

Thanks for the suggestion, i deleted the music database and it did no harm
When i launched TF3D music tab it took a while to rebuild the database but sadly it has not remmedied the problem

Does music play properly from TD2 internal storage? Might be a clue, if it does.
I know you didn't ask for the suggestion(!), but why not use a good but simple 3rd party app like Nitrogen? It loads very quickly, as though it was a "native" app, you can get skins which are very plain, black, with good album art. And it plays more formats too. I've honestly never been tempted back to the TF3D player since using it.

playing music from internal storage exhibits the same problem
playing music from 3rd party music app (core player) works correctly.

Getting closer to solving this, i hard reset my phone earlier but the problem persists.
So i delete all my music and add 1 album at a time.
so far no problems
I can only conclude either one of my tracks/albums is corrupted in some way and freezes TF3D when it reads the library OR there is a limit to how big your library can be. mine was over 12gig.
either way im gonna keep adding an album a time, reset phone then test until i find the bad album. when i do i will remove the bad album and try adding another, this should prove if its a size problem or just some bad file.

Plz keep us informed about ur progress in solving this problem
and No using 3d Pary Programs Like nitrogin or core player doesnt solve the problem

rumpleforeskin said:
Getting closer to solving this, i hard reset my phone earlier but the problem persists.
So i delete all my music and add 1 album at a time.
so far no problems
I can only conclude either one of my tracks/albums is corrupted in some way and freezes TF3D when it reads the library OR there is a limit to how big your library can be. mine was over 12gig.
either way im gonna keep adding an album a time, reset phone then test until i find the bad album. when i do i will remove the bad album and try adding another, this should prove if its a size problem or just some bad file.
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Harking back to my Cowon D2 experience, it took just one album to corrupt the database. It could be badly tagged, or the tags contained accented foreign characters which the player didn't like, and it would freeze the player. It's a pain in the posterior to find out which album is responsible
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Ok i have solved my problem (well found it)
There is 1 album in my collection that causes TF3D to Stop playing music when it tries to add the album to the database.
Im not sure why though!
All the tracks play fine in other players, all the ID3 data is legit and not containing any unusual characters and the bitrate is only 160 so its not too much for the phone to take.
When i get home i will rerip the album to mp3 and have another go.
I hope this thread may be of help to others with this trouble!
lesson here seems to be its not the software causing the problem but the media its trying to play, although the reason is not evident

Listen to music when device goes to sleep
When i listen to music it stops when the device goes to sleep. How do you keep listen to music when it goes to sleep?

jkolner said:
When i listen to music it stops when the device goes to sleep. How do you keep listen to music when it goes to sleep?
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search this forum for the word "music" im sure i seen a topic about this very problem

I had the same issue a while ago.
Turned out there was one album on my SD card (Lungs, by Florence and the Machine) that was causing the TouchFlo music player to stop playing any song. I removed that album and the problem went away.
I still have the album on my computer, doesn't seem to be anything unusual about it.

[Solved][Problem] Music Tab: no songs!

hi,
i have some songs in my hd2....but the Music Tab is empty.
I tried to put them in different folders (internal memory, sd) .... but nothing seems to appen. any ideas?
the song are mp3; i can see them with explorer; can play them with windows media player.
in music tab there is this message (in italian):
"i titoli musicali nella playlst non esistono più. potrebbero essere stati eliminati o ptrebbe essere stata rmossa la scheda di memoria"
"music titles in playlst no longer exist. may have been deleted or ptrebbe been rmossa the memory card"

harvester98 said:
hi,
i have some songs in my hd2....but the Music Tab is empty.
I tried to put them in different folders (internal memory, sd) .... but nothing seems to appen. any ideas?
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What's the format of your music files. The Sense Music Player only plays MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA.

appelflap said:
What's the format of your music files. The Sense Music Player only plays MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA.
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hello, I edited my post adding more information

harvester98 said:
hello, I edited my post adding more information
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Maybe you should soft-reset your device so the music player can re-index the library.

appelflap said:
Maybe you should soft-reset your device so the music player can re-index the library.
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i did it....nothing. it's so weird

harvester98 said:
i did it....nothing. it's so weird
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Maybe you can try to delete the file \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol
Don't know, just something you might try.

Just a question: did you try waiting for a couple of minutes? It's possible that your mp3 collection is very large and the program needs some time to collect them all. (I think the loading is indicadet by a revolving circle, but that could also be just for album art.)
If this doesn't help then I'm out of ideas^^.

appelflap said:
That is weird, because according to the manual:
Maybe you can try to delete the file \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol
Don't know, just something you might try.
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it works! you're great! thank you

DenOdin said:
Just a question: did you try waiting for a couple of minutes? It's possible that your mp3 collection is very large and the program needs some time to collect them all. (I think the loading is indicadet by a revolving circle, but that could also be just for album art.)
If this doesn't help then I'm out of ideas^^.
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i cancelled all the songs except 2...and the problem was still there.
the solution is in the "AudioManager_Eng.vol" file.
thank you

Glad you solved it.
I'm wondering what might have caused this. It seems that there was no auto-update of the "AudioManager_Eng.vol" file on your device. Now that is precisely what i'm looking for!
Did you change something in the registry before this happened?

appelflap said:
Glad you solved it.
I'm wondering what might have caused this. It seems that there was no auto-update of the "AudioManager_Eng.vol" file on your device. Now that is precisely what i'm looking for!
Did you change something in the registry before this happened?
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maybe something that i've installed....i don't know. or i made a mistake creating a playlist....
i don't have other players installed as core player or similar

I sometimes get a blank Music tab after being connected via Disk Transfer. I connect and disconnect via USB (in disk transfer mode) several times during the day whilst at work. When I leave at the end of the day, I sometimes find the Music tab is empty. I am advised that the files in the playlist (that I was listening to on the way into work that morning) no longer exist. If I rotate the Leo to the left whilst in Now Playing view, I am then told "No Music Found". Even after giving the phone half an hour to think about it, I am still left with no music. Deleting the AudioManager_eng.vol file immediately resolves the blank Music tab issue, causing the library to rebuild. It takes a minute or so to populate all the albums and artist data. But then it's fine.
As charging via USB on a PC is my only option at work, I'll have to be careful connecting and disconnecting willy nilly. The "Safely Disconnect" option in XP's taskbar has been removed from our work PCs, as has just about every other useful option, so I can't disconnect 'safely'. I was hoping to leave the phone at the "Connect to PC: Choose a connection type" screen (i.e., choose ActiveSync, Disk Transfer etc) but on trying that now under Windows 7, Windows Explorer instantly kicked in and loaded the root of the Memory Card. Doh!
On disconnecting, I am told No Music Found in the Music tab, but after about 30 seconds, my albums and artists have been populated. That's what it should do, I suppose, but on occasion it doesn't succeed.
Shame there isn't a "Do nothing" option when connecting to a PC by USB!

I too am having similar problems. Once I have done a fresh rebuild of the "AudioManager_Eng.vol" everything works fine. But if i connect to my PC via "disk drive" mode once disconnected I have to rebuild the library again, same applies after a soft reset.
Is there a solution to this? i.e disable rebuild.
Thanks

What is media server and why it ate my battery?

Media server totally drained the life juice out of my battery along with maps.... I haven't used maps at all, still it ate my battery even though there was a minimal screen time... screenshots below.... Advice for future????
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Open navigation app and complete first time setup. That should fix maps battery usage. Need more info about media server. Download better battery stats from market and monitor from there.
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Open navigation app and complete first time setup. That should fix maps battery usage. Need more info about media server. Download better battery stats from market and monitor from there.
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Mediaserver probably refers to music. Do you have music through Google Play? If so, it may be attempting to download your music collection. Go to Settings > Accounts and uncheck the sync option for music.

I have the same issue with media server, it was okay before root.
But after I unlocked the bootloader and rooted, I get the same battery drain from media server.
Don't know if it's related.

Maps: check if you are not signed in Latitude - that is real battery eater
Media server: listening to music but could be also scanning storage for media files (after reboot), could be that that process just got stucked and was eating your battery in the backgroud. Rebooting should solve that.

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Maps: check if you are not signed in Latitude - that is real battery eater
Media server: listening to music but could be also scanning storage for media files (after reboot), could be that that process just got stucked and was eating your battery in the backgroud. Rebooting should solve that.
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I don't play music, went to gallery for no more than 3 times, media server still ate 9% of total 57% discharge
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

media server uses a lot of battery when you record videos, also watching hd videos in sw mode for long time drains battery fast.

I had a media server drain issue on another phone. The issue for me was videos on my phone that were large / encoded in a way Android choked on.

I get Media Server draining my batter on my Nexus S sometimes after playing a game (Ninja Fishing especially). It doesn't close properly and if I listen close to the speaker I'll hear "tk tk tk tk tk tk" looping. When I Force Close Ninja Fishing, it fixes it. IOW, check your apps.

Kik also drains batttery very heavily. For me, I saw drastic improvement in battery life after removing kik. I use Whatsapp as a replacement and that uses some awesome power conserving sync protocol.

Mediaserver
Hey Guys,
I have come from a nexus s to the nexus 4 and it has the exact same mediaserver problem
As soon as I start to listen to audio over bluetooth the mediaserver process just goes crazy eating the battery..
It is the highest process in the graph using 22% of the 45% drain with only 30 - 40 mins of playing audio..
Not cool..
I get fantastic battery life if I don't play music.. (2+ days)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976666
This fixed my media server eating battery problem. I have a Samsung Note, but the above helped. YMMV
This refers to custom roms only I guess. Here are the steps I took, in brief!
*reboot into CWM. Wipe cache and dalvik only.
*DIRTY flash your ROM again in CWM
*Boot into ROM proper and set it up
*Reboot into CWM again. Fix Permissions. Wipe cache and dalvik ONLY once again.
*Reboot & Problem gone!
If this does solve your problem, please report so we can document what works for others.
Sent from my MZ601

Taijohnsen said:
Hey Guys,
I have come from a nexus s to the nexus 4 and it has the exact same mediaserver problem
As soon as I start to listen to audio over bluetooth the mediaserver process just goes crazy eating the battery..
It is the highest process in the graph using 22% of the 45% drain with only 30 - 40 mins of playing audio..
Not cool..
I get fantastic battery life if I don't play music.. (2+ days)
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I didn't have any such issues. I'm on the CM10 ROM though. However, check the Google music app and see if it's downloading/syncing your music collection with its services. That could be causing a problem.

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Stryder5 said:
I didn't have any such issues. I'm on the CM10 ROM though. However, check the Google music app and see if it's downloading/syncing your music collection with its services. That could be causing a problem.
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supposedly the media server issue is sometime related to corrupt media. try removing some or all of your mp3, jpg, etc.

I first thought that it was because of a courrupt media file, but I checked every file I put on my device. No use
But Mediaserver only starts running when I'm using Play Music. It runs much longer than Play Music though

danslecarton said:
I first thought that it was because of a courrupt media file, but I checked every file I put on my device. No use
But Mediaserver only starts running when I'm using Play Music. It runs much longer than Play Music though
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I'm 99% sure this is google now. turn off google now for a test and see if the media server battery usage drops back to a normal level.

[Q] Note 10.1 - Jelly Bean Update - Cant Access Media PC Videos

I have a media pc I store all my movies/pictures and so on.. Before the Jelly Bean I've been able to regularly access the media from my Galaxy Note 10.1. Since the update the media PC still show up on nearby devices in the video player, but shows "No videos" listed. Anyone know how to fix this?

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I have a media pc I store all my movies/pictures and so on.. Before the Jelly Bean I've been able to regularly access the media from my Galaxy Note 10.1. Since the update the media PC still show up on nearby devices in the video player, but shows "No videos" listed. Anyone know how to fix this?
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same issue here. i have not found a solution

I've been on JB so long I don't remember how ICS behaved. You should be able to find and play your media (video, music, pictures) here...

Then something has changed.. I simply have a pc with media streaming enabled, and all devices in the network allowed... I can see pictures through the "gallery", and music with "music play", but cant see videos. This is what I see.. I wonder if a factory reset would solve the problem..
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Then something has changed.. I simply have a pc with media streaming enabled, and all devices in the network allowed... I can see pictures through the "gallery", and music with "music play", but cant see videos. This is what I see.. I wonder if a factory reset would solve the problem..
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It sounds like a permissions problem is preventing the Note from seeing your video files; especially if music and pictures are accessible. Is sharing enabled for the folders that contain your videos? What format are they in? The Note won't display content in formats it can't play. Although I can't see fewer formats supported in JB than in ICS.

All are .avi
I just dont understand what went wrong..

Rugburned said:
All are .avi
I just dont understand what went wrong..
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I don't usually play content off my PC's, I use my server. But I just checked and the content showing up on my Note that's on my PC is in my documents folder. I don't remember adding or changing any settings so maybe that's where the Note's looking. Try putting a video in your documents folder and see if the Note finds it. If it does, it's just a matter of figuring out (on the PC) how to have more folders exposed.

A factory reset fixed the problem.. I can now see videos again.

Media video streaming not working
Hey guys, I signed up just to share this fix, because this was driving me crazy, as I watched a lot of videos around the house streaming from my computer, especially while cooking / etc. I had the same problem with no videos showing up in my list under "nearby devices", and I really didn't want to do a factory reset. Anyways, this worked for me-
Go to Application Manager under Settings.
Flip over to the right under ALL
Scroll down to Video Player
I hit all of the buttons. Force Stop, Clear data, Clear Cache, Clear defaults.
Voila it reloaded my videos and everything's back again where it was before the Jelly Bean update.
Hope this helps.

Funny thing I ended up getting another galaxy note 10.1 for my brother that was not updated.. I was able to see my media pc, then I updated it and was not able to see its content anymore... I tried the above suggestion, but it did not work.. Only force stop and clear data was available..
**update** I set my brothers note aside and started messing with mine to try and replicate this problem.. I was able to do it by changing the pc's media library name (network and sharing -> Change advanced sharing settings -> Choose media streaming options...) After changing the media library name and rebooted the pc. I was able to view the pc on the list, but no videos were showing up... After an exhausted search for various apps to reset the default video player cache, I started the process of resetting the device, then it kinda hit me.. What if the problem is not with the device, but windows media player cache.
After doing some research I found on my windows 7 64bit, the wmp cache files are located at "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player". In the Media Player directory there are some .wmdb you must delete.. The one named "currentdatabase" requires stopping the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.. After deleting them, I restarted WMPNSS and launched WMP.. I checked my 10.1 and all the videos were listed. Anyways, thats it.

i got the problem last week...
i had my samsung all share running on my pc (not Wmp).
i could play all content shared with it on my tv (photos, music and videos avi & mkv).
i could view the photos and stream music on my note.
in video player i could see the server but no videos showing up.
i could play the videos with no problem on my note through thirdarty app mediahouse available on playstore.
cleaning cashe of video player ad ALL other allshare related apps sorted the problem.
and now... i'd installed serviio just to check something, and guess what... i cannot see videos shared wth it
i've cleared cashe again and it helped.
after comming back to samsung all share the situation came again... clear cashe again and it works again...
so i think it is our tablet firmware problem rather than wmp problem mentioned by rugburned.
or maybe both
.

Does the device need to be rooted in order to be able clear the default video player cache? Because the clear cache and reset defaults are never available to me.