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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)

[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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That is weird, because according to the manual:
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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

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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steve.adams.x10 said:
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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[Guide] How to add lyrics on stock music player

How to add lyrics on stock music player
1. Ready your lyrics and copy paste on notepad
2. Search for the song and right click it and choose properties (Make sure its in .mp3 format)
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3. Go to Summary Tab
4. Copy and Paste besire the Lyrics catergory
5. Done!

There is no LYRICS tag in MP3 files for me. Is this Windows dependent? What version are you using?

technillion said:
There is no LYRICS tag in MP3 files for me. Is this Windows dependent? What version are you using?
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Yes this procedure does not work for me either.
The real problem is that Android does not natively read the ID3 lyrics tag. So, I put in a new feature request that would give Android the ability to read ULT and USLT ( lyrics ) ID3 tags. This will allow the native and 3rd party music players to display lyrics, like the iOS and Windows Phone players currently can.
If you want this feature in Android, please star the request below:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32547

Add lyrics and artwork to a song - android music player
Try this method -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhqOqi2N_I

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Try this method -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhqOqi2N_I
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Does it's works?

I just use itunes
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I recommend using Miui music player or Minilyrics rather than the stock music player.
both free and on the net.

LyricsDog on google play adds lyrics to mp3 files, it's the easiest way.
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Is there any way to add lyrics with orginal music player, not with PC?
For example you download a music and wana add it's lyric simultanously.

Mecsad said:
Is there any way to add lyrics with orginal music player, not with PC?
For example you download a music and wana add it's lyric simultanously.
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Lyricsdog

thanks for the tip:good:

Try TuneWiki
TuneWiki can fetch lyrics and artwork online. It also has a basic tag editor. It has a pretty good database and a user community. You can edit the lyrics, change color, font, artwork,etc. It also has Song ID, like Shazaam.
But, the lyrics seem to be in a proprietary format and doesn't save to id3 lyrics tag. musiXmatch also seems good, but i couldn't test it as Google Play says it's incompatible wid my device.
It would have been better if there's an app that fetches metadata/tag info( including lyrics if possible) automatically from internet and save to music files. Do anybody know of such an app for Android?

Ugh musixmatch is a different app and it doesnt put lyrics on your mp3s..
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musiXmatch & MiniLyrics
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Ugh musixmatch is a different app and it doesnt put lyrics on your mp3s..
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It doesn't embed lyrics inside music files but it does show lyrics. It is similar to TuneWiki. These lyrics are synchronised too. But, the problem is that they don't save/embed lyrics with the music. It would have been better if they saved the lyrics in some format embedded or even as an external LRC for later use.
Minilyrics also seems to be good (For lyrics alone!). It claims to play both USLT( unsynchronised) and SYLT (synchronised) fields in ID3v2 tag and LRC. I don't know if the Android app can write tags( desktop one does). It's just a minimal player(even minimal than the stock player, i think) and doesn't have all the bells and whistles like the ones i mentioned above. If lyrics is your only thing go for it. But, i(and most others) want something which finds all the Album Art, metadata, and other Tag info. Anyway, the minilyrics app doesn't currently work in my device, says failed to read internet data. But, that's just me,i guess.

thanks a lot man it worked for me!!!

musiXmatch works as standalone app or just for Lyrics!
I'm using poweramp AND musiXmatch.
When I hear a Song musiXmatch shows me in Statusbar if there is a lyricsfile for it and when I tap on it it opens.
Poweramp plays in background and in opened musiXmatch I have the lyrics
For me MusiXmatch works very good, and if I didn't payed for PowerAmp I would just use musiXmatch like years before on PC!

Fix cover art in Musixmatch
I also have Poweramp and am using Musixmatch with it. When I open the Musixmatch app it has some how loaded pictures from my photo album as cover art and I didn't feel like paying Musixmatch to fix their problem so what I ended up doing is downloaded Cover Art Downloader from the playstore and it automatically found the right cover art and replaced the photos.

not working for windows 7!
when i earlier had windows xp i used to work with it...but after upgrading to windows 7 there is no such option! what should i do??? please help! i even tried tag scanner and more such apps ...but the song dosent opens after add the lyrics to it! help pleaseeee...!!!

Didn't work
It didn't work. I m using windows XP SP3. There is no lyrics category in properties of mp3 file....!!!

Thanks! It works for a new songs and for some it doesn't. But lyrics are available for the music I normally listen. So, happy!.

My Battery: Violated by Mediaserver

I've come to notice that Mediaserver occasionally eats a disproportionate chunk of my Nexus 4s battery; it took the cake last night. I left work on a full charge and screwed with my phone through the evening, with MS taking a small ~10% chunk, before leaving it at around ~60-65% for the evening.
When I woke up, my battery was around 37%, with 1h20m worth of screen time. Here is a screenshot from around 35% battery.
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I've read everything I can find on Mediaserver (on XDA and elsewhere) and can't really explain why it uses half the battery. I have Play Books, Play Magazines and Play Movies disabled. The only media I have on the device period is some music cached/save to the device from my Google Music account. I wasn't listening to Music at any point last night, and I don't see anything unusual in the running applications.
Any thoughts? This isn't an issue I experienced on my Galaxy Nexus with nearly identical usage patterns.

I've had the same problem with my Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. Mediaserver is a service that can be used by pretty much any application but mostly the media related one (picture / video / music).
This mean either you have an app or file that is hanging up.
Try disabling media related app one by one and/or remove media file until the problem goes away.

Sometimes its a bad media file somewhere on your device. Bad download, corrupted picture/video, etc. I found that going through a File Manager and deleting items/folders that weren't necessary in the storage area cleared the problem for me. Give that a shot.

Same problem here and I just noticed it this morning. I'm actually glad that the battery doesn't suck as much as I thought and it's just this stupid media server. Still, a bug that needs to be fixed. Does anyone know if this has been reported to google yet?

halo0 said:
Same problem here and I just noticed it this morning. I'm actually glad that the battery doesn't suck as much as I thought and it's just this stupid media server. Still, a bug that needs to be fixed. Does anyone know if this has been reported to google yet?
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I had Media Server running more than I thought as well and used:
http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html
It scans your entire MP3 collection for corruption, mis-matches, etc. and can correct it for you. It also makes a copy of the mp3 as a .bak file so if something did go wrong you can restore the original.
Out of my 1400 mp3's it found about 300 songs that had some kind of problem (stream error, corruption, mismatches, etc.) after it was all said and done there were 3 that were un-repairable.
Since I re-sync'd to Google Music my media server power has went down.
Just a FYI.

This question was already asked and answered yesterday. There is a really good explanation in that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026888

Well I scanned every single file on my phone and I only have 2 mp3s. They're both ringtones and both checked out fine. Yet this is what I saw this morning...

I had this problem a year ago. I solved it by deleting a couple bad photos i had taken that showed up as 0 bytes and were blank in the gallery.
From my experience, the media server drain is definitely caused by some corrupt media file(s) on the phone, not just mp3s. Could be photos, music, or videos. This could be jpg, gif, png, bmp, mp4, avi, mkv, mp3, aac, ogg, flac, etc. Pretty much any kind of media file the mediaserver looks for.
If i were you, i'd isolate the problem by moving all your media files temporarily off the phone to a pc, rebooting, then seeing if the media server is still acting up.
If the drain has gone away, slowly re-add your media back to the phone and re-test to isolate which folder or set of files is the problem. If the drain continues, do a manual search using a file manager for any other media files, then remove those too.

Well I deleted a bunch of files as well as ran the Rescan Media app. Problem seems to be gone for now.

What the hell is Mediaserver? Kill it dead. That's such a rude thing to see. 53% of the battery life? I'd be so upset.

morejaylesswar said:
What the hell is Mediaserver? Kill it dead. That's such a rude thing to see. 53% of the battery life? I'd be so upset.
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Mediaserver is the actual service that apps such as music players and video players, such as Google Play Music, use to actually play music and videos. So its not mediaserver itself that is the problem but most likely an app that's installed that uses the service.

well if it is it's a stock google app. The only music player I have installed is google music which I hardly ever use. No other media players of any kind have been installed.

It seems to be the consensus in the xda community that it media server issue is related to corrupted media files, be it images or music. However I don't think this is the case.
I have the issue only when playing my sd card music from a music player like power amp. It doesn't happen when not using it. I turned off all scanning within the app and it is still happening. I think this is a 4.2 issue... I deleted all of the files on my SD card then resynced and it's still happening! This was not an issue with the same EXACT content on the galaxy nexus. Can anyone help fix battery drain issue!?
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