I've seen a fair bit about using third party media players etc to play FLAC music files. I've binned most of my MP3 files and re ripped my entire music collection to flac. This was fine up till about a month ago as i had a nice COWON MP3/flac player that i used when i was out and about, but that got stolen from my van so i'm thinking of using my Touch HD as a media player instead. Thing is i like the MP3 player feature built in to TF3d and am wondering if anyone has been sucsessful at getting it to play flac files?
Ever since I upgraded to 2.2.2 . My music on my sd card doesnt show up in the music player. All my songs are on the sd card . I have to go into the sd card and individually select a song to play. Can anyone help?
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I have my music on my sd card and have no issues. I use Playerpro and have used PowerAmp, I am on a stock rom (BB 351), and my music is in MP3 format.
Are you using the stock music player? What rom are you using? What is the folder structure that you are using? Have you checked for a .nomedia file in your music directory? What format is your music in?
Im using stock 2.2.2 . And my music is in wma format. But it was all available in the music player before the upgrade.
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wma is not in the list of audio formats supported by Android natively.
PlayerPro (my current music player) will play wma files when selected from the file manager but does not show them in the music list, either in library or folder view.
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Sure does
I am just curious, how are you going to listen to the files if it runs?
Headphones? headphones amps? hi-fi sound system? dock?
I use headphones and jdlabs amp
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sparky_boi said:
Sure does
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With the stock google music player?
Chad_Petree said:
With the stock google mjusic player?
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No, I tested. Play Music won't run it. I used MX Player.
WMP; flac
Guys, I was used to synchronize my audio library from WMP to my Android device. There are both MP3s and FLACs in the library. Since I have Nexus 4, WMP doesn't sync flac to Nexus, it writes "the player might not support the file".
I haven't found any option how to make WMP to do it. PlayerPro in Nexus plays flac without any problem. is there any setting in the devices? Or am I missing some application? The truth is, when I click on flac file in Astra file manager, it writes "Activity not found"...
One more thing. Even when I try to simly copy flac file to Nexus in widows through My Computer, it writes me that the device doesn't support that type of media...
No.
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EDIT:
I was wrong about this. Android does support FLAC natively since 3.0
Not natively, for whatever reason.
Meaning it must be implemented by a third party and some paid music players have gone that extra step.
Simpler (free) music players tend to play whatever file formats are available by the Android OS.
The default Google player and Apollo do NOT support FLAC.
Your question should be "which music players do support FLAC?"
capo56 said:
Guys, I was used to synchronize my audio library from WMP to my Android device. There are both MP3s and FLACs in the library. Since I have Nexus 4, WMP doesn't sync flac to Nexus, it writes "the player might not support the file".
I haven't found any option how to make WMP to do it. PlayerPro in Nexus plays flac without any problem. is there any setting in the devices? Or am I missing some application? The truth is, when I click on flac file in Astra file manager, it writes "Activity not found"...
One more thing. Even when I try to simly copy flac file to Nexus in widows through My Computer, it writes me that the device doesn't support that type of media...
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I get the same message when I copy .mp3, or FLAC files directly to my device via a Windows box. Also, try Solid Explorer, it makes the other file managers look outdated.
I play FLAC all the time with Poweramp. If the Nexus 4 had OTG, I'd be using FLAC a lot more. However, what I normally do is download files to my phone with Dsub from my Subsonic server. I force Dsub to limit the bitrate to 320kbps, and Subsonic will automatically transcode FLAC to 320kbps. I highly recommend checking out Subsonic. It really helps you work around the small amount of space we're given in the Nexus 4. I can essentially carry my HUGE collection of music wherever I have an internet connection.
KyraOfFire said:
No, I tested. Play Music won't run it. I used MX Player.
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That's weird - I've been using the standard Play Music on my Nexus 4 to listen to FLAC files and it's been working fine. Unless I've misinterpreted what the OP is asking! Basically I just copy FLAC files to the Music folder, hit the 'Refresh' button in the Play Music settings and everything's okay.
pete_n said:
That's weird - I've been using the standard Play Music on my Nexus 4 to listen to FLAC files and it's been working fine. Unless I've misinterpreted what the OP is asking! Basically I just copy FLAC files to the Music folder, hit the 'Refresh' button in the Play Music settings and everything's okay.
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Weird indeed. I couldn't play a FLAC file with Play Music as well but I've come across reports of people having no problems with it. I did test only one file and had the DRM service disabled. I was running stock 4.2.1 at the time.
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Weird indeed. I couldn't play a FLAC file with Play Music as well but I've come across reports of people having no problems with it. I did test only one file and had the DRM service disabled. I was running stock 4.2.1 at the time.
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Are you trying 16-bit or 24-bit FLAC files? I don't have any 24-bit ones to test so can't confirm that they work, but definitely haven't had any problems with literally hundreds of 16-bit FLAC files. Like yourself I'm also running stock 4.2.1 with no hacks/root etc. I haven't installed any other audio programs either. Prior to my Nexus 4 I was also able to successfully play FLAC natively on a Note 2 (running 4.1 I guess?) and HTC One X (probably running 4.0 but I can't remember now).
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Not natively, for whatever reason.
Meaning it must be implemented by a third party and some paid music players have gone that extra step.
Simpler (free) music players tend to play whatever file formats are available by the Android OS.
The default Google player and Apollo do NOT support FLAC.
Your question should be "which music players do support FLAC?"
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This is wrong, android has had native support for playing FLAC files since android 3.0, I remember playing FLAC files with play music just last month.
Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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DarkhShadow said:
This is wrong, android has had native support for playing FLAC files since android 3.0, I remember playing FLAC files with play music just last month.
Source: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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I see. Thank you for the correction.
It is strange then that it doesn't work for some of us. I will investigate this further.
I used Play music app and it play a few of my flac files...
I guess all players in the mobile world support flac.
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TestingCharts said:
I guess all players in the mobile world support flac.
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In your dream, only in the Android world. Ask Apple or Microsoft about their feeling about open standards.
For Honeycomb and newer, flac is supported on a system level. Flac is not supported by defauit for Gingerbread, but you can install certain music that have Flac codec.
Hi guys,
I transferred all my music on to an microSD card, however half of my songs do not play on the player for some unknown technical reason. I tried using alternative music players, such as Doubletwist and PowerAmp and had the same result. Many of these files are MP3 files and they do not play as they should.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Sound like they were corrupted. Try deleting them (ideally format the card) and re-adding them.
I have 10.4GB of mp3 files on my (crappy)microSD, all play smoothly.
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Thanks I tried it, it seems to be working better now. I think the files got corrupted during the transfer.
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So lyrics to my songs have been added via iTunes and when I put them in my phone, none of the lyrics display. I also noticed that songs that are mpeg files will display the lyrics but yeah not mp4. Is there a reason behind this? Is there a way to fix this? I don't like using other music players so please don't suggest others (just prefer using stock). I love lyrics and this is a feature I hope Samsung will resolve one day
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704138