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Please help..I'm loosing it!!

I thought I fixed this by asking in previous post but obviously not.. NO MATTER HOW I ADD MUSIC to my SD card, Touch Flo Music app gives Audio Manager_eng.exe error!! Hard Reset, Soft Reset, Delete Audiomanager file, editing/resetting registry, using drag and drop, using Media Monkey..ALL no luck.
How and what do you guys do to play music via your SD card on Touch Flo music app...step by step guide most appreciated - what do I delet, what do I name folders etc...Merry Xmas

have you tried syncronising using windows media player? and if the media is on the card, you should be able to select the albums using options in the tf3d media player, if it crashes and you havent done anything that voids your warranty, try HTC support. because if a hard reset doesnt fix the problem its a problem in your rom,
what also possibly could cause it to crash is if you try to play an unsupported media file,
hope to have given you some new information or suggestions!

what also possibly could cause it to crash is if you try to play an unsupported media file,.
This is the ssimple answer.

You might want to reinstall Audio manager using a new installation file. Yours could have quite possibly become corrupt. Do a search and find an original CAB on here. I'm sure I saw it on somewhere here. Otherwise...send your phone in for the support guys to take a look. Might be worth a shot.

You were right! Now I realize it does not seem to support m4a files...removed them, still no luck...after 2 hours I found a rogue m4a file in my library...Unbelievable! I thought it would just ignore the file type rather than corrupt all??
Thank you anyway.

hawrai68 said:
You were right! Now I realize it does not seem to support m4a files...removed them, still no luck...after 2 hours I found a rogue m4a file in my library...Unbelievable! I thought it would just ignore the file type rather than corrupt all??
Thank you anyway.
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Nope this is not correct, all of my music (hundreds of songs) in my SD are in m4a format (AAC encoded within iTunes), they all play perfectly work perfectly, no problem whatsoever, even the artist/song/album info and cover art is working fine from m4a.
Something else is the problem here.
I just wanted to prevent missinformation, the blackstone DOES play m4a (AAC) without any problems (Main Memory or SD doesn't make a difference...)

hawrai68 said:
You were right! Now I realize it does not seem to support m4a files...removed them, still no luck...after 2 hours I found a rogue m4a file in my library...Unbelievable! I thought it would just ignore the file type rather than corrupt all??
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Well, MOST of my music is in M4A files; I originally converted all my CD collection to M4A for my old Sony Walkman phone because the AAC-type format seemed to give better sound quality for a given file size compared to MP3.
And so far, it's only been one rogue file that has given me problems on the HD, although I noticed that it does tend to mess up the playing order.
Maybe there's something different in the codecs that you are using or something. I seem to recall that I used Nero to encode mine.

I'm confused then..would the fact that I use a Mac be the issue - Itunes purchases - DRM Free ( though I use Bootcamp to do all music transfers etc..).

.m4a music files wrong order in media player & no cover

hey there,
just found out that the touchflo media player is able to read m4a files. this filetype saves a lot of disc space and the files still have a good quality, at least for audiobooks.
but there is a problem. the order of the media files, even if tagged correctly etc, often appears wrong. i already tagged them again with Mp3tag v2.43, but still they appear in the wrong order. especially for audiobooks, this is unacceptable.
another thing is, that it seems as if it does not read the cover tag... no image is shown.
OR shall i clean the cache of the media player? if so, how can i do it?
thx in advance!

Solved.
a) The cover.jpg has to be in the same folder (sometimes i am pretty dumb!)
b) Edit the tags manually, and then clean the device eg with SKTools.
mp3 to m4a converter:
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Audio-Converter.htm
mp3/m4a tag editor
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

Possible Solution to the FLAC Tag problem

Hey guys,
I mostly listen to songs encoded in FLAC and often times my Galaxy S would totally mess up the tags. It seems it doesn't recognize the FLAC or FLAC ID3v2 tags.
- Most of them would be "UNKNOWN"
- Last letter of the album tittle would be missing
- A lot of blank files that would crash the player if i tried to play them
- A duplicate copy of the album would appear with no album art and unplayable songs.
- And also, songs would skip 1/10th of a second, i can live with that but still annoying. Upgrading to JPK solved that issue
First thing I did was make sure my tags were correct using Mp3tag (using v2.45) and that there was only 1 album cover (sometimes u have several, which messes up the album art)
Once my tags are all in order, and this is key, when u copy ur files (or your entire folders) to your phone, make sure there are no .CUE or .M3U copied on your phon
I found that removing these extensions solved all of my problems. They seem to confuse the phone.
On an other note, the JPK media player seems different as there are only 4 tabs on the top, i can't seem to be able to filter by Genre, or maybe i can't find it.
Hope this helps.
Will

Thanks for the idea, but that's certainly not my problem. I'll check my FLAC files with MP3Tag.

Music app not syncing/recognizing artist names

I've tried syncr, I've tried double twist and I've tried dragging and dropping but in all cases, the phone is not recognizing the artist names of many songs. It labels them as unknown. This is driving me nuts.
When I take the SD card out and place it in my droid X, all the songs that went previously unrecognized are now recognized.
Is anyone else experiencing this?

I am, i thought it was just my music collection. I've been doing everything to try and fix it with no luck
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

VJKotts said:
I've tried syncr, I've tried double twist and I've tried dragging and dropping but in all cases, the phone is not recognizing the artist names of many songs. It labels them as unknown. This is driving me nuts.
When I take the SD card out and place it in my droid X, all the songs that went previously unrecognized are now recognized.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Are they m4a files? There is another thread where people have found that m4a files aren't working properly. They play just fine, but the artist and some other info isn't recognized properly for some reason.
Haven't seen a fix yet, but it sure is annoying!

chargen2 said:
Are they m4a files? There is another thread where people have found that m4a files aren't working properly. They play just fine, but the artist and some other info isn't recognized properly for some reason.
Haven't seen a fix yet, but it sure is annoying!
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Just move allo music folder or/and files to the main Music folder. it doesnt work if you have music files in you own SD card or another map. It has to be in Phone memory.

chargen2 said:
Are they m4a files? There is another thread where people have found that m4a files aren't working properly. They play just fine, but the artist and some other info isn't recognized properly for some reason.
Haven't seen a fix yet, but it sure is annoying!
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You have to move your multimedia files to phon memory and it will work fine. It doesent work if your multimediafile´s are in extern sd card.

Beckim said:
Just move allo music folder or/and files to the main Music folder. it doesnt work if you have music files in you own SD card or another map. It has to be in Phone memory.
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Not sure if that is right. I've tried it on the phone's 16gb memory, and on my external microSD card - neither works. When I add them to Kies on my desktop they are also missing the some of the info in the fields shown in the 'library'. It's all very confusing - really hope it can get sorted out soon as it's the one thing that's annoying the hell out of me.

Beckim said:
Just move allo music folder or/and files to the main Music folder. it doesnt work if you have music files in you own SD card or another map. It has to be in Phone memory.
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Didn't seem to make any difference. To be clear, I didn't have a 'Music' folder in the root of the internal phone memory, so I created one and put my music in sub-directories. Is that what you meant?

Do you use MP3 files? Then this could be an issue with the ID3 Tag. You can solve it in two ways:
1) only using ID3 V1 Tags
2) using ID3 V2.3 Tags with ISO-8859-1 Charakter Set. Android seems to have problems with UTF-8/16 and ID3 V2.4
Cheers
Zap

Zaphod_b_1 said:
Do you use MP3 files? Then this could be an issue with the ID3 Tag. You can solve it in two ways:
1) only using ID3 V1 Tags
2) using ID3 V2.3 Tags with ISO-8859-1 Charakter Set. Android seems to have problems with UTF-8/16 and ID3 V2.4
Cheers
Zap
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It's my m4a files that I think I (and others) have the problem with.
Is there any program that you know of to change the tags of m4a files as a batch? Really don't want to have to do it individually!

I use usually a Prog called "MP3Tag". Unfortunately I do not know actually if a) it is available in English language (I'm German)
b) it also works with m4a files.
Usage is quiet simple: Just open your Music folder on your PC with the program, edit the settings to fit with what I've written above, apply the settings, select all files, copy and paste the tags, save the files - finished.
Cheers
Zap
Edit: I've checked it: The Prog is available in English and it supports m4a. Just look at the website: www.mp3tag.de

The test files I'm working with are files purchased from the iTunes music store. I certainly don't want to rewrite the ID tags for any files, or convert the files from one format to another. I think this would classify as a bug that Samsung should fix, in my opinion.
I have a workaround, namely browsing folders via Poweramp. It's certainly not ideal, but will get me by for the time being.
What is the proper method of inquiring with Samsung about this? Call Samsung via the Support number on their pages? Is their phone support any good?
Since I bought this UK model and shipped it to Canada, would I need to call Samsung UK? (Samsung Canada doesn't list the GT-I9100 as a supported model on their site)

I can understand this, maybe you crash more than repair it. Yes, a different Music app with its own - well, let's call it "engine" - could also solve the problem. This could be worth a try.
On the other hand there are also users who do not want to have that much apps and want to use the stuff which is coming with the little green bot originally - they definetely will suffer from that issue, because it's Android - dependent and not Manufacturer - dependent. So I think you will not reach anything by talking to Samsung.
Just have a look here. Lots of defects regarding The bot and MP3. Just search "yours" (the one that fits best) ;-). Hopefully the big G will fix them some time.
Cheers
Zap

This drives me nuts too.
They display properly in double twist, but not in the stock player. I like double twist to sync wirelessly, but like stock as a player.

Found out the AAC music files are the ones that are not getting tagged properly. I'm thinking of converting them to MP3 which will be a long process.
Is their an easier way to tag the songs so that they get recognized?

did anyone further forward with this? I've got m4a files. I transcoded all of them to mp3 and still the artist showed as unknown.
Is it an ID tag version issue as the earlier poster said?

Zaphod_b_1 said:
Do you use MP3 files? Then this could be an issue with the ID3 Tag. You can solve it in two ways:
1) only using ID3 V1 Tags
2) using ID3 V2.3 Tags with ISO-8859-1 Charakter Set. Android seems to have problems with UTF-8/16 and ID3 V2.4
Cheers
Zap
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I updated my tags (option 2 above, maybe I'll have more time to try option 1 tomorrow) like you recommended but the default player and Songbird both do not recognise the Artist... :-(

Beckim said:
You have to move your multimedia files to phon memory and it will work fine. It doesent work if your multimediafile´s are in extern sd card.
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Whats the point in having the external card?? Surly media files is exactly the sort of thing you would want to put on an external SD.

I have my music files on my external sdcard. I synced with iTunemywalkman, the key is to code them (Playlists tab) NOT in UTF-8 but Western European (ISO Latin-1).
I created a Samsung/music/ folder on my external sdcard and the built-in player as well as Songbird player are working fine.

Might be worth trying mediafix by gorgonloop
Its on the market, it's free and it worked for me (Itunes .mpa files not showing artist and using folder name as album name, etc.)

Try MediaFix from the market.It fix almost 90% of the m4a issues(unknown artiste).

[Q] Music loaded from PC via USB won't play

As the name suggests, I'm having some issues with audio playback on my new Iconia. I transferred all my music from my HTC Evo, to my PC, then to the Iconia using Acer's downloadable drivers. If I open the folder via a market downloaded file explorer...I have no issues. It is when I try to play the files in absolutely anything else that I get errors. Just FYI, the files are a mix of .mp3 and .wma files. Any thoughts?
Chlballi
Edit: I'm using File Explorer HD, and only the .mp3 files are playing within the explorer...the .wma files prompt for an app and fail

you can use windows media player to sync music

As far as I know, the WMA format isn't supported in Honeycomb natively.

I had the same problem but its was with google music. I tried power amp from the market and all my music plays fine now. And all my files are wma.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock

i ended up doing something similar with MortPlayer--still wish it would've worked with Google Music...I was realling digging the UI of that one. Oh well, at least my music plays now. If anyone ends up with a thought or a workaround for the native Iconia app, keep us posted here. I'd love to see a device where all of the stock software worked as it was intended!
Chlballi

Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi

chlballi said:
Has anyone tried to sync music to our Acer's using Windows Media Player? If that can be used to send all the music to the device AND be able to use the default app...I'd be in good shape.
Chlballi
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Yes. I did mention WMP above.
But I only did sync MP3 files, not WMA files. So I don't know about WMA part. MP3 is recognized and played flawlessly using stock music player.
Another note, if your music info (ID3 Tags) is not in English, make sure you have proper character encoding before syncing. Otherwise, they will be displayed as garbage. I think all ID3 Tags should be converted to UTF8, not sure, just used Foobar2000 to fix all my Japanese-title music.

After exchanging my first Iconia to BB for some other issues, I did as you mentioned with using the tablet as an external mp3 player in WMP and everything worked flawlessly! Thanks I also found a great .apk to be able to mount my NTFS HDDs to the tab without issue. So I'm in great shape now!
Chlballi

I tried an experiment with the music -- after syncing the music to my tablet using WMP, I noticed that it placed all of the files into the music folder within the root sdcard (internal memory) and google music pp worked great. I moved all the files from that folder to a folder created on the external_SD, and the app fails like before. Apparently the Music app that comes with our Iconias cannot see anything outside of its native internal memory
Chlballi