Well I'm trying to play AAC+ HE files on my Artemis but WMP just jumps to first .mp3 available in media library and ... I've tried PocketPlayer also, but it acted same way.. CorePlayer plays those files but often gets stuck for 1..1,5 seconds and makes me mad all the time...
Can anyone advice nice player for AAC+ HE files?
Thanks in advance!
This is my first WinMo Device, as an audiophile I have a lot of my music in FLAC format.
I've had to use CorePlayer to play my music files because the TF3D one doesn't support the codec. My only problem is I find the CorePlayer interface confusing at times (I can control everything, it's just there are often a lot of buttons which I have no idea what they're doing )
Is there any way of modding it so it plays FLAC through the TF3D player (the interface is so nice) I just wish it supported more codecs.
Cheers
Hello all,
I have a decent sized CD collection, most of it is encoded on my PC in FLAC format, still havent finished encoding it all up. I never use MP3 anymore and have only very few tracks through itunes.
Without wishing to re-encode over 100 CD's worth of music into MP3 and having two copies of my music on my hard drives, I am looking for an easy solution to playing FLAC on my Touch HD.
Not looking for anything fancy, just basic Play/Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind or even one that can be incorparated into the TF3D Music Player.
I am not averse to paying some money for a solution so suggestions do not have to be freeware only.
Search turned up very little useful information.
You can use pocketplayer from Conduits, or coreplayer mobile, both are commercial, not freeware:
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/
http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/69/
Hi,
I have all my music library encoded as eaac+ 48kbps parametric stereo as this allows me to fit my entire music library on my microsd card.
Been using my music collection on my HTC HD2 which i soon replaced with the Desire.
Thing is that after some of the tracks i've been listening to started sounding funny, i've investigated more on the issue to find out that the Android eaac+ encoder seems to be doing quite a bad job...
For example the .aac file i've attached sounds almost perfect on my laptop and HD2 (using the same hi quality Sennheiser headphones) but on the desire the low bass sounds are awful, it's just like someone is hitting on a broken drum.
Could someone please help me confirm this issue? Could you try playing the attached test .aac file on the htc desire and let me know if you encounter the same problem with it sounding awful? (Try also on a laptop with latest winamp to see the difference).
Thanks !
Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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That's funny, I contacted HTC support about playing .m4a files and the reply was, and I quote, "You can not play the m4a files by default on your device and you need to search over the Android market for a compatible application with your device to allow you play such files on your device."
I myself haven't been able to playback .m4a files with several music players, including the default HTC one and players downloaded from the market.
Is anyone actually able to play this file type?
SpaceGooner said:
Hi ubik,
All my digital audio files are also eaac+ at 48kbps, but are in .m4a containers, not .aac, but that shouldn't make any difference (By the way aac+ with parametric stereo = eaac+). As I'm about to buy a Desire, your post made me think that maybe the Desire doesn't support eaac+, only aac+. Iphones and ipods only support aac+, so eaac+ files come out in mono and sound rubbish on those devices. HTC's website doesn't confirm if the Desire plays eaac+ files, so I contacted HTC via their website, and they confirmed that the Desire supports these audio formats .wma, .aac, .m4a, .mp3, .mp4 and .wav files And these codecs WAV, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, M4A, MP3 and MP4. Therefore if it supports the eaac+ codec, you should get CD quality sound with your eaac+ files at 48kbps. Maybe you should ask HTC about this via their website.
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What i did is dump my eaac+ converted music library as it sounded bad on my Desire and it was really a lot of music that i did not listen to; being a lot of media files, the music player was very sluggish. I reordered my original mp3s and made a selection of music that i do listen.
I admit, this is not the solution to the problem (using mp3s instead of eaac+ and using less files because the player is sluggish) but it is a great phone overall and who knows what the future brings (Android 2.2 Froyo for example).
I'm not impressed with how google has failed to respond my bug report, but it's hard for me to find faults with this phone, after using the HTC HD2 i'm wondering how i could live with winmo's faults all this time
Hey,
I plan to buy a Desire, but this could be a dealbreaker for me:
Does this occur with AAC+ (e.g. HE-AACv1, without Parametric Stereo) as well? My whole music library is in that format!
It would be really great if somebody could confirm the situation. If you don't have access to any AAC+ files of your own, I uploaded one to drop.io/3q2r8b7/asset/desire-heaac-test-zip in MP3, AAC+ (HE-AAC v1) and eAAC+ (HE-AAC v2).
Thanks!
hi,
all three files sound ok on my desire (i can tell very little difference between them)
maybe you should try giving me something with more base sound (this is where i notices the problem)
you gave me symphonic music which has more of the high notes
ubik said:
hi,
all three files sound ok on my desire (i can tell very little difference between them)
maybe you should try giving me something with more base sound (this is where i notices the problem)
you gave me symphonic music which has more of the high notes
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Thank you very much for testing.
I've now uploaded another track with more bass in it: drop.io/3q2r8b7/asset/backleg-heaac-test-zip
Hi,
i've tried these three files on my desire and they sound just fine !
can you tell us the exact settings u've used for music encoding? we might be onto something here...
ubik said:
Hi,
i've tried these three files on my desire and they sound just fine !
can you tell us the exact settings u've used for music encoding? we might be onto something here...
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I've encoded them with the Nero AAC Codec, Version 1.5.4.0, with the command line parameters -br 32000 for the v2 one, and -br 48000 for the v1 (Nero autoselects the appropriate codec for the chosen bitrate that way).
Did you encode your 48kbps files to HE-AAC v2? That could be the cause of your problem; v2 uses Parametric Stereo, which can improve quality for very low bitrates (<32kbps); but for 48kbps you usually get better results with just using HE-AAC v1.
Be sure to use the newest version from www .nero.com/enu/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php, as the change log specifically mentions some fixed incompatibilities with some hardware devices.
my files for the most part are AAC in mp4 or m4a extensions.
done myself with belight and neros AAC encoder. haven't had any problems at all with the default player or meridian
p.s some are about 2-3 years old at least and still play fine. older ones are mp3 though
I had a similar problem with my Desire. Music sounded AWFUL. Lots of clicks and pops on drum sounds. I normalized the mp3s to 90% and it seems to have fixed it.
Since purchasing my TP2, I've labored under the belief (supported by a lot of other users) that xvid playback had to be choppy, and if I wanted smooth video (even encoded SD, 640x480ish), I had to convert my files to h264. I have an HTPC and compress all my shows into xvid, always have, and have no desire to change, so I basically abandoned watching video on my handset.
I was trying out a new tip today for better performance (muxing the same old files into an mp4 container without conversion) when my control file (same old avi/xvid to compare performance with) played absolutely perfectly. Not the hiccupy, choppy, 3-7fps I remember from when I first tried it, but smooth as silk. What the frak? I never even got around to trying my new tip out.
I grabbed an older file of the same show, also avi/xvid but WMP wouldn't open it and TCPMP played it at the 3-7FPS choppy unwatchable speed I remember from the old days. The only difference in the new file is that instead of using an mp3 audio track, I had stream copied the original AC3 audio track to deal with a sync issue I had with that particular recording. The video in both has the same xvid encoding by the same program with the same settings.
I'm preparing another test as I write to ensure that is the only difference between these two files. I'll take the same HD mpeg2, convert it into 1 xvid+mp3 and another xvid+ac3 with all other settings identical and compare their performance. I'll try mp2 audio as well (for my analog recordings). In the meantime, can anyone explain why mp3 audio would cause otherwise playable video of modest resolution to slow to a crawl?