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I recently put a few .mp3 ringtones on my memory card and assigned them to various contacts. However, when they play, they seem to be playing at 110% speed rather than 100%. They are slightly faster than normal playing speed.
Is anyone else having this problem?
I have the Core Media player installed and I know that you can *slow down* the speed at which music files play. However, I cannot adjust the speed when they are assigned to ringtones and/or when they are playing in WMP.
Oddly enough, when I play the songs using WMP through my bluetooth device, they sound just fine. They only sound bad when playing on the Dash through the speaker.
Ideas?
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Hi everyone,
I recently ordered my Desire, but I was kinda wondering about the volume being low over headset. I plan on using my phone as an MP3 player daily, so it would be a BIG bummer if that's not possible. Can anyone tell me how their experience with music over the headset is?
Thanks.
For me, it's been good, its played all my itunes mp3s and put all the artwork on, and grouped them correctly in albums, group etc.
I don't know what everyone is on about, the phone is louder than the G1 (with the G1 loud hack applied) and louder than a Sony Ericsson K850i when playing music.
Yeh the speakers are great for me definitely better than other phones I've heard.
Works perfectly for me, it has replaced my iPod touch.
I've only noticed 2 issues with MP3 playback, but they're unlikely to affect you.
I listen to Podcasts in a Spanish (a foreign language to me) which have a transcript in the MP3 lyrics tag - useful in case you don't quite catch something. The iPhone/iPod display these perfectly but the HTC Desire doesn't.
I also have some music in Spanish which are tagged as such in the Genre field. This is so when the wife is browsing it's easy to identify them. The Desire only seems to identify "standard" genres in the MP3 tags. Anything with a genre of "Spanish" is showing up as "unknown Genre".
The headphone playback is slightly lower than my iPhone, but still adequate. The only time I've noticed it to be an issue is at night. I listen to podcasts with one of those speakers that goes under your pillow. The wife sometimes complained with the iPhone that she could hear it, whereas with the Desire I sometimes struggle to hear it even at full volume. It's like it's almost loud enough, but not quite - maybe about 95% of the iPhone volume.
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It sounds just as good as my ipod through my igrados, the stock headphones aren't up to much.
When ripping music from CDs to my computer, WMP automatically creates folders for each Artist and Album.
When I copy these music files to Desire's SD card (I'm still waiting for Desire to arrive), can I copy the whole set of folders directly to SD card's "Music" directory (i.e. will Desire find the mp3-files even if they are located in several different folders) or would it be better to copy all mp3s into a single folder?
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When ripping music from CDs to my computer, WMP automatically creates folders for each Artist and Album.
When I copy these music files to Desire's SD card (I'm still waiting for Desire to arrive), can I copy the whole set of folders directly to SD card's "Music" directory (i.e. will Desire find the mp3-files even if they are located in several different folders) or would it be better to copy all mp3s into a single folder?
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It's fine - just copy all your folders to a folder called MP3 and the music player will pick it up automatically. MP3 will be at the root of your sd card and your folders will be underneath that. Works like a charm - also consider downloading Mortplayer (thread in the Android Apps section in the general section) - I dunno why but it sounds better than the HTC player, and music is generally as good as my iPhone and in some cases a touch better....
Thanks fuzzmo! It's such a relief to know that the usual "move from folders to the root" operation is not needed (as is the case with my ancient mp3 player) as there are several GBs of music to be copied. I'll definitely check out Mortplayer, too!
Just wanted to know if the iphone headphone mic works with the desire? I have one for 100USD sienheisser and wanted to keep using it. It is the normal 3.5mm plug with mic on the wire.
can anybody compare the sound with the SE X1, X2 and X10 ?
It depends what you mean by loud. If you want to use it on the London Tube you will not find it as loud as a lot of MP3 players. Of course these players are almost certainly damaging the hearing of the users!
It sounds loud enough to me but is unlikely to damage your hearing. Those who don't care about their hearing or their fellow passengers will not find it loud enough!
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can anybody compare the sound with the SE X1, X2 and X10 ?
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Better than X1 and X2, exactly equal to the excellent X10 sound quality in all areas except it has a louder output (check the GSMarena review, they use topnotch measurement tools, and its completely objective).
I mainly use mine as a mp3 player in the car bluetoothed via my handsfree kit. Ive tried different player apps, which ones do people use. Ive tried cubed (looked nice but with 8GB of music rather slow to find what i wanted) at the moment im using mixzing as I like the widget and its easy to use. What other ones are out there I can try?
yesterday sound was awesome screen on or off. i did the update this morning just for hah's. now my music crackles occasionally after screen goes off. anyway to uninstall update so i can verify?
i think i may have fixed my problem. google music was fine. in poweramp i unticked "high priority" in settings and the crackling seems to have disappeared. weird.
I had tried changing every setting and couldn't get it back to normal until I wiped the app data which solved the problem.
if anybody having problems with the crackling i mentioned above with poweramp go into settings in advanced and audio engine and tweak your audio buffer to huge or large. auto i guess doesn't allow a big enough buffer and creates the problems with sound. google music plays fine.
my regular sound notifications crackle when the screen is off...not even playing music.
I haven't seen this issue at all.
There are a few threads about this with more info. Definitely 48KHz sample rate mp3 don't work well when in low power mode (screen off), only 44.1KHz. Seems some people have found various ways of stopping it. One is turning on the eq in music, another the buffer size in power amp.
Google needs to root out the problem. I was hoping 4.0.2 or 4.0.3 would have a fix for everyone. I personally have not seen it happen outside of someone sending me a 48KHz sample rate mp3.
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I have an issue where offline Google Music flac files will suffer from this distortion when the screen is off. It happens to most of my flac files, and to none of my mp3 files.
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I have an issue where offline Google Music flac files will suffer from this distortion when the screen is off. It happens to most of my flac files, and to none of my mp3 files.
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I experienced this problem even when playing Youtube vids... I am just testing it now.
Video and sound would crack and pop for brief periods seemingly at random when playing songs in various players - I thought at first that I had a bad wire in the headphones, but it happened without headphones as well.
I never had this problem before and I installed 4.1.1 update a few days ago.
I just uninstalled a media app (don't remember the name now haha - but it's similar to imedia share) and did a cold reboot (removed battery) and I have now been testing for 15 minutes, and so far no problems with MP3 players or Youtube.
Honestly - I think it may have been an app running in the background - so try uninstalling media apps and do a cold reboot.
I still LOVE this phone!
It could just be my phone, but has anyone noticed their music sounding like it have really really small breaks in the sound, almost like the music is crackling? I've even found this when listening to my Sirius Satellite Radio app.
Though I may have found a fix, at least for the music. Originally my music was 320bit and i had just copied a few songs to my GN. When I started to listen to the music i would get crackling like sound or where the music would have almost a stuttering factor. Well i was getting annoyed enough with the crackling I almost went back to my MP3 player. Though I decided to try it one last time but i wanted my entire playlist. Now my playlist was about 200 songs and across many directories so I wasn't going to try search the whole thing for individual songs. Using winamp I copied them all into one directory, unfortunately when Winamp does this it converts them all back down to wav files so I had to reconvert them.
My software for converting back to MP3 is older and only able to convert up to 256bit. I was thinking it was going to be just as annoying, but low and behold my music plays without a glitch, or crackle or break or what ever.
It's almost like the phone can't handle the higher quality of music. Now again this could just be me so I thought I would ask. Unfortunately my Sirius Satellite Radio app still crackles.
Anyone else find this?
also if u have used an app like volume+ to increase your speaker volume, or modify your volume that could be the issue
Good thought, though i never actually got around to installing the app so we can eliminate that as a cause.
Oh no, lossy to lossy transcoding! Those poor files.
I haven't had any issues playing 320kbps MP3 CBR or MP3 V0. If anything they sound better than on my old iPhone 3GS, especially with DSPManager.
Do they play without any distortion on your PC? Are you using the same headphones?
Perhaps playing around with the equaliser settings in DSPManager would improve the output.
Have had the same problem but only with one album so far, it is 320bit but I also have other albums at 320bits that play ok. Strangely the problem doesn't occur if the screen is on!
Give me to this weekend and let me hoot the phone up to my input on my PC maybe i can let you all hear what I hear.
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I would agree too if I had actually installed volume+
I don't think it's to do with the bit rate as such but the encoder, or at least the encoding settings, that you used. Almost all my mp3 are in 320 kbps, CBR and VBR, and they all play fine.
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the phone seems to clip a lot when the volume is at the top two levels. sounds bad. setting it to 3rd highest level or less makes it sound normal and smooth
Not sure if they fixed this with 4.0.3 yet, but it's a known issue that any SAMPLE RATE (not bit rate) other than 44.1KHz can cause stuttering when the phone is in screen-off low power mode. Some EQs that cause the cpu to work have been known to fix it. Also changing the buffer size in PowerAmp has also I think. There are a few threads about it. I have recreated it with another persons 48KHz sample rate mp3. All mine are 44.1KHz and I've never had a problem with any of them, they all sound fantastic.
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WHY when i listen to Music Whilst Playing Games the volume to my Music goes down??
Its annoying is there way to stop this, i've tried turning down all sounds from game but it still happenes.
please help its annoying.
thanks trimbal.
Probably has something to do with the sound API for the music player. There might be a setting in your music player to not lower the volume when other sounds play over the speaker.
It's meant to be useful like when you're listening to music and a notification or your GPS has an announcement, the music lowers automatically so you can here it.
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Try turning off the game music and sound effects. Then close game, start music player and then start game.
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No none of that work...has any1 else had this problem? ?
and any other help.
thanks.
You need to troubleshoot. Try different music players. Pandora, Google play, different music players (loads to choose from).
Do they all do it?
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thanks for reply
Yeh it works with my dfx player pro...thanks
but its not as loud as built in players .
As title says, this is going to be a Chromecast Audio review from the point of view of a Squeezebox user. As such, it will mostly be comparing CCA and Squeezebox. I'm also hoping some other CCA users see this and might be able to chime in on some of the shortcomings I'm having with CCA.
Overall, I'm liking CCA better than Squeezebox. CCA sync is dead on, and I have 6 rooms going. My squeezebox setup was a mix of PC and android devices running various squeezebox player software, and the sync would always be off for the first few seconds of a song. Occasionally, audio would get out of sync and starting and stopping playback was necessary. I listen to a lot of podcasts, some of which I pay for, and Squeezebox doesn't support HTTPS for podcasts. CCA is so easy to use for podcasts, it's increased my already high amount of podcast listening by quite a bit. Another benefit of CCA and podcasts, since I'm using the same app I listen to podcasts with on my phone, playback is synced. I used to listen to part of a podcast in the car on the way home from work, then have to scrub through podcast on squeezebox to find the spot I was at. Not the largest inconvenience in the world, but it's nice that I don't have to do it any more.
Now on to the shortcomings of CCA. Two things that worked with Squeezebox that are important features to me were mixing local files with tracks from Spotify and Last.fm Scrobbling. I have a large music library and quite a bit of it isn't available on most streaming services. Google Music let's you upload your local library and stream it, so I'm trying to match the Spotify/Local file functionality this way. So far, it's working pretty well, but that leads to the scrobbling issues. If I play music from my phone, the app seems to time out and stop live tracking what is playing, thus the scrobbling app I have also starts to miss playing tracks. This happens even when the phone is plugged in to charge. As a work around, I'll play music from my PC using Google Play music on chrome with a chrome extension to scrobble. This works great, except now the only thing I can control with my phone is play/pause and volume. If I want to add tracks to playlist, change songs, etc, gotta walk over to the PC. With squeezebox, I could control the music with any device, and switch between devices doing the controlling with no issue.
There are programs, like Kodi and Emby, that have the ability to cast music. I'm pretty sure they also have plugins for Last.fm. So they would seem to solve scrobbling and controlling with multiple devices. I'm not 100% clear on whether they can play local files as well as tracks from Spotify or Google Music (or any other streaming service for that matter) on the same playlist. I think my next project is going to be setting up Kodi or Emby and seeing if I can get the functionality I want.
Another minor thing about CCA I'm not liking is that you can't control volumes until after playback is started. If I'm playing music in the evening before heading out with friends, I'll turn the volume up. Then in the morning, if I want to play something to get me moving, I have to hit play and then pause as fast as possible so my eardrums aren't blown out. I'm going to have to start teaching myself to turn down the volume when I stop playing music...
I have my personal music library on a NAS and play it all through BubbleUPnP App on a range of android devices. Best option I have found for anybody in the family being able to control all the music collection from any device.
I'm trying to match the Spotify o download music from insta-downloader.online l file functionality this way. So far, it's working pretty well, but that leads to the scrobbling issues. If I play music from my phone and I heard very nice in my app the music
Yeah this is App https://insta-downloader.online/ on a range of android devices, In my opinion is very nice