Just been syncing some music to my TP2 and, rather annoyingly, the HTC music player will not play in track number order!!
If I use windows media player, the tracks play in their correct order.
Anyone else seen this - or got a solution??
Are you using .m4a (AAC) files from iTunes? If so, my Touch Pro (raphael) does exactly the same thing. I find it so annoying too. Real shame to hear that HTC still can't even get this one simple thing right. Search the forums, there are various posts about it here and there, though as yet I don't think anyone has worked out a way around the problem - do have a look for yourself though as I gave up searching a few months ago ; )
If you use MP3 files, they will appear in track order...
Come on HTC - this is terrible!
My source music is wma lossless, and the sync process transcodes it into 192K WMA files on the phone.
Can`t believe this is a long standing bug!! V poor!!
just disavble any crappy "transcoding" in activesync - you don't need it.
AlCapone said:
just disavble any crappy "transcoding" in activesync - you don't need it.
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I cant do that - my source files are *lossless* - that means file sizes of around 40mb per track!!!!
scoob101 said:
Just been syncing some music to my TP2 and, rather annoyingly, the HTC music player will not play in track number order!!
If I use windows media player, the tracks play in their correct order.
Anyone else seen this - or got a solution??
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I have the same problem. I'm use the same songs from my fuze and the fuze loaded them right
anyone found a fix for this yet?
My source files are also lossless wma and the sync transcodes them to 128kb/s wma and I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to convince some HTC tech support guy that this is actually happening. I'm about ready to pull my hair out, this guy will not admit even the possibility of this happening. He keeps coming up with yet another thing to try or another reason that it is my fault.
I'm OK with the occasional bug in SW. Just as long as the company acknowledges it and works to fix it but when they go to this much trouble to avoid even acknowledging it ...
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i had been looking for a fix to this issue for a very long time, until i found out that the problem is caused (in my case) by
1) windows media player not saving the track numbers correctly into the files
2) touch flow only looking in the "right" place for the track information, which is not the place where wm player stores it
my solution:
1) download mp3tag (freeware app)
2) put all tracks of album you want to fix into the program
3) select all tracks and re-save the tag information (you don't have to change anything, the program just saves the information that is in the audio file "somewhere" into the right place)
4) place the fixed files on your phone again
easy fix....use coreplayer
I never liked the way WMP or the native media player handled files, etc. Coreplayer has been such a better experience!
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I have my music on my storage card in (dun dun dunnnn) My Documents\My Music. Each artist has a folder and in those folders are the albums. In the albums I have cover art. Not all of it is showing when the songs are played....what's up with that?
Oh and I do so love lumping to inquiries into one thread so here goes! I cannot beam using this ROM. My fiancee has a Dash at the T-Mobile (USA) standard ROM. I wanted to beam calendar appointments between the phone but the two cannot see each other unless Bluetooth is on and even then "beaming" fails. I noticed that her phone has "Beam" in the Connections Manager whereas my phone does not...
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I have my music on my storage card in (dun dun dunnnn) My Documents\My Music. Each artist has a folder and in those folders are the albums. In the albums I have cover art. Not all of it is showing when the songs are played....what's up with that?
Oh and I do so love lumping to inquiries into one thread so here goes! I cannot beam using this ROM. My fiancee has a Dash at the T-Mobile (USA) standard ROM. I wanted to beam calendar appointments between the phone but the two cannot see each other unless Bluetooth is on and even then "beaming" fails. I noticed that her phone has "Beam" in the Connections Manager whereas my phone does not...
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1. Could be due the album art not being in the song, not sure ghow it reads but think they need to be id3 taged with album art "Someone will have better answer than me as it doesn't bother me but know that the ones of mine that show have been id3 taged with album art"
2. Does she have the allow incoming beams activated, different than having the device visible..
1. Album art should be in the format COVER.JPG then nearly all media players will display it (wm media player sometimes does not show art due to it being complete crap)
2. Beam is simply bluetooth. Both units have to have bluetooth on and be set to allow incoming files.
OK cool. Thanks for the answers. Bluetooth was on for both phones at the time. I looked through the settings and didn't see anything that would amount to being visible but not allowing incoming data so I will look again. It's not too much of an issue. She keeps me updated anyway.
1.How do i backup the playlist created using HTC Audio Manager...
2. What is the easiest way to create a plylist for audio manager.. i know we can use WMP's playlist but some playlist just does not show up ...
I'd love to know this as well.
Most of the "answers" I've seen take the form of "just use [some other audio player]." I like the music tab and HTC Audio Manager just fine and don't really want to install something else.
The biggest problem is that I have several extensive playlists that I need to transfer from my 6.1 ROM to the new 6.5 one. Simply copying the AudioManager_Eng.vol seems to work in that the playlists show up. However, nothing will actually play (whether from a playlist or All Music or whatever). It works fine if the manager searches for and finds all the music files as is normal with a hard reset, but that means I have to build the playlists from scratch.
It would be really great if there were some way to backup/restore or export/import HTC Audio Manager playlists.
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1.How do i backup the playlist created using HTC Audio Manager...
2. What is the easiest way to create a plylist for audio manager.. i know we can use WMP's playlist but some playlist just does not show up ...
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I need to know this as well. Having had a problem recently with Sprite Backup after flashing a new ROM, I lost all my playlists. As I have well over 10gb of music on the SD card, it has been a very painful process recreating them.
I now want a way of saving them to avoid the same problem in future.
Any ideas where they are stored, or how to back them up? Please?
TA-DAAA
Playlist Manager app for Windows Mobile
http://mobisapienz.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=82&task=view.download&cid=52
OK, honestly I haven't tried it yet, someone give it a whirl and let us know how it goes...Ill try it later today too
HTC audio manager / playlists
Yes, the playlistmanager (playlistmgr-v0.7.7.1.cab) works. Its a solution for an annoying problem.
Be sure to save the playlist in the tab "HTC audio-manager" and after saving a soft reset is necessary.The Audiomanager scans and finds the playlist then.
Mediaplayer playlists (asx) are also recognized but the playlist stays empty and there's no playback.
According posts in a lot of fora the problems with the HTC Audio Manager occurs on many models and already last a very long while.
Its customer disdain to neglect that. Mind.....reputation comes by foot and leaves by horse
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Yes, the playlistmanager (playlistmgr-v0.7.7.1.cab) works. Its a solution for an annoying problem.
Be sure to save the playlist in the tab "HTC audio-manager" and after saving a soft reset is necessary.The Audiomanager scans and finds the playlist then.
Mediaplayer playlists (asx) are also recognized but the playlist stays empty and there's no playback.
According posts in a lot of fora the problems with the HTC Audio Manager occurs on many models and already last a very long while.
Its customer disdain to neglect that. Mind.....reputation comes by foot and leaves by horse
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I tried this, but it doesn't find any Playlists created within HTC Audio Manager - has anyone else go this to work? Or has anyone found a way of finding / amending / copying playlists generated in HTC Audio Manager?
Just wanted to get a feel how different users add music to their tp2. Personally, I use the drag-n-drop method to copy mp3's from my laptop to my tp2, simply because it's infinitely faster than syncing files.
It seems my preferred method makes using the touch-flo (sense) music tab obsolete, as it doesn't seem to properly recognize the files, so I use wmp. I know I'm in the minority, but I love wmp.
Anyway, how do you get your tunes on your phone...???
Drag and Drop
But...occasionally my album art won't show up, and I have to sync an album, which takes forever and a day.
Ive always been keen on drag and dropping using folders. I might be old school or whatever but syncing and other setups just annoy me and get in my way.
On a different note though I wish the media player could sort by album artist and not just song artist.
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I do drag and drop as well, but I actually just stream alot of my music because I only have an 8GIG memory card, and I have 250 on my server (my computer) so, i use WMP, but drag n drop is the way to go!
I have 7gb of music on my tp2 and i have never plugged my tp2 to a computer. i always download my albums directly to my tp2. i dont have a problem with my music tab or album art.
puff601 said:
I have 7gb of music on my tp2 and i have never plugged my tp2 to a computer. i always download my albums directly to my tp2. i dont have a problem with my music tab or album art.
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where do you download from...???
i just updated my wp7 phone to the official version of mango! only problem is zune player now refuses to download any artist wallpaper for the now playing screen and won't launch the smart dj function. the now playing screen just shows the album art and a black background. i know its not the music either since i've got the same songs on here that i had on nodo and it was working then.
any ideas on how to get the background artist wallpaper and the smart dj function working again? i've tried powering it off and powering it back on, system resetting, nothing is working.
running mango on dell venue pro, transferring music via windows phone 7 connector for mac
goto settings, applications then select music+videos and make sure all those options are checked then goto settings>system>lock+wallpaper and set show artist when playing music. that should work
I guess he lives in an area where Zune Pass is not available, so none of this will work. Have the same problem since Mango...
yea all of the boxes are checked under settings and i live in the US so i know it should work. it worked before under nodo.
is it because im syncing via windows phone 7 connector for mac and not the official pc zune client? pretty sure i used that for nodo too and it worked...
Same prob. Now i was getting art and smart dj for my AC DC songs, but none for anything else.
HELPP?
You guys need to have your Zune PLayer 'Metadata' ON for it...
(On the PC that is...)
Same issue here, it was fine until 3-4 weeks ago and now I get nothing (and yes the settings are correct on the PC and the phone).
On my Zune HD it's all fine but then again it has always been better than on the phone.
Same problem for me. I've only just got a HTC Titan, running the latest version of Mango and neither the Artist Art or Smart DJ Mix are working. I'm in the UK, and i've even started the 14 day free trial of Zune pass in an effort to see if that would work (it didn't). I've also tried removing all content from the phone and syncing again. I'm doing this with my Mac using Windows Phone 7 Connector and iTunes. I've also tried it with a spare HTC HD7S and have the same problems.
This is reallly bugging me!
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I have the same problem, no background "artist art" is displayed, neither smart DJ works. Some facts:
- I live in he UK, so Zune marketplace is available.
- The background appears if I play the 30 sec samples in Zune marketplace (always)
- I managed to have the background appearing only on one album of those I have saved in mp3 (Xylo Myloto of Coldplay). No idea why/how just this one.
- The same behaviour happens in Zune for PC: the artist background only appears when I play the samples in the marketplace, or that Coldplay album. For all the others, I have the generic background.
- My mp3 are properly tagged, the information was taken using the "find album info" function in Zune, and I chacked visually for some tracks that album, artist, album artist, title match. But no luck.
Any other insight into this? It's very frustrating!
maTTeo
*** Update ***
Using Zune Social Tagger (https://github.com/leetreveil/Zune-Social-Tagger/downloads) worked for me. It seems to me that the tag information that you can retrieve through Zune ("Find album info") does not match with the albums on the Zune marketplace. Zune Social Tagger fixes these tags, and maybe does something else, I don't know. Anyway, it solved!
Not solved
That's not the issue, I've been using Zune Social Tagger for a year, all my songs are tagged. Like I said it used to work fine until 3-4 weeks ago and stopped working suddenly for no apparent reason.
In addition I have a Zune HD to compare and everything is fine on it so I'm positive the songs are properly tagged, it's an issue with the phone OS.
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That's not the issue, I've been using Zune Social Tagger for a year, all my songs are tagged. Like I said it used to work fine until 3-4 weeks ago and stopped working suddenly for no apparent reason.
In addition I have a Zune HD to compare and everything is fine on it so I'm positive the songs are properly tagged, it's an issue with the phone OS.
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I hope this is the case so there may be hope with an update.
I've now tried copying some albums (various albums from Alicia Keys, Coldplay and Common) over to my work laptop running windows 7. Installed Zune Software and I tried a combination of finding album info on some albums and leaving some alone. I then synced with my HTC HD7S and still no cigar. Strangely, if i select Common from the artist list on the phone, it'll show the artist background while still on the albums list but then once I select a song to play, there's no artist art.
I'm inclined to agree that this is a bug.
I have the exact same problem on my Dell Venue Pro on Mango, my thinking is that it could be something to do with me having used a US Zune account in the past for my Zune HD and in doing so has messed up all the metadata on all of my music. I've tried all the suggestions in this thread and nothing has worked, so I guess I'm just going to have to wait for someone to stumble upon a clever fix or an update.
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I have the exact same problem on my Dell Venue Pro on Mango, my thinking is that it could be something to do with me having used a US Zune account in the past for my Zune HD and in doing so has messed up all the metadata on all of my music. I've tried all the suggestions in this thread and nothing has worked, so I guess I'm just going to have to wait for someone to stumble upon a clever fix or an update.
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I don't think that's the issue, as I've not used a US Zune account and it doesn't work for me either. I've tried using the live chat on MS support site, they were useless!
If your phone is interopunlocked you can try this tool I made to add backgrounds from last.fm to your artists:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377210&page=4
I push fodlers to my SD card currently but there are times when it splits songs/albums for seemingly no apparent reason. Like the album A Deathgrip On Yesterday is split into two albums. Track 1,2,3,4,6,7,8 and then Track 5 is on a seperate album.
Is there a cure for this or is it something Im just going to have to live wiht? Most of my audio files are from thepiratebay and I just unzip with utorrent and push the files i want to my card
You can edit the mp3 tags to fix that, if it's what I think it is...