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.
Dae
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?
Nghtngl said:
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?
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hey guys. im seriously considering getting one of these phones. but i gotta know - does the music playback skip, lag or breakup of sound every 5 minutes or so? this was a horrendus problem that still exists to this day on my touch diamond and no matter what i did i couldn't fix it. i noticed it on my Xperia as well but it is much less pronounced and i'm actually ok with it. would like to hear from anyone who listens to music on their TP2, especially from owners who have / had a touch diamond and/or Xperia for comparisons sake.
Ive tested many applications for listening to music and on none of them i had any trouble with lagging or breaking up.. I now use coreplayer and playback is awesome. So i think you should go for it
Um... I know this might sound stupid, but ...... have you tried another pair of headphones ?
I have never had even a single brake up, lagg or w/e while listening to music on my Xperia and never had any issues with the TP2 either. I have used the Touch Pro 2 for 2 full days so far (it is not mine) and a lot of on and off use, but I was listening to a lot of music both of those days and never had any problems. As thecompany said, playback is awesome .
What player are you using? Try:
Mort Player
Pocket Music
Pocket Player
S2P Player
thanks guys, that's is pretty much what i wanted to hear.
@ orelsi
lol it's not my earphones. i have 4 or 5 pairs of em here and its the same with all of them, i should have been a bit more specific in my OP: this problem with music stuttering / lagging was really BAD on my touch diamond, not so much the Xperia. nothing fixed it including trying diffrent players, different roms both stock and cooked. different earphones (lol), moving music from internal storage to phone's memory, disabling touchflo3d, i could go on and on with what i tried but none of them worked. do a search here on diamond mp3 lag and you'll know what im talking about. The only thing i did not try was with my bluetooth headphones. but I am not in love with the idea of that, A2DP degrades audio quality and bluetooth is just another hit on the devices battery life.
After trying it again tonight i can hardly notice it at all on my Xperia, to a point it doesnt bother me at all unlike the diamond. I use Coreplayer v1.30 on both phones since HTC's Audio Manager sucks and refuses to play music downloaded from iTunes (DRM Free at that) and the same story with the Media Panel on the Xperia.
I think im still gonna go for the Rhodium anyways. droool @ that nice big screen.
no lags at all .. tested BT headsets from Anycom and Sony
but I got question realted the music .. where should I store the the music or playsist so that I got them at hend when using Winamp or the HTC deliverd soft?
I am tired of maunally chosing again and again and again from storage ...
thx
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thanks guys, that's is pretty much what i wanted to hear.
@ orelsi
lol it's not my earphones. i have 4 or 5 pairs of em here and its the same with all of them, i should have been a bit more specific in my OP: this problem with music stuttering / lagging was really BAD on my touch diamond, not so much the Xperia. nothing fixed it including trying diffrent players, different roms both stock and cooked. different earphones (lol), moving music from internal storage to phone's memory, disabling touchflo3d, i could go on and on with what i tried but none of them worked. do a search here on diamond mp3 lag and you'll know what im talking about. The only thing i did not try was with my bluetooth headphones. but I am not in love with the idea of that, A2DP degrades audio quality and bluetooth is just another hit on the devices battery life.
After trying it again tonight i can hardly notice it at all on my Xperia, to a point it doesnt bother me at all unlike the diamond. I use Coreplayer v1.30 on both phones since HTC's Audio Manager sucks and refuses to play music downloaded from iTunes (DRM Free at that) and the same story with the Media Panel on the Xperia.
I think im still gonna go for the Rhodium anyways. droool @ that nice big screen.
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Don't know if it was ever mentioned on the Diamond forum, but did you ever tweak the storage settings to see if changing timings and cache settings improved things?
Were they high bitrate files?
Cheers,
Beasty
Sorry for the new thread, I've tried posting this question in another thread with no answer. I also (first thing I did) tried searching for my problem all over these forums and the web, with no real findings.
I'm having a huge problem with TF3D's music panel. Everytime I click to play a track, it plays about 3-5 seconds of the track, then just stops. All softkeys still work, and if I try pausing/playing, it repeats. All tracks I've tried. It also doesn't list all the music (all music stored on microSD under same folder). All the songs play fine under WMP on the phone (as well as all other devices obviously). Any help???
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Sorry for the new thread, I've tried posting this question in another thread with no answer. I also (first thing I did) tried searching for my problem all over these forums and the web, with no real findings.
I'm having a huge problem with TF3D's music panel. Everytime I click to play a track, it plays about 3-5 seconds of the track, then just stops. All softkeys still work, and if I try pausing/playing, it repeats. All tracks I've tried. It also doesn't list all the music (all music stored on microSD under same folder). All the songs play fine under WMP on the phone (as well as all other devices obviously). Any help???
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dont worry your not the only one im experiencing the problem too man
wow that's very weird i'm using the photon rom and i'm listening to my music right now. it has all of my songs and it plays the full length.
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wow that's very weird i'm using the photon rom and i'm listening to my music right now. it has all of my songs and it plays the full length.
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Are your files on the microSD card (I'm assuming so, just want to verify). What type of files are they (.wma .mp3 .aac etc) maybe we can narrow this down. I'm recently liberated from iTunes, so a lot of my files are in aac (drm-free) format, so maybe I have to convert straight to mp3????
Sounds very strange, I think the reason not many people have replied is that they dont experience this issue.
I have played music on my unbranded TP2 with the stock rom and then many custom roms all without any problem.
Sorry I know that doesnt help you...
I am playing mp3's from the memory card.
Have you tried to copy the file to the internal memory and play it from there? Perhaps you memorycard is too slow?
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Are your files on the microSD card (I'm assuming so, just want to verify). What type of files are they (.wma .mp3 .aac etc) maybe we can narrow this down. I'm recently liberated from iTunes, so a lot of my files are in aac (drm-free) format, so maybe I have to convert straight to mp3????
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yeah they are on my micro sd. they are mp3 i would post a ringtone but i only have spanish music lol
The issue I'm having is that not all my mp3's (which are all in the same directory on the SD card) are showing up, only about 15 of the 50 mp3's I have show.
Everything shows fine in the Windows Media Player though. Just not the TF3D interface
I'm starting to think it may be the fact that my music is AAC format....ugh...that's just way too much converting.......
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The issue I'm having is that not all my mp3's (which are all in the same directory on the SD card) are showing up, only about 15 of the 50 mp3's I have show.
Everything shows fine in the Windows Media Player though. Just not the TF3D interface
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i wish i really knew what's going on there. i have 140 mp3 songs and it shows them all :/ the only thing that sucks for me is that it's displaying the same album cover for all artist.
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i wish i really knew what's going on there. i have 140 mp3 songs and it shows them all :/ the only thing that sucks for me is that it's displaying the same album cover for all artist.
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Funny, I get the different album covers for different artists!
Anyhow, I'm going to delete all the SD card files, and edit the various ID tags and see if thats the issue. I think it may be that they are being read incorrectly.
I had this issue when using the Leo build from NRG, only played a few seconds of song for me and sometimes it would just freeze and not play anything. Im using Photon now and all music plays fine
Hello, long time WFS owner, first time poster on this site.
Ever since I've owned the Wildfire, I've been rather perplexed by the music it gives me. The sound quality itself seems decent, but the controls are... odd. Almost every time I press play the music starts, then after around 3 seconds there's a notable pause, before it starts up again. It's not a big deal, but it makes me wonder whether this is a normal thing on this handheld, or if it's a problem with the SD card I'm using. I managed to get a 32GB class 10 micro SD on sale, so I hope nothing's wrong with it. It doesn't seem to miss-handle any other files I put on it (except for some pictures that turn all black sometimes...)
I tried to use some alternatives like Player Pro or Power Amp, but these actually made the problem far worse or introduced all sorts of new bugs. On P.P. instead of a gap of silence at 3 seconds I get this high-pitched screech. Once the music starts playing it's OK, it doesn't do it at the beginning of every song, just occasionally (and certainly more often than I would like) when I hit the play button and start the music. Another thing both P.P. and P.A. suffer from is buggy lock screens and buggy screen rotations. I remember both crashing a lot while music was playing when all I would do is turn the phone on it's side.
Has anyone else noticed problems like this?
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Hello, long time WFS owner, first time poster on this site.
Ever since I've owned the Wildfire, I've been rather perplexed by the music it gives me. The sound quality itself seems decent, but the controls are... odd. Almost every time I press play the music starts, then after around 3 seconds there's a notable pause, before it starts up again. It's not a big deal, but it makes me wonder whether this is a normal thing on this handheld, or if it's a problem with the SD card I'm using. I managed to get a 32GB class 10 micro SD on sale, so I hope nothing's wrong with it. It doesn't seem to miss-handle any other files I put on it (except for some pictures that turn all black sometimes...)
I tried to use some alternatives like Player Pro or Power Amp, but these actually made the problem far worse or introduced all sorts of new bugs. On P.P. instead of a gap of silence at 3 seconds I get this high-pitched screech. Once the music starts playing it's OK, it doesn't do it at the beginning of every song, just occasionally (and certainly more often than I would like) when I hit the play button and start the music. Another thing both P.P. and P.A. suffer from is buggy lock screens and buggy screen rotations. I remember both crashing a lot while music was playing when all I would do is turn the phone on it's side.
Has anyone else noticed problems like this?
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I have no problem with any music player,it must be something wrong with your card.I still use the 2 GB stock card.For the best sound quality use PowerAMP,much better than stock player.And also better headset would be recomended.
i use poweramp and have no problems.
also, if you change the settings to "no fading" under the audio engine settings, change buffer size to "huge(+750ms)", and keep audio priority at "+2", you can get gapless playback on standard mp3 files most of the time....occassionally you'll still get that slight blip between tracks, but it's way better than anything else i've tried without having to re-rip everything to a totally different format. (p.s. don't set it to "crossfade" or "cut silence", as i've found this makes it worse for some reason).
i used to hear what i think you're describing as a "screech" sound, i think it sounds more like you can hear the processor working between loading songs or something, but to be honest, i only ever heard it between really quiet song endings/beginnings and only on the stock headset,while listening in my totally silent room, at night...
currently using a cheap-as-chips smartphone headset adapter/mic connected to my KOSS pathfinder "plug" style headphones, using the EQ settings of PowerAmp, and it sounds amazing. The headphones bock out all outside noise, and give plenty of bass and still great mids and highs. to be honest, this is the best setup i've heard on a phone, if you need somethign better, you'd have to get a standalone mp3 player (and this sounds better than most of those, without going for somethign that's speficically designed for high quality audio, as opposed to some cheap and cheerful generic mp3).
No, it's not usual, you should uninstall your player and maybe download another one, if all your mp3 files have this problem then it mustn't be the music files.
And Set your phone back to factory spec is the last choice
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also, if you change the settings to "no fading" under the audio engine settings, change buffer size to "huge(+750ms)", and keep audio priority at "+2", you can get gapless playback on standard mp3 files most of the time....occassionally you'll still get that slight blip between tracks, but it's way better than anything else i've tried without having to re-rip everything to a totally different format. (p.s. don't set it to "crossfade" or "cut silence", as i've found this makes it worse for some reason).
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It's not really a gap problem, and I personally like gaps between my songs. I often listen to songs on shuffle and it can be a little distracting when it seamlessly switches from soft classical to System of a Down rocking hard, lol. But yeah, it's really: The song starts, enough of it playing that I can recognize which song it is, awkward 2-3 second pause of absolute silence, then it picks up again. Not every time I start enough, but it does it enough for me to consider it a recurring problem.
All I can do is go buy a new micro-SD card I guess... I lent the stock 2 GB one that came with the device to a friend, so I can't exactly use that. I swear, all these bugs, combined with the fact that this thing seems impossible to Root (I have a GSM model) makes me sorely tempted to crawl back to iOS for my next model. I just with the iPhones didn't have such puny screens...
My old wfs use to do the same thing, play music for 10 secounds or so and then stop, idk why it did that but that phone was a problem, everytime I hung up from a call the screen would turn off for 3 mins everytime and the touch screen never works, so some phones do it and dont...but I got a new one and I love it Works great
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom
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 agree with first answer..........
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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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Hi all,
I really enjoy listening to music a lot, and wanted to use my Desire as a MP3 player, so I don't have to drag my iPod around as well.
Now - I get _really_ disappointed with the quality of sound that comes out of that phone.
Be it net radio, last.fm or flac music on the SD card, I hear a lot of interference from the WLAN and 2g/3g network on the headphones (you know. bssssss / dak-a-dak-a-dak, brrrrr, depending on which connection I am on). Not very loud, but very disturbing if you are listening to low-volume music.
Do you suffer from the same problem? Did anyone find a solution to this?
(I found a few similar posts, but none really matching as they cover speaker/BT headsets)
I use my Desire to play mp3 and to listen FM and streaming radio and I've never heart any interference.
Maybe it's another device what is causing the noise?
I also use my phone to listen to music / podcast and never noticed any interferences.
Did you check your headset cable (I've noticed it's the biggest unwanted noise generator when listening to music on the go) ?
Well - partly it is indeed my headset cable.
Although I am using Sennheiser cx150, which sound quality is really good in my opinion, it seems that the cable is very poorly shielded.
So I tried with various other earphones, and the interference is less. Still not gone, which still annoys me, but less.
Oh well, i gonna spend another bunch of money for new headphones until I get a new phone :-(
Thanks, all.