Ok, so I've upgraded my ROM to try both Kavana's latest ROM, Rickywatt's v24 vanilla and v24 no opera ROM all with the same issues.
I purchased a Class-4 8GB micro-SDHC card, and loaded it up to almost full of music, and here are my symptoms:
- WMP will Play the music after 30-60 lag between clicks and songs.
- The HTC audio software won't even play a song. I get it into the library and it is incredibly slow. When I click a track to play it, the handheld practically locks.
- While a song is playing, the entire system is bogged down.
Here is what I've tried:
- I've tried putting all the music (3500 tracks) into a single "Music" folder on the card
- I've also tried putting all the music into individual folders by author which effectively reduces the amount of files in one single folder.
Any ideas? Has anyone else gotten a class 4 SDHC card of any size to work properly, or get an 8gb card to work without lagging down the system?
travis.garrison said:
Ok, so I've upgraded my ROM to try both Kavana's latest ROM, Rickywatt's v24 vanilla and v24 no opera ROM all with the same issues.
I purchased a Class-4 8GB micro-SDHC card, and loaded it up to almost full of music, and here are my symptoms:
- WMP will Play the music after 30-60 lag between clicks and songs.
- The HTC audio software won't even play a song. I get it into the library and it is incredibly slow. When I click a track to play it, the handheld practically locks.
- While a song is playing, the entire system is bogged down.
Here is what I've tried:
- I've tried putting all the music (3500 tracks) into a single "Music" folder on the card
- I've also tried putting all the music into individual folders by author which effectively reduces the amount of files in one single folder.
Any ideas? Has anyone else gotten a class 4 SDHC card of any size to work properly, or get an 8gb card to work without lagging down the system?
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All i can say is get a SanDisk not a generic.
Thanks for the input but this is a Kingston branded card. Kingston is a reputable company, and not generic in the least.
Does anyone have any advice besides "get a different card?"
My 2GB non-SDHC works fine without any lag... of course it's a smaller capacity.
travis.garrison said:
Thanks for the input but this is a Kingston branded card. Kingston is a reputable company, and not generic in the least.
Does anyone have any advice besides "get a different card?"
My 2GB non-SDHC works fine without any lag... of course it's a smaller capacity.
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Sorry just persumed that it was generic due to the problem.
Format your card to fat32.
Thanks for the suggestion on the formatting. Vista says that it's currently formatted into FAT32... It came that way from the factory, but I am thinking about reformatting it from my phone... perhaps it doesn't like the size of the FAT tables.
Ummm try formatting it through an xp computer and see if that helps.
what format are your music files? have you tried loading less then 3000+ songs...maybe 50 and see if the problem persists.
have you tried a standard 1 or 2 gig micro card?
and go get tcpmp or core player...
is anything else slow? movie file? just navigating around the phone? any lag?
Yeah, something is funny with the formatting, because when I went to delete off all but 50 or so songs I would select all of the songs, and delete them but Windows would refresh with more songs that weren't "visible" before. I am reformatting the card right now, and then I will see if 50 files works. If that works I'll proceed with more songs.
The songs are MP3 format without DRM encoded into 128kbps. They all play just fine on my 2GB card and on my Laptop.
I'll try TCPMP if those don't work.
If I am not accessing that music through a player or file explorer, then the phone is not slow or sluggish at all. I've taken pictures with the phone and have no problems there. I have not tried playing video, but I suspect it would be fine too.
I reformatted the card into FAT32 (32Kb allocation units) and put a couple hundred songs on it. It was responsive and without error, so I filled it up with music and here is what I get now:
- Windows Media Player will play the songs but with a 30-60 second delay between button presses (play/pause, next back)
- HTC Audio Manager locks and exits to the home screen when a song is clicked on to play (after about 10 sec).
-TCPMP will run and add all of the songs to the playlist, and switches songs with only a short (4 sec) delay between songs.
Even though TCPMP runs acceptably, I consider this only a workaround. Does anyone else have ideas about how to get the HTC Audio Manager working? I am running Rickywatt's Vanilla v24 ROM of WM 6.1...
This is probably content for another post but I was surprised that the vanilla ROM isn't very vanilla. It still has a lot of software imbedded into the ROM.
I've noticed a similar problem myself with my Dash.
I recently got an 8 GB Sandisk class 4 microSDHC card for my Dash (Ricky's rom) with the intention of using it (in tandem with my Jabra 8010 bt stereo headset) as my main music player.
I only have 739 songs on it right now (less than half full) and here's what I've found:
-Windows Media Player has several problems:
---MAJOR lag (30 sec.) when switching tracks, bringing up the menu, etc.
---Tags in the library are messed up. I might end up with 3 album listings for the same album, some tracks are not associated with their albums or artists, etc.
-HTC Audio Manager works great! No lag at all between tracks and correctly reads all my tags (even the ones that WMP messes up).
-TCPMP works good, no problems with it, it's interface is just not optimal for music listening at all. It just crashes the phone whenever I try to blank the screen.
-Pocket Tunes is a wonderful player. It works great with no problems and has great playlist support. It has been my favorite music player on my Palm OS devices for many years; sadly, my trial period is ending soon for the WM version and I really can't justify spending the $37.95 for it.
So, in short, I'm using HTC's Audio Manager for now because WMP is so horribly slow. I just wish that it had a way to blank the screen like WMP does.
I do remember WMP working great when I had my smaller card, so is it just a problem with the library size?
After doing some more testing, and TCPMP isn't as bug free as I thought. I have to create and save a playlist of all the songs, then open TCPMP from that playlist for it to work... otherwise it loads for like 5 minutes and crashes the phone.
I did get HTC Audio manager to work, but that's only from a fresh reboot of the phone and it only works until I exit the app. Here is my guess unless someone else comes up with a better answer:
- WM 6.1 on a 186MHz processor isn't going to be able to quickly index and deliver the 3500+ songs on the 8GB card... This would explain why 400 songs worked fine.
- Perhaps there is a buffer size limit or some other registry hack that can be done to make the file indexing work better for large directories.
youre gonna have to accept that wmp is kinda junk
and tcpmp is the champ.
Ok, I can buy that, but it still doesn't help that TCPMP and Audio Manager still aren't working to the capacity that I need them to.
I'd say Windows Media Player is the problem. However, what's bit rate of you mp3? 320k? Have you tried lower bit rate? Or, even encode with WMA? I know, re-encoding sounds like a big job, do it over night while you're sleeping...
Good point. All of the files are already 128kbps encoded. Also, the problems are existing in more than just WMP. It is also a problem in TCPMP and HTC Audio Manager.
Lately I have been playing around with cooking my own version of The Rose 1.6 ROM that Stylez and Rickwyatt are working on. All I'm doing is removing files and programs that I don't use. It seems like the more I remove, the less of a delay I experience on the song loading and playing. I think the issue is with the amount of memory available.
Guys,
My phone, WM 6.1, HTC S621, does accept my SDHC 4gb card, but it doesnt play anything thru player! I've tried core player, htc audio manage, windows media player, no luck.. =(
There's no problem with the speak on the phone, it works perfectly.. Can anyone help me? Anyone encountered such problem?
Thank you
===Update===
The card works with with tmobile wing, no problem.
Both phones have WM 6.1, in both the card is recognized.. But there's no sound coming out of htc s621.. sigh..
Hello,
I tried to play a song in the music tab, by clicking library and the song, after I did that my device just got stuck I needed to take the battery out to restore it.
Now every time I go to the music tab my device freezes
what should I do?
Sincerely
Simtrax
all i got
i would cut down on how many songs u have the more u have the longer it takes for the system to pick up. hints the freezing. thats what i did then i hated only having a few songs so i went and just took the music tab off and i leave windows media player running in the back ground works great screw that tab!
If you have your music library stored on your SD card, you may have either a faulty track (or several), and/or the SD card itself is to blame.
Sometimes using a repair program to scan and fix the SD card (lots of free ones out there) can make a difference, but sometimes you just need to re-format the SD card. Remember too that not all SD cards are created equally. A slower SD card can hang up with constant access, such as streaming music or video.
But if you have your music installed on the phone's internal memory -- I dunno...
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If you have your music library stored on your SD card, you may have either a faulty track (or several), and/or the SD card itself is to blame.
Sometimes using a repair program to scan and fix the SD card (lots of free ones out there) can make a difference, but sometimes you just need to re-format the SD card. Remember too that not all SD cards are created equally. A slower SD card can hang up with constant access, such as streaming music or video.
But if you have your music installed on the phone's internal memory -- I dunno...
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My songs are in the SD Card, thank you I will check it .
I have been having issues with some of my .mp3 files that I'm playing from the SD card on my evo. I am running Flipz Fresh 3.5 ROM right now. Here is what happens, randomly in the song, the audio will stutter, or pause, and resume, and I am not receiving a call or any notifications. I have played these on another source, and it is not the .mp3 file. I just reformatted my SD card ( A Class 6 Kingston) and used 16kb cluster size, as recommended by a battery drain fix somewhere else on the forum. Any ideas to fix this problem?
I have the same issue man but it only happens occasionally. Are you using the stock android music player widget? I noticed when I used PowerAmp (paid app) the problem didn't come back.
Have you upgraded the MicroSD Card? Are you using at least a Class 6 card?
Kingston cards are known for going bad. Might want to try this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161405
How to check the class of an sd card?
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Are you using any equalizer apps? I had issues while using dsp manager.. all better after disabling it.
Never needed a third party video player tbh, until for last two days I am noticing this very weird problem. See I was watching season 1 of The Big Bang Theory, and say the first episode, which is 22 minutes 38 seconds. Now when I watch it with the stock video player everything is fine till 22 minutes 25 seconds, then it just freezes and a pop up, 'can't play this video'! I don't know what nonsense is this, but I have tried to format my SanDisk 32GB Ultra both in FAT32 and exFAT, but same! When I copy the same file in phone memory then it plays fine, but not from the SD card. And if I play that video on my Desktop via the SD card, it plays fine too. Don't know what's going on. So I installed MX Player, didn't have any hope, but it played it fine. But I would very much like to know what's the problem, is the SD card, or anything else?
Everything else I have tried so far works fine from SD card though, say some movies, and videos, but only that series (all the episodes!).
So has any one of you faced same issue? What did you do then?
Thanks in advance.
PS: This is the file I was trying to play, if that helps,
And this is the error I am getting,
That's really odd, did you find any info on logs?
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Hi there, I noticed that my Galaxy Note 8 N5100 skip and loop a bit the music I'm listening via the default music player and Winamp Pro. I tested my music with my PC and it's not that.
My music is installed to my SD external card and I tried to format it yesterday and install music again, same problem... Tested with 4.1.2 and 4.2.2, same problem here. I dunno what is it and hope it's not my tablet (who's like 7 days old). The card I'm using is the one I had on my phone and it's a class 4.
If you have a little solution for me I would be really pleased !
Do you by any chance use a 64 gb sd card??
Sadly no, it's a 32Go class 4 card. Installing Poweramp seems to do the trick so far (I think, it's random). At the same time I had *sudden black flash screen* with the 4.1.2 in the past days and wonder if the SD wasn't the cause of all that mess (maybe I moved my apps on the SD, that would explain a lot).
My biggest worry would be that my device is defective and that it will slowly die or something like that...