I have created and sync'd some play lists onto my phone using mediamonkey and the other day I noticed that if I look at the list of tracks that three of them have an ! in front of the track and not a note like the others. When being played these ! tracks are skipped like they are not valid or something.
I've looked at the properties of the MP3 and can see nothing different from other tracks. The failed tracks are all 128 bitrate encoded and I thought that this might be the problem but there are other tracks that it will play that are also 128.
Anyone else had this problem..?
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I have all my music stored on SD card. I sync it with Windows Media Player. All songs appear normally in Windows Media Player and when I use Files Explorer on Tilt 2 to view the songs on SD card.
My problem is, when I use the music player in TF3D, and look at library/songs, many songs appear twice. The really odd part is that a song may appear once with album art (which all my songs have), and a second instance with no album art.
When I play songs on the music tab in TF3D both instances of the song play. What I mean is, sometimes a song will show with album art, and sometimes the one without album art shows. The same is true if I edit a song title etc through Windows Media Player (I believe it is version 11). A song will show as the pre-edited version sometimes, other times it shows the edited version.
Any ideas? This is really driving me nuts.
Thanks!
I have a similar problem - but possibly the opposite to yours.
I have approx. 15Gb of music on the MicroSD on my TP2, and regularly use Windows Media Player to sync new music to the phone. However, Windows Media Player appears to sync ALL the music BACK to the PC as well - meaning I have each song duplicated on the PC (sometimes many times), which is rapidly filling up my hard drive unless I periodically manually delete all duplicates (which is painful).
I'm sure there must be a setting within Windows Media Player to stop this happening - but I still want to be able to sync music TO the phone (just not back).
Has anyone else encountered this issue or know a solution?
Hi all
Had an HD7 for the last week, great phone. I've found a couple of little bugs (eg if your browsing in IE and go back to the home tab, use some other apps then go back to IE, theres no way of going back in the browser as the back button just takes you back to the home page or previous app?)
Anyway, onto my question, does the Zune player on the phone support gapless playback of tracks? I've got a lot of albums of live concerts etc that would normally playback seemlessly on my old iPhone but have gaps when played on the Zune. Couldnt find any options anywhere to change it. Does anyone know if this is supported or not?
Thanks!
I know gapless is supported on the ZuneHD. But I know even then some people had issues in getting it to work, and it is all based on how your albums are tagged in the ID3. Once I get my HD7 I can confirm if albums that played fine gapless on the ZuneHD do so on the HD7 and i'll inspect the ID3 to figure out what the appropriate tags are.
Thanks! All my music is imported into Zune from iTunes so maybe iTunes hasn't tagged the music properly? Or Zune can't read the itunes tags?
Gapless works on Zune HD as long as there is no DRM...thus, if you bring your own tracks with no DRM, gapless works perfectly...however, if you have a zune pass, funny enough, gapless does not work...
This is a known issue for many months but MS has no fixed it so far...(people seemed more upset at the lack of apps for the Zune HD than fixing core music related issues)...
Thanks. I seem to get this from my own ripped CD's as well as music bought from iTunes and music from my Zune subscription.
I might try re-ripping one of my CD's in Zune and see if it works.
Gapless playback seems to be a massive missing feature of an audio device?!
A big one for me is this. I've got 200 or so live/dj mix albums, so not having this feature has pretty much made my new HD7 worthless to me.
All my music is in .M4A format and was ripped/converted in iTunes. I also tried ripping a mix CD to .MP3 format, but got the same result.
I just don't understand why MS haven't implemented it. If there are no plans to add this, then my HD7 will have to be returned.
I know this is an old thread, but I've noticed something when using bluetooth and my music...
I use my HD2 (WinMo7) when I'm down the gym and a lot of my mix tracks often jump at the mix point, some even have some stuttering...
However I've noticed that when I'm streaming via bluetooth to my car stereo, the same tracks don't jump or stutter and play virtually continous. There is only the odd tiny space on some tracks...
Beatles USB gapless
My Beatles, Abbey Road Remastered 2nd side sounds great on Zune on WP7. Very slight breaks between songs, but nothing objectionable to me.
Make sure that when you select the music, you select the Play All or Play Album selection. Don't try to play the 1st track and expect things to go uninterrupted.
Definitely the Abbey Road playback is different than the first side, which has song-to-song gaps.
Enjoy Windows Phone 7!
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I've been digging around recently in trying to get some gapless in WP7.
I then finally notice that the Zune PC software doesn't even do gapless! The gap is shorter, I suspect due to the more powerful hardware, but it's still not gapless.
Windows Media Player seems to emit a slight click
Winamp and Foobar both seamlessly transition to the next song.
But, back to WP7. It's now apparent that either MS needs to fix this (they didn't in Mango, so they probably won't for a while, if at all), or a third party app that doesn't use Zune could be created, (or ported).
I have been having an issue with my phone and my music. All my music is organized by Genre, Artist, Album. After I sync my music with my phone, the Samsung media scanner starts up and scans my 2 SD cards. I then go and start the stock music player and all of the genres of my music have been changed. I have triple verified that the genres are correct using MP3Tag, Windows Media Player, and Winamp. I have even mounted the SD card to the computer and verified that the genres are correct. It seems that the Samsung Media Scanner is changing the genres. I have tried multiple music apps and none of them except for poweramp recognize the genres of my songs correctly. Poweramp has its own built in media scanner, that is the program itself scans the SD cards and builds its own library. I am not too fond of poweramp and would prefer to use the stock music player. The funny thing is when I stick my SD card into an EVO all of the music genres show up correctly in the stock EVO music player. So the issue must be with Samsung's media scanner reading the songs ID3 tags. Does anyone else have the same issue, and is there a way to fix it? Also, how does everyone sync their playlists on their phones? I currently use windows media player to sync my music. I also tried syncing my music with winamp but that did not work either, even with the winamp app on the phone. I am currently using PhantomHackers Blazer rom, and I had the same issues with the stock rom.
My head is spinning after reading this, can you please re-state your question a bit clearer not sure i or anyone understands whats wrong.
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My head is spinning after reading this, can you please re-state your question a bit clearer not sure i or anyone understands whats wrong.
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Changed it up a bit, I hope that is clearer. No wonder I was not getting any responses.
wrong genres
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Changed it up a bit, I hope that is clearer. No wonder I was not getting any responses.
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I have also noticed and been very annoyed by this. I usually end up using the Google Play Music when I want to listen to my music by genres.... I would love to know if there is a fix for this.
Hi there,
I noticed problems with some of my podcasts. They would restart from the beginning when I tried to skip within the track or the player would crash and skip to the next track. I discovered that this only happens with MP3s that are encoded with either VBR (variable bitrate) or ABR (average bitrate) settings, and it is happening with every player (play music, music, pocketcasts) I tried. I converted some of those podcasts using constant bitrate (CBR) and everything worked fine then. I found an old thread (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8154) describing pretty much exactly my problem.
I tried the same MP3 on my old S4, and that seems to be able to deal with the variable bitrate just fine.
Can anyone try to verify this? There is an ABR MP3 here which gives me those problems. If you skip towards the end it will start playing from the beginning ("Hey everybody this is Sam")
Cheers.
I just played your mp3 straight from the default Files app on my (stock) OP3 and tested two players: the default Music player and Google Play Music. Both were able to skip around just fine. Are you playing the file from a music player or from a podcast app? (Edit: I see where you said which players you tested. Hmm.)
The problem seems to happen after skipping to somewhere past the halfway mark of the file. I just tested it on a colleague's OP3 (3.2.4, all stock) and it happens there as well.
Funnily enough, I just listened to a podcast today when the host mentioned that one of the listeners wrote in with this exact same problem. A quick look into their backcatalog revealed them switching from CBR to VBR a couple of episodes ago.
I don't know what I was doing the first time when I tested, but yeah, now that I'm looking for it, I definitely see the issue. The very first time I played it this time, it auto skipped to the end and would have played the next track in the queue if one existed. From that point on, skipping around did a variety of things. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it played the audio from the very beginning ("Hey everybody, this is Sam") but the slider indicated I was still like 66% of the way through - not at the beginning. Very strange. I'm on the latest 3.2.6, btw.
When you're encoding to VBR, are you using any switches / arguments (e.g. --alt-preset standard)? If so, maybe try something else?
I haven't done any encoding myself (but for back converting some VBR tracks to CBR), I only noticed it in a couple of podcasts I was following, and the thing they had in common was NOT using CBR. I don't know if a certain switch in the VBR/ABR encoding settings might be the problem, but what I find more worrying is that my former sony xperia z5c running marshmallow as well as my s4 active running lollipop do not have this problem. It would be interesting if someone with CM or another ROM but stock could try this to see if it is a ROM specific problem.
A podcast I listen to (The Bayesian Conspiracy) has some episodes as CBR and some as VBR. All of the VBR episodes have issues trying to seek past half-way. This happens on ALL methods of playback that I've tried (streaming, Pocket Cast, Google built-in player, Podcast Addict) on my OnePlus 3.
Found an article ("The First and last word on CBR vs VBR questions" - sorry can't create links yet) talks about why VBR is bad, in general and why podcasts shouldn't use it anymore, but it sure does suck that OxygenOS doesn't handle this properly (because not every podcast is encoded with CBR).
I have contacted the podcasts which I discovered used VBR and ABR and so far I was lucky in that they switched back to CBR, but that can't be the solution.
I have this problem with my config: DailyTechNewsShow with either BeyondPod or PodcastAddict, same problem when reaching 2/3 of the time.
Using OnePlus3 stock with rom 3.2.8.
2 years later, i have the same issue on a Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite. i guess it won't be fixed any time soon...
does anyone know a place where we could report this bug to Xiaomi?
AFAIU, the bug is in their playback code, not in Android. i listen to podcasts a lot, some of them use VBR, and it's annoying me to no end...
Does anyone else notice completely random songs appearing in their Now Playing history?
I definitely haven't been within earshot of any of the ones in mine!!
The way the songs are detected can lead to false hits. It listens to background sounds and looks for the audio signature of a set of songs. I believe when the Pixel 2 came out with this feature it had ~100,000 songs in a database stored on device. It basically creates a "fingerprint" of an audio segment (or segments) for a song and if the phone hears something and it matches that fingerprint, it will show that on your screen. Sometimes it gets things wrong because sounds in every day life sound like songs. There are videos of people using electric toothbrushes, printers, scanners, etc that making whirring or screeching sounds come up as techno songs, for example.
Cover songs and songs that sample older songs can lead to false hits too.
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