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Can some one kindly explain tome how to get my music file
associations back to standard please.
After downloading Coreplayer I noticed all my music files
had converted to Coreplayer association with the corresponding
CP icons in my file explorer,I would like to change this back.
Cheers for any help you can offer....
Open up core player, hit the menu or options button and you can get to tools then pages and you can find file associations just uncheck mp3, not the best description because i dont use it any more sorry, but its something like that
Demon_man said:
Open up core player, hit the menu or options button and you can get to tools then pages and you can find file associations just uncheck mp3, not the best description because i dont use it any more sorry, but its something like that
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Cheers bud,I've done that,unchecked a few things and it seems the
WMA files I've got have reverted back OK to
Windows Media Player and have the right icon,but all my MP3's have the
Windows icon you usually get with programs and aren't selectable to play
from File explorer,if I select a track it just drops back to the home screen.
Music tracks are still selectable from HTC Player....
I'm at a brick wall at the moment,don't know what to try next ?
have you tried a soft reset?? and all so tried opening a track through windows media player that way it might pick them up
Yep tried that and updating my WM library,everything plays OK
but I still have this strange icon issue in File Explorer and
of course I can't select them to play from within there...
Seems like I will have to delete all the music and re-load them again,
all my ringtones and notification tones have stopped working.
Strange that they will all still play in hTC music player,but
are not selectable via File Explorer.
I would have liked a definitive answer to how to cure this,but
hey ho something to do on a rainy Sunday removing all my music files.
I ditched Coreplayer,not only did it cause this issue by associating all my
MP3's to itself,I found it quite irritating to use.
Well...deleted everything and uploaded all music files from my laptop again,
still no joy,I really need some more advice...
All my music files are still showing as Windows files with no music association...
please someone help !!
I can't get any of my music files to select as a ringtone,I missed several calls,texts and emails...
for the ringtone try dropping it into device-app data-sounds, i have no music on my phone, but i put ringtones there cause ms instructed me to do so, only problem is ringtone showed up in player and is ur music in ms format - wma i believe - i do not use i got 1.5 gb songs ipod format hope it helps
i decided to try and answer here instead of hd2 place
I have replied to your issue in another forum. Try using Resco File Explorer or Total Commander to set the file association back to wmplayer.exe.
Thanx Web,
but the issue isnt where the files are stored,they do already show up in my
selection of available ringtones and notification sounds (I had already been using them,so they are correctly placed in the phones folders.
The problem is if I click on one to hear it before deciding to select it for
shall we say my main ringtone nothing happens due to it
not having the correct file type....
I have selected 'Opens with' as WMP and they will open up from File Explorer
and play perfectly OK
and also in HTC player,but the file type is showing as 'unknown type'
instead of the generic HTC music icon it should have....
Hope that makes it clearer ?
OK I tried your suggestion Web and ringtones work now... thank fook for that cheers...
although they appear as more than one copy of each in the
selection folder now,this isnt a problem as I know to select the top
version of each to my alotted ring tones and can just delete the
other copies from where I have them stored.
So everything plays as it should now,it's just the icons that
are wrong.
thanks markt77 - appreciate the input - i try - and i am learning good knowledge from u and the other folks over there - boy it is sometimes really hard to get a response at xda when u request answers
but
it's the most innovative forum on the planet
Hey mates,
i'm wondering if its possible to make a playlist with the tracks in one folder and not sorted by album, artist, or so.
i have many albums which havent got id3-tags, so they're all in the category "unknown". but on my SD, theyre sorted in folders..
so is this possible?
hope you understand what i mean.
thanks in advance,
DN41
Move all the music to your pc, delete all the folders on the HD2 that have music in except the music file on the sd card, empty that file, copy all the music tracks into that file (not the folders) simplez
thanks for your reply.
but isnt there an easier way? just like sort it in the folders they are in the player?..
DN41
i found out, that a playlist created with WMP on my hd2 is also shown in sense player.
in wmp pocket its possible to create playlists by folders. so you can create in wmp the playlist with the songs in one folder and you'll have it in sense player
DN41
Still, one must admit iPod is much easier to use
I was an "apple hater" for many years, but after using my sisters Nano, Sense player just does not measure up for me
Maybe someone knows of an application that emulates iPod in WM6.5?
Mihkel.ee said:
Still, one must admit iPod is much easier to use
I was an "apple hater" for many years, but after using my sisters Nano, Sense player just does not measure up for me
Maybe someone knows of an application that emulates iPod in WM6.5?
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And for those of us that used to have iPods and, therefore, have a large collection of music encoded in the smaller-per-bit rate AAC format used by default in iTunes, Sense can't even sort our music into track order. So annoying. HTC's music player in Android doesn't have this problem for some reason...
Anyhooooooo, I can't help you with better software for your HD2, but we can get iTunes to kinda work with the HD2 - try iTunes Agent. Works well with itunes. Oh, it's free too : ) http://ita.sourceforge.net/
Dependent upon how you set it up, your HD2 will appear as a single playlist on the left of the iTunes window. Anything you add or remove from the playlist will be changed on the HD2 next time you choose to synchronise. iTunes Agent will also add the files to your SD card in Artist/Album sub folders if you like. If you turn on the right browsing options in iTunes, you will see the three columns at the top of the music list, Genre, Artist, Album - this way it makes it really easy to browse what's 'on' your HD2 (much better than one long list).
iTunes Agent doesn't yet support exporting playlists to your device, so if you want to go a stage further and export other iTunes playlists to your phone....
1. just highlight the songs in the desired playlist in iTunes, say ' melt your face off rock anthems' and drag them to the HD2 playlist, then sync with iTunes Agent to get them onto you storage card.
2. Export the first playlist from iTunes (Melt your face off rock anthems) by right clicking on it, hitting export, then choosing .M3U as the file type.
3. Go to where you exported it and open it with notepad. Delete the first line "#EXTM3U", then use the Edit/Replace function in Notepad to correct the file path (e.g Find What: "C\:itunes music" Replace With: "Storage Card\MP3") to reflect where you store music on your phone. Save (as Unicode if I remember correctly).
4. Copy playlist to Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Playlists on your phone then soft reset. Once the phone finishes scanning your card after rebooting, the playlist should appear in Sense Player.
There are two things to watch out for when creating playlists on your phone this way. First is the poopy way iTunes cuts off (appends - my old english teacher would be so proud, not) long track or album names e.g "01 My funky monkey groove mix shubbla ding fong.m4a" will be abbreviated to "01 My funly monkey groove mix shu~.m4a". These entries have to be edited manually in the playlist as far as I can see. (!!!!) Second, you can't edit these playlists on the phone. When you reset the phone the changes are gone. No idea why.
I know this doesn't quite answer your question, but give it a go if you have iTunes on your PC. It has made transferring music to my HD2 so much easier. The only bummer is having to connect the phone in disc mode, which is hardly major.
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I have a few songs in other languages. The names don't display properly in Music hub, instead, they show up as random screwed up characters. this didn't happen before with my Samsung focus. do you guys know how to solve this problem?
Thank you
FanGLeWoW said:
I have a few songs in other languages. The names don't display properly in Music hub, instead, they show up as random screwed up characters. this didn't happen before with my Samsung focus. do you guys know how to solve this problem?
Thank you
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Check the mp3 meta tags on your PC, it might have some broken characters on fields thats not used on the android.
The Xbox Music hub on Windows Phone 8 is a freaking TRAIN-WRECK!! I'm just about to go return my Lumia 920 to the AT&T store over this very issue. I copy music over to my WP8 handset (I have to use Windows Media Player or just plain, old drag-and-drop, because the Windows Phone 8 desktop app refuses to run on my HP Pavilion laptop, running Win7 Home Premium x64, that I just bought in May; it says, "WindowsPhone has stopped working" EVERY SINGLE time I plug my phone into the PC), and the stupid xBox Music service rewrites metadata (ID tag) info on a lot of songs that I copy over to the phone, resulting in multiple copies of the same CD (2 tracks will be on the original CD; and 3 tracks may be on the new, Xbox-created CD, which may just be missing brackets around the words "Disc 1"); it deletes album art that I saw on the phone previously, and it downloads artist background images for only about 10% of the music I put on my phone! I'm VERY anal about the metadata (ID tag) info on my music files being correct, and I had NO problems like this on my Windows Phone 7/7.5 devices.
Putting music on my phones is very important to me, and it's very important to me that it work the way it should! I listen to music off my phone through my car stereo, and I don't want to have to carry around an additional device.
Dennis
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pokoedge said:
Check the mp3 meta tags on your PC, it might have some broken characters on fields thats not used on the android.
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It doesn't matter what the metadata (ID tag) info says on your PC; once you copy it over to the phone, the Xbox music service will rewrite it if it doesn't match what it thinks it should be, scewing the hell out of how you had your music organized! The only way to prevent this is to turn off "Connect to Xbox Music Service" in settings, but then you won't get any artist background images!
Dennis
Yes this is annoying indeed, I just noticed that you could disable the xbox music metatag option for the mac sync program, but the option seems to be missing on the windows app.
Before I make a seperate thread.... are there any good other media players for WP8?
I've only been using this phone for two days, but I haven't found any!
Im used to using Winamp on my Android device, its simply using the directory its store in albums, a nice progress bar you could slide through (handy for audiobooks). Does Wp8 even have something similar?
/frustrated
Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer&hl=cs but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
I had (have) similar problems with my Logitech Squeezebox... on some songs I could not figure out what the problem really is!
Be aware there can be extended tags which are not seen easily with MP3tag (I use it, too), try to use another software for tags like MediaMonkey, maybe it helps...
I encountered the same issue in my AT&T HOX+ right out of the box. The only way to fix it is by re-applying the song information in the computer (as in selecting all the songs from the affected album, right-click/properties, delete album name, write deleted album name, Press OK) before importing it to the device. Since this is not a pleasant process if, like me, you have a bunch of music you want to import and most of it has the glitch in question, a quick workaround is to use Google Music as your music library/Player. it has no problems with the ID3 tags whatsoever. Hope this helps!
Wlk said:
Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums ... but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
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Usin google music since i posted first post, only working solution for me
I open up the music app on the phone (Music or Nokia Music) and it shows over 15,000 songs (long story of stupidity). None of the songs are on the phone though. If I try to play something, it'll hang for several minutes, play something for about 15s and then hang for several minutes again. I think it has something in cache that it tries to play.
How do I get the song list to force update? I can manually delete them from the phone but I I only live once and won't have that much time. The Windows Phone 8 app 'can see' the songs but then errors when trying to delete saying it can't find it. It doesn't have a select all anyway. WMP doesn't see any songs on it. Rebooting the phone doesn't force it to scan either.
Any ideas?
I miss the Zune days.......................
I personally would put all of your music in one easy to mange music folder, get rid of duplicate entries, and make sure you delete all the songs you have on your device through windows explorer. Then, copy and paste the music folder to your device. You will be able to select all or pick and choose copying music this way. It would be the same way you copy music to a thumb drive if that clarifys it for you.
There is no music
siralex241 said:
I personally would put all of your music in one easy to mange music folder, get rid of duplicate entries, and make sure you delete all the songs you have on your device. Then, copy and paste the music folder to your device. You will be able to select all or pick and choose copying music this way. It would be the same way you copy music to a thumb drive if that clarifys it for you.
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There is no music on the device at all. Due to the Itunes / WMP folder structuring hanging the transfers (I just use windows explorer normally). There was no folder structure. Only one folder with 32,000 songs. I then copied about 5600 to the device. THAT turned out to be too much as the device didn't like only having 500k of space left. So I deleted the folder, and tried something smaller.
This went on for a few times only to find out that the songs were not getting removed from the library when the files were removed from the device.
Personally i think wp has a problem with files and music.
i struggled a lot getting the device showing everything that was in the windows8 app.
had duplicate entries of self copied tracks, had problems with album arts,. albums sometimes have just a few songs.
deleting device in xbox.com and unsync didnt help much.
somehow the music i copied on the phone on some day just didnt show up in fthe explorer anymore. so does the hidden album folder.
at the end i tried a hard reset and bricked the phone... didnt do anything appart form playing around with the music folder and app.
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I open up the music app on the phone (Music or Nokia Music) and it shows over 15,000 songs (long story of stupidity). None of the songs are on the phone though. If I try to play something, it'll hang for several minutes, play something for about 15s and then hang for several minutes again. I think it has something in cache that it tries to play.
How do I get the song list to force update? I can manually delete them from the phone but I I only live once and won't have that much time. The Windows Phone 8 app 'can see' the songs but then errors when trying to delete saying it can't find it. It doesn't have a select all anyway. WMP doesn't see any songs on it. Rebooting the phone doesn't force it to scan either.
Any ideas?
I miss the Zune days.......................
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I miss the Zune days as well, I hate that I can no longer use it to sync all my content. I really hope they change this in the future, because the Windows Phone App is terrible and doesn't work half the time.
That being said, all the songs you see on your phone aren't actually on your phone. It is pulling them from your Zune account and what is now called your Xbox Music Cloud Connection.
Open up an artist and take a look at the track list - you'll notice a small icon indicating it isn't local. (Attachment 1)
It is streaming it from their servers, this is why it takes long to load, then buffers.
If you wish to disable the device from automatically showing all of these songs, in the Music + Videos app, go into settings (Attachment 2) and disable Xbox Music Cloud Collection. (Attachment 3)
That was it, mostly
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Personally i think wp has a problem with files and music.
i struggled a lot getting the device showing everything that was in the windows8 app.
had duplicate entries of self copied tracks, had problems with album arts,. albums sometimes have just a few songs.
deleting device in xbox.com and unsync didnt help much.
somehow the music i copied on the phone on some day just didnt show up in fthe explorer anymore. so does the hidden album folder.
at the end i tried a hard reset and bricked the phone... didnt do anything appart form playing around with the music folder and app.
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That was it. I didn't notice the hidden folders. After removing the contents from them, there were only about 100 songs left in the list which I could then manage via the application to delete.
Fresh music list, starting over.
Thank you
be carefull with this things. bricked my phone with it.. deleted the album folder to get the list new..
also got problems with the cable staying connected and refreshing the data in the folders.
just got everything showing in win8 and phone now.. despite the album covers
Also if you have Windows 8 ... music is uploaded to the cloud and can be streamed to the phone... it isn't perfect, but I have several albums that have just showed up... I think part of that has to do with where it was purchased.
does it update any mp3 you add into the music app?
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does it update any mp3 you add into the music app?
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Yeah it updates everything but the 'collection' tile inside of nokia music. That still had thousands.
I reloaded all the music and it seemed to have got lost again. It seems to work fine until you pass around 2000 songs and then duplicates start showing up everywhere.
Oh well, lesson learned.
didnt know that.. i have thousands of mp3 on a media server in the basement .. but cant bind it into music folder anyways because the network drive does not support indexing