1) Is there any decent graphic equaliser apps that you can recommend?
2) I find that when I use coverflow - it only does it on individual tracks. So I'll get an album cover of Tom Waits, but it is only one track. And the next one will be another track by another artist ( random ) - one thing I do miss on the iPhone is the Album art represents an album, and when you tap it it flips over to show you all the tracks on that album. Anyway of getting the Hero to behave like this?
cheers all
I spoke to someone last week who said he downloaded Music Player (which was new) because it had a GE - much better he said than the standard player.
But, he's not around and I can't find it. Would be cool to know where it is. Perhaps on the other Cyrtex (sp?) market?
SA
Any tips for using itunes to sync music for lumia 800? I've Windows 7 and I've yet to found anything related to this matter. I can't stand zune as the logic behind it seems terrible, atleast after few years of itunes.
oskariunit said:
Any tips for using itunes to sync music for lumia 800? I've Windows 7 and I've yet to found anything related to this matter. I can't stand zune as the logic behind it seems terrible, atleast after few years of itunes.
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Yeah, I don't think that's going to be happening any time soon. The possibility of being able to use other software to move music back and forth makes sense, but iTunes? ugh (personal opinion).
I, personally, do not use Zune to play back music or manage my 130GB library. i use it solely for the music I'd like to have on my Lumia 800. I've got mega storage space on my laptop, so it's a non issue for me.
oskariunit said:
Any tips for using itunes to sync music for lumia 800? I've Windows 7 and I've yet to found anything related to this matter. I can't stand zune as the logic behind it seems terrible, atleast after few years of itunes.
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iTunes user speaking, I loved the iTunes too, but after purchasing the Lumia, I had to do the same thing, move to Zune, it's not that different at all once you get used to it, it's almost a complete copy, but the interface in Zune is a whole lot better, just synching videos is god damn awful, it takes literally 5+ minutes to sync a 2-3min video clip, impossible to sync a movie, it'll take at least an hour. Shout out if you need any tips.
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iTunes user speaking, I loved the iTunes too, but after purchasing the Lumia, I had to do the same thing, move to Zune, it's not that different at all once you get used to it, it's almost a complete copy, but the interface in Zune is a whole lot better, just synching videos is god damn awful, it takes literally 5+ minutes to sync a 2-3min video clip, impossible to sync a movie, it'll take at least an hour. Shout out if you need any tips.
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It takes that long to sync videos probably because it's converting them at the same time. Check your CPU usage to know for sure.
Also, I'm willing to wager that Zune has better audio playback codecs. As of a year ago, iTunes was the worst in playback quality when using my ears as the testing tool.
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It takes that long to sync videos probably because it's converting them at the same time. Check your CPU usage to know for sure.
Also, I'm willing to wager that Zune has better audio playback codecs. As of a year ago, iTunes was the worst in playback quality when using my ears as the testing tool.
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Nah, that's changed, iTunes has got better, Zune hasn't enough bass and the treble is too high, if you're not happy with the sound on iTunes, it has an equalizer which Zune is lacking, big downer, that and the video syncing is what made Zune horrible.
I shall check if it's converting. Cheers.
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iTunes user speaking, I loved the iTunes too, but after purchasing the Lumia, I had to do the same thing, move to Zune, it's not that different at all once you get used to it, it's almost a complete copy, but the interface in Zune is a whole lot better, just synching videos is god damn awful, it takes literally 5+ minutes to sync a 2-3min video clip, impossible to sync a movie, it'll take at least an hour. Shout out if you need any tips.
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Thanks for the reply. 1 of the reason I asked as zune doesn't find my album art. I've all the album art in itunes, but in zune about 50% is missing.
Also how the dj function works, it's flawless in itunes, I've set it to randomly grab 50 songs from main playlist with better rated songs playing more often. I cant even find the thing in zune. And the rating sucks, why only like/notlike ffs
Also I dislike the interface alot. Can't get it to function how I like. It doesnt even say anything if I try to add songs to playlist where they already are, which makes imo the playlist function quite bad. As I wanted to make playlist for my lumia, and randomly update it with songs. It gets quite big so cant remember all the songs, and now I've duplicates bla bla. Sorry, bit frustrated .
Maybe I've to buy macbook so I can sync my wp7 device with itunes, sounds funny haha.
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Thanks for the reply. 1 of the reason I asked as zune doesn't find my album art. I've all the album art in itunes, but in zune about 50% is missing.
Also how the dj function works, it's flawless in itunes, I've set it to randomly grab 50 songs from main playlist with better rated songs playing more often. I cant even find the thing in zune. And the rating sucks, why only like/notlike ffs
Also I dislike the interface alot. Can't get it to function how I like. It doesnt even say anything if I try to add songs to playlist where they already are, which makes imo the playlist function quite bad. As I wanted to make playlist for my lumia, and randomly update it with songs. It gets quite big so cant remember all the songs, and now I've duplicates bla bla. Sorry, bit frustrated .
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An album art addict, to me, music ain't music without its album art.
Album art was a problem, until I found out on how to do it manually, time consuming but, where you have your music collection, on the right, where you have genre, artist, album etc......click on album, then right click and edit the album info there to whichever song requires an album art. It is manual, but if they're all in albums, this easily attaches the album art to the tracks.
As an iTunes user, the tabs "artists" and "albums" on the right will work to your best to get used to the interface, just fiddle around with them for a while, it's what I did, and you'll adapt to it in a few hours, even now sometimes my head gets baffled with the interface, iTunes is just plain simple.
Ok for the playlist, it's easy. First click the "playlists" tab on the right, once there create new playlist. Once you've done that return to your music collection, right click your tracks and add to your selected playlist or drag the tracks to the playlist icon on the bottom left corner. It takes time, I admit that it p***** me off for weeks, but since you got these tips, you'll get used to it earlier than me.
Give me a shout if you need more tips.
How to get the DJ-function to work?
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How to get the DJ-function to work?
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DJ function? Can you elaborate?
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DJ function? Can you elaborate?
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Smart DJ. http://www.zune.net/en-US/support/zunesoftware/features/smartdj.htm
It seems it's not availevable in all regions, which seems odd that you can't even use it with your own music.
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Smart DJ. http://www.zune.net/en-US/support/zunesoftware/features/smartdj.htm
It seems it's not availevable in all regions, which seems odd that you can't even use it with your own music.
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Ahhh....did you do this first, go to settings > software > metadata and ratings > check automatically retrieve and update album art? As that should do the trick.
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Ahhh....did you do this first, go to settings > software > metadata and ratings > check automatically retrieve and update album art? As that should do the trick.
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thanks for the reply. Yeah i've got it set like that, no smart-dj functionality. Seems it's issue on the finnish version of the software.
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?
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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
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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?
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Hi guys... In my Music & Videos app, the artist images just won't show up. I've made sure that in the settings I'm letting the app connect to Zune, updated all my albums with find album info in Zune and then sync the albums with my phone. None of that has done anything. The image of the albums are showing up in the app, but not on the locked screen... the artist images just won't show up... :/ I have http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520352 ROM... Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? :silly:
Nothing. There are some restrictions due to region, for ex. showing music art in lockscreen. Zune can only show those covers that are available in marketplace, co if U can't buy music in marketplace in Ur region, therefore Ur player can't show covers in lockscreen
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Nothing. There are some restrictions due to region, for ex. showing music art in lockscreen. Zune can only show those covers that are available in marketplace, co if U can't buy music in marketplace in Ur region, therefore Ur player can't show covers in lockscreen
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Tnx for the info... I solved by tapping on the artist, and then on the marketplace... Then wait for Zune to download the artist images...
I have an HTC Desire 626s that I purchased about a year ago, and one thing I love about it more than anything is being able to listen to music on it. I've used 3rd party music player apps on my device before, but I just have always liked the convenience and simplicity of the default player. One thing I must say is that it surprises me by how well it does with recognizing album art and especially, artist photos. Almost every album art and artist photo is automatically updated by the device, and the key thing that upsets me is the *almost* part. There are just so many of the artist photos/album arts that are unrecognized by the app, and that really irks me because I enjoy seeing what the artists look like and viewing the album arts while listening to my music. So what I'm inquiring is this: is there any possible way to have my album arts AND artist photos be visible for all my music, without having to solely depend on an album cover grabber app for both? I learned this trick on my own where I use a cover grabber app to scroll to the latest downloaded album, then set a picture of the artist as the cover art, then the default player would use that cover as the thumbnail, essentially making it a makeshift artist photo. I stopped doing that months ago because it became too confusing and a pain, plus, since they don't save after I eject than reinsert my external SD, it just became pointless. So is there any way to manually set the album art and artist photos for all my music directly on my phone and have them show up in my default player of my HTC desire 626s, while being able to keep them after reinserting the external SD?