Hi, I have recently unlocked the bootloader of my ST15i according to the official method on Sony Mobile Developer World.
I knew it was going to delete DRM & TrackID, about which I didn't care, because I haven't bought any music in iTunes, I have only ripped some CD's in a m4a (aac) 128 kpbs format, which resulted in non-DRM'ed m4a's that I could play on any device supporting m4a (aac).
But, I quickly noticed I just couldn't play m4a (aac) files anymore. I tried several music players, and PowerAmp seems the only one that can play these files now, problem: it's paid.
So, the question is, is there any way to get these files supported again in the stock music player? Because it seems the bootloader-unlock also removed non-drm m4a support... Thanks in advance.
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I'm now running the original SE ROM (.62) + a prerooted kernel.
I don't know if this the correct subforum, because this could also be a feature idea/request for development... :S
There has to be a way to solve this ^^, if PowerAmp is capable to play m4a's..
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It seems WinAmp also does the job (hadn't tried this one), but suggestions on how to get support in the stock music player are still welcome! (because I like the stock 'simplicity' & memory usage more).
I am not sure if unlocking bootloader would affect the usage of the stock music player. The music files that you are trying to play are not even protected as per your explanation.
Have you tried other formats like mp3 or aac+?
Try reencoding your audio cds to the same aac format then try it again on the stock music player.
If it still does not work, then you are better off using another player.
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I am not sure if unlocking bootloader would affect the usage of the stock music player. The music files that you are trying to play are not even protected as per your explanation.
Have you tried other formats like mp3 or aac+?
Try reencoding your audio cds to the same aac format then try it again on the stock music player.
If it still does not work, then you are better off using another player.
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Thanks for you answer, these aac's worked on the stock player before I unlocked the bootloader, mp3's worked and are still working fine. I don't have any aac+'s.
The aac's are indeed not protected, and thats what I think is weird, because there's absolutely no DRM on them if you just rip a CD...
What would reencoding the CD's to the same format help? It's the same format xP. I don't have the time now, but i'll try one CD later, until then I can use WinAmp without a problem.
n0brainr said:
Thanks for you answer, these aac's worked on the stock player before I unlocked the bootloader, mp3's worked and are still working fine. I don't have any aac+'s.
The aac's are indeed not protected, and thats what I think is weird, because there's absolutely no DRM on them if you just rip a CD...
What would reencoding the CD's to the same format help? It's the same format xP. I don't have the time now, but i'll try one CD later, until then I can use WinAmp without a problem.
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If the CDs are official ones, they might be copy-protected anyway.
Do the music files, ripped from CD, work on your PC?
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If the CDs are official ones, they might be copy-protected anyway.
Do the music files, ripped from CD, work on your PC?
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Nah, if you rip them the don't have any protection anymore. The ripped files perfectly work on VLC... so there's no need for an account permission or a familiar thing. Btw, I don't have iTunes installed anymore.
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I've searched and it seems that froyo doesn't support wma and only patchy reports that any non-stock music player will play them either. Now I know wma is a fairly crap format but I've got gigs of music on my server in that format and I've neither the time nor inclination to convert it. Any advice? I want a free and legal solution ideally
OK so PowerAmp seems to support it, but why no native support I wonder. Don't really want to spend any money fixing this as a fully functioning music player is one of the reasons I got a SE phone in the first place Any free suggestion appreciated. Pretty sure the SE media player supported them but obviously I've nuked that piece of crap from orbit by installing 2.2. Well it was the only way to be sure...
I'm using poweramp, plays everything I throw at it and has a sweet equaliser. Oh you said free, sorry!
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PowerAmp does look good but it seems very odd that other players don't support it. Was a longtime winamp user but no longer it seems...
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PowerAmp does look good but it seems very odd that other players don't support it. Was a longtime winamp user but no longer it seems...
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There's nothing odd about that. No other player has ported ffmpeg to Android, maybe VLC when it's ready.
iv been getting ignored in another thread about this, wma files played fine in the stock music app on cm6.1.3 v4.4 .. after i updated to 4.5 suddenly they dont work again .. tried installing honecomb music app .. did work either (its a beautiful app though i must admit )
im not sure what to do .. and im really f***d cuz i dont even know how to convert the wma files on my computer even if i wanted to
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iv been getting ignored in another thread about this, wma files played fine in the stock music app on cm6.1.3 v4.4 .. after i updated to 4.5 suddenly they dont work again .. tried installing honecomb music app .. did work either (its a beautiful app though i must admit )
im not sure what to do .. and im really f***d cuz i dont even know how to convert the wma files on my computer even if i wanted to
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So just use poweramp, it works with wma
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There are tools out there for free to convert wma but looks like $5 for poweramp may be easier. I'm sure wma was supported in se2.1 with several free players tho. Minor for most but if you've got gigs of wma to play could be a consideration
Confirmed. Winamp or mediascape play wma fine on se2.1. Possibly worth noting as a restriction for custom 2.2+ ROMs?
Hey guys,
so i just tried to play a video i recorded on my Atrix over HDMI with the entertainment center and i couldnt get any audio. even music wasn't working.
Im running 4.1.57 rooted with no mods.
any ideas what the problem might be?
Thanks
still having this problem?? i had it briefly but after trying a few different videos it started working again not sure what was causing this problem hope it is not a recurring problem.
this will happen often if you copy files from your PC instead of syncing them through Windows Media.
It should work EVERY time if you sync them correctly through WM though.
I've had problems with certain formats of video. What formats are you using?
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I've had problems with certain formats of video. What formats are you using?
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I tried a mp4 and also vids which i took on the atrix itself, which are 3gp
if you use WM to sync movies to the device it will change then to .wmv format, which the device has no issues playing, not sure how to patch codecs to make other formats work all the time, but syncing through WMP seems like the easiest route for now.
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if you use WM to sync movies to the device it will change then to .wmv format, which the device has no issues playing, not sure how to patch codecs to make other formats work all the time, but syncing through WMP seems like the easiest route for now.
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I dont think its an issue with the format or coding, i say this because the audio from mp3 files are not working either. I used to be able to play most things fine before i updated. But i have recently flashed and updated to retain root and i feel something got messed up along the way.
I guess ill wait for the next update to release and hopefully that will fix the prob, if not i will just install the webtop mod and see if that helps.
Is it me or does the SGS2 not show the artist tag in .m4a files? whats going on?
I installed PowerAmp, it's the only music app I could find that shows all of the tags and artwork for my iTunes music files (m4a's).
Mine still has missing tags? every other phone I've had has been fine? what have samsung done? and why??
the tag is still there when I load it back to iTunes, but something on the phone is stopping the tag being seen, very strange?
havent been using .m4a files yet but will try some out tonight when i get home from work. tried any other media player such as winamp? maybe a tag problem with PowerAMP?
I've used Doubletwist, Winamp, PowerAMP, and a tag editor to see what wrong, all do the same thing, can't figure it out, and the SGS2 guide it says plays .m4a's but its the only android phone I've seen this on?
You could always sync with Winamp and tell it to transcode .m4a into another format during sync, it's in the device properties when your phone is plugged in!
I could, but important now using spotify and synchronized my playlists, crazy but works.
I still don't understand why the sgs2 won't see the tags on m4a files? My nexus s and desire s do? Strange Samsung idea maybe?
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I don't know, but I'm hoping it's easily fixed... I've just sold my iPod Touch so I can use the SGSII as my music player when I get it! Ripped some of my favourite CDs to .flac as well for the best music quality
Well if you find out, let me know, its bugging me, and seams to make a great phone, a bit second rate!
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Just got my SGSII yesterday... my m4a tags are fine! Not sure what's happening with yours D:
EDIT: I was totally wrong, the artist didn't show up. Luckily I had like one album in m4a format, so I changed it to mp3 and everything's fine now! Just missing a few album arts here and there, but I think that's more a Winamp problem than a problem with the SGSII
Mine are the same .m4a artist tag shows as unknown. Play fine etc just doesn't show the artist
I've noticed that the Kies software from Samsung doesn't recognise any of the music tags for m4a files either even though it downloads codecs?
how have you guys transferred the music onto the s2?
I'm using Winamp to drag and drop, then play using Winamp on the phone and the same happens to me. 10GB of my 20GB collection is in m4a too.
Try using sync with Winamp and tell it that m4a isn't supported, and to transcode m4a into mp3 maybe? Might do the trick!
I found this after having copied files to the new phone, then searching under the artist and not finding the album I had copied. I searched for a keyword in the song name and sure enough - same symptoms. m4a files purchased form iTunes, plays the file fine, but not sorted properly.
Guess I'll give another music player app a shot.
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Guess I'll give another music player app a shot.
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All the other players I tried use the system media DB as the source, which is where the data problem lies.
I tried Winamp, poweramp, doubletwist and all have the same problem.
Looks like maybe we need a firmware update to fix this?
M4A tracks don't have an artist
I have the same issue here.
Any applications that use the system media library (which include DoubleTwist, Winamp, PowerAMP) don't display the artists.
I downloaded a tag editor app onto the phone, but when I go to edit the tags, they are all correct, it does seem to be an issue with the system, and not any apps.
Has anyone tried installing the default music player from vanilla Gingerbread?
Or is the media library part of the OS more than just that app?
Would imagine that the stock Android music player will have the same problem. It's pretty apparent that Samsung have customised the media scanner and broken it for no apparent reason, since it worked just fine before!
I'm not completely clear on how components such as the media scanner/media store database are packaged up but would hazard a guess that it might be possible to replace the Samsung version with the vanilla version...
In PowerAMP > Folders view, if I long press a m4a file then select Info I can clearly see that the artist info is there.
However, in Library view (which I wan't using at all until last week) the Artist section is definitely missing the m4a files.
The problem somehow seems to be all files that use AAC-codec (m4a, mp4, etc.). My .mp4-files wich worked perfectly on my old SGS are now broken (tags, that is).
It must be a system problem, cause other programs experience this also. And The music player seems to be pretty much the same as in SGS.
REALLY hope they fix this soon. I've been ripping my CD:s tp MP4:s for years. Not going to convert them all to mp3:s.
So I am having some issues with my atrix. I am trying to watch movies off my hdmi and video and audio are both working. The only problem is that the sound is not in sync with the video. Do i need to convert the videos files in order to correct this issue or am i doing something wrong. Sorry if this question has already been posted but i couldn't find any info on it.
its not the phone. The problem is from the way you are converting it. Try a different program and see if that helps.
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So I am having some issues with my atrix. I am trying to watch movies off my hdmi and video and audio are both working. The only problem is that the sound is not in sync with the video. Do i need to convert the videos files in order to correct this issue or am i doing something wrong. Sorry if this question has already been posted but i couldn't find any info on it.
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Have you played them on a PC to see what they look like?
What software are you using to create the videos?
What source are you using? (avi, wma, etc.)
Where is the source material coming from?
If they are out of sync on another device/computer, then it rules out the phone.
yeah I have, the play fine on my windows media player. I downloaded them via torrent and they play fine on my laptop. They are .AVI files and I already trouble shooted them all on my phone. They all seem to do the same thing. windows media player plays them just fine. My atrix plays them too but the sound doesnt go in sync with the actors voices.
I really dont think its the phone, I just think its the software in the phone that is causing it. I have tried other players on android market and they do the same thing.
I did not convert the files to mp4 or mkv files. Im thinking that this is the issue. Its just a drag to convert them since it takes so long to do the conversion.
Very interested in this phone for my next upgrade. However, using it as a music player will be important to me and most of my music is encoded in AAC format. The official Sony site doesn't list this as being supported by the Xperia S, whereas GSMArena claims that it is.
Does the Xperia S play AAC music files without a problem?
Even if it's not supported by the stock player, you can always use any ffmpeg powered one.
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I thought as much - thanks for the confirmation. I'd still be curious to know if the stock player does it, though.
I have some AAC music in the m4a format in my phone and the stock music player is compatible with them. It plays and shows the tags/album art without problems.
R64 said:
I have some AAC music in the m4a format in my phone and the stock music player is compatible with them. It plays and shows the tags/album art without problems.
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Thanks!
Hello to everybody! I have an Xperia U and I try to reproduce podcast in m4a format with chapters ( Release yourself by roger sanchez) but all the app I've tried played only audio part, without chapters support.
Anyone can give me a suggestion?
thanks in advice
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Hello to everybody! I have an Xperia U and I try to reproduce podcast in m4a format with chapters ( Release yourself by roger sanchez) but all the app I've tried played only audio part, without chapters support.
Anyone can give me a suggestion?
thanks in advice
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Deadbeef I think. Try the free version before buying.
Thank you I've just tried but it work only in audio reproduction
After so many apps finally I found one that reproduce mp4 with chapter: RockPlayer Lite.
The only disadvantage is that it cannot work in background!