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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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?
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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?
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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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Alright, this might be a stupid question, but It's been giving me somewhat trouble now.
I prepared my entire music folder on my PC, and then just transfered it via USB cabe to the phone. I'm from Bosnia, so there are loads of č ć š đ ž characters to go around. However, the phone turned most of that into korean characters / boxes. The sad thing is, it didn't do it to every one, so I might end up with one song having the proper artist name, the next one has a box instead of a special letter.
Any help?
EDIT: That being said, the files themselves now have changed characters, so even when looking at them in the explorer they're screwed up, so I imagine it has nothing to do with the music player.
EDIT 2: Upon further experimentation using the winamp device sync, copying a song from the phone into the local library of winamp causes the letters to once again appear properly.
I need to know what/how people are syncing their music with their phones. I purchased MediaMonkey for me and my gf (we both have I777) and was able to sync my playlist in MediaMonkey to the phone. However, I messed up the playlist. I added a file to the root of the external SD card called '.isaudioplayer' and that caused the m3u file to have incorrect paths. When I viewed the m3u file in a text editor on the phone, It said F:/Music/yadda. Obviously, F: is wrong. How are your playlists listed? Thanks for the assistance!
have you thought about using google music? No need to sync your music at all. Just stream from the app.
+1 on google music, I use it every day and love it
I have Google Music. I don't like it. The Android app sucks. I tell it to only play local music, and it plays online music anyway. The app won't reload it's list of music (after an upload to the SD card). I have to reboot the phone to get the app to see the new music. I have uploaded my library to Google Music, but I wasn't finished tagging the library correctly. So basically, I need to finish tagging the library correctly, erase everything on Google Music, and then re-upload. Then create playlists. Not to mention the fact, that I have MythTV at home to play music in my living room, and Subsonic to stream music to the phone/work desktop. I hate having to create playlists. That's the worst thing in the world. If Google actually created/released APIs for Google music, then MediaMonkey/MythTV could integrate (not to mention the really cool CM9 inspired new Music app out there).
I also received a message from AT&T telling me I was in the top 5% of users this month. I find that completely unbelievable. I only stream music for ~20 minutes a day. Be it from home via Subsonic, or Google Music. So having it local helps. Not to mention the GF is on my plan now, but we only gave her 2GBs. That will just be eaten up by Google Music.
But the biggest issue is I want the music on my phone because when I hit the fitness room in the basement of my office, I get 0 WLAN bars and 0 3G bars. So I need local music. GF also has the issue of signal strength where she goes.
Does anyone have a playlist.m3u file I could look at to see the proper format of the file? Also, is there anyone else like me out there that actually puts music on their phones now?
I tried media monkey, but ultimately it didn't work out for me. What I ended up doing was using winamp on the computer to sync my music and playlists to my phone, actually my SD card. I lose the ability to do wireless sync, but I like keeping all of my music on the external memory. Also, I didn't really like the winamp for android, so I switched to using playerpro. The playlists and everything work out very nicely, and they stay in sync.
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iSyncr or doubleTwist Airsync i'd suggest looking into. They are probably the top of the list aside from Google Music.
I've been using doubleTwist and it is everything i could need however it comes with a whole new Media Program to install (stills syncs with iTunes though).
iSyncr is nice if you only want to use iTunes because it's basically an "addon" and this way you don't need a whole new media managing program.
Google Music is very basic and simple. You might as well get it anyways as a backup but I don't personally like the app/online management of music; it is just too difficult to edit files. However if you want to go this route you can get Google Music Importer which will let you save the music you pin for offline mode from within the android app to be used in other music app's (otherwise you are forced with always using the Google Music app to play the music from online).
Tried iSync and doubletwist and settled on iSync. so I keep my music on itunes and just sync with the phone.
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I used iSyncr for a while, worked great, but I hated being tied down to iTunes. Bought MediaMonkey and, after some configs, I love it.
I have it set so that songs are:
/sdcard/MediaMonkey/Music/songs
And playlists:
/sdcard/MediaMonkey/Music/playlists
And I have the playlists to have relative paths, so drive letters don't matter.
PlayerPro works just fine with this setup. So does PowerAMP.
Here's my device config XML, just import in MediaMonkey if you like.
Syncing? What's that?
I just copy everything I want to listen to, to /my_music on the internal storage.
Edit: I don't use playlists either, blegh.
jhermit said:
Tried iSync and doubletwist and settled on iSync. so I keep my music on itunes and just sync with the phone.
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Thanks for the suggestions all. We are trying to move away from iTunes at home. The fact is that iTunes on Windows doesn't support FLAC audio. It does on OS X, but I'm not going that route. I guess I just deal with the faults of MediaMonkey. But really, if anyone can just attach their m3u file that WORKS on the Android phone, then I'd be grateful. Thanks!
I will upload a few sample m3u files when I get onto a computer.
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I linked you how to get MediaMonkey working perfectly for sync...
I use MediaMonkey. I have 40K+ songs to choose from to sync to a 32GB card, so I select a few playlists of select songs to fill it up. Auto-syncs every time I plug the MicroSD card into the computer (I hate having to shut the phone off, but I found syncing to be faster when the card is directly plugged in versus plugging the phone in).
No problems here. Syncing is fast and never have any issues.
I use iSyncr. Support for iTunes Smart playlist is a must for how I manage a series of ever changing playlists. Because it also maintains the correct smart playlist order (something that Apple messed up with iTunes 10.5/iOS5 on my iPod Touch) it syncs music better than iTunes does for my iPod.
Well I finally got this working. I found out that simply RIGHT clicking on a playlist, and telling it to sync to the mounted I777 will sync the music in that playlist, but NOT the actual playlist. Pretty crappy design in my opinion.
I figured it out last night. In Media Monkey, go to your device you want to sync. In the AUTO-SYNC tab, click on the playlists in the left pane of the device window. Then choose the playlists you want to auto-sync. Then go to the OPTIONS tab in that same device window, and tell it to "Create Playlists for:" and choose "Synced Playlists" (I'm not in front of MM now, but it's something like that option). Then tell it to use relative paths, and to swap the "\" for the "/". Done and done. PITA.
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Well I finally got this working. I found out that simply RIGHT clicking on a playlist, and telling it to sync to the mounted I777 will sync the music in that playlist, but NOT the actual playlist. Pretty crappy design in my opinion.
I figured it out last night. In Media Monkey, go to your device you want to sync. In the AUTO-SYNC tab, click on the playlists in the left pane of the device window. Then choose the playlists you want to auto-sync. Then go to the OPTIONS tab in that same device window, and tell it to "Create Playlists for:" and choose "Synced Playlists" (I'm not in front of MM now, but it's something like that option). Then tell it to use relative paths, and to swap the "\" for the "/". Done and done. PITA.
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I don't know why you chose to ignore my post with the MediaMonkey configuration that had all of that work done...
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I don't know why you chose to ignore my post with the MediaMonkey configuration that had all of that work done...
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I left work early, and didn't see it. Sorry. I really appreciate you posting it though!
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I left work early, and didn't see it. Sorry. I really appreciate you posting it though!
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Okay. Welcome!
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I also received a message from AT&T telling me I was in the top 5% of users this month. I find that completely unbelievable. I only stream music for ~20 minutes a day. Be it from home via Subsonic, or Google Music. So having it local helps. Not to mention the GF is on my plan now, but we only gave her 2GBs. That will just be eaten up by Google Music.
But the biggest issue is I want the music on my phone because when I hit the fitness room in the basement of my office, I get 0 WLAN bars and 0 3G bars. So I need local music. GF also has the issue of signal strength where she goes.
Does anyone have a playlist.m3u file I could look at to see the proper format of the file? Also, is there anyone else like me out there that actually puts music on their phones now?
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Google Music's online streaming uses A LOT of data. Even for 20 minutes worth. GM single handedly made me go over my data. They need to fix that. The only way around it is making songs available offline.
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Music streaming from google music is the same as everything else. A song is roughly 6mb, 20 minutes would be around 30mb downloaded. It does take an extreme about of data usage and other then uploading lower quality songs not much will change it. Make sure you don't have "download high quality"option in settings checked.
You can also pin songs to keep them usable offline.
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I just received my HTC One X+ earlier this week. They sent me the 64GB one which I was more than happy with and decided to put my whole music collection on.
I connected by USB and just transferred (drag and drop) it to the music folder within the HTC One X+ using Windows explorer. The first time I did it I noticed that some albums were split up in the stock music player. I checked Winamp Pro app and that too was picking them up as split up. I reconnected the phone and checked in Windows explorer but everything was fine, one folder for each album, just like I have on my PC. I deleted all the contents of the music folder on the phone and transferred them over again, but once again it split them up just like it did the first time. It is weird because it is just random songs it splits into another album, with the same album art and same album name.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have a solution?
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I just received my HTC One X+ earlier this week. They sent me the 64GB one which I was more than happy with and decided to put my whole music collection on.
I connected by USB and just transferred (drag and drop) it to the music folder within the HTC One X+ using Windows explorer. The first time I did it I noticed that some albums were split up in the stock music player. I checked Winamp Pro app and that too was picking them up as split up. I reconnected the phone and checked in Windows explorer but everything was fine, one folder for each album, just like I have on my PC. I deleted all the contents of the music folder on the phone and transferred them over again, but once again it split them up just like it did the first time. It is weird because it is just random songs it splits into another album, with the same album art and same album name.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have a solution?
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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I have that same issue....i'm still trying to track down the cause myself.
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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Thanks, but I have tried this. I am meticulous when it comes to the metadata tags and have been for years. The tags in Winamp on my PC are fine and nothing is split up. There's no spaces at the end of any of the information in the tags. They all show up fine on my Galaxy S1 and it is the same files I am copying over.
An example. On my PC I have 4 Angels & Airwaves albums, all tagged correctly. All displaying Album, Artist, Title, Song Number correctly. On my Galaxy S they are too. But on the One X+, those same files- some show up as 'Angels' for artist with 3 albums none split. Then there's Angels and Airwaves (they're tagged with & in the metadata on my PC) showing up with 2 albums which is 1 album split into two. It seems something is going wrong with the One X+ when I put these files on. It has to be the phone during transfer, because the Winamp app on my phone, along with the stock player, is showing the files like this.
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Thanks, but I have tried this. I am meticulous when it comes to the metadata tags and have been for years. The tags in Winamp on my PC are fine and nothing is split up. There's no spaces at the end of any of the information in the tags. They all show up fine on my Galaxy S1 and it is the same files I am copying over.
An example. On my PC I have 4 Angels & Airwaves albums, all tagged correctly. All displaying Album, Artist, Title, Song Number correctly. On my Galaxy S they are too. But on the One X+, those same files- some show up as 'Angels' for artist with 3 albums none split. Then there's Angels and Airwaves (they're tagged with & in the metadata on my PC) showing up with 2 albums which is 1 album split into two. It seems something is going wrong with the One X+ when I put these files on. It has to be the phone during transfer, because the Winamp app on my phone, along with the stock player, is showing the files like this.
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For example with me is with Soundgardens new album has this ONE song that is split from the rest...and I cannot find any reason for this whatsoever.
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For example with me is with Soundgardens new album has this ONE song that is split from the rest...and I cannot find any reason for this whatsoever.
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Retag all your files in your pc first either in iTunes if you use it or any proper metadata editor. You can use the ones from the playstore as well but might take for ever on device. Some tips, the less info the better for music. Artist, album and year is all I put beside track name of course. If you do use iTunes then doubletwist is your best friend. Delete your players app cache and data as well when you reload your library
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i had the same issue. use this program to check your tags. i thought that i had everything exactly the same on mine, but found one little difference and that would cause them to be split up. removed the difference, and everything was ok.
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
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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