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Putting music on to XDA II

Can anyone tell me (and I really do need it explained very very simply) how I can put a bit of music on to both my PDA and a storage card. I have put a song from one of my CDs as my ring tone, but it is taking up zillions of megabytes and I'm sure there must be a way of copying it over in a smaller, or more compact format.
Any thoughts would be very welcome. Thanks.
Also; and this may be the same idea: Can you download a video onto the storage card, so that you could play it back some time, or is this in the realms of fantasy again; I would guess that the size of the file would be the problem again here.
Thanks for any suggestions.

use the program it's free and is called cdex
it makes cd's into wma or mp3
then you can
1 copy the music to my pocketpc documents located in my documents and sync your device
2 use explore in activesync and copy the music that way
3 put your sd card in a sdcard reader and copy the files to the card as you would to a disk

Sync Music with Sensation - convert file formats?

Can anyone suggest any software to me that can sync music to my device (or to my memory card plugged into USB), but that will also convert the file formats aswell?
Reason I ask is some of my media is FLAC (lossless, but huge) format which I don't think my HTC would play, and even if it did, they are far too big to be putting on it - unless I can get hold of a 200Gb Micro-SD Card!
Also, some of the MP3's I have are 320Kbps, but when playing them on my phone through the stereo in the car, you can't tell the difference in quality from a 160kpbs file - so I'd rather save space on the SD card if possible.
I started using Winamp Android Wi-fi Sync which I liked, but doesn't convert.
Any ideas?

For converting I use http://www.formatoz.com/ it works with a lot of formats, is just good

What to do with my music library

I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?

tttimmcg said:
the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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I can recommend BSPlayer.

BSPlayer is what I use too, seems to play everything under the sun...

BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.

*player (still getting used to this keyboard)

tttimmcg said:
BS plagued won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I have not had any issues in playing movies in excess of 4 GB with BSPlayer

tttimmcg said:
I recently bought a tf700 32gb. I have a roughly 25 gb music collection and a couple movies I want to put on my infinity from my old laptop. I have all of the media saved on a 32gb sd card, the problem is that the stock music and video players don't like some of the file types ( it won't play. WMA music or .mkv or .mp4 movies). What would all of you recommend as far as players that handle more file types or ways to convert the files?
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PowerAmp for audio. DICE player for video.

I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?

BS player has played everything i threw at it. Im watching n 11gb 1080p blu ray mkv of Avengers right now, with no issues.
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I have the free version of the app, could that cause the problem?
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I would copy some media files to the internal storage and try it again, this would rule out sd card issues...

While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?

tttimmcg said:
While I'm at it, can I ask how your sdcards are formatted, or where the media your playing is saved?
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Sandisk 64 microsd, straight out of box, mkv, vob, avi, mpeg m4v files have been played via bsplayer.
Have played files from micro sd, internal storage, and smb share.

tttimmcg said:
BS player won't do it. Sometimes it'll play about a second of the movies before crashing, mostly it just t fails to open the files. Could it be that the files are too large? All of them are larger than two and a half gb's. I'm pretty sure my card is formatted correctly because i can play a 700 mb .avi video from it.
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I haven't had any issues with it. Granted I have only played mkv (with DTS audio) on it, either from local storage or streaming from a Twonky server. It can't be the file size, the movies I played were 10+ GB.

Ok, so i wasn't specific enough before, I had my music and movies on a 32 microSD drive, mounted to the tablet. I tried putting it into an adapter and using it with the keyboard dock. Now everything is working exactly like i should be. I took the files from my laptop with the card and adapter combo too, but i dont know if that has anything to do with this solution working. This is different from the original subject, but does anyone know why this might be, or how I could get it to work with just the microSD?
And for the record, Im liking BSPlayer for movies, and Player Pro for music.

trouble sorting video issue

I have a stock rom rooted GT P5113 running 4.0.4. I am getting ready to go on vacation and want to load some of my movies on it for the 4 hour plane ride. I am having trouble getting videos to load. Most of my movies are M4V and I know it wont play those. I do have some that are .mp4 format, so i tried loading one of those on my external sd card. my card is the sandisk sdxc64GB class 10 formatted fat32 and its recognized by both the tab and my laptop when i plug my tab in.
When I try to load one of my .mp4 movies it gets about 99% done and says that the format is not supported and it gives me 2 options to skip the file or cancel the install... WTF is going on here? I only have a week to sort this out. I HATE THIS ITUNES BS. why are they allowed to format the movies that I buy in their proprietary format with their proprietary DRM so i can only load MY movies and shows on a Crapple device? This is why I got rid of ALL of my Apple devices. They need to be rained in some.

Check the size of that mp4 file.
If it is more than 4 GB then it cannot be transferred to that card since it is formatted in fat32.
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For size is only in the 700mb range...What if I put the sdcard in my laptop transferred the files and then put it back in my tab?
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Install mx player from market. I think it should play those m4v files.
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MultipleMonomials said:
Install mx player from market. I think it should play those m4v files.
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Te issue wasnt playing the M4V videos... i didnt know if it would or not, i couldnt even get them on the tab... kept giving me an error and canceling the transfer.
UPDATE: I have this issue resolved, KIND OF.
I still cant add the videos with the usb cable from my computer, but i did get a M4V video on the sdxc card by unmounting and removing it from the tab, putting it into my laptop, transferring a movie and putting the card back in the tab and mounting it. I did use MX payer and it does in fact play M4V videos just fine.
hoep this helps someone else that is having this issue.

[Feature request] Multivolume zip/rar support

Hello,
I want to view mkv files +4gb on my device, but in internal memory i have only space left to store one movie at one time. I have microsd 64gb installed but device only recognizes fat32 (with 4gb size limit this file format has). I tried format sdcard in exFat, ntfs, ext2,3,4. The phone doesn't recognize the card and let me only format sdcard, leaving it on fat32.
So I'm wondering if MX player can open multivolume rar/zips containing a mkv, but even one single volume zip/rar files are not supported.
It would be an easy feature to implement on player? I tried to open it on BS Player buy only opens the audio. Or maybe there is other player supporting this feature. I have in mind to split mkv with tools, but I must lead with subtitle timing.
Thank you for reading.

palmboy99 said:
Hello,
I want to view mkv files +4gb on my device, but in internal memory i have only space left to store one movie at one time. I have microsd 64gb installed but device only recognizes fat32 (with 4gb size limit this file format has). I tried format sdcard in exFat, ntfs, ext2,3,4. The phone doesn't recognize the card and let me only format sdcard, leaving it on fat32.
So I'm wondering if MX player can open multivolume rar/zips containing a mkv, but even one single volume zip/rar files are not supported.
It would be an easy feature to implement on player? I tried to open it on BS Player buy only opens the audio. Or maybe there is other player supporting this feature. I have in mind to split mkv with tools, but I must lead with subtitle timing.
Thank you for reading.
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I am not sure that whether it's possible or not.
But, alternatively you can easily split mkv files without re-encoding.

ktsamy said:
I am not sure that whether it's possible or not.
But, alternatively you can easily split mkv files without re-encoding.
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Yes, it seems split video into <4gb parts is the only way at this moment. I will try with mkvtoolnix.
However I think split has some inconveniences like problems with timing subtitles, discontinue play and jumps on changing parts. Also, split mkv has slightly more steps than create multivolume uncompressed file.

I see that using 'Link files' option on mkvmerge options preserve timecode on probably no problem with subtitle timing. We'll see.