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Problem with mp3 playback

After a hard reset on my Magician, i installed the last versions of tcmp player pocket music.
Then i changed back the associations to media player in order to have the ringtones working properly, and tried to listen some mp3's with pocket music. I browsed the folder with the mp3's, i was able to see the files but i couldn't open it.
Then, i tried with media player. When i tried to open a file with clicking it from File Explorer, i received the error "Cannot play the file. The file is either corrupted or the player does not support the format you are trying to play." The weird thing is that when i try to open the file from inside of media player's library, i works ok.
I unistalled tcmp and pocket music, but it didn't help. To summarize, the problem is that i can't open an mp3 file directly from explorer for media player, and not at all with pocket music. Tcmp works fine, but i prefer pocket music for mp3 listening.
Any suggestions except hard reset?
(sorry for the complicated post and my bad english)

TouchXplorer Question

im kind of confused as to how this would work.. say if u have mp3s picture and videos on the phone. can you use touchxplorer to access and move these files to different folders?
also with the use of touchxplorer is there some kind of temporary internet file folder? because on wp7 if u try to download a mp3 link off of a hosted site, the mp3 somewhat downloads it plays the song but its not added to the device memory, i havent tested pictures or movie files but im assuming it maybe similiar as well. with touchxplorer is it possible to locate the mp3 that would play from the download link if so where would it be located? and would u be able to add the mp3 to ur library with touchxplorer?

[Q] Cannot add MP3 to media - can't locate anywhere except root explorer

Standard music player can't find mp3 unless I go to root explorer and locate it directly. It will play in root explorer via the standard music player, but then there's no option to add it to the playlist, etc. It's in the same folder as 2 other mp3s that are located on the external SD card, which play. Also, when I try to make it a ringtone, it won't locate it either. Any suggestions? I compared all the details on itunes and it says that it's encoded by itunes and the other 2 aren't. Can that be something? Thanks.
Faux's Kernel, Eagleblood Froyo

That happened to my until I rebooted and the media scanner ran... now it sees all my mp3's...
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[Q] How to take advantage of SRS with another player?

Hello!
I've got my Sensation yesterday
Loving it, despite of the bugsss
I see that Sensation can config SRS in the default player, wanna use it with speakers
But I rarely use the default player =\ .. mostly mSpot and I'm thinking of testing Google Music, both having their "custom" players
Is it possible to take advantage of SRS with any other streaming music player?
Or make the default player see the songs downloaded by mSpot? (yea.. I wasn't able to make it do that )
That's weird, cuz it can find musics downloaded by "MP3 Music Download". And it's not the codec either, it's m4a by mSpot.
Thanks in advance!

SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.

GorillaPimp said:
SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.
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Thanks for your reply.
I tried the SDRescan, but it didn't work =\
I've also rebooted the phone.. it just doesn't see the mSpot folder -.-

I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.

I did a test copying the mSpot file to another folder.. it was able to see the music
So I guess the file is not the problem
But still can't make it to scan mSpot folder

GorillaPimp said:
I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.
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The files are there. Didn't find any setting like that.
I think I'm just gonna try Google Music (to sync) and play them with default player
Thanks, though!

Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..

Use Volume+.

ercliou said:
Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..
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That sucks man. DRM sucks. Yeah any folder with a file .nomedia or any folder that begins with a . is hidden from a media scan. The period first in the name is how you label a file or folder hidden in Linux.

[Q]Music players can't find music folder

Hi,
I've just finished install the ROM CoreDroid, and I have issue with my music.
I created a folder "Music" on my SD Card, but neither of PlayerPro or the default music player can find my songs.
I've also tried in Documents\Music, same problem.
How can I solve this issue ?
Thank's

Thanks for choosing Coredroid! Music players working ok for me. Both stock and PowerAmp find my tunes. I created a 'music' folder like you.
Have you tried a reboot since creating your folder? Sounds odd but sometimes you need to force a scan of media before a player will see it. There is also an app that does this without a reboot called SDrescan. Give that a go and let me know what happens.
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I finally found the problem. My songs were in .flac, apparently CoreDroid can't recognize them.
Putting .MP3 in "Music" folder works.
Thank you anyway

Skiny13 said:
I finally found the problem. My songs were in .flac, apparently CoreDroid can't recognize them.
Putting .MP3 in "Music" folder works.
Thank you anyway
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It's not so much CoreDroid, but a specific media player which does or does not support flac. The stock HTC player has never supported it. I can highly recommend the purchase of PowerAmp. It can play flac files and is in my opinion the best player out there.