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
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I have an XDA 1 and have been trying to copy CDs to it to use as an MP3 player. U used Windows Media Player to convert the CD but when I try to get it to copy to the XDA it says 'System Path not found'. I don't really understand the software or how I'm meant to do it. Can anyone help please? Thanks v much.
cant you just sync the files to the xda ?
or open activesync and choose explore and copy them to it`?
Are the files on the CD in mp3 format? if so, just copy them. (you can also adjust bitrate with SoundForge to reduce the size)
If you want to copy an AudioCD, in explorer (like Total Commander) you will only see links. Than it would take a little time to rip the CD... :twisted:
Easiest method is to copy the files to an SD card and plug that in to the XDA, but I would use WMA rather than MP3.
WMA files tend to be about 1/2 the size of MP3 and the only problem that I have found is that they fail to accurately reproduce low volume, low frequency complex sound (try the intro to most early Metallica or Motorhead tracks - it is reproduced as a warbling sound).
Hi,
I'm using o2 mini & have a problem which need your help.
1/ Pls consult me what software for compressing music files from CD & then copy it to SD. Pls instruct me the way to do it.
2/ I'm looking for the software to watch films. Pls advise me what software can give the best pictures & fully sreen.
3/Can I use CD music to be ringstone. The way to do it.
Thank you very much in advance.
Hi Baloo,
Ok, let's do it step by step:
1) CD to SD:
For this you can use Audiograbber, which gets the audio tracks from your CDs (as long as your CDs aren't copy protected, otherwise you'll might run into troubles) on your PC and converts them into MP3 tracks. These MP3s you can put onto your SD card (using a card reader or via cable).
2) Watching films on your device:
Normally all PocketPCs come with windows media player, which can be used to view videos too. As I personally dislike WMP, I use BetaPlayer, which is a very nice video player and is able to play AC3, MP4, AVI films and also MP3 audio files.
3) Music as ringtones:
After having done the steps mentioned in 1), you should be able to use your MP3 files as ringtones too. I'm using the term "should be", because this depends on the capabilities and settings of your PocketPC (normally it should work, but there are some users who reportet problems - for more information just use the search function of this forum). As an alternative you also can use WAV files (they also can be made with Audigrabber) as ringtones, but they are about ten times larger in file size.
Just a little further note:
When using MP3s or WAVs as ringtones, you should place them on the internal memory of your device, because otherwise they may not be played (SD cards need some time to be activated when the PocketPC returns from sleep mode).
As a complete MP3 music file normally is about 4 MB of size (which is a lot), you should edit the MP3 you want to use and shorten it to about 20 seconds (look here, too). With this, you keep your memory and have your personal ring tone too
For more informations, just use the search function of this forum.
HTH,
BGK
Hello everybody!
I ask for your help, because I tried all possible solutions, but unsuccessfully.
I can't make TF3D music player to play my MP3s on the SD card.
When I had HTC Universal, I had MP3s on the SD in the "MUSICA" folder.
I copied all the folder to the new MicroSD for the Touch Pro.
Inside there are other sub-directories, as MIX, ARTISTS, etc...
The first time I open TF3D music player, it searches for music in the internal memory and in storage card.
They are a lot of files, about 3Gb, so it takes a long time to finish.
When it finishes catalogation, I find the list of all MP3s, someone with the album art.
But when I try to play one, it doesn't start.
Someone starts playing after 10s I pressed the play icon, it plays for 7-8s, then playing stops.
I can't change MP3 file with the up and down arrows near the play icon.
If I open the catalog to select another MP3 on the list, it doesn't select it and it returns to the music player showing still the previous MP3.
I read in some threads to try to stop TF3D and delete the catalog file (AudioManager_Eng.vol).
I did it, the catalog regenerated, but still the same problem.
I tried to rename the folder "MUSICA" in a more stardard "Music" or "My Music" and relaunched a new catalogation, nothing changed.
I tried also to move all files from the sub-folders to the "main" folder "My Music", nothing changed.
I had this problem with the shipped WWE ROM, but also with my actual ROM, a reconstructed ITA ROM.
I noticed that after a hard-reset, without the SD inserted, TF3DMP plays correctly the sample MP3s inside "My Music" in internal storage.
I will try to move some files to "My Music" on the internal storage to see what it happens, but it's not the solution.
I can't copy 3Gb of MP3s in the internal storage!
I saw that people can play MP3s on SD card with no problems with the TF3DMP.
So what's wrong?
I don't know what other tries I can do to try to find where's the problem.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi, that means you have something wrong - for htc's music player - with some of the mp3s on your sd card, and that the ones you chose to put in the device's memory are OK.
I have run into the same kind of problem, with a much smaller amount of music, because some of my files didn't have correct meta data (artist / album).
The best way is to try putting the albums one by one and test - or to use another music player. Personally I'm wondering if I'm not goint to switch to pocket music player, less eye candy, no album covers, but no bugs, instead of a library sorting you can chose to play a directory - I didn't find a way in HTC's player to just take the songs of a directory instead of scanning everything, in order to prevent this kind of bug...
I haven't really used my phone as an MP3 player, but now I have a nice, big SD card in it and have decided to copy some songs over.
When I load up Media Player (I like it. So sue me.) and tell it to update the library, it doesn't see the MP3s I put on the storage card. I tried putting them in the My Documents/My Music folder on the card and I even tried putting them in the same folder as that stupid Dogbark file in the main memory and the library NEVER finds them. Is there a trick to make media player see MP3s or what? I can open the files manually and Media Player will play them just fine.
Edit:
I wanted to mention that, when I do 'Update Library', the phone says it found 40+ files, but the device library only shows 4 files (dogbark, mommy, allouete and ding) and the storage card shows nothing.
Did you switch to Storage Card (Next to the Library button there is a drop down menu)?
I use my phone as an mp3 player, and I have the music folder and download folder on our desktop pc shared on the home network.
when I want to put music on the phone, I use es file explorer to copy music from the shared folder to the sd card. sometimes files don't copy in alpha-numeric order, I think it happens when there's a wider variation in file sizes in the folder. the sd card is formatted in FAT (exfat, I think), which indexes files in order of creation.
if the files have been copied and indexed out of order, music player apps will then play them in that order, regardless of what the track numbers in the metadata says. this is an old problem that's been plaguing digital music fans for years.
it's relatively easy to fix, by just cutting and pasting the files into another folder on the sd card, where they are re-indexed into alpha-numeric order.
is there a way to stop it happening to start with, either at the phone end or on the pc (linux mint 17)? I'd assume that formatting the sd card in a different file system would just cause me problems, can I force es file explorer to copy the files in order? or is there a different file manager that will? or would sharing the files via ftp instead of smb sort it out?