Folks,
How do you xfer playlists from a desktop (ie. Winamp) to the Kaiser and have them show up in HTC Audio Manager?
While I was using the standard Tilt rom I could drag and drop the playlist from within Winamp and the files would be properly converted and the playlist visible in HTC Audio Manager but since flashing Dutty's ROM and installing the Audio Manager, my playlists are missing (all the files are copied and displayed properly, though).
Thanx,
rutilate
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There is now the superb feature in iTunes to have a file pick up where it left off playing. Is there any application for the PPC which supports this?
I have found a (fairly) simple solution for how to have a playlist in the HTC Audio Manager that is sorted by something besides alphabetical order. It's really more of a workaround, but at least it's something.
As you probably know if you're reading this, when you use the HTC Audio Manager and go to create a playlist, all of the songs are presented in alphabetical order with no way to sort them any other way. The names given are short enough that you may not even be able to differentiate songs if they have similar names. E.g. on Pink Floyd's The Wall, you have 3 songs called Another Brick In The Wall. The HTCAM doesn't given you enough name to differentiate them just by looking.
Anyways, if you want to have a playlist sorted by name you either have to look at the album and select the songs in order, rather a PITA; OR you can open up Media Player on your device. Queue up the songs you want into a playlist there and then save it. HTC Audio Manager has the ability to open audio playlists and will search your playlist folder by default. When you go back into the Audio Manager you should see the playlist you created in WMP if you go to Playlists. It will have a Windows Media Player icon next to it and you won't be able to change the playlist, but at least everything will be in order. If you use WMP on your PC to sync music to your phone, you can create the playlists there as well and they should carry over. Although I'm not certain on this since I've got a couple of WMP playlists that didn't carry over. But those were there before I flashed the ROM and might possibly not be saved in the correct location for the Audio Manager to pick them up.
I know it's may not the most elegant solution and certainly not as good as native support, but it is something that really bothered a lot of people. I know that for me it was a deal breaker but I can tolerate this workaround.
can anyone confirm the ability to create playlists on the PC and move them to the phone? I have yet to be able to do this.
Something that really grates me about AudioManager is the ability to piss me off by adding ringtones stored in my storage card to the library. If anyone knows who to add exceptions to certain folders it would be really awesome
Playlist transfer from PC
After pulling half my hair out, I decided ot do this right, and found the way to transfer a playlist with appropriate sorting from Windows to my HTC Touch Pro Audio Manager.
The clue appears to make sure that all references in the playlist are relative to the location of the playlist. I.e. you must store the playlist on the same location as the files. To get this to work I had to work with the TouchPro as a disk drive - which assigns a drive letter and makes things work better in Windows Media Player.
a) Open WMP on the PC
b) Enter “Library”
c) Make a new (empty) playlist
d) Make sure the playlist pane is open on the right
e) Connect HTC as diskdrive
f) Search for all music on the drive in Windows Explorer
g) Select all music found
h) Right click and add to Windows Media Player playlist
i) In WMP – save playlist as
Filename: “Any_name.asx”
Remember to choose file type wpl, m3u, asx to get the format right
Export to the device to get the path right
Steps a-d+i in Windows Media Player (WMP) - e is chosen on the device and f-h in Windows explorer.
My use was to have my playlist shuffled while avoiding repeats - and that could be handled in WMP, but you could also choose the sequence manually or make any other sorting.
Note: some sources of error are: Saving the playlist on the PC will cause references to E:\Music\Song.wma (or whatever) which is likely to be different from the reference internally on the device (\Storage\Music\Song.wma or such).
I hope this helps - if nothing else; I feel a little better to have contributed in return for all the great advice found on the site.
I also investigated playlists created with Playlist Manager on the TouchPro, and to me it appeared that some had a conflicting structure, and would not read in HTC Audio Manager. I suspected the sequence of Title and other headings, but didn't investigate fully.
Regards, Anders
andbb said:
After pulling half my hair out, I decided ot do this right, and found the way to transfer a playlist with appropriate sorting from Windows to my HTC Touch Pro Audio Manager.
The clue appears to make sure that all references in the playlist are relative to the location of the playlist. I.e. you must store the playlist on the same location as the files. To get this to work I had to work with the TouchPro as a disk drive - which assigns a drive letter and makes things work better in Windows Media Player.
a) Open WMP on the PC
b) Enter “Library”
c) Make a new (empty) playlist
d) Make sure the playlist pane is open on the right
e) Connect HTC as diskdrive
f) Search for all music on the drive in Windows Explorer
g) Select all music found
h) Right click and add to Windows Media Player playlist
i) In WMP – save playlist as
Filename: “Any_name.asx”
Remember to choose file type wpl, m3u, asx to get the format right
Export to the device to get the path right
Steps a-d+i in Windows Media Player (WMP) - e is chosen on the device and f-h in Windows explorer.
My use was to have my playlist shuffled while avoiding repeats - and that could be handled in WMP, but you could also choose the sequence manually or make any other sorting.
Note: some sources of error are: Saving the playlist on the PC will cause references to E:\Music\Song.wma (or whatever) which is likely to be different from the reference internally on the device (\Storage\Music\Song.wma or such).
I hope this helps - if nothing else; I feel a little better to have contributed in return for all the great advice found on the site.
I also investigated playlists created with Playlist Manager on the TouchPro, and to me it appeared that some had a conflicting structure, and would not read in HTC Audio Manager. I suspected the sequence of Title and other headings, but didn't investigate fully.
Regards, Anders
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Will your method copy all actual music files in PC to device or it will sync only playlist file? Do playlist files itself - without actual music files - useful for copying to device or backuping?
Hi
For some reason Audio manager doesn't recognise any mp3's that I have on my Touch. I sync using Pocketmac on OSX. I'm just wondering if the files need to go into a specific folder on the device?
The tracks will play through windows media player, just not through Audio manager
Thanks
Jason
hy,
gives an program where can create an htc audiomanager playlist
not with the htc audiomanager i have many of 100 mp3 ringtones of my trion
and many mp3 files in different folders..
The AudioManger mixed both.. and a playlist to create with the manager is
impossible..
greets tk
I manage my Files with Media Player 11 on the PC and sync with the Storage Card of my PPC.
U can choose wich Files and Playlist should be synced.
U will see the playlists and files in the Media Player on PPC, and also in the HTC Audiomanager.
i have no windows on my desktop pc, iam using linux,
i send the mp3 files direct to the storage card, without syncing,
and the audiomanager search the complete pda, he cannot read m3u playlist.
the windows media player mixed the files too... not an different.. to the htc..
i think i must create self the playlist on my desktop pc and send them to the pda..
greets tk
It reads playlist in /Application Data/HTC/Audiomanager/playlist
The playlist file has not extention.
Make a playlist with some program, delete extention and try.
I try the reverse operation, and work.
Playlist Manager
Try this playlist manager to create play list and play with media player. Its freely available from freewarepocketpc.net.
thanks.. for this file
Hi all,
I am looking for some advice, having come up with sweet FA after searching Google, XDA forums, app FAQs etc. I have somehow stuffed up my media library after playing with playlists and music in Windows Media Player (WMP) sync.
The fist time I synced music and playlists to my phone with WMP it worked perfectly. After later transferring some songs by copying to SDcard and overwritingr playlists, I've now run into a problem which causes my default music player Apollo to show only the music and playlists I originally synced, although browsing my SDcard shows all my other songs and playlists in the same folders. Here is a list of what I have tried so far to no avail:
Ending the WMP partnership and starting again
Unmounting and remounting SDcard
Using 'RescanMedia' app
Clear Data for MediaStorage and Apollo apps
Manually deleting related database files in /data/data
Reinstalling WMP on Win7
Formatting SDcard, starting with a fresh ROM and retrying the WMP sync (very weird that this didn't work - makes me think it's WMP)
No matter what I do, when WMP says I have synced successfully, the same old song list reappears in Apollo despite hundreds more songs being in the Music folder.
I'm using a Sony Xperia Neo V MT11i with cm_haida-0.3.antibillos ROM.
Any tips are apprecaited.