I can't seem to get used to the TouchFlo3D music player. It found all my music and I can browse it in the library. I can play single mp3s from an album and somehow managed to create a playlist with all my music.
But isn't it somehow possible to play an entire album? Or all songs from an artist or genre? When I go to the library, choose the 'artists' tab, select an artist and press 'Play' at the bottom right it just returns to the media player without playing anything (the songs already there just remain there).
Am I missing something? Windows media player does it just fine but the touch music player confuses me bigtime.
dagrim1 said:
But isn't it somehow possible to play an entire album?
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To play an album: "Library" -> click on the CD case picture (it will show all albums) -> scroll to the album you want to listen to -> tap on it -> tap on the first song (it will start paying the first song and will then continue with the rest of the album)
Argh, and if I go to the genre -> all songs and play the first one there it also queues the entire genre...
Cheers for the response anonimo... Can't believe how I missed it.
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I've removed the supplied music and added my own selection to my memory card. The touch flo music app see's this in its library and, if I go through the pages to select and album and song, will show the album art etc. in the touch flo music player but it only shows that one artist at a time, not the stacked albums as with the original, supplied music.
How do I get the touch flo music player to build the stacked view of my artists?
Thanks...
Isn't touchflo3D linked to windows media player? If so, try going to start>programs>wmp right click>Update library. I haven't had this problem so don't know much.
I don't use WMP as such though and only want to synch some files from another location, not those my laptop has access to...
2nd poster is right, you have to find a link to windows media player then go into the options and update your library. It finds all music files and adds them, and they can then be accessed by going into the music tab and hitting Library in the bottom left.
Okay, cheers. Will give it a go and sort it out.
Thanks both.
That's weird. All I did was dump a load of tracks onto my SD card in a folder and they all appeared. I didnt have to do anything in WMP etc. TF3D picked them up pretty much straight away.
EDIT: Having read your OP again, I see what you are getting at. The view of "stacked albums" you are talking about is the "Now Playing" list. You have to add items into Now Playing before they will appear there. You will not see your entire music collection in that view unless you put them all into the playist that is currently playing.
Syphon Filter said:
That's weird. All I did was dump a load of tracks onto my SD card in a folder and they all appeared. I didnt have to do anything in WMP etc. TF3D picked them up pretty much straight away.
EDIT: Having read your OP again, I see what you are getting at. The view of "stacked albums" you are talking about is the "Now Playing" list. You have to add items into Now Playing before they will appear there. You will not see your entire music collection in that view unless you put them all into the playist that is currently playing.
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AH, I didn't even realize that lol... I thought he meant getting them into the library, and unlike yours mine didn't pick them up automatically. I had a folder full of files with "No program assigned" so I couldn't even open them until I updated my library.
i think that the original tracks gave you the wrong ideia. I used a diamond and i could only ear one artist at the time! the up and down only changes track.
But since you mention it, try messing with the settings and choose all albums. This should do the trick because with the original track they were like albums but with only one sample track each??
Should be getting mine soon to try it out
Yep, think I'm getting the hang of it.
Some confusion too. When I was referring to WMP I meant on my laptop rather than WMP on the Touch Pro.
WMP on my laptop wanted to synch a few hundred pictures as well... Stopped that and removed what I don't want leaving only the music I do want on the Touch Pro storage card.
Have now updated the library from within WMP on the Touch Pro (you have to first change it to look in the storage card) and now things are looking better.
Yep, agree that the supplied sample tracks give the impression that the Touch Flo music app can navigate between albums a flick at a time whereas this was because there was only a single track per each of these albums...
Have also seen that I need to get a selection made in order for the stacked album covers to appear...
Getting there slowly...
Further. Have added all my music to a playlist now and that makes all the albums come up in the stacked album view within the touch flo music app.
Not quite like what I thought it would be like though, i.e. you are limited to scrolling through your music one track at a time, the album flips to the next when you reach beyond the first or last track - you can't flip through albums at a time using the interface (unless the album has only one track) to select.
Can the Touchflow built in player read flac files? I have a feeling WMP doesnt...
NutsyUK said:
Can the Touchflow built in player read flac files? I have a feeling WMP doesnt...
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I think it's just a re-skinned WMP, built around it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that why you update WMP's library and it shows up in touch-flo's library?
It is a crock, I am going to switch it off, all I want to do is browse the folders to add songs to the play list but all I get is a big long list of all the songs on there, I have multiple versions of some but I can't see which are which.......
kempas said:
Further. Have added all my music to a playlist now and that makes all the albums come up in the stacked album view within the touch flo music app.
Not quite like what I thought it would be like though, i.e. you are limited to scrolling through your music one track at a time, the album flips to the next when you reach beyond the first or last track - you can't flip through albums at a time using the interface (unless the album has only one track) to select.
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yes, if you have 10 songs from the same album, each gesture flick will flip to the next track but the album art doesn't flip since it's the same album.
I "workaround" by creating a playlist containing multiple albums, and then I sort them in such a manner that the album tracks are arranged randomly, or at least no two track from the same album are together side by side.
Regarding album art.
I have added pics to albums that I have in WMP on PC. Synced those albums with TP. Some of the album arts does not show in TF3Ds music player, other does. However, album art shows nice when playing the same file in WPM on TP. Any clues???
Regarding album art, one foolproof way I've discovered of ensuring it appears is to make sure each album folder contains a file called Folder.jpg, then TF3D's music app will convert that JPG into it's own album art file when it next updates its library, which it tends to do either after a soft reset or after a memory card is inserted.
You may then delete all the Folder.jpg files if you want, to save space - they won't be needed any more.
I just want to be able to go into my music, and see the list of albums with the correct album art. then click on it and list all songs with correct names in that album.
I click on my mixzing music player, and i do see album's with album arts but some of them only have 1 track in where there should be about 22 (the full album) the album I have for example(now thats what i call music 72) has 5 selections which contains..
1 song
1 song
1 song
19 songs
1 song
so whenever i want to play the full album. I either have to play the 1 song and then switch or play the 19 songs and miss out on the 4 other songs. All songs are from the same album not sure why its doing this??
anybody got on tips on the best way to set up my music ?? thanks
I use Media Monkey to organize my music on my desktop, which is rather robust when it comes to tagging. Make sure that all the tags are the same. I've had to fix a few when dumping music on my Droid, and as long as the tags are right and the music is organized properly you should be good to go.
Generally speaking, my tracks are organized as such on the SD card.
/sdcard/Music///
I'm not sure if the physical arrangement comes into play or just the tagging, but I'm pretty meticulous when I rip/download music so I would have to play with it to find out. At the very least, it won't hurt.
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Hi ,
I created a play list in zune. i dont know how to shuffle..it keeps playing albums 1 by 1 anyone knows how to shuffle ?
Shan
Press on the album art, press the shuffle icon.
In Zune music swipe sideways untill you get to songs, then select shuffle all
brummiesteven said:
Press on the album art, press the shuffle icon.
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sorry ..i dont see anything..nothing happening even after long press.
CAH000 said:
In Zune music swipe sideways untill you get to songs, then select shuffle all
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but i want to shuffle songs only in my playlist not all songs in my zune
i got it now..i have to press almost at the bottom of the album art to get the option..thanx guys..
shanssv said:
i got it now..i have to press almost at the bottom of the album art to get the option..thanx guys..
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Whoa.
And here I thought WM7 would be user friendly. I still can't do this. I've got a playlist, some albums... Is it that hard to include a shuffle button at the bottom?
When I long-press on the album art I either get a grey "share" option or the following options: "add to play now", "delete", "pin to start".
I'm honestly not taken in by this player. How do you shuffle songs?
EDIT: The only reference to shuffling that I saw was the on the "all songs" list. But I want to shuffle an album, not the whole songs library.
I had a Zune HD for a year and the controls were spot on (music & video), I don't know why they were not ported straight to WP7 but hopefully that will be updated soon.
Check this article:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-vs-zune-hd-video
Peew971 said:
I had a Zune HD for a year and the controls were spot on (music & video), I don't know why they were not ported straight to WP7 but hopefully that will be updated soon.
Check this article:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-vs-zune-hd-video
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Are you suggesting the feature is not there, or that using it is shown in the YouTube video? (I can't watch YT videos at this very moment...)
EDIT: After more Googling, I found the answer to my question. To get to those features one has to tap the album art.
I always associated "pressing" on phones with a "long press", which in this case brings up the Zune context menu for that given object, but doesn't contain the shuffle option.
Shaamaan said:
Whoa.
And here I thought WM7 would be user friendly. I still can't do this. I've got a playlist, some albums... Is it that hard to include a shuffle button at the bottom?
When I long-press on the album art I either get a grey "share" option or the following options: "add to play now", "delete", "pin to start".
I'm honestly not taken in by this player. How do you shuffle songs?
EDIT: The only reference to shuffling that I saw was the on the "all songs" list. But I want to shuffle an album, not the whole songs library.
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ok, step-by-step
- Open Music & Videos
- Select Music
- Select your artist (Click the artist name, rather than the Play button next to them)
- Select your album (if you want to play all the album, you can just click the album art at this stage, which will immediately start playing the album)
- Select the album Art (not long press, just a tap will do)
This will make the album art gray out and 3 button will appear over the top of it, the first being Repeat, the middle is like/dislike/no opinion, the 3rd is the Holy Shuffle Button
I've never owned or used a Zune device before so can't comment on whether it's better/worse/different/the same. But it's easy enough for me.
Note: When you're in the WP7 Library, the "Play" button you'll see next to the artists name in Artist View (for eg.) immediately plays all that artists songs you have. Just an FYI as the Play button pops up in a few places and has different effects than Selecting the artist by tapping their name for example.
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Are you suggesting the feature is not there, or that using it is shown in the YouTube video? (I can't watch YT videos at this very moment...)
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The feature is there but if I remember correctly on the Zune HD it appears on the screen without the need for a long press.
The video just highlights differences between Zune on the Zune HD and on WP7, for instance on the ZHD you can fast forward a video by sliding on the playing bar.
In the "Songs" menu, once I've found the song I want to hear first, there's no way to then shuffle the rest of the songs. After the selected song is finished, it goes on to the next song in the list. A bad omission.
whilst the song is playing, where the album art is, click on it... three icons will appear over the album art... shuffle, repeat, favorite (i think).
Yeah thanks..I found it
Try this
I have a brand new Nokia WP7 and was having a little trouble finding this option, but it does exist. Yes, you can shuffle play your playlists!
Go to your playlist, pick a song out of the playlist. When the graphic of the song comes up, there are three icons on the RIGHT. The icon in the middle that looks kind of like a set of headphones/crab is the shuffle icon. I thought it was some kind of share icon, so initially ignored it. Just turn it on and you are good to go.
Aside from the little hiccup, I am loving my WP7.
So, on my LG Quantum, I was trying to create a new playlist from my existing mp3 files. When I do this, it creates a playlist with everysong.
So what's the point of creating a playlist if it has everysong?
Also, I am not seeing anyway to adjust the order of a playlist.
When I shuffle, it switches from playing a playlist, to playing all music.
Maybe it's as simple as clearing the music that is considered now playing. But, I am not seeing where that is displayed.
Starting up Music, the first screen says
Zune, with items (music, videos, podcasts, radio, marketplace)
The next screen says Histroy with tiles of songs and playlists.
The only menu options are play music and search marketplace.
The next screen says new with tiles of songs and playlists.
Again, the only menu options are play music and search marketplace.
The next screen says apps.
It lists MSN Money Stocks, and YouTube and YouTube again.
The only menu is search marketplace.
The next option takes me back to zune.
Since I want to create a playlist, I select music.
I can play an album and create a playlist from it.
If I play a song and create a playlist, it puts every song on my device in the playlist.
If like an album, but don't necessarily want all the songs of it in a particular playlists, I see no way to remove a song from a playlist, or create a playlist without the one song.
Anyone know how to create a playlist. Then add just the songs that you want to the list. Then shuffle the playlist. Then later remove and add songs to the playlist.
If there is an app that accomplishes this, I am fine purchasing it. I am just a little shocked that this is not built in or easier to figure out.
After going here: http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions
And reading all requests for playlist, the feature just is not implemented well.
There is not a good way to create new playlists.
Only thing I can think will sort of work is to create a playlist on your computer with 1 song that you like or just a 1 second or shorter song of just silience.
Sync that your device. Now you can play the playlist. Then add songs to the now playing. then create a new playlist from that.
It's a lame work around and it won't get around the fact that you can't remove a song from a playlist.
Every time I open Google Music and start playing a song in an album it will auto choose shuffle all. I don't want to shuffle the songs! Any ideas?
v2.2v said:
Every time I open Google Music and start playing a song in an album it will auto choose shuffle all. I don't want to shuffle the songs! Any ideas?
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1. Turn off shuffle.
2. Do not press the giant play button on the upper right side of song lists or albums. It automatically shuffles.
3. Try clearing your current play queue.
4. Still doesn't work? Contact Google.