Whenever I try to use my voice command to "play anything", it works (playing a random song). However, if I try to "play artist dave matthews band" it responds with "no artist information available." How do I tell my Fuze what artists are on the storage card?
BTW, I'm synching my phone with Windows 7 and the bastard child of ActiveSync.
Alright, so I took a step backwards and tried ripping my CDs anew with Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7 to see if my old MP3s had something wrong.
(Don't judge me on my CD collection. A lot of these are from my angsty high school days.)
I ripped a Disturbed, Duran Duran, Blur, Insane Clown Posse and The Offspring and 'synced' the albums to my Fuze's storage card. Now, when I activate the voice command and tell it to "play artist", it only mentions the first four artists (omitting The Offspring). If I manually play anything from The Offspring and use the voice command "what track is this", it tells me 'such-and-such by The Offspring.'
I've checked the tags for the ripped Offspring songs against the Duran Duran songs and all of the fields contain comparable data (if it has something on the DD file, the same field on the O file has data).
Surely someone else has used their device's voice command and can give me some pointers as to what I'm doing wrong.
To anyone who might have been following this thread with a similar problem, I found what was wrong.
Turns out that, even though the tags were set correctly, they weren't. On a hunch, I pulled up a couple of files in easyTAG in Linux to see if there were some additional tags that were hidden or something from Windows 7. There weren't, but when I went to close the file, it asked if I wanted to save changes even though I hadn't changed anything. I said yes and tried the voice command again and BAM! It recognizes the artist, album and even genre. So when I got home, I downloaded an MP3 tag editor for Windows, loaded all my mp3s into it, saved them all, then put them back on my phone. Since then, everything is working wonderfully.
tl;dr version:
Open your music files in a tag editor and save them even if you don't change anything. Voice command should recognize the tags at that point.
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I've been trying to find the problem when syncing playlists and automatic-playlists through WMP11 (not thorugh ActiveSync but direct)..
I hardly get through the day and the library corrupts, having to delete the meta-data and update the library every time..then back home, syncing doesn't update the library on the device properly ..and the "Star-Ratings" get messed up, it syncs files, but doesn't update the playlists properly..it's a pain..
I even bought a new microSD because I thought it had bad-sectors, but it didn't change the behaviour..
Is this normal, or what am I doing wrong?
emugpp said:
I've been trying to find the problem when syncing playlists and automatic-playlists through WMP11 (not thorugh ActiveSync but direct)..
I hardly get through the day and the library corrupts, having to delete the meta-data and update the library every time..then back home, syncing doesn't update the library on the device properly ..and the "Star-Ratings" get messed up, it syncs files, but doesn't update the playlists properly..it's a pain..
I even bought a new microSD because I thought it had bad-sectors, but it didn't change the behaviour..
Is this normal, or what am I doing wrong?
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If you don't need the library created by the desktop WMP but can also rely on for example CorePlayer's, Pocket Tunes' or Pocket Player's creating it from stratch, you might want to give them a try. Then, you'd only need to do an AS file-level sync (NOT from the desktop WMP), making sure you also sync the playlist files.
Also see my related bible.
I skimmed through your bible before I posted, very useful stuff, but the reason I "want" to use wmp-mobile is because you can create automatic-playlists in WMP11 with the newest podcasts, then on your device rate the files/podcasts when you've heard them, on the next sync these files get removed automatically..
it could be very comfortable and useful to listen to your podcasts this way, if the wmp-mobile library wouldn't corrupt all the time..
I've been using CRCs Stable 11.2 on my Hermes and suspect that maybe the sdcard-power-management-fixes might be causing wmp-mobile to write bad sectors in the library..from what i can think of..
I thought I had made a thread for this a while ago, but can not find it. Sorry if its a repost.
What I was wondering is whether or not someone who had an app, or the skilz to make an app, that can take a sample of an mp3/wma/ogg/flac/etc file, match it on say shazam or something then update the ID3 tag with the pulled info. With the option for it just to rename them automatically, or ask for your approval of changes. Much like how Album Art Grabber gets your artwork for you on mass, with little or no manual intervention. This would be great for a few reasons.
I have been finding myself using mp3 download apps on my phone a lot now, more so than my comp and these files are usually incomplete at best. a way to get these, then run this app to fix discrepancies would be awesome!
Its not that I'm lazy, I just have 10+ years of tunes on my external and a lot of them didn't get tags back in the day. Plus after that long, uploads, downloads, 4 computers, iTunes (ARGH!!! I HATE ITUNES!!!!!!) renaming and reorganizing have some in a mess. So when I transfer them, they usually all show up unknown, null, or DGOI.mp3. And renaming & tagging 1000s of songs one by one is not how I want to spend a week.
Hope this sparks an idea, or someone can point me in the direction of one that already exists. I'm sure one does for a PC, but I don't use mine for media other than movies. My phone is my music machine. If a PC solution is the only way so be it.
I don't know of an app that can do this but maybe someone could take the method that the app ,"MP3 Download", uses. First you search for a song and can preview then you can choose to download it. Once you have downloaded it you can goto edit tags and it has a download button... I don't know what database it uses or how it is configured but it will give you album art and is usually correct. I think it has to have the album name though.
Thanks! I'll try that on there, and my old iMusic Tao apk I still have.
Mixzing pro can do this
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Has anyone figured out the problem with AAC encoded mpa files and the tags. I'm seeing the same problem in all 2.3.4 ROMs. No music program (stock, Google Music, doubletwist, PowerAmp, etc...) will read the tags from any mpa file. MP3 files work fine. I've tried Apex 7.2, Continuum 6 RC1, and AtomicFusion 1.0. I've tried the Samsung 2.3.3 ROM and Cog 5 Beta 2, both of which work correctly. Is it because the 2.3.4 ROMs are I9000 and the 2.3.3 ROMs are Captivate specific? I don't think I'm the only one.
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I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
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I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. I just find it weird that 2.3.4 ROMs as a whole will not read the tags from mpa files while the 2.3.3 ROMs work fine. MP3 files work fine with both versions of gingerbread.
kusanagisan18 said:
I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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I tried using Media Monkey to convert a few AAC files into mp3 files. The phone read the new files without error. I think there is a glitch with the base Android OS.
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I tried using Media Monkey to convert a few AAC files into mp3 files. The phone read the new files without error. I think there is a glitch with the base Android OS.
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Sigh. I was hoping to avoid this. Thanks for testing and confirming.
Makes me wonder if the issue is android or samsung based (as in an issue with their code).
nybmx said:
Sigh. I was hoping to avoid this. Thanks for testing and confirming.
Makes me wonder if the issue is android or samsung based (as in an issue with their code).
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It's more likely caused by Apple... if you ask me
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It's more likely caused by Apple... if you ask me
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Agreed good sir.
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
sadly have the same problem. im trying media monkey now. i accidently made a whole bunch of songs he same album
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
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Thanks. I tried doing that already and still couldn't get it to work. I ended up converting everything back to mp3.
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
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That may work for the artist field but the title, track, genre, etc are all still screwy. The only field that is read correctly is album. I just find it so odd that these files were fine with Eclair, Froyo and Gingerbread 2.3.3
I have updated my Samsung Focus (on Rogers / Fido) to Mango and followed the instructions for setting a custom ringtone:
1. Under 1Mb
2. Under 29 seconds
3. No DRM
4. Set genre to "Ringtone"
I transferred the ringtone to my Zune collection then sync'd with my phone, but it is not displayed under the ringtone selection screen. Any ideas?
Did it actually sync? Can you find the file in the desktop zune?
I had the same problem with one ringtone that I made and I couldn't figure it out. I ended up using a different service (cutMP3) and it worked.
Don't know why.
I had some weird problems creating ringtones last night too.
I chopped up "I Am The Doctor!" from Doctor Who and named my two files "I Am The Doctor!" and "I Am The Doctor! 2". I went and changed the id tags correctly, but the 2 would never show up. That ended up being fixed by taking out the ! in the second filename AND song title in the tag.
Then I was making some for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. I named all the files based on game such as "L4D The Monsters Within.mp3" and "L4D2 The Monsters Within.mp3" to be able to tell them apart. None of my L4D ringtones showed up in Zune. I fixed this by editing the L4D files tag song title taking out the space between L4D and the title (So it would be "L4DThe Monsters Within"). This seemed to work, but is bizarre.
Edit: I used Audacity to chop up the songs. I would blame it, but one of the L4D files was only 9 seconds in the first place. Zune just must be really picky.
I just got a gear S3 but am finding it pretty hard to transfer music to it. I have thousands of songs on my phone but they are organized in folders, for instance:
/reggae/*.mp3
/hardrock/*.mp3
etc. etc.
I also have a folder called /favorites that has my top songs - around 100 or so, this is the folder I want to copy to the watch. I can't seem to find a way to select only this folder. When I go into the Gear app I just see a list of thousands of songs grouped by Track/Album/Artist. I can't possibly scroll through the entire list and choose my top 100 songs that are in my favorites. Nor can I go through the time consuming process of searching each song manually.
The whole thing seems rather retarded. Now, I am thinking I need to create a new folder called /s3, then duplicate all my favorites into that folder, then add a "S3_" prefix to all the files there, then transfer those to my phone, choose all files with S3_ prefix, transfer them, then delete it off my phone so I don't have duplicates on my phone. There must be an easier way?
You only need to swype from right to left and you will find a folders list into your mobile phone.
Easy
thanks, that works. I can start playing on my phone first and then control it on my watch so this way I will not upload anything to my watch and use the source as my phone.
So, I am able to use the bezel as well as the arrows to control the previous/next song as well as play/pause the current track. However, it would be nice if I can navigate songs on my phone and choose a specific song by folder directly from my watch. Is there such an app?
Right now I am using Poweramp on my Pixel XL and the watch controls it without issues, I am assuming it just sends a generic play/pause/prev/next command via Bluetooth which any music app understands. I am assuming the ability to navigate a folder structure to a specific song needs to have compatible apps on the phone as well as the watch.