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WMP10 won't start anymoer

Hello!
I'm having a problem with my windows media player 10 on my XDA Mini S running windows mobile 2005. I had a crash with a program that uses the media player interface. Now the player won't start anymore. If I try to start it (from the start menu or the exe from the windows directory or trying to open eg. a mp3 - this makes no difference) nothing happens, no error - just nothing. It even will not show up in the running programs list.
Tried soft reset but it didn't change anything. I realy don't want to make a hard reset because I have so many third party programs installed.
As I have seen, there is no WMP to download and reinstall available.
Anyone any ideas?
Thank
Maik

Yeah you're right: I tried with copy/paste, winrar, winzip, gsplayer. You just can't get it copied because it's embedded in Rom. But if you make a backup with SQB Backup you can backup everything (except for the Rom). Perform a hard reset and restore with full backup.
It takes about 15 minutes. Otherwise there's indeed something wrong with your ppc, i.e. register. Therefore you maybe want to use Winamp (see attachment).
Suc6

[Q] How do I backup android media playlist?

Whenever I install new rom, I have to lose all my precious playlists. What's the location of playlist files?

Export Android Created Playlists To PC
hi i have managed to find a way to extract phone made playlist to pc but i am not a programmer and I was wondering if anyone here can automate it
url are not permitted here so my blog is kundaistreet at blogspot

diddy47 said:
hi i have managed to find a way to extract phone made playlist to pc but i am not a programmer and I was wondering if anyone here can automate it
url are not permitted here so my blog is kundaistreet at blogspot
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So this PlayQ can you import and export (backup/restore) playlists? If so, that's probably what the OP is looking for. Not a way to use his Android playlists on his PC. Although I doubt he wants to buy this Merdian Player in order to export playlists. I suspect it's just data somewhere, but where would be the question.

Has anyone worked out where these are stored?
I have been googling forever and all I read is people
a) Saying where music is stored
b) Saying where m3u files etc... are stored.
It's obvious that the playlists are stored in a database somewhere I just want to know where it is so I can look at it and see what sort of information is stored for songs and playlists.

Android Playlist/s Backup Tutorial
Hi everyone,while playing around with the instructions given by diddy47 on the blog site kundaistreet,I discovered how to backup your playlist on your sd card using a combination of 3 apps from the android market and part of the instructions given by diddy47. Apps required are Androzip,Meridian Player and SDMount,they are all free apps and no purchase required to download.This process seems long but its unreal simple,(1)Dowload all apps as stated above,(2)Go to your android stock player and create a playlist of your liking, if you already have a playlist made then on to the next step,(3)As diddy47 described in first part of post, "desregard the part about export to pc",
"In Meridian Player
•Long press on the playlists you want to export to PC, a pop up menu appears
•Select export to playQ
•choose the appropriate name
•choose audio type
•Export as many playlists as you like using procedure above.Navigate to folder PlayQueues using Androzip,it would be stored on your sd card.
Inside will be all your playlist that you exported to playQ in .mpq format not .m3u" Select any of the created playlist/s created and change the file extention name to "m3u", please note all that is being changed are the words and or numbers after the (dot.) (4)Exit Androzip, proceed by making SDMount a widget on your home screen,select, it would refresh saying in the notification bar "Your SD card has been scanned and remounted, SD Media Remounted" 'please note if you unmount your SD through the settings menu you will have to remove your SD card and put it back into device'.(5)Revert to stock media player,go to playlist and there you should find the name of your playlist/s made.You may see 2 of the same named playlist/s but that proves that it was backed up on the sd card.
Thank you for this opportunity, all credit goes out to kundaistreet for the blog site and diddy47 for his tutorial.

any alternative ?
thx for the solution but , its sad but true , this is a basic function i think it should be here already instead of making us looking for this for hours thru the web.
but isnt there any easier method ? dont want that much of apps just for a simple task (exporing playlist)

Here is what I had to do
I have a Samsung Epic 4g backed up with ClockworkMod, and lost the playlist after installing new ROM. Here is what I had to do to get my playlist back.
Extracted my data.img backup to my PC with unyaffs found here:
Code:
jiggawatt.org/badc0de/android/index.html
I knew my playlist name, so I scanned the extracted files and found it here:
C:\Temp\extraced data.img\data\com.android.providers.media\databases\external-99773e78.db
I then used SQLiteStudio to open external-99773e78.db.
Code:
sqlitestudio.one.pl
Ran the below SQL to generate my playlist.
Code:
select
_data
from
(
select name, _data, play_order
from
(
select
am._data
,ap.name
,apm.play_order
from audio_playlists ap
join audio_playlists_map apm on
ap._id = apm.playlist_id
join audio_meta am on
apm.audio_id = am._id
where ap._data is null
)
union
select name, '#EXTM3U ' || name as _data, -1 as play_order
from
(
select ap.name
from audio_playlists ap
where ap._data is null
)
order by 1,3
)
Exported the result set to a text editor (used PSPad), and created m3u's by copy/paste method. Then moved the m3u files to my SD card. When Android did its media scan it pick up the playlist, but for some reason I can't maintain the play list order. Playlist order was not a priority for me, so I stopped here.
If anyone tries something similar and maintains their playlist order, please post a reply
Thanks

You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.

alostpacket said:
You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.
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That's the proper way to do it. I just ran into a user who decided to pimp his app in a competing app's very first post.
What you did, in my opinion, is just fine; honest and transparent.

Bluemuze is perfect!
1) backup the playlist.
2) open with notepad++
3) replace /sdcard/ with C:\*path to copy of MP3 folder *
4) rename file to .m3u
Done! Very very simple to do.

s0larus said:
Bluemuze is perfect!
1) backup the playlist.
2) open with notepad++
3) replace /sdcard/ with C:\*path to copy of MP3 folder *
4) rename file to .m3u
Done! Very very simple to do.
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Or use Meridian Player (best media player I've come across) to create a "playQ" playlist. this is an independent file as opposed to a database. there are a few steps involved but you can copy the "play Q" file (which has a .mpq extension) to your computer. this file can then be converted to a .m3u file fairly simply. Use Notepad++ to open the .mpq file.
01. Delete all characters before the first instance of "localAudio id"
02. Replace all (" /><) with (\r\n) without the parenthesis. \r\n moves the text to the next line, make sure to select extended mode
03. replace all (LocalAudio id="/mnt/sdcard/Music/) with (D:\Music\) or wherever the music is
04. replace (&) with (&) - there seems to be an error with the & symbol
05. delete "\Items><\PlayQ>" at the end
Here is a link to the original post from where I got the information. I did have a different experience then what is shown here, but very useful:
http://kundaistreet.blogspot.com/2010/12/export-android-created-playlists-to-pc.html

+1 to alostpacket!

alostpacket said:
You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.
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Hey alostpacket! Your app seems perfect for me, only I'm running ICS on my G2 and using the default app Apollo for my music and BlueMuze isn't picking up the playlists I've created. Also BlueMuze crashes whenever I try to view my music from within it. Any advice?

I've found a playlist backup app on the play store
here's link : bit . ly/O9wb8q (can't post links)
Press thanks if I helped you!

import playlist m3u
So let me understand this correcty. There is no way to import playlists from my pc (m3u) and then play them? I have to create on android and back it up????

philipjacobs said:
So let me understand this correcty. There is no way to import playlists from my pc (m3u) and then play them? I have to create on android and back it up????
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You can find the answer in this thread. Read it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38841993#post38841993
Or if you want to share your list of songs from your favorite playlists, you can use this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sendmyplaylist

I actually figured out another way. It's a pain but it works fine for me. Thanks!

Empty playlists on SD card

I am having an issue with playlists. I am currently running on TouchMIUIwiz v2.0. I have never encountered this problem before.
Anyway, in a nutshell, my playlists are deleting whenever mediascan runs upon boot. If they don't delete, or even when they do, the playlists are still read in music players, like PowerAmp, AOSP music player, MIUI player, etc., but are completely empty. Playlists show but with no tracks.
Playlists were generated by mounting the phone as mass storage and saving playlists in the same folder as my music (sdcard/Music). I use Winamp to make and save playlists.
I tried formatting my memory card to no avail. I read that this problem happened on some forum after deleting "albumthumbs" folder. But I had that folder deleted on my Optimus V's sd card and it had no problem. Copying that backed up folder to my sd card didn't work.
I tried searching for solutions on many forums. I tried syncing with players, like mediamonkey. The problem still persists.
Is this a ROM issue? Or is it an sd card issue? Would Odin'ing work to fix the situation?
Edit: I have flashed Revolution's and John_2K2's Sensekick v1.0 rom and did not have this problem. It lies within TouchMIUIwiz. Though, it's weird. I had v1.1 and did not experience the problem. Now on v2.0 it happens. When restoring my v1.1 nandroid the problem exists. I tested the problem after a fresh install of TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and it was still there. It must be some error in the rom. I'm hoping for a a fix.
Edit 2: Nevermind. Sensekick has deleted playlists as well. But media scanning isn't as bad. The playlist may be deleted but it still shows on music players with the tracks intact. I'm going to Odin to see if it will resolve the issue.

Sorry posted by accident was gonna reply then saw the edit
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I'm going to Odin. Sensekick finally replicated the problem. So the issue may be lying within my phone itself.
Edit: I Odin'ed and flashed back to TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and the problem still persists. I have no idea what's wrong. I also formatted my sd card via phone settings and still had the same problem. I don't know what to do at this point.

badboi_zero said:
I'm going to Odin. Sensekick finally replicated the problem. So the issue may be lying within my phone itself.
Edit: I Odin'ed and flashed back to TouchMIUIwiz v2.0 and the problem still persists. I have no idea what's wrong. I also formatted my sd card via phone settings and still had the same problem. I don't know what to do at this point.
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I redid everything you did, and im having the same problem..im confused as well, i hate the stock ringtones and rely on my phone for music. when i use Astro to check if the music is even there, it is, and so are my ringtones. i just cant play them using "Music" from google (or anything else) and i cant select my custom ringtones.. some times if i connect my phone to my computer and go to /sdcard then discconect, my music is there and it works for X amount of time (always different) then it cant see them again..

It's a problem with the TMW rom. Ayoteddy says he's looking into it. I ultimately reverted back to the stock deodexed KG2 rom. No problems whatsoever. No cool themes like TMW and may not be as fast. But at least my music, which I hold very important, plays fine with playlists.
The reason custom ringtones didn't work either is because of media scan. The way media scan runs on TMW is flawed somehow. The way it reads media is off. It won't start at boot, it misreads or deletes playlists, etc.
I miss using TMW. But until it gets fixed I'll have to stick to the old trusty stock KG2.

It's been fixed, try this http://www.multiupload.com/TQRZPPP411
This fixes the media scanning issue, and may also fix the gallery deletion issue.

I don't know the technical stuff behind this, I think I figured out the cause of the deletion of playlists. It happens when I restore a TB backup of Poweramp. Upon flashing a rom, media scan scans my sd card to see what files and playlists are on it and so on. So that playlist file path is saved. When I restore Poweramp, the restore file has the playlist saved within it already. So when I restore, it duplicates the playlist entry under one file path (again, this is my explanation, as I don't know the technical stuff behind it. Pretty much my educated guess). This causes a conflict and so while the playlist may still be existent within media players, the actual file is deleted due to the same file path conflict.
In TWM, media scan was edited in some script or something, explained by teddy and sduvick. It wouldn't scan on bootup. But after that was fixed, the playlist conflict was still existent.
Right now I am on GCv2 (GingerClone v2). Media scan worked fine and playlists read upon flashing. But deletion occurred after restoring Poweramp via TB. To fix this, I went into TB and wiped data for [PLAYLISTS] Media Storage 2.2.1. After that my playlists weren't deleted.
Sorry if it seemed I made it look like the TMW rom was at fault. I knew it had to be something on my end, one of my settings or backup restores. So thanks to everyone who helped try to solve this issue for me.

[Q] Can't Find Media/Picture Files After Root

I have been at this for days. Googling for an answer, reading all the forums, and trying some of thier remedies to no avail. I rooted my T-mobile Galaxy S without any issues, however,now I can't access my stored wallpaper, notification or ringtones or pictures stored previously to root. I can see everything in thier respective folders when I open ES File Explorer. I tried to set up a separate media folder with sub folders(RINGTONES/NOTIFICATIONS) and copying and pasting the files to no avail. I have been resorting to reloading new ringtones/notificastions on Zedge and emailing the wallpapers and my photos to myself to get them to be recognized. When I open gallery there are no pictures, even though I see all my pictures in the picture file on sd card. I currently have ROM Manager, ROM Toolbox, Tegrack Overclock and Titanium Backup. Any help in directing me to fix this probably simple issue will be more than greatly appreciated. Also all my music shows up on my Poweramp App, but when changing a ringtone, and prompted for music file no music shows up. Thanks again. VN

vnicastro said:
I have been at this for days. Googling for an answer, reading all the forums, and trying some of thier remedies to no avail. I rooted my T-mobile Galaxy S without any issues, however,now I can't access my stored wallpaper, notification or ringtones or pictures stored previously to root. I can see everything in thier respective folders when I open ES File Explorer. I tried to set up a separate media folder with sub folders(RINGTONES/NOTIFICATIONS) and copying and pasting the files to no avail. I have been resorting to reloading new ringtones/notificastions on Zedge and emailing the wallpapers and my photos to myself to get them to be recognized. When I open gallery there are no pictures, even though I see all my pictures in the picture file on sd card. I currently have ROM Manager, ROM Toolbox, Tegrack Overclock and Titanium Backup. Any help in directing me to fix this probably simple issue will be more than greatly appreciated. Also all my music shows up on my Poweramp App, but when changing a ringtone, and prompted for music file no music shows up. Thanks again. VN
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I'm not familiar with the Galaxy S but it sounds like a permissions issue. I know on the Galaxy S 4G the user.group on files/folders on the sdcard are set to system.sdcard_rw & the file permissions are usually rwxrwxr-x.
Check the permissions and user.group ownership to see if they look correct.

When you start the phone, or remount the SD card are you getting the Media Scanner notification? Your phone may not be checking your SD card for media. If you're using poweramp, check the settings for library to make sure it's not disabling the built-in media scanner for the folders you have your files in.
You can also try going to Phone Settings - Applications - Manage - All - Media Storage, then clear the data, and reboot.

You can also try making a backup of your sd card onto your computer, then formatting it to fat32 and putting the files back to see if it'll read them again. I've had issues before where the phone wouldn't recognize it unless it was fat32.

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Dear Skyrocket Community,
I have music stored on my external SD and playlists associated with the music. Is there any way to keep the playlists intact when I switch over to a new rom? I am currently on stock rooted 2.3.6 but will flash Sky ICS once I have an answer to this. Thanks

Mike on XDA said:
Dear Skyrocket Community,
I have music stored on my external SD and playlists associated with the music. Is there any way to keep the playlists intact when I switch over to a new rom? I am currently on stock rooted 2.3.6 but will flash Sky ICS once I have an answer to this. Thanks
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Generally speaking, the program you used to create playlist has 2 components you can safeguard with a well chosen backup program.
They are the apk that runs the music program, and the program's (user generated) data. Your playlists are in the second category, along with specific settings options you chose.
If you install (an identical or a compatible version of) the same program under a new rom flash, you can then optionally restore the related data you backed up. I would ignore the backed up program and reload it from the Play store, then restore data. This assumes a third party music program as opposed to a cooked in one, which might not be as flexible.
You should have a nandroid anyway, so it might be easy enough to experimentally:
back up the program and data for your music library
add a short new playlist, clear (music) program caches and data
uninstall and reinstall the program
restore the backed up data that includes the extra playlist
If successful, you will know that this worked in your current rom. If ICS changes that, your nandroid resets the whole experiment.

You want to import/export your playlist? That should be easy if you find the file the playlist is stored in. It may just be in simple txt. As a playlist is not actually music, its just a list that states what order you want your music to play in.
An example may be:
sdcard/external sd/music/bobseger_turnthepage.mp3
sdcard/external sd/music/kidrock_cowboy.mp3
etc.
etc.
Thats how most playlists are created and stored. Very simple, small file. Now this post may be completely usless to you as I dont know the file or if for certain thats the senerio. But it is the case in most music players for PC. And its extremely simple so it makes sense. Maybe I pointed you in the right direction to look. I hope so...I dont want to waste your time.

I already flashed the rom , but I have a Nandroid from before. Could I look at the files on my computer and possibly find the playlist and copy it to my SD card?
Sent from my soon to be rooted I727

MyBackup Pro from the market backs up "Music Playlist". I've never had any playlists to back up, so I can't comment on the feature. I can only tell you that it's there.
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