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Does anyone else have this problem? It is driving me crazy. The well-intentioned, but clueless folks at the Sprint store cannot figure it out, nor does the HTC tech on phone or chat have a clue. Seems to me that a device as otherwise good as this should be able to use a 16G SanDiskmicroSDHC with no problem. The HTC guy said it was not a compatible type of card! What logic is that? Have micro SD slot and not be able to load a HC micro SD for lots of music or whatever?
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Does anyone else have this problem? It is driving me crazy. The well-intentioned, but clueless folks at the Sprint store cannot figure it out, nor does the HTC tech on phone or chat have a clue. Seems to me that a device as otherwise good as this should be able to use a 16G SanDiskmicroSDHC with no problem. The HTC guy said it was not a compatible type of card! What logic is that? Have micro SD slot and not be able to load a HC micro SD for lots of music or whatever?
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are you using windows media? If so try one of the great free or pay ones out there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
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Can't find music on storage card
Hey!
I am using the native HTC Touch Flo 3D music app. I can use wm player, but I want the Touch Flo to perform as it should.
can it play the files off the internal storage? its possible HTC left out wma support since its a proprietary format from MS (i dont know what MS's policy toward playback is)
also, there are at least 4 kinds of files that end in .wma, i know a lot of players have trouble with the lossless ones
It does work
I use the built in music player Touch Flo music player. It plays all my music from my 16g chip no problems.
I first played them with WM Media player and loaded them into the library,
closed it then started the Fouch Flo music player.
Works great !!
Try it if it doesnt work for you I can test whatever your having an issue with.
Are the WMAs DRM protected purchased audio, or rips?
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Hey!
I am using the native HTC Touch Flo 3D music app. I can use wm player, but I want the Touch Flo to perform as it should.
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stick with wmp, the tf3d player is way too buggy.
rompst TouchFlo music player trouble
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I use the built in music player Touch Flo music player. It plays all my music from my 16g chip no problems.
I first played them with WM Media player and loaded them into the library,
closed it then started the Fouch Flo music player.
Works great !!
Try it if it doesnt work for you I can test whatever your having an issue with.
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Thanks! I have already tried to update library command, which goes through the motions os showing the number of files updated or whatever, then I close it and go to HTC's native music player and nada. So strange. I even do a soft reset in between doing the above. Any other thoughts?
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Thanks! I have already tried to update library command, which goes through the motions os showing the number of files updated or whatever, then I close it and go to HTC's native music player and nada. So strange. I even do a soft reset in between doing the above. Any other thoughts?
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convert the files on your computer to a different format.
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convert the files on your computer to a different format.
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plus one, change them to mp3.
are they rips?
kierandill said:
Are the WMAs DRM protected purchased audio, or rips?
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Hello and thanks for responding. The wma's were ripped from my CD's...
I really don't know much about many tech matters. I am a believer in the tech, but want to use it, not create it. I'll leave that to others. Any ideas?
converting my wma music files on Sprint TP2
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convert the files on your computer to a different format.
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Hello, and thanks for responding. I will do what you suggest, however I find it truly amazing that a wma file, spawned by that great Windows creator Microsoft, will not play in their 6.1 Windows Mobile device; if only for very uneven and quirky playback. I mean, I can get a particular CD to show and I can arrow up or down to get to the various songs and then press the triangle play key and the CD will play the songs in sequential order. Like it is suppose to. However, the rest of the library will not show no matter what I do. Another person in this forum said he had been having no issues at all with the (presumably) same Sprint Touch Pro 2 CDMA running the same wm 6.1... using a 16G (like me) SDHC...What up with this?
It sounds like you are browsing to a specific artist and expecting others to show as well. Try browsing out to all your music. In the TF3d player click the left soft key (Library). Scroll across to the music note tab (All Music). In WMP, click the right soft key menu > Library. Then click the drop down arrow at the top and browse to your storage card. Library > My Music > All Music.
Now I am no dev but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a media player that can sync with the desktop zune software and have a similar UI that plays all my protected content. I love my zune hd but part of the reason I bought this phone is so I only need to carry one device for all my multimedia needs. If this is possible ad there are any devs willing to work I would gladly make a donation of $50-$100 for a working app
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I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.
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I would wager 10x that amount that it will never happen..
I have a ZuneHD and f*ckin love it. However, Microsoft won't do it because thats one of the big draws for WP7, and we can't do it because there is no code to base it on. It's all Microsoft's protected content.
However, there is one option. I don't think its against any XDA rules to post this, and if it is I'll remove it, but I won't put links anyway. Just look up Daniusoft Digital Media Converter. I know it's expensive, ~$50 I think, but I bought it, and it's totally worth it. I have gotten way more use than that out of it. It'll let you convert your Zune Pass music to MP3 and then you can sync it to your Android with Doubletwist & the like. I know it's more work, but it does work.
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But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?
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But at that point, why not just download torrents with higher quality music? I mean, you could make the argument I guess that you have a right to that music even though you are explicitly only renting it .? ?.? . Save the 50 dollars and just join a good private torrent site like what or waffles.
Also, to the OP, if you only want to carry the Epic 4g for all of your multimedia needs, why do you need it to sync with the Zune software? I assume its because of the zune pass?
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I don't know. I find this easier than torrent sites TBH. I'm a lazy ass, and I paid for convenience lol. This way it keeps all the metadata, and I don't have to sort it manually, and I do feel better in that I did actually pay for the music in one way or another.
I don't subscribe to zunepass or anything, I just have a lot of songs and movies I've paid for and would like them on my phone, and TBH I really like the zune media player interface
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For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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Cool, I'll have to check when I get home to seeif I can transfer my files to my phone, I'll report back later tonight
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What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?
bigdbag said:
For a zune interface, they do have a zune home replacement launcher but it's pretty awful. Really if you want the zune media interface get a windows phone 7... what you're asking for is foolish to be frank.
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Not sure how you could call it foolish? It is widely accepted that the zune hd has a great interface. It is also very simple and would be fairly easy for an android developer to make a clone of it. The fact that no one has is pretty surprising. Hooking in drm and zunepass is obviously not gonna fly with ms but that is not what the op wants, and that is not needed. If someone made a fluid zune clone for the marketplace and sold it for a few bucks a I bet they could make a killing.
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What did you end up doing with your media and getting it on your phone?
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I tried putting the songs I bought on my phone and they transfered overbut they wouldn't play on the stock player or mixzing, all I want is to be able to play the music I bought on any of my media players, plus a zune like interface would be sexy
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What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p
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What do you mean they didnt play? I have the zune pass and with my ten songs a month. Those tracks are currently on my phone and they place with no problem. Videos as well. I did how ever have to use rockplayer for the videos. But the stock player worked fine for the mp3's.
Edit: I also did have to edit the tags to get them to show up... Can just edit the tags, right click the file -> props then add in whats needed. Forgot that part. =p
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Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Whenever I try to play one of the tracks that I bought from zune I get "Cannot open selected file" it shows up in my player perfectly with album art and everything, it just won't play
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Is it MP3 or WMA?
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Is it MP3 or WMA?
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They are WMA files, and now that I think about it that is probably the problem
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us3rX said:
If you paid for movies and music, it should be drm free, then just transfer it to your sd card. Its what I do.
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not always, stuff my zune and amazon still have drm even if you buy it outright
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After reading what he said up there ^^ WMA is not bought and paid for... Everything I have paid for was converted to mp3. If it stayed WMA and with DRM, then it would be pointless to buy it. =p
So i got my g tablet on black friday and love it so far as long as all i use it for is surfing the net... the tapntap is ok for now except that it does not see or recognize ANY of my media... only way i can seem to get it to work is with the.. es file explorer... it will open/play and see the media but in a completely un organized fashion. Id like to know if its just mine or is there a fix?? help?? ... cuz its going back if it is just mine or not fixable.. id love to change the ui like i have seen others do on here but im just not tech savvy enough anymore.. i haven't found any other threads with this issue so any help would be appreciated............. Thanks
Im totally new to this android thing.. i have a DROID but its always worked!! so lol never explored past the market...
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So i got my g tablet on black friday and love it so far as long as all i use it for is surfing the net... the tapntap is ok for now except that it does not see or recognize ANY of my media... only way i can seem to get it to work is with the.. es file explorer... it will open/play and see the media but in a completely un organized fashion. Id like to know if its just mine or is there a fix?? help?? ... cuz its going back if it is just mine or not fixable.. id love to change the ui like i have seen others do on here but im just not tech savvy enough anymore.. i haven't found any other threads with this issue so any help would be appreciated............. Thanks
Im totally new to this android thing.. i have a DROID but its always worked!! so lol never explored past the market...
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Is your media on the microSD? If so, then this is a common with tablets (not phones). The apps are still designed with phones in mind, where the microSD slot is /sdcard. But, on our device, /sdcard is the internal memory and /sdcard2 is the microSD.
The zPad firmware manages to get around this issue by mapping the microSD card as a subfolder under /sdcard, so apps can find content there.
roebeet said:
The zPad firmware manages to get around this issue by mapping the microSD card as a subfolder under /sdcard, so apps can find content there.
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roebeet,
Is that a prossiblity in a futre upgrade to TNT Lite? I bought a 16gb microSD card yesterday and it's pretty useless other than a storage device.
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roebeet,
Is that a prossiblity in a futre upgrade to TNT Lite? I bought a 16gb microSD card yesterday and it's pretty useless other than a storage device.
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I tried doing this awhile back, but failed. I think that the TnT framework expects the microSD to be on /sdard2. It's a combo of the init.rc and the vold.fstab, so ideally we should be able to change it if TnT hadn't thrown us a curveball.
I personally am OK with it as /sdcard2. I play videos off file explorer and music off the app "Andless" (which can scan /sdcard2). And ACV for comic reader can also scan /sdcard2. So it really depends on the app.
I put the music on /sdcard2 , and /sdcard and when I open up the music player still it says no files found
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I put the music on /sdcard2 , and /sdcard and when I open up the music player still it says no files found
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Most music players (including stock) expect the music files to be on /sdcard. They can't read /sdcard2.
It doesn't matter where i put the media... it wont load it... ive pretty much decided im taking the tablet back .... i cant justify spending that kinda money on something that cant do what my phone can.... such as play music videos pictures ... and flash player... i cant for the life of me understand why any company would release a product like this that isn't even complete on the software side of things.
Never mind i didn't realize i had to reboot the thing after loading media on /sdcard ... opps totally forget that i cant change my card on my droid without pulling the battery... thus automatic reboot... total after thought told ya i was new to this lol
Any other music players
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I tried doing this awhile back, but failed. I think that the TnT framework expects the microSD to be on /sdard2. It's a combo of the init.rc and the vold.fstab, so ideally we should be able to change it if TnT hadn't thrown us a curveball.
I personally am OK with it as /sdcard2. I play videos off file explorer and music off the app "Andless" (which can scan /sdcard2). And ACV for comic reader can also scan /sdcard2. So it really depends on the app.
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Has anyone had luck with other music players that can be mapped to access /sdcard2?
Andless works (thanks for the recommendation Roebeet) but it really lacks any fun-factor! I'd like to see album art, use id3 tags, and use play my music from /sdcard2. Poweramp can't do this (folder options are hard-coded).
I'll try the new Winamp beta later on tonight and report back. Thanks All!
MortPlayer Beta reads /sd2
treenuts said:
Has anyone had luck with other music players that can be mapped to access /sdcard2?
Andless works (thanks for the recommendation Roebeet) but it really lacks any fun-factor! I'd like to see album art, use id3 tags, and use play my music from /sdcard2. Poweramp can't do this (folder options are hard-coded).
I'll try the new Winamp beta later on tonight and report back. Thanks All!
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After trying 4 different music player apps, I stumbled upon Mortplayer beta. It reads .id3 tags, displays album covers, and most importantly for VEGAn users, it can read files from the gtab's microSD slot. Have fun all!
I use winamp and the music app in tnt-lite. Both use microsd card, read tags and use album art. The music app doesn't show album art until you pick a song, tho.
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I use winamp and the music app in tnt-lite. Both use microsd card, read tags and use album art. The music app doesn't show album art until you pick a song, tho.
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Were you able to get Winamp to read .mp3s from sdcard2? I tried and failed.
Hi guys,
I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions on what to use to put Itunes movies on a Samsung nexus.
Please help me.
Simple answer is that you can't. iTune movies have drm so they only play on iDevices or in iTunes.
If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
What you wanting to do is illegal. No online purchased movies will allow you to transfer to devices.
You can watch online movies thru other services but only for streaming.
And don't talk about breaking or removing DRM's here!
Have fun.
Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.
Without opening iTunes program, see what folder ur iTunes movies are in. Then right click to see what format they are in.
Then Google a search for either a free converter or possibly an android media player that will play those type of files.
Most media players play MPEG4 so when u convert it, I'd go that route. Then just see what resolution ur phone uses. Converters are normally free for an X amount of time so if ur planning on doing it a lot, I'd would just pay the $20 and do it hassle free.
FabDVD worked good for me when I was a cell phone movie goer.
Good luck.
Vs Nexus S 4G
or buy elsewhere. Pretty sure Amazon Store does DRM free movies ?
Well, if you bought a movie you should be able to watch it where you want, when you want and on the device you want, ain't I correct? I'm pretty sure you can google "how to remove drm from imovies?", I'm not sure if this is against xda rules, but if you are not doing it to piracy movies or things like that, I don't see any problems doing that.
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In a perfect world ? Sure. I personally would love that too. But it is as it's now, it is illegal.
As I said before,
If you own the DVD/Blueray and ripped it yourself. Than yes you can encode it to what ever format you need and transfer to your phone.
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is the most convenient way due to that are easy way to convert it to a format that your phone will work with. Not so easy to break a DRM on a itune or other online sites's files even when you do find them on your hard drive.
And let me repeat. I agree that you should be able to do with what you bought and own! Now it is not what we want? but what movie/music industry wants is true for now sadly.
Regards.
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Well I have apple tv so I rip my dvds to my computer so I can stream them to my tv, without having to deal with the disc. When I rip the movies to my computer I make the file in the apple tv format which is mpeg-4.
To watch them on the go with my phone, I just transfer them over via usb. Then I use the app called Dice Player to watch them. Dice player plays pretty much every video file.
Well, in the quest to discover what is draining my battery, it seems that my CM7/Trinity G2X has the Media Server bug.
I charged to 100% then rebooted my phone. I made some calls. Battery Monitor Pro showed my screen-off draw was only 12mA - great!
Then, using QuickPic I viewed some photos and looked at one video. Now my screen off draw has about tripled to 35mA.
For those that don't know, the Media Server bug means that after boot, once you view a photo the Android Media Server runs in the background and will not stop. It even runs when the screen is off and can prevent the phone from sleeping.
I'm wondering if Kang CM7 has this bug? Or is it a kernel issue?
O.K., I downloaded MP3 checker from CNET and ran it on my SD card. It found five corrupt mp3 files. When I deleted them I found that media server isn't using up CPU cycles anymore, the battery is running cooler, and I'm getting MUCH better battery life. YES! :laugh:
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O.K., I downloaded MP3 checker from CNET and ran it on my SD card. It found five corrupt mp3 files. When I deleted them I found that media server isn't using up CPU cycles anymore, the battery is running cooler, and I'm getting MUCH better battery life. YES! :laugh:
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This is really interesting. Might we get a link to the MP3 checker you used?
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Go to Cnet.com and search for 'mp3 checker'
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MP3 Checker
Here it is:
MP3 Checker
It's just a straight pass/fail. Just one bad MP3 can cause the Android media scanner to scan the same mp3 file over and over. It not only drains your battery and slows your phone, it degrades your Flash drive.
First I ran MP3 checker on my laptop, mp3 files. Then I plugged in my phone as mass storage and used MP3 Checker on my laptop to scan my phone's memory. You must brutally delete any MP3 that shows up as bad. Don't be sentimental, if you want to back it up to your PC before deletion and maybe you can fix it (I don't know how to fix mp3 files, sorry).
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Here it is:
MP3 Checker
It's just a straight pass/fail. Just one bad MP3 can cause the Android media scanner to scan the same mp3 file over and over. It not only drains your battery and slows your phone, it degrades your Flash drive.
First I ran MP3 checker on my laptop, mp3 files. Then I plugged in my phone as mass storage and used MP3 Checker on my laptop to scan my phone's memory. You must brutally delete any MP3 that shows up as bad. Don't be sentimental, if you want to back it up to your PC before deletion and maybe you can fix it (I don't know how to fix mp3 files, sorry).
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Thanks for the link, I'll check it at home later. I wanted the application you used to keep it concise and with your past posts these last 6+mo I can trust your research when it comes to my (old) g2x as I have kept it for my son as a mini tablet.
Thanks mucho for this and keep up the good work can't wait to see more!
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Thanks for the link, I'll check it at home later. I wanted the application you used to keep it concise and with your past posts these last 6+mo I can trust your research when it comes to my (old) g2x as I have kept it for my son as a mini tablet.
Thanks mucho for this and keep up the good work can't wait to see more!
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thank you very much for your kind words. People like to trash the G2X but with the right mods it's a really powerful phone. My only regret is that I can't zoom while taking videos, but I can live with that.
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Thanks for the info. Luckily I don't have bad mp3s on the phone. I'm currently scanning my pc and its finding about 1% bad so far with repeated frames. To be honest, all these mp3s play on the desktop just fine. I will do some research and post back if i find a way to repair them anyway.
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I found a way to "repair" the bad mp3s. I tried a program I already had on my pc called dbpoweramp music converter. If you never tried it then you are missing a whole lot. It's a must have tool for anyone with music files. It does everything you would ever need to mp3s and other formats. I use it to bulk re-encode high bitrate mp3s to a lower one to reduce filesize. Anyway, I used the resample feature. You right click on the mp3 and select 'convert to' then select your target quality (I use Quality (VBR) and set the quality to 180kbps). Output location is your choice. Then in Options I click 'Add' then 'Add DSP Effect' and select 'Resample'. Then Select your resample frequency I chose 44100 as that seems to be the standard for most mp3s.
here is a screenshot https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1227340/xda/2013-08-20 12_37_11-Greenshot.png
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Thanks for the info. Luckily I don't have bad mp3s on the phone. I'm currently scanning my pc and its finding about 1% bad so far with repeated frames. To be honest, all these mp3s play on the desktop just fine. I will do some research and post back if i find a way to repair them anyway.
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They can play fine and still be had. MP3 players are forgiving in playing corrupted MP3 files (usualy due to repeated frames), but the Android system is not.
Even if they play fine, remove any corrupt MP3 files from your phone.
Like I said I don't have bad ones on the phone. Check above for one way to repair.