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Really need help with music...

Ok so I've spent over 4 hours trying to find a way to move my music from iTunes to my HTC HD2 with album covers and all...no luck... why in the hell is it so difficult just to put music on your phone...All my songs are mp3's and they still won't go on properly...I tried just dragging them to the music folder through My Computer. I tried using double twists software I downloaded from the phone and I tried the one from the official website.
This is ridiculous considering that my old ass samsung flip phone can sync all my music in just 35 minutes with everything i expect. So much for the Entertainment phone...I would really appreciate if someone can help me out with this before I go on this road trip...
I also tried the music from My Music instead f iTunes and same problem...I have all the songs on the phone but they won't play. Does anyone also know why when your in the Windows Media Player all of your GAME sounds and videos and just random sounds appear if its suppose to be a music player... i am disappointed in this damn phone everything is great except the music players...

Personally, I keep all my music very organised on an external hard drive at home. On there, they are all stored in the folder structure X:\Music\Artist\Album\nn Song Title.mp3. I also have album art for each of them as folder.jpg in the album folder. I'm a bit of a pedant, but keeping it tidy has proved to be a godsend no end of times!
When I want to copy something to my phone, I usually make a temp folder on my desktop so that I can keep the folder structure intact inside that, and copy the albums I want, into their respective artist folders - Desktop\Temp Music Folder\Artist\Album.
Once I've copied everything there, I connect my phone to my PC with the USB cable, and I select "Disk Drive" as the connection type.
Then I simply open my phone's storage card in windows explorer, open the music folder on there (that's obviously already there as I've got loads of music on there already), and I copy the contents of the temp folder on my desktop into that folder.
It's really simple, and it works 100% of the time.
I've seen no end of threads where people are using different software for synching & tagging mp3s, or trying to put mp3s in weird folder structures (or even all of them in 1 folder!!!) and I just don't see why you'd bother.
This method has worked flawlessly for me on a Nokia N95, Touch Diamond, Touch HD and HD2.
Hope this helps mate

Lossless Audio support in build 7720 and Zune 4.8?

I'm running build 7720 on my HD7 and syncing my phone with Zune Software version 4.8.
All music on my computer is in WMA Lossless format. When I was on NoDo, every time I would sync music to my phone, Zune would automatically convert all my music to MP3s because the lossless format was not supported by Windows Phone 7.
But now when I sync my phone using 7720 and Zune 4.8, I no longer see it converting my files as they sync to my phone.
My conversion settings in Zune are set to "Only convert files not supported by this device".
Can anyone else confirm this?
Lossless music for life!

Yeah and even the .m4a format is now working too, i had some podcast feeds coded that way and now im able to ear them all, way to GO!

Hi guys. I'm still having problem with my hd7... By the way Im using mango shipped rom. But zune still convert my wma lossless music files to mp3 when syncing to HD7.
Any idea why this is happening? I've also set the zune settings to "Only convert files not supported by this device". but it still convert the files T_T. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks alot.

[Q] WMP Lossless Audio-->Zune-->WP7

Here is my problem: I am trying to add some WAV files(lossless audio setting) to Zune via a direct copy of the files from an SD card to my PC. The audio files are from a CD that I own and ripped in that particular format. I have instructed Zune to look to a specific folder on the PC for music(the one that contains all of my audio files I would like to transfer to my WP7 device). Zune doesn't see these newly added files(older music files are there as well) and I am at a dead end in what to do to get them onto my phone. Any help is greatly appreciated. FYI-when I try to "Play with Zune" from a right click on the mouse, they won't play in Zune. When I try the same thing with WMP, it plays in WMP...go figure! I would just love to be able to drag and drop to add files to my Focus! Help?!

lewiedude said:
Here is my problem: I am trying to add some WAV files(lossless audio setting) to Zune via a direct copy of the files from an SD card to my PC. The audio files are from a CD that I own and ripped in that particular format. I have instructed Zune to look to a specific folder on the PC for music(the one that contains all of my audio files I would like to transfer to my WP7 device). Zune doesn't see these newly added files(older music files are there as well) and I am at a dead end in what to do to get them onto my phone. Any help is greatly appreciated. FYI-when I try to "Play with Zune" from a right click on the mouse, they won't play in Zune. When I try the same thing with WMP, it plays in WMP...go figure! I would just love to be able to drag and drop to add files to my Focus! Help?!
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I would say, Zune doesn't support .wav extension. I recommend to convert it to .mp4 or .wma. Recommend to use some pro editor like Goldwave. Depend on you, but yeah, Zune does not support .wav

I just figured that out after staring at the file association page in the Zune setting. They need to support their own files!
Sent from my mango'ed Focus using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Not a completely bad thing. WMA lossless does sound pretty darn good, sadly though I don't think any "Phone" has the sound processing to let the files sound their best. If you want some damn good audio quality, the Zune HD was pretty much king as far as a SMP.

Hi
I learnt that Mango supports the wma lossless as mentioned in the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1221284&highlight=lossless
Is that true? Anyone tried?
My act was to drag converted wma lossless with mass storage enabler before mango. However the prob was the tags were wiped off
Would be great if Zune 4.8 supports wma ll

[Q] [DFT] Where is the zune-music folder (on phone) ?

let me explain the situation a bit:
for a few days now i'm playing with DFT rom on my omnia and one of the good things is, that i now can use a browser with a download-manager (Opera Mobile)..
so i just made up a quick web server on my PC, hooked up folders with mp3s and navigated on it using Opera on my phone..
question is: after i download a .mp3 file off that server, Opera asks me where to put it; i select 'Music' folder and (to-check) with a root-explorer i find my downloaded .mp3 file under ./my documents/my music .. but how do i manage Zune to recognize the file and add to its library? where to put the file?
oh and sorry if it's already been answered but i did not find any useable information..

Zune randomly renames your mp3s when it adds to your phone. The problem you are running into is you can't do what you are wanting to do and have Zune read the file. The file system doesn't work that way. (At least to my knowledge.)
Why not just add the mp3's on your pc through zune so that it syncs everything?

Zune not only renames files when it syncs them to the phone, it also adds them to a database (this is the important thing). Just putting the media file into the correct folder (\My Documents\Zune\Content\...) doesn't work anyhow; the phone's media player won't know the file is there because it won't be in the database.

Thanks for the answers.. Maybe a homebrew music player will solve this in future..
Sent from my OMNIA7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

[Q] Buy Music on WP7, have on PC later?

Hello,
I have bought Music from Zune before, but I did so using the Zune Software on the PC. There you get an MP3 file and you can of course do what you want with it including syncing it to a WP7.
I am also aware that you cannot redownload DRM free MP3s so you have to keep your copy safe.
How does this work when you buy Music directly on the phone?
Is there any way to get the files on your PC later so that you can play them on the PC? Does the Zune software allow you to copy music from your phone to your PC?
If so, does this affect the quality? I belive that Zune offer 320kbps files, will those files be downloaded to my phone?

You can simply plugin your device into your PC and sync the music you downloaded with it with Zune. Dunno if it happens automatically, but you can simply right click the file and then choose "copy to my collection". I have two files here that I downloaded directly with the device and then synched it to my PC. Both have a 256kBit bitrate.

U can also use WiFi sync by enabling it in the options in Zune.

Unfortunately, Zune suffers from the same memory leak that plagued WMP, my advice is make CD copies of your music. A plus is when I download from Zune, a copy automatically goes to Windows Media Player on the PC.
Sent from The ACSyndicate Tower using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Thanks it worked as expected and there was no quality change (320kbps on PC).