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1stly id like to say android is such a brilliant step up from my old Nokia 5800/N95 but there are a few things I'm missing!
Being able to Bluetooth sync my music whenever in range of my pc was a godsend. It was just nice to have my phone show up in windows media player without any wires.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've tried web sharing lite which is brilliant but not as integrated as I'd like
Also, I recently bought the Sony Ericcson MW600 stereo bluetooth headset, its been brilliant for playing music on but ive only recieved one call while in use and the volume seemed to be none existant any clues as to whats going on there? It was such a pain to have to turn BT off and re-take the call on the phone.
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i use TuneSync for wifi syncing with iTunes.
Works fine
Double twist was just released might want to check that out.
Yep I tried doubletwist the app seemed good but the desktop client is appalling, shame that but it also doesn't sync wirelessly
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I bought this last night (well, eventually, seems the Market's still being a bit screwy - it was hanging on Authorising Purchase...) and it's pretty excellent. Small free app install on Windows/OSX iTunes side, install app on handset, tell it which PC and which playlist to sync and, well, leave it alone. Works great, I'm impressed.
But im assuming I would have to use Itunes to gain any use?
great ;(
why not use one of those wifi file transfer programs?
i used afile and discovery to move photos and songs back and forth. doesn't 'sync', but still allows wireless transfer of songs.
I use TuneSync, the first sync is a little iffy (i had 10gbs of music to sync) but once you get passed that it works OK enough for me.
http://www.markspace.com/
I didnt like it, but it works! High price, I would say just torrent it!
Hi Guys
Now that the voodoo sound kernels are out i would love to use nexus as my main music player but i simply cant fit my libary on.. all my music is 15gb. Ive seen some apps like subsonic but u need to leave your computer on all the time..
Are there any better solutions like shrinking the music or something like that? Really bugging me
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Hi Guys
Now that the voodoo sound kernels are out i would love to use nexus as my main music player but i simply cant fit my libary on.. all my music is 15gb. Ive seen some apps like subsonic but u need to leave your computer on all the time..
Are there any better solutions like shrinking the music or something like that? Really bugging me
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I've mentioned this before, and I'd hope it'd be launching today but it did not: Google Music, as it is currently known, will search your computer for music and then give you access to the music you already own to be streamed to another device while also allowing you to buy more music.
Yeah i heard about that It really sucks though, spotify is ok but they dont have everything i want lol
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Yeah i heard about that It really sucks though, spotify is ok but they dont have everything i want lol
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I understand the issue...I have 65 gigs of music which I've trimmed down to 32gigs for my iPod and now I would rather use the most convenient solution of my phone but I don't know how I can cut it down that much.
How did you cut down to 32? Just didnt transfer all of it?
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How did you cut down to 32? Just didnt transfer all of it?
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...pretty much? Its an iPod. You can fill it with however much you want you just have to turn off autofill.
I do love the nexus s but for the life of me wish it had a card slot.. lol..
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I do love the nexus s but for the life of me wish it had a card slot.. lol..
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Ya...I'm starting to understand the complaint =/
Two of the best options that I have tested that are available now are Audiogalaxy and Subsonic.
Audio galaxy is extremely simple to setup and is a pure streaming option as it does not cache the songs to your device. It has an option to stream the music in high quality or in lower quality if you are in a non 3g/wifi area. Also, its 100% free.
Subsonic is more difficult to setup because you have to enable port forwarding on your router. Some people do no like to open up ports on their router because of the potential security risk. Subsonic not only streams the music to your device but it also cache's to your internal storage which comes in handy if your signal drops. Another feature is via a web page you can download any song in your library, my brother downloaded have of my library from his pc at his house. The web service is free but after an initial 30 day trial the android app costs, cant remember how much atm.
Overall I prefer audiogalaxy for its simplicity and ease of use.
Do you find it heavy on your data usage?
The main issue I have with audiogalaxy and subsonic is that you need to have your computer (source) constantly on or else you wont be able to stream it to your phone.
mspot is a good choice to put your music directly onto its servers so you can play it from the cloud. however it only offers 2gb free and if you want 10gb+ of online storage you have to pay per month.
I have decided to go with grooveshark and rdio for my music streaming. at least i get an endless selection of songs and I can download the songs and albums Im interested in listening to at that point in time.
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Two of the best options that I have tested that are available now are Audiogalaxy and Subsonic.
Audio galaxy is extremely simple to setup and is a pure streaming option as it does not cache the songs to your device. It has an option to stream the music in high quality or in lower quality if you are in a non 3g/wifi area. Also, its 100% free.
Subsonic is more difficult to setup because you have to enable port forwarding on your router. Some people do no like to open up ports on their router because of the potential security risk. Subsonic not only streams the music to your device but it also cache's to your internal storage which comes in handy if your signal drops. Another feature is via a web page you can download any song in your library, my brother downloaded have of my library from his pc at his house. The web service is free but after an initial 30 day trial the android app costs, cant remember how much atm.
Overall I prefer audiogalaxy for its simplicity and ease of use.
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There is an easy setup guide for subsonic. Just search subsonic here and it should show up. I'd prefer subsonic over audiogalaxy simply because it supports folder structures. I don't use playlists much because all of my music are organized via folders.
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Do you find it heavy on your data usage?
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Subsonic only uses data if the music isn't cached on your phone already. So if you find yourself listening to different music every single day, then it might use a lot of data. Otherwise, if the music is already saved in your storage, it will just play it from there rather than streaming it again. You can also set up the storage size you want it to take up on your internal storage. I set mine up at 500 MB.
Also, subsonic is supporting videos. Not all formats yet since they are still working on it, but they are supporting one video format (forgot what it was).
Since HTC One X does not have external sd card and most of us got 25gb free drop box space, I thought this would be helpful for ppl who want to stream music from drop box.
Reason in writing in this topic: My HTC One X was my first android device and I did not knew that we could stream music from drop box, so I wanted to list all the apps which I came across in my search. I hope this helps noobs like me.
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1) AnTek Explorer + AnTek Drop box / Box.net client
Free App, Music player is good (with Equalizer)
Read this to known more about how to add your drop box or box account - http://anttek.com/playing-music-with-anttek-explorer/
2) Just Player
After you install Just Player you need to install Drop box music provider
Free and Good music player .
3) Dropsync
Full two-way sync. Just like Dropbox on desktop
Instant upload: new files (for example photos) are uploaded to Dropbox immediately, no need to wait for the next autosync cycle
You can buy the pro version to get more futures such as
Sync multiple folders
* Sync the whole Dropbox with a folder on your phone or tablet
* Upload files larger than 5 MB
* No ads, of course
Finally if someone did not get 25gb free drop box space they can get free 50gb box space - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18221721
I personally use subsonic to stream my whole library from home.
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I personally use subsonic to stream my whole library from home.
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But you cannot play while ur away from home network . And not from cloud
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abhipati said:
But you cannot play while ur away from home network . And not from cloud
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It may not be from a "cloud" in your sense of the word, but you can definatly stream from home if you setup your network correctly.
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Unless you work some magic with your home routing..
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Teach us few of ur magic tricks plz
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Tomorrow.
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Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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Audiogalaxy is the best thing I've found to stream my entire library from home. It's free. 6 or 7 of my friends are logged on too. If you have good quality source music, audiogalaxy will sound as great, better than anything else I've tried. It caches the next song so its ready as soon as you hit next. You can also login fom any computer by going to audiogalaxy.com and stream your library.
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Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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Yaa kleeman, defently wé can use google music which is Great. I just wrote to make use of dropbox space.
AD8 said:
Audiogalaxy is the best thing I've found to stream my entire library from home. It's free. 6 or 7 of my friends are logged on too. If you have good quality source music, audiogalaxy will sound as great, better than anything else I've tried. It caches the next song so its ready as soon as you hit next. You can also login fom any computer by going to audiogalaxy.com and stream your library.
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Thanks will try audiogalaxy
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While I have found streaming music from dropbox to be very convenient, a major downside for me is the fact that it consumes a lot of your allotted data. Especially if you have a bunch of 320 kbps songs like I do. Memory really is this phones only major drawback, however I just tend to keep my library updated and it hasn't bothered me too much. 16 GB is still a lot of music.
I prefer storing pictures and videos on cloud since I view them much less frequently than I listen to music, so when I do need to access the pictures or videos I use a lot less data. Just my 2 cents
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Or you could just use the 20000 free song storage from Google just saying.
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But that's only if your music is .mp3 or .flac (and you're willing to just listen to mp3 on the go). If you have a whole bunch of music from iTunes, Google Music is a terrible idea since it transcodes .m4a to .mp3. Amazon is a good idea too right now, but it does cost $25/year but it will just match a whole bunch of music rather than doing uploads.
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It may not be from a "cloud" in your sense of the word, but you can definatly stream from home if you setup your network correctly.
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Exactly. Just have to have an always on computer (like my cheap server I built with second hand parts that cost me <100$) and an always on internet connection.
Setup is even easy with subsonic because you get a yourname.subsonic.org address so you don't have to remember your own IP address.
sassafras
Yeah, its definatly a neat little program. I'll play around with it later this week.
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elomire said:
But that's only if your music is .mp3 or .flac (and you're willing to just listen to mp3 on the go). If you have a whole bunch of music from iTunes, Google Music is a terrible idea since it transcodes .m4a to .mp3. Amazon is a good idea too right now, but it does cost $25/year but it will just match a whole bunch of music rather than doing uploads.
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Does Amazon really match files? It sure took a really really long time to upload my library if it was matching.
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Yes Amazon now matches files like iTunes, however they only announced the service very recently (ie yesterday or the day before).
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Oh awesome, thanks for the clarification!
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While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good video player that can also list /stream videos from dropbox? For example, I use mx player and I can add folders to include. Now that storage is at a premium, im having to move most of my videos /movies up to dropbox. It's been real inconvenient trying to browse / play them now.
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As of about a month ago the dropbox app itself will do video streaming
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As of about a month ago the dropbox app itself will do video streaming
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Whoa haven't tried that yet thanks
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subsonic is incredible. If you aren't using it, you're missing out. I have nearly 8TB of lossless music I've collected over the years and I stream from all over the world. And myself and ~10 colleagues at the office stream all day. It's an easy setup and it just works....and the caching support on the android app is pure gravy.
I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?
ubuntu: moc
android: poweramp
I am pleased with both.
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I haven't looked at PowerAmp because, well... it's not free. Free isn't a requirement, but I just don't feel like I listen to music on my phone enough to justify paying for an app like that.
Now, about moc... I had not heard of that before. I googled it and read about it, but I don't see any way to do what I'm wanting to do.
yeah, its different than what you want. The complete opposite, actually. But I still recommend it -- it grows on you. Worth an apt-get.
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I haven't tried it yet, but this program looks promising: http://mr-random.sourceforge.net/docs.html#Doc/
Give PowerAmp a try, they have the trial version. Once you've tried it, it's hard to use any other.
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I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?
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The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.
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The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.
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I appreciate the suggestion, and it looks like a nice product, but I fail to see how that accomplishes my goal.
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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Freakthis08 said:
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.
UPDATE:
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.