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WMP10 PLAYLISTS / SYNCING / BOOKMARKS AAARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!

WMP10 PLAYLISTS / SYNCING / BOOKMARKS AAARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!
:evil: Sorry people but I'm F*%@!ng! fuming over this. The reason I like Winamp is becuase you hear something you like and all you do is "Add to Bookmarks", couldn't be simpler, and easy to copy and backup and replace, I wonder if Pocket Music is this simple? probably.
BUT WMP10 what a frikin knightmare!. I've tried the Windows Media Player 10 Mobile help sights, tried some of the SYNCING things, it did sync 29 things??? but still hasnt transfered My Playlists looking in the WMP Library on the XDA. SO in frustration I copy "My Playlists" from My Docs on my main PC to my PocketPC's Docs AND Storage Card to a folder called My Playlists, I Open WMP10 on the XDA, then using File Explorer in XDA to find the My Playlists then try to open them that way, oh no of course it isn't going to frikin work is it!! Playlists for WMP aren't associated with WMP10 eh!??? WTF!!! Why can't they make it simpler!!!??? AND I cant "FIND or SEARCH" the "My Playlist Folder" associated with WMP10 in my XDA, for the life of me someone please help me out.. :roll: sorry for the rant but I cant be the only one having this problem.

Welcome to M$ !!!
They way I use it:
- Check that all your music is in the WM10 library on your PC.
- You need to have all the playlists you want to sync in WM10 on your PC.
- WM10 (again the PC side) has a "sync" tab, which you need to use for synching to get your playlists to your PocketPC. Check the playlists you want to sync in the sync settings, hit "sync"
- You're done!
If you are using another music player and DON'T want to use WM10, you're out of luck....

Please excuse my noobness.
Welcome to M$ !!!
They way I use it:
- Check that all your music is in the WM10 library on your PC.
- You need to have all the playlists you want to sync in WM10 on your PC.
- WM10 (again the PC side) has a "sync" tab, which you need to use for synching to get your playlists to your PocketPC. Check the playlists you want to sync in the sync settings, hit "sync" - You're done!
If you are using another music player and DON'T want to use WM10, you're out of luck....
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ok I just went to the Library and found My Playlists with the Radio Stations I like, clicked on Sync, found the folder on My pocketpc to send to, picked one and ticked it on the PC side, highlighted it, hit the green Start Sync button.. ERROR the player may not support the file... tryed a few more , same thing.. please excuse my noobness, I like to stream radio stations off the net, How do I "Add Bookmark" as it were into my own folder say My Playlists? I was able in version 9 but not 10 it seems. i'll keep trying, and thanks I'm getting closer.

Went into Sync settings
Went into Sync settings, ticked all the radio playlists, found My Playlists in My Documents on pocketpc & storagecard..
ERROR the player may not support the file...
tried a few more , same thing.. I made sure the player wasnt playing at the time, I have had no problem with active sync so far its the latest version, firewall is ok in program controls, and it's a very recent ROM, I have been able to stream 32kbps streams using a neighbors wifi connection but can't even manualy drag drop some playlists.

I feel your pain. I gave up on the sync thing with Windows Media player. It never worked right.
Been using Yahoo's music service and it works as advertised. Click sync and your done...no playlists though & it costs money. Still, good audio quality and its easy.

Thanks inbox7
Thanks inbox7, I am using www.radiofeeds.co.uk for UK radio listening links.
Also one work around (can't believe I just said that Microshaft!) I am saving the .asx links as Favourites. works anyway.
Slightly off topic, has anyone reading this managed to stream an MP3 stream using there XDA and a WIFI connection?, What is the maximum bitrate you achieved? I'll start a thread on this unless you can point me to one.
cheers all choppidge.

Im trying the WMP10 sync now.... 20% complete.... keeping my fingers crossed that itll work without a snitch... thanks!

Im done syncing two playlists.. took a while to complete but when I checked my universal, couldnt see the playlists there... What did i do wrong?
I synced WM10 to save the Playlists to the storage device but couldnt find anything anywhere. My Playlist folder just shows Now Playing.. help! thanks!

TouchFlo 3D Music tab does not display the album arts for music synced (SOLVED)

Hi,
I'm having problem where the music tab does not display the photo for most of the music I synced from my notebook.
I tried opening Windows Media Player on my Touch Pro and all the musics have photo attached to them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Found solution at http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481
Anyway, people should start complaining to HTC regarding this issue as the TouchFlo 3D music tab is not WMP compliance.

Ok, the solution found in the page above would actually solve the problem for one time sync. If you want to continuously sync your music, then it would be best to add the album art into the music files directly by tagging them.
So, here's the steps:
Use WMP to update album info. This would eventually add album art.
Download Mp3tag at http://www.mp3tag.de/en
Install and start Mp3tag
Press CTRL+D (Change Directory) and browse to your music folder
Press CTRL+A to select all files
Click the "Actions (Quick)" icon on the toolbar
Select "Import cover from file"
Type "Folder.jpg" and click OK
Wait until complete and sync to your device
If you have previously synced, then the album art would stay as before, delete the HTC folder in Application Data folder on your device and restart your device

hm that's baaaaad. it should support images in the directory

I have some MP3 with album covers embedded in MP3 TAG, copied in my HTC HD via USB disk but TF3D don't recognize the images...

little bit of necromancy
I`ve used put folder.jpg in album folder. working with everything

Cover art on Mp3 player

can anyone tell me why the cover art shows up on WindowsMediaPlaye but when i sync it with my fuze only some of the cover art shows up on the music library? im using the Elite RC2 rom if that helps....

anyone? know the answer to my problem?

If you want cover art for music you need to save a hidden file in the same directory as the mp3 file and name it like this '~hTC_Piano Chill.jpg'. Just start the name with ~hTC_ and then the name of the album.
Then edit the album title on the summary tab of the mp3 file to use the album name that is the same as the jpg. Don't include the ~hTC_ part there though. That's it.

Or embed the album art in the tags.

I use this program:
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Then I add the album art to all of the files. You can use this program to get album arts too from amazon.
Then I just put the files in my storage card
And BAM! You have it. After putting in your phone you might have to soft reset in order for the album picture to appear.

xhypnotik said:
I use this program:
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Then I add the album art to all of the files. You can use this program to get album arts too from amazon.
Then I just put the files in my storage card
And BAM! You have it. After putting in your phone you might have to soft reset in order for the album picture to appear.
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I've got over 10,000 songs. Is there an automated way to do this?

alabij said:
I've got over 10,000 songs. Is there an automated way to do this?
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Not really. This program is best for one album at a time. If you have your 10,000 songs well organized in separate folders you can do this with ease.

alabij said:
I've got over 10,000 songs. Is there an automated way to do this?
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i use mediamonkey, it can download album art from the net and update the tags... it can even sync with the TP.. i tested around 10 mp3 ID3 Tag programs before i found mediamonkey. Try it

windows media player has that function, just right click the song/album --> find album info ---> select right one ----> ok ----> right click song/album again ---> update album info.
or do what i did iTunes will do it very will, u need an account
MOE

WMP and Itunes both add album art work to their own libraries and it doesnt all sync over to the fuze for some reason. thats why i started this thread.....
now on to a new but related problem. i used mp3tag to edit the tags and embed all the album art then dropped all my music into my card and did a soft reset. the problem now is that instead of displaying the album art i get " ! " sign.anyone else had this problem? or know how to fix it?
does sync media monkey have the same problem?
or do i need to sync it using WMP again?
EDIT: nvm problem fixed itself guess it just needed a min to read all those song the majority of the song have albulm arteork and tags just a couple here and there that i either missed or just need to re upload. thanks alot for turning me onto mp3tag love it

How to manage music in Windows Phone 7?

So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?

mesofly said:
So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?
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Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...

Zedox said:
Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...
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That's what I do for any artist where I have b-sides or demos in addition to the regular albums. I create an album called 'singles' and group all the non-album tracks under those. You could create different albums like this; demos, singles, bootlegs, etc.

[Q]Album Art Lockscreen in Mango

I have lots of albuns in my computer and I did the ''Find Album Info'' in Zune and got the covers and all that.. Them I synced some albuns with my Omnia 7 and now when I play the music there is no album art in the background of Zune and no art in the Lockscreen.. Any ideas..?

did you enable lockscreen album art in the settings? it's in the lock/wallpaper settings.

It doesn't actually display album art, it displays artist art which is only available from the zune marketplace. So if you are in a region where you don't have access to it, you won't get any artwork in the background. It would be nice to be able to set local custom artist art, but I don't think there is any way to do that currently.

I'm in a country with Zune marketplace. I only get artwork for tracks I play off the zune marketplace. None of my own seem to work. That goes for the lock screen and even when just playing the tracks in the player. I've also done the same with Find Info etc... in Zune but no joy.

debug77 said:
I'm in a country with Zune marketplace. I only get artwork for tracks I play off the zune marketplace. None of my own seem to work. That goes for the lock screen and even when just playing the tracks in the player. I've also done the same with Find Info etc... in Zune but no joy.
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Do you still can't see album art on lockscreen?

Play a song that you don't see artist art on your phone on Zune on your PC. If Zune displays artist art when you are playing it on your PC, then that means Zune properly recognizes the song you are playing and has properly linked it with an artist that has information and art available off the Zune database.
This is highly dependent on your tags being correct, and on there being an entry for your artist in the Zune Marketplace.
If your artist does not have any information in the Zune Database, you won't get artist information, biographies, lock-screen artist photos, and all the fancy Zune features normally tied to a linked artist.

It's actually hit n miss as to whether the Zune software on PC will show artist background either - and that's for albums that have been downloaded off Zune Marketplace, and those ones DO show artwork on the phone.
Not sure what I need to enter in the tag info then to get it to recognise them. I have albums that match the Zune versions identically, and I've used the get album info to ensure they match.
Am at a bit of a loss

debug77 said:
It's actually hit n miss as to whether the Zune software on PC will show artist background either - and that's for albums that have been downloaded off Zune Marketplace, and those ones DO show artwork on the phone.
Not sure what I need to enter in the tag info then to get it to recognise them. I have albums that match the Zune versions identically, and I've used the get album info to ensure they match.
Am at a bit of a loss
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You can also right-click songs in your collection, and if it matches something in the Zune database, you should be able to see an option named "More about this album" which would bring you to the artist's page on the Zune Marketplace. This is an easy way to check if a specific song has been properly linked to something in the Zune library.
Any song that plays with artist photos on my PC has also displayed properly on my phone/lock-screen, so I'm not having any issues there.

Is there any way to enable displaying album art from the id3 tags in Mango, while zune is playing and phone is locked? There was an option on Green Mango for HD2 with "display album art on lockscreen", but in Mango RTM it disappeared. It wasn't working in Green Mango.