Hi, I'm thinking about making the switch to windows phone 7 but I have some questions.
If I don't use zune and add music from my iTunes library, will I get the same experience on my wp7 phone, like the artwork in the hubs and artwork on the lock screen (mango feature) ?
crazymania said:
Hi, I'm thinking about making the switch to windows phone 7 but I have some questions.
If I don't use zune and add music from my iTunes library, will I get the same experience on my wp7 phone, like the artwork in the hubs and artwork on the lock screen (mango feature) ?
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You have to use Zune to get Music on your WP7. I imported my music from my iTunes library to Zune, and everything worked fine. I can't tell you anything about the artwork though, because it's not available for countries without Zune music store..
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once imported, the artist info will either be pulled by the phone itself or transferred when synced with the zune software.
but as stated, you can't sync a windows phone with itunes, just like you can't sync an iphone with zune.
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Hey Folks,
I have a windows mobile touchscreen device (Omnia) and I am interested in getting my subscription Zune music to play on it. As most of you may know this music is DRM'd since I technically don't "own" the music and only get to play it as long as I pay my subscription fee.
Anyway, I found in an article that if I sync my Omnia via ActiveSync, it shows up in the "Sync" tab in Windows Media Player. From here I can drag albums over to my Omnia and they will play in Windows Mobile Media Player, s2p, etc.
Here is my problem: For some reason, a large portion of my Zune music has a little error next to it saying "No Sync Rights". There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to what I can and cannot sync. I believe the Zune pass allows the music to be synced to up to 3 devices. I only have one zune, so there is no reason I can't sync with my Zune and my Omnia. One thing I did notice, if I sync to my phone, then I do a hard reset, the music I had synced now has "no sync rights". It's like WMP doesn't know that data was removed.
My question is:
* How does WMP and the Zune software know what songs are and arn't on my Zune?
* Is there anyway to prove/reset my sync count so I can sync more of my music properly?
* Any other Zune+WinMo users out there have any success stories to share?
Thanks a lot!
false_apology said:
Hey Folks,
I have a windows mobile touchscreen device (Omnia) and I am interested in getting my subscription Zune music to play on it. As most of you may know this music is DRM'd since I technically don't "own" the music and only get to play it as long as I pay my subscription fee.
Anyway, I found in an article that if I sync my Omnia via ActiveSync, it shows up in the "Sync" tab in Windows Media Player. From here I can drag albums over to my Omnia and they will play in Windows Mobile Media Player, s2p, etc.
Here is my problem: For some reason, a large portion of my Zune music has a little error next to it saying "No Sync Rights". There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to what I can and cannot sync. I believe the Zune pass allows the music to be synced to up to 3 devices. I only have one zune, so there is no reason I can't sync with my Zune and my Omnia. One thing I did notice, if I sync to my phone, then I do a hard reset, the music I had synced now has "no sync rights". It's like WMP doesn't know that data was removed.
My question is:
* How does WMP and the Zune software know what songs are and arn't on my Zune?
* Is there anyway to prove/reset my sync count so I can sync more of my music properly?
* Any other Zune+WinMo users out there have any success stories to share?
Thanks a lot!
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"3 devices" means 3 Zunes.
Microsoft doesn't support syncronization outside of Zunes.
However, some users have said that their Zune Pass music works on their phone. Idk how, I have the same "problem" as you. Microsoft needs to integrate stuff better though.
I am looking to add a specific CD to my Windows Phone. I can see the CD listed in Zune Marketplace, but when I go to buy it, all songs are for some reason listed as “not available”, and I am not able to purchase this album. Is there a way for me to go to the music store and buy this album, and somehow install it in my Windows Phone?
Thanks,
Dave
You can certainly add albums, yes. A "CD" is a physical thing, which obviously can't be added to the phone. If you had a CD, you could rip the CD (using Zune, Windows Media Player, iTunes, whatever) and sync the ripped MP3/WMA/AAC files to the phone using Zune.
As for buying albums through the Marketplace, it can certainly be done. However, some songs/albums aren't available for purchase through the store - they're in the database, so you can search them and the phone will recognize them, but you can't play or download them - and you'll need to get that music from elsewhere if you want it. The first thing to check is whether the album is actually available, but under a different name or genre or publication date - it's quite common for one album to be in the catalog multiple times, with only one copy actually available. In the USA, you can also use Amazon MP3 to buy digital download music. There's also iTunes Music Store, if you don't mind installing that piece of *ahem* software. The phone can play music from any of those (though note it can *not* play iTunes movies/video clips, since Apple puts DRM on those that locks them to Apple products).
Thanks!
Hi,
Thanks for the great suggestions! I immediately found the album in question at the Amazon Digital Music Store. I downloaded the required software, and the album is now on my hard drive in my Windows Media Player.
Now – Please how do I get this album in my Windows Media Player added to my music collection in my Windows Phone?
Thanks again,
Dave
XATAGuy said:
Hi,
Thanks for the great suggestions! I immediately found the album in question at the Amazon Digital Music Store. I downloaded the required software, and the album is now on my hard drive in my Windows Media Player.
Now – Please how do I get this album in my Windows Media Player added to my music collection in my Windows Phone?
Thanks again,
Dave
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You need to add it to your Zune collection, not your WMP library. Your Windows Phone syncs through Zune.
Thanks Guys,
My Titan was a replacement WP. I had not set up a partnership between my new Titan and Zune because……… I didn’t have any reason to. Everything I needed synced perfectly from the cloud when I set up the replacement Titan.
I now have the album I wanted in my device and I appreciate the advice,
Dave
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.
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Thanks it worked as expected and there was no quality change (320kbps on PC).
I am coming from a custom Ipod Classic, I have a huge library of music and now that my new phone (HTC 10) accepts big micro sd cards and 256gb cards are starting to come out I am looking to transition over to my phone as my main MP3 player.
I am looking for something that will let me easily mange my large library, I would like to be able to only view specific directories that I choose so other audio files that are on my phone that aren't part of my library aren't lumped into my collection.
Also while I have you, on my PC I use Itunes to play my music locally and obviously this is how I put songs on my Ipod, is there an alternative program I can use instead of Itunes now on a Windows PC to play my music and maybe even manage the music on my phone?
I haven't figured out how to change my username since I decided I like iPhone better than Android.
I want to copy my personal music collection onto my iPhone but when I tried to at the library by connecting the mp3 player and the iPhone to separate USB cables to the Windows computer, it wouldn't let me and later I found out from Apple that there is a restriction where you have to use iTunes. Because I don't have my own computer at home I was wondering if there are any alternatives, and someone at the Apple Store suggested that syncing the mp3s with iTunes may still not allow the playback of the mp3s if they weren't specifically purchased through Apple Music.
So what would be a good alternative way to transfer my music collection onto the iPhone? I tested a web-site in Google Chrome that is a YouTube to mp3 converter called "mp3 juices" that allows you to download audio from YouTube into mp3 files. It worked on iPhone and I was able to import mp3s into a music player app called the Audius Music Player. Since the Audius Music Player works in this way, I suppose I could copy all 12 GB of my music collection onto Google Drive and than download the songs one by one and than import them into the Audius Music Player app but I think this may be rather tedious to click to download on each individual song until I downloaded 12 GB of music. Also the free version of Audius Music Player says it has limits so I don't know if there would be a limitation on the amount of music that can be downloaded.
Would there be a way to save all the music album folders and files into one large zip file and unzip the music files onto the iPhone?
Another suggestion mentioned to me by someone is the VLC media player, but VLC on iPhone requires iTunes to sync the music into VLC media player and so I may want to get away from having to deal with iTunes.
Lol, I thought everything was easy on iPhones...
Try this.
Meh, I've used iPhones for work and I'll take my N10+'s over them any day.
DRM sucks... you are now part of the machine.
NeedHelpWithAndroid said:
I haven't figured out how to change my username since I decided I like iPhone better than Android.
I want to copy my personal music collection onto my iPhone but when I tried to at the library by connecting the mp3 player and the iPhone to separate USB cables to the Windows computer, it wouldn't let me and later I found out from Apple that there is a restriction where you have to use iTunes. Because I don't have my own computer at home I was wondering if there are any alternatives, and someone at the Apple Store suggested that syncing the mp3s with iTunes may still not allow the playback of the mp3s if they weren't specifically purchased through Apple Music.
So what would be a good alternative way to transfer my music collection onto the iPhone? I tested a web-site in Google Chrome that is a YouTube to mp3 converter called "mp3 juices" that allows you to download audio from YouTube into mp3 files. It worked on iPhone and I was able to import mp3s into a music player app called the Audius Music Player. Since the Audius Music Player works in this way, I suppose I could copy all 12 GB of my music collection onto Google Drive and than download the songs one by one and than import them into the Audius Music Player app but I think this may be rather tedious to click to download on each individual song until I downloaded 12 GB of music. Also the free version of Audius Music Player says it has limits so I don't know if there would be a limitation on the amount of music that can be downloaded.
Would there be a way to save all the music album folders and files into one large zip file and unzip the music files onto the iPhone?
Another suggestion mentioned to me by someone is the VLC media player, but VLC on iPhone requires iTunes to sync the music into VLC media player and so I may want to get away from having to deal with iTunes.
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You have to use iTunes. Don't have a computer? Get one. IPhones don't behave like android, it's either iTunes or you don't. They are more locked down.