I'm sorry to ask this question as the answer is probably obvious to most (but not to me!)
Most of my MP3s vary a lot in volume so I discovered a program called MP3Gain to alter the playback levels so that they are more uniform.
The only problem is that the Zune Software does not seem to recognise that the MP3 files have been altered in any way and therefore refuses to update my Lumia with the new, MP3Gained files!
Is there any quick way to just update all the songs on my phone with the edited files automatically or do I have to delete all the songs and upload them manually?
Any help would be gratefully appreciated!
Hmm... did MP3Gain not update the files' Modified timestamp? If it didn't, that may be why Zune doesn't realize they've changed. If it did, and Zune still doesn't pick up on that... weird.
One sure way is to delete the music from the phone, then re-sync. This actually shouldn't take much (if any) longer than just re-syncing all the files would anyhow.
I should have said that initially!
MP3 Gain does modify the time/ datestamp but Zune still ignores it anyway!
That's weird... I've seen Zune automatically update files when I connect my phone even though I tweaked something (like my rating of them) on the PC when the phone was disconnected. It may not notice third-party changes, though... silly of it.
You could also try just re-syncing the files (select all your music files in Zune, then drag+drop them onto the phone icon). Zune may then notice the changes and send the update.
Thanks, I'll give that a try!
Doesn't work!
Even when I change the rating in Zune, it doesn't sync to the phone.
I tried giving a song a rating in Explorer and that also doesn't make Zune sync.
I'm not really sure what else to do now...
What's wrong with just deleting the songs from the phone (very easy to do in Zune) and then re-syncing them? I meant it when I said this wouldn't take any longer. You'd have to overwrite every song file anyhow, which will take just as long.
The problem is that I have 30gb of songs on my pc and only 10gb on the phone, so I have to remember exactly which songs I have on the phone from the collection on the pc!
Is there some way that the phone can just restore all the music on the phone in one go?
Every time I've deleted music in the Zune app on the phone and then connected to the pc, the music stays deleted and isn't restored from the pc.
The strange thing is that the Zune software recognises that the mp3s have been changed as it says that "media files updated". It just doesn't update them on the phone.
This is what I did: create a playlist "Music on Phone" (can be done from the phone if I remember correctly) and whenever you add, or delete music in this playlist, it'll get automatically synced. Should you decide to delete all music for whatever reason, it's a one-click-sync to get it all back then..
Regards..
Thanks ombre33, that sounds like exactly what I'm after!
I'll give it a go and see if it works for me.
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i recently hacked mango on my samsung focus and tried smart dj only to recive an error message. anyone have an idea how to fix this?
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i recently hacked mango on my samsung focus and tried smart dj only to recive an error message. anyone have an idea how to fix this?
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What does the error say? It seems like this information might help...
its says "Were having trouble creating this smart dj mix. in settings, make sure the connect with zune option is turned on, and connect your phone to your pc" i have done both of these.
Going back to the old ZuneHD
Make sure you have enough music on your phone and that you've listen to enought music. Thats was the fix with the Zune HD should work on Windows Phone
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Make sure you have enough music on your phone and that you've listen to enought music. Thats was the fix with the Zune HD should work on Windows Phone
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There are two different error messages, one is his "Cannot create this Smart DJ..." and the other one says "We don't have enough music to create this smart DJ playlist..."
I assume since he is getting the first, more generic message something else is wrong, and its not due to not having enough music, otherwise I assume it would have given him the 2nd error message.
Unfortunately I have not been able to replicate the first error message so I don't know what's wrong. The Zune HD was picky when it came to what songs it would work for, and I don't know if the case is the same for Windows Phone. You may to try these things if you haven't already:
1) Try a bunch of different songs/artists. Does it happen to all of them? And when you get the error, is it always the same one?
2) Try a popular, more recognized artist. You may also want to try playing an artist to see if any of the background images change to reflect that artist. If it does not, its a sign that Zune does not properly recognize the track or that your tags are wrong/incomplete. This is the top cause of Smart DJ and of background images not working as they should.
3) If you don't have a Zune Pass, then Zune will not grab content from the Marketplace even if you have the option to do so on.
4) In order for Smart DJ to work properly, you need multiple tracks from the same artist/album so that Zune can properly probe those tracks for information to pull similar artists/tracks.
5) Your region may be affecting what you can or cannot use on your phone. Certain features are restricted by region (Local Scout, Smart DJ, Podcasts, etc.). So if you aren't in a region that is supported by the feature, it won't work. Normally with Windows Phone, I've noticed that the feature doesn't appear at all if it isn't supported, so technically, I would assume that if you are in a region that doesn't support Smart DJ, you should not be seeing the ability to use Smart DJ. But then again, this is beta, and mistakes happen.
6) It's beta. It's not working properly for you. You may have to start from scratch, resync your phone, or some other drastic measures. It's not guaranteed to work, and frankly, I'm surprised my phone works as wonderfully as it should.
That's all I can think of thus far.
Great Post anyway to give you props for that?
thank you, it started working yesterday for some reason. maybe it took time to connect to zune services or something
Trying to determine if this is a "just me" problem or a larger problem.
I have ringtones on my SD card that I moved onto my phone when I got the Atrix 2. I am able to successfully assign the 'new' ringtones for both the default and the individual contacts. I've already set it up as indicated in this thread (which I know is for the S2, but I presumed the concept should be the same).
However, I've found that at some point later (perhaps after a restart?), some (but not all) of the ringtones have changed, usually to songs on the SD card (not necessarily to other ringtones).
Is anyone else experiencing anything like this? It's not a huge deal, but it definitely throws me for a loop when say, my father calls, and it's not "his" ringtone playing on my phone.
Thanks for the feedback to anyone else who responds.
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Trying to determine if this is a "just me" problem or a larger problem.
I have ringtones on my SD card that I moved onto my phone when I got the Atrix 2. I am able to successfully assign the 'new' ringtones for both the default and the individual contacts. I've already set it up as indicated in this thread (which I know is for the S2, but I presumed the concept should be the same).
However, I've found that at some point later (perhaps after a restart?), some (but not all) of the ringtones have changed, usually to songs on the SD card (not necessarily to other ringtones).
Is anyone else experiencing anything like this? It's not a huge deal, but it definitely throws me for a loop when say, my father calls, and it's not "his" ringtone playing on my phone.
Thanks for the feedback to anyone else who responds.
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You should not have them on the phone storage, that is for apps and android only. All of your media (including ringtones) needs to stay on your SDcard, especially since the phone scans and rescans the SDcard on every boot, for things like that.
To make it work correctly for this phone, create a folder (directory) on your SDcard and call it ringtones (it must be on the root of the SDcard), that will make them show up as ringtones to select, the only time they will not work, is if you unmount the SDcard and put another one in, that does not have that layout with the files you selected as ringtones. Once you put the card back in and remount it, they should start to immediately work again.
Hi Jim:
So would the correct path for these files then be: /mnt/sd-card/media (and then either notifications/ringtones/audio?).... or /sd-card/media?
I swear that's how it was initially set up and the phone couldn't seem to find any ringtones, which is why I'd made the change as outlined above.
Thanks for your assistance.
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Hi Jim:
So would the correct path for these files then be: /mnt/sd-card/media (and then either notifications/ringtones/audio?).... or /sd-card/media?
I swear that's how it was initially set up and the phone couldn't seem to find any ringtones, which is why I'd made the change as outlined above.
Thanks for your assistance.
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No, the correct path is:
/sdcard/ringtones/
Your ringtone mp3 files go in there. I have never had an issue with that location on this phone, and a few other other phones that has worked flawlessly as well.
Jim
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Hi Jim:
So would the correct path for these files then be: /mnt/sd-card/media (and then either notifications/ringtones/audio?).... or /sd-card/media?
I swear that's how it was initially set up and the phone couldn't seem to find any ringtones, which is why I'd made the change as outlined above.
Thanks for your assistance.
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No, the correct path is:
/sdcard/ringtones/
Your ringtone mp3 files go in there. I have never had an issue with that location on this phone, and a few other other phones that has worked flawlessly as well.
Jim
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Hi Jim:
I moved the files there using root explorer, used the app "sd rescan" to rescan the card again, and rebooted my phone.
The tones now appear twice each in my ringtones option and both appear to play (which would at least imply that they're both linked to valid files). However, I had set my alarm for this morning to wake me up with a ringtone, and was instead woken up to the noise the phone makes when you first turn it on and it's scanning the card. I've also noticed that again, my contacts have different ringtones.
I've noticed that the folder appears in two places (sd-card/ringtones, and then a mnt/sd-card/ringtones has a symblink of that) ... could that be my issue?
It's not just you. The phone has storage "issues" of all kinds.
Just curious do you have Zedge installed?
I do have Zedge installed, though I've never used it for Ringtones. I've also got RingDroid installed, which is how I made these into ringtones/notification tones in the first place.
I'm getting this popup (see attachment) when I copy files to my TF700 via the USB sync cable. It doesn't happen with every file transfer, just a few. I get this alert and agree to it. I have no issues opening the file using appropriate apps. MX player in this case. What is going on?
I believe this is due to the fact that we're limited to the MTP protocol. I guess it just warns you that the file may not register immediately with the Media Storage scanner, and that you therefore might not see it immediately in, for example, a gallery application. If you can see it with any file explorer and play it correctly I wouldn't worry about it.
Is this possible DRM related?
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I always get this for nearly everything on both my TF700 and my SGS3. (My SGS3 even does it for .avi and .jpg...)
It's just the MTP protocol not knowing what to theoretically open the file with, the apps have no such issue on the tab itself.
Just hit yes (to all). It'll work anyway, just ignore it.
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Is this possible DRM related?
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Doubtful. I don't have any DRM-bound material on my tab, if you catch my meaning (i'll put on an eyepatch, fake leg and parrot if it helps.. ), and I still get the error for pretty much every file type.
The annoying thing is that when I set up a file copy, I have to babysit the operation. I do a lot of movies, so if the first one starts to copy with no problem I have to come back and check again. If I get it from the start, I can click 'yes to all' and move on knowing that it won't stop. When moving 10-15 GB, I don't want to be tied up waiting for an alert.
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
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The annoying thing is that when I set up a file copy, I have to babysit the operation. I do a lot of movies, so if the first one starts to copy with no problem I have to come back and check again. If I get it from the start, I can click 'yes to all' and move on knowing that it won't stop. When moving 10-15 GB, I don't want to be tied up waiting for an alert.
You can't know your limits until you exceed them.
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I use Autohotkey in these situation to script a small "program" to automatically click a button for me. It's not that complicated (although as with everything it does have some learning curve.) With it, the button to OK the operation would be clicked a few milliseconds after it appears, and you can go do whatever you want to do in the meantime.
I generally just let it run in the background whilst doing something else. If there's a popup, it'll show up over whatever I'm doing unless I'm ingame.
So my windows phone 7 (omnia 7 ) only shows up as "device" not as Lucas Samsung Omnia 7
it says that i need to configure it and give it a name.
i am afraid that i will lose all my pics and music and stuff from the phone. i dont want zune to automatically delete my stuff and configure it as a new phone.
So is it save to configure it or is there a work around to re-recognize?
edit: it has a custom rom (DFT) (since a long time). which i dont want to lose
I think I didn't loose anything when I configured my Omnia 7 without and with Custom ROM in Zune, but I can't guarantee what happens with yours. However, after it was configured, Zune always copied everything from my phone to my computer. When I deleted one of those files, they were also deleted from my phone. Setting the sync to manual didn't help, so I had to cancel the sync everytime I connected my phone
Now I didn't configure my phone and Zune thinks it's a guest device. I can still sync manually, but I have full control
I don't know what has happened to my old Lenovo Vibe X on Android 6.01 and how to resolve the issue without wiping data (no guarantee it would help - I'm now thinking...).
The phone is temporarily at my relative's disposal: i've switched to her Google account to let her use my old phone. She complained the call ring was very weak. I decided to change the ringtone, but I found out that I cannot do it anymore, the Media/Audio/Ringtones folder with standard OGG files is not visible (I cannot select ringtones from there anymore). "Other ringtones" option directs me to some installed Audio player, which does not allow to select any MP3 files in ANY folder (they cannot be played, because the player reports they are not added to Media storage). When I try to use "Scan media" option - it is just stuck. I've tried to use another programs like SD scanner, they either report Media database read error or finally report success status, however the audio files are still not playable.
I've tried to: clear caches (Android and Dalvik), disable / enable Media system app and delete its data.
I've also noticed that NOW my USB Audio player reports that HiRes DAC is not found (!) and does not want to play files in HiRes mode (through the chip instead of generic driver) - actually, my phone does have ES9018 DAC...
I am not sure this problem is related to Media storage, however all this together is very weird.
Any thoughts what could happen and what should I do?
How long was she using it and how good are her Android skills? May have caught a rootkit or virus. Anything below Android 9 is vulnerable to the Xhelper type rootkits that can worm their way out of the user partition. Real nasty critters...
If it just went nuts, I highly suspect malware especially in the hands of a novice user.
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(...) what should I do?
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As @blackhawk wrote, the user may have infected the phone.
The only solution is to flash the phone manufacturer's stock ROM.
I will try to do this as soon as I get a chance, nowadays there is no other smartphone to use for my relative, so have to wait a couple of days.
BTW - regarding "HiRes DAC is not found" message... is there a chance that guys who replaced the battery in this smartphone soldered out ES9018 chip??
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I will try to do this as soon as I get a chance, nowadays there is no other smartphone to use for my relative, so have to wait a couple of days.
BTW - regarding "HiRes DAC is not found" message... is there a chance that guys who replaced the battery in this smartphone soldered out ES9018 chip??
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Likely a software, firmware or settings issue. Malware could also be the root cause for losing the high resolution DAC.
It's possible the tech damaged this circuit but probably not likely. Obviously if it was working before they got their paws on it then they are likely to blame.