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Helmi 1.4 vanilla: no ringtone heard...

I tried searching and did not see a similar topic, so I am posting this new one.
I have tried to move a ringtone to \windows\rings
I have tried to adapt the registry setting to change the ring directory to a different place
I have confirmed that I am using the Ring option for the Ring Type, as opposed to Vibrate or any of the other settings under the settings-->phone menu--I do see the ring tone options and have tried the windows ones as well
Any other suggestions I can try to enable ringing?

i put my ring tones in ram disk.(wave files)

Thank you for your reply. I tried to switch my ringtone folder to Storage Card and RamDisk--though the ringtones appeared as options, they would not play when the phone rang.
Are there other things I can try?

i just put ring tone in ram folder.
not ring tone folder in ram.and used wav file.not mp3.
o2 xda IIs

R2D1 said:
Thank you for your reply. I tried to switch my ringtone folder to Storage Card and RamDisk--though the ringtones appeared as options, they would not play when the phone rang.
Are there other things I can try?
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what media type is your ringtone? wav, mp3, wma? all of these types can be used when located in \windows, \windows\rings, \Ramdisk root & \Storage Card root.
may i suggest trying out one of the default PPC ringtones if it plays when moved into any of the directories above.

what media type is your ringtone? wav, mp3, wma? all of these types can be used when located in \windows, \windows\rings, \Ramdisk root & \Storage Card root.
may i suggest trying out one of the default PPC ringtones if it plays when moved into any of the directories above.
I tried moving copies of the files into the folders you mentioned--it showed the duplicates as options for the ringtones, but unfortunately did not work. I used the oldphone.wav. Any other ideas?

opps
thought you whould have change the name a little
like putting a 1 in front of the tone name.

I just ended up reinstalling the ROM. Not sure what the cause was... as I uninstalled everything I added... Oh well... all is good now...

How to make HTC Audio Manager to search only "My Music" Folder?

Hi all,
As obvious from the title, is there any tweaks available to make the HTC Audio Manager to search ONLY the My Music folder in the Storage Card? I have other applications which use lot of voice files, which are not actually music. So, the playlist on the Audio Manager is messed up. At the moment the audio manager searches all voice files in the Storage Card. Any input will be appreciated.
Cheers

i could use this to hide porn

Go with registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and "device_scan_path_path_0"
Type : "\storage card\my documents\my music" or the path to your music on sd card.

kheops_974 said:
Go with registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and "device_scan_path_path_0"
Type : "\storage card\my documents\my music" or the path to your music on sd card.
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Thanks. But it doesnt work. I tries soft resetting and also renaming the folder with voice files in it. AM was still clever to find the renamed folder on the SD card! Anything else???

jugulator said:
Hi all,
As obvious from the title, is there any tweaks available to make the HTC Audio Manager to search ONLY the My Music folder in the Storage Card? I have other applications which use lot of voice files, which are not actually music. So, the playlist on the Audio Manager is messed up. At the moment the audio manager searches all voice files in the Storage Card. Any input will be appreciated.
Cheers
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Anyone please?

after editing the registry.. shutdown the device with Power-Button (hold them ca 3-4 sec and click "yes")

Media Player has same problem . . .
kheops_974 said:
Go with registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and "device_scan_path_path_0"
Type : "\storage card\my documents\my music" or the path to your music on sd card.
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Can a similar thing be done with Microsoft Windows Media Player?
It does the same thing as AudioManager when you let it add music on its own - puts every ringtone and system sound in there too - what a mess!
The only way I've found to avoid this is to never click "Update Library" - instead always use Media Plaer 11 on my PC to sync and orgainize songs and playlists.
I don't see similar registry settings in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer . . .

kheops_974 said:
Go with registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and "device_scan_path_path_0"
Type : "\storage card\my documents\my music" or the path to your music on sd card.
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I did this but now my Touch shows double entries for every MP3.

mushipkw said:
I did this but now my Touch shows double entries for every MP3.
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I had the same results on my kaiser

jaygriggs said:
I had the same results on my kaiser
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You have to clear the list first.

How do you clear the list?

Double entries
jaygriggs said:
I had the same results on my kaiser
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Ditto for me and my Tilt

You get double results because it searches twice the same place. Try different registry settings for each.
For example for device_scan_path_path put \My Documents\My Music and for device_scan_path_path0 put \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music.
This way it'll search both your phone memory and your storage card. Basically so you can have two different places to store music.

chavonbravo said:
You get double results because it searches twice the same place. Try different registry settings for each.
For example for device_scan_path_path put \My Documents\My Music and for device_scan_path_path0 put \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music.
This way it'll search both your phone memory and your storage card. Basically so you can have two different places to store music.
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Someone tried this?

Not working for me - I've just set the two values to \My Documents\My Music and \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music, removed the card and started Audio Manager to wipe the titles (\My Documents\My Music is empty so it just shows "No titles found" and doesn't show any tracks), did a soft reset (proper power button cycle) and checked the values were still set in the registry, started Audio Manager again for good measure, closed Audio Manager, re-inserted the storage card and started Audio Manager again...
...and it's still pulling in tracks from my ringtones folder and the odd stray podcast hanging around in \Storage Card\program Files\RSS Hub .

this works for me
This works for me
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
"device_scan_path_path_0"="\my documents\my music\" or the path to your music on sd card (without \SD Card). must ends with "\"
"device_scan_path_path" leave as is or enter path on you phone memory (must ends with "\")
but be sure that AudioManager doesn't running while editing.

blondak said:
This works for me
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
"device_scan_path_path_0"="\my documents\my music\" or the path to your music on sd card (without \SD Card). must ends with "\"
"device_scan_path_path" leave as is or enter path on you phone memory (must ends with "\")
but be sure that AudioManager doesn't running while editing.
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tried that, didnt work either still finds everything

Why is Audio Manager so popular?
I can't play half my music files with it. I can't get it to find my library changing the registry values mentioned. It doesn't play anything over 192kbps. It doesn't even have the option to open a file directly! If it's not in the library then it can't play it.
Maybe I am having teething problems but the only thing I like is that its free but since pocket player can play almost any format and any bitrate and picks up all my files in its playlists I thought for $20 it was worth it.
Is it because I have and older version of Audio Manager? Can't change it without flashing my ROM so don't want to do this at the minute especially if I am going to have all the same problems.

Sorry, saw this discussion too late and did already start one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462531
Please, where should we continue?
And how can we solve this problem????????

blondak said:
This works for me
HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
"device_scan_path_path_0"="\my documents\my music\" or the path to your music on sd card (without \SD Card). must ends with "\"
"device_scan_path_path" leave as is or enter path on you phone memory (must ends with "\")
but be sure that AudioManager doesn't running while editing.
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Well, to approve this really works for you, can you please copy just one mp3-file to root of memory card and soft reset? If the single file is not shown afterwards, then this really works for you. Otherwhise it just scans all the audio-data on your memory... See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462531 I am trying really hard to get the problem solved....

@#[email protected]#$ Ringtones in WMP Library.

Is there a way to keep ringtones out of the library in WMP? They are in there on my main memory library. I have tried deleting them, but the won't go away.
the main problem is that if I use MS voice command and say "Play anything", the darned ringtones start playing.
I have tried setting library to Storge Card, but apparently that setting doesn't prevent MS voice command from grabbing stuff off the internal memory library.
What a pain.
Any solutions/suggestions?

Delete your ringtones

you should try moving your ringtones to the appropriate location where ringtones "should" be kept on the device. try moving them to your windows/rings folder. then update your library. the ringtones should disappear!
that's what happened to me when i scanned my device for music, it picked up all audio files since i had my ringtones on my storage card. i tried moving my ringtones to my device, and it still picked it up in scan. then i moved it to the rings folder in windows directory, scans didnt pick nothing up anymore.

Remove ringtones from WMP library without moving or deleting from storage
ewingr said:
Is there a way to keep ringtones out of the library in WMP? They are in there on my main memory library. I have tried deleting them, but the won't go away.
the main problem is that if I use MS voice command and say "Play anything", the darned ringtones start playing.
I have tried setting library to Storge Card, but apparently that setting doesn't prevent MS voice command from grabbing stuff off the internal memory library.
What a pain.
Any solutions/suggestions?
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People are making this too complicated and/or painful.
I agree that it is stupid that WMP imports ringtones in the first place, but it's a stupid computer program and all it knows is to search for file types.
So, here's what I did that eliminated them from library without moving or deleting them on my Storage Card:
1) Menu>Update Library... adds frickin' everything 'ya got
2) Library>Storage Card>My Music>Artist . . . you will see first listing (at least in my case) is "Unknown". Check this out - this is all the ringtones, alert sounds, etc. Delete all from Library, but not from Device.
3) Repeat step 2 on "My Device", deleting all Unknown from Library, but not from Device.
I hope this solves the problem for you as it did for me.

Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
Kraize

you should try moving your ringtones to the appropriate location where ringtones "should" be kept on the device. try moving them to your windows/rings folder. then update your library. the ringtones should disappear!
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This sounds reasonable, but updating the library, they still come in from the 'new' location, which is My Ringtones.
1) Menu>Update Library... adds frickin' everything 'ya got
2) Library>Storage Card>My Music>Artist . . . you will see first listing (at least in my case) is "Unknown". Check this out - this is all the ringtones, alert sounds, etc. Delete all from Library, but not from Device.
3) Repeat step 2 on "My Device", deleting all Unknown from Library, but not from Device.
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Well, as I noted about deleting them they wouldn't go away, I do find that deleting them the way you say, they appear to go away form Unknown. But they are still in the library somehow, because they do play.
There is no way in the library to search for a song to locate it. Bringing up all songes, they don't come up sorted. And not knowing how/where else they are in there, I can't delete them.
This is so frustrating. Something must be wrong with the WMP library. Moving down through the list of songs, I see some listed 3-4 times.
Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
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I was actually thinking this was the solution, and thought I was setting my default library by select from the pulldown in the LIbary of Storage Card.
But...Advanced Config? Where is that? I have searched though the menus, and options of WMP, and find no Advanced Config.

ewingr said:
But...Advanced Config? Where is that? I have searched though the menus, and options of WMP, and find no Advanced Config.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317070

Kraize92 said:
Well here's a suggestion. Since the library for "My Device" and "Storage Card" are different, place all music on storage card and all ringtones on my device. Then you won't have to see the ringtones and it will only play songs from your default library (which you should set to Storage Card via AdvancedConfig)
Kraize
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I've installed Advanced Config. I do not see any option on that to set the Default Library. I do see an entry for Default Location for Audio files. I don't interpret this to be the same as a 'default library'. The only entry there for anything to do with WMP is an entry to establish teh default music player.
Do I need to customize it or something to set teh default Library location?

just take the easy route like i stated earlier, just move all your ringtones and custom sounds to the windows/rings folder or straight to the windows folder and it solves this problem. no need to config anything.

NguyenHuu said:
just take the easy route like i stated earlier, just move all your ringtones and custom sounds to the windows/rings folder or straight to the windows folder and it solves this problem. no need to config anything.
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You must have missed my reply that I tried that and it didn't work, post # 6. Thanks for the advice though.

HTC Audio Manager crashing (this with two different Dimond, 3 different HSPL, 4 OSs)

Hi All,
A few days ago, a client of mine brought me back his diamond saying that the music player was not working.
After more than 8 hours of trying to fix this issue by trying everything I could find on this forum and every possible solution my imagination could think of, I'm left no other choice than asking the community for help.
When ever I put a large amount of files on the storage card (around 3Gb) and use the TF3D interface to play the music, Audiomanger_eng.exe crashes (sometime other files crash but I forgot the names).
Now, I have tried pretty much everything:
1. I tried both WMP 11 to transfer the files and the direct copy/paste of the files to the storage card.
2. I tried putting another set of songs coming from a different PC
3. I tried having all the songs together in the same folder (that caused even more issues as album arts were overlapping) and I tried the WMP function to get each songs in its correct subfolder (ie: artist... Album...).
4. I tried deleting the database file of the AudioManager (which causes it to rescan all the files which it does but then crashes as it tries to play certain songs)
5. I tried on two different Diamonds, using 1.93 in English (HK), 1.93 in French, TOM_DiamondProject_v3.2, Dutty's latest rom. Through this I tried the original HARD SPL of HTC and also Olinex and another guy's one. (All the test I did using these various ROM created approximatively the same error though varied slightly from one ROM to the other)
6. I have also tried a million soft reset and hard resets.
7. I have tried loading the music in Windows Media Player Mobile which works perfectly but does not change anything to the problem I have with the TF3D player.
8. Following stevedpl7's comment, I went in the file explorer, created a new folder called My Music, then I cut and paste all the music from Storage/Music to Storage/My Music, went to the application data/HTC/AudioManager_eng/ and deleted the database file: AudioManager_Eng.vol, then I did a soft reset. When I now go to the music Tab, it crashes before I even get a chance to play a song. In the music list, I can see all the transferred files.
9. And many other small things....
Any idea or suggestions?

Just a quick question about where you are putting the music files?
I have exactly the same problem if i save my music foldes to Internal Storage\Music (which is where WMP saves them by default)
However when i created a 'My Music' folder in the Internal Storage\My Documents All worked fine. So Try....
Internal Storage\My Documents\My Music\''your music here''
As i said you may well have to create the 'My Music' folder, on my Diamond only My Pictures and My Videos were there by default.
Hope this helps.

I have the same problem, the only thing I can put it down to is the new 1.93 ROM from HTC, as it was working fine until I flashed the phone with this ROM.
I have tried the solutions above and it still isn't working, so if anybody else has further ideas please let me know, if not I'll wait for the official word back from HTC and post their solutions up here also.

Sadly, it didn't work either for me
Thanks you Stevedpl7 for the info, sadly I have tried and the problem even got worse
I went in the file explorer, created a new folder called My Music, then I cut and paste all the music from Storage/Music to Storage/My Music, went to the application data/HTC/AudioManager_eng/ and deleted the database file: AudioManager_Eng.vol, then I did a soft reset.
When I now go to the music Tab, it crashes before I even get a chance to play a song. I the music list, I can see all the transfered files.

Are those files made from scratch on your or the customer's PC, or were they downloaded from the Internet? I know that some downloaded MP3s are defective, furthermore some players do not understand all variations of the MP3-format like VBR, joint stereo et al. There is no strict "standard" for MP3, the technology has developed over the years and no one has made an attempt to define "levels" as they did with MPG-2 or with DivX. So there is always a level of uncertainty whether a player is able to play all files. A resampling with a MP3-software or even converting them from MP3 to WMA might help.
It's always a good idea to use WMP on the PC to create MP3 or WMA. Not because it excels in quality, but because it uses very standard features in the format.
Have fun!

Lost_in_translation said:
Are those files made from scratch on your or the customer's PC, or were they downloaded from the Internet? I know that some downloaded MP3s are defective, furthermore some players do not understand all variations of the MP3-format like VBR, joint stereo et al. There is no strict "standard" for MP3, the technology has developed over the years and no one has made an attempt to define "levels" as they did with MPG-2 or with DivX. So there is always a level of uncertainty whether a player is able to play all files. A resampling with a MP3-software or even converting them from MP3 to WMA might help.
It's always a good idea to use WMP on the PC to create MP3 or WMA. Not because it excels in quality, but because it uses very standard features in the format.
Have fun!
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They are mainly downloaded MP3s and a few WMAs. When I transfer the files using WMP, some are converted. The thing is that all these files work fine in Windows Media Player on the Phone.

I just realised that there is a possibility that if your MP3's has the album artwork embedded into the files. the audio manager would crash.
currently i'm doing a trial and error of it and have yet to fully test everything out just yet.
would anyone like to comment or verify if the embedded artwork might be the cause of crashes?

I think you are right. I have tried putting one song with the artwork embeded and it crashes the software!!!

erm. and yet. i did manage to sneak in one album with an embedded artwork. :\
but that was 1. i tried it with another album with the embedded artwork and had a crash.

I'm now thinking about giving up and installing TF3D config tool to hide the music tab and then install the old audio manager to play the music
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407145&highlight=audiomanager
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405749
This is painful...

just spent 3 hours trying to figure out which mp3's work and which doesnt.
like wth... i dont get it. someone please assist in explaining how audio manager works ?

Same problem here, anyone knows how to solve this?

Note even the original demo tunes work
Audiomanager worked fine before (1.37 ROM), but when I updated to 1.93.413.3 SVE not even the "built in" demo tunes work. It just hangs on the first tune... Removing the .vol file does not solve the problem. Windows Media player can play the tunes without problems.

Use MP3Tag to mass delete all coveralbum info from your MP3 files on the PC side and then resync everything back using WMP. This solved all freezing problems with the TF Audio Manager for me. MP3Tag can be found here: http://www.mp3tag.de/

coredump said:
Use MP3Tag to mass delete all coveralbum info from your MP3 files on the PC side and then resync everything back using WMP. This solved all freezing problems with the TF Audio Manager for me. MP3Tag can be found here: http://www.mp3tag.de/
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Confirmed that this method does work

Works but people embed album art coz they want it to show up in the AudioManager in the first place. Now the only way to do is, is to extract the album art, rename it to folder.jpg and put it in the song's album folder. This is a really huge hassle especially if u've got tons of files embedded with album art....

Did you find a solution in the end ?
This issue is not tolerable for such a ppc... .
So if I happen to copy too many albums or mp3 files, my phone would crash and won't be the music ?

cornwall said:
Did you find a solution in the end ?
This issue is not tolerable for such a ppc... .
So if I happen to copy too many albums or mp3 files, my phone would crash and won't be the music ?
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U have to remove your embedded album art from your mp3 first before transferring, and then extract that album art and put it in the same folder as the mp3 with the name folder.jpg. A huge hassle for people who have a huge collection of mp3s with embedded artwork.
Anyways, I've written to HTC Tech Support about this and "strongly suggested" to them a ROM update for this issue.

Audio Manager crash with mp3 in VBR mode ! I've converted my mp3 in CBR mode, and all went ok !

Is there a better solution to this than removing the embedded artwork?

Problems with Music.

Hey,
I got my TD2 this morning and i love it.. such an amazing phone.
Altough probably from my mistake, i have problems with my music.
I got a MicroSD card, and i put some songs on it, and put it in the phone, and they played fine. Bu then i wanted to be cool, and a few of my songs didnt have an album photo, as i was scrolling between them, so i thourth i add photos to everyone of them. I got my MicroSD card out of the phone, and deleted the songs of it, and added photos to my old songs and put those on to the SD card again. But in the phone, in the Music album at "Now Playing" all the list of songs shows, without album and i cant click on them. I cant play it, a cant delete (i dont know how.)
If i go to the File Explorer -> Storage Card -> Sounds -- Its empty, but there are all the songs on my phone, and idont know how to get rid of them.
How do i clear the whole playlist, artists, songs on the phone ?
Or what do i need to do?
Anyone got any ideas ?
I apprichate the help in advance.

Have you tried a soft reset?

Disable Tflo3d
Soft reset
Delete in Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng the file AudioManager_Eng.vol
Enable Tflo en let the musictab search again

When I first got my TD2, I loaded a lot of my MP3 music into the SD card; these albums also have pics. Then when I ran music from TF3D, after a few secs, the track will hang. This happened not only to MP3 from my SD card, but also MP3 titles that are preloaded into the TD3 (2 music pcs I believe). I tried all sorts of things; even wrote to HTC Support but could not resolve the hang problem. Then, by coincidence, I put a different SD card (with no MP3 files) into my TD2. To my surprise, the hang problem disappeared. Subsequently I deleted almost all of the MP3 files from my original SD card, but kept just 2 albums (with pics), and TF3D Music played these without any problems. Still don't know the cause of the hang; I know the MP3 files were a problem, but can't pinpoint exactly which MP3 file or pic.

Oh guys, your awsome
Thanks very much for your help.