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Hi All - I think it must be me, but I can't get my head around the HTC Audio Manager. I deleted all the 'supplied' songs on my device and added some new ones from my own collection. Windows Media Player picked up the revised song list but Audio Manager still seems to show all the *original* tracks. Obviously, when I click on them in Audio Manager, the programe says cannot find the track. I can't seem to make the device 'refresh' the tracks in Audio Manager
I can see I have a small animated magnifying glass towards to the top right of the program - does that mean it's searching or doing anything? It seems to run forever (20 minutes and counting) and not do much...Should I have left it running -is that how it refreshes the list?
Thanks

On my HTC TYTN II (with shipped ROM), the HTC Audio Manager automatically updates via the rotating magnifying glass in the upper right corner, as you observed. Also, I have noticed that every time I open HTC Audio Manager, it seems to do a search. I had a similar problem once, and I went into Windows Media Player and used the "Update Library" function there, then went back to HTC Audio Manager and it updated. Hope this helps you.

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Thanks...I guess I should wait a little longer for the magnifying glass to stop! It's got quite a bot of data to get through on my 4Gb Micro SD card. I did try updating the library in Media Player...but the results didn't seem to transfer over to/into the Audio Manager - strange!
As I say, maybe I should just give it longer to do the magnifying glass thing...

Hhmmmm. I left the magnifying glass spinning for three hours...and it was still spinning. I guess something is not working properly here with the playlists. Is there any way to manually delete all the playlists and start again?
Thanks

Stevep, I had a similar problem recently. Where the audio manager didn't update files that windows media could see. I decided to just delete all files in Strage Card >> Music and resync the playlists. Seems to work fine now.

Playlists not updating in Audio Manager
Hi foaf - glad to see it's not just me then! When you say you deleted all the files, do you mean the actual MP3 files themselves or the playlist file - if it's the latter, where is the playlist data held?
Thanks

Does anyone know how you can associate mp3's & mwa's to open with Audio Manager? (Making it the default player for my music files)

Touchflo 3d crashes when I open the music tab

As the title says, really annoying... its been fine but now when ever I go to the music tab in Touchflow 3d, touchflo has to restart.. tried a soft reset and turning off/on, still does it.. anyone else had this problem and fixed it without a hard reset?

Had that too... try re-encoding the files.

I too have just had this problem.
I had deleted some songs from the phone and the TouchFLo player interface said tha the somgs were stil listed.
Also, I couldn't get any pictures of the album art to appear.
I used Explore via Activesync to delet all music albums, songs, album art from the 'Internal Storage' (HTC Touch Diamond) and then did a soft reset to see if that woud prompt the phone to refresh the TouchFLo madia player interface to search again and reset its list.
That's when the ******* thing started this crashing.
Windows Media player mobile is working fine.
I have many programs installed and do not wish to hard reset unelss it is absolutley necessary.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Can't really recode as I've deleted all the music files.
Cheers for now.

Only way I could get it to work more or less properly was to sync music via media player and set it to convert to wma as it syncs. I'm still looking for alternatives as syncing with wmp is a pain.

OK, I fixed it.
I had tried using WMP to sync, but it still didn't cure the problem.
For anyone who still has this problem, please try this....
1) Go into file manager on your phone
2) Navigate to My Device > Application Data > HTC > AudioManager_Eng
3) Go into the Playlists folder and delete all playlists.
4) Exit File Manager
Try the Music application again. It should now seach for music again.
The above fixed mine.
Good luck

rowleav said:
OK, I fixed it.
I had tried using WMP to sync, but it still didn't cure the problem.
For anyone who still has this problem, please try this....
1) Go into file manager on your phone
2) Navigate to My Device > Application Data > HTC > AudioManager_Eng
3) Go into the Playlists folder and delete all playlists.
4) Exit File Manager
Try the Music application again. It should now seach for music again.
The above fixed mine.
Good luck
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I will bare this in mind for (I'm sure) when it happens again, sadly I got bored and did a hard reset before I checked replies here.

I got the same problem here. There are some mp3-files that seems to crash the Touch 3D Music app while it is scanning the Internal Storage. While it happens the whole Touch 3D is laggy. A very frustating bug I think. And syncing via WMP will only help when it (re)encodes the original MP3 to WMA. I think it's HTC who had to fix this bug.
On some files it helps to first remove all Mp3tags and than retagging them. So I think it must be something with the tags.

I have the same problem on my HTC Touch Pro.
after adding album art the music tab crashed.
I deleted all the music files (from the storage card) and tried what rowleav suggested than did a soft reset, but the music tab keeps craching........
This really s....
don't like to do a hard reset as I have a lot of software on it.
anyone knows a way to fix this ???

I have a 16 gb Micro SD card on the Touch Pro, and the Touch Flo player is really not up to the job. Selecting an album or a play list is okay, but I like to listen to music on random. Select all files and it can take 5-10 minutes for the player to display album covers. And sometimes it crashes.
Pocket Tunes handles this many files far better. But I can't get it set up to be the default music player with my HTC bluetooth headset. It still opens the Flo player.
WMP works okay if it is open, but doesn't have cross-fade. Which I like.

I fixed it
Only deleting the playlists like rowleav wrote did not work for me I also had to delete a file called "AudioManager_Eng.vol" (application data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol)
Then a soft reset isn't needed. Just go back to the music tab and it will create the AudioManager_Eng.vol file again and search for music files.
now i have to try and add my music again to find the one causing the problems. at least it's now easy to repair once it goes wrong again

Worked!
laurens23 said:
I fixed it
Only deleting the playlists like rowleav wrote did not work for me I also had to delete a file called "AudioManager_Eng.vol" (application data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\AudioManager_Eng.vol)
Then a soft reset isn't needed. Just go back to the music tab and it will create the AudioManager_Eng.vol file again and search for music files.
now i have to try and add my music again to find the one causing the problems. at least it's now easy to repair once it goes wrong again
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This worked beautifully! Thanx!

I'm having the same issue - with a crash every time I go to the music tab. I was having problems deleting the AudioManager_Eng.vol file. I did a soft reset to delete the file, and now all seems to be working as it re-builds the library.

i have a similar problem but tf3d hangs when i want to stop the musicplayer and select another tab. only 'start' still works so i can stop and restart tf3d but when i finish listening to music the ritual starts over.
any suggestions ? (i removed the mentioned files but that didn't fixe it).

tf3d media palyer

hi all guys,i've a little problem with the media player of tf3d,i've formatted the mmc to remove al'things not usefull but from that way i'haven't the list of song and covers on top of tf3d,i've took the content.rar and reput all thing in the mmc but i'see only one album,i've 100 song but tf3d see only one a sample of the original conten of htc.
how can i refresh the library of tf3d and made the start page of tf3d music full of all my albums covers and songs?
tnx a lot all for the help

hermesdj said:
hi all guys,i've a little problem with the media player of tf3d,i've formatted the mmc to remove al'things not usefull but from that way i'haven't the list of song and covers on top of tf3d,i've took the content.rar and reput all thing in the mmc but i'see only one album,i've 100 song but tf3d see only one a sample of the original conten of htc.
how can i refresh the library of tf3d and made the start page of tf3d music full of all my albums covers and songs?
tnx a lot all for the help
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If you go with your file explorer in mydevice/Application data/Htc/AudioManager_Eng and delete the file Audiomanager_Eng.vol, when you open again your music player on TF3D music database should be updated.
To delete the file above, being it locked by windows, I restart the diamond in safe mode and then I'm able to delete it.

unvisigoth said:
If you go with your file explorer in mydevice/Application data/Htc/AudioManager_Eng and delete the file Audiomanager_Eng.vol, when you open again your music player on TF3D music database should be updated.
To delete the file above, being it locked by windows, I restart the diamond in safe mode and then I'm able to delete it.
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I have the same problem and with the issue still remains after following your procedure.
Notice: The problem remains even after making a hardreset or changing firmware. Unbelievable but true...

thanks i'll try asap...

ahhhh music libary

Hi all,
got something that's driving me crazy, i can sync my music with windows media player fine and the music copies across as it should however when i come to play the music with touchflo 3d it only shows the first lot of music i put on.
I cannot seem to figure out how to refresh the libray on touchflo 3d...
does anyone have the answer for me?
thanks

If you tap 'Library', then slide accross to Albums... do your recently synced items show up there?

I am having this problem too
I cannot see any of my music in TF3D music player

no nothing is showing up i resynced all my music with media player and still nothing shows, it nows says no music found.
there must be a better way to sort the library.
there shouldnt be this hassle just to put music on the phone!

I think you require too much for a phone so cheap.
Try the advantage,or wait for HD.

htcenrico said:
I think you require too much for a phone so cheap.
Try the advantage,or wait for HD.
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i want your job if you consider this to be (a phone so cheap)
you get paid too much.
on the plus side to the normally challenged people out there , you have to update the library in windows media player, then go into library on touchflo 3D, select all songs and play the first track it then updates all the tracks for you.

waz000000 said:
you have to update the library in windows media player, then go into library on touchflo 3D, select all songs and play the first track it then updates all the tracks for you.
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thannks man, this has been driving me crazy - talk about a flaw in the system!
Will

Delete Application Data/HTC/AudioManager/AudioManager_Eng.vol and do soft reset.
this will rescann your complete library.
i got the same problem and this helped

I still cannot get it to work - all my music syncs of from media player and I can play it on media player on the diamond but on TF3D it just hangs on Searching!!!
If i delete all my media and load 1 song it works fine if I do the above deleting of the HTC application folder but if I then try to add some more it does not work!!
Has anyone got this working? or is it just me?????

nicko666 said:
I still cannot get it to work - all my music syncs of from media player and I can play it on media player on the diamond but on TF3D it just hangs on Searching!!!
If i delete all my media and load 1 song it works fine if I do the above deleting of the HTC application folder but if I then try to add some more it does not work!!
Has anyone got this working? or is it just me?????
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prob just you lol, works for me try this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397819&highlight=tf3d+music+albums

just add the music to internal storage yourself? :S works fine for me

nope didn't work...must be just me!!
I have moved to S2P but its a shame i wanted to use the built in stuff

I had the same problems too. Until I read and followed the instructions for adding songs and album art and updating the library on TF3D.
Now for the enchilada!! Does anyone know how you can update windows media's library (once you have added more songs to the Diamond from PC) and set it to search in a particular folder instead of adding all the media files on the phone(tomtom files, alert & warning sounds and the like) to your music library. Only solution thus far more is to delete these files every time i update, which is now getting a bit tiring .
Any help or suggestions welcomed.

srs wow DOES work with TF3D! (without messing up volume buttons or album art)

Here's how to make SRS WOW HD work with the Touchflo music tab player --- with working volume buttons and album art.
(These instructions are on win xp with WMP 11. if you have vista, its probably similar).
Use WMP on your desktop to sync music to your device using the following method. (You will have probably have to delete all of your music from your device and add it back from scratch).
1) Connect your device to your computer using activesync and then open up WMP on your computer. In WMP on your desktop, right click on the icon representing your storage card (or your device) that is located on the left hand side of the interface. (the one you want to store the music on).
2) Click on advanced options and then choose the quality tab.
3) Under music, click the radio button "select maximum quality level" and drag the slider to 160 Kbps. (this is one notch below the maximum quality available). Click apply and OK.
4) Then Sync your music to your card/device using the WMP device tab.
Now, SRS WOW should work and your volume buttons should work too!
However, now you might be missing some album art.
To fix the album art problem, stay connected to activesync.
5) Go to the folder on your desktop computer where the album is located. Use activesync file explorer to go to the matching album folder on your device.
6) In the desktop album folder, locate the file named "folder" or "folder.jpg." Thats the album art. Copy that file to the corresponding folder on your device.
7) Once you soft reset, the album art will appear in TF3d. (it might take a few minutes).
Thats all there is to it. Kind of a PIA but it works.
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Now for a question . . . .
Can someone tell me how to change the audio booster menu item located in the TF3d music player to read and direct to SRS WOW HD???? That would be pretty cool. Here's a shot of the menu item I am talking about:

Nice find.... This will help me stick with the new TP2 Manilla, as the SRS Wow volume issue is a major bummer. SRS is too nice to not use in the car....

Too bad I don't have WMP 11...

Unfortunatelly doesn´t work for me - I´m using vista.. volume control doesn´t work
I thought that when it works on Raphael it could also on Diamond..