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WMP playlist problem

I have a T-mobile wing, I'm using WMP 10 on my laptop that I sync up my playlists thru WMP sync. I have also taken the SD card out and sync up thru my card reader on my desktop. I always get the songs sync'd to my card, but the "playlist" is not there. I got ONE on my phone on accident, don't have a clue how I did it, haven't been able to do it again.
What am I doing wrong? This seems like it should be a pretty easy thing to do and it's getting VERY frustrating.
Thanks

Dump WMP and use the HTC AudioManager. You won't have to worry about a playlist since it gives you a very "ipod" like interface. Unless you really want the playlist, in that case, unfortunately, I can't help you as I don't use my phone for music much and thus never bother setting up playlists.

Syncing winamp music/playlists

I was wondering if anyone has any cool solution for this problem: I use winamp with Media Library plugin. I build my playlist with Media Library. I want to be able to plug in my Tilt, and have it automatically sync all my playlists without any other user intervention. Kinda like an iPod with iTunes.
I don't like iTunes, I could use another mp3 program other than winamp as long as it has instant search and drag-and-drop to playlist. My Tilt runs Conduit Pocket Music.
My current solution involves using "Playlist Sync" (google it). It doesn't work seamlessly because it doesn't like the .m3u8 playlist format. I have to convert .m3u8 to .m3u to make it work, only 2 clicks, but I want it to be seamlessly.
And as a general question for all you music lovers with Tilts: you have a 4GB MicroSD card on your tilt, how do you manage your mp3s?

The latest winamp comes with the activesync plugin. I don't know where it puts the playlists since they don't show up when I sync them. You can use WM5torage to mount the card and use the pmp_usb plugin which is more configurable or remove the card and put it in a reader for faster transfer.

tried that
Wilhelm said:
The latest winamp comes with the activesync plugin. I don't know where it puts the playlists since they don't show up when I sync them. You can use WM5torage to mount the card and use the pmp_usb plugin which is more configurable or remove the card and put it in a reader for faster transfer.
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the winamp activesync plugin still requires me to drag and drop the playlist that i want, then it takes a while to transfer all the songs, even the ones that it supposedly already synced .... ???

Look on the preferences. It has the option to choose which playlists to sync. You must set them when it is connected. It is slow because it's not high speed USB. Use a card reader for faster transfer. Note that you'll need an SDHC compatible one.

Windows Media Player not seeing Storage Card??

I have an 8MB SDHC card in my TyTn II and was contemplating using Windows Media Player Synch. It says in the manual that you can aslo synch the storage card but regardless of what I try I cannot get WMP on the PC to see the storage card?? When I use Windows Explorer on the PC I can see and navigate to it and examine the content in it, but not with Windows Media Player? I have a My Music folder on the card and there are WMA and MP3 files in there.
Is it a WMP glitch perhaps or is there something I should have done (card formatting - it's a brand new card though, never been in another device) or perhaps need to do???

I recently had the same problem: I could view the contents of my 8GB Sandisk in File Manager, Total Commander or Resco Explorer, I could create, update and use the library in HTC Audio Manager, but WMP could not see the storage card and therefore could not update the library (it could work from its saved record of the library before I deleted that).
At the same time, Outlook began having problems. Any time I would try to open an attachment (attachments are stored on the storage card) it would take several minutes to open and the application (usually Word) would be so sluggish as to be unusable. Also, Pocket Player was taking about 5 minutes to start up (I'm assuming that it was doing a library scan before opening).
The only thing that fixed it for me was flashing a new ROM. Hard reset and restoring a backup did not work and decided that if I was going to hard reset and start setting up again from scratch, which might work, then I might as well try a new ROM.

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regardless of what I try I cannot get WMP on the PC to see the storage card??
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What version of WMP do you have on the PC and what OS? What you want worked OK for me with a Win XP Pro SP3 PC using WMP 11 and AS 4.5. WMP even categorised all my MP3s into individual artist folders on the card (6 GB Sandisk). WMP 11 saw my TyTN II and because I wanted to transfer more than the remaining internal storage space on my TyTN II worth of MP3s across, was clever enough to automatically put them all on the card.

I might try the ROM/WM 6.1 upgrade from the HTC site. I have it downloaded but was reluctant to install bearing in mind the various problem threads.
I am running Windiows Vista Business and have Media Player 11. It seems odd that Windows Explorer can see the Storage Card but not Media Player. I cannot add it by browsing via 'Add to Library' either. Not too crticial for me as there are other methods (indeed other players) to get music across but it's one of those things that now I know it's not working - I'd like to fix).

Can't convert movies on Diamond.

Greetings.
I have a problem putting movies on my diamond. I use activeSync, try to put movie on it but it says "convereting (none)".
Whats the problem? I have Combined community codec pack on my computer.
Thanks in advance

nutcracker2 said:
Greetings.
I have a problem putting movies on my diamond. I use activeSync, try to put movie on it but it says "convereting (none)".
Whats the problem? I have Combined community codec pack on my computer.
Thanks in advance
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what format are the movies?
cant you just drag and drop them into your internal storage?

nutcracker2 said:
Greetings.
I have a problem putting movies on my diamond. I use activeSync, try to put movie on it but it says "convereting (none)".
Whats the problem? I have Combined community codec pack on my computer.
Thanks in advance
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Are you saying you are trying to get ActiveSync to convert your movies to a playable format?
EDIT: Yeah what rumple said- just drag and drop them to your internal storage.. Little confused by your original post.

Movies are in *.avi format. Last time I did it, I dragged and dropped them on my internal storage and the active sync program from windows XP converted it by itself, now it doesnt want to.
edit: I did that yes, but its not being converted anymore. Now it looks like: the copying line goes to 30% and then get back to 0% again and it repeats all the time.

nutcracker2 said:
Movies are in *.avi format. Last time I did it, I dragged and dropped them on my internal storage and the active sync program from windows XP converted it by itself, now it doesnt want to.
edit: I did that yes, but its not being converted anymore. Now it looks like: the copying line goes to 30% and then get back to 0% again and it repeats all the time.
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When you rip the movies from DVD you should make the AVI with optimum settings for your diamond. This way you will not need any conversion again when copying files over and have the best quality and appropriate size for your device.
as for why your file transfer keeps going back to 0% i dont know, but you could use a file explorer on your phone to see if the file size of the movie you copy is increasing (because the file is still copying) then you could tell if the percent reading is a bug or if it is true, because maybe your file is still copying OK.

File is still copying good when I use file transfer.
And I put not movie from dvd, just some other downloaded movies.
But still, I shouldn't require to convert it by myself. ActiveSync should do it by itself.

can anyone help me?

i have never had anything actually convert when using Activesync to copy files over...
copied a 702mb .avi to it yesterday (using activesync), then copied back off (using Diamond as a USB stick) and it hadnt changed at all!
it says "converting and copying" but i have never had and files (pictures, videos, Word Documents etc) change...

I'm using TLR 3 rom, maybe thats a problem?

I'm still lost as to what conversion you think is taking place with ActiveSync.
Download, create, or edit the video on your computer. Hook up your diamond, and copy the file over to the internal storage in the phone.
Disconnect the phone, bring up media player and watch the video.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you somewhere it should be as simple as that.
You said you have community codec installed on your PC, but that has nothing to do with ActiveSync.
Unless ActiveSync has some secret video conversion talents I am unaware of, it is simply just going to let you transfer the ready to play file to the memory on the phone.

Well. You put the file on your phone while being ActiveSync'ed and there pops up a window where it shows converting and copying loading bars. The whole conversation takes place in windows media player becouse ActiveSync uses it for converting. But even in windows media player the file doesn't want to be converted.
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And I belive your codecs affect converting, becouse without good ones - conversation won't be possible.

nutcracker2 said:
Well. You put the file on your phone while being ActiveSync'ed and there pops up a window where it shows converting and copying loading bars. The whole conversation takes place in windows media player becouse ActiveSync uses it for converting. But even in windows media player the file doesn't want to be converted.
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And I belive your codecs affect converting, becouse without good ones - conversation won't be possible.
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Do yourself a favor and download Super C http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Use it for your conversions then just copy your movies to the Diamond and be done with it.......

Problem Setting mp3 as Ringtone

I can't set an mp3 as my ringtone. It just can't play mp3 when i use them for ringtones. I can listen to them in windows media player.

Hi,
My first post on this forum but hope it is of help.
Using an mp3 as a ringtone is cumbersome in winmo6.1 but possible. The problem is that it will not use mp3s from the internal storage card but the internal memory is very small.
My suggestion would be to use a program of some sort to trim the mp3 to just the 20s or 30s you need (winmo has a program called "MP3 Trimmer" but I haven't had need to use it so can't comment on it). Then copy the mp3 to My Device\My Documents\My Ringtones\.
Or you can just use "File Explorer", find the mp3 you want, hold-click on the file and choose "Set as ringtone". This will copy the file to the above-named folder and set it as ringtone.
Hope it helps!

will work from storage
gm1980 said:
I can't set an mp3 as my ringtone. It just can't play mp3 when i use them for ringtones. I can listen to them in windows media player.
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I use mp3s from storsge card (4gb internal storage on Diamond) for ringtone, text alert, etc. Works fine. Just make sure you have a MyDocuments folder on your storage card, then copy mp3 to storage card/myDocuments. Then when you open sounds & notifications tab to select ring & alert sounds, your mp3s will show up in the dialog box that you scroll through to select sound. Has worked just fine for me on my diamond for the last year
(until yesterday, when I used a new file exp
lorer to force file association of mp3s to win media player, forgetting that my system needs em for tones & rings. now now any mp3 file in my device will ONLY work thru media player, not rings/alerts. Trying to figure how to fix that now)
but you should have no problem with ringtones from storage card(internal storage)/MyDocuments. Same is true with wallpaper for today screen, anything you put in storage/MyDocuments, will be selectable. hope you check this thread back.

Nice but possibly untidy?
That sounds much simpler than my suggestion! However, it also means giving up the My Documents folder to music, or making it untidy as it is mixed with other files.
I suppose I could have a different folder for my actual documents. But will the camera still save in its default storage\my documents\my pictures location within the folder with all the music?
On a slight side note, is it possible to change the folders used by the TouchFlo 3D music app? My app has decided to list all the mp3s in the TomTom folder & in any games folders

@ meister2681...
Your folders don't need to be terribly untidy. For example, on my storage, I have , the root has folders for Zips, Cabs, Program Files, MUSIC, My Documents, etc. My Documents has subfolders for My Videos, My Pictures, I think maybe 1 more folder, I forget. Anyhow, MUSIC, is where I put all my mp3s. The few that I use for ringtones and alerts, I copy them to storage/My Documents (I use only about 5, so it's not too messy or cluttered).
Yes, camera will still save to storage/My Documents/My Pictures
Don't know about htc music folder. I don't use Touchflo (don't like all the scrolling required), and just don't really have time to examine it right now (my 3yr old is demanding attention )
Long press on your mp3s should give you a 'set as ringtone' option. Mine doesn't anymore, but it's because of something dumb I did

Cool!
I will have to try it that way once I've put the latest ROM on (I'm sticking with official ones at the moment, I have 1.93 but just downloaded 2.03). Will be upgrading soon, hopefully to HD2, then will mod the diamond to oblivion!
Thanks for the advice, hopefully the original thread author will log in and check!

FWIW...
WooHoo, I finally got all my menu options back. Wiped my device. It turns out, the Clear Storage option under Settings restores your device to factory settings BUT, leaves your storage card/Internal storage in tact. So I still have all my music, and all my cabs for easy reinstall of all my programs. Cool! I thought it would wipe my entire device AND mass storage. But no. Just wish I woulda backed up contacts somehow :/

Activesync
I use activesync (or Mobile Device Centre on Win7) to synchronise contacts with Outlook. Find it works a treat and also makes it much easier to send emails - I use Outlook as my primary email program. Also synchronises calendar / notes etc.

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I'll look into that for next time. I've actually never playedwith/figured out activesync. Or Outlook, for that matter. The computer at my house doesn't have any Office progs, butjust did some digging and found it has Outlook Express (it's my roommates desktop, set up mostly for gaming, I guess). Will have a look, thanks.

My Phone
Not sure about Express, I remember it worked with my Nokia's sync software but dunno about activesync.
I also recently found that MS have a download called My Phone, which backs up everything to their server (cue conspiracy theorists!!). I've used it for text messages and I can now access them all through my hotmail account. Should work for all the rest as well, and I think it allows for restoring.