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am I the only one who cant get WMA files to run???? half of my music is WMA and I cant get it to play in android at all.....
any suggestions on a fix??
http://www.jodix.com/ worked for me.
yea I was hoping I wouldnt have to convert them all back to mp3.... I ripped them into wma to save on space on my old phone to begine with... even made sure there was no DRM protection on the files so that they would play on most anything... but looking around it seems there isnt any real support for WMA files on android.... some phone will play them(looks like most of them have NEON support in the chips though) but most android phones dont do WMA
thanks for the link that looks like some decent freeware apps to convert files though!!!!!!
PowerAMP. Should be stock player. Awesome. Paid though. No need to covert it plays all files.
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Yea that looks like me only option.. poweramp looks realy nice! Thanks for the suggestion
sinisin said:
PowerAMP. Should be stock player. Awesome. Paid though. No need to covert it plays all files.
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it is super nice. EQ, with preamp, Cover Art, all kinds of stuff. Plus the major bonus of not having to hastle with converting all your WMA into MP3 and so on. Just put the music on your SD and go. WAY nicer then the stock music app
only some wma files play on my defy
I just paid for upgrade to power amp and still some wma files do not play on my defy. using 2.2.1 and have always been able to play only some of my wma files, even with stock music player. I even plugged the phone into a pc that does not have these music files on it, and was able to navigate to them on the sd card and play fine from the pc, so can't be corrupt filers right? have tried many diff't android market players but same results on all. any ideas? thanks.
Its a rights issue i would imagine. Never had a problem. Try writing the application developer.
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I'm currently runnuing MIUI Android GingerBread ROM 2.4.20 and I must say it's simply the best ROM I've ever used. It's almost as if it was built with me in mind.
Fast, stable, easy to use and on the eye interface. Brilliant.
I've installed and run the ICS version and as good as it is, there's one thing that's missing: What happened to the music player's ability to play WMA files? I have over 400 albums that I've encoded in WMA format due to small file size (1/5 of mp3 filesize) and I honestly cannot tell the difference between mp3 and wma over my headphones and in the car. Any ROM tips and/or advice on how to do this avoiding 3rd party app like TTPod? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
smungai said:
I'm currently runnuing MIUI Android GingerBread ROM 2.4.20 and I must say it's simply the best ROM I've ever used. It's almost as if it was built with me in mind.
Fast, stable, easy to use and on the eye interface. Brilliant.
I've installed and run the ICS version and as good as it is, there's one thing that's missing: What happened to the music player's ability to play WMA files? I have over 400 albums that I've encoded in WMA format due to small file size (1/5 of mp3 filesize) and I honestly cannot tell the difference between mp3 and wma over my headphones and in the car. Any ROM tips and/or advice on how to do this avoiding 3rd party app like TTPod? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Mayby not the best solution but dude... WMA ? why WMA ? WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO... WINDOWS... dude.. It's like making FLAC file from MP3, you CAN do it but WHY?!
I would go for MP3 using VBR which give you good quality and lower file size or lower the bitrate there is less problem with MP3 than with WMA. But it's your way to store music. And if you happy with that - thats great.
Did you try .. winamp for android ? --- oh, you didnt want 3rd party app...
Like I said, WMA was made by Microsoft which is close for community. So I doube there is a easy/clean way to play those files without 3rd party apps.
try other music player like winamph
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Now your on ics, you can use the great apollo music player. Dont know for sure if it supports wma though.. but i gues it does. I'll post .apk file bellow.
This is stock music player from cm9. It is very good, downloads album covers by its self. It fully supports lockscreen control, notification bar control and widget control (apollo wodget that is )
Just give it a try, you wont regret it
P.s.1: sorry for bad english
P.s.2: hit thanks if i helped and apollo can play .wma files!
P.s.3: i'll upload file to 4shared, will post later this evening
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http://www.4shared.com/android/b1LxbjZ3/comandrewapollo.html
4shared link to apollo.apk
Sometimes you have to wait 20 seconds, but ik hope that wont be a problem
Edit: just confirmed that when you download it via mobile, you will need to sign up. Via laptop browser is free and you dont need to sign up.
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I dont get it, just because it isn't open source (why would you actually need open soucre music files....), they make a music player wich supports a lot of music types, but they dont let it play the world second-most used music file type... that sucks... but what can i do about it...
well there are other music players in the store wich are also awsome, like doubletwist player! I used it i while, before i got to apollo, i hop that solves your problem
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Android and WMA
Thanks one and all for your advice.
As mentioned, my choosing WMA files is purely practical asI can store 4 times as many MP3's on my phone.
I had to settle for PowerAmp which not only supports WMA files but also seems to read all ID3 tags perfectly (on MIUI GB I had to download ID3Fixer to read artist tag).
I'm back with a quick update: Still no joy getting WMA files to play on stock music player on MIUI 2.8.10. I did flash King Soft 2.10.26 and though I did not find the ROM stable enough for me, the stock player did play WMA files (without ID3 Tagging as with older versions). I attempted copying the .apk into the .zip file before flashing but after flashing, Music doesn't appear as one of the applications. Apparently this may have to do with how system apk's are deeply embedded within the ROMS on JellyBean. If anyone has any advice in porting system app, (Specifically Music.apk) from JB to ICS, I'm all ears.
For those still interested, you'll be happy to know that the MIUI ROM 3.2.8 supports WMA playback. Kudos must go the the developers who knowingly/unknowingly fixed this issue. Unfortunately the issue of artist ID3 tags not being read persists but you can download the ID3Tag Fix app and it'll sort it out for you. I'm still using PowerAmp for this and my collection of now 4,500+ music files still fits comfortably on my 8GB memory card.
Hey guys,
I really would like to enjoy Podcasts (from iTunes) on my One but unfortunately the stock player is not able to play .m4a files.
Do you know a solution (using another play may not an option)
Regards!
What? The stock player does play m4a files, if it's not playing on your device it's most likely drm protected.
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i once was using ios devices and ipod, so i use itunes, and i have created a large music lib by itunes, with a lot of apple lossless format music, so i am wondering is there a way to play apple lossless files on htc m7
Any solution?
why wouldnt there be? im pretty sure pretty much every smart phone supports files like flac
I have a similar problem.
I can't drag my flac file directly to the device and I can only sync my flac file with HTC SYNC.
Any solution?
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why wouldnt there be? im pretty sure pretty much every smart phone supports files like flac
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that would be a way but i have already got so much of apple lossless .m4a files, and i samply dont want to convert the files into other format, i mean that work is useless, and the lost of the sound quality is irreparable, cause i dont have the orginal cd copy anymore.
thx any way.
I have a flac file on my HTC one, dragged from PC to internal storage. It plays fine with power amp.
You can use iSyncr ( I think that's the name? ) to Sync you're phone with iTunes, it's handy. I use it since lots of my stuff ( mainly podcasts ) are on stinking iTunes.
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i once was using ios devices and ipod, so i use itunes, and i have created a large music lib by itunes, with a lot of apple lossless format music, so i am wondering is there a way to play apple lossless files on htc m7
Any solution?
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i use power amp for things like FLAC files and Apple Lossless.. the native HTC Music app will not play these files..
Also AndLess will play them as well
Hey there! Long time reader, first time poster!
As the title states, I'm having problems playing m4a files on my HTC One, specifically ones that are ripped from CD. I went through and updated a bunch of artists' albums with fresh Apple Lossless versions instead of the mp3s I had, and none of these rips are playing on my phone. I have a crapload of other m4a apple lossless files bought from iTunes that work just fine.. it's just these CD rips.
Anyone have any idea why? I'd love to have the better versions of these songs, and I know I can just convert them to something usable, but I want to understand what makes them not play, and if there's anything I can do in the process of ripping to fix it.
I used iTunes for all the ripping, and just selected the Apple Lossless Codec as the option. (and please, no smart-ass comments about not using iTunes It's how I buy and organize my music, since we don't have many options for online purchasing here in Canada).
Thanks!
m4a AAC vs m4a ALAC
The HTC One specs do indicate that it supports m4a, but Apple's m4a lossless (aka. ALAC) is not the same as a 'normal' m4a format. As per Wikipedia:
Apple Lossless is not a variant of AAC (which is a lossy format), but rather a distinct lossless format...
This seems to say the two formats (m4a AAC and m4a ALAC) are as different as MP3 vs FLAC media, but Apple decided to use the m4a extension for both distinct proprietary formats.
You will need a music player that has a codec that supports m4a ALAC: PowerAmp supports m4a ALAC and it is much better than the built-in HTC player or Google Music. There are others in GooglePlay store; search for 'alac'
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The HTC One specs do indicate that it supports m4a, but Apple's m4a lossless (aka. ALAC) is not the same as a 'normal' m4a format. As per Wikipedia:
Apple Lossless is not a variant of AAC (which is a lossy format), but rather a distinct lossless format...
This seems to say the two formats (m4a AAC and m4a ALAC) are as different as MP3 vs FLAC media, but Apple decided to use the m4a extension for both distinct proprietary formats.
You will need a music player that has a codec that supports m4a ALAC: PowerAmp supports m4a ALAC and it is much better than the built-in HTC player or Google Music. There are others in GooglePlay store; search for 'alac'
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Aaaaah, thanks Broo! After reading this I went back and checked the info in iTunes for the songs that were and weren't working... for some reason I thought the purchased/downloaded were all apple lossless, but they're "Purchased AAC". I don't know how I got confused with that (it WAS 2am when I was trying to figure this out last night, lol)
I've used poweramp a bit, but wasn't crazy about it.. mayhaps I'll have to try it again.
Thanks again!
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Hey there! Long time reader, first time poster!
As the title states, I'm having problems playing m4a files on my HTC One, specifically ones that are ripped from CD. I went through and updated a bunch of artists' albums with fresh Apple Lossless versions instead of the mp3s I had, and none of these rips are playing on my phone. I have a crapload of other m4a apple lossless files bought from iTunes that work just fine.. it's just these CD rips.
Anyone have any idea why? I'd love to have the better versions of these songs, and I know I can just convert them to something usable, but I want to understand what makes them not play, and if there's anything I can do in the process of ripping to fix it.
I used iTunes for all the ripping, and just selected the Apple Lossless Codec as the option. (and please, no smart-ass comments about not using iTunes It's how I buy and organize my music, since we don't have many options for online purchasing here in Canada).
Thanks!
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I just went through this today. HTC tech support insists that even though the specifications say that the HTC One will play various formats it really requires MP3 to play correctly. My HTC One would play M4A but it would skip through the songs only playing a second or so on each one. I used iTunes to convert all of the m4a files to mp3 files and then moved them to the HTC One. They all play fine but I have not had a chance to see if it corrected the music player skipping problem. I really think the skipping problem is associated with Electromagnetic Interference since it does not happen when the phone is on my desks but it happens every time when I am outside walking around in a varying electronic environment.
Would have been nice for HTC to post some sort of notice about the MP3 issue but that would have caused problems with sales I suspect.
The conversion to MP3 is not too difficult but it is time consuming. The iTunes help will walk you through it. You can just convert them to your existing directory structure and then cut and paste into the HTC One /internal storage/Music directory but I created a different directory on my computer and then imported to there so I would not have to sort through all of the myriad iTunes/iTunesMedia/Music directories.
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I just went through this today. HTC tech support insists that even though the specifications say that the HTC One will play various formats it really requires MP3 to play correctly. My HTC One would play M4A but it would skip through the songs only playing a second or so on each one. I used iTunes to convert all of the m4a files to mp3 files and then moved them to the HTC One. They all play fine but I have not had a chance to see if it corrected the music player skipping problem. I really think the skipping problem is associated with Electromagnetic Interference since it does not happen when the phone is on my desks but it happens every time when I am outside walking around in a varying electronic environment.
Would have been nice for HTC to post some sort of notice about the MP3 issue but that would have caused problems with sales I suspect.
The conversion to MP3 is not too difficult but it is time consuming. The iTunes help will walk you through it. You can just convert them to your existing directory structure and then cut and paste into the HTC One /internal storage/Music directory but I created a different directory on my computer and then imported to there so I would not have to sort through all of the myriad iTunes/iTunesMedia/Music directories.
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Actually, I've managed to quickly and easily convert all those files I was having issues with to AAC versions, and they work like a charm! It's true, HTC should be a bit more specific with the file formats supported, but technically they do play m4a (all mine now work fine, since converting from ALAC codec to AAC), they just need to be a bit more specific about what codecs of m4a it'll play. Poweramp did work fine, which is awesome, but then I want to use some of the songs as ringtones or alarm sounds, and they weren't supported, thus the decision to just convert them all.. It'll save me a bit more space on the phone this way too
That's quite an odd problem you're having though, with the songs skipping... I wouldn't even know where to begin troubleshooting that! Maybe a short in your headphones? Could be sending a bad signal to the phone telling it to skip...?
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humangobo said:
Actually, I've managed to quickly and easily convert all those files I was having issues with to AAC versions, and they work like a charm! It's true, HTC should be a bit more specific with the file formats supported, but technically they do play m4a (all mine now work fine, since converting from ALAC codec to AAC), they just need to be a bit more specific about what codecs of m4a it'll play. Poweramp did work fine, which is awesome, but then I want to use some of the songs as ringtones or alarm sounds, and they weren't supported, thus the decision to just convert them all.. It'll save me a bit more space on the phone this way too
That's quite an odd problem you're having though, with the songs skipping... I wouldn't even know where to begin troubleshooting that! Maybe a short in your headphones? Could be sending a bad signal to the phone telling it to skip...?
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It has taken me a week to resolve this issue. Tried resolving some issues with the file structure on the phone, where the music files are stored on both the phone and in iTunes, trying working with HTC Sync Manager, uninstalled and reinstalled it, could not get it to work correctly, converted all of the files to MP3 format and finally flushed the cache. Nothing resolved the problem. This morning I changed earphones from an iPod earphone I had been using to the HTC earphone that came in the box with the HTC phone. Works as advertised.
The iPod earphone jack and the HTC earphone jack appear almost identical. However, the HTC earphone jack is about 1 mm longer than the iPod jack. Thus, it appears to me that that minor difference in earphone jack may be the problem or there is a possibility that the iPod earphone wires are not shielded and the HTC earphone wires are but I strongly suspect that it is that 1 mm of jack length difference that made the iPod phone not quite making sufficient contact and that was causing a spurious input to the music player.
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It has taken me a week to resolve this issue. Tried resolving some issues with the file structure on the phone, where the music files are stored on both the phone and in iTunes, trying working with HTC Sync Manager, uninstalled and reinstalled it, could not get it to work correctly, converted all of the files to MP3 format and finally flushed the cache. Nothing resolved the problem. This morning I changed earphones from an iPod earphone I had been using to the HTC earphone that came in the box with the HTC phone. Works as advertised.
The iPod earphone jack and the HTC earphone jack appear almost identical. However, the HTC earphone jack is about 1 mm longer than the iPod jack. Thus, it appears to me that that minor difference in earphone jack may be the problem or there is a possibility that the iPod earphone wires are not shielded and the HTC earphone wires are but I strongly suspect that it is that 1 mm of jack length difference that made the iPod phone not quite making sufficient contact and that was causing a spurious input to the music player.
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Aaaahh, yes had I known you were using iPod headphones, I would have said that's the culprit right away! When i first went android with the HTC One X+, I had a pair of skullcandy earbuds made for iPhone that didn't quite have the same problem as you, but were an issue nonetheless. I tried just a pair of regular headphones and worked fantastically. Since then I either get regular headphones without the mic/remote, or i just started using the HTC ones, which seem surprisingly good for a pair of packaged earbuds. Glad you got it sorted!
<edit> also, If I'm not mistaken, Apple wires theirs slightly differently, so even if the lengths were the same, the connections would be whacky and cause issues. "Think Different" they say...
humangobo said:
Hey there! Long time reader, first time poster!
As the title states, I'm having problems playing m4a files on my HTC One, specifically ones that are ripped from CD. I went through and updated a bunch of artists' albums with fresh Apple Lossless versions instead of the mp3s I had, and none of these rips are playing on my phone. I have a crapload of other m4a apple lossless files bought from iTunes that work just fine.. it's just these CD rips.
Anyone have any idea why? I'd love to have the better versions of these songs, and I know I can just convert them to something usable, but I want to understand what makes them not play, and if there's anything I can do in the process of ripping to fix it.
I used iTunes for all the ripping, and just selected the Apple Lossless Codec as the option. (and please, no smart-ass comments about not using iTunes It's how I buy and organize my music, since we don't have many options for online purchasing here in Canada).
Thanks!
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If you just rename the file extension to mp3 it may work. I had and m4r file which is an iPhone ringtone format and just changed the extension and my HTC One used it no bother.
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I have develop an android APP "CD Ripper" to rip CD to WAV or MP3 , you can try it on GOOGLE PLAY :
What's the CD Ripper
CD Ripper is the first FREE CD ripping APP of the Android.
It can rip CD tracks to lossless or compressed music files.
Why to use CD Ripper
- We have many CD discs with favorite musics
- Before , We can play them with Discman or Microsystem
- Now , We want to play those musics in mobiles
- Use the CD Ripper to rip CD tracks to WAV or MP3 files
How to use CD Ripper
- Connect the USB CD reader (Optical Drive) and power with OTG cable
- Connect the mobile to OTG cable
- Click "Load CD" to load CD
- Show CD tracks (TOC) after finish loading
- Click "Rip WAV" to rip those tracks to WAV files
- Or Click "Rip MP3" to rip those tracks to MP3 files
- Click "Save As" to save your WAV/MP3 folder with the special name