Music sync problem - Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys,
Im having real trouble getting music onto my Ativ S. I either sync it with Jriver or copy direct to the SD Card and it doubles up all of the tracks. Sometimes it triples or quadruples the track list. I then delete everything to start again but the tracks all stay listed on the phone. Is there a way to refresh the list? I dont want to blank the phone yet again.
I have searched but cant find any thing on this. Its so bad I had to go on holiday and had no music. Ironic that my old Android devices sync better with my Windows 8 desktop than my Windows 8 phone does!
I cant find any other decent music app in the store either. I really like my Ativ S but I also really like music. Will have to go back to Android just to have Poweramp back.

PS. I also tried by ditching the SD and just using the onboard memory, same issue. It all doubled again. Also photos seem to randomly double but that I can cope with.

It's a known issue, but should have been fixed in GDR2. Is your phone up to date? GDR2 should have been available for some weeks now.

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syncing with winamp pmp issues

I'm not sure exactly what's causing this but, it seems that all the files get an extra . at the end. The result is that everytime I want to sync, it'll want to kill all the files and reupload everything.
Anyone else try doing this? I haven't experimented much yet because it took a really long time to transfer everything (almost 4gb), most of the files which were also transcoded, and I'd rather not do it again.
It could be a problem with either the htc audio player or the windows media player doing it?
I'd like to keep using winamp because I have a good system set up. Songs with a 0 rating don't get synced to anything. 1+ to my ipod. And 4+ to my phone.
is the winamp service still in beta? i tried it a while back and didnt get too deep. let me know your results when you get done messing around. I am looking for a good setup to stream my mp3s from my pc.
I must have been a bit vague. I wasn't trying to stream mp3s to my phone through winamp. I was trying to sync part of my media library to it.
oh, well i dont have this problem. files get copied fine.
BUT theyre copied to the device. is it possible to copy them to the storage card?

[Q] JH2 Lost bluetooth audio controls (A2DP)

I just used kies to update my firmware. I have a Bell (Canada) gt-i9000m (vibrant). The update left all my settings from the old FW and in no time at all my phone was force closing apps. Did a full reset and it runs nicely had to put back all my apn settings and stuff. The only thing that's changed with the new FW is that I cant change songs from my bluetooth car deck and I cant even play or pause anymore For me its kinda a huge deal cuz I put all my music on the phone to play in my car and it was all working so nicely i could even fast forward in the track that was a one up on my old iphone (with the old FW). Now none of my bluetooth deck controls are working I do see the 2 touch buttons light up on the phone when i push buttons on my car deck so the phone is getting the command its just not responding. Any Ideas would be most helpful.
The only thing that's different is that I haven't re-rooted the phone yet or applied the lag fix because I was having a lot of force close problems and did 4 resets so far (i assume due to the lag fix). I was hoping the new FW would fix more problems that it made... I didn't take note of the stock FW on my bell i9000m at the very least I would flash that back on to get my bluethooth controls back if anyone knows the stock firmware or how to make it work with the JH2 FW?
do a factory reset/format
then start with new settings, it will work after you pair the devices again
I did a factory reset when i upgraded the FW because of the force close error's but I didn't format. So I did another factory reset followed by a format of both internal and external. Took over 3h's to get all my stuff back on the phone and the bluetooth controls are still not working in the car.
From all the trouble shooting I've done its one of two things;
1. The firmware JH2 changed something with the A2DP profiles.
OR
2. I haven't rooted or done the lag fix.
Those are the only things that are different from before.
If anyone knows the stock FW for the i9000m (bell vibrant) and/or a link to download it. It would be most helpful.
I will try re-rooting and applying the lag fix but i have a hunch that's not going to make my car deck start working with the phone any better.
The car deck i have is a KD-BT1 (made by JVC). Just to be clear I was able to control my phone via the controls on the deck & its remote with the old firmware. I have deleted my paired phone and re-paired before and after factory reset & format.
that's very strange.
i've had that problem before, but that was expect of every new flash i made.
i always had to make the Car Deck (Clario CZ509) forget the old Galaxy S, then pair it again with the flashed Galaxy S, then it works all good.
else i get really weird behaviour on both phones and Car Deck
I can stream excellent audio quality to the car, with nice sub (no loss) and be able to control remote both phone and/or car from either the Car Deck, the SGS Phone, or the Remote control that came with the Deck
it automatically switch between phone calls and music
Sounds like i should reflash my fw. Do you have a link to where you got yours cuz kies is no longer seeing my phone... just hangs trying to connect. Its happened many times i know the uninstall drill to make it work but i've invested so much time into my sgs i rather use odin this time over kies.
I've un-paired and re-paired them agian and agian the pair up no problem and i make sure to check off the box that pops up to always allow my bt device to access contacts, ect. It all sync's up flawlessly just dont have control. The music streams very clearly for me also (2x10s subs).
Btw thanks for your very helpful responses!
I'm still thinking it might be cuz yours is rooted and mine still isnt. trying that before i jump the gun on another re-flash.
are you using the stock "Music Player" (w/ ugly pink icon)??
Update...
I rooted and did the one click lag fix. A2DP controls still don't work. I was able to use the car deck to answer, hang up, dail a number it got from my contact list! I'm not sure if those were or weren't working before... I was only really conserned with the music controls and they still dont work.
I also tried calling Samsung to see if they could help me out with why I always get the force close errors. No luck they told me to call my carrier i told them I bought the phone from a differnt carrier... I'm on Fido with Bell phone. Samsung said Bell has to get the RMA if i need one.
I've herd the lag fix helps bring to light any memory problems and creates those force close errors. This is one of my big underlying issues with my i9000m it crash's all the time. I've factory reset at least 5 times and once it crashed from google maps looking for an address and it got stuck on the boot logo. I had to wipe from the recovery menu just to call my friend when i was out side of his building for like 30mins (didn't know the buzzer #) I thought the instability was due to the root and lag fix but the phone runs a lot worse with out them...
(never dropped banged or any kind of water/wetness)
sorry if i got a lil' off topic but the phone is running worse over time...
The stock music player app (called "Music Player") doesn't respond to the standard AVRCP controls (A2DP is phone-audio-to-bluetooth, AVRCP is remote-control-to-phone). Most other music player apps will. Are you sure you were using the standard music player previously? Anyway the solution is to use a different music player app.
Yes i was using the stock player before it worked fine.
I will try another one. I have been thinking that maybe something was changed with the stock music player with the FW update or maybe i need to go settings->apps->Musicplayer and clear the data... Going to try both and post my results tomorrow morning. Getting to late to go out to the car... LOL
I had a look at forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7980935 and thing maybe something did change with my AVRCP version.
I cant "1.0—Basic remote control commands (play/pause/stop, etc.)"
My stereo also has a phone mode that is working that lets me make calls and answer calls using the car stereo. I dont know if that is also AVRCP or just like a reg bluetooth ear piece controls.
Well I couldn't sleep till i tried it. I installed MixZing mp3 player and some of the mp3 controls work now. Play and pause and rewind track but It wont skip to next track. So it looks like you hit the nail on the head and something changed with the Music Player when I updated the firmware.
Does anyone have a rip of the stock Music Player apk from the old firmware?
4u2nvinmtl said:
My stereo also has a phone mode that is working that lets me make calls and answer calls using the car stereo. I dont know if that is also AVRCP or just like a reg bluetooth ear piece controls.
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That will be handsfree profile (HFP).
So its safe to assume something changed from my stock firmware to the one kies put on JH2 with the MusicPlayer app with regards to the AVRCP controls. I have yet to find a link of the stock firmware that was on my phone when I bought it, on the lunch date in Montreal.
Anyone got a link to the stock i9000m firmware from bell?
Thanks for all the help getting to the bottom of the problem.
Went to Bell store today to see if they could flash the old FW like Samsung told me they would. Guess what... they said they couldn't help because I "hacked" the phone even tho its Samsung's firmware. Apparently the use of Kies has voided my warranty.
4u2nvinmtl said:
are you using the stock "Music Player" (w/ ugly pink icon)??
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I was until i changed it to "Player" that is the name of the app.
the Stock MP3 player that came with JH2 was really good, it had 5.1 sound, which other players app does not support yet.
the only reason i ditched it was due the annoying way how to add music to the play list, the new app is just Point to the folder you want, and click on select all/play all, done
when you are in the car driving, you have no fricking enough time to go select which album or artist or genre.
but playing off the Folder structure, you know where you put which songs, so you can quickly skip folders, fast forward, or reverse to reach the songs you want
all that aside the stock music player works well with the Bluetooth remote control options
i was using the stock music player for about a week in my car via bluetooth until i got annoyed of not being able to quickly pick from the SD card the songs i wanted to play
4u2nvinmtl said:
Anyone got a link to the stock i9000m firmware from bell?
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I flashed mine via Kies JH2
4u2nvinmtl said:
Went to Bell store today to see if they could flash the old FW like Samsung told me they would. Guess what... they said they couldn't help because I "hacked" the phone even tho its Samsung's firmware. Apparently the use of Kies has voided my warranty.
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i think they meant the SIMs unlocked or the phone Rooted
since you are already on JH2 which is legit
Moving on to something more Vibrant
Update...
I got my phone back from repairs 2 weeks ago. They flat out replaced the phone for a new one. This was a huge headache for me because the new one wasn't unlocked. Took Bell 2 hours to get the new one unlocked wile my wife waited out side double parked downtown! (I thought it would be a quick pick up and I would be out) The blue-tooth works flawlessly again!!
Much to my dismay the replacement phone has started acting up much like my first one did. It gets several force close errors a day and has gotten to the point where it no longer can send or receive text messages (using Handcent). The stock Music Player app also force closes at random with more frequently. It looks like I got another Lemon. This time around I did NOT root, lag-fix, or flash firmware. I will be sending it for repairs as soon as I can afford to buy another phone to use wile this one is off at repairs. My back up phone is a 3~ year old Iphone3g that my son has made his... (cracked screen, vol rockers dont work, power button is jammed in, the LCD screen it self is bleeding on the top edge)
The Vibrant never let me down other than as a phone. As a divx player or using all-share it rocks! I use these features A LOT to play my 720p divx movies on any TV or the projector in the bedroom .
with that being said I might keep the phone just as a portable movie player to bring from place to place and put my sim in something more stable.

[Q] Problem with playlists

Hello, dear people who happen upon this thread,
I just bought a Sony Xperia Z, I used to have a GS3. On both of these phones I seem to have trouble with the playlists.
I created some playlists with foobar2k (format .m3u). In most of these playlists, there are songs with Japanese tags. I put the playlists on my phone, but strangely enough only the songs without a Japanese title tag get displayed. I can find the songs on the phone, they are just not in the playlist.
I first thought it was because the GS3 doesn't support Japanese, but I'm having the exact same problem on my Xperia Z. It works fine if I add them manually on the phone itself, but I'm kiiiiinda reluctant to add 3000+ songs to playlists manually.
Would anyone know what the problem could be? Is it the phone or is it foobar?
Thank you for taking a look at my silly problem, any help is very much appreciated.
Transfer tracks via usb
Sent via my Google Nexus 7 | 32GB.WiFi
x102x96x said:
Transfer tracks via usb
Sent via my Google Nexus 7 | 32GB.WiFi
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Thank you for taking the time to reply. I tried transferring the tracks via USB, but in the end it took over 2 hours and at about 2/3rd through it said there was an error in the operation, saying the device didn't respond anymore. Phone works fine though.
I took a look at the tracks that were already transferred, but still no tracks with Japanese title tags in the playlists, even though they are on the phone. I'm really at my wit's end here.
I installed Media Go today, and I managed to transfer one of the playlists without problems (i.e. the Japanese songs are there and are displayed on the phone). When I try to transfer the other ones to the phone I get an error message: "Due to device limitations with international characters in playlists, the track 'music\03 歴代の桜師.mp3' was removed from playlist '狐の工作室' after transfer. Time: 2013/06/06 21:30:00 Code: 0x00000000
I really don't know why I was able to transfer the first playlist flawlessly, but it keeps deleting the Japanese entries for the next ones... I'm starting to get really desperate here.
UPDATE: I just contacted a Sony representative through chat, and during the chat it suddenly... started working? I now have all playlists complete on my phone, including the Japanese tracks... Nor me or the Sony representative have any idea how. I did the same thing as I always did, just... suddenly it worked. Very strange. Anyone has any idea why?

[Q] Playlist Sync'ing issues on SD Card with GDR2

Hi All
Back in July, I used to own an Ativ S, before I spotted the HTC One, after jumping ship to the One for 2 months, due to missing calls because of low ringer volume on the S and drawn by the Boomsound speakers, screen and lovely camera, I finally came back to WP8 as Android was just too messy for me and it never changes. Anyway, back in July.. my old Ativ S sync'd music and playlists great with WMP12 (Win7x64), no issues. I have about 15GB of music I like to carry round, so no good on internal storage.
However, now after returning to an unlocked UK Ativ S, v.8.0.10327.77, on the SD Card.. my music duplicates tracks (2 of everything) and the playlists are there, but with 0 songs in them, yet it all sync's perfectly when sync'd with the internal 16GB phone storage.. Im suing a 32GB Class 6 Samsung SD Card.
When I tried to sync using the WP desktop program, some tracks copied but most reported errors.
Anyone else seeing this or any suggestions
Thanks

[Q] From Ativ S to Nokia 920, Is it worth it?

I replaced my UK Ativ S 2 days ago, however, now with GDR2 and lack of support and apps from Samsung, Im not sure if I should switch to a Lumia 920 and could do with some advice from the community.
My reasons are:
- Ativ S has an awful speaker with very low ringer and text message volumes, I sometimes miss calls.
- Since GDR2, my music/playlist syncing on SD Card is broken (2 or 3 tracks repeated, empty playlist), but is ok on the Phone storage.
- Camera is OK but sometimes blurry, so not an amazing Cam.
- AMOLED screen is a bit over saturated and unreadable in sunlight.
However, what Ive read about Lumia 920s, even after GDR2 update (Are these still true as of GDR2)..
Nokia music is still broken.. same issues as Im having above with the ativ sd card.
the 920 still randomly shuts down and crashes on basic tasks like phone calls and music sync.
Phone signal and wifi drops out randomly.
Sudden battery drains.
Im attracted to the Nokia because it has 32GB onboard , which is enough for me, useful Nokia apps, great sound and louder ringer volumes - apparently.
Great camera.. and of course, looks lovely.
I do love WP8, the best OS in a long time, I just cant decide whether to stick on Ativ S or 920.
Thanks
I'd stick with it. The only interop-unlocked device at the moment is the ATIV S, so I'd hold out until either a larger physical WP device releases e.g. the Lumia 1520? or a different device gets hacked.
For put music corect use a Windows phone app disponible in windows 8/ 8 Pro!
neergaby95 said:
For put music corect use a Windows phone app disponible in windows 8/ 8 Pro!
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????.. Don't quite understand what you mean..
Decided to stick on Ativ S... I sold the one I had.. and bought a brand new sealed one on eBay.. Scan Computers in the UK are selling an Unlocked batch off for £190 (inc P&P), now Sync'ing playlists to SD is working fine, so unless theres been an update, then I mustve had a faulty device.
Thankfully all sorted
Back to loving the Ativ S.. I just wish Samsung would Support it

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