I have tried asian GB firmwares for my SGA, namely DDKQ5 and XKPB, but the stock music player show mp3 tags for most (not all) of my chinese and jap songs as funny symbols. I tried using a different media player, such as Double Twist, but same result. The tags look ok when i open the sd card on the computer. When I tried XXKPH, all the tags showed up correctly as well. Froyo was fine with the tags, so i downgraded back to DDKC1. Anyone else having this problem with DDKQ5 or XKPB?
yes, that is framework problem. i never had this when i was using Froyo or VillainROM..
now CM7 fixes that
Wow that's a custom firmware right? I've looked around and it seems that custom firmwares do boost the speed of the device by a lot. But currently there's no custom firmware that's based on asian stock ace firmware right? Also I found out that the swype keyboard is not available in CM7? Sorry but I am new to custom firmwares....
I flashed my ace using the coderomv2b and used the ext4 app to format the sd. Performance is much better, but I'm having issues with the media player.
1. Some of the unicode mp3 tags are still incorrectly displayed in the stock player. I tried double twist but it was worse.
2. After I long press the menu key and type into the search box, nothing comes up in the stock media player.
3. The player seems to be skipping during playback.
Anyone else having these issues??
hydraprime said:
I flashed my ace using the coderomv2b and used the ext4 app to format the sd. Performance is much better, but I'm having issues with the media player.
1. Some of the unicode mp3 tags are still incorrectly displayed in the stock player. I tried double twist but it was worse.
2. After I long press the menu key and type into the search box, nothing comes up in the stock media player.
3. The player seems to be skipping during playback.
Anyone else having these issues??
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Infused with CM7 for Galaxy Ace using XDA App
I was having problem with some .m4a songs, they keep their tag information in xml-format which is different from mp3 (which uses ID3). iPod and iphones doesnt have this problem since m4a are made by apple
m4a(Apple Lossless Audio Codec) are made for apple's product which is why they doesnt co-operate that well with android.
Solution:
Convert them to MP3. The only converter that i used who kept the tags was Switch Audio File Converter. You might use some other converter as well.
My songs are all in mp3 format, and are tagged using mediamonkey.
Thanks for your replies, but I flashed the blackhawk custom rom just to try it out and amazingly, the song information appears correctly, and I am able to perform search function in the media player. Haven't test the skipping part yet...
Btw anyone using the black hawk rom as well? I only managed to get quadrant scores of around 1000; I managed to get 1500 while on coderomv2b. I applied the crs check ram script...any ideas?
Edit: I forgot to enable the Media stagefright....my bad. :S Now I'm getting 1500+ as well on this rom.
Well even if your quadrant score is low it shouldnt matter as long as your phone is running in a good speed.
When you import your songs via mediamonkey, doesnt all your songs get transfered to the rootfolder? That happend to me which is why im not using it.
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Is it me or does the SGS2 not show the artist tag in .m4a files? whats going on?
I installed PowerAmp, it's the only music app I could find that shows all of the tags and artwork for my iTunes music files (m4a's).
Mine still has missing tags? every other phone I've had has been fine? what have samsung done? and why??
the tag is still there when I load it back to iTunes, but something on the phone is stopping the tag being seen, very strange?
havent been using .m4a files yet but will try some out tonight when i get home from work. tried any other media player such as winamp? maybe a tag problem with PowerAMP?
I've used Doubletwist, Winamp, PowerAMP, and a tag editor to see what wrong, all do the same thing, can't figure it out, and the SGS2 guide it says plays .m4a's but its the only android phone I've seen this on?
You could always sync with Winamp and tell it to transcode .m4a into another format during sync, it's in the device properties when your phone is plugged in!
I could, but important now using spotify and synchronized my playlists, crazy but works.
I still don't understand why the sgs2 won't see the tags on m4a files? My nexus s and desire s do? Strange Samsung idea maybe?
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I don't know, but I'm hoping it's easily fixed... I've just sold my iPod Touch so I can use the SGSII as my music player when I get it! Ripped some of my favourite CDs to .flac as well for the best music quality
Well if you find out, let me know, its bugging me, and seams to make a great phone, a bit second rate!
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Just got my SGSII yesterday... my m4a tags are fine! Not sure what's happening with yours D:
EDIT: I was totally wrong, the artist didn't show up. Luckily I had like one album in m4a format, so I changed it to mp3 and everything's fine now! Just missing a few album arts here and there, but I think that's more a Winamp problem than a problem with the SGSII
Mine are the same .m4a artist tag shows as unknown. Play fine etc just doesn't show the artist
I've noticed that the Kies software from Samsung doesn't recognise any of the music tags for m4a files either even though it downloads codecs?
how have you guys transferred the music onto the s2?
I'm using Winamp to drag and drop, then play using Winamp on the phone and the same happens to me. 10GB of my 20GB collection is in m4a too.
Try using sync with Winamp and tell it that m4a isn't supported, and to transcode m4a into mp3 maybe? Might do the trick!
I found this after having copied files to the new phone, then searching under the artist and not finding the album I had copied. I searched for a keyword in the song name and sure enough - same symptoms. m4a files purchased form iTunes, plays the file fine, but not sorted properly.
Guess I'll give another music player app a shot.
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Guess I'll give another music player app a shot.
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All the other players I tried use the system media DB as the source, which is where the data problem lies.
I tried Winamp, poweramp, doubletwist and all have the same problem.
Looks like maybe we need a firmware update to fix this?
M4A tracks don't have an artist
I have the same issue here.
Any applications that use the system media library (which include DoubleTwist, Winamp, PowerAMP) don't display the artists.
I downloaded a tag editor app onto the phone, but when I go to edit the tags, they are all correct, it does seem to be an issue with the system, and not any apps.
Has anyone tried installing the default music player from vanilla Gingerbread?
Or is the media library part of the OS more than just that app?
Would imagine that the stock Android music player will have the same problem. It's pretty apparent that Samsung have customised the media scanner and broken it for no apparent reason, since it worked just fine before!
I'm not completely clear on how components such as the media scanner/media store database are packaged up but would hazard a guess that it might be possible to replace the Samsung version with the vanilla version...
In PowerAMP > Folders view, if I long press a m4a file then select Info I can clearly see that the artist info is there.
However, in Library view (which I wan't using at all until last week) the Artist section is definitely missing the m4a files.
The problem somehow seems to be all files that use AAC-codec (m4a, mp4, etc.). My .mp4-files wich worked perfectly on my old SGS are now broken (tags, that is).
It must be a system problem, cause other programs experience this also. And The music player seems to be pretty much the same as in SGS.
REALLY hope they fix this soon. I've been ripping my CD:s tp MP4:s for years. Not going to convert them all to mp3:s.
Hi, I'm using Franco kernel4 (.35) and NightlyFourE v4.3.1 on my optimus one and find something (a little bit) strange, that is when I'm playing my music files in the stock music player, there is a disturbance like sound skipping, you know, strange sound/signals when I seek the tracks (by moving the track progress bar). It happens onl y for several files, but since I've played the same files in my former ROM (I used official GB before) and found no problem, I guess the problem isn't in my music files. I also tried other music app and found everything is okay, so the problem is ini the stock player. Anyone experienced it too?
How to have it fixed? i really love the stock player, are there any way to update/change the stock music player??
try flashing latest version!!!!!!
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Hi, I'm using Franco kernel4 (.35) and NightlyFourE v4.3.1 on my optimus one and find something (a little bit) strange, that is when I'm playing my music files in the stock music player, there is a disturbance like sound skipping, you know, strange sound/signals when I seek the tracks (by moving the track progress bar). It happens onl y for several files, but since I've played the same files in my former ROM (I used official GB before) and found no problem, I guess the problem isn't in my music files. I also tried other music app and found everything is okay, so the problem is ini the stock player. Anyone experienced it too?
How to have it fixed? i really love the stock player, are there any way to update/change the stock music player??
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Hey dude try flashing The lastest version of that rom it has got version 4.5 i guess am also using. The same rom but I didn't experience anything likeThat !am using 4.4 though!
Hit thanks if I have helped u !!!!!
Hello all.
I don't have access to the dev forum yet so I'm posting here. I have been running eclipse for a long time but recently tried CM7 and it is so much faster but there is one problem. My music files almost all show up as unknown artist. I use my phone as a music player in my car so this is a huge pain in the behind. I have reflashed twice now following all the instructions. I even SBF'd back to stock and wiped everything. The tags are fine on my PC, my old mp3 player and my wife's iphone so I know it's not a problem with the actual files.
Does anyone else have this issue? I did some searching on google and did find one post where someone said that it was a problem with the beta for the DX but I couldn't find any other info on it so if this is a known issue then I'm sorry for failing at the internet.
May I suggest trying a different music player. I use PowerAmp ($4.99 I believe) and have never looked back.
Just because the tags may show properly on those devices doesn't mean that they're error-free. Check the files using a well-known tagger such as mp3tag.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5tYXhtcHouYXVkaW9wbGF5ZXIiXQ..
I have no issues on stock CM7 player. My wife uses an iPod for her music playing and I use my phone, so I am (whipped) 'forced' to use iTunes to sort and tag our music files. As mp4's the tags run perfectly. (Tagged with iTunes).
What software are you using to tag your files?
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Hi, I have recently unlocked the bootloader of my ST15i according to the official method on Sony Mobile Developer World.
I knew it was going to delete DRM & TrackID, about which I didn't care, because I haven't bought any music in iTunes, I have only ripped some CD's in a m4a (aac) 128 kpbs format, which resulted in non-DRM'ed m4a's that I could play on any device supporting m4a (aac).
But, I quickly noticed I just couldn't play m4a (aac) files anymore. I tried several music players, and PowerAmp seems the only one that can play these files now, problem: it's paid.
So, the question is, is there any way to get these files supported again in the stock music player? Because it seems the bootloader-unlock also removed non-drm m4a support... Thanks in advance.
PS:
I'm now running the original SE ROM (.62) + a prerooted kernel.
I don't know if this the correct subforum, because this could also be a feature idea/request for development... :S
There has to be a way to solve this ^^, if PowerAmp is capable to play m4a's..
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It seems WinAmp also does the job (hadn't tried this one), but suggestions on how to get support in the stock music player are still welcome! (because I like the stock 'simplicity' & memory usage more).
I am not sure if unlocking bootloader would affect the usage of the stock music player. The music files that you are trying to play are not even protected as per your explanation.
Have you tried other formats like mp3 or aac+?
Try reencoding your audio cds to the same aac format then try it again on the stock music player.
If it still does not work, then you are better off using another player.
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I am not sure if unlocking bootloader would affect the usage of the stock music player. The music files that you are trying to play are not even protected as per your explanation.
Have you tried other formats like mp3 or aac+?
Try reencoding your audio cds to the same aac format then try it again on the stock music player.
If it still does not work, then you are better off using another player.
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Thanks for you answer, these aac's worked on the stock player before I unlocked the bootloader, mp3's worked and are still working fine. I don't have any aac+'s.
The aac's are indeed not protected, and thats what I think is weird, because there's absolutely no DRM on them if you just rip a CD...
What would reencoding the CD's to the same format help? It's the same format xP. I don't have the time now, but i'll try one CD later, until then I can use WinAmp without a problem.
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Thanks for you answer, these aac's worked on the stock player before I unlocked the bootloader, mp3's worked and are still working fine. I don't have any aac+'s.
The aac's are indeed not protected, and thats what I think is weird, because there's absolutely no DRM on them if you just rip a CD...
What would reencoding the CD's to the same format help? It's the same format xP. I don't have the time now, but i'll try one CD later, until then I can use WinAmp without a problem.
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If the CDs are official ones, they might be copy-protected anyway.
Do the music files, ripped from CD, work on your PC?
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If the CDs are official ones, they might be copy-protected anyway.
Do the music files, ripped from CD, work on your PC?
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Nah, if you rip them the don't have any protection anymore. The ripped files perfectly work on VLC... so there's no need for an account permission or a familiar thing. Btw, I don't have iTunes installed anymore.
Has anyone a solution to making the Video player find videos on the microsd card?
My daughter has a Galaxy Wifi 5.0" player running Gingerbread (the leaked official version).
Up till recently she's relied on the internal memory, but want to store more videos and music, so I bought a decent fast sandisk 16GB card for her.
I moved the videos off the internal directory (from /mnt/sdcard/Video to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/Video) and the video player seems to cache the old location and won't find the new, but gives a stupid misleading warning about unsupported file format.
I've searched the forum and elsewhere to find a solution but nothing obvious springs to mind.
I am surprised at the Gal Wifi's choice of mount point for the external card, is this normal?
Forget the stock video player, try <this one>
well, this is very odd. after much experimentation of moving the videos back to the internal flash and them not playing, I renamed them all by sticking i_ at start of file name.
I then copied them back to the "external" - microSD card - flash and stuck e_ at start of file name. I then removed the movies (which doesn't actually delete the files, it simply takes them out of the list). There's then an "add" function which adds movies back into the list.
I think by reconnecting as USB mass storage and copying files around, the movie player app then somehow reindexed the files and everything began to play.
So somewhere there's a cache of file names and locations and it got confused, so by renaming the files
zardak said:
Forget the stock video player, try <this one>
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thanks, I'll give MX Player a try.
I was going to try VLC too:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm9yZy52aWRlb2xhbi52bGMuYmV0YXY3bmVvbiJd
speculatrix said:
thanks, I'll give MX Player a try.
I was going to try VLC too:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm9yZy52aWRlb2xhbi52bGMuYmV0YXY3bmVvbiJd
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VLC is okay, but it is a beta at the moment so it crashes a lot.
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Samsung Fail
Samsung does a poor job in these updates.
I still use Froyo G70XXKD6 because all GB were a joke, including the latest G70XXKPL. Samsung started with lack of SOUND ALIVE, originally present in froyo XXKD6. And no, nothing could replace the sound produced by Sound Alive. I tried everything. I leave an honorable mention to n7player. Their equalizer was the most efficient for my ears. The other "famous players" are just cute.
In this latest update was the camera. If selected macro mode, after switching to the front camera this mode is locked.
Samsung updates are an eternal frustration.
Result: Back to good old xxkd6 with sound alive . For those who prize the main function of the G70 - PLAYER, this rom ends up being irreplaceable.