Hi, I have a question about suggestions for getting my music to play where Amazon isn't allowing me to play it. (Not specifically looking for cracks/encryption bypass.)
Amazon Music (Unlimited subscription tier) now includes an impressive number of Atmos-encoded music releases, including back-catalog remixes.
At this point, so far as I can tell, there are three ways the app will see/download/play these files:
On most mobile devices two-channel playback (e.g. my Pixel2XL)
but with some conditions (downloading, but not playing on Bluestack emulator)
On an Amazon Echo Studio standalone speaker
On a Sonos system
I want to play these files on a device with an HDMI output so I can hear them on my home theater system.
My device options with Amazon Music apps are:
Xbox One
Windows PC
Android TV (Hisense H8G from 2020) (over ARC, possibly the files will pass as EAC3...)
(I have an older phone with root, but it seems authorities isn't the issue.)
The old locations for file download (sdcard/android/ ... data/ or media/; /0/music seem empty of all downloads in the new lossless/Atmos format on my actual phone, though some of my older .MP3 downloads are still there. I'm assuming the new files are just hidden.
The .log file I can see in the filesystem for the instance running on the BlueStacks emulator (/data/.../music) suggests different playback profiles, all using mp4 files for encryption.
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In the same folder on the emulated instance, divided among arbitrary-named folders [e.g. 00,01,02...; 0a,0b,0c...] are some mostly-arbitrarily-named files that are the right size and with a few naming hints that indicate they're the music files I'm looking for.
e.g.:
B089N5NK21.UHD96.0
B089N5NK21.UHD96.1
B089N5NK21.UHD96.2
B089N5NK21.UHD96.3
...
So...
I'm going to try exporting these files to another device and see if the Amazon Music apps will play them.
But I'm confused about why the emulated instance will download the files in "Atmos" but only plays them in "HD".
Any other ideas?
(Re: decryption/cracking, I have seen all sorts of advertising for Amazon Music downloaders/decrypters, but what I've tried isn't working due to the Amazon website not detecting a valid browser when the downloader app tries to use my login...)
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OK, so not strictly a Galaxy S3 issue, but now I've got a nice new fast phone I was looking for a simple little audio podcast downloader. I don't need any playback features or other bells and whistles, just a few very basic features:
1) Specify a download folder for each RSS/XML feed in my Music Folders location (so I can manage about 10 different shows, each within their own folders).
2) Download the MP3 files intact, so my preferred player can play them immediately (i.e. no mangling of filenames or changing file extensions).
3) Restrict downloads to wi-fi, rather than using network data (to be fair, most apps can do this).
There, that shouldn't be too hard should it? My PC podcast downloader does it fine at the moment, and I just sync those files over to the right folders on the phone every so often, but I'd like to get the phone to fetch podcasts automatically without needing the PC.
However so far, I'm not having much luck... I've checked out all the obvious contenders, and they mostly seem to lack points (1) and (2) above. Any ideas?
Andre
I've decided to move away from Google Play Music and return to the old fashioned way to transferring media. However, almost all of my music was uploaded to Google's servers and subsequently deleted from my hard drives to save space. I properly tagged my media before uploading.
Now, AFAIK Google presents three options for retrieving music: direct download from the web (limit to 2 downloads), download the entire library through Music Manager, and the keep offline option from the phone itself. I'd like to avoid option one in case I need to download my collection in an emergency. As for option 2, I keep 200mb + EDM compilations online which I intend to play solely with Play Music, so I don't want to download 100GB just so that I can get the rest of my music that I won't be playing through PM.
As a result, I'm currently working on option 3. I've located the music files just fine, but it turns out that all of the tags are missing. I was under the impression that ID3 tags always stick with the music. If not, where would PM have stored them on the phone and how can I reapply those tags to the corresponding tracks?
*Please let me know if there is a work around to option 2 (or even 1).
I've purchased a couple Android "TV Boxes" and was shocked to learn that none of the supplied software will play media from SMB/Samba/Windows shared network locations.
My boxes are running Android 4.0x, A9 single core at 1Ghz, Mali400 GPU's, 512MB + 8GB or 1GB + 4GB of memory.
Purchased them from DX.COM... sku 145311 and 157734 (I can't post URLs here)
Just a few of the apps I've downloaded and tested:
- XBMC: Used on my PC's, but too heavy for the Android boxes I have.
- BSPlayer
- Buzz Player
- MX Player
- Mobo Video Player
- Dice Player
- Movie Browser HD
- mVideo Player
Most of these don't support Windows shares very well, or are not user friendly.
Are there any decent media player applications that will do the following?
- Play media located on Windows or Samba shares
- Provide a simple interface so my kids won't get confused
- Play video, audio and pictures
- Possibly link to Netflix and/or YouTube accounts
- It would be great if it were a "launcher" app
Basically, I want a launcher type interface that operates like this:
- I add icons to the main screen.
- The icon can be associated with one or more local folders and/or windows network shares.
- The icon can have rules set to show or hide files and folders that..
- have a specific filename extension (.avi, .mp3, .jpg, etc...).
- that are hidden.
- files of a specific type.
- When the icon is clicked, show the contents of the associated that...
- Match the rules set up for the icon.
- Show thumbnails for files or folders, if available. (use folder.jpg for folder icons, for music or video, locate a .jpg/.png/etc. with the same filename as the movie or music file.
- Allow browsing folders with the same rules as the parent icon.
Alternately, does Android provide any way to set up a Windows share to look like a locally mounted device? This would make some of the players I've found more workable.
I know I'm being pretty specific, but I know what my wife and kids want when it comes to watching movies and playing music.
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome!
I do program... and if I were an Android developer I would try and whip up something. If anyone has pointers for developting an app with wifi, smb shares, ui and playing media on Android, please let me know!
Archos Video Player
Try Archos Video Player.. It has a good graphical interface..
Evening everyone, I have spent the last 20 hours of my life confused and beyond angry at Google Music. Missing Tags repeat albums and don't even get me started on the album art work missing. I am OCD about my music library, always have been that's why (when I used that god awful software) during my iTunes years I meticulously spent hours fixing genres adding art work and capitalizing the correct letters in titles artists and albums, spent hours downloading HQ album covers and all was well. Unfortunately for me none of that corrected info actually gets tagged in the actual file the metadata remains unedited and no artwork actually becomes embedded Tunes just simply says OK that's what you want to see for that song but only of course on Apple's devices. So I was left with all these files from which were jumbled up in Mp4 and Mp3 and WAV some with artwork some without.
So Yesterday I began the process of figuring out how to finally organize all of my music once and for all so that Google Music would show album art correct names yada yada yada. I then thought to myself I am sure of it that many others would like to see how I did it so that they too could enjoy a perfect Library on Google's wonderful streaming service, or off the SD card. I will say this is extraordinarily time consuming but since I am making this guide it should at least allow you to cut an hour or two digging for software and generally wanting to tear your hair out in frustration over figuring out why the hell the metadata editor wont edit the files or show up in the directory. So gentlemen and ladies alike here are my efforts in order to finally have a perfect music library forever.
Software you will need
ID3 - This is the program that allows you to edit the metadata and provide proper naming and artwork
http://www.nch.com.au/tageditor/index.html
Mp4 - Mp3 Converter - As Itunes and Apple are stupid and use a stupid file codec the Mp4 metadata cannot be directly edited The Tag editor can only edit when the files are Mp3( if you never used itunes you may be able to skip this) .
http://download.cnet.com/Free-M4a-t...7723.html?tag=dropDownForm;productListing;pop
1.) First will want to convert all non Mp3 formatted files into Mp3. You can either edit and convert together ( I would not recommend this) or you can queue everything that needs to be converted first. That is what I would do.
Sub Step a.) While it is converting go to Google and Image search all the album covers you will need and put the cover art .jpg into the folder for the album to which it belongs 500 x 500 pixels is perfect size for album covers and is the most widely used size for these images.
2.) While it is converting go to Google Music and delete your Library( NOTE that you better only delete things that you have the file for) I take no responsibility for you deleting music and then never getting it back that's on you. I have all my music in a specific folder and knew I could delete it. Also take note that DRM music from ITunes cannot be edited or uploaded. ( I paid well over a hundred bucks to Apple to get what I could DRM free) Once you have a clean slate you can allow the converting process to finish.
3.) Once you have your converted files you can go into your music folder location and see that you will now have duplicates of the files that were converted(One being Mp4 and the new Mp3 file). Create a new folder for your new files. What I mean by this is take all the Mp4 files( don't delete them just in case you still need it) and separate the Mp4 Files and Mp3 Files into new folders for example:
Folder 1 ( band Name: Mp4)
Folder 2 ( Band Name: Mp3)
THIS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT
if you do not separate the files you will upload duplicates to Google Music and it will default to the previous file leading you back to where you started (I did this and almost threw my computer out the window from frustration) Also leave the Cover art you downloaded in the Mp3 folder not the mp4 which will make adding the cover art much quicker
4.) Now that you have your library converted and separated the new and old files you will have an Mp3 Library and an Mp4 library( I know it blows to have identical folders but its just how it is and will make sure your library is as organized as possible and keep you from loosing your tunes.)
5.) Open the Stamp editor and you should now be able to edit all the Metadata you want using the program.
I am about to start Homework check back here later tonight or tomorrow for screenshots and tips to make this easier.
Quick Tip - this is how my Music Directory is organized
folder Named after artist
Sub folder contains Albums
Each Album is a sub folder containing the Google Image we downloaded earlier and the Mp3 Files to which will be edited ( I HIGH SUGGEST FOLLOWING THIS)
Very nice guide! im ocd about my music library too. I wish i could've just hired somebody to fix my whole library instead of wasting 20+ hours trying to. :crying:
I thought about it yesterday when I was doing all of this, A company that would organize music would probably be very profitable. Im not sure how you would structure paying but it would be a smart idea.
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
Max725 said:
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
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I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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What about m4a? And the reason I don't want to convert flac files is that flac is lossless. It has all the same information as a native wav file, but it somehow takes up a little less space, although much more than mp3. The flac codec is open source and all, so I don't see why there should be problems editing metadata in flac files, I just haven't looked which specific programs can do it.
And I tried Poweramp, but didn't see any settings for genre-specific hierarchy - you can choose to have it show genres-artists-albums or genre-albums or anything like that, but you can't make it different for each genre. By the way, I really don't care about options or eq - I believe that classical music should be heard exactly as in the natural performance, and I trust the professional sound editors whose job it is to optimize all the different instruments and ranges in the other songs I have. In fact, I have currently settled on EZ Folder Player, which just opens to a specified folder, from which I can navigate through the folders I set up to any album or song and play it. I believe it has no eq or sound settings at all.
I'm pretty sure that the mp4 and m4a files are both convertable using the program but I'm not sure lol. This was specifically to aid those that used iTunes in the past but switched to android and Google music' and how to add tags to mp3 files that people download from the internet. As for the hierarchy your looking for power amp allows folder browsing add well. But not in a custom way like your looking for. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful on that subject if I come across something I'll be sure to put an answer here for you.
As for your distaste to EQ all headphones are different because they produce different ohms and the studio quality sound the engineers get in the studio are on headphones that are studio quality I used to work in a f film department and trust me consumer grade headphones don't even compare. The eq just allows me to tailor my music b based on the pair of headphones I'm using on a given day.
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redwaldo said:
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
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+1 on mp3tag, I use it all the time on my collection. You can drag a folder over it and it just loads all the tags for you for updating/reviewing/modification. You can mass update tags like album, artist, etc. You can also use the tags to rename the files.
dBpoweramp - Swiss army knife of file conversion, it integrates into the windows right click menu, highlight your tracks, right click, convert to, pick your format and settings and go. It's multithreaded and will use all your cores to convert also. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm It's a little pricey but it makes things so easy. It is fully functional for trial use if you want to test it beforehand.
Did this awhile ago, ended up up just using media monkey to organize and found a lot of the meta data myself.
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First apologies if this is inappropriately posted.
There is an app out there by the name of HOOPLA digital. find it under hoopla in the play store.
many public libraries use it to download digital content ( audio books , movies , music etc..) to their patrons' phones.
does anyone knows where this app stores the downloaded content?
For the life of me I am unable to find either the file or the folder on my phone where downloaded content is stored although it plays just fine.
using latest Kit Kat on a galaxy S4
Puzzling...
You should have Sdcard0/com.allinone.free
Sent from a stolen phone!
HOOPLA digital-where is content stored?
Shivadow. Thank you for the reply. Much appreciate the help
I did search for the allinone file or folder but could not find anything like it
What is puzzling is that when I download a title. I can see it downloading and it plays through the hoopla app but there is no file on the device that even resembles an audio file . Even if I sort all the files by date I cannot find anything that matches the download date. I even shut down my phone for a day so as to isolate the date and still nothing .
I have looked in my emulated folder sdcard0 folder and extsdcard folder.
This is bizarre. can you or anyone think of a search strategy to find that content
Thanks again
I found audiobook data in /data/data/com.hoopladata.android/files/audiobook/ and a subfolder with an ID that I'm assuming is a UID for each book the app has. The files within this folder are .ts save for a .key and a .m3u8 which I believe are the AES 128 bit key to decrypt the files and a m3u playlist with metadata about the key.
imenez jose said:
Shivadow. Thank you for the reply. Much appreciate the help
I did search for the allinone file or folder but could not find anything like it
What is puzzling is that when I download a title. I can see it downloading and it plays through the hoopla app but there is no file on the device that even resembles an audio file . Even if I sort all the files by date I cannot find anything that matches the download date. I even shut down my phone for a day so as to isolate the date and still nothing .
I have looked in my emulated folder sdcard0 folder and extsdcard folder.
This is bizarre. can you or anyone think of a search strategy to find that content
Thanks again
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natrinicle said:
I found audiobook data in /data/data/com.hoopladata.android/files/audiobook/ and a subfolder with an ID that I'm assuming is a UID for each book the app has. The files within this folder are .ts save for a .key and a .m3u8 which I believe are the AES 128 bit key to decrypt the files and a m3u playlist with metadata about the key.
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Any luck on decrypting it?
I could not find the file location either. LG G4.
Any figure it out?
jromash said:
I could not find the file location either. LG G4.
Any figure it out?
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You cannot see the location on an unrooted device. You need to perform an application backup to get the files onto your computer if using a rooted device. I played around with the audio files, but could not get them unencrypted.
Has anyone been able to figure this out? I've been trying for over a year to no avail. My current device is not rooted so I may be SOL. I found a post on another site for recording the online stream from Hoopla Digital . com but I wasn't able to get it to work.
Courtesy of zly6t
"Working solution! A little slower than what I was doing before but it isn't too hard. Captures the online stream - takes about 10 minutes to DL a 20 hour book; another 5 to convert; and then however long to chapterize. Here's what I used.
Three pieces of software:
1. rtmpDumpHelper (stream ripper)
*one program that requires three separate downloads - all extracted to a single folder*
http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ (rtmpDump - intervenes in audio stream)
https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/releases (rtmpDump 2.4 patch)
http://nirsoft.net/utils/rtmp_dump_helper.html (UI for rtmpDump)
2. Pazera Free Audio Extractor (.flv to .mp3 coverter)
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/
3. WavePad (chapter splitting)
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/
I'm purposefully leaving this a little vague because if figuring out how to use the linked software is too daunting, you probably don't want to mess around with this. But it does work!"
How could that work, though? The audio files on the device are encoded .ts files, there is no way that they are sent over as .flv files and then encoded on your device. I would suggest looking into a audio capture app. DL the book, and then record as it plays.
wisnoskij said:
How could that work, though? The audio files on the device are encoded .ts files, there is no way that they are sent over as .flv files and then encoded on your device. I would suggest looking into a audio capture app. DL the book, and then record as it plays.
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That method was for the online stream. Do you have a recommendation for an audio capture app?
kiesha said:
That method was for the online stream. Do you have a recommendation for an audio capture app?
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Do you mean for PC then? It is entirely possible, whatever they do for PC users uses some browser based FLV solution. Your best bet probably would be to do some stream capturing off of the PC, particularly if they use some unencrypted FLV. Secondly, you could try to beg some help from encryption experts for the Android files; It really should be possible.
See my stackoverflow.com question Unless it was a red herring, they include the encryption key with the files, and even a decryption configuration file like ffmpeg likes. Strangely though, the key is encoded in base64 (solvable). But also twice as long as it should be for AES-128, which is both the designated encryption and really the only one you ever see used on encrypted .TS files. ffmpeg will attempt to use it, even with a key that is too long, but does not recognize the output so will fails. So maybe it is encoded in AES-256, in that case we need a more general decryptor to decrypt it than ffmpeg, or maybe PC ffmpeg take the first N characters of a too long key and android ffmpeg takes the last N characters?
Per Hoopla:
Question: Can hoopla content be downloaded?
Answer: Yes, but only to the apps. Downloads are not available for web browsers. All downloads are temporary; they are limited to the duration of the lending period, and at the end of the lending period they are automatically returned. Downloaded titles are also wholly contained within the hoopla app to protect against piracy – they will not appear in iTunes or other “downloads” folders. If users log out of hoopla on the app, any titles that you may have downloaded will automatically be removed from your device. Once logged back into hoopla, users may re-download their borrowed titles to the app. They do not need to re-borrow the titles, just re-download. A title is limited to two downloads per lending period.
I assume that if you turn your device off you will lose any downloaded material also. Maybe someone else can confirm.
Hoopla content is encrypted simply, but not as simply as you might hope (ie keys are not in the m3u8 file)...
Clarification
The full path with my Note-4 connected via USB to my Win-10 PC is:
This PC\SAMSUNG-SM-N910A\Card\Android\data\com.hoopladigital.android\files\downloads\bsa_9781433235177
.ts files are a part of a video storage system for DVDs. Hoopla breaks files into like 3000 pieces, either to make download easier or more likely to enhance security.
You can download to Kindle Fire, then play back offline with audio cord from Kindle's audio jack into a recording app of your choice on your PC but it takes 1:1 recording time to play time, still . . .
What is the current status of extracting audio from hoopla?
How about decrypting comics (jpg)? Anyone has an idea? The files are easily downloable, just can't view it.
imenez jose said:
First apologies if this is inappropriately posted.
There is an app out there by the name of HOOPLA digital. find it under hoopla in the play store.
many public libraries use it to download digital content ( audio books , movies , music etc..) to their patrons' phones.
does anyone knows where this app stores the downloaded content?
For the life of me I am unable to find either the file or the folder on my phone where downloaded content is stored although it plays just fine.
using latest Kit Kat on a galaxy S4
Puzzling...
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Hoopla can be set to download onto your external SD card. Look on card under HDHC("D" /Android/Data/com.hoopladigital.android/files/downloads/(LLL_#############)/ 3 files(Manifest.mpd, (name).jpg, (name).mp4.
Not a normal MP$ file. Can anybody convert it to MP# or play it outside of Hoopla?