lol its funny you say to spend your money on a good mp3 player. i thought i did that when i got an apple ipod g4. but now that gives me the unhappy dead ipod face. i just got a 2gb micro disc mem card for my phone. the quality of the mp3s that do work are great and im very pleased with it, alot cheaper than an ipod nano and the same memory. its just such an odd dilema that some mp3s will work while other would not.
So far all my mp3s work. I'm just not satisfied with the sound quality. That could be the earplugs, though. I'm used to my Sony earplugs...the only pair I've purchased ever that will fit my small ear holes (though my ears themselves are huge...what's wit dat?)
I want to get a plug adapter so I can use my old headphones.
I have a Sony player that plays cds, but the cool thing is it has an atrac converter. I can fit my entire cd collection on one cd. I don't have to change cds and the folders are very flexible. everything is catagorized and subcatagorized. The only problem is the bulky size (though sure beats the 80s boombox on shoulder style). LOL
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As for Salehound, I don't always have my iPod with me but I always have my phone. I know and never thought my phone was a replacement for my iPod. It is a convience more than anything. I just want a few song that I really enjoy with me so I can listen anytime I want.
That's true. I hadn't thought about that. I only take my player when I know I'm going to be waiting a long time...and only when I'm going to be alone. It is more convenient to have some songs on the phone...'slong's I remember to bring my earplugs. The "stereo speakers" sound like a transister radio from the 70s.
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mikeque Posts: 2
Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:48 am
this may seem a stupid question, but you are all talking about MP3's. How were you able to enable the phone to play the MP3 format?
Bummer. I just got a VX8300, and it no longer allows the workaround for MP3s. I do the service menu thing (with 0, 000000, 11. Music settings) and I get this popup which simply says "Not Available". I guess WMA is it? Any other new restrictions I should fear?
bpdski Posts: 2
Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:47 pm
I am looking at the VX8300 and have seen somewhat contradictory claims about playing MP3s with the new firmware. Some posts say it is automatically enabled now and some posts say that it is no longer an option in the service menu.
cobra951, you mentioned that the menu option is not available. Have you tried to play an MP3 file to see if it is enabled by default now as some posters claim?
Thanks,
Brian
cobra951 Posts: 11
Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:33 pm
Yes, now I have (as of about 20 minutes ago). Last night, I got a SanDisk microSD card with an included adapter for a full-sized SD slot. Worked fine on my card reader, so I created a 'my_music' folder on the card, and transfered several WMAs and MP3s to the card, thinking that perhaps only the WMAs would be recognized. To my surprise, all tracks were recognized, and play fine on the phone. So while there is no menu option to enable MP3s anymore, you don't need it.
The "music essentials" kit at $30 is not a bad deal, since it includes the USB cable and a decent pair of earbuds. (Make sure to get the right one. I almost walked out with the wrong thing.) No lowest octave, but other than that, very clean, balanced sound.
Edit: Some interesting things I've discovered. The phone still won't see subfolders (under 'my_music') but it will read the tags from the MP3s and WMAs and organize the tracks under album name, even in the correct track order (if the tags are accurate). However, a compilation album from various artists, such as Christmas Chill, will show up as a different album for each artist. (Yep, about 12 "Christmas Chill" entries in the album list.) I'm going to have to edit the artist name to something like "cc various" on all the tracks.
The phone does not like either very long file names, or the dash ('-') character. (Not sure which yet.) Music with offending filenames does not show up at all.
Yes, you can add MP3s to playlists. I still don't know where those are stored though, or in what format.
Edit 2: If you want to delete music from the memory card, make sure to use the phone's erase function. It can detect new music added to the card, but it doesn't know how to deal with music that gets deleted externally.
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bpdski Posts: 2
Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:18 pm
That's great, thanks for the information!
Darkcloud610 Posts: 3
Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:11 am
Thank you guys this has been very useful to me, I just read everyrthing and got the mp3 enabled and everything to work, however the reason I was on here was becasue I'm having trouble getting videos to my phone, they come off the phone in 3GPP2 format, but I have yet to find a converter to transfer videos to that format... any help?
mobilerl Posts: 1
Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:25 am
I had set up my 8300 to play mp3 files using the methods already discussed in this forum (service menu, set up key to play mp3 etc).
Everything was fine and things played.
Suddenly the mp3 files won't play. If I look on the memory card, using Tools on my 8300, all the files are there, under mp3. However, under Get Tunes and Tones / 8. My MP3's, it says no songs found on memory card.
Any ideas what might have gone wrong?
Thanks
techyteacher Posts: 1
Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:04 pm
Dumb luck?
I connected my phone to my PC with the USB cable I bought from the Verizon store. With VCast I accessed my PC music library, click and drag songs to the sync window, choose where the music should go (presumably to the disc) and click synch now.
so far so good. wma's and MP3's playing.
I tried to "send to" PC music library files directly onto the microdisc but the phone didn't even acknowledge that the files existed.
thanks for the tip about MP3 enabling; wouldn't have gotten that one.
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