VX8300 - MP3 - File type not supported?!

Ok, I got my 8300, and i was very disappointed to learn that they had disabled mp3s. However, i re-enabled them and everything was fine...i have lots of songs on my 512 micro sd card.

BUT.

only about half of the songs work, mostly the ones i converted to mp3 from m4a files that i got by ripping cds with itunes.

the mp3s that i downloaded straight off of limewire (sorry) say "FILE TYPE NOT SUPPORTED" when i try to play them..except for a few which work

i even tried converting them into mp3's (imTOO wma mp3 converter), even though they were already mp3s because it made the m4a's work...no joy.

what's going on, what do i do?!

thanks!

Last edited by neek on Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:58 pm, edited 1 time in total

So .m4a's don't work? For shame. I reckon I should convert my entire iTunes library to .mp3... 10 gigs of songs, that'll take me a minute, lol.

As for the problem, did you make sure a). MP3 player is activated via the Service Programming menu? (MENU, 0, 000000, 11. Music Settings, MP3 Enabled), b). another menu option to enable VCast Music or mp3, but I can't find that menu option?

[edit] Other menu option is to go into Menu, Settings & Tools, 5. Phone Settings, 2. Shorcut Key, 5. Play Key.

is there some sort of size or bit rate restriction i'm missing?

After reading the user's manual, I was expecting that only WMA files were supported. I am pleased to hear that mp3 (at least some) do work.

I discovered in iTunes I can just convert my m4as to mp3s, which works wonders. I use a higher quality (160 bps) which seems to do the job just fine.

i'm having the same exact problem as pigman. some mp3's are working while some are not and would show me "File Type Not Supported." so far i have no clue why and it is just chance as to which mp3s work and which do not.

Does anyone know any further information and can help shed light on this problem?

I contacted tier 2 tech support yesterday and stumped him (not that hard). He couldn't tell me any specifics about what mp3s should be in order to play. I have 51 songs on my phone and only 16 will play. He gave me the number for LG tech support but all they could tell me was that they needed to be mp3s, no sh*t. I am going to try and get someone higher up tomorrow that may help, but I'm not counting on it. I'll keep you posted.

It's a phone, people. Period. If you want music, steer your money toward a good mp3 player built by people who knows what they're doing.

Nothing against the poor people including me who thought we were getting something special when we got a phone that advertised musical abilities. It's a good phone as far as phones go, but that's it.

Obviously Verizon didn't want to invest their money in good programers...and I'm not so naive to believe it's just that they don't know what they're doing because they do. They're trying to sell their own music. It's the same old "don't bring your own snacks in our theater...spend twice as much at our concession stand" scenerio.

I used Goldwave to batch process the files converting them from mp3 to wma. Very simple and effective. Goldwave is about $40, but if you have the license, and remember the time you bought the license, you can email them and they'll let you upgrade for free.

I discovered that I have a reader/writer for my card, so I used that to drag wma files in the music directory and it works, but is not the same quality as my very old Sony atrack/cd/mps player and/or laptop (playing the same files).

If you've seen my other threads, you'll know that no computer will recognize the phone when trying to sync, but it can be seen in the device manager and through Bitpim, so I had to drag the files through the reader.

After all the hard work, repeated tasks, research, trial-n-error, it's not worth it and I'm sticking with my own player.

If God wanted us to listen to music through our phones, He would've installed phone jacks on pianos.

I wish you all lots of luck in trying to figure it all out. I certainly hope you have better success than I had and that at least some of you get your money's worth.

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.

Verizon gave me a call yesterday, a courtesy call because I had called several time last week. We tried to figure out what the problem was but they had no clue, but they tried. What I have found out through trial and error is that I think it is something in the ID3 tags that the phone doesn't like. Some songs play fine with a version 2.2 but others do not, but I can get all my songs to play now that I converted the ID3 tags to version 1. I used a Automator action (Convert ID3 Tags 1.0) to add ID3 version 1 tags, then used ID3X to strip the version 2 tags. This was a lot easier than trying to keep track of duplicates in Itunes or screwing the original files up. Just drag them to the SD card and run each process.
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.
Anyway I hope this helps out the others that what to get their mp3s to play.

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