Organizing music on LG Chocolate VX8550?

Today I got the VX8550 with the 2gb music upgrade thing.

My initial impressions have been pretty positive, even the media player I found to be simple and useful. However, I've seem to have run into a snag.

I uploaded my songs (About 1.5gb worth) without a hitch. Transfered over and no problems. All of these files were organized into various playlists.

However when I brought up the music player on my Chocolate, none of the playlists were transfered nor were they in the order I put them in (they had been since rearranged in alphabetical order)

My question is, is there any way to organize the music on my chocolate other then manually going through, creating the playlists, adding all the songs to each playlists, then rearrange them in the proper order via my PC? (aka not going through my Cell Phone which would be incredibly tedious and time consuming)

Did you push right on the scroll wheel? it should take you to play lists, artists, albums, and stuff like that.

I just received my new vx8550, and I can't get music to play in any order except for alphabetical. I called Verizon Tech support, and they told me that I needed to add the songs to the phone in the order I want (how stupid is that?). Anyway, I tried it (even adding songs one at a time), and it still insisted on playing them alphabetically.

I tried to create a playlist on my phone, I tried copying music directly to my phone (sideloading outside of V Cast Music Manager) and no luck.

Is this your experience also? This is a dealbreaker for me. I am going to return this thing if I can't solve it.

Thanks.

As I understand it, the current VCast Music software only reads music alphabetically for songs that we import from our own music library. This is because (unfortunately) the software sorts based on song title (ID tags). One possibility is trying to actually edit the ID tags and sort them manually by adding a number (01, 02, etc) in front of the song title on your microSD card.

I believe, for songs purchased through their over-air service, they are sorted in album order, but I can't be certain about that.

Thanks! It is unfortunate that the people who designed the software weren't using their heads to figure out how people actually use a media player.

By the way, I just tested the ID tag editing and it works great. By doing this I can at least play them in album order. The problem, of course, is if I want to cycle through music of the same genre in album order, or if I want to have a custom play list - in which case, I would need to edit the files manually to change the order. Doing that is pretty easy and fast and if you edit on your card itself, you don't mess with your actual music library.

My guess is eventually this will improve. This is Verizon's first serious foray into music playing and who knows. maybe the new contract with Rhapsody America may yield some improvements. *shrug*

There are plenty of programs that rename files, for instance: 01track1, 02track2. But does anyone know of a program that renames track names? That way, this phone (VX8550) will play the songs in the correct order.

Thanks

This is an incredible oversight and a little confusing. I upgraded from a v3m to the vx8550. If I go to manage music on the razr [and hit 2] I get a list of artists, then split by album and then shows (and plays) tracks in album order. But the chocolate doesn't? Which means they acutally made a concious decision to remove this feature?

I would think it was pretty obvious for the menu to be Artist to Album to Tracks in album order not Artist to Tracks in alphabetical order. Short of retagging each track to have the artist, album and track number I'm at a loss.

I have a 4gb card and don't really like the prospect of retagging hundreds of tracks. I guess, for now, I'll have to live with it.

I had the same frustration with the LG Chocolate's organization of music alphabetically, but I found a time-saving alternative to manually adding the track number to each track name. MP3tag is a free, fairly easy-to-use tag editor that allows you to change titles for large groups of files using the track number already in the tag.

If your file names already have track numbers in them (e.g. if they were imported using iTunes with this feature enabled), it's simple to draw the title from the file name for a batch of songs. However, if if your file names don't already include track numbers, there is an extra step required. First you have to change the file names to include the track numbers, which MP3tag can do automatically as long as the track numbers are already part of the songs' tags. Then you can change the titles to match the file names, the same as in the iTunes example above.

After changing the tags with MP3tag and transferring them to my phone, the songs play in track order within each album. Much better!

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