Red... Cute, just cute....
But being serious, some more developments....
Now, much of my music is playable, but the stock droid music player doesn't see many selections (such as my Beatles and Stones collections) as if the upgrade tried to reindex the music collection.
For simplicity's sake, I manually moved many albums from my iTunes directories, placing them on the Droid using the directory structure below:
\Music\Artist\Album\*songs*
This worked cleanly, with a few minor things of note - such as "The Beatles" being listed under "T" instead of "B". (The iPod gets this right, but that's an "Apples and Oranges" comparison - no pun intended.) Songs loaded to my desktop's iTunes from CD ended up being saved as .M4A files, while songs downloaded from Amazon ended up being saved as .MP3 files. Both types of files worked perfectly up to the time of the Froyo update.
Yesterday, I OK'd the Froyo update - and the standard music player stopped playing the .M4A files. This is a major headache, but it didn't prepare me for what I see today. Now, a significant number of the artists in my song collection are visible on the Droid and their songs are playable (though they couldn't be played last night.) Yet, a significant number are invisible to the Droid's stock music player. Cubed (^3) doesn't see these files either, and both players don't see anything under the letter "T". However, Double Twist sees everything (including my Beatles' music), which is strange, because it didn't see these tunes before the Froyo update. So Double twist becomes my music player of choice for now....
For lack of further information, it appears that a database may be being built to index one's music library, as is done by iTunes for Apple's product line. Can anyone confirm or refute this? I'd love to know whether I'm going to need to play more games to get my music onto the droid and have all of it play as expected.
Bugswatter
