Memory card problems and transfering music from Itunes

[jimmyjam_85]

I have read several of the previous threads and still cannot find an answer to my problem.

I have a new memory card (sandisk16gbmicro) and i have been fighting to get it to work normally.

I have the card in my phone, and i have formatted the card via the settings menu.

My problem is that as i drag and drop music out of Itunes the music does not get put on the memory card in the right format. Its really strange because some songs transfer correctly and some don't(even off the same CD)

When it works correctly it will transfer and in the folder i can see the icon and it says MP3 on the icon and i can see artist and cd details. When it dosn't work it says MPEG 4 and i can only see the song name.

I have tried lots to get it to work... transferring one song at a time is the best to get them to transfer correctly... but dose not work all the time. If i tried moving a whole CD at once the chances of it working are very slim.

Any insight as to what is happening. maybe defective card?

any insight is greatly appreciated. i will respond.

 

[Usta]

There is always the chance that your card is fake/defective.
Assuming that the card is OK, I'd suggest to forget about iTunes and copy the music via File Explorer (drag and drop). You need to connect the phone in Disk Drive mode to PC open File Explorer and copy your files to SD card.
The problems can come if your files are a) DRM protected, b) non-mp3 format (for example aac). Check that data and try to copy and test only mp3 files at first.

 

[jimmyjam_85]

yeah, so im thinking im pretty ignorant about music files and what type of files they are. Im noticing that i can get no MPEG4 files to transfer correctly, thus play. is this normal?

 

[Usta]

yeah, so im thinking im pretty ignorant about music files and what type of files they are. Im noticing that i can get no MPEG4 files to transfer correctly, thus play. is this normal?

Android phones can play MPEG4 standard encoded files.
However, I guess you mean MP4 files, because these can be played as well. The issue with your files is that most likely they are DRM protected, if you purchased them via iTunes. In that case they can't be played on Android phones directly.