Music issue

[BigFattyPlus]

I just got a T-Mobile Comet (and I love it), but when i try to play certain tracks on it, it just skips to the next playable track. All of the tracks that won't play don't show a duration time nexxt to them. It's only a few of them, since the rest of thee others ongs I have put on it play fine. I have noticed that all the tracks that won't play say "Unknown Artist" on them.

Is there a way I can fix them or is there another player that will play them and allow me to arrange them into playlists?

 

[hansschmucker]

Very likely they are not actually MP3 files, but something else that was simply renamed to ".MP3":

So, first things first: Find a good music player for your PC (I recommend Foobar2000, because you can also use it to convert your music if it really is in the wrong format. Open your files there, then right-click and chose properties; switch to the properties tab and look what it says under "General", especially Codec and Codec Profile.

 

[BigFattyPlus]

I see. I Decided to file the file extensions, and sure enough, they are WMA files. I'll have to see about fixing that. It sucks that the android can't play WMAs.

UPDATE: I DL'd foobar and it works beautifuly! Can it convert multiple files at one, or is it safer to covert one file at a time?

 

[hansschmucker]

You have to pay Microsoft if you want to support WMA (just like you have to pay Thompson if you want to play MP3s), so Google naturally only added support for the formats that most people use or that they don't have to pay for: MP3 & VORBIS

 

[Usta]

I see. I Decided to file the file extensions, and sure enough, they are WMA files. I'll have to see about fixing that. It sucks that the android can't play WMAs.

UPDATE: I DL'd foobar and it works beautifuly! Can it convert multiple files at one, or is it safer to covert one file at a time?

You can convert multiple files in one go.

There are some players like PowerAMP and MortPlayer that support wma playback on Androids.