phone cannot find certain .mp3 files. please help

[Juggernaut62]

Hi,

I have 1200 songs in .mp3 format on my SD card (15 gig's still availalbe), and I noticed that none of the song players on my phone (I have 3 song players) can find a few of the .mp3 files - about 5 of them.

These 5 songs are in the same music folder as the other 1200 songs.
These 5 songs play fine when I connect the phone to my computer, and play directly from the sd card using windows media player.
I have confirmed that these files are .mp3 type and are not .wma

I copied newer versions of these songs onto the sd card and the music players will not find them
I created a new fold and put these songs in them and the music players will not find them.
If I use EZfile explorer, I CAN find these files and they play fine.

Why won't any of my music players locate these songs?
Note, these songs are back-ups from the original CD's that I own (in fact they are all from the same CD, I have noticed) - they were not downloaded, so there is no download protection going on here. Regardless they will play if I find them directly, but will not show up on the song list of any of the players.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Juggernaut

 

[zuben el genub]

Check the path the players want just in case.
Did you rerip them or just reinstall?
How about the name format? Can you try renaming them?

I've had to re rip some that didn't play.

 

[Juggernaut62]

Check the path the players want just in case.
Did you rerip them or just reinstall?
How about the name format? Can you try renaming them?

I've had to re rip some that didn't play.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I figured out the problem.

1) The file is named "X" on the file icon
2) but in the details of the file, when you look at the properties, under the details section, it is calling the file "track 11" etc...

So the file was there all along, just under the name "track 11" instead of its proper name as normally shown on the file icon - despite the fact that the name of the file on the icon is its proper name - very strange.
I guess the name listed under the details is the name that the players use rather than the name associated with the icon...

Thanks!
Juggernaut

 

[chanchan05]

The players use the ID3 music tags, not file names.

 

[zuben el genub]

The players on the phones and tablets might, but a car system that has a CD player with an RCA Jack or USB does see the tracks by number. Usually only an Iphone will show the name of the track.
That should mean there is another trigger for ID included in song.

I'm using the same ripped songs in both. The car audio gets the files from a USB stick, the tablet from an SD card. The tablet shows all, but the car system only lists album number and track. The original ripped files are on a computer.

Both the OP and what I used were ripped from original CDs (CDA format) not bought as MP3s.
I think I saw more formatting options in a Linux cd ripping app than in Windows.