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Dear God I can't play half my music because of this "music playback error", there was a time where I could play every song without this anoying BS! When is this s*** going to be fixed?
 
EarlyMon said:
Both support a very wide range of codecs rather than just those built-in to Android.

You can try Power Amp for free to be sure.
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Neutron player solved all my playback issues. One thing though I had Neutron automatically scan my audio files and now I have some of my videos and pictures under my artists tab, how do I delete them?

Thanks
 
Systemlord said:
Neutron player solved all my playback issues. One thing though I had Neutron automatically scan my audio files and now I have some of my videos and pictures under my artists tab, how do I delete them?

Thanks
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Glad it worked - I haven't run into that problem, so I'm not sure how to fix that, sorry.
 
Solved: I had this problem now, came here looking for a solution but didn't find one, played around until I figured it out. I have iTag installed, an MP3 tag app for android, got in and added some basic info e.g album name and title. Saved. and now it works! Guess the problem was that this information was missing. Worked for me, hope it does for you.
 
Ani said:
I'm having difficulty trying to get some songs to play on my S4.

The songs were converted from YT audio to mp3 (they're Japanese covers of songs, so they usually aren't recorded/sold, but if they are I do buy them), using clipconverter. I downloaded a number of them onto my laptop and changed the properties so that they would appear under the same album and stuff, then stuck them onto my SD card, but now they won't play on my S4. The error I am getting is "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file."

I was wondering if it has something to do with the encoding, since the Japanese characters just appear as gibberish unless I manually change the encoding type to Japanese for each song on my phone? I had a couple songs from clipconverter that would play fine in the downloads folder on my phone, but once I moved the files to my SD card they stopped playing.

I've looked at a number of other threads and tried unmounting and resetting the SD card, restarting my phone multiple times, force stopping and clearing the media player data, and downloading other media players to use, but none of that has worked, and I keep getting the same error. Help?
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I think I found the solution. Some song can nto be play due to the song audio type or format SO IT NEEDS TO BE CONVERT. Look for realplayer and dowload it on your pc, make sure you download the converter tool so you can convert your songs into samsung format. It's very simple.
 
I have a solution that worked for me, the url. Instead of https:// remove the 's' and for some reason that works more often than not. :L
 
I found ".nomedialfile" stored in my files. I deleted it and got Winamp from google play store. It solved the problem on my samsung galaxy core prime.
 
I read some of the reviews and worked it out. Instead of using Apples Itunes drop all the music files into Windows Media Player and use HTC sync software. Sync HTC to the Windows Media Player on your computer and then sync the music files. I am only just starting out using WMP but after awhile it works superbly. I have a 125gb Micro SD card so I have loaded a tiny fraction of my music files. They all work except one errors!! But, it is superbly better than Itunes. I think Itunes deliberately change the files so that they are not able to work on any Android platform. So, there you have it: copy your files from your music folder into WMP, sync your HTC or AnTdroid mobile with their sync software, drag and drop and then click "sync". This should work for sure.
 
I had the same problem when I tried to copy an album I downloaded off torrent to my htc one x. It would show up in my default media player but it wouldn't play saying that "audio file not supported" even though it was in an mp3 format and worked fine on my laptop.
Luckily I found a solution: The songs I downloaded had "unknown artist" and it had the song number in the song title, therefore I wanted to edit that so I used the "Star Music Tag Editor" app. I noticed that all the information appeared fine (artist's name was present too). Regardless, I pressed Save and realized that the song kinda "refreshed" with the proper details and it started playing fine on my music player. Did the same thing to the rest of the songs on the album.
Hope this solution works for you.
 
I know this is a dead thread but I figured I'd share a solution to the mp3 issue.

Use FFMPEG to convert the 'broken' mp3 into a not broken mp3 ie ( ffmpeg -i `mybroken.mp3` -f mp3 `myfixed.mp3` )

If on linux or mac try this in the directory where the broken mp3s are
"for mp3 in "$1"*.mp3; do ffmpeg -i $mp3 -f mp3 fixed$mp3; done"

***BACKUP BEFORE DOING THIS!!!!!!!
writes to 'fixedORIGINALNAME.mp3 so it does not overwrite existing.
It is not recursive so needs to be run on any 1 directory at a time.
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So I've been having the same issue, and it seems that Neutron Music Player solved the problem.
The big question is, WHY did the default Android player just suddenly stop working???
 
Neutron is simply capable of processing non default mp3 encodings(it will actually look into the mp3 to determine how fast the data is going to be sent to it...), as is any catch all player IE VLC, Windows Media Player(computer grade players) etc. Your devices default Music Player will typically expect a standard mp3 and will not look into the file beyond 'basic' tag information. Google or more likely the video uploader are fudging with the bitrate/hertz ratios and are doing it wrong on their aac encoding this would mess up your music player when trying to play these mp3s. That is why my suggestion of taking the 'broken' non default mp3 and rencoding with a 'working' default mp3 encodings should fix your issue....unless your issue is not the same that I was having... To sum all that up try reencoding the MP3 if you want to use your default player.
 
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Edmonton122 said:
So I've been having the same issue, and it seems that Neutron Music Player solved the problem.
The big question is, WHY did the default Android player just suddenly stop working???
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It definitely got around the problem but not solved. IE my floor is dirty(sweeps dirt under rug) : problem solved :p but if you're okay with Neutron there is no point in taking more action.
 
alldaveallday said:
I have the same issue. I use youtube-mp3.com to convert files directly on my phone without using a computer. It used to work fine, but now it tells me that it can't be played (although songs that I converted earlier that played still do).
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I had the same problem. What I did is I went into my mp3 files and renamed them and they worked for some reason. For example I downloaded a file that was named "Twenty One Pilots: Stressed Out [Official Music Video]" or something along those lines. I took out the ':' and the bracketed part and the file played normally.
 
Ok, so after a while of using Neutron, that stopped working too.

So here's an example...
ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man
The file is an MPEG-1 Layer 3 (standard MP3) 9.85mb in size (320kbps I like high quality)
Everything shows up just fine in iTunes, the song plays, Windows Media Player plays it, it's all good.
However, on my phone, none of the info is there, but the file shows as being 9.85mb in size.
Somehow between copying from my computer to my phone, either the external card, or internal memory, all the info for the song is lost. WTF?????

This is ridiculous. There has to be a solution for this (besides retagging 500+ songs).

HOLY HELL!!! After all that I just figured it out!!!

Look at your tracks, the ones that don't work have numbers infront of them, eg "03 Sharp Dressed Man". The 03 denotes a track number from the album. Get rid of the track number (in iTunes or whatever you're using) and copy the file again!! VOILA!!!

Also, the quick way to figure out which ones are "dead" is to open a folder in Windows, right click on the bar at the top of the window (Name, Artist, etc) and add Duration. The ones with 00.00.000 are dead. Delete them off your device.

Well, so far anyway. So now, there has to be an easy way to get rid of all the track numbers. Keep you posted!!!!

Ok, so one more update!
Here's how I worked around it.
I have playlists in iTunes for the music that goes on my phone. I have over 100gb of music, and don't want all of it on my phone, usually around 1500 songs is more than enough for me...
So, like I said, I create a playlist, put the files in there that I want, then, I highlight all the songs (ctrl A) right click, and go to Get Info. I tagged the ALL with the number 22 in track number. After it's done changing them all, I repeat the process, only this time, I blank out the track number. That's it, 1500 songs FIXED!!! (gives myself a huge high five!)
 
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