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Loading music onto a W800 |
moerl
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I figure it's not by using Music2Phone, eh? I know I can copy files directly to the phone.. the question is.. how do I have to copy them so that the W800 Walkman software will properly recognize albums as such? I'm talking about the folder structure. On my PC, my music is organized like this:
Artist - Album\Artist - Album - Track# - Title.mp3
If I were to copy a whole album folder, I'm guessing the W800 music software would not recognize that as an album properly.. so what's the way to do it? Just grab the files themselves and copy those?
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QVGA
Joined: May 23, 2006
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Go to the MP3 folder. Make a new folder, that'll be the artist, then in that folder make another new folder, that'll be the album, and in that folder paste the song. Make sure the song has the same album/artist tags as the folder name otherwise they wont appear when you're playing the song. These tags can be altered by going to properties>summary>advance. |
moerl
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I suppose if it's that much of a PITA it's much easier to just use Disc2Phone.. |
QVGA
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Not really, its quite quick and easy. |
moerl
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Did you see my first post? My entire music collection is set up like that. So each time I want to transfer music to my phone, I'll have to do a ton of copy&pasting and new folder creating and file moving and whatnot.. how is that quick and easy? :/ |
QVGA
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Dude, that really is up to you. But like i said, Disk2Phone will sort out your songs in artists/album names like they appear in the tags, which can be changed by the method i mentioned above.
So before using, make sure you have them correct. |
moerl
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On 2006-06-25 14:14:38, QVGA wrote:
Dude, that really is up to you. But like i said, Disk2Phone will sort out your songs in artists/album names like they appear in the tags, which can be changed by the method i mentioned above.
So before using, make sure you have them correct.
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How the hell did you "spot" my response so quickly? Haha..
Well, Disc2Phone won't change the file structure of my songs in my collection on my PC, right? It will only change it "temporarily", so to say, while transferring to the phone. The one thing that bothers me is that transferring to my 1GB memory stick via a card reader would probably be WAY faster than doing it while the card is in the phone using the phone's USB cable..
Disc2Phone doesn't support loading stuff onto the card directly using a card reader, right? |
andrewkeith5
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so does moving all my perfectly tagged music with album art straight into 1 folder not change anything about the way its sorted then, because on my creative player i just dump all my music with tags and album art and in an as-if-by-magic way, everythings organised perfeclty
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QVGA
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You cant just dump them there. If you name the folder Jenifer Lopez, and the tag says Pink Floyd, then on the phone, it will say Pink Floyd. If you have tons of songs to copy, then Disk2Phone is probably the way to go, but keep the tags correct. |
andrewkeith5
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i already know all the tags are correct, im just confused with all the folder things as i cant figure out how it would arrange it if your saying it needs folders, i.e. in my mp3 player i just shove it all on there and then in the software it organises them into artist, album, etc as if they were in folders
is it the same for the walkman phones or do they have to be in fodlers to be organised properly?
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QVGA
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They have to be in folders, you cant just dump 'em in there. |
Echu_85
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there´s a post around here about this but... for example, i use Itunes, also i´ve Mass-Storage-Synchronizer wich creates a playlist in Itunes, and it copies all tunes inside that playlist into the cellphone, it creates folders for artists and albums, so w800 can read them...sorry for my bad english
it support several phones |
moerl
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The way I see it.. it's just easier to use Disc2Phone. Too bad it's probably much slower than other methods :/
I guess the slowness of transfer speed is justified by the increased ease of the process. |
Zebedee
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Just want to say that I use Windows Media Player to rip my music from CD's to the PC (as WMA files Lossless) then use D2P to transfer them to the phone (down to 128 Kbps) and they always remain in the same order as on the album with all the tags correctly labeled as are all the created folders.
Needless to say, I've NEVER had to go to the bother of manually creating folders (a very un-necessary and labourious task when you have 150+ artists!).
However, this only worked on my W800i after installing the latest software and using the D2P program downloaded from the SE website rather than the one supplied on the supplied CD (makes a good coaster though).
(I now have a W810i and straight from the box it all worked perfectly)
[ This Message was edited by: Zebedee on 2006-06-26 19:28 ] |
moerl
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I appreciate you sharing that info with us, Zebede. I might get a W810 as well this summer. It all depends on my provider and what they have to say about upgrading the phone..  .
Just wondering.. you mentioned that you used Disc2Phone. If so, why did you still rename your folders? |
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Posted: 2006-06-24 08:39
