I have an LG Optimus V, Android 2.2.1. I want to play music on it.
I put a whole lot of music on it. Some didn’t play. I realized it was because those files were not mp3 but flac. I got Meridian app, which is supposed to play flac, but it didn’t show them. I got a flac to mp3 converter for my computer, erased the files from the phone, ran the files through the converter, and put them back on the phone. Now they play on my computer which they previously did not. I put them on my phone, and they show up, where they previously did not, but when I click on the to play, nothing. I just checked the files on my computer, and they are indeed mp3. I have tried this both in the onboard music app and WinAmp. I took off Meridian because it didn’t play flac and I don’t need videos. How do I get the flacs to either play on my phone or convert to something I can use?
Also, I can’t figure out a way to create a playlist on anything. Help? There are certain songs I don’t want to play at work.
Thanks!
Are you just using the native Android music playing app? It’s pretty lame. You’d probably be better off going to the Android Market and downloading a more sophisticated music app.
Another option is signing up for Google Music. It’s free, and lets you store your music in “the cloud,” and play it from any computer or your phone. You just get the “Google Music” app for your phone, and use the Google Music website on your computer. The downside is that this counts against your data usage for the month. The upside is that it doesn’t take up any space on your phone.
I tried that app, and Meridian, and WinAmp. I like the cloud concept, and I have unlimited data, but I want to have access to the music in places without connection.
I’d like to test this out on my phone. Can you email me both the MP3 and the original FLAC?
New weirdness. I redownloaded the problem music in mp3 format. I added that and a bunch of stuff last night, and today took the phone to work. Same stuff played. I tried to play the new songs, which were all listed, and it just ignored me.
When I got home, I plugged the phone in to the computer the songs came from, and went through each song on my phone, trying to play it on the computer with my phone as the disk drive. Every song played when I used the original file on the computer, but many on the phone had error messages. I got either “Windows Music does not support this file type or does not support the codec used to compress it” or the little Media popup said “Media Changing” and then I got a separate error message that said “Windows Media has encountered a problem”. I checked, and they were all mp3s. Some of them would have the album appear, so I know that some information is getting through.
I’m at a loss. Like half of the songs I’ve put on in the last few days won’t work, and they’re fine until they get to the phone.