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Originally Posted by SoonerLater
Thank you for taking time to respond, but it's not about the FILE NAMES. Or at least it shouldn't be about the file names. It's about the TAGS. If a file is properly tagged, you could name the file anything and an industry-standard player would still use the tags to determine Artist, Album Artist, Album, Track Title, Track Number and dozes of other standards.
ID3 tags have been around since 1996. Fourteen years later, they are still the defacto standard for tagging music. Every music player for PC, Mac and Linux supports ID3 tags. The iPod/iPhone world relies on ID3 tags. The Microsoft Zune uses ID3 tags. But on the Droid-X all of the players I've found so far either do not correctly read the tags, or don't read them at all. This includes the new RealPlayer Beta that I found in the Android Market for the first time today.
I'm sorry that you spent half the night renaming some of your files, but using Tag & Rename I could literally rename my 5000 MP3s in the manner that you suggest in about 10 minutes. T&R is that fast; that powerful. But I refuse. I'm not going to rename my files (and cause all of my family's ipods and iphones to have to re-sync all music) just to trick my Droid-X into doing what it should be able to do already. |
Okay, here's an update. I was literally flying by the seat of my pants trying to determine what was different that caused the problem (like a child's game, look at these seemingly similar two pictures, determine what's different). You're right, it's not the file names (what a waste of time that was last night). It's the file extension. The wmas just won't play in order. Right now I'm reripping my CDs having changed the file type in Windows Media Player to mp3 from wma. Doing that and using the Moto Media Link software works perfect.
Have you tried the Motorola Media Link software yet? Did you check to see if any of your files were wma?