I had a LG V20 loaded with 350 songs from my CD library. some are individual, some include several from albums The same songs are also loaded on a thumb drive, played in my car. in both cases I have no issues. A large majority of the songs were stored on and moved from Windows Media Player to the thumb drive. Can't remember how I got them onto the LG V20. I burned the songs to Microsoft at the highest bit rate available/allowed. Transfer from the Thumb drive to the Pixel was via Bluetooth. all 350 songs were transferred over, are visible and show the length of the song etc. they show up individually and when in the album view are shown there as well. None of these are SACD or other high resolution files. Standard CD files.

using Google Play Music, then two other music Apps, all apps will only play about 1/5 of the songs. Because these songs came off of my personal CD collection, best guess is that there is an issue with songs played if they are part of an album. Or is there a format that Pixel won't play? Is there a program that i can run the songs through that will make them compatible with the Pixel?

Verizon technical support was stumped. i deleted the Google Music account 2X to "re-boot" the system. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?

 

thanks for the thoughts. I tried 3 players, all with the same results. If others are not having issues then it has to be the way songs were ripped to windows media player. it just bugs me that they play on the LG and thumb drive i use in the car.

I am going to search for a third party software that might be able to reformat. As a FYI to get the thumb drive to be 100% stable I ran all the songs through a program called Picard. finds cover art, formats the songs. It was a great recommendation. If I find an answer to this I will post it.
thanks again for the thoughts.

 

I forgot to add that the MX player Pro and another player Music Pro were great to use. whenever i get the songs to play I will probably use one of them. thanks for the recommendation

 

Track 04 (19).m4a

Here is an example of a file format that won't play, it looks identical to one that will play I hope this helps. MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a), Please remember they played on the LG V20

I will try Foobar. thanks

 

thanks to everyone that provided input. tried 6 different players, including Foobar2000. All really good. Every player immediately loaded the 350 songs, and all played or didn't play the same songs as Google Music. So I downloaded the songs directly to the Pixel. It was getting late and I was getting frustrated, what should have been 6 GB of memory ended up as about 35 GBs. ran out of memory, spent too much time trying to delete files,,,,,,,,, I am not helpless but not a techie either. in as much as the primary use for the phone is work, decided to just delete all unnecessary files from the LG, throw it in the brief case and use it for music. Great DAC and sound. I will let my brain rest a bit, think through the process - like setting up a specific folder for this music in downloads and if I don't F that up use one of the many great music players suggested. I love the Pixel for everything I use it for on a daily basis, music is truly a secondary use for when I am on flights. I'll check the posts, try some things and when, not if I get a workaround will let you know what happens.
Thanks again.,
Chris

 

I am sure it was Google as i accessed them through Google support off of my GPM app on the phone. As for MediaHuman, I took for granted that there support would mess with Google. Third party "best rated" conversion programs had them in the top three so I choose them. Maybe the reason for the slow download?

 

Slow downloading was fixed by re-booting GPM. Re-reading the thread lots of good advice on format, moving to MP3 was key. I found good music apps. I only lost 1 night of enjoying a bourbon -). The End
Chris