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mp3 player doesn`t play all songs
anddytrew
08-12-2006
hi all, i have a Logic mp3 which has 2gb capacity,but although i have 100 tunes on it, it only plays up to about 47 out if the 100. the mp3 just stops at that point and doesn`t go further, any ideas please, Andy
daddycool
08-12-2006
Are the tracks definately in mp3 format? Some players wont play files that are in wma for example.
Phantom Flan Flinger
08-12-2006
.....and are they all songs that you've ripped yourself or are they songs you've bought?

If you've legally bought songs from the big sites, they'll be DRM protected and your player won't play them.
Havelock Vetinari
09-12-2006
Wow that's a surprise soem players will not play legally bought tracks? What's the damn point of DRM if the player won't play it? Seems to defeat the point of legally buying it, may as well download the illegally or buy them from allofmp3 which doesn't hold DRM.
mikeydb
09-12-2006
Originally Posted by Havelock Vetinari:
“Wow that's a surprise soem players will not play legally bought tracks? What's the damn point of DRM if the player won't play it? Seems to defeat the point of legally buying it, may as well download the illegally or buy them from allofmp3 which doesn't hold DRM.”


That's exactly the problem with DRM, for consumers it's pretty unreliable, it may or may not play properly on your equipment and even if you do have compatible kit, especially with "plays for sure" compatible players, it's still no guarantee and won't necessarily play your music "for sure", a good example is what happens when you have downloaded lots of DRM'ed music, and you need to transfer tracks to a new PC or HDD, if you can you will need to transfer the licences too, but if it's too late and all you've got is the .WMA files but not the licences you've lost your music, if you're really lucky you may be able to recover your licences online, but what if the online service you used has moved to a new server or has closed down altogether? Again, you've lost all of your music. It's all too much to worry about when all you want to do is play music..

It's also pretty useless at the new years eve party and you want to dance to some music, you could be faced with all sorts of restrictions from the number of times you can burn a track to a CD to the number of times you can transfer a track to your mp3 player which is a poor show if you only have a 1Gb memory, you might want to change your list of tracks weekly or more frequently. These restrictions are not a problem with the illegally downloaded files, also you will find the unrestricted files work with all flavours of equipment from car mp3 cd players, dvd players , not just particular portable mp3 players, and doesn't restrict you to using microsoft windows and windows media player to manage and transfer your music.
anddytrew
09-12-2006
Originally Posted by Phantom Flan Flinger:
“.....and are they all songs that you've ripped yourself or are they songs you've bought?

If you've legally bought songs from the big sites, they'll be DRM protected and your player won't play them.”

ive ripped all from one artist off mininova (azerus)
Phantom Flan Flinger
09-12-2006
Havelock Vetinari -

Unfortunately, most of the small, cheap flash based MP3 players don't play DRM files.

The players that do play DRM files usually make a point of it in their sales blurb. Those that don't usually don't say anything.

anddytrew -

As you've got them from a bit-torrent client, I doubt you got them legally. They shouldn't be DRM protected though, which means you'll have to look at some of the other suggestions above as to why they won't play.

Do they play in WMP, ITunes or whatever you use for your music?
Last edited by Phantom Flan Flinger : 09-12-2006 at 18:40
mikeydb
09-12-2006
Another suggestion is some players don't like variable bit rates or might not play songs with bitrates over 192kbps for example.. I've only encoutered this with an OGG compatible player, and only when it was used for OGG files, it was fine with mp3 files...
anddytrew
09-12-2006
Originally Posted by Phantom Flan Flinger:
“Havelock Vetinari -

Unfortunately, most of the small, cheap flash based MP3 players don't play DRM files.

The players that do play DRM files usually make a point of it in their sales blurb. Those that don't usually don't say anything.

anddytrew -

As you've got them from a bit-torrent client, I doubt you got them legally. They shouldn't be DRM protected though, which means you'll have to look at some of the other suggestions above as to why they won't play.

Do they play in WMP, ITunes or whatever you use for your music?”

yes they play in WMP
rhod
09-12-2006
Did you get your player from a mainstream supplier?

Quite a few players being sold on eBay are hacked, so that for example a 1Gb player will spoof Windows into thinking it is a 2Gb player. The files appear to transfer OK, but of course above 1Gb there's nothing to play.
DOS
10-12-2006
My sister has the same problem (i think). I have an iPod and all the mp3 files work fine on that, but on her 512MB no-name flash player, some cause it to crash.

Is this the same problem?

If so, i would also be interested if anyone knew of a solution.
mikeydb
10-12-2006
If some mp3's play and some mp3's don't then there may be a problem with the codec used, ID3 tags or any other error that other players might overlook.
anddytrew
10-12-2006
Originally Posted by rhod:
“Did you get your player from a mainstream supplier?

Quite a few players being sold on eBay are hacked, so that for example a 1Gb player will spoof Windows into thinking it is a 2Gb player. The files appear to transfer OK, but of course above 1Gb there's nothing to play.”

Yes, Currys
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