Mobile Phones - Transferring Album / Artist / Track data

[1kyle]

Hi everybody

Some of the mobile phones that play music have software included but doesn't transferr all the formats you want (or at the bit rates).

For example using Sony Ericsson Phone2PC software it only works with mp3 files at bit rates of up to 192. (Might be enough for some people but with larger capacity cards you can use higher bit rates from your own encoders). Also the software doesn't recognize some AAC (mp4) files even though the phone (W900i) will handle these without problems.

So what you have to do is create on your phone card (use a USB reader it's much faster when transferring files) a directory stucture as follows.

MUSIC (Must be MUSIC as written)

Now for each CD / "album" you want create the following 2 levels of directory under

MUSIC (Level 0 or Top level)

============> Artist (e.g J.S.BACH) (level 1)

==============> Title The "CD name" of the CD or "playlist". C (Level 2) create this under ARTIST.

==============> Tracks - Insert the track files in the TITLE directory. Ensure a track number is included in a "Sortable" field so you can display the track info in the right order.

This should now give you decent displayable info rather than muddled / mixed up tracks all under "Unknown Album".

I haven't quite wrked out how to create M4U playlists but an M3U playlist even though that's for mp3 files seems to work.

Once you've created the directory on the card just drag and drop the tracks to the track directory for each album.

A 2GB card at the highest MP4 / MP3 encoding should give you up to around 22 complete CD's at quality comparable with HI-MD SP (certainly for normal portable listening requirements).

Hope this helps as I've seen quite a few people struggling with organising music on Mobile Phones.

Use a decent usb card reader for file transfer just takes seconds. A card reader costs peanuts as well and if you are using XP doesn't need any extra drivers etc.

Cheers

-K

Edited April 10, 2006 by 1kyle

[The Low Volta]

yay drag-n-drop when I read this I'm starting to like SB again

[1kyle]

yay drag-n-drop when I read this I'm starting to like SB again

Drag'ndrop works fine. OK you need to create the structure as I explained above (that's only because the stupid phone software hasn't been written to accept all the file formats the phone is capable of playing.

For MP3 > 192 or MP4 (AAC / AAC+) structure the directory as shown

http://www.1kyle.com/phone.jpg

The actual Music files (*.MP4) are just dragged to the relevant folder from your computer.

No Propietary data bases needed. Doesn't matter where on your computer the music comes from (or even from different Cards devices etc.)

Just use Windows explorer.

Now if SB could handle more formats and bit rates.

Cheers

-K

Edited April 10, 2006 by 1kyle