Music onto a Windows Phone?

[Calpol]

Got a new phone t'other day and I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my music over, I deleted nearly the entire library earlier but it happened to be in another folder anyway...

Anyway the phone supports .aac (iTunes) files but Windows Media Player doesn't, and you apparantely need to use that to transfer. Weird :?

I tried Microsoft Active Sync which is what nearly lost all my stuff but maybe I did it wrong, I'll try again tomorrow... Any ideas on another method though?

Thanks all

 

[RogerS]

Which model phone is it? Does the manufacturer have any software?

What format is your music library in? .aac? .mp3?

I'm not sure whether your problem is that you can't play your music files on your phone because the phone doesn't support the audio file format OR that you can't sync the files from your library to your phone.

What software do you run on your PC (I assume) to handle your music library?

Happy New Year BTW.

 

[Calpol]

Thanks Roger, Happy New Year

The phone is the HTC HD2 and the music library is .aac. Windows Media Player doesn't support the file type and the phone does, but the user guide says use it (Media Player) to sync with...

The problem I have is I can't sync the music with the phone, my entire library is in iTunes.

 

[RogerS]

How about this link

http://www.all-media-converter.com/know ... h-pro.html

 

[andycktm]

Or get windows 7
or this codec for media player

http://www.orban.com/plugin/

 

[paininthe]

Hi, mine is the HTC Touch HD and I just drag and drop mp3's into the music folder on the memory card.

 

[Walter Hall]

Hi, mine is the HTC Touch HD and I just drag and drop mp3's into the music folder on the memory card.

Yes but you can't do that with i-tunes tracks which are not only M4P rather than MP3 but are also DRM "protected". Hence the need for conversion software.

 

[Harbo]

Slightly off topic but a few years ago when I had rebuilt a new computer, I tried to copy my music collection from my I-Pod to the computer.
Resulting in the loss of the lot - I-tunes copied an empty Library into the I-pod wiping everything out!!
Luckily most of the stuff was from CD's and I managed to get it all back, but took many hours!
My car has an I-pod connection that required a £40 cable - salesman advised using a 8Gb Flash drive instead - cost £8 and works a treat.

Rod

 

[Majorlarf]

You could try Tunebite to remove drm protection i use this quite a bit the free version once installed has a splash screen at the start & the end ask to purchase the full version a small irritation for such good free software