dainla
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I was finally able to get all my music on my phone after yesterdays windows for mac update, although several songs were loaded over 30 times.
Whatever, better than nothing
Whatever, better than nothing
Mushroom since you went through with a reboot and a wipe of your card try out what I mentioned above. I know that using the windows phone app can be a pain in the ass because sometimes when I tried to resync music or playlists for that matter it would delete them instead of add them. You may have to sync a couple of times. I fixed most of the album art issues using media monkey and imbedding the album art into the mp3 itself. After that I launched zune software and recreated most of my playlists. After doing all that I then used the windows phone software to add my playlists and music. That seemed to fix everything I can now reboot and not loose any metadata or playlists. That seems like a lot of work I know but it worked for me.Nevermind. Issue is back yet again. Synced up a list. Look and all the albums are there. Restart the phone, and bam. Half my stuff is now missing. The songs are there, but the album data is not. C'mon Nokia/Microsoft. I expect better of you!
On a side note... I think this issues doesn't show when I skip the sync dance, and just copy paste the files directly. Odd, but I'm going to give this more thought. Hopefully an upgrade to Win8 will solve this.
On a side note... I think this issues doesn't show when I skip the sync dance, and just copy paste the files directly. Odd, but I'm going to give this more thought. Hopefully an upgrade to Win8 will solve this.
That's what I did and everything seems to be working fine now (knocking on wood). Had the same problems (duplicate songs, titles/artwork with no music, etc.). Here's what I did/am doing now:
1. Wiped SD card with a fresh format.
2. Turned off Sync in Windows Media Player (only use copy-paste in Explorer now).
3. Rip mp3's with WMP.
4. Add/edit metadata/artwork using Mp3tag software (Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...))
5. Copy and Paste each mp3 file to SD card one at a time and wait about 20 seconds between each copy-paste. Slow, but it's working.
Just use the desktop sync software works easy enough
The syncing software was the reason I had duplicate songs issues. I think I've tracked the issue down to data being stored on the phone as well as the SD card. If you check your music folder on the phone via explorer you'll notice what appears to be metadata. Once I got rid of that the issues appears to have gone away. Who knows...
My God. Who has the time?
That's insane. Close to giving up on the phone.