New Music Phones Have Crippled MP3?
I was reading on a blog that Verizon will be crippling MP3 playback on the new VCast music phones, like the V3cm.
Does that mean you won't be able to use the expansion card to play your own MP3 music, if you didn't buy it from Verizon?
Does that mean you won't be able to use the expansion card to play your own MP3 music, if you didn't buy it from Verizon?
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no it doesnt, it means that when you transfer music to the phones memory card it will be automatically convereted to .wma files so that the player can play them, you dont have to buy a single song from vzw and you dont have to subscribe to vcast to enjoy music on the phone, simply get a memory card and a usb cable, sync it together, and transfer.
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MidnightDT said:
no it doesnt, it means that when you transfer music to the phones memory card it will be automatically convereted to .wma files so that the player can play them, you dont have to buy a single song from vzw and you dont have to subscribe to vcast to enjoy music on the phone, simply get a memory card and a usb cable, sync it together, and transfer.
That's great news. So you could put MP3 files on the memory card and just play them in MP3 format on the phone, like you can on an E815?
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no, the files would be converted to .wma when you sync them from your computer to the phone. your music will still play, but it will play in .wma format because that's the phone and memory card support. it's rumored that verizon will allow the use of the mp3 format, but probably not this year.
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infinitehorizon said:
no, the files would be converted to .wma when you sync them from your computer to the phone. your music will still play, but it will play in .wma format because that's the phone and memory card support. it's rumored that verizon will allow the use of the mp3 format, but probably not this year.
So then the new music phones do have crippled MP3. Whatever MP3 songs you bought last year to play on your E815 won't be useable on the new phones this year, correct?
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No, you CAN use your MP3s. When you transfer them via USB cable it'll autoconvert. If you choose to use a card reader then use Windows Media Player 10 (or other software) to convert them prior to placing the files on the memory card. This is >OLD< news bud.
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temp_name said:
No, you CAN use your MP3s. When you transfer them via USB cable it'll autoconvert. If you choose to use a card reader then use Windows Media Player 10 (or other software) to convert them prior to placing the files on the memory card. This is >OLD< news bud.
Its also kind of crappy news. 'Cuz when the phone autoconverts your mp3s to WMA, well both are lossy formats, meaning your music will take a quality hit.
Its also silly... there's nothing wrong with mp3. Its just Microsoft trying to get everyone to go with their music format, and Verizon going along with it. Which is futile, since nearly everyone has either mp3 or AAC (iTunes) formats instead, despite MS's best efforts. 😎
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eh, depending on the phone you can turn ur mp3 player back on 🙂 If you have an LG it's easy, it's just in the service menu.
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I don't notice the difference... I think the difference only affects people on the extremes. I'm guessing the people who can tell the difference are the same kind of people who can tell the difference between two shades of gray that are 1 rgb color apart (ie. they can see the difference between rgb(200,200,200) and rgb(201,201,201)). That's just my guess :-)
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To kind of clear up your confusion...
MP3 Format does work..The current phones that can use them are E815 and the LGVX8100 (there is a setting that you can change to play them, the only phone that plays both).
Samsung 950 and audiovox 8945 only play WMA format music..
Samsung 970 and LGVX9800 play WMA only as well...
I do not have one of these to tell you that it does convert your MP3 format to WMA within the phone. I don't think that it can. I think you can resave all of your old songs as WMA format from MP3 within Windows Media Player 10 and then transfer them to the proper media card and play them on the newer phones.
Hope that helps...
MP3 Format does work..The current phones that can use them are E815 and the LGVX8100 (there is a setting that you can change to play them, the only phone that plays both).
Samsung 950 and audiovox 8945 only play WMA format music..
Samsung 970 and LGVX9800 play WMA only as well...
I do not have one of these to tell you that it does convert your MP3 format to WMA within the phone. I don't think that it can. I think you can resave all of your old songs as WMA format from MP3 within Windows Media Player 10 and then transfer them to the proper media card and play them on the newer phones.
Hope that helps...
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to unlock mp3's on your vcast lg-8100...go to main menu, hit "0", enter service code "000000", scrol to setting 11 "music setting", hit ok, click on mp3 enable....good to go
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