Samsung SYNC SGH-A707
MP3 player, ringtones, and playlists
I'm a new owner of the sync and so far it seems to meet my needs pretty well. I just got my headphone adapter (OEM with microphone) and a 2 GB card so I'm looking forward to using this as my music player when I'm cycling and running.
I copied some music on to the card (in the Music folder) and the application I used, Media Monkey also put playlists for each album into the Playlists folder.
My first problem is that these playlists are not recognized by the phone. When in the music player if I select Playlists, the list comes up blank. So what do I need to do to make .m3u (or any format really) playlist import into the phone's player?
Mostly, I just want to be able to shuffle through all songs, and I see that is an option. But I have some mp3 ringtones and if I use the All option I get my ringtones in the mix which I do not want. So I was thinking I could just make a playlist of what I put on the SD card and shuffle that, but so far no luck. I see I can make the playlist on the phone, but it would be very tedious.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
I copied some music on to the card (in the Music folder) and the application I used, Media Monkey also put playlists for each album into the Playlists folder.
My first problem is that these playlists are not recognized by the phone. When in the music player if I select Playlists, the list comes up blank. So what do I need to do to make .m3u (or any format really) playlist import into the phone's player?
Mostly, I just want to be able to shuffle through all songs, and I see that is an option. But I have some mp3 ringtones and if I use the All option I get my ringtones in the mix which I do not want. So I was thinking I could just make a playlist of what I put on the SD card and shuffle that, but so far no luck. I see I can make the playlist on the phone, but it would be very tedious.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
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No, you've just figgered out the limitations of the player software. It sucks, but thats exactly how it works. I started renaming my song titles with the initials of the band or artist and that helped me keep songs in the order they appeared on the CD. But on shuffle play, I'd just have to shuffle through the entire card.
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Thanks for the reply. So you can't import external playlists at all? You have to make them all on the phone? That does suck, especially since it seems to order tracks alphabetically. At least I'm primarily a shuffle user, so it won;t be that much of a bother.
I came up with a reasonable workaround for shuffling all the music on it. I just converted my mp3 ringtones to .mmf (using a free online converter - Google for it) so that keeps them out of the mix. Worked well for my run last night. Nice to have one less thing to carry but still get my tunes.
I came up with a reasonable workaround for shuffling all the music on it. I just converted my mp3 ringtones to .mmf (using a free online converter - Google for it) so that keeps them out of the mix. Worked well for my run last night. Nice to have one less thing to carry but still get my tunes.
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