Music not showing up in M3U list

[wiffle]

This forum was fantastic help in giving me the final push to buy J3. I'm very satisfied with it. I've got two quick questions

The short one first. Is there anyway to rearrange the main menu format? So I can put the typist, calculator, notepad on the 1st page instead of having to keep scrolling back to the 2nd page. It's a minor inconvenience but, I use my electronic toys as memo lists.

And the 2nd one is a little bit complicated.

I'm using the MSC set up. All of my music is stored on mp3 format. I use a syncing software, Free Commander to make sure the folder names and files between my pc and J3 are exactly the same. And I'm organizing the songs with Media Monkey. I save the M3U playlists on my pc and transfer them over to the J3. I've had no major problems playing back most of my mp3s and their playlists. And neither did I have a problem playing Arabic music with Arab script file names. (They look like squibly lines)

But for some reason the M3U playlist is not recognizing my Korean songs. It recognized a very small subset of songs that have english file names (But not all of them) And I dug through the player and the songs have definitely been loaded. I can play them on the J3 if I manually browse. The file names aren't recognized, they show up as weird symbols but, the song plays so I don't understand why it's not showing up in the M3U playlist.

I originally had a 3.23 English Firmware installed and just switched to the Korean 1.23 firmware thinking that would solve the problem. It hasn't. The only thing the Korean firmware did was to make sure the Korean file names are displayed in Korean (not random symbols)

Are there any suggestions? Is this a firmware problem, file pathing issue?

[DSperber]

Originally Posted by wiffle

This forum was fantastic help in giving me the final push to buy J3. I'm very satisfied with it. I've got two quick questions

The short one first. Is there anyway to rearrange the main menu format? So I can put the typist, calculator, notepad on the 1st page instead of having to keep scrolling back to the 2nd page. It's a minor inconvenience but, I use my electronic toys as memo lists.

I'm going to assume you are (or want to be, or should be) using the "Smart Widget" user interface.

In Smart Widget mode you can arrange the shortcuts and widgets any way you want to... up to three screens "wide". You can put whatever of either icon type you want to on any screen. It's completely user determined, exactly to your liking.

The technique to do this is, of course, not described really clearly in the documentation, but it is described (on page 17) in what obviously is 2nd-language English. However with a little experimenting the inner secrets of how it is done are easily revealed... and it's really very simple.

First, you drag all widgets on a given screen which you don't want on that screen to the Recycle Box (blue triangle at the bottom of that screen). You actually have to touch and hold the object, and suddenly a red box will surround it. You can now drag it down to the Recycle Box to make it disappear (actually, it returns to the group of currently un-selected and therefore lit-up objects shown on the shortcuts/widgets screen, once again available for selection and placement on some screen).

My recommendation to start is to go through all three screens and just delete everything on every screen. That way you can start rebuilding all three screens completely to your liking. Once you have your screens set up like you want, you can re-edit the objects selectively as you want. But for this first pass, you might as well start from scratch.

Then, starting on the first screen (actually, any screen can be considered the "first", since they just keep sliding left or right in a loop, so after three slides you're back where you started... i.e. the "first") you touch the Recycle Box at the bottom of the screen and the shortcuts/widgets selection screen appears. Only the objects currently not already placed on one of the three screens will be "lit up" and available for selection and placement on some screen. Objects already existing on some screen will be grayed-out.

You can touch either the shortcuts or widgets tab, to select that sub-group of objects. Then you select one of the lit-up available objects for placement on the currently positioned screen (i.e. one of three).

If you touch and hold one of the non-grayed lit-up objects, it will suddenly appear on the screen you're currently working on (the shortcuts/widgets selection screen will first disappear, so that you're now looking at the screen with the selected object now present.

You can then slide it around on that screen (again, touch and hold until the red box appears indicating that you can now drag it to a new location), positioning it wherever you want. But you can't slide it onto another screen. If you decide you want it on another screen you have to first delete it from the current screen (dropping it onto the Recycle Box and thereby returning it to the lit-up objects on the shortcuts/widgets screen defining what's available for selection) and then slide to your desired screen, and then re-select (i.e. touch and hold) the object for placement there on that screen.

[wiffle]

Thanks again Dsperber. Does anyone know how to solve the 2nd part of my question?


I'm using the MSC set up. All of my music is stored on mp3 format. I use a syncing software, Free Commander to make sure the folder names and files between my pc and J3 are exactly the same. And I'm organizing the songs with Media Monkey. I save the M3U playlists on my pc and transfer them over to the J3. I've had no major problems playing back most of my mp3s and their playlists. And neither did I have a problem playing Arabic music with Arab script file names. (They look like squibly lines)

But for some reason the M3U playlist is not recognizing my Korean songs. It recognized a very small subset of songs that have english file names (But not all of them) And I dug through the player and the songs have definitely been loaded. I can play them on the J3 if I manually browse. The file names aren't recognized, they show up as weird symbols but, the song plays so I don't understand why it's not showing up in the M3U playlist.

I originally had a 3.23 English Firmware installed and just switched to the Korean 1.23 firmware thinking that would solve the problem. It hasn't. The only thing the Korean firmware did was to make sure the Korean file names are displayed in Korean (not random symbols)

Are there any suggestions? Is this a firmware problem, file pathing issue?

[wiffle]

I found out what the problem was. The file names are in a foreign language and when they were transferred to the J3. Even though the firmware is Korean, like the file names. The file names in the M3U playlist got messed up. To fix it, I had to load the M3U playlist onto winamp. And manually swap out all the invalid ones with the files already on the J3 and then save the playlist again on the J3. After that the playlist works fine.