Music Issues

did you use the sprint media manager?

THAT HAPPENED TO ME AS WELL - BUT IM IMPATIENT, AND HAPPENED TO HAVE FIGURED IT OUT.. SPRINT MEDIA MANAGER IS GARBAGE.. I HAD USED IT AND IT CONVERTED MY FILES TO A FORMAT AAC THAT THE PHONE WASNT ACCEPTING... SO I DELETED EVERYTHING AND JUST PLUGGED THE CHIP INTO MY SD SLOT ON MY LAPTOP.. I COPIED AND PASTED THE MP3'S TO THE MUSIC FOLDER... HUALA.. IT WORKED.. IF U DONT HAVE A SD READER ON UR PC/LAPTOP I SUGGEST PURCHASING A USB SD CARD READER ITS DEFINITLY WORTH IT AND COMES IN HANDY FOR VARIOUS DEVICES INCLUDING CAMCORDERS, DIGITAL CAMERAS, PHONE CHIPS AND ETC... THEREFORE SAVE THE SPACE ON UR COMPUTER DELETE THAT POS MEDIA MANAGER AND LOAD MP3'S(MUSIC) VIA SD AND MP4'S(VIDEOS) STRAIGHT TO THE CHIP.. COPY AND PASTE BABY.. NOTHING BETTER THAN THAT...

Except iTunes, where you don't have to mess with the folder trees and finding all the songs.  Quick searching, adding playlists, I could go on and on.  One plus for the iPhone if you want to listend to music on your phone.

I don't think I'd end up having much music on the Instinct or the iPhone, but in terms of ease of use iTunes working with any iPod/iPhone is better than drag and drop in my opinion.

thanks for that tip... I do have an SD card reader on my computer, so looks like I'll just be directly loading unto the SD card (which the computer recognizes as a drive when a card is plugged in)... This all sounds the same as my camera SD card:I also ignore any nikon software and just insert the SD card from my camra directly into my computer.

But I am surprised MediaManager converts the file format, esp since all the advertizing says you can fit 2000 songs (or whatever it is saying) on the 2GB card.

By the way, transferring music to my phone from the computer is one of the few major functions I havent tried yet, so we will see how it goes. I was able to re-downlaod the few songs I bought from the sprint music store. actually they are only five and i got them free.

The media manager should NOT purposely have the ability to write-protect your SD card.   Have you tried writing (i.e., dragging and dropping) any other files besides music (photos or video) to other folders on the SD card using Windows Explorer (either via cabled Card Reader or cabled Instinct) and seeing if they render on the Instinct?

my guess it that it has to be related to a specific song that you're trying to transfer.  until a root fix is provided, maybe try (although very cumbersome depending on how big your playlist is) transferring a single track at a time in your playlist and then loading the music application on the instinct, to determine if there is a "problem" track.

just FYI.  i've been able to transfer and playback a mixed playlist of MP3, AAC (.m4a) and WMA (although can not transfer DRM protected tracks) format all on the phone through the music application.

Hey Guys.  I have a bunch of music files in the M4A/AAC format that is from my ITUNES folders.  I dragged and droped them on my 8 gig mini disk (and my 2gig as well)  then put the card back into my Instinct.  My instinct won't recognize these files.  I also tried to add the M4A files in the Sprint Media manger on the desk top and Media manager won't find them!   Any ideas?  Am I doing something wrong?