Music file transfer problem

[Guest]

I have .WAV files of my In Utero discs, and they show all of the metadata with the track number, the artist, the album, etc. When I put them on my SD card for my Galaxy S5, it no longer shows that information. If I take one of those files and copy it back to my computer, the information is back again. What is the issue? Is it because the card is formatted in exFAT?

[Volbet]

How is the metadata saved? Is it an IDTag, a .cue file or something different from those?

Also, what media player are you using on your phone? You could always try a different one from the Play Store to see if that helps.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Volbet said:

How is the metadata saved? Is it an IDTag, a .cue file or something different from those?

Also, what media player are you using on your phone? You could always try a different one from the Play Store to see if that helps.

It isn't a problem on the phone. When I am looking at the files on the SD card with my computer, it doesn't even show the information. I don't know how it is saved. I just right click, select properties, and I can see the track info on my wave files. I use VLC on my phone.

[Guest]

Just now, xhantus404 said:

Maybe your phone cannot read the WAV metadata. You could convert them into FLAC, tags should work there.

 

1 minute ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

It isn't a problem on the phone. When I am looking at the files on the SD card with my computer, it doesn't even show the information.

 

[Volbet]

1 minute ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

It isn't a problem on the phone. When I am looking at the files on the SD card with my computer, it doesn't even show the information. I don't know how it is saved. I just right click, select properties, and I can see the track info on my wave files. I use VLC on my phone.

Ohh, like that. 

Well, thats to do with how the phone presents the data to your computer. The way the data is presented obviously doesn't include the IDTags. 

I just tested it out with my phone and it's the same thing. 

I can read the tags fine on a FLAC file, but it freaks out when I try to read the tags on a WAV file.

[Guest]

Just now, Volbet said:

Ohh, like that. 

Well, thats to do with how the phone presents the data to your computer. The way the data is presented obviously doesn't include the IDTags. 

I just tested it out with my phone and it's the same thing. 

I can read the tags fine on a FLAC file, but it freaks out when I try to read the tags on a WAV file.

Okay, I'll just assume it's a problem with the SD cards and that they cant show me the proper information.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, xhantus404 said:

Maybe your phone cannot read the WAV metadata. You could convert them into FLAC, tags should work there.

Can I convert them without downloading any software? Can I use Windows Media Player? The only way I can think of is to rip my CDs again into FLAC files.

[Guest]

Just now, xhantus404 said:

Software would be the easiest way, and it's free too, with FLAC being an open standard.

Also, just to make sure - when looking at the files in the windows explorer, do you have the same columns visible? Maybe the data is there but it's just not displayed - It might be folder specific and perhaps windows simply does not provide the same view for that folder per default.

The files on my computer have the data. I copied them to the SD card, and Windows did not show the data. I put the card in my phone, and the phone could not read the data. When I took the files from the card that didn't show the data and copied back to my computer, it showed the data.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, xhantus404 said:

Yes, I do understand that. Maybe the phone simply cannot read WAV metadata, windows not showing the metadata from the sd card might be an entirely different issue tho.

That's why I am asking if you have the same folder settings when viewing the files on the SD card - there is a host of different information windows can display and only a few of them are enabled per default, different ones for different folder types. A right-click on the bar above the list of files in detailed view should offer some options - maybe it's just that and everything is fine with your sd-card

 

I'm sorry, I just don't have the effort. I made FLAC versions and they are working fine.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, xhantus404 said:

Glad to know it worked  For reference, this is what I was talking about - unless "Title" and such are selected, windows won't show the information, even if it's there.

Okay, thank you for the help. May I ask why your computer is in German?