Some MP3s won't play in media player

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I am using an HP iPAQ H2200 running PocketPC 2003 (Build 13100) as an MP3
player. I have a SD card in the slot and I am copying mp3 files onto the
card via a separate card reader on my PC.

Mostly this works fine, but some of the mp3 files are unplayable in Windows
Media Player in the iPAQ. The same files work fine in Windows Media player
on XP/Home.

If I copy those files back to my PC and diff them they are the same as the
original so no corruption.

I've tried removing card, soft reset, replace card. Didn't help. The mp3s
were encoded with Lame.

Why do some mp3s fail?

Nick

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"David Conger, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices" <dave at davespda.com> wrote in
message news:%232BcqdtDFHA.328@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Did you encode the MP3's yourself? Likely they were encoded with an
> unsupported codec. That is why some would work and some work. You may
want
> to transcode them (re-encode) to another MP3 format or to WMA using
Windows
> Media Encoder.
>
>
> --
> Dave
> www.davespda.com
> Microsoft MVP (Mobile Devices)
>
> "Nick Tatham" <ntatham1@nospam.dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns95F888D879006ntnsp@195.129.110.67...
> >I am using an HP iPAQ H2200 running PocketPC 2003 (Build 13100) as an MP3
> > player. I have a SD card in the slot and I am copying mp3 files onto the
> > card via a separate card reader on my PC.
> >
> > Mostly this works fine, but some of the mp3 files are unplayable in
> > Windows
> > Media Player in the iPAQ. The same files work fine in Windows Media
player
> > on XP/Home.
> >
> > If I copy those files back to my PC and diff them they are the same as
the
> > original so no corruption.
> >
> > I've tried removing card, soft reset, replace card. Didn't help. The
mp3s
> > were encoded with Lame.
> >
> > Why do some mp3s fail?

Because WMP is also Lame when it comes to playing
competing formats such as MP3's.

Get GSPlayer or something else to play MP3's,
you'll be much happier.


> >
> > Nick
> >
>
>