Annoying Music File Issues

[Vic Nebulous]

Okay, so after 6+ weeks of playing with this thing, I have one real bee under the proverbial bonnet.

Connect Atrix via USB to my laptop -- the resident memory and microSD card both come up as "Removable disk" yet cannot be accessed. So I turn on Media Share, and the phone tells me the card is missing. Reboot phone, turn on media share, and the M860 and microSD both appear and can have stuff loaded. But this multi-step process and the buggy nature of Media Share piss me off.

Also -- in the Music Player. Why does the system take some albums and play the tracks alphabetically as opposed to in their correct order? This happens with live stuff as well as with downloaded content. Just now, I downloaded a new release, transferred it from PC to Atrix, and when it show up, everything's alphabetic. It didn't show up this way in iTunes, or on the web site, but the Atrix's sense of order seems to want me to listen to everything alphabetically.

Any insights?? Better way of connecting via USB (other than Media Share)?

 

[LavallavaL]

In my computer's tray, I set the MotoHelper app to "do nothing".

When plugin the phone, after Windows has done it's USB handshake, I can access the onboard storage. I copy my music onto it, in a directory called "Music". I then load "MediaLink", and tiled with one window of "Windows eplorer" and "MediaLink". I create new playlists on the phone in "MediaLink" I then tell browse to the phone's onboard storage, and select all the newly added music playlist in the left pane, so the empty right pane is available. I then go to the "Windows explorer window", select all I want on the current playlist, and execute a drag'n'drop.

From there, you can sync, and even CD audio WAV will work. If the software offers to transcode, I refuse.

This is a very simplified explanation of one way to do things. This what works the fastest and best for me, but I only have WAVs, as I detest low quality and lossy formats like MP3s and AAC audio. This way of doing things prevents the sync software from executing it's typical music format massacre to a lower quality.

It's a good idea to create a folder where everything that's to go on your phone is copied to. Setting media link to choose all its stuff from that directory will makes syncing a less complicated matter, though automatic transcoding may occur. The software thing has always been Motorola biggest caveat; They always have BAD software, written by clue-less dorks. I have not tried using Bluetooth yet, but I know Bluetooth as being a little awkward for file transfers.