HTC One (M8)Help Please with playing music

[Gordon Henley]

Hi all, I have just got my M8 after spending the last few years with Crapple.
I am having major issues trying to play my music on my new phone.
I use windows media player to download music to the phones 32 gig memory card but I am finding that the phone will only play about 10 seconds of certain album tracks. It does play all of some different album tracks but not all. I have tried using media monkey and win amp to download but with the same results. I have tried using a couple of different music players to play the music, but again the same problem. I am guessing there may be some setting I can change or something I can do to resolve this but I am at my wits end.
Beginning to wonder if I have either a bad phone or made a bad move leaving Crapple.
Please can some one help.
Thanks in adavnce.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi all, I have just got my M8 after spending the last few years with Crapple.
I am having major issues trying to play my music on my new phone.
I use windows media player to download music to the phones 32 gig memory card but I am finding that the phone will only play about 10 seconds of certain album tracks. It does play all of some different album tracks but not all. I have tried using media monkey and win amp to download but with the same results. I have tried using a couple of different music players to play the music, but again the same problem. I am guessing there may be some setting I can change or something I can do to resolve this but I am at my wits end.
Beginning to wonder if I have either a bad phone or made a bad move leaving Crapple.
Please can some one help.
Thanks in adavnce.

Welcome to the forums.
How are you placing the music on your M8? I just drag and drop, and everything works fine. However, I am not using the stock music player app. I am using PowerAmp, which is a paid app but has trial period of 2 weeks as I recall. I have no issues.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

Do these files play ok on a PC? Are they DRM free?

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

 

[Gordon Henley]

Hi, all the albums play fine on the pc. It is only when they are on the phone, and I have no idea what DRM is lol

 

[whitelunchbag]

Have you tried using the normal drag and drop to transfer music?

I think using windows media player, winamp etc is causing the problem

Posted by my Nexus 7 (2013)

 

[Gordon Henley]

Hi, Just tried drag and drop direct from my music to the phone SD card and still get the same problem............Very annoying

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi, Just tried drag and drop direct from my music to the phone SD card and still get the same problem............Very annoying

I would try another music player from Play.

From an SOKP Nexus 5

 

[isdaako]

iSyncr in the Play Store.

There is a free version. Plays along well with your iTunes library.

 

[mfreeland]

Hi, all the albums play fine on the pc. It is only when they are on the phone, and I have no idea what DRM is lol

DRM is Digital Rights Management. A lot of tracks especially .WMA have DRM installed. Your PC is able to check licenses and play those tracks. When transferred to your phone, some tracks may be limited. [inappropriate content removed by moderators]. Then I just drag and drop to my phone and they always work fine, using the stock player.