Unable to play audio file?

[Owen Letkey]

Hi there,

I have put about 4gb of songs onto my sd card which i put in my phone. But for some reason it decides to not play certain songs and i get a notification at the bottom of the screen saying "unable to play audio file". I have tried the songs on another sd card have to same problem? They are genuine sd cards not no budget fake ones. Is there anything i can do to get the songs to work. There all MP3.

Any help will be helpful
Thanks

 

[Rukbat]

Try to play the songs using Ringtone Maker (press the left end of the line for the song to play it.) If that works, the file that won't play is just far enough from pure mp3 that your music player can't play it. (There's enough leeway in the spec for that to happen.) Editing it in Ringtone maker and saving it might fix that. (Don't change anything, just edit [right end of the line], then save [disk icon on top] as a different name [add a 1 on the end]. Then, if it works, delete the file that doesn't work and rename the working file to the original name. If that doesn't fix it, use Audacity on a PC to import the file, then export it (to another folder or using another name) as an mp3. (You'll need to install the Lame library. Go to Plugins and Libraries on the left, scroll down and go to the Lame page. There's a link to an external page to download it. [It's a legal issue, and it's explained on the Audacity Lame page.])

If Audacity won't import the file, it's not an mp3 file. (The extension doesn't determine what kind of file it is, it indicates the kind of contents that should be in the file. Naming a text file to mp3 doesn't make it a sound file, and an mp3 file with content that isn't mp3 won't play either. Even another type of audio file, say aac, renamed to mp3, won't play, because the player is looking for mp3 content, not aac content, and for mp3, an aac file is a corrupted file.)