Re: How To Download Music From Youtube To Vlc Media Player
Clotilde Wilks
I downloaded music off of my external hard drive but none of it will play on iTunes. The name shows up but when I click on it says the original file cannot be found. The music does play on my Microsoft media player though. Is there anything I can do?
iTunes is simply a database of your music. The music is not in iTunes, it remembers where you said it was. So perhaps what you have done when you imported is to tell iTunes that the music files were on the external drive. If that external drive is no longer connected to your computer, or its drive letter is now different to before, then iTunes will not be able to find the songs. Hence, "original file could not be found".
You need to either have that drive connected and ready to go before you start iTunes, or you need to put a copy of the files onto your computer and then tell iTunes that the songs are in that location.
The "original file could not be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you can try double-clicking a missing track, opting to locate it and accept iTunes' offer to locate your other missing songs based on the same location. If that doesn't work then my FindTracks script should be able to reconnect the tracks to iTunes.
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To have your entire library show up as Local Files from within Spotify, click the Edit menu and select Preferences. Scroll down to the secion labeled "Local Files" and check the box labeled "Windows Media Player."
But when you check preferences for windows media and for where the music files are stored (drive d, for me) nothing happens, none of the extra stuff that I've added to windows media imports after the first time I did this a few weeks ago. I never get an option at the top of the local files page to import files. Playlists import - as a playlist title with no tracks.
Your songs are in a non-standard location, so that is probably why they are not being imported. This shouldn't be a problem though. Just go back into Spotify preferences, and at the bottom of the Local Files section, click the button labeled "Add Source..." and browse to the location of your music on the drive. Your local files should then be imported into Spotify. You might need to re-import your playlists after you've finished this though.
I have files on M:\ and its subfolders, and I exported playlists from MediaMonkey to M:\Playlists and even added that folder to the list separately. I imported those playlist into Windows Media Player 12, but Spotify does not import anything when told to do so. It only creates a playlist called "Windows Media Player", which remains empty.
Hi, just wanted to say thank you so much for this easily understood instruction. I was baffled on how to transfer music from Wind Meda Player to Spotify and searched everywhere then found your post and I was able to transfer with a couple of seconds.
Followed your advice to the letter, but still unable to re-import. The new location does not come up as an option when pressing import playlist. It only offers me to import Windows Media Player, whereas I added Windows Music Library as actual source. Boo sob sniff. Hopeless at this.
Well .. i have discovered that the problem concerns only those playlists which have been imported into WMP from library .. playlist created within WMP import into Spotify just fine. :). The simple workaround is to create new WMP playlists based on the playlist you want to import into Spotify (providing they are importeted into WMP and hence they do not import into Spotify) ...
You need to go to settings when ripping the cd, and then select "MP3" Under format. The standard format when ripping in Windows Media Player is their own Windows Media file thingy, which isn't compatible with Spotify. After you've selected MP3, it should show up under local files in Spotify.
I just tried, and it still didn't add the music I'd taken from CDs. it still only imports the digital downloads. To be honest, it's actually becoming quite annoying having every option I can try get shot down.
To see your local files in the desktop software, you would have to enable "Show tracks from Windows Media Player" and "Music Library" in Edit->Preferences. You can also add other directories than the default ones there. Then the files should be listed in the left sidebar under Your Music->Local Files. You can add them to playlists by right-clicking them or with the ... dropdown menu.at the right side of the track name.
I'm seeing the same problem, as well as an issue where the phone orientation will occasionally cause only part of the widgit to be visible. Killing the app that was playing music (or video) has no impact on this.
Not only do i see this but when i connect my iPhone to my car via the USB it doesn't display all of the playlists i created and will not let me skip forward through the tracks using the car's controls.
Hard reset seems to be the only thing that works, but then it comes back. I am to the fu**ing boiling point now with this effing bug. Please Apple, fix it. I don't want to have to restart my GD phone 5 times a day because the music widget is on the lock screen.
Yes hard reset seems to be only fix, and that only works until the next time you open podcasts, Pandora, etc., anything that plays audio, then you are back to the same problem. I hope Apple sees this as the annoying bug that it is and not an unwanted "benefit" of the OS.
Having the same issue. It comes on when I turn off my car so I think it might be a bluetooth issue. I rebooted the phone, didn't play any media, and it still appeared on the lock screen. Hope Apple fixes this soon!
Update: I reset my phone and went to a meeting. When I came out, the music player was on my lock screen. No bluetooth, no media was played. It just appeared. My next step is to delete the music app and reinstall it. But I think I'll lose all my playlists. ?
Up until recently, I've never had an iPod. It wasn't that I didn't like them - I think they're the best looking MP3 players out there. There was one reason, and one reason only that I hadn't bought one - iTunes. On Windows, and it has to be amongst the clunkiest applications from a major software company I've ever used. I'm not sure if it's because of the desire to make it look like a Mac and custom-draw everything, or just sloppy coding. It just always seems clunky and unresponsive, and hogs machine resources.
To make things worse, Apple started telling people not to upgrade to Vista because iTunes didn't work properly on it. WTF! Apple had how long to sort this out? You can't just tell people not to upgrade their operating system because you failed at meeting the deadline for your music player! (I do see this has since been fixed).
Anyway, back to the point. What stopped me buying an iPod was iTunes. The software is nasty, and I already have my music collection in Windows Media Player, which plays nice with Windows Media Center and my Xbox 360. If Apple made the iPod work with Windows Media Player, I'd have bought one. Assuming there are other people like me, Apple are losing potential business by trying to force people on to iTunes. I found there were a few ways to get Windows Media Player to work with the iPod, but it required 3rd party plugins (and cost money), and I wasn't about to buy an iPod to find these solutions aren't stable.
As fate would have it, I received a Blue 4GB iPod nano from my auntie when she was visiting from the US. The whole idea of not wanting to buy one in case it didn't work was squashed. I had an iPod, and I was going to use it, with or without Windows Media Player support!
When I got home, I downloaded a trial of MGTEK dopisp - one of the plugins claiming to get the iPod working with Windows Media Player. There are a few other plugins to do this, but a quick Google revealed less unhappy people using this one! I installed the plugin, connected my iPod, and fired up Windows Media Player.
Error! I was greeted with a dialog telling my my iPod had never been set up (via iTunes) and couldn't be used. I had a feeling this would happen, and luckily I had a laptop running Windows XP I was about to flatten! I installed iTunes and set up the iPod, then tried again. The iPod now appeared (with the name I assigned in iTunes) in Windows Media Player as a mobile device. I grabbed a few songs and tried to sync. It worked. It worked exactly like I wanted it to. It was that easy.
That makes me wonder why Apple didn't write a similar plugin? I understand they really want people to use iTunes, but is it really worth losing iPod sales over? Forcing people to use your software is not the way to do business. Sell your iPod on what it is. Sell iTunes on what it is. If people just want one, let them have it. You're lucky I received an iPod as a present, because you'd have missed out on this sale without native Windows Media Player support.
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