[Redflea]

You can't beat the DRM on iTunes purchased songs via drag-n-drop...there are options out there to create a DRM-free copy of iTunes songs, but I'm not aware of anything in the BB DM/Roxio or on the Pearl that will do that.

[iseemtohaveaproblem]

Originally Posted by mgmblackberry

In my experience, the device simply cannot handle 1800 or so tracks and I do not understand why. It must be a memory or number of tracks limitation, but why RIM would allow 8GB (and more) cards without upping the track allowance is beyond me. I am hoping that it gets corrected soon.

Has anyone figured out a way around this? After I splurged on an 8GB card, it's really driving me nuts. Unfortunately, Dollar 5's media player is no good to me, and Flipside apparently can't fast forward or rewind. I see Flipside more as a great program if you only have 10 albums or so that you switch out.

I've deleted all the thumbs and .dat files out of the blackberry, but there are still many missing artists.

There has got to be a way to play all of the music on the card. Any chance I can resurrect this discussion?

Thanks all.

[BpearlB]

just waiting for 12gb micro sd (12 billion bytes!)
hurry up guys...
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[bb8130user]

I'm have the same problem with a 4GB card where my 8130 does not see all the songs that I dragged onto the media card. After waiting about 5 minutes the BB updates the list and all is well.

However, once the BB timeouts and after I enter my security password to get back in, the BB has to re-read this whole list to see the songs once again. That's a real pain.
This also happens if I were to manually lock the BB and then use my password to log back into it.

Anyone else having this problem with a password protected BB?

[WPWoodJr]

Originally Posted by mgmblackberry

I have not seen this issue discussed. I purchased the 8130 and an 8GB card. The full capacity of the blank card is available to the device. I loaded approximately 1800 songs, all mp3, all 128 kbps, in the music folder vis-a-vis a USB adapter. Afterward, the device shows the correct amount of memory used/available and there is no indication of any problems.

The BB media player will not list all of the tracks, however. I would estimate it reads one-half to two-thirds and then just ignores the rest. The FlipSide software recognizes and plays each and every song on the card (including those not read by the BB media player).

I am thinking that there is a number of tracks limitation in the BB media player. Has anyone seen this issue? If not, I would appreciate any suggestions or troubleshooting advice you may have. Thank you.

I have opened a support call with RIM on this bug. It is call #4959865 if anyone else wants to call in to RIM and report this problem too, that may help get them to take it seriously. You may have to call your service provider first before they will put you through to RIM.

[WPWoodJr]

Originally Posted by mbarrett34

I noticed that if I click on the Media player, then hit the menu button (left of the trackball) and Explore, all songs are displayed and playable, and I can play using the Shuffle function.

Great tip, thanks!

[WPWoodJr]

Originally Posted by mgmblackberry

By way of update, I recently read in a comment in a different post (a post to news story about FlipSide, I think) that the current BB Media Manager supports only 901 tracks. I am not sure if this is merely a reference to the number of songs this person has been able to get Media Manager to recognize or a hard number, but I do think that it is worth mentioning as it is the first reference to a hard number that I have seen.

I have been able to get the 8130 to recognize up to 905 songs out of the 925 or so that are on my card.

[WPWoodJr]

Here's a link on the BB support forums to a thread about this topic:
Blackberry Media application can't handle more than about 900 songs - BlackBerry® Device Software - BlackBerry® Support Community Forums

[WPWoodJr]

This issue is fixed in BB OS 4.5

[johnlatessa]

Originally Posted by Redflea

You can't beat the DRM on iTunes purchased songs via drag-n-drop...there are options out there to create a DRM-free copy of iTunes songs, but I'm not aware of anything in the BB DM/Roxio or on the Pearl that will do that.

The song file limitation problem goes away when you upgrade to 4.5.

As far as your protected iTunes songs, burn them to CD, then re-rip the CD back into iTunes. Then they'll be unprotected and you can copy them over to your Berry.

[jocularity]

I have a 8gb, I want a 16gb microsd.

When I used 4.3 it would take its time building the music database. if i were to play a song before it finished searching it would stop building the database and I had to do a battery pull to get it back to searching again and wait for it to finish.

4.5 fixes these problems

[Redflea]

Originally Posted by johnlatessa

The song file limitation problem goes away when you upgrade to 4.5.

Yup - for me that is the single most important bug fix in 4.5.

Originally Posted by johnlatessa

As far as your protected iTunes songs, burn them to CD, then re-rip the CD back into iTunes. Then they'll be unprotected and you can copy them over to your Berry.

Yup - not my issue, though - I was responding to another person's question.