Comments on: Putting Music On A Motorola Razr V3xx

By: brntyl

brntyl — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:53:39 +0000

Simply format your memory card before you transfer ANY file to your V3xx. Enjoy

By: Sugar

Sugar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:49:02 +0000

Solution

I have run into the same issue, however, if you purchase “All music converter” from http://www.allmusicconverter.com/ you can convert all of your Napster music to your phone. Granted, it is a hassle. You download from Napster, open the ripper, convert it, then transfer via Windows Media player to your phone.

You will have two copies of the song – choose wisely. The expensive upgrade that offers faster conversions is not worth the money – stick with the basic.

Currently, this is the only solution I know of, but it does work.

By: Victor Gomez

Victor Gomez — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:33:59 +0000

matt-

thanks i’ll check it out and if it is missing some stripes i’ll return it

thanks
vcitor

By: matt

matt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:58:55 +0000

Victor–

First typing in all caps usually means you are yelling and is usually considered bad form on the internet so you know for the future.

Everything we have read about the M505 error leads us to believe that most phones that get it are shipped defective. The problem, in at least some cases, is that where you put your memory card is missing some pins. So you will want to take out your memory card, get a flashlight or be in a place where there is good lighting, and make sure there is a pin on your phone for each of the stripes on your memory card. If any of the pins are missing then this will explain your problem and you will need to bring your phone back and exchange it.

Thanks
Matt

By: victor gomez

victor gomez — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:04:49 +0000

HEY I GOT THIS SPRINT RAZOR (RED) AND I PUT IN MY MEMORY CARD AND IT SAYS ERROR M505 AND IT WON’T PLAY MY MUSIC WHAT DO I DO PLEASE HELP.

By: Batman

Batman — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:34:15 +0000

Update: First converter did not produce playable files. Second one obtained at http://www.download.com/3000-2140_4-10745045.html produced LARGER files than their mp3 source files at their default settings, so 2GB really becomes desirable. I will be playing aroudn with the output format alittle bit to see if I can create smaller and usable files.

By: Batman

Batman — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:10:40 +0000

I just went through this exercise and am happy to report some details on getting your music onto a RAZR. I bought a 1GB and have it loaded with my music. I wish I had bought 2GB. 1Gb will be nice, but I easily exceeded that amount and had to pair back with just ad ecent sampling of my favorite tunes.
1. Do what people have said – load the empty microSD card into your phone, and go to Settings&Tools/System/Device Info/StorageDevices/SD card (mine actually listed as “TRANS T-Flash” and then choose Options and Format. This creates the folders on the micro SD card.
2. I have not managed to get the USB hookup to work proerly on my computer to show the phone and card as a removable disk, so I then I took out the card and loaded it into a USB memory card adapater. Just as easy in my mind.
3. After lots of hair pulling and reading and swearing, I finally realized that my RAZR doesn;t want me to put MP3s on the card. It wants WMAs. Someone else said this and it proved true for me. That’s all the phone we see and library. If you are stuck try putting a few of each type on your card and see wht the phone recognizies.
3. Knowing that I had to have WMAs, I downloaded a free converter program that created wma files from my mp3s. Then you just copy those onto the card.
4. Put the card back in your RAZR and turn it on and go to My Music by going through Get Tunes and then choose My Music. It’ll add the songs to your library and do that each time you insert the card.
5. I bought some Motorola ROKR bluetooth headphones and finally I have what I have been looking for for years. One device giving me what I want to carry with nme at times – tunes and phone.
Screw the iPod and that freaking hard drive (heavy and fails), the micro SD cards are the greatest – just amazing – only as big a fingernail.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:09:22 +0000

Mike–

I am not sure what version of the phone you have but on motorola’s website about the 3Vxx says it plays MP3’s and AAC. It says nothing about WMA.

With that said you might try to do something to get your money back from Napster but it probably wont be very easy and their response will probably be something like, “We explained what phones we support.”.

Thanks
Matt

By: mike

mike — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:31:53 +0000

you paid for copyrighted material from Napster. napster doesn’t recognize your phone as a music player, so to protect copyright crap, it won’t load music (wma is the format my razr plays, NOT mp3).

you should demand a refund for all napster charges if you used a credit card because you paid for rights to play music that you are being denied.

this is music industry over protectionism causing you to NOT get what you paid them for.