why wont my MP3 player play the songs that I have put on it

[nicola rhymer 87]

I have put some songs onto my MP3 player but the songs are not playing. The songs are on there because they are coming up on the computer.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Are you sure your files have the MP3 extension and not m4v, wav, or anything else?

 

[boosted1g]

Either mp3 player does not suport the format of the song (m4a, aac, flac, m4v, wav, etc) or the mp3 player is defective. Does it play other MP3 files?

 

[caqde]

I have put some songs onto my MP3 player but the songs are not playing. The songs are on there because they are coming up on the computer.

Either like others said the file format is not supported, or the mp3 is encoded in a way the mp3 player doesn't understand. Some mp3 players only support audio encoded in a certain manner and won't support certain methods of encoding like variable bit rate, high bit rates (320kbps+) , or mp3's with DRM. What it supports should be written in the manual, on the packaging, or hopefully on the product manufacturers website somewhere.

 

[hbond10]

The EASY solution for me was to format the SD card in FAT32, and all the mp3 files that previously did not work on the same card(with NTFS format), now the same mp3 files plays nicely all of them.