Music Files

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Whilst in hospital I asked my son inlaw if he would load my mp3 player with 240 of my favourite pieces of music which he did.

 

Well a couple of days ago I tried to use it on my in car system but it would not reconise the files. I have now checked on the computer and found out that in tranferring them he converted them to VLC files *.oma.

 

Tried a few converters no good they do not reconise the files, tried VLC but it appears very reluctant to change them unless I am doing some thing wrong.

 

Any help would be most gratefully received as it took me many days to down load and sort them.

[yorkio]

Whilst in hospital I asked my son inlaw if he would load my mp3 player with 240 of my favourite pieces of music which he did.

 

Well a couple of days ago I tried to use it on my in car system but it would not reconise the files. I have now checked on the computer and found out that in tranferring them he converted them to VLC files *.oma.

 

Tried a few converters no good they do not reconise the files, tried VLC but it appears very reluctant to change them unless I am doing some thing wrong.

 

Any help would be most gratefully received as it took me many days to down load and sort them.

So, they're playing OK on your mp3 player? But it won't work when you connect it up to your car stereo? How are you doing that? I know there are a fair few iPod-compatible car stereos these days, but all the others I've come across have just had an aux in you connected to your mp3 player's headphone output, in which case it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference what format the files are in provided the mp3 player could play them.

 

.oma is a proprietary Sony format, I believe, so gawd knows what option he checked in whatever software he was using to load your mp3 player to get them like that. What format were the files originally in? Presumably something nice and plain like mp3? If so, then it might well be easiest just to get him to do it again without doing anything silly this time!

[jeepster]

Some clues here.......

 

It's not VLCs fault

 

http://www.blazemp.com/convert_oma.htm

[Ken Davison South Wales]

So, they're playing OK on your mp3 player? But it won't work when you connect it up to your car stereo? How are you doing that? I know there are a fair few iPod-compatible car stereos these days, but all the others I've come across have just had an aux in you connected to your mp3 player's headphone output, in which case it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference what format the files are in provided the mp3 player could play them.

 

.oma is a proprietary Sony format, I believe, so gawd knows what option he checked in whatever software he was using to load your mp3 player to get them like that. What format were the files originally in? Presumably something nice and plain like mp3? If so, then it might well be easiest just to get him to do it again without doing anything silly this time!

 

 

The files were originally mp3, doing it again would mean going through hundreds of cd's picking out the tracks, could take forever.

 

I plug the mp3 player into the usb port on the radio and play the music through the radio.

 

Thanks to Jeepster problem solved, it will take a while because the software runs in real time but that is no big deal.

[jeepster]

Ahhhh shucks it was nothing

[Leon Roskilly]

Another solution could be one of those short range fm transmitters that attaches to the IPOD, then you tune your fm radio to the transmission and voila!

 

eg http://www.iworld.co.uk/c/iPod_FM_Transmitters.htm

Edited October 24, 2009 by Leon Roskilly