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Question

Need help playing music files on PC to myTV

Apr 18, 2015 11:40PM PDT

I have a PN60E550 plasma HDTV and it is connected wirelessly via AllShare to my PC running Win 7. I select the option that connects to my PC and I am able to open the Samsung Link and see the music files but when I try to play them I get a popup that says this file is not supported. Some of the music files are .mp3 and some are .wma. Yesterday I was able to play a .mp3 file but today I am getting the file is not supported error message?

The AllShare link is working at least with my pictures from the PC.

What am I doing wrong - can anyone suggest a reason and a fix?

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Re: Files
Apr 20, 2015 2:07AM PDT

I'm sorry to hear this! Have you tried reformatting the files?


Regards,

HD Tech

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Need help playing music files on PC to myTV
Apr 21, 2015 1:04AM PDT

HD Tech,

Thanks for the response - not sure exactly what you mean be reformatting the files. Do you mean delete and reinstall? Please advise.

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My guess is re-encoding
Apr 21, 2015 1:08AM PDT

MP3 for example has failed for me with over 320 Kbps rates. It played on a PC but few devices. DEVICES is the key word here. They are not as capable as our PCs so we have to encode to what they support.

This is not an offer to write a tutorial on encoding. That's on the web.
Bob

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Need help playing music files on PC to myTV
Apr 22, 2015 2:09AM PDT

Thank you Bob,

Will try your suggestion will look into recoding. I notice also that Samsung Link on my TV will not play .wma audio files either. Could be the same issue as with .mp3s?

Frank

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WMA encoding is well, let's look at that.
Apr 22, 2015 2:16AM PDT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio and take a closer look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/WMA10ProOptions.PNG

Ouch. TOO MANY OPTIONS. WMA and MP3 encoding has so many options you could find your TV not playing a lot of those choices.

Here's where folk sometimes explode. Telling me it's a MP3 file does not tell me its encoding. This is a mind blower for some.

Warning: I will not enter into any encoder/rate debate. That's been done. I use the standard settings and don't tweak much.
http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-mp3-bitrate-experiment/
Bob
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Need help playing music files on PC to myTV
Apr 23, 2015 1:06AM PDT

Many thanks Bob for the info and guidance - I will do my best to use standard setting when recording audio (music) - looks like 192 kbps is a safe bet for most recordings.

For my past recordings I will live with what Samsung Link currently supports and plays.

Frank