Can't access music off sd card

Have to be a little more specific. Are u getting an error or u simply cant access your music?

tonight was my first time spending a lil time with the sprint v3m and music.. and i tell yah... it was a pain in the ass, ill briefly describe my findings

mp3 audio files need to be located in the microSD's "Music" directory.

it is ok to put them in folders, as in you can just copy an entire album over to the music directory

long filenames are a major issue. the phone will either not recognize a long file name, or it will cause the music application to error and crash, and not load your music list over and over again

the main issue is that the computer has a far larger allowed filename length then the phone... what i did, since the music player loads song information off the ID3 or ID4 tag anyway, make sure your tags are all good, and just rename the file to the song name

No good: Sublime - 40 oz. to freedom - 5546 Thats my number ball and chain.mp3

Good: 5546 thats my number.mp3

also make sure that the audio files you are transferring over are not a wierd format, like .ogg -- im not sure what the sprint v3m is capable of playing, but mp3's are no problem.. wma's might work.. and otherwise i dunno

also just to be safe because at first i was really confused why the application would crash mid-loading the new songs... so i just tried everything and removed the abnormal characters in the filename... like [brackets], commas, apostrophe's, and (parenthesis)

after that, all 126 songs loaded successfully :)

oh oh oh... m3u playlists are accepted... so you can create a playlist with almost any program, and make sure to save it as a playlist-name.m3u, upload that bad girl, and hot time we have playlists. you can also create them on the phone, but its good to know :)

thanks for the input on file sizes & VBR...will have to be conscious of that.

What's the best way for getting music onto the phone?
is P2K Commander capable of accessing the micro-SD card?
In the V3m, the card can't really be pried out w/out removing the battery, and my girlfriend's Krazr is even worse, because the card is UNDER the battery.

Has anybody been able to unlock the Bluetooth OBEX functions for the Sprint phones?
They tease you, showing the file transfer & object push functions in the phone, but checking the phone's services from the computer reveals the only service available is Dial-up Networking Gateway (I'm amazed they left this feature active.)

get a less then 10 dollar card reader which is by far the fastest way to get large files onto the card

or you can try qpst, which can access and upload to the /mmc1 folder

Needing internet access to get music on your phone can't be right, sounds like the Sprint person doesn't know what they're talking about. Did they elaborate as to exactly how that would help you? Is there a place in your media player for you to select "change storage device" or something? It could be referencing your phone memory while the music is on your memory card.