[Bounty] Rhapsody To Go: The Time Has Come

[69L46]

Originally Posted by freekboy

Did you have to do anything to enable support? My DRM songs won't play after upgrading. I even reauthenticated the card they're on without success. After upgrading, can you let me know what you did to get things to work? Thanks!

Unfortunately, the only way I've found to make RTG tracks work after flashing a rom or moving a uSD card to another phone is to delete all the RTG tracks and then resync the files with Windows Media Player - I gave up on Rhapsody's buggy transfering a long time ago.

This is by design AFAIK. This is to stop trading music on removable media. A flashed phone is a new phone (with probably a new GUID hidding somewhere in the registry). It's just a PITA when you have a mix of RTG tracks and your own tracks. With my 16GB uSD card, it takes about 1 hour to resync ~9GB of music.

[dizidi]

Are people still paying to get music?

Originally Posted by 69L46

Unfortunately, the only way I've found to make RTG tracks work after flashing a rom or moving a uSD card to another phone is to delete all the RTG tracks and then resync the files with Windows Media Player - I gave up on Rhapsody's buggy transfering a long time ago.

This is by design AFAIK. This is to stop trading music on removable media. A flashed phone is a new phone (with probably a new GUID hidding somewhere in the registry). It's just a PITA when you have a mix of RTG tracks and your own tracks. With my 16GB uSD card, it takes about 1 hour to resync ~9GB of music.

yep.

This is the only down side.

Originally Posted by freekboy

Did you have to do anything to enable support? My DRM songs won't play after upgrading. I even reauthenticated the card they're on without success. After upgrading, can you let me know what you did to get things to work? Thanks!

Delete all the drm music off of the sd card.

Re authorize the the phone with the card in it.

Reload music.

Enjoy.

[who?]

Originally Posted by adam12

Delete all the drm music off of the sd card.

Re authorize the the phone with the card in it.

Reload music.

Enjoy.

Hm. We need to test this on a cooked ROM; definitely worth a shot. I now just have to figure out which music I have on my uSD card is from Rhapsody and which is non-DRM'd. That will be the tricky part.

[mikee4fun]

Originally Posted by p-slim

many people use rhapsody. Who provided all the details up above.

I do, and pay for Rhapsody to go. But you can just strip the drm headers out with the right tools. =P

[who?]

Originally Posted by mikee4fun

I do, and pay for Rhapsody to go. But you can just strip the drm headers out with the right tools. =P

This is true, but it's an extra and relatively time consuming step, at least with the program I am familiar with. It almost doubles the amount of time it takes to put music onto your phone.

[who?]

So I tried out the technique posted in this thread and it worked, but only in the stock 6.5 Sprint ROM. I deleted all my .wma files on the storage card, and Rhapsody offered to authorize my device. Then I flashed an NRG ROM, which is supposed to be based off the Sprint 6.5 ROM drivers, etc. and Rhapsody won't let me authorize the device.

The bounty remains. $20 from me for a cooked ROM that supports RTG subscription tracks.

Originally Posted by who?

So I tried out the technique posted in this thread and it worked, but only in the stock 6.5 Sprint ROM. I deleted all my .wma files on the storage card, and Rhapsody offered to authorize my device. Then I flashed an NRG ROM, which is supposed to be based off the Sprint 6.5 ROM drivers, etc. and Rhapsody won't let me authorize the device.

The bounty remains. $20 from me for a cooked ROM that supports RTG subscription tracks.

Im glad it worked! Feel free to hit "Thanks"

Anyone know if the Evo or Android will work with RTG?

[who?]

Originally Posted by adam12

Im glad it worked! Feel free to hit "Thanks"

Anyone know if the Evo or Android will work with RTG?

It didn't work. Yes, it worked on a stock 6.5 ROM, but that wasn't the purpose of this thread. The purpose was to get custom ROMs to recognize the device as an RTG device. I'll hit Thanks, though.

Android is not Rhapsody compatible, at least to my knowledge. However, there is a Rhapsody app in beta available through Real that one day will allow offline syncing. Hopefully that is ready soon.