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A707 Music Player shows "Invalid File" for Podcast
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Posted by: BikerRick

I've been loading some podcast on my A707 and I noticed that a couple of them won't play. I got a couple of the NPR podcasts and every time I tried to play them on the phone, I get a message "Invalid File". The only thing I can see different from my other podcasts is the ID3 tag is version 2.4. Has anyone else ran into this problem?

I'd appreciated it someone else could confirm that this is a problem with the phone or not. It's the NPR Story of the Day and Business podcast that doesn't work.

Posted by: max8061

I'm having the same problem with any MP3 I drag to my phone. Anyone have any ideas?
They are created with lame at 128kbs. Fairly standard I would think.

Posted by: max8061

Ok, figured it out.

The a707 says "invalid file" only with mp3 files using ID3v2.4
I converted all my tags to ID3v2.3 UTF-16 and now everything plays!

Posted by: BikerRick

Cool beans. Hopefully Cingular will fix this in a firmware update to support the new ID3 tags.