Playing Music On My Phone

[Tubbycoates]

Here's a wierd one. I've got an Alcatel phone running on Android. I've copied loads of music onto a memory thingy and put it in the phone.

There's an app to play music. Oddly, it won't play any small music files. It appears to be anything less than a 1000mb. The files also don't show up on the phone.

However, if I attach the phone to my laptop, the files are displayed.

How do I get the phone to play these files?

Can anyone explain it?

Thanks in advance

[fender62]

download a different music player, vlc off google play is good, i like playerpro and blackplayer ex, there are free versions but some have adds, but they are so cheap to buy pro versions £1 or two but worth it.

[Stephen_G]

What format do the music files have to be in? I used to have one that only played .mp3 files, despite the memory card showing loads of files in .wma format, so those files had to be converted before playing.

[Tubbycoates]

Thanks for the answers. I thought it might be a conversion problem, but I've converted everything to the correct format and it still doesn't work.
A new app is called for methinks.