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Does anyone know? I did a Windows Media Player sync like the getting started guide says. My playlists and music is recognized in the TouchFLO music player, but the album art does not show. The Album Art DOES show if I open the same playlists/music in Windows Media Player.
It looks like there is an "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg" image in the Internal Storage/Content/Music folder for each album that the device came with. Is that what the TouchFLO 3D media player uses to display album art? Why can't it use Folder.jpg like Windows Media Player does?
Has anyone figured out how to get this to work without renaming a copy of folder.jpg for each album on the device?
EDIT: The following instructions is what I had to do on the 1.34 ROM in order to get album art to appear in TouchFLO 3D:
http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481
adamz said:
Does anyone know? I did a Windows Media Player sync like the getting started guide says. My playlists and music is recognized in the TouchFLO music player, but the album art does not show. The Album Art DOES show if I open the same playlists/music in Windows Media Player.
It looks like there is an "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg" image in the Internal Storage/Content/Music folder for each album that the device came with. Is that what the TouchFLO 3D media player uses to display album art? Why can't it use Folder.jpg like Windows Media Player does?
Has anyone figured out how to get this to work without renaming a copy of folder.jpg for each album on the device?
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You can embed the album art in the tag with a tool like mediamonkey. I keep all my mp3's tidy with all info and art, the player on the diamond will go through the tags and display the art for you. I also saw the .jpg in a folder of provided content, so potentially that is another way But I have not tried it due to what I already explained.
I tired put my album image and rename to folder.jpg(200 x 200px) and hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg(256 x 256px) into Internal Storage/Content/Music/Artist/Album and the TouchFLO 3D would load the images.
citats said:
You can embed the album art in the tag with a tool like mediamonkey. I keep all my mp3's tidy with all info and art, the player on the diamond will go through the tags and display the art for you. I also saw the .jpg in a folder of provided content, so potentially that is another way But I have not tried it due to what I already explained.
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your sure? i have MP3s with embedded Album Art in the tag (i use MP3tag) but they would not show. Only if i use WMP11 to sync i have art
I have MP3s with Album art embedded too, and they didn't transfer over, probably because I sync playlists using Windows Media Player.
I tried adding hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg images to some folders in my synced music Library on Internal Storage/Music/, but that didn't work for showing album art either.
I don't do the drag/drop File Manager way of adding MP3s because that's way too much of a hassle to manage. Auto-syncing selective playlists in Windows Media Player is a much easier method of managing what music is on my device.
I guess I'll try running Tag & Rename (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) on the internal storage tonight, but that's going to suck if I have to do it every time I change my syncing playlists.
dont worry bro.. dont worry.. i did it without any extra programs
like this: internal storage/my documents/my music(u might need to create one) /madonna(eg. album) /madonna's mp3(all of madonna's mp3) AND folder.jpg(IMPORTANT! this folder.jpg IS madonna's pic or album art. u have to rename it to folder.jpg)
after u done that, htc will auto attach a .jpg file into your album, should be htc_am_album.jpg or somehting like that. and u got your album in your htc player. if it still doesnt load...
go to the player manually, tap library on the left lower corner. scroll to album and it might automatically detect it by then.
moobox82 said:
dont worry bro.. dont worry.. i did it without any extra programs
like this: internal storage/my documents/my music(u might need to create one) /madonna(eg. album) /madonna's mp3(all of madonna's mp3) AND folder.jpg(IMPORTANT! this folder.jpg IS madonna's pic or album art. u have to rename it to folder.jpg)
after u done that, htc will auto attach a .jpg file into your album, should be htc_am_album.jpg or somehting like that. and u got your album in your htc player. if it still doesnt load...
go to the player manually, tap library on the left lower corner. scroll to album and it might automatically detect it by then.
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That didn't work for me. It should have detected them originally, since Windows Media Player syncing does create folder.jpg images like that. I have TouchFLO 3D 1.1.34072.1 1630.15. Is your's a different version??
This is what I had to do to get it to work:
http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481
The renaming to folder.jpg worked for me, too.
It appears it won't happen instantly, but after some time the picture is used.
In fact, the HTC album creates a new copy of the folder.jpg with an adapted resolution which it names htc_am_albumart.jpg.
So simply put your folder.jpg in your album folder and have some patience, it will happen. I've not yet figured out what triggers this.
syncing Album Art in USB mode
Hi All,
After a few days of frustation with my Diamond mediaplayer I found that syncing the following way is most satisfactory to get album art across from my PC:
1. set WMP 11 to sync without conversion, that is MP3 format (so no gain in WMA compression)
2. set your Diamond to USB
3. sync your songs from WMP
This seems to work fine for at least 9 out of 10 songs !
Have fun
Sjengie
Touch Flow does not find music
Hi,
I have synced all the musics via Media Player.
But Diamond does not find them in touch flow.
It allways says "No music Found"
I noticed that it puts the music in a folder called "Music" on the root of the Internal Storage instead of the \Content\Music
Anyone had this problem or has any ideias?
Regards,
Jose
Have you tried opening windows media player and updating the library ?
When I do that the tf3d page updates its library too
How to Sync TouchFLO 3D Album Art
HI
I have the same issue, I just let WMA to sync all my album to the HTC. All my albums are put in the /internal storage/music folder. Using the TF3D and the music option I can chose the library and launch one album but I can not have all my album diplayed in this screen.. I always must go through the library to chose my album.. But with this synchronuisation the image associete with the labum is fine dusplayed
I had also updated the lbrary using WMA on the HTC
thanks for your experience
when you view in TF3D all image album, you must create playlist with all song and then you look all album in TF3D, bud when you skip to other album must skip all song from previous album.
Better soft to play music is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377627
moobox82 said:
dont worry bro.. dont worry.. i did it without any extra programs
like this: internal storage/my documents/my music(u might need to create one) /madonna(eg. album) /madonna's mp3(all of madonna's mp3) AND folder.jpg(IMPORTANT! this folder.jpg IS madonna's pic or album art. u have to rename it to folder.jpg)
after u done that, htc will auto attach a .jpg file into your album, should be htc_am_album.jpg or somehting like that. and u got your album in your htc player. if it still doesnt load...
go to the player manually, tap library on the left lower corner. scroll to album and it might automatically detect it by then.
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This works for me too, perfect thanks mate!!!!
How to Sync TouchFLO 3D Album Art
hi
I just try the SP2 as player and it's run really fine
But .. using the default music icon on the TF3D only one album is showing there.
I want to be able to see all myalbum art through this screen.
Ypu speek about play list here.. I can create one , but how to put songs into then ?
Thanks for your support
fr
How to Sync TouchFLO 3D Album Art
nobody has an idea ?
thx
I must say that HTc are being a bit crap with this. Why on earth cant it just use the WMP album art is beyond me. They must have some right muppets in their project teams.
leaskovski said:
I must say that HTc are being a bit crap with this. Why on earth cant it just use the WMP album art is beyond me. They must have some right muppets in their project teams.
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I was thinking the same thing. Couple days ago i decided to try out the music player and i really can't understand (being a software developer myself) how the hell they let this pass.
Btw, i only managed to get the album art show, by renaming the WM art file to folder.jpg, deleting the HTC/AudioManager_Eng/AudioManager_Eng file, and reset the device. It created the HTC_AM.... .jpg on the folders.
cheers
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I was thinking the same thing. Couple days ago i decided to try out the music player and i really can't understand (being a software developer myself) how the hell they let this pass.
Btw, i only managed to get the album art show, by renaming the WM art file to folder.jpg, deleting the HTC/AudioManager_Eng/AudioManager_Eng file, and reset the device. It created the HTC_AM.... .jpg on the folders.
cheers
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where is the file you are deleting? I have still not got this to show art.
Works well
Rename all your albumart to folder.jpg using flashrenamer
JUst change the registry key HKLM/software/htc/audiomanager */audiomanager from 1.5 to 0.
Soft reset your diamond
Then the diamond makes files called HTC albumart and you can then see all your album art in the Touchflo 3d screen.
Ok today i decided to transfer some mp3 albuns to the touchflow3d and it seemed hard to say the least, searched xda and all the tutorials where even harder... so i did some trial and error and got into this:
I rename the cover to folder.jpg ( already discussed this trough the forums
then i make a new copy of folder.jpg and rename it to hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg and put it on hidden, upload all the directory into the storage of diamond, startup mediaplayer ( on diamond ) and do a update library, check the album i just uploaded and the picture shows when i play the mp3 trough media player, soft reset and thats it the album now shows on touch flow 3d
this was the only way i managed to get the pictures to appear, oh btw i resize the pictures to 200 x whatever it gives
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Ok today i decided to transfer some mp3 albuns to the touchflow3d and it seemed hard to say the least, searched xda and all the tutorials where even harder... so i did some trial and error and got into this:
I rename the cover to folder.jpg ( already discussed this trough the forums
then i make a new copy of folder.jpg and rename it to hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg and put it on hidden, upload all the directory into the storage of diamond, startup mediaplayer ( on diamond ) and do a update library, check the album i just uploaded and the picture shows when i play the mp3 trough media player, soft reset and thats it the album now shows on touch flow 3d
this was the only way i managed to get the pictures to appear, oh btw i resize the pictures to 200 x whatever it gives
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256x256 for best restults, or if uneven, keep the larger side at 256 pix.
Found a way that works!!!
Add all the albums in Windows Media Player as normal and check that all MP3-tags are correct (Album, artist etc) and to update the album art I use the free tool "AV Art Fixer for WMP and MCE" that checks all songs/albums for errors and embed the album art.
When done, do a synchronize to the TD.
The program can be downloaded from here: http://www.avsoft.nl/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=4
The easiest way to add album art to touchflo3d is called "folder.jpg"
Other than that, something like "Tag & Rename" can add and embed art work to all your files, it can pull art from a location you specifiy, pull art from amazon.com or pull art from the folder.jpg already in your album folder. In one click all files can be embeded with art.
I used to use Itunes, and had added my own artwork on it.
These pix get embedded in the mp3 file, thus increasing the file size, anyhoo my point being , most of the artwork is shown when transfered via media player to the Diamond, but not all , still working on it.
It could be because most of the artwork pix are of different sizes.
Must get it working coz it took me close to 2 months finding my own artwork for about 4gigs of music alone.
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I used to use Itunes, and had added my own artwork on it.
These pix get embedded in the mp3 file, thus increasing the file size, anyhoo my point being , most of the artwork is shown when transfered via media player to the Diamond, but not all , still working on it.
It could be because most of the artwork pix are of different sizes.
Must get it working coz it took me close to 2 months finding my own artwork for about 4gigs of music alone.
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tag and rename also has a tool to extract embeded art from all your files and create a folder.jpg in the album folder in just one click. This would definately solve your problems with touchflo
And again, why so complicated?
1) Tag the file correctly. That means, put the cover into the mp3tag.
2) Make sure the tag is ID3v2.3 ISO 8859-1 or ID3v2.3 UTF 16. ID3v2.4 UTF 8 will NOT work. Check the settings of your tagging-tool. I prefer mp3tag (mp3tag.de). Its multilingual.
3) Copy your files to your phone (e.g. my documents\music)
4) Enjoy your covers... The phone creates them itself from the embedded tag. What you will find in your directorys now looks like ~hTC_albumname.jpg
Anyone issues with this solution? Maybe this does not work on older firmware, idk. Me is using a 1.93 ROM.
Have a nice play
BCS
will dropping these properly tagged files into the music folder be sufficient...or do i have to make folders? many of my songs are single tracks..should i put it into a general folder instead?
will try it out tonite...thanks for the tip!
Meh, I did it manually. Using "Folder.jpg" for each album took me a few hours but hey, it's worth it and thought me some fun stuff about my favorite bands through wikipedia'ing for the covers.
The easiest:
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Found a way that works!!!
Add all the albums in Windows Media Player as normal and check that all MP3-tags are correct (Album, artist etc) and to update the album art I use the free tool "AV Art Fixer for WMP and MCE" that checks all songs/albums for errors and embed the album art.
When done, do a synchronize to the TD.
The program can be downloaded from here: http://www.avsoft.nl/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=4
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It works and is the best and esaiest way see the album art in the touchflo3d
Thanks,
This one works on All Devices
Hi,
I have used MediaMonkey for ages now and on different devices from phones to Sansa Music Players and now on my MDA Compact IV
Its available as a free version and a Gold one (that costs)
The free version does allow you to do everything including album Art etc and tag, genre, renaming & changing etc etc
Take a look
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Enjoy.
ricarp said:
It works and is the best and esaiest way see the album art in the touchflo3d
Thanks,
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I downloaded and installed it.. I get an error everytime I just try to run it.. PRobally becasue I am using Vista 64-bit edition.. Does anyone here know how to jsut make Album Art visible so when I drag and drop files to my phone, the art will be there?
Why doesnt my diamond music player recognize some album arts?
I have al my music library in itunes and all of them have the album art, but when i copy the songs i want to my internal storage, the player only recognizes some album arts.
At first i thought it was album art file size issue.. I tried resizing some of them to try but it isnt a flie size issue
Any idea?
Thanks
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If the albums are separated by folders (such as \Artist\Album\Songs.mp3), just place the album art in the same folder and name it "folder.jpg".
please help me.
i deletet the default mp3s out of the internal storage.
i used my explorer to do so.
now i cant use other music with the htc music player.
i copied my new music to my diamond with the windows media player and the wmp on the diamond works still fine. but not the htc player. the deletet files are still in the htc player and i cant delete them.
can someone post a cab to reinstall the player or a sulution to workaround?
Thx
Do you mean the TF3D player?
what folder did you copy your music to?
In any event, you should be able to click on "Library" on the lower left, then go to "All Songs" and click on one of the songs - this should then load all your songs onto the TF3D player
..... alternatively, save your songs in different playlists and the go to "Playlists" instead of "All Songs" and selct one song and your playlist will be loaded.
Hope this helps
i have copied the songs in /internal storage/music/the Offspring/Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace/
when i go to library:
there are the 2 sample songs. but cant delete or play them because i deletet them out of the internal storage.
cant create a new playlist in the tf3d player. everytime i do this the player says the the song was added to the new playlist. but there is no song to add.
maybe a silly question - but did you soft reset?
Delete Application Data/HTC/AudioManager/AudioManager_Eng.vol and do soft reset.
yes i did a soft reset.
i try to delete the file.
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That solved the Problem. Thanks for your help
and sorry for my poor english
hi there everyone .
can anyone explain me how do i play music files that i stored on the internal storage , thrue the music TAB ?
thanx
Music tab?
Select left softkey (Library) and choose the album / playlist you would like to listen to. The first icon in the library is the currently selected playlist. Then Artists, Albums, Playlists, All Songs, Genres, Composers and finally Purchased.
Of course to be able to play tracks, you need to have synced some first using Windows Media Player. One further note... sometimes Media Player names the album art something strange which Music Player doesn't recognise, so to make sure your album art is displayed, use file explorer to rename the album art in each of your synced albums to 'Folder'.
e.g. \Internal Storage\Music\Girls Aloud\Tangled Up\Album Art.jpg - rename to Folder.jpg (Sorry about the Girls Aloud reference... it's my wifes', honestly!!)
thanks a llot budy /
you have made my day better