Since a few days ago, when I sync music onto my Diamond (I use WMP since I convert my MP3s to WMA), the album tracks are always mixed up. My previous syncs kept the album listings intact, but now they're random.
Does anyone know what causes this problem and if there's any solutions? Thanks.
EDIT: Does the TF3D Music Tab follow music tags? I'm assuming it isn't for some of my music since I have it properly tagged for track listings.
Track order...
I use WMA as I've always used Media Player when ripping my CD's to my PC. You're right, the tracks do get mixed up with HTC's music player (it may be the tags, I don't know... perhaps they assume we're all MP3 users!).
The best way to sync them (in my opinion), is to first create a new playlist within Windows Media Player (name it the same as the album), drag whichever album it is you want on your device into the playlist (the right hand pane in media player), then drag the playlist you've just created into the sync window (rather than the album itself). This will keep your tracks in the order they're meant to be in.
You may also need to rename the album art on your device because Windows Media Player sometimes calls the art Album_Art{blah, blah, blah...}, which admitedly seems a very descriptive file name for what it is, but HTC's Music Player won't recognise it, so the album art needs to be renamed 'Folder'.
Sorry for the long-winded answer. Hope it helps.
Thanks for the tip. Seems to help.
I still wonder what causes this to happen, gets annoying.
I had the same problem with my albums. I found out that TF3D sorts the music files by their track number tag.
So check your track tag, and number the tracks the way you want them to be sorted.
Hi, does anyone know how to resolve this issue properly? I mean, How to list and play WMA album tracks on Diamond correctly by track number? Because for MP3 it works fine, why for WMA not? File names and Tags are ok and works perfect in WMP, thanx for infos...
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So, when running media player are you suppose to see the Album Art? I would assume the Blue Box I am seeing is where the art could be displayed but of course I only see a blue box in the upper/left and scrolling information in the bottom of this box about the mp3 that is playing.
yes you're supposed to see the cover.
Has the mp3 you're playing the cover in its tag ?
If you transfer your mp3s using WMP on your computer, do you have the covers ?
Yes, I see the Album art in Media Player and in iTunes on my Vista PC. Also, all other meta data is seen on the Tilt by going to the properties of the mp3.
This is how it looks in my folder on vista.
How did you put the mp3s you're playing on your tilt ? Did you use the sync function of WMP ? If you've just transfered it using explorer, it may not work because I think WMP is using a little picture of the cover instead of the corresponding tag in the mp3.
lpaso said:
How did you put the mp3s you're playing on your tilt ? Did you use the sync function of WMP ? If you've just transfered it using explorer, it may not work because I think WMP is using a little picture of the cover instead of the corresponding tag in the mp3.
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I only direct copied it... that could be it.
yup-
to get the album art-ya gotta synch it through media player
You are both correct, after using Media Player to sync up "Dark Side of the Moon" I got album art (I see the little jpg file it places in the directory with the mp3 files). That is rather stupid but at least I know now.
Thanks for you time and helping with my stupid question.
Most of the mp3s I direct copied kept their cover art (manually added in itunes) but 1 or 2 albums didn't. The only thing I can see in common is that the albums that didn't bring their cover art were the albums that itunes automatically found art for. The albums I added the covers manually kept theirs. Funny.....
I had issues getting album art to work (read it here before as well)
I have tested some different methods, but now finally got it:
- connect as usual with activesync, then explore to the location you want to have you files and copy the stuff.
- when you want to have album art to show up with your albums/songs, you need to make sure that you have a cover (folder.jpg or whatever name) in the same folder when copying: thus not after the fact, as it will never work.
- in the library go to "all songs", you will actually see the files appearing during copying, together with the album art.
an additional _htc<name>.jpg will be created as well, I suppose this one is actually being used by the library. Creating this file manually does not work - in my experience anyway.
Give it a try if you have similar troubles. For me, this is the only way for it to work properly.
bakman said:
I had issues getting album art to work (read it here before as well)
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Why not just use wmp to sync? work flawless for me...
You can drap and drop any picture to album to create album art...
create playlist, then drag and drop the mp3(or drop the whole album), then sync.
Idiot steps...?
I am almost sorry to ask this question but please forgive my stupidity:
Can someone bullet the tasks necessary to add an album with art to my Diamond. I have had a go with Windows Media PLayer but have never synched music to my PDA before. I ended up with an album synched but it didn't appear in the Diamond player when I went to library all my Media Player library seemed to be listed but nothing would play.
Sorry for being so stupid...
Sam.
crash74 said:
Why not just use wmp to sync? work flawless for me...
You can drap and drop any picture to album to create album art...
create playlist, then drag and drop the mp3(or drop the whole album), then sync.
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i have the same problem, wmp syncs ok the music but dont the music art
I've create a folder for each MP3 and inserted a bmp 200x200
andres_lol said:
i have the same problem, wmp syncs ok the music but dont the music art
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I must confirm having kind of the same issue.
Step proces which seems to fail:
1. Update Artwork directly on desktop through WMP
2. Drag and drop "album" to WMP Sync
3. Sync and check all files in WMP Mobile4
4. Confirm : All music and Artwork visible.
5. TouchFlo Music screen: All music there, though missing Artwork.
Question - assumption (not found in Manual)
Artwork Jpeg's limited in size? Should not be as these files are not bigger than 50Kb --> Bug?
Hope someone finds the workaround.
bakman said:
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- when you want to have album art to show up with your albums/songs, you need to make sure that you have a cover (folder.jpg or whatever name) in the same folder when copying: thus not after the fact, as it will never work.
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does it mean I have to copy all mp3´s together with the associated .jpg from a folder on my PC to a folder of my mobile device, OR do I have to copy the .jpf first and the insert the .mp3 from my PC?
I don´t get the exact order!
what i do in the wmp...
- I select "album" in the wmp
- Drag and drop the folder which contain mp3
- Drag and drop the picture which i want to have it as album art, on top of the album which i had just drop
- WMP should should show ur album with the picture which you selected. (pic 1)
- Drag the whole album into the syn list and sync away....
In the diamond music folder, you should have what it show in the pic 2...
Mediaplayer syncing doesnt work for me.
@horstborsch; your first statement is correct. you must have a .jpg in your album in your pc-folder before copying, then when you copy the folder to your diamond, the album art will show up (choose "all songs" in the player)
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Mediaplayer syncing doesnt work for me.
@horstborsch; your first statement is correct. you must have a .jpg in your album in your pc-folder before copying, then when you copy the folder to your diamond, the album art will show up (choose "all songs" in the player)
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Another possibility why it does not work is the length of the "artwork" naming - file transfered to the Diamond.
As I can see , I only have visibility on jpgs if it starts with ~HTC - xxxx.jpg
Am looking now hosw to fix, but it should be flawless when synchronizing directly with WMP. All other "manual" implications are simply not fitting the expectations as I never hand any issue with my Tytn II
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Another possibility why it does not work is the length of the "artwork" naming - file transfered to the Diamond.
As I can see , I only have visibility on jpgs if it starts with ~HTC - xxxx.jpg
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This htc<xxx>.jpg file is created automatically when you copy the files (or when you open the music library). I see the files+art appearing in realtime when I go to "all songs" and copy the folder.
I have same problem.
WMP sync carrying artwork into WMP Mobile fine.
But no artwork in Touch Flo 3D music app.
I want WMP sync to work not have to copy folders onto device.
Its well sad.
We have to beat this one.
I'm going to google!
Pocket player 3.6 --> forget about Diamond player
Give the 30 days trial a chance to show you how well integrated it is with the Diamond and forget about WMP and the Manila missing albums and art files.
It is just rubbish in my humble opinion
Only thing I can not figure out anymore how to set-up Pocket Player as main player disabeling the on-board Touchflo/ WMP player
Main issue is when using a bluetooth headphone with A2DP, this only controls the WMP- touchflo UI and not Pocket player. Changing volume works, but skip FF RW and pause-play interacts with WMP & touchflo only
Any advice is helpfull - googled it but no workaround identified
dunno if thisis the right thread, but it took me already to to page 200000 of the forum. I was just wondering if there is a problem with album art and *.wma files. drm-something
has anyone solved this problem or am i just a stupid fool using *.wma?
updating library?
Hey there!
I am using Tag&Rename for all my mp3 to edit via IDtags and embedding the cover art.
So all my mp3 on the XDA Diamond show the cover in the player.
But I do have an other problem or I didn't figured it out (Just have my Diamond for 2 days).
I transfered new songs via Winamp on my Diamond (used as USB device) - How can I now update the library that I will find the new ones?
Thanks Sebastian
All I want is for the touchflo 3D music player to display the folder.jpg just like windows media player. Can it do this?
The reason for this behaviour has been posted elsewhere, but I can't find it now. A clever bloke on PocketNow explains things here...link.
Apparently, when WMP syncs it copies over a copy of the mp3 file without album art embedded and a separate jpg of the album art. You can't stop it doing this!
HTC Audio Manager in Touch Flo 3D is programmed to find the album art in its embedded form in mp3 files. You can't do anything about that either!
So he very clearly walks us through a work round. It works very well and doesn't take very long. But you would want to get fairly organised about what music you want on your device as you wouldn't want to have to do this frequently. Essentially he suggests using an app called "Flash Renamer" to rename all the jpg files on your device because they start with complex numerical filenames. Then you use an app called "Mp3Tag" to embed the artwork into the mp3 files on your device.
Also when you want to change your music you have to start all over again by deleting the music on your device. Otherwise WMP will sync additional copies of the same mp3's, as the file on your device is different to the one it wants to sync (that is, the device file has been changed by the workround to one with artwork embedded).
The workround is good and also keeps WMP Mobile functional if you prefer to use that.
Again the workround is here...link.
Once again I have to ask - why isnt folder.jpg sufficient. I cannot be bothered will all of this embedding art in files nonsense
Ok can anyone advise how to show more than one album at a time . I can get the album to show but only one
Anyone any ideas?
I have tried just about everything in every thread on here to get the albums to actually show on the main screen of the music player.
I can see them all if i go to library albums and they all show their art but when i play one i cant see the other to scroll through them.
So Far :
I have embedded the art in to EVERY file
I have created a folder.jpg in each folder
Tried syncing it with my Media Player
Still no working, all work fin in slide 2 play but want to get them working with music player as well.
Any help much appreciated
Pah...album art has to be the single most awkward thing to get to work consistently in any media player at all.
If I were you I would give it up and listen to the music...
Do you mean that in the main screen only one or two songs display (regardless of album art)? If so, go to library, choose for all songs, and press up again. You can also go to All songs and select one song, it should start playing and show all the other albums also(when you flip through them)
I use mediamonkey to embed every mp3 i have with an album tag. Then i simply copy the mp3's i want to the phone (I've created a folder called MP3 in the Internal Storage and copy the files all there)
Then all album art is there (sometimes one or two pictures missing out of hundreds of songs)
I use my phone as a mp3 player alot but the software that came with android is very limited and does not give you enought options to use our phone as a fully funcional mp3 player. Like for example creating playlist, search songs by name or artist with the keyboard. etc.
I hope some developer is working on a better player...
You can do all of that you mentioned already. To add to a playlist long-press on a song and choose add to playlist and you can make a new one or add to an existing one. To search just slide out the keyboard and type it will return all results for artist, song, album, everything. Hope this helps
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You can do all of that you mentioned already. To add to a playlist long-press on a song and choose add to playlist and you can make a new one or add to an existing one. To search just slide out the keyboard and type it will return all results for artist, song, album, everything. Hope this helps
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thanks you right about everything. I just found something else I have every album in separate folders let say I would like to select just one folder to play that album only, is there any way to do that, because as far as I see the player looks for all the music files in the sd card and display them in the library together.
thanks
I don't think you can organize by folder but maybe try clicking album on the home page of the MP3 app? That will read all the ID3 tags of the MP3's and sort them by album to play. Unfortunately what sucks for me is a lot of my music files are .m4a from my iPhone which the G1 can play but I don't have album art or tags or anything and it blows because you can't add tags to them and I don't have the time to convert them to mp3. Oh well, hope this helps you!
i think we will see a lot more once paid apps come- coreplayer are working on an android version for one.
I just figure another issue, I create a folder with ringtones .mp3s and the player put them on the play list to This is crazy it should at least ask you if u want to add the new audio files to the play list. now I have 10sec ringtones playing on my playlist
I'll pay for a player with all the features that an audio player should have.
What folder are you putting your ringtones in?
I have my ringtones in a folder named 'ringtones', my notifications in a folder called 'notifications' and the media player doesn't pick any of them up.
One thing for sure, Shuffle blows for some odd reason. It's always the same damn order! The only way to get something different is to Shuffle -> Party Shuffle. This needs to be fixed.
Also, it would be nice if they added the fast search (like in contacts, dragging letters on the right) to the song list, as well as speed it up quite a bit.
I'm not impressed with the MP3 player. I'm hoping someone is working on one that is a little bit more iPhonish, as I like the looks/usability of that. S2P for WindowsMobile nailed it.
Is there something wrong with tunewiki? maybe that is more to your liking?
I like the double click headset to change tracks, single click to pause/resume. Although i'm not sure if this functionality would exist with A2DP? It could do with a few more features i'll admit, but it looks fine to me.
Need an Eqaulizer
nuff said.
Samsung Galaxy 4.0 Android MP3 Player.
Samsung calls this an MP3 player, but it is really a great Android phone -- without the phone. The form factor is great for carrying around. I find I'm using it much more than my iPad to access email, listen to podcasts, watch videos, and more. The Gingerbread Android OS is snappy and easy to use. With Skype and Wifi, you get voice/video connectivity.
Samsung Galaxy Player 50
Agreed. The stock app never allows me to view my playlist like the iPod does.
Sent from my Liberty using XDA
Check out MKZIplayer.
Great for video and music
If you use a custom rom you can download "PlayerPro". Best MP3 Player.
(Or try "Apollo", its included in Cyanogenmod from FreeXperia)
I bought 'Anthems' Ministry Of Sound Electronic 80's Volume 2 from Amazon MP3 and it shows in Music as about 60 different 'Albums' each with one song in it. Perhaps 2 songs if there is more than one track by a particular artist on the compilation. This is not good as I can't play the Album.
I imported the set of MP3s into iTunes, and it shows on iTunes and on my iPod as a single album. Must have got that from the ID3 tags, I guess?
I deleted the album from my Amazon MP3 folder on the Galaxy, then used DoubleTwist to import it back onto the Galaxy from my iTunes library, and it /still/ has 60 different 'Albums'.
How can I get this album to show as one Album? I've tried the Galaxy stock Music player, and MixZing and Zimly. They all show it as multiple albums.
I'm trying to get rid of my iPod and use the Galaxy as my main music source, but things like this are getting me down.
Please help!
Thanks
Done some searching and I find that compilation albums are a sore point in Android and no app will sort them properly. A lot of my music is multi artist compilation and it's just a mess in any player app that I can find. Just tried winamp too.
Guess I won't be replacing my ipod after all
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Just use the folder option in the library to play the album.
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Just use the folder option in the library to play the album.
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Not sure what that means - if I look with Astro or My Files apps, each song is in a folder of its own, hanging off the 'Music' folder on my external SD. Single artist albums have all the songs in an Artist/Album/Song hierarchy.
it was probably done that way by doubletwist.
Download media monkey, copy the compilation, go into media monkey, find that copy, then using media monkey select all tracks, and change album name to whatever you want. Done!
Fix Found
Had this issue, it appears it's an ID3 tag error.
You can fix it by getting an app called ID3 fixer.
Select the folder that holds your music and set the charset to "US-ASCII (English)"
If you still have issues, try different charsets.