Hello,
I'm not too sure if my problem is a unique one. I have searched the forums and most threads, if not all, that I managed to find dealt with trying to get album art to display on their HTC Diamonds. If you find that my problem has indeed been answered previously, I would very much appreciate a link to a thread where I may find my answer, thank you.
My problem here is slightly different: for a single mp3 file, the TF3D player displays a different cover from anywhere else (Windows Explorer, WMP, Winamp, mp3tag). Allow me to give some background info on this:
I have embedded my mp3s with their respective album arts. Every song displayed properly with its album art in the TF3D player previously, since the first day I bought my phone back in July 2009. However, recently (about a couple weeks ago) when I uploaded a Korean song, the entire library of album art has been wiped out in the TF3D player and all songs now display that album art of this Korean song.
Here is what I have done to troubleshoot:
1) I copied out all my mp3's to my laptop. In Windows Explorer, the original cover art is displayed. I opened the files with mp3tag in hope of retagging them, but I found the original cover art there too. I played the files in Winamp, and the cover art is correct as well.
2) I opened the files using File Explorer on my Diamond. It launched in WMP and the cover art was displayed properly there as well.
3) I deleted all the files on my Diamond and recopied just one single file (say, a Beyonce song) into the Diamond. It still displays with the Korean cover art.
4) I tried the solution of deleting the HTC folder under Application Data, while maintaining the Beyonce song as the only song in my phone. Cover art goes blank for a while while it loads... then back to Korean cover art.
5) I have flashed my ROM, did a clean format with MTTY. Still Korean cover art. If it helps, I am running the Gen.Y D2 R5.4 ROM which has HTC Sense 2.1.
From 1) and 2), it seems that the original cover art has not really been replaced by the Korean one, since the real one can still be displayed via other means.
And since cover arts have been displaying properly for the past half a year that I've been using my phone, I would say it should be safe to eliminate the possibility that I am embedding my tags wrongly.
So would anyone have any idea why this is happening, please?
Thank you for your time in reading my lengthy post!
Check your global file associations on your device for all mp3 or audio files using something like Schaps Advanced Config that will show those. It sounds like this cover art has been set as the default somehow.
I'm sorry -- what am I supposed to check using that? For my Diamond, the mp3 files have WMP as their default player.
By the way, if it helps, I am using the Gen.Y D2 R5.4 ROM which has HTC Sense 2.1.
refraXion said:
I'm sorry -- what am I supposed to check using that? For my Diamond, the mp3 files have WMP as their default player.
By the way, if it helps, I am using the Gen.Y D2 R5.4 ROM which has HTC Sense 2.1.
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If you run Adv. Config. click on the right softkey and select file associations and make sure your mp3s are associated with wmp or the player of your choice. See if there might be anything there that might give any insight as to why you are having this issue.
It could be a bug with the rom you are using. You could flash your stock rom at least twice then flash back to the custom rom of your choice.
The .mp3 extension is associated with WMP. I'm not too sure if file associations would cause this issue because I am opening the mp3's with the TF3D player... by doing so, I am already opening it from a specific player... it would not matter which program opens it "by default", would it?
Is formatting with MTTY equivalent to flashing the stock ROM? Because I've been flashing my ROM quite a few times over the past week and I don't want to flash anymore. =) But this problem came in before I started using the current ROM (I loaded the Korean song, messed up the stuff, and then flashed my ROM)...
Anyway, my deepest appreciation for your help so far mr.horndoctor! Thank you!
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The .mp3 extension is associated with WMP. I'm not too sure if file associations would cause this issue because I am opening the mp3's with the TF3D player... by doing so, I am already opening it from a specific player... it would not matter which program opens it "by default", would it?
Is formatting with MTTY equivalent to flashing the stock ROM? Because I've been flashing my ROM quite a few times over the past week and I don't want to flash anymore. =) But this problem came in before I started using the current ROM (I loaded the Korean song, messed up the stuff, and then flashed my ROM)...
Anyway, my deepest appreciation for your help so far mr.horndoctor! Thank you!
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Yeah, I think you're right about the file associations. Sorry. Hmm...I honestly don't know about the mtty format since I am cdma but you've definitely got something embedded in your manila files causing this. That's why I was thinking flashing the shipped rom should overwrite everything. Then if you have all traces of that cover art gone from your music before you reinstall it to your device, it shouldn't resurface. I'm glad I'm not in your shoes! Good Luck Friend!!
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Hi everyone,
Having trouble trying to change the default music player from Manilla 2D from audio manager to windows media. Currently using Hyperdragon III rom. tried searching the hyper dragon site, general rom development, google, etc and cant seem to find it.
Im sure its a really simple config item somewhere in the registry?
tried Manila 2D Customizer...still no luck
i second his problem, i want to do the same
And question here is. What is that change supposed to accomplish?
You might be able to change the player by editing the xml file. But with Audio Manager, you get the One touch play; once you change it you will be running Media player in the back ground
Moved the thread to the general section.
Thanks for understanding.
Tater
Try changing the default player to WM using Adv Config!
...A reason to change
I also want to do similar....however, I love the new Audio Mananger cab from HTC. BUT!!! I am peed off at having no direct access to volume control and that is spoiling the experience for me.
I dont want to change to WMP, but may have to if it turns out that it offers the much needed direct onscreen or HW access to volume control.
Incidently, to the point made about trying AdvConfig....It works NOT!. I tried several times to force the change over but to no avail. The way i have left my setup, is simply to install a previous version of Audio Manager (which doesnt offer the album cover facility) and place a shortcut to it on the Manila Programs tab. I found that using a diifernt version via the Audio tab screwed the screen up,
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nick
I believe that all you have to do is find the link for the HTC audio player in the /windows folder of your phone, copy the WMP link and rename it to the htc Audio player link, and overwrite. This is how I changed my web browser from opera to pie.
Let me know if this helps
bump. still havent found a resolution yet
Volume control on Music Screen in Manila 2D
Look here... Aruppenthal managed to have it done on his ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430261
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In too
HI i want a solution for this too please ....
somehow would be better if there was a vol control in the tab itself
lol looks like i stumbled in to a dead horse ;p
Hello All...
I have spent DAYS reading here and other places on the web looking for an easy 1step solution for my problem... I have installed S2P and it is great... I love to play the game "Anything your phone can do, mine can do better" to iphone people.. lol.. Anyways, here is my problem..
The S2P software was not displaying the album art so I couldn't do the cool flip throug hte CD thing... So in Monday I decided to try to fix that... I did some reading, and checked if my WIndows Media Player Mobile would display it.. it wasn;t either...
I WAS jsut dragging and dropping onto my SDHC memory card... Read that is the problem as I need to sync it using windows media player on my computer to get it to work... I tried that.. nothing.. I deleted the partnership and tried again.. Still nothing.. I erased the mediaplayer data file from the root directory.. tried again.. nothing nothing nothing..
I read about downloading the cover manually and inserting it as folder.jpg.. That worked perfect.. The problem with that is I have nearlt 50GB of music files.... And that would take forever... Isn;t there a way to just make the hidden album art visable so it goes when I drag and drop? I remember in the OLD days you could see the JPG files in the CD's folder... On my computer, the album art IS There as I can see the image when I use explorer or when I browse my library using MEdia Player... I tried the old trick of making the entire music folder and all sub-directories invisible and then visible to un-hide anything that was hidden, that didn;t work.. I also tried some programs such as AV Album Art Fixer (I just get an error when that program tries to load), MP3Tag and a few others... My problem is I am looking for something that I just point the program at my music folder, and it just either enables all existing album art to a visible copyable file, or something that will automaticall download/copy/whatever the images to the correct folders. Then when I copy them it will "just work"...
I don;t mean to sound lazy, but it is a big pain to have to manually click every album one at a time or to find them myself, download the image, rename it and copy it... Also, please don;t yell at me for not having found the answer myself in another forum or website as I really have been looking for days...
My phone is a HTC 8925 / AT&T Tilt.. But it is unlocked and I am using another carrier (I got Wifi access as well a slower wireless internet working on it). I also have the USB Sync with it as well...
My computer is a Core 2 Quad system running Vista Ultimate x64 edition.
Thank in advance for your help... I really appreciate it!
And on a side note.. a BONUS you could help with... when I scroll through the CD's I manually downloaded the art for.... it scrolls the "narrow" way... I would really prefer it to scroll sideways instead so the CD image is bigger... I tried "opening" the phone to change the rotation, but that didnt; work and seemed to cause problems... This is a minor thing but would be an added bonsu if you coudl help me with that as well... Again, Thank you so much for you help in advance...
I'm using aruppenthals rom and would like ot get CV back on this device. There is a post on NAFT's thread (v3.2 ... 4 Flavors Total) where he says to go to post 4 and download the modified Opera.ini file, drop into Windows\Opera9 and install the cab file to make this feature work again. I can find neither file anywhaere. Can someone tell me where to find theese items and something a little more specific than 'somewhere in the 148 page thread.
you can use these two cabs and it should work again for you. one is the CV and the other is realplayer not to be confused with REALONE player. the actual controls will be a little garbled in the player since this was a cab Sakajati (chef) extracted for the tilt (qvga). vids play fine though.
http://www.4shared.com/file/78193529/f108c3fc/SJ_RealPlayer_1_0_18143028_00.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/78193281/73b5c1/ATT_Cellular_Video_v2.html
All in one solution
Use the attached file, it an all in one solution. It will install Real Player and Cingular Video and it's much smaller footprint. Just remember to change your user agent to HTC-8900 with Advanced Config and to run the Hidden proxy.
only problem with that cab is it will keep asking you to save them to the device first. my cab will stream them, no need to save them.
I've tried both with no success. Either way Real palyer does not even open. The 'Streaming Media' player opens and then errors out saying something about not being able to. I'm guessing that it is not set to be the default player in this rom. I'm using rup's 3.3 .
First off you need to change the Opera.ini file. Its located (some ROM's may vary) in the "Windows" under the "Opera9" folder.
Lately there have been a lot of errors "File re-entry not allowed" with Streaming Media Player. I think it is a compatibility issue with the ROM's.
If you are getting this error there is no need to change it to Real Player if you don't want to. I am not going to take credit for this, just in finding it. I would give the page where I found it, but unfortunately I cant remember where. Below is a cab, install it to your device and it should play video again just fine. The only problem right now is the fact that the player doesn't match the screen size, but at least the videos play.
Both these files are in my CAB FILES BELOW on 4shared under AT&T Fuze, cab's, "fixes".
karatche said:
I've tried both with no success. Either way Real palyer does not even open. The 'Streaming Media' player opens and then errors out saying something about not being able to. I'm guessing that it is not set to be the default player in this rom. I'm using rup's 3.3 .
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They won't work because streaming media player has registry settings to open when you click the button to stream the content. Most custom ROM's now come with it built in and make it uninstallable.
In order to change the "streaming content" to Real Player would require you to change those settings. Can be done, but without being able to delete the streaming media player, to me its just a waste of space.
KDKobes said:
First off you need to change the Opera.ini file. Its located (some ROM's may vary) in the "Windows" under the "Opera9" folder.
Lately there have been a lot of errors "File re-entry not allowed" with Streaming Media Player. I think it is a compatibility issue with the ROM's.
If you are getting this error there is no need to change it to Real Player if you don't want to. I am not going to take credit for this, just in finding it. I would give the page where I found it, but unfortunately I cant remember where. Below is a cab, install it to your device and it should play video again just fine. The only problem right now is the fact that the player doesn't match the screen size, but at least the videos play.
Both these files are in my CAB FILES BELOW on 4shared under AT&T Fuze, cab's, "fixes".
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So I'm resurrecting this thread because I'm sorta in the dark here. First off, it's taken me forever just to find a download of the AT&T CV cab file! (This is actually more about the blood feud between me and the XDA search engine. )
I seem to be missing something, though. Where do these two cabs, Opera.ini and Diamond Streaming Media, fit in the whole CV solution? Am I still supposed to install the 'ATT_Cellular_Video_v2.cab', but use this streaming media cab instead of the RealPlayer cab above? What if I already have streaming media installed? (Which I do. Using EnergyROM 3.0)
Also, for god only knows what reason, when I tried to start CV after installing the cab provided above, it started PIE, NOT Opera. And it said it couldn't find the "http://cingularvideo.cingular.com", which is what it defaulted to.
I've seen about a dozen postings about the Opera.ini file, but none of them tell you what to do after that! I suppose if you've gotten the "only on 3G" error, you're already far enough ahead of me to know that!
Anyway, If the CV app tries to get to a site that doesn't even exist, where do you go from there?!?
Hell, I don't even fully understand what the "CV" app itself does, if you can go through a browser and have some streaming video app installed, then what does this app do? Obviously, I've never even gotten that far!
BTW, I have tested to make sure my device it attached to the web. I can reach anywhere else. I'm also set up to use wap.cingular, and I have the hidden proxy installed.
Basically, I need help understanding which of the above installation files goes with which, and what the CV app is supposed to do when it starts, since I assume opening IE to go to an address it can't reach is not standard behavior!
Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks!
P.S. The Opera.ini cab above contains an "Opera.ini.txt" file. Shouldn't it just be Opera.ini?
Can someone recommend a streaming radio application for files such as Shoutcast? I cannot seem to find any, and I have also searched.
Thanks.
Resco Radio 1.90. If you do purchase it, I have modified the default skin to make it readable on VGA and to put 15 shortcut buttons on the screen instead of 10. Let me know if you need it.
If you have the stream-adress like
http://stream-hautdebit.frequence3.net:8000 or
http://house.mthN.net:8500
you can use MortPlayer.
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If you have the stream-adress like
http://stream-hautdebit.frequence3.net:8000 or
http://house.mthN.net:8500
you can use MortPlayer.
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Thats a good idea. Can I make a shortcut?
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Can someone recommend a streaming radio application for files such as Shoutcast? I cannot seem to find any, and I have also searched.
Thanks.
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www.condiuts.com
Pocket Player will do it and you don't even have to upload the links yourself. They have done the work for you. It works very nicely and Resco radio is also good. Just depends on what you want and for what. I have both and use both.
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Resco Radio 1.90. If you do purchase it, I have modified the default skin to make it readable on VGA and to put 15 shortcut buttons on the screen instead of 10. Let me know if you need it.
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Could you post a picture of your skin and does it work in landscape also?
I am using the default VGA skin and it is fine, but nothing really fancy about it.
Here is an image of the modification I made to the default skin, and a zip file with the skin change. I did not modify the landscape mode, only the portrait mode. Basically, all I changed was the size of the fonts so they would be easier to read on the VGA screen, and I made 15 buttons instead of 10. Unzip the .zip file and put the default.rs file in \Program Files\Resco Pocket Radio\Skins\default_vga\
I would suggest copying the one that is there already to a temp folder first, so if you do not like mine, you can always go back.
The one problem with 15 buttons is that you get less space for names. What I did was modify the file \Program Files\Resco Pocket Radio\radios\user_presets_fast.rrd with a text editor (notepad in windows xp). There is a line in there for each button (0 through 14). A sample line is:
CAT "Cat3"
RAD "Radio (io) Classical Favorites" "io Classical Fav" "Radio (io) Classical Favorites"
STR "http://cast.voxcdn.net:8000/2917-MP3-RadioIO-Classical-Favs-128" "128" "MP3" a
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The middle name of the three names in quotes is the display name on the button, so I edited it to be a shorter name. This is "Cat3" which means it is button 4 - or the first button on row 2.
I use the free version of kinoma which has no expiry, it works perfectly with all shoutcast and is searchable so all you have to put into it's search is either the name of the station you want or the genre of music.
It is excellent and pretty much trumps everything mentioned here when you factor in the price
How about Pandora? There's a cab floating around for that! It's not pretty (in VGA) but works...
Use MortPlayer, simply put yourself an m3u together, like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch1 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8100
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch2 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8200
#EXTINF:-1,.977 The 80s Channel
http://scfire-dtc-aa05.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040
#EXTINF:-1,.977 The Hitz Channel
http://scfire-mtc-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1074
and save it on your device or storage card.
Afterwards, add the m3u to your favorites, this way you can slide through your collection and all stations will become another playlist/album.
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Use MortPlayer, simply put yourself an m3u together, like:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ETN.fm Ch1 256k
http://192.87.65.61:8100
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That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.
midi1969 said:
That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.
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I use TCPMP - works nicely, loads fast -
midi1969 said:
That's cool, thanks! Can mort, or any other player besides wmp, play mms streams? I'd love to stream mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wpya on something other than wmp, but can't figure out how to do it. I've tried mort and pocketplayer.
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Try adding the mms as a regular stream, you can do so under favorites. Or try adding it in the m3u. Besides: If you open a station in Winamp you get many servers sorted by their webload. So if you copy only one, like i did, you may lose it someday. This never happened to me, just as a hint.
I'm particulary looking for a way to download the pls with the servers generated by the station as you listen into it and add it as a new favorite. Maybe it is possible to link mortplayer directly to the pls. I will try this on my way to work.
Edit: If you run into trouble, because your 3G-Provider is BLOCKING the stream after a couple of minutes try to open a vpn-connection to your home or office-server and route your webradio-traffic through it.
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I'm particulary looking for a way to download the pls with the servers generated by the station as you listen into it and add it as a new favorite. Maybe it is possible to link mortplayer directly to the pls. I will try this on my way to work.
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Well, that didn't work, i'll ask in the mortplayer forums ... You can add the generated m3u as a link (fe http://etn.fm/playlists/etn2beta.m3u) and the "loading favorites structure" screen loads a bit longer, but no success, it doesn't show up.
Edit: Works now! Trying to set up a php script now that simply includes the server m3u's...
All of my mp3's have correct tags, but for some reason android won't recognize them correctly, but for some reason, if I open the songs in iTag and save without changing anything, all the correct time info shows. How can I fix this without opening and saving each song individually? Also, I tried the Mp3 tag editor app, but that didn't work, only iTag seems to work
I'm having the same problem where most of my songs have "Unknown Artist" and i haven't found a working fix.
I have been able to successfully fix MOST (except 3 or 4) tags on my songs through PlayerPro. You could try longpressing the Unknown Artist group under the artist tab and change only 1 value by checking the radio button next to it. By doing this, PlayerPro edits all tags into a format that can be read by my OB and whilst its not quick, takes about 5-10mins to do, it is much easier than tinkering with tags on PC then copying, eww.
PROBLEM IS that whenever the sd card (where my music is stored) is unmounted from phone (through PC storage or a reboot) the tags are reverted back to their Unknown Artist state.
I would like to see a more concrete solution. Any help would be appreciated.
NOTE: This error has only been happening a few weeks after i got my phone and it was on official Froyo. Problem persisted into GB and Zeus but not any CM based roms (Mokee OS port CiCi, CM9 and CM7 nightly)
If you guys use iTunes to sync your music, use Salling Media Sync. My album art wasn't appearing and some tracks were with no artist.
I used this program, everything worked pretty well and it's free! Works with mac and windows.
http://www.salling.com/
I actually fixed it through Mp3 tag for windows by updating its type of tag, it worked for almost all afternoon my songs, problem came when I switched sd cards.
I'll try with the itunes things
I was thinking it could also be some sort of disk error issue since the problem only started occurring after a few weeks of using my phone. Maybe without 'safely removing device' some clusters have errors etc.
What program do u use to transfer your music files? I personally use notpod and save them on my ext.
You could also try changing the id3tag version using mediamonkey or something like that. Some tags are id3 v2.3 or whatever and some are a combination of other tag formats.
Sent from my LG-P970 using Tapatalk 2
change all the id tag to id3 v2.3 and you will be fine
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change all the id tag to id3 v2.3 and you will be fine
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been there, done that and it didn't work. Tried using MediaMonkey and mp3tag and this other one i can't remember what it was called and there was no change whatsoever.
Any other ideas?
FunkyGanja said:
been there, done that and it didn't work. Tried using MediaMonkey and mp3tag and this other one i can't remember what it was called and there was no change whatsoever.
Any other ideas?
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Well I updated the tag version a second time and synced through Salling (godsend app, made syncing so much easier, thanks nhanzes) and everything is fixed. I don't know which of the two things did it though