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Cover Art?

Does anyone know how TF3D loads cover art? Only a couple of my songs ever seem to have any art visible...

Ok; I've figured out how TF3D displays cover art - it completely ignore the hidden "AlbumArt**" files created by a WMP synch and uses the album art "embedded" in the file itself. Copying album art into your clipboard and "pasting" it in WMP (Right click on a song and left click on "Paste Album Art") tags the file with the album art in such a way that TF3D shows it. The next question then is how to do that en masse... Any suggestions?

SolusCado said:
Ok; I've figured out how TF3D displays cover art - it completely ignore the hidden "AlbumArt**" files created by a WMP synch and uses the album art "embedded" in the file itself. Copying album art into your clipboard and "pasting" it in WMP (Right click on a song and left click on "Paste Album Art") tags the file with the album art in such a way that TF3D shows it. The next question then is how to do that en masse... Any suggestions?
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It also picks up the folder.jpg file so if you keep that in each album's folder, you'll have all your album art.

Not work for me...
I'm putting my music into folders divided to Artist and in each artist folder there are folders with albums and music.
For example:
\Internal Storage\Music\Dream Theater\Falling Into Infinity\files.mp3
and for cover art:
\Internal Storage\Music\Dream Theater\Falling Into Infinity\Falling Into Infinity.jpg
But no covers.
What I'm doing wrong?
I don't want to put all my music into one folder! And all mp3 tags in files are OK.

OK, after a lot of experimentation, these are the steps that work perfectly for me.
Open WMP
Select all songs in the album, then right click -> Find Album Info
Select the appropriate information; this will define the album art
Select Sync and drag the album there
Synchronize
Reset Diamond
Voila - your album should be on the phone, with the album art as well.
Good luck!

pedmond said:
Open WMP
Good luck!
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Thanks, but I don't want use WMP for managing my music files. I'm looking for simple solution, without playlist, just to put files to any place i want, put jpg file with album cover and that is it. Just copy/paste. Without syncing with WMP and all other crap players.

DilbertZG said:
Not work for me...
I'm putting my music into folders divided to Artist and in each artist folder there are folders with albums and music.
For example:
\Internal Storage\Music\Dream Theater\Falling Into Infinity\files.mp3
and for cover art:
\Internal Storage\Music\Dream Theater\Falling Into Infinity\Falling Into Infinity.jpg
But no covers.
What I'm doing wrong?
I don't want to put all my music into one folder! And all mp3 tags in files are OK.
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You haven't bothered reading the Sticky thread on reading my articles before asking questions, have you? I've answered your q at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415063 , which is also a sticky thread...
All in all, create a Folder.jpg and that's all.

DilbertZG said:
Thanks, but I don't want use WMP for managing my music files. I'm looking for simple solution, without playlist, just to put files to any place i want, put jpg file with album cover and that is it. Just copy/paste. Without syncing with WMP and all other crap players.
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You don't need to sycn with the desktop WMP to have album art either - simple file copy will make sure it's transferred to the handset. Again, I recommend my dedicated bible.

pedmond said:
OK, after a lot of experimentation, these are the steps that work perfectly for me.
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You could have saved the time spent on experimenting by just reading my dedicated bible

Menneisyys said:
You could have saved the time spent on experimenting by just reading my dedicated bible
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Quite a comprehensive article that is... Thank you.
The most important step after copying the files is RESET! For some deep reason, it won't update all the images if you don't do that.

Menneisyys said:
You haven't bothered reading the Sticky thread on reading my articles before asking questions, have you? I've answered your q at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415063 , which is also a sticky thread...
All in all, create a Folder.jpg and that's all.
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Thank you, but i Know everything about ripping music and appopriate tagging. No problem with that.
The most confusing thing for me here was renaming that art image to "folder.jpg". This is confusinf, a named that file like name of the album folder and I see now that names must be exactly "folder.jpg". After renaming and soft-reset, everything is works fine.
Thanks again.

DilbertZG said:
Thank you, but i Know everything about ripping music and appopriate tagging. No problem with that.
The most confusing thing for me here was renaming that art image to "folder.jpg". This is confusinf, a named that file like name of the album folder and I see now that names must be exactly "folder.jpg". After renaming and soft-reset, everything is works fine.
Thanks again.
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Yup, it's a naming convention with WMP. For example, LCG Jukebox uses another naming convention incompatible with that of WMP.

Hm, I myself had some issues with album art. Not that it aint possible to listen to music without those, but thats not the reason we all bought us a diamond an ruined guarantee within the first 5 minutes.
To the Point: I found many ways in this forum to get my arts to display, but what i did not find is the following:
If you use the covers within the mp3tag (I tagged all of my mp3s with mp3tag) my diamond will show them immediately. BUT ONLY if the tags are ID3v2.3 ISO 8859-1 or ID3v2.3 UTF 16. It will not show on ID3v2.4 UTF 8 or any other non-conform ID Tag.
So if you have tagged your mp3s correctly, theres no need to sync playlists or whatever. Just copy the mp3s to your internal memory, go to the player tab in TF3D and voila, there they are, via a ~htc.cover.jpg or something like that. A soft-reset is unneccessary as well.
Im using Bepes German Rom 0.97_fixed btw.

Music - album art and the library

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)

bakman said:
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

ceevee369 said:
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?

Simplest way to get Album Art on TFlo3D if it's not automatic for you

1) Download/rip whatever your music into WMP
Before you sync anything go into the WMP library on the pc/laptop
2*)right click on the song you want to sync
go to advance tag editor
click on the pictures tab
if it has a picture, make sure that picture type is "front cover"
if there is no picture there, click add
if files come up in that window then view them as thumbnails (to make sure the picture is correct)
If there is one called folder.jpg, click add and make sure you select picture type as "front cover" If there isn't one called folder, then click another one, preferably with large in the title.
if no files come up in that window then you have to go get yourself an album cover picture.
go to a site like this one: http://albumart.org/
and find a cover, right click on it and choose "copy"
go back to your library, right click on the 'empty' CD icon where it says paste here, and choose "paste"
then go back to 2*)
then put this song in your sync list and the album art will sync along with the song.
it's a long process for a whole album, but it works and hopefully someone will come up with a way to tag all the tracks in an album at once!

Catching up on this thread,
I have tried this and found that when I have put the 'album.jpg 'file and set it as a cover(Front) for each mp3 when I go back the .jpg file as gone, regardless of which .jpg file I use!
I have tried to select all files and then use the advance tag editor but the same problem comes up?
Am I doing something wrong?

I don't know why it's not working for you, it worked fine for me. It's a right pain! Why doesn't it just work?!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I can't help you with this, maybe someone with more knowledge than me can step in?

I'm using MediaMonkey, it's the best tool for arranging, renaming, id3tagging and album adding tool there is.
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Here's a video on how to.
http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-23906.html
And it's free!

marisa4755 said:
I don't know why it's not working for you, it worked fine for me. It's a right pain! Why doesn't it just work?!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I can't help you with this, maybe someone with more knowledge than me can step in?
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May I ask what version of WMP you are using, I am on version 11 and the jpg just disappears when I go back to look at the picture tab?
Very Bezar!
I have tried MM before but not looked at the tag element fully, which I will now do!

theres a much easier way, a way that doesnt require you to embed all files with art.....
folder.jpg
then copy and paste the artist/album folde

copy and paste where, because I have tried 'moving' the folder.jpg file on to the device, also renaming it to ~hTC_folder.jpg (or album name) (which the Diamond seems to do) and the other jpg files including the large and small?

mediamonkey is awesome.
it can automatically find the albums on amazon.
amazing. already did 10 albums

so3 said:
copy and paste where, because I have tried 'moving' the folder.jpg file on to the device, also renaming it to ~hTC_folder.jpg (or album name) (which the Diamond seems to do) and the other jpg files including the large and small?
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Copy and paste into a folder on your internal storage.
Create a folder called MUSIC on the route of your internal storage. Then in that folder create folders for each artist, eg BOBBY BROWN, then within that another folder or folders for album/s eg DONT BE CRUEL. Put the album MP3s in DONT BE CRUEL and dump a folder.jpg of the album art in there.
Done.
Thats how I organised all of my music for years, folder.jpg - so all I do is copy and paste the album, I dont use this Window media player sync nonsense.

Ok, that's interesting will give it a go as well as looking at MM. Cheers People.

HTC Hero Music app in DrizzyDrake Rom 2.8

All,
I have the current DrizzyDrake 2.8 Hero ROM installed and I'm loving it. very, very little lag....
However, does anyone know wher to put the album art for it to show in the music widget? I have the album .jpgs in the same folder as the music but the artwork is still blank on the widget.
Cheers, JJ

Amdathlonuk said:
All,
I have the current DrizzyDrake 2.8 Hero ROM installed and I'm loving it. very, very little lag....
However, does anyone know wher to put the album art for it to show in the music widget? I have the album .jpgs in the same folder as the music but the artwork is still blank on the widget.
Cheers, JJ
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I use "Tag&rename" (it's shareware) to add the jpg's to the ID3 tags. It works fine, but does anyone know any freeware, possibly for Linux?

The android stores the album art on a seperate folder in the sd card. I think it is the same folder, albumthumbs. It has a file that is synced over when you sync your music, and there is no way to just drop the art in. Do the following:
1. assuming you are using wmp, highlight all of the tracks in said album that you want to sync, and right click
2. go to advanced tag editor
3. pictures tab
3. select a pic for your cover art (can retrieve from amazon mp3 or wherever)
4. choose cover (front
5. save and resync
6. before the album art will display you will need to play the song for it to update
(note: even if wmp is displaying an album cover this will still need to be done, upon resync the albumart file will be stored in the folder automatically)

AdrianK said:
I use "Tag&rename" (it's shareware) to add the jpg's to the ID3 tags. It works fine, but does anyone know any freeware, possibly for Linux?
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I use http://perl.thiesen.org/scripts/id3image to add a JPG to an MP3 (uses the APIC tag). It's a commandline PERL script.
Having said that, I'm having some problems with the HTC MP3 player picking up some of the ID3 information - JPG corruption, ID3v1 .vs. ID3v2, etc. Still need to do some research before copying over my 8 gigs
Cheers,
Rich

album art grabber will grab all album covers automatically.

gtrplr71 said:
album art grabber will grab all album covers automatically.
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yeah this is a great little app, also works well in conjunction with mp3 tagger.

Music beta and album art

Does anyone know how to edit the album art in the new Music Beta? Some of my album covers are blurry and I want to import new ones, but can seem to find a place to do it.

i use iTunes to do that. I had hoped that google music would have a desktop client similar to itunes. oh well.

oh gosh. Thank Gawd Android does not have bloatware like iTunes. ITunes borders on painful to use and is also increasingly useless. Why should I need to connect to it to upgrade when I can upgrade ota on my Xoom.

Use MP3tag to edit stuff like that. It's good for batch editing too

What would be great is if when you upload to the cloud storage (whenever the invites actually comes in) it can auto search and update album art.
However, I just use MediaMonkey to manage all of my desktop music and album art, etc. Very powerful program without the headache of iTunes.

You can edit tag information, including album art, in the web interface @ music.google.com
Click on the little arrow in the lower right hand corner of the song title and select "Edit song info".

I wish I had such problems. Still haven't gotten my invite.