a quick question, how do you change the background wallpaper in the music and videos hub? My hd7 has picked an album art as the background but I can't find anyway to change it!?
Thanks
It displays an image of the last played artist. You can't change it manually.
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I have the same issue. The Music and Videos hub picked a picture of Michael Jackson when I first synced music onto the phone and has not changed since. I have listened to several different artists since but no change.
I like Michael Jackson's early albums and have Thriller, Bad and Off the Wall on my phone. All good. But, the photo on my background is one of his post post post op images where he looks like a strange hybrid of himself. Bad.
Oh well, I may do a hard reset and then listen to Sheryl Crow right away so that I have someone nicer to look at when browsing my music ;-)
try streaming a common artist over Zune Pass, and that may change it
I've noticed that the last Artist played over Zune Marketplace, like previewing a song shows up in the image. I've played my Zune's collection plenty of times but only the last artist played via Market shows up.
Play an artist, whether it be from your personal collection or from the Marketplace. Once the song starts playing, and you see the artist's background image appear, hit the Start button to get back to the Start screen and the music+videos panel should change to reflect that artist.
It seems that the music+videos panel's background photo only updates when you exit the music+videos hub. So if you exit the player while playing a song with no background image, the hub panel will not update and will continue to reflect whatever artist you played last that had an image when you last exited the player.
Otherwise the change is automatic and you cannot customize what background image it displays. Unless you manually play your artist and then immediately exit.
How come mine do not show the current song album cover as background, both at live tile and on the music+video hub? I already downloaded zune SW to my pc and was able to sync (thru USB) my personal music collection to phone. I currently do not have subcription to zune pass but I already activated my zune profile that's linked to windows live ID. Any suggestion how to activate the album cover on both live tile and hub?
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Hi all,
I have finally managed to get the album art to be displayed in the Touch Flo 3D. When I select a song from the library, the correct image is shown. However, I'm still not able to flip / browse / scroll through the different albums which are stored in the 4GB internal memory. Flo 3D just doesn't display the albums, only individual songs.
When I just unpacked the Diamond, there were two demo albums (with one song) stored in the device memory. Those were displayed correctly, but I've erased those demo albums, because the songs were not my style.
It seems that the Internal Storage is not scanned in a proper way to display the albums, because I get the message "Geen muziek gevonden", which is Dutch for "No music found". But the strange thing is, is that the individual songs are selectable through the library.
I used Windows Media Player 11 to synchronize my music albums. Anyone having similar problems, because I could not find a thread on this.
Is the album art included in the tags? If not you could try that. I don't know if WMP does that, but media monkey and other free apps do. If it doesn't even work then somethings probably not right.
I've added the album art in the tags using MediaMonkey. Before that, the images were not even shown, but as I said, I've managed to fix that. The only problem that remains is that I'm not able to scroll through the albums. Am I missing something? How do you select album flipping? Is this a special combination?
There are a lot of ways to show up album art. Mediamonkey works but i just put the song under content/music, create an folder with the artist name and put the song with a jpg picture in that map. Rename the picture to folder.jpg and you're device creates the album art. Under the touchflow select library and play the song so it shows up.
It sounds like your issue is not in getting album art to show at this point, but in getting the flip interface to show albums rather than songs, correct? I'm afraid you are mistaken about the original configuration. The flip interface always has and will continue to merely show songs. It's just that the original samples only had one song per album, so it looked like it was showing you individual albums. To browse through your albums, you need to drill down into the appropriate screen in the library. The flip interface will only show the songs in your active playlist.
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It sounds like your issue is not in getting album art to show at this point, but in getting the flip interface to show albums rather than songs, correct?
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Exactly my point.
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I'm afraid you are mistaken about the original configuration. The flip interface always has and will continue to merely show songs. It's just that the original samples only had one song per album, so it looked like it was showing you individual albums. To browse through your albums, you need to drill down into the appropriate screen in the library. The flip interface will only show the songs in your active playlist.
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Hmmm, could that be the case? Let me settle with this explanation (for now). Thanks!
I have a stock Sprint TP. I noticed too that the Albums disappeared from the flip interface in TF3D after playing a song. As stated above, to get back to being able to Flip between songs on Albums you need to go to the Music tab, select Library from the bottom then navigate to All Songs tab, select Menu > add to Playlist. Now all the songs in your library are in your playlist and will be displayed on the main Music tab in TF3D.
gbrailsford, thanks that worked great for me! I used windows media player to sync songs and put the album covers through
Hi There,
In my TouchFlow3D Music Tab, I am getting a very weird bug where the Music Library can read and display some info, but not other info. For example, as you can see in the attached screen shots, I can see my Albums, Artists, Composers, and Genres, but any display that shows song titles and artists is completely lacking information and only displays "Title/Text".
Even weirder is that the main TF3D Tab Display (CoverFlow-Style) displays the info with no problem at all. In fact, even if I click on one of the Title/Text Songs to play from the Library, when it loads into the main player, the info is right there.
And, the library looks fine in Windows Media Player.
What is going on?
Same here but even worst, first some of my music files disapeared from TouchFlow3D Music Tab, now some playlist, others are doubled with one empty. Any comments?
Mine shows music but not album art.
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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In the diamond 1 you could have all my albums in touchflo player, and scroll trough them, but i can only 1 song at time on diamond 2, what iam i doing wrong ? cant we have all albums ?
The TF3D music tab displays only your "Now Playing" songs. If you are playing through a single album, you will only see that one album cover on-screen. It is NOT like the iPhone's coverflow where you can flip through the album covers to select what to play next.
If you create a playlist containing say ten songs, each from a different album, and then start playing that, then you will see on the screen the first three covers and you can flip through them one at a time.
This is pretty useless and I don't recall ever flipping through the covers in that way except when I want to go "ooh pretty".
It's another reason I've dumped TF3D. Pretty but useless.
thats very diffrent from dianond 1, there i had all my albums on the "music player", this on diamond 2 sucks. the only wayto have more songs is if i create playlists, and that sucks much, would have been much easier to be able to pick an entire album to scroll trough on player screen
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I'm not typically into finding flaws and crying about things but this is a bit annoying, specially when it happens to your favorite artist..
I was listening to Noisia's Hostile Takeover and apparently RBL Posse also has an an album with the same name....so Noisia becomes RBL posse ...
I don't want this as my Zune Tile BG...plz help
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I'm not typically into finding flaws and crying about things but this is a bit annoying, specially when it happens to your favorite artist..
I was listening to Noisia's Hostile Takeover and apparently RBL Posse also has an an album with the same name....so Noisia becomes RBL posse ...
I don't want this as my Zune Tile BG...plz help
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I think you need to check the tags on your mp3s on your PC mate
Jim Coleman said:
I think you need to check the tags on your mp3s on your PC mate
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No it happens with stuff from the zune store as well, my phone is just filled with zune pass stuff and it happens, it's usually when zune doesn't have a picture for the artist it uses the previous artist played.
is there a way we can rewrite the info and change the info...
Zune > Collection > Music > (right click on album) > Select "Update album info"
Search and select artist and album, then just find an album on Zune with the album art you want... click through 'til the end of the options and the album art will be replaced.
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nobnut said:
Zune > Collection > Music > (right click on album) > Select "Update album info"
Search and select artist and album, then just find an album on Zune with the album art you want... click through 'til the end of the options and the album art will be replaced.
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Thanx but my issue is different...my WP7 HD7 has an ugly picture of three guys WHO AREN'T NOISIA (my fav artist)
Is there a way we can change the background fullscreen image (NOT ALBUM art)??
I had the same thing happen with Nero, on the PC it gets the right image, but on the phone I get the wrong one, and on the phone it shows the wrong albums when I look for more albums by artist.