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Flipping thru Albums in TouchFlo3D

I´ve got one question. I have put several Albums into Internal Storage, but I can only flip thru the songs of the currently selected Album under "Library". I just cannot figure out how I can flip along the several albums on the TF3D Music tab.
Anyone knows how to do it?
Thanx in advance

The base music tab only shows you the songs in your "Now Playing"... You have to click on Library to access the albums tab...

Damn, what a shame. Would have looked nice flipping thru the different albums with different cover-jpg´s in it, just like in the photo-tab

Hamudi2000 said:
Damn, what a shame. Would have looked nice flipping thru the different albums with different cover-jpg´s in it, just like in the photo-tab
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you can do this, but you need to select the All Songs tab in the library, then it will sho all of the albums/artwork. I'm still having a wierd issue where it won't show some album art, while it will show others. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for what it shows.

I have found that if your embed the album art in the audio file directly (instead of relying on folder-based image tags), it will consistently display the album art...
I just downloaded Tag-And-Rename yesterday... it can automatically update all your audio files with the corresponding folder.jpg files...

davsug said:
you can do this, but you need to select the All Songs tab in the library, then it will sho all of the albums/artwork. I'm still having a wierd issue where it won't show some album art, while it will show others. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for what it shows.
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ok, got it. Allthough that´s not what I was hoping to get, because it´s playing all songs of all albums mixedup ( alphabetical track name order)

Hamudi2000 said:
ok, got it. Allthough that´s not what I was hoping to get, because it´s playing all songs of all albums mixedup ( alphabetical track name order)
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That's not good. Are you sure their track numbers are tagged. If so, that's a really annoying problem that HTC should have spotted.

Dark Fire said:
That's not good. Are you sure their track numbers are tagged. If so, that's a really annoying problem that HTC should have spotted.
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yes they are definetely tagged.

Please post comments about how to get the album art to show in the TouchFLO 3D interface here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397819
Syncing from Windows Media Player on the desktop definitely doesn't work.

Hamudi2000 said:
yes they are definetely tagged.
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Hmmm. Hopefully someone here will come up with a fix eventually, because virtually nobody wants to listen to their albums in alphabetical order...

Flip / Browse / Scroll through music albums (in TouchFlo 3D)

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.

SolusCado said:
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.
SolusCado said:
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

Flipping Album Art

Hi all,
This probably has a really simple answer but I am baffled...
When I first got my diamond I could flick through the album art.
Since then I have been listening to one of the albums.
How do I get it to go back to the album list so that I can flick through all albums again? I seem to be only able to flick through song in 1 albumn i selected :-(
Thanks in advance,
Darrell

Hi, choose 'library', then the icon on the far right (all songs) then go back (up) and all your music is there again.

nope...
Hi,
thanks for the reply, but that did not work...
on my TF3D screen I can only see the art from one album (the one I was playing last). Flicking simply flicks through the songs it that album.
Selecting "all song" and then "up" simply goes back to where I was before I did that.
I want to be able to go back to the "top" and flick through all the album art (just like the demo video from HTC quite clearly shows - even in the video clip on the device).
BR
Darrell

darrelluk said:
Hi,
thanks for the reply, but that did not work...
on my TF3D screen I can only see the art from one album (the one I was playing last). Flicking simply flicks through the songs it that album.
Selecting "all song" and then "up" simply goes back to where I was before I did that.
I want to be able to go back to the "top" and flick through all the album art (just like the demo video from HTC quite clearly shows - even in the video clip on the device).
BR
Darrell
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As far as I can see, it is not possible to flick only through albums. On TF3D screen you always flick trough songs. In TF3D-demo-video is always only one song in a album. So that suggest you to flick trhough albums.
Or am I wrong???

go to "all songs" and activate one song. go to tf3d and you are done.

Yes you can only flick through songs. Although it may look like you're flicking through albums.. If you're trying to get all your songs/albums back on TF3D, go into Library > All songs, and start a song from there.. it will bring up all the songs in your library into TF3D's music plugin.

thanks...
thanks...
that is what I was looking for

wallpaper ?

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.

Hiya
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?
Thanks!

Lyrics don't show up on music app

Hi mates.. i've been struggling to get the lyrics to work.. eventhough i am connected to the internet none of my songs display their lyrics when in lyrics mode.. the app did download, however, the album covers.. when i am on lyrics mode, the lyrics button apeers but dimmed, so i can't select it..
thanks in advance..

Have you enabled it in Music > Settings > Lyrics?

nobnut said:
Have you enabled it in Music > Settings > Lyrics?
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Yes, it is enabled..
do i have to buy the songs or have sound hound pro? they are just some mp3 i had downloaded before..

You don't have to buy anything.
You might have a problem with the MP3 tags in your tracks. If the tag entries are incorrect or missing, then the lookup won't work properly. It also depends on whether there are lyrics available for your songs. You could try a few songs at random to check.
I can get lyrics for approximately 90-95% of my music library.

nobnut said:
You don't have to buy anything.
You might have a problem with the MP3 tags in your tracks. If the tag entries are incorrect or missing, then the lookup won't work properly. It also depends on whether there are lyrics available for your songs. You could try a few songs at random to check.
I can get lyrics for approximately 90-95% of my music library.
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Thanks for the reply.. i think it does knows the songs because it got the album covers.. and the musics are quite normal.. avenged sevenfold, Pink Floyd, James morrison, Alter Bridge, Foo Fighters..
getting a little frustated.. lol maybe it doesn't work on every country?

That's a possibility. Have you tried WiFi and mobile data to download?

nobnut said:
That's a possibility. Have you tried WiFi and mobile data to download?
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yes, both.. :S it connects to GraceNotes but no lyrics at all.. only album art..

It took some time on mine but it eventually came. Just stay on the song until it comes. Some are just plain lyrics you have to scroll through, the other is the entire karaoke experience with auto scrolling background glitter and all that stuff.
Also check your tags with mp3tag, it should be something like "id3v2.3 lyrics" or something
No reason for it not to work

Will.1 said:
It took some time on mine but it eventually came. Just stay on the song until it comes. Some are just plain lyrics you have to scroll through, the other is the entire karaoke experience with auto scrolling background glitter and all that stuff.
Also check your tags with mp3tag, it should be something like "id3v2.3 lyrics" or something
No reason for it not to work
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Well mine's not working, I tried staying on the song, the song finished and the lyrics didn't come , I think that my mp3tags are fine because the album arts were downloaded without any problems..

Hi, I have same experience. I tried hunderds of song a lyric downloading not working. Album arts and photos are downloaded correctly. When I switch on full screen mode, I see visualisation and for a monet message acces to GraceNote.
Thanks for help