Hi,
I am having trouble getting the stock walkman player to display album art.
In the past I have embedded all the album art in the .mp3 using mp3 tag editor, but for some reason they are not displaying on my T. I can not remember if they were displayed on .303, but they definatley dont show on .195
if i put a jpg in the folder it shows that, but part of the point of mp3's is the ability to embed the album art and other details in the file..
I am trying to redownload it all again, and re~embed it, lets see how it goes.
Does anyone else have this issue?
Did you use media go to sync? Media Go has a bug where it causes all of the album art not to show.
Even if you fix it (re-transfer all your music through another means) it still isn't going to re-update the media database so you have to wipe the media settings and force a re-scan through a reboot, etc.
The walkman app does work with showing album art through the id3 tag.
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Did you use media go to sync? Media Go has a bug where it causes all of the album art not to show.
Even if you fix it (re-transfer all your music through another means) it still isn't going to re-update the media database so you have to wipe the media settings and force a re-scan through a reboot, etc.
The walkman app does work with showing album art through the id3 tag.
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No, It worked fine on my neo, i just brought that sd card with all the mp3's on it over to the T.
I have already tried to clear data for walkman app and run rescan media.
I will try to clear data in media storage and try again
Yeah the album art is cached in the media storage, not the walkman data.
I just cleared that data in settings, then it couldnt see any music files at all. I have just resored a backp and will try again.
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I just cleared that data in settings, then it couldnt see any music files at all. I have just resored a backp and will try again.
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Yeah because it has to perform a rescan to actually pick up all of your media again and re-create track lists. The data is stored in the media settings so if you wipe it, your current media lists are gone until it rescans.
Also the "rescan media" app doesn't actually work to force a rescan of the media.
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Yeah because it has to perform a rescan to actually pick up all of your media again and re-create track lists. The data is stored in the media settings so if you wipe it, your current media lists are gone until it rescans.
Also the "rescan media" app doesn't actually work to force a rescan of the media.
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ok, if i restart if finds images for the photo app quite quickly. I have over 1000 mp3s, i wil wait and see...
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thanks,
It seems to be solved...just need to let the meda scan finish then delete the jpegs i downloaded to be sure.
If it works this thread will be [solved]
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Hi all,
I was going through my gallery this evening, and im finding it really annoying that ALL my album art is in there
Anybody any ideas if its possible to hide/remove images from the gallery? Or will I simply have to remove my album art(not that I really care about it!)?
create an empty file call .nomedia in ur album art folder and run the media scanner/dis-mount-remount ur sd/restart the phone. All folder with the .nomedia file will be ignored (image, music & video).
I am having the issue with album art showing up in the gallery but am hesitant to use .nomedia.
Will my music still be found if the album art is in the same folder as the music?
Will the album art be found for the music apps if there is .nomedia in the folder?
It seems we should be able to just specify where the gallery should look for pictures instead of scanning the entire SD.
The music app still functions fine. I have all of my album art embedded in my mp3s but when I had them as separate files they still showed up in the music app even though I had the .nomedia file.
You can easily delete that file and reboot if you want to go back.
Guys, I'm obsessed with keeping a well-organized music library.
I add album art, lyrics and all details to each and every song I download.
I use TagNRaname to achieve this.
Now the problem. On both the Music Player and UberMusic (or any other player), some of my songs display incorrect album art. Like there one of two images that are repeated on several songs, even though those songs have separate embedded album art!
Please help. How do I solve this!
Try 'mp3tag' to add song details.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
The details are added fine!
Its the phone that messes them up!
I have copied the same music to my iPod and the song art is fine there.
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The details are added fine!
Its the phone that messes them up!
I have copied the same music to my iPod and the song art is fine there.
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if you are on windows, go to view tab on folder options and check the first one, i.e. Always show icons, never thumbnails.
after selecting this, copy the songs again to your phone, it will show the correct album art.
i had many situations when windows messed up the album art.
Take back the song to your computer and check if the picture is correct.
Also try to wipe the thumbnail database.
Wiping cache didn't help.
This is so weird. Read.
When I copy the song with the messed up art to PC, it has the art embedded, but it doesn't show it. However, when I switch to Large Icons view mode, the art shows. Then, if I go back to Medium Icons, it shows it.
I suppose the problem above is due to the Windows Thumbnail cache. But... why the device? Why is it not showing the art correctly? And what criteria is it using in choosing the random art that it does show in place of the correct art?
did you select the option i have mentioned? did it work?
i believe windows chooses the album art of whichever song you play first in a folder and applies it to all songs which doesnt have any album art.
I even changed the SD Card today lol
And the Windows thing.. No that I don't use. I delete all the album art files created by Windows. I myself embed art into the mp3 files using a software. That way, the song itself has the art embedded in it.
My music library displays correct artwork in my iPod. The problem only exists on the Galaxy, and that too only in some songs.
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I even changed the SD Card today lol
And the Windows thing.. No that I don't use. I delete all the album art files created by Windows. I myself embed art into the mp3 files using a software. That way, the song itself has the art embedded in it.
My music library displays correct artwork in my iPod. The problem only exists on the Galaxy, and that too only in some songs.
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Windows is definitely messy with the album art. even if you delete the album art, it still shows up messed when you play it with windows player.
for me, selecting the Always show icons, never thumbnails in folder options did the trick.
If you use your Ipod, why dont you try adding album art in Itunes and copy it back to windows and check.
I have the exact same issue. Being a professional DJ, I have to keep my music well organised, well tagged and I also make sure each track has its own album art embedded in it.
I use Media Monkey to tag.
Now, on my Galaxy S, no matter what player I use, some tracks show album art of another track and its just 2 or 3 pictures that show repeatedly on these tracks that are messed up. Its about 30% of the music that shows messed up embedded album art. Some tracks do not show a picture at all despite being tagged with album art. When I mount my SD on the PC and launch Media Monkey, all album art shows up nice and correct. Also, in Windows thumbnail view, all the art shows up correctly too.
I tried clearing Media storage data under applications but no luck. This is so utterly annoying!
What the hell is it with Android and embedded album art?
Some programs just dont encode the album art properly, ive had this happen a few times try this...
download mp3tag - http://download.mp3tag.de/mp3tagv249setup.exe
1 - drag you song that you want to change/update art into mp3tag.
2 - press shift+alt+5 and then change it to "import cover from file"
3 - click save.
the correct album art will now show up on your phone
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I had this same problem and it drove me nuts.
I finally realized that android prefers to use album art instead of my (very specific) COVER ART
If i had several songs from the same album, they all had the same art... and of course i didnt want this because I had previously downloaded art for every song specifically.
So what i did was, from my pc, deleted all the album names using "mp3tag" software,
Now the songs had no album reference, so the specific cover art was now displayed.
Hi,
Tried googling about my really ANNOYING problem. My Music app or Winamp no matter which one since they all use the same Media "List" from android gets totally messed up.
Ie, if I want to go see Albums, It makes a "Album" in the list of each song in the Album. So if I want to listen to a Album I choose a Album from the List but It just contains One(1) song which is in that Album.
I cleared data for Music and Winamp and used Dev Tools Media scanner with no luck. Any tips?
I would try removing all the music on your SD card and recopying it. (If you have a card reader I would use that because it will be much faster then via usb)
Hi all,
I just put an album into the Music folder on my internal storage and had hoped it would appear in the Walkman app but it's not showing up and can I hell find any sort of wizard or setting for it to scan\rescan the internal memory for music files!?
Has anyone any suggestions? I like the sound of the built in Walkman app and don't want to have to use Google Music or some other third party app to play my music.
Thanks in advance,
M
go into settings -> apps -> and look for s.th. like media server or media storage. then delete the data. restart your phone, finally.
after rebooting, just wait a couple of minutes.
or you can go to the folder where your music files are being stored and open one of the mp3s from the file browser, Walkman app should now do a full scan of your music folder.
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go into settings -> apps -> and look for s.th. like media server or media storage. then delete the data. restart your phone, finally.
after rebooting, just wait a couple of minutes.
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Bingo, this worked mate and thanks a million I assume now when I add other albums it will just find them automatically?
Cheers,
M
mark.m.moran said:
I assume now when I add other albums it will just find them automatically?
M
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Sorry, I don't know. I guess it won't find them immediately, but a after a while maybe...
Still won't work
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go into settings -> apps -> and look for s.th. like media server or media storage. then delete the data. restart your phone, finally.
after rebooting, just wait a couple of minutes.
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I am using Doomsday v5 ROM. Walkman and Album won't detect my files from sdcard/ex_sdcard. I did your steps given, but still doesn't work.
When you're on the main now playing screen, is there any way of accessing the rest of an album? Like on an iPod you can click on the album art and it brings up the other tracks you have in that album. I know you can go to search and then find the album, just wondered if there was a quicker way? I think pressing the album art in Walkman just brings up favourite, add to or the button that links to the song on Youtube.
Also, is it normal that when clicking on an artist in My Library, it takes a fair few seconds for their albums and songs to come up? Shouldn't this be instant?
Click the Queue button top right (next to the album title).
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Click the Queue button top right (next to the album title).
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Thanks
Also, is it normal that when clicking on an artist in My Library, it takes a fair few seconds for their albums and songs to come up? Shouldn't this be instant?
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If you're using an SD card it may be a slow card. Get a class 10 card (minimum 10mB/s non-fragmented sequential write speed)
Try NexMusic. Best music app I've come across so far. You just swipe to the left on album art to get to the song list.
Developed by a fellow xda guy Btw.
Hey, I really like the walkman app but I seem to have a problem. After syncing with Media Go (or transferring the music files manually), I noticed that some of my albums are not displaying their album art properly. I used a third party tag-editor software on my PC to make sure that all the files have the proper album art, but the Walkman app simply does not show them.
Media Go and Windows Media Player has no issues. Shows everything properly. Is this a problem with the app? Is there anyway to fix other than using a tag-editor software?
EDIT:
Force stopping the app and/or clearing the cache solves the problem. Now my collection is just as it should be.