Hi all,
I'm using the stock music player on my Note. I really like the stock player and I don't need all those extra functions from the music player on the Play store. But there's a problem, the music player shows incorrect album artwork. This only happens to the songs with the same album name. For example, I have 5 single songs, each of them have their own artwork. They don't belong in an album, so I left the ID3 album tag blank. On the phone, these 5 singles are recognized in the "Unknown Album" album. Because the phone thinks these five songs are in the "same" album, it only reads the first album artwork, and applies it to all five songs.
I've already tried using cover art downloader, album art grabber, they work great for American songs. But I have a lot of Chinese songs that don't belong in their database, so there's no way for me to fix the album artwork for these foreign songs.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Or are you guys experiencing the same problem?
Thanks
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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.
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
hi there everyone .
can anyone explain me how do i play music files that i stored on the internal storage , thrue the music TAB ?
thanx
Music tab?
Select left softkey (Library) and choose the album / playlist you would like to listen to. The first icon in the library is the currently selected playlist. Then Artists, Albums, Playlists, All Songs, Genres, Composers and finally Purchased.
Of course to be able to play tracks, you need to have synced some first using Windows Media Player. One further note... sometimes Media Player names the album art something strange which Music Player doesn't recognise, so to make sure your album art is displayed, use file explorer to rename the album art in each of your synced albums to 'Folder'.
e.g. \Internal Storage\Music\Girls Aloud\Tangled Up\Album Art.jpg - rename to Folder.jpg (Sorry about the Girls Aloud reference... it's my wifes', honestly!!)
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I bought 'Anthems' Ministry Of Sound Electronic 80's Volume 2 from Amazon MP3 and it shows in Music as about 60 different 'Albums' each with one song in it. Perhaps 2 songs if there is more than one track by a particular artist on the compilation. This is not good as I can't play the Album.
I imported the set of MP3s into iTunes, and it shows on iTunes and on my iPod as a single album. Must have got that from the ID3 tags, I guess?
I deleted the album from my Amazon MP3 folder on the Galaxy, then used DoubleTwist to import it back onto the Galaxy from my iTunes library, and it /still/ has 60 different 'Albums'.
How can I get this album to show as one Album? I've tried the Galaxy stock Music player, and MixZing and Zimly. They all show it as multiple albums.
I'm trying to get rid of my iPod and use the Galaxy as my main music source, but things like this are getting me down.
Please help!
Thanks
Done some searching and I find that compilation albums are a sore point in Android and no app will sort them properly. A lot of my music is multi artist compilation and it's just a mess in any player app that I can find. Just tried winamp too.
Guess I won't be replacing my ipod after all
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Just use the folder option in the library to play the album.
Intratech said:
Just use the folder option in the library to play the album.
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Not sure what that means - if I look with Astro or My Files apps, each song is in a folder of its own, hanging off the 'Music' folder on my external SD. Single artist albums have all the songs in an Artist/Album/Song hierarchy.
it was probably done that way by doubletwist.
Download media monkey, copy the compilation, go into media monkey, find that copy, then using media monkey select all tracks, and change album name to whatever you want. Done!
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Had this issue, it appears it's an ID3 tag error.
You can fix it by getting an app called ID3 fixer.
Select the folder that holds your music and set the charset to "US-ASCII (English)"
If you still have issues, try different charsets.
I sync my music using Windows Media Player. Almost all of my songs have album art that displays fine in WMP. For some reason, only about 30% of the songs I sync to my Cappy have their album art displayed in the List or Now Playing views. In WMP it's easy to see why a song doesn't display album art because those files are visible within the folders (they have cryptic names and sizes, but all have a Folder.jpg file of the art), but Android only shows the music file. Looking at the folders for the songs that display correctly compared to ones that don't I see no difference. I used to have an app on WinMo that fixed issues with album art, but no such app exists on Android. Any ideas what is causing this? I want all my songs to display album art instead of that goofy blurred color thing.
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I sync my music using Windows Media Player. Almost all of my songs have album art that displays fine in WMP. For some reason, only about 30% of the songs I sync to my Cappy have their album art displayed in the List or Now Playing views. In WMP it's easy to see why a song doesn't display album art because those files are visible within the folders (they have cryptic names and sizes, but all have a Folder.jpg file of the art), but Android only shows the music file. Looking at the folders for the songs that display correctly compared to ones that don't I see no difference. I used to have an app on WinMo that fixed issues with album art, but no such app exists on Android. Any ideas what is causing this? I want all my songs to display album art instead of that goofy blurred color thing.
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There are a few apps that will download the album art, but what I think it is that the ones that work might have the info embeded in the id3 tags. Just a thought.
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There are a few apps that will download the album art, but what I think it is that the ones that work might have the info embeded in the id3 tags. Just a thought.
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Yeah, I thought that, but I do that for all my mp3s. There's no rhyme or reason why some work and some don't. I'll give the Market a look.
It is possibly the format of the tags. I use Mp3tag on Windows to tag my files. I write ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags to the files. It's a free program, the dev accepts donations.
I really like mp3tagger pro (about $1.30) from the market for tagging files on the phone. Dev Site It found album art for some of my files that programs on my PC did not locate (Media Monkey, Album Art Downloader and Mp3tag).
I like this free app to fix album art on my phone.
Album Art Grabber
http://timothyjc.blogspot.com/2010/08/album-art-grabber.html
if you want to fix the situation in your pc's music library... try embedding the art in the tag...
though I don't think that is necessary. as none of mine is embedded. I have a 'cover.jpg' file in every folder though... and those images then show up in my gallery until I delete them. (after the cover thumbnails have been made
Thanks, guys. I ended up going with ID3Tagger because it was the only one that does WMA and other formats besides MP3. I often use WMA because the quality is the same as a 128k file, but the file sizes are smaller. Tried the free version and liked it enough to buy the paid one. It isn't fast when you have as many songs as I have, but it works and well.
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.