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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...

Music Sync Issue (Unknown Artist)

I have searched far and wide through this forum, and also googled it, and there doesn't seem to be an answer, so I will bring it up again. I have imported pretty much all of my music with iTunes, which tagged and organized all my music. However, when I put my music onto my nexus one, many many albums get sorted into "unknown artist" when all of my music is nicely sorted in folders by artists. This seems very strange to me. People have suggested double twist and a few other various programs, but no one has given any input as to whether these programs worked. Does anyone have an answer for this?

As I was looking through the albums that have been filed as "unknown artist" I noticed that each song had a number infront of it as the designation of which song number each song on the album was. I am going to play with this tomorrow and see if editing each track (this is going to suck, I have over 4000 songs in my library!!!!) will help at all.

adamhlj said:
As I was looking through the albums that have been filed as "unknown artist" I noticed that each song had a number infront of it as the designation of which song number each song on the album was. I am going to play with this tomorrow and see if editing each track (this is going to suck, I have over 4000 songs in my library!!!!) will help at all.
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well froyo will have the ability to play music OTA from itunes with an update for the music application in the market after froyo releases. it may fix the problem. if you can wait for a few weeks it may be resolved. as for being put as unknown, maybe the artist is not tagged correctly. check the mp3 tags to make sure that data is there

Your ID3 tags are screwed up. Your filenames don't matter, it's the ID3 tags.
Use MP3Tag (google it), it's one of the best taggers there is.

+1 for mp3tag
been using it for years
I dont let any programs "automatically organize" my music
becareful with it though, if you mass edit something incorrectly you could find that all of your tags get messed up

try music folder on the market

Well, thank you very much for the info! I will look into it today and hopefully get my music all sorted out!

I have the very same problem.
Most of the replies here seem to suggest that retagging the mp3s will solve the issue. However, all of my mp3s were working correctly before I upgraded to Froyo. To confirm this, I've just done a restore to cyanogen 5 and sure enough, all were working fine again.
When I used easytag to fix some of the files, they still didn't show up the correct information under Froyo. So, there's definitely something fishy going on here!

I have similar problems sometimes when there are multiple tags (id2,id3 etc). Using an app to clean the tags and reapply them in a uniform way usually works tho.
A seperate issue tho is embedded albumn art doesnt show up for a couple of albumns. The tags are identical to other albumns that work, and so are the image file types used to create the cover art. Anoying! These are the kind of little niggly problems that make jo public buy an iphone

kam187 said:
I have similar problems sometimes when there are multiple tags (id2,id3 etc). Using an app to clean the tags and reapply them in a uniform way usually works tho.
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What app would you suggest to clean them up? I've tried using MP3Tagger Pro, but I'm a complete n00b at this sort of thing.

I downloaded MP3Tag, and that did the trick. the only thing is that It does take a long time to get everything set up. And I downloaded the album art from amazon. I have only fixed a few albums, tho. I have over 4000 songs in my library, so I am only doing the ones that I have on my storage card at the moment.

adamhlj said:
I downloaded MP3Tag, and that did the trick. the only thing is that It does take a long time to get everything set up. And I downloaded the album art from amazon. I have only fixed a few albums, tho. I have over 4000 songs in my library, so I am only doing the ones that I have on my storage card at the moment.
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Thanks for your reply!

adamhlj said:
I downloaded MP3Tag, and that did the trick. the only thing is that It does take a long time to get everything set up. And I downloaded the album art from amazon. I have only fixed a few albums, tho. I have over 4000 songs in my library, so I am only doing the ones that I have on my storage card at the moment.
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If it makes you feel any better I have over 12000 tracks and some were tagged badly that I pulled from a friemds music library

So I had something strange happen. Ever since I got the update for froyo, all the music on my SD card has been properly tagged (at least it gets sorted correctly by artist, album, etc.) Hooray for FROYO!!

disgustip8ted said:
If it makes you feel any better I have over 12000 tracks and some were tagged badly that I pulled from a friemds music library
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Oh man, that SUCKS!!! i am glad i am not you, lol.

Android music library issues
Hi,
Here is the issue: after installing cyanogenmod 7 on my HD2, I have tranfered about 5Go of music from my pc to the sd card.
The problem is that all these mp3 have proper mp3 tag in ID3 v2.3 in UTF-8, but they are all recognized as "Unknown artists" mp3, and the album is just the folder.
I have tried to transfer an alicia keys album (only a single album) to the phone, also in id3 v2.3, and it is correctly tagged and recognized.
So I've tried to delete de media storage data, and reboot the phone.
At the start up, the system rescan the entirer sd card, but now the alicia keys albums are recognized as "unknown artist" and the album is also just the mp3 folder.
I have the same issue when rescanning with meridian player.
The problem seems to appears only when there are several folder of mp3/large amount of mp3 files to scan ex: >1Gb)
At this point, I've understood several points:
1. android can correctly read mp3 music with tags in ID3 V2.3
2. massive scan of music seems to be the cause of incorrect recognition of mp3 from android.
At this point, is there a way to properly scan mp3 with there tags, even in a massive scan ?

A little problem with HTC Music

hey,
I have a little problem, it's not a big deal really but I just can't figure out why it's happening...
When I'm playing music on the HTC Music app and I go to the visualizer it says "Accessing the Gracenote Media Database" but then no lyrics appear at all...
Could that be a location related issue? My phone is set to Greece (through the SIM card) but I live in Jordan.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance

Waseem Manneh said:
hey,
I have a little problem, it's not a big deal really but I just can't figure out why it's happening...
When I'm playing music on the HTC Music app and I go to the visualizer it says "Accessing the Gracenote Media Database" but then no lyrics appear at all...
Could that be a location related issue? My phone is set to Greece (through the SIM card) but I live in Jordan.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance
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Location should not have anything to do with it. Where did you get the music from , it could be that the ID3tags are not set correctly, the music lyrics may not be in the database there are several factors but should have nothing to do with location

crackeyes said:
Location should not have anything to do with it. Where did you get the music from , it could be that the ID3tags are not set correctly, the music lyrics may not be in the database there are several factors but should have nothing to do with location
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I wish that was the problem but I checked everything... I also tried with the music shipped with the phone (obviously tags are fine and lyrics are available for those)
I went as far as assuming there was something wrong with the music app accessing the internet but then it updates album arts just fine! :/

I realized most songs, MOST popular songs, if properly ripped with the right mp3 ID3 tags etc - it will have lyrics.
So it's not really a problem with the software or your phone. It is probably because the song you are playing doesn't have the right info for them to know what the song is?
There's also an option in the settings to "update only on Wifi"? Something like that. Maybe that has something to do with it. On Wifi, lyrics for most songs show up and load really quickly too.
Anyway, the lyrics display is really beautiful.. HTC should include all this yummy feautures in its phone marketing !!!

It's a location issue! I am also having this issue but when I tried using hotspotshield to connect to a US IP address it retrieves the lyrics now. Even if I disable it, it can download lyrics still. So my guess is you need to initialize it with a supported location IP first.

Its definitely a location issue. Just tried to play the music when I'm connected to a VPN network US based IP. and BOOM ... all songs have lyrics now.
I dont know why this is happening. Shame on HTC to do such a thing.
To OP,
Try updating the lyrics over proxy/vpn to confirm this as we are sharing the same location.

It's vpn issue
You're right guys !!!!!!! Its a vpn issue. I turned usa vpn and its works now , even without connect to usa all the time. Thank you !!!!:fingers-crossed::good:

dissapointing walkman

hey guys, just wanna know if im the only one feeling this way
i personally think walkman feels like an unfinished music player
no folder playing, no repeat option, no sorting playlist.
the infinte view and light effects are good, and thats the thing that makes still using it.
if we use other music player, will the light effect still play?

Press on the album art to show repeat option
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I've found the Walkman player to have the BEST quality sound.

if u click on album art then u find repeat button,shuffle button,favorate,button and fb like button
and if u wany to sort ur playlist then in now playing click on menu then play queue thats it sort it

javagreen said:
I've found the Walkman player to have the BEST quality sound.
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i'm totally agree with you :good:

thanks for all the reply.
i agree sony walkman has the best sound. the reason im not trying to use other msic player is because usually they have their own equalizer, and not all support the phone's stock sound effect.
manually sorting is way to tedious, i was thinking of having a sort button that ask how will u sort it, by artist name, by song title etc.

pavapizza said:
thanks for all the reply.
i agree sony walkman has the best sound. the reason im not trying to use other msic player is because usually they have their own equalizer, and not all support the phone's stock sound effect.
manually sorting is way to tedious, i was thinking of having a sort button that ask how will u sort it, by artist name, by song title etc.
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Well, u just click the My Music tab, there already got some default sorting: Songs, Album, Artists and SensMe channels....

sss2sssss said:
Well, u just click the My Music tab, there already got some default sorting: Songs, Album, Artists and SensMe channels....
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no, i mean in my playlist.
when i first create a playlist, i tick the songs alphabetically, but when the playlist is created, the song list was jumbled up, not like the way i added it 1st time. what i mean is, i cannot find a sort button to sort the music list in my playlist. there is only a shuffle button, and in the dropdown menu, edit playlist there is no auto sort, i'll have to manually sort it, n its kind of tedious.
thats why i hope there will be an update for walkman that can play folder so i dont need to create another playlist whatsoever.

pavapizza said:
no, i mean in my playlist.
when i first create a playlist, i tick the songs alphabetically, but when the playlist is created, the song list was jumbled up, not like the way i added it 1st time. what i mean is, i cannot find a sort button to sort the music list in my playlist. there is only a shuffle button, and in the dropdown menu, edit playlist there is no auto sort, i'll have to manually sort it, n its kind of tedious.
thats why i hope there will be an update for walkman that can play folder so i dont need to create another playlist whatsoever.
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Well this things already got long time ago , and frankly speak nobody complain abt it (in fact I got use xperia mini , sola before )
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sss2sssss said:
Well this things already got long time ago , and frankly speak nobody complain abt it (in fact I got use xperia mini , sola before )
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well, dunno, maybe im too demanding
but im so used to having a folder playing option on my previous custom music player (on galaxy gio) so im a bit annoyed its not a standard on all music player

Hi people, I Am very dissapointed from Walkman for these two reasons: No folder choosing and no genre choosing for every mood that you are in a moment. Ihave Power metal folders, Rap, Drum'n'bass, Classic and when open Walkman its like one big chaos. What I'm do for that?
First make a new Playlist with name of wanted genre, after that I'm use other player with folder play option and put all folder in desired playlist. And after 5 min of work the chaos in Walkman is ignored and choose to play only that playlist with currend mood.
P. S. Sorry for my english, I am selflerner in third world country.

I'm not sure what you mean by "put all folder in desired playlist", but for me sorting genres as playlists worked. No need to copy any files anywhere. Just create a new playlist and add songs. I suggest doing it on computer using Sony's Media go software. It'll be a lot faster.
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Walkman App

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).

ghtop said:
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.