I have an annoying problem trying to update music. I noticed when I synced some of my DMX .mp3's there was a comma after his name. I got rid of it on my Laptop and I got rid of it from my sd card and synced it back to my phone changes didn't take place. I did reboot my phone and still nothing.
I used Titanium backup to clear the data in the stock music player and also deleted the data files associated with PlayerPro. I tried syncing with winamp and WMP and still no changes. I also used MP3Tag and the name to the .mp3's are fine.
Is there a way to clear some kind of cache and allow the phone recognize the music changes?
I have an annoying problem trying to update music. I noticed when I synced some of my DMX .mp3's there was a comma after his name. I edited the files on my Laptop and I deleted the music from my sd card and synced it back to my phone changes didn't take place. I did reboot my phone and still nothing.
I used Titanium backup to clear the data in the stock music player and also deleted the data files associated with PlayerPro. I tried syncing with winamp and WMP and still no changes. I also used MP3Tag and the name to the .mp3's are fine.
Is there a way to clear some kind of cache and allow the phone recognize the music changes?
I reformatted (factory wipe) my phone and also formatted my sd card (to remove apps2sd, only using froyo2sd now).
Before the wipe, I was using MixZing with no issues. All the albumart for my songs (embedded into ID3 tag in mp3) showed up with no issue.
After the wipe/formatting, i retransfered about 7gb of music to my sd card, and the album art is not showing. It's not showing in the stock player, in MixZing nor the new winamp player (which i didn't have previously).
I don't know for sure, but I think album art is the responsiblity of the media service in android, not each individual media player, so i'd like to force android scan for album art in mp3 files. Oddly, the poweramp (beta) player (which I also didn't have prior to the reformat) sees that album art just fine, but I believe that it has it's own code for reading artwork)
Is there anything I can do to get this artwork to show back up, i know for sure it's in the the iD3 tags, as I've copied files off of my N1 onto another computer and it shows up in winamp on that computer.
Thanks!
bump. please help!
Just use an mp3 tagger from the market to reload the album art...
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You're correct that Android's media scanner should process any new music files when you mount your SD card. It creates thumnbnail images on the SD card and indexes them for use by media applications via the Android API. I have a music app that uses this facility. From what I can see, FroYo puts the album artwork thumbs into a folder on the SD card called
Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs
Note that each album thumb file is numbered and without a typical image file extension. If you want to look at a file as an image, you'll need to explicitly open it with an image viewer as a JPG file.
Make sure you don't have a file called .nomedia in the top-level directory where you store your music on your SD card. This tells the Android media scanner to ignore the directory and all directories contained within.
So, I'd suggest mounting the SD card on your computer via a USB cable, checking the above directory, unmounting the SD card, waiting 10-15 minutes for Android to index the music files, re-mounting the SD card, and checking the directory again, to see if there has been any change.
Good luck!
Thanks I'll try this out. I've gone into the phone and wiped the media storage (Applications -> Manage Applications -> "All" tab -> Media Storage -> clear Data) and that didn't rescan the atwork. I'll check for the .nomedia tag.
I looked on my SD card, and that directory wasn't there. I also tried to create it, and yet, there's still nothing there. oh well.
Sorry to hear it's still not working. One more thing you could try, to at least see what's going on, is installing the Android SDK on your computer and, with your phone attached via USB, issue the command "adb shell" from a DOS window--assuming you're using a Windows box. Then, at the $ prompt, enter "logcat". This will output log messages. After this, mount and then unmount the SD card. You'll see a lot of messages fly by, but amongst them should be information on the media scanner doing its thing. Or, possibly, you'll see some relevant error messages.
Good luck!
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I have created a logcat and excluded all the extra unneeded lines. I'm sure more can be removed. I did this by running "adb logcat | tee logcat.txt", then after a while, exiting, and then running "egrep -v" on terms from the log.
Code:
cat logcat.txt | egrep -v "dalvikvm|Tethering|WifiService|WifiMonitor|wpa_supplicant|WifiStateTracker|QC_CORE|NetworkStateTracker|Gmail|CalendarsList|ConnectivityService|CalendarsEvents|ActivityManager|GTalkService|CalendarLayoutFiller" > logcat2.txt
My Logcat File (stripped of unneeded info)
I can't seem to find any info on this error in Google. Most of the errors i got were this one:
Code:
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
I have tried a variety of things to fix the issue
1) Reformatting my SD card again (for the 3rd & 4th times)
2) Clearing the android "MediaStorage" data (Applications->Manage Applications->"All" Tab->"MediaStorage"->"clear data". Then reboot and after the reboot and open the stock media app and wait. Loaded songs again, but not album artwork
3) Looked for Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs as suggested, and I see that this directory did not exist. I tried to create it manually, just in case, and nothing changed
4) Change media folder structure around (originally and currently at /sdcard/media/music/[Genre]/[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Song Title].mp3) I've tried /sdcard/Music, /sdcard/media/MP3
5) ensure no .nomedia files in any directory structure in the path
6) Completely uninstalled Winamp, MixZing & powerAmp from the phone
7) Cleared "MediaStorage" again, with all apps uninstalled
8) Tried reinstalling all the players above, PLUS DoubleTwist player. I have gotten some of the players to read 1 or 2 files successfully, however, i can't consistently reproduce how it got it to do that.
9) Poweramp seems not to rely on the MediaStorage utlity to read the album art, and instead reads it on it's own (so successfully gets it from the file). Would continue to use it, but it's beta and still constantly crashes, plus no lock screen widget
10) Gotten "Album Art Grabber Free" from Market, however, I have alot of non mainstream songs, so it can't find artwork for about 60% of my collection, so still not ideal.
11) Gotten "SDrescan" from the market as well.
12) MixZing will download album art, but downloads it from internet, and runs into same problem as "Album Art Grabber Free", plus, stores it in an app specific folder, not in the common folder, so artwork is only available in MixZing and not other players.
I had this working before, I can't believe formatting my phone and SD cards so that it was "stock" has given me a problem like this. ANyway, thanks for your help!
I've had problems with Mixzing...
Best way to deal with Mixzing is to hide your media from it (I place a . in front of the folder name, ie. Media becomes .Media).
Open Mixzing, and delete all the media (it can't find it, so don't worry, but it will delete the database).
Reboot.
Remove the . from the folder name.
Use mp3tagger to update album art.
Relaunch Mixzing, and rescan for media.
Hey presto! Fresh new database!
Has always worked for me...
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So i upgraded to the latest nightly for CyanogenMod (v227 -> v232). I also ran the fix permissions script. Either one of those two (i'm thinking the fix permissions) fixed the issues, and everything works fine now.
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.
papped said:
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]
Hi, is there a way to force a refresh of the input data in the xbox music app or apps in general?
I had music on the usb storage that was shown twice in the app.
Dont know why - now i tried to delete it and the app still shows the data is there. reboot of the phone didnt work.
playing the data just brings an error.
I
Deleted the folders album and artists now and deleted the loaded mp3 on the usb stick.
reloaded the 5 mashups on the phone and they show just once in the phone app.
unfortunately the phone app does not refresh the album and artist data.
i have just around 10 reloaded once. all the new once are loaded as well.
the old once just loaded a couple of artists and just 1-3 songs in each album.
can someone help?
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Songs playlists and genre on the other hand refreshed on the app without problems