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Hi,
I've removed all the sample music from \INTERNAL STORAGE\, and sync some MP3 with Media Player. However, I found the MUSIC still not being updated - Showing "NO MUSIC FOUND" and in the library they are removed music list...
Any methods I can update the music library ?
Thanks
have u tried updating from windows media player first?
My sample music was located on the [System] partition not Internal Storage. I deleted everything in the MUSIC folder. I then created a folder under \Internal Storage\My Documents which I called My Music and put my music in it. Now it's fine. I have my album art there and it's perfect.
For album art to show, make sure you have a file called folder.jpg in each album's folder.
Baronic said:
have u tried updating from windows media player first?
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yes, but no hope.
mkhattab said:
My sample music was located on the [System] partition not Internal Storage. I deleted everything in the MUSIC folder. I then created a folder under \Internal Storage\My Documents which I called My Music and put my music in it. Now it's fine. I have my album art there and it's perfect.
For album art to show, make sure you have a file called folder.jpg in each album's folder.
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I followed your way and that's always "Searching...".
Just to check - you did unplug the device from the PC right? Because it disables the internal storage access from the device while it's connected.
Try to click "Library", Scroll to "All Songs" and play any of the songs from the list...
This should help.
dc1211 said:
Try to click "Library", Scroll to "All Songs" and play any of the songs from the list...
This should help.
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I found it's because of double-byte characters in the MP3 tag values...as I've put a MP3 with pure English tags, it works.
Thanks!
I also have chinese tags but no transfer problem...and they are displayed correctly with ce-star
hi hi.. as in u rename the album art to folder.jpg? or is it an additional .jpg file or folder apart from the album art?
for eg. if it's andylau.jpg should i rename it to folder.jpg?
or should it be andylau.jpg, plus another folder.jpg?
will it be correct if my 'andylau' folder contains all the mp3, and i put the album art into the same 'andylau' folder filled with andy lau's mp3s?
kennykylechan said:
I also have chinese tags but no transfer problem...and they are displayed correctly with ce-star
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I didn't install CE-Star but just Fontpatch that I used for my WM5. It's working fine and stable. How's CE-Star in Diamond?
moobox82 said:
hi hi.. as in u rename the album art to folder.jpg? or is it an additional .jpg file or folder apart from the album art?
for eg. if it's andylau.jpg should i rename it to folder.jpg?
or should it be andylau.jpg, plus another folder.jpg?
will it be correct if my 'andylau' folder contains all the mp3, and i put the album art into the same 'andylau' folder filled with andy lau's mp3s?
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yes, put the album cover picture in the album folder with the filename folder.jpg
f810 said:
yes, put the album cover picture in the album folder with the filename folder.jpg
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Mine definitely doesn't work with Folder.jpg in the album folder. See:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2298142&postcount=7
Here's the solution I figured out:
http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481
Now I'm thinking some people may have a different version of TouchFLO 3D. Again see this thread.
Can you change the default directory that the audio manager looks for music.
hello there does anybody know how to do this.
Is there no way to do this?
when using the program advanced config there is a section 'locations'
here you can set
default storage location for audio files. standard set at my music
Redirecting music player
Installed advanced config and it does indeed let you set the default storage location for music (as well as loads of other stuff). Unfortunately the TF3D music tab does not look in the default storage location...
Basically what I'm asking is - how do I change my Diamond so that when I scroll to the Music tab in TF3D it displays music saved on the internal storage rather than music stored in the (tiny) program memory.
Please help!
I've just created a directory "MP3" on the internal storage and it will always find it there somehow. Don't know if I'm lucky or so but had no problem with all ROMs I've tried so far.
But I do always set the default directory for 'downloaded music' to this MP3 directory.
Basically what I'm asking is - how do I change my Diamond so that when I scroll to the Music tab in TF3D it displays music saved on the internal storage rather than music stored in the (tiny) program memory.
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I have exactly the same issue, it's doing my nut in, someone help PLEASE!!!
But I do always set the default directory for 'downloaded music' to this MP3 directory.
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How do you do that then??
I need 1 app to convert WMA to Mp3 and add album art?
I just cant get music from my laptop to my Hero with album art.
I have tried several programs with no luck. please help
sounds like a better idea to convert it on your laptop.
album art is just a jpeg file named AlbumArt.jpg in the album's folder.
Thanks
Thanks for your response, I do want to do the process on my laptop.
Ideally I could get a program to automatically change my WMA to show album art when I load music on my Hero. I had the same problem with my Diamond.
And I have read to change the jpeg to albumart but I don't know how. I tried 5 different programs yesterday and searched for the jpeg in the music file but I'm doing something wrong.
I know when I figure it out it will be right under my nose but still looking.
Thanks for any advice/directions
well
It must be hard
for album art:
- go to images.google.com
- type in the name of your album
- find a nice album art about 300x300 px in size
- save it in the album folder with the mp3 files as "AlbumArt.jpg" without the quotes
- copy that folder to your hero
as for the recoding: i think there is no converter for the hero out there because it would probably take hours to convert a single album. also i am not sure what it would mean to have the closed source wma codecs on the phone, you'd probably need some licences or something.
nope
Still don't work, so frustrating. The phone has a folder with album thumbs and when you look at the properties its a file. I've tried to add a albumart.jpeg to that folder and it doesn't work.
When I had the same issue with my Diamond I went to a Sprint store and asked for help but they couldn't figure it out. Going back today to buy another phone and will ask for help again but not expecting much,
I will figure this out and when I do I will post detailed instructions
Thanks
Get a program which converts wma to mp3, then use mp3tag/mediamonkey or any other equivalent program to tag the album (which will include albumart).
I use mediamonkey for this because I can convert between different file formats and use a script which allows information about each song to be stored in a tag via music websites such as amazon and discogs.
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Still don't work, so frustrating. The phone has a folder with album thumbs and when you look at the properties its a file. I've tried to add a albumart.jpeg to that folder and it doesn't work.
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ok, one last time... the file "AlbumArt.jpg" goes into the same folder as the mp3 files. usually a folder named "artist name - album title". this it would look like this in the root of the sdcard:
Code:
\-- mp3
|-- Artist 1 - Album X
| |-- 01-title1.mp3
| |-- 02-title2.mp3
| |-- 03-title3.mp3
| `-- [U][B]AlbumArt.jpg[/B][/U]
`-- Artist 2 - Album Y
|-- 01-title1.mp3
|-- 02-title2.mp3
|-- 03-title3.mp3
`-- [U][B]AlbumArt.jpg[/B][/U]
just to be sure delete the contents of the folder albumthumbs on the sdcard before.
d12bn said:
I need 1 app to convert WMA to Mp3 and add album art?
I just cant get music from my laptop to my Hero with album art.
I have tried several programs with no luck. please help
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Album art is usually stored in the tag of the song,
now you need to get a program that converts id3 tags and that has option for adding album art, or editing it.
In itunes when you right click the song you will see the place for album art, i just copy the image of the album and paste it in the square that is provided,
unfortunately there is no such program for windows.
So you will need to find this id3 tagging software to do it, and i know it will work for sure.
dhavalg said:
Album art is usually stored in the tag of the song,
now you need to get a program that converts id3 tags and that has option for adding album art, or editing it.
In itunes when you right click the song you will see the place for album art, i just copy the image of the album and paste it in the square that is provided,
unfortunately there is no such program for windows.
So you will need to find this id3 tagging software to do it, and i know it will work for sure.
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i give up now...
Well
I've tried a lot of different programs with no luck, could it be me, sure but can't blame me for not searching, googling, and researching.
Anyway I finally did get it to work with a $1.95 program in Market called Album Art Grabber.
Thanks for everyone's time
Dude, the easiest way to get album art is using Songbird, i use it under linux and it works with no probs. Perfect albumart. OOO and free 2.
There's been ongoing discussions for a long time about the best way to "hide" certain media to keep them from showing up in media players.
Every 3rd party App Ive dled for Music/Movies/Pictures has had the same issue of scanning all the media in the SD card.
Is this some inherent mandate in Android ? Or lazy dev programming ?
I have podcast apps that only pick up podcasts. NYC subway map app that only picks up its MAP images...
Yes open up any media player and I see all of these included with my media.
Obviously the function is in there
add a file called .nomedia and Android will not index that directory
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
xManMythLegend said:
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
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well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
just rename the folder with a "." in front of the folder name, this makes it a hidden folder and the gallery and what not wont search it.
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well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
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THANK YOU !!
I somewhat figured this out when I saw this option in Doggcatcher.
This answers my question.
making a folder invisible doesn't help me.
I have ringtones in one folder and when I playback music, I don't want to hear ringtones.
hmmm is there anyway you can adb push the ringtones to the ringtone folder on the system? So you wouldn't need to have it in your sd card?
download MixZing music player. It will let you select which folder on the memory card to scan for music. Select music folder and your done. No more ringtones playback
This .nomedia trick dosnt work 100 percent. I placed it in my music folder and yes it makes the album covers disappear in the gallery but it also makes the music disappear from the music player. I can no longer scroll through artists, songs, etc from within the music player...
I am not running a rooted phone just the stock firmware with the latest Android update.
Hooligan
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This .nomedia trick dosnt work 100 percent. I placed it in my music folder and yes it makes the album covers disappear in the gallery but it also makes the music disappear from the music player. I can no longer scroll through artists, songs, etc from within the music player...
I am not running a rooted phone just the stock firmware with the latest Android update.
Hooligan
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^bump^
I have the same issue - I don't want to see album covers in the gallery, but I do want the music to show up in my music app - any ideas?
Thanks
.nomedia works 100% and does exactly what it says - NO MEDIA. That includes NO VIDEO, NO AUDIO, NO PHOTOS, NO WHATEVER. All system apps looking for media ignore the folder and all its subfolders.
If the album art is in a subfolder inside the album folder - put .nomedia inside that subfolder. If it's outside with the .MP3s - then .nomedia won't help you.
If you're having issues with album art, you could always embed the album art into the mp3/m4a with an app like dbpoweramp.
One more possible solution:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=4c95682562b36eca&hl=en
xManMythLegend said:
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
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well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
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xManMythLegend said:
THANK YOU !!
I somewhat figured this out when I saw this option in Doggcatcher.
This answers my question.
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.... what? You argued with the first post, next post said the same thing, then you're thanking them??
r4zv4n said:
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I have the same issue - I don't want to see album covers in the gallery, but I do want the music to show up in my music app - any ideas?
Thanks
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Yes, name the files right. AlbumArt.jpg
BTW, after putting the .nomedia, you will need to REBOOT the device for it to take effect and system media scanner will rescan after first start up.
I'm having trouble believing this is "by design" and adding .nomedia to EVERY FOLDER other than my music folder makes absolutely no damn sense... the other way around would make much more sense instead! ".media"
This issue has also been breaking my balls... I don't want my damn ringtones in my media library...
Kraion said:
I'm having trouble believing this is "by design" and adding .nomedia to EVERY FOLDER other than my music folder makes absolutely no damn sense... the other way around would make much more sense instead! ".media"
This issue has also been breaking my balls... I don't want my damn ringtones in my media library...
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Your ringtones should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
And your notifications should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
Those folders are not scanned into your music library. There is no need for .nomedia files on those two folders, otherwise they will not show up in your notifications/ringtones list.
NOTE: /sdcard means your sdcard.... so on the root of your sdcard you should put a folder named media, then inside media folder you should put another folder called audio, and then the ringtones or notifications folder inside audio folder..... This should solve your issue.
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Your ringtones should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
And your notifications should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
Those folders are not scanned into your music library. There is no need for .nomedia files on those two folders, otherwise they will not show up in your notifications/ringtones list.
NOTE: /sdcard means your sdcard.... so on the root of your sdcard you should put a folder named media, then inside media folder you should put another folder called audio, and then the ringtones or notifications folder inside audio folder..... This should solve your issue.
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This works....Did this over a year ago when i first bought my N1...
does the gallery ALWAYS scan the whole SD card? i hate having pictures belonging to apps displayed in the gallery like asphalt game displays ALL images/videos and in Music app adds sounds. this is really annoying and wish it didnt scan all the sd card for music. are there specific folders that should be placed on the sd card or something? ie. sd:\Media\Videos OR sd:\Videos
Yeah it shows everything in folders that do not have a ".nomedia" file.
see http://androinica.com/2009/08/28/ho...iles-from-appearing-in-android-media-players/
Its not its fault though, the MediaScanner service is what it pulls data from (ContentProvider)
A settings option to disable this or look in just a couple of foldlers would be great.
Adding a .nomedia in a folder with mp3s with the intention of not getting the album art in gallery will have the side-effect of the mp3s not showing up in the music player
I've no problem getting unwanted sounds in the built in Music app by doing this:
(this was mentioned inside the T-Mobile G1 manual)
Put your alarms/notifications/ringtones in the following folders:
\alarms
\notifications
\ringtones
Those sounds will appear in the appropriate list when you choose to adjust those certain sounds, they also don't show up in the Music app. They do show up in 3rd party music app like DoubleTwist Music Player.
Code:
touch /sdcard/folderwithpics/.nomedia
takes literally 10 seconds to fix.
GldRush98 said:
Code:
touch /sdcard/folderwithpics/.nomedia
takes literally 10 seconds to fix.
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worked great thanks!
.nomedia media works nicely
britoso said:
Yeah it shows everything in folders that do not have a ".nomedia" file.
see http://androinica.com/2009/08/28/ho...iles-from-appearing-in-android-media-players/
Its not its fault though, the MediaScanner service is what it pulls data from (ContentProvider)
A settings option to disable this or look in just a couple of foldlers would be great.
Adding a .nomedia in a folder with mp3s with the intention of not getting the album art in gallery will have the side-effect of the mp3s not showing up in the music player
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The method posted at Androinica.com using the text file rename method worked nicely for me.
I did however have to search out where all these files were in order to place the .nomedia files properly.