Hello guys,
I have been looking for a music player that can go thru folders and able to add a particular song to a playlist that doesn't require opening the file.
Or as an alternative, an app like astro but with a music option to add an mp3 to a playlist.
Ny suggestions guys? Thanks a lot guys.
Nim
PowerAmp reads folders (or your library) and can add songs to a playlist by long pressing on the song.
If you want an app that builds playlists on the phone try Playlist Builder.
Mortplayer i think is what your looking fkr
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Thank you guys for the replies.
PowerAmp sounds really good. I will try that as soon as I get a 2.2 update..
BrockFerens:
Thanks for the app recommendation but I can't add playlist with a long press. I will be keeping it though because atleast I can play a song inside a full folder. I am currently organizing all my MP3s and make main folders by genre and inside will be sub-folders of artists, and inside those sub-folders will be the songs. I am also editing the MP3 tags.
Thank you guys a lot.. These 2 players makes me a happy man. =)
If you use Windows I recommend Mp3Tag and if you want to create some playlists with your PC try Playlist Creator.
Thanks for the recommendation but mp3tag has no way to import tags but it can export tags in excel file though. I found a windows based program that is pretty powerful and can import and export, just can't think of the name right now.
Thanks again guys. I have been using mortmusic player for the last 5 days and I love this app even without making a playlist. The way I am organizing my mp3s I probably wouldn't need playlist anyway..
Have you tried Mixzing? I got it recently looking for something that would play by folder, since all my music is meticulously organized by folder even though many don't have artist or album tags of any kind. Most music players split up all my organizing to try to re-organize by album or artist, which doesn't work for me.
Mixzing works great for me, so far. And it goes out and downloads album and artist info if I want it to.
I downloaded MortPlayer to try, too, but I just haven't gotten around to playing with it much.
My mp3 music is organized the same as yours and I want to play music by folders and sub-folders. Mp3 tags just doesnt work for me. I played with mixzing before with my HTC evo but never really satisfied with it hence why I was still looking. Atleast for now, mortplayer is keeping me happy.
It is a known fact that HTC Sync does not see playlists on a PC, and therefore cannot copy them to the phone, so initially what I did was manually copy them to the phone's SD card via the Disk Drive setting in HT Sync.
The music app subsequently found them and they work just fine. However, when I manually copy new ones I make on the PC, they don't show up in the music app. Additionally, upon subsequent connections of the phone to the PC, the newly copied playlists are no longer in the destination. Interestingly, the ones I initially copied are also no longer where I copied them to, nor can I find them anywhere, yet they indeed still work on the phone.
Can anyone explain this phenomenom, and maybe shed some light on where they go and how I can once again experience success in manually copying playlists?
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It is a known fact that HTC Sync does not see playlists on a PC, and therefore cannot copy them to the phone, so initially what I did was manually copy them to the phone's SD card via the Disk Drive setting in HT Sync.
The music app subsequently found them and they work just fine. However, when I manually copy new ones I make on the PC, they don't show up in the music app. Additionally, upon subsequent connections of the phone to the PC, the newly copied playlists are no longer in the destination. Interestingly, the ones I initially copied are also no longer where I copied them to, nor can I find them anywhere, yet they indeed still work on the phone.
Can anyone explain this phenomenom, and maybe shed some light on where they go and how I can once again experience success in manually copying playlists?
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New music and playlist just don't automatically appear in the music app once you add them manually you have to reboot the phone to get the media scanner to run again. If your playlists are disappearing off your sdcard then something is wrong as they shouldn't be moving anywhere on their own or be deleted. Now there are also internally stored playlists such as the ones you can make using the music app and those are probably the ones you are seeing. It would appear that for some reason your external playlist have been turned into internal playlists and are being deleted. Are your playlists you make m3u or another format? I make all my playlist as m3u and store them on my external sdcard and they have never disappeared on me. I also do not add anything to a playlist using the function in the music app I do all this on my pc to keep them separated from the internal playlist. The music app cannot edit external playlists only its own.
The internal playlists are stored somewhere in the system folders but I can't remember where exactly but they are not in any type of format you can use. They are databases not playlists and can't be read by a pc using windows media player or other application.
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New music and playlist just don't automatically appear in the music app once you add them manually you have to reboot the phone to get the media scanner to run again. If your playlists are disappearing off your sdcard then something is wrong as they shouldn't be moving anywhere on their own or be deleted. Now there are also internally stored playlists such as the ones you can make using the music app and those are probably the ones you are seeing. It would appear that for some reason your external playlist have been turned into internal playlists and are being deleted. Are your playlists you make m3u or another format? I make all my playlist as m3u and store them on my external sdcard and they have never disappeared on me. I also do not add anything to a playlist using the function in the music app I do all this on my pc to keep them separated from the internal playlist. The music app cannot edit external playlists only its own.
The internal playlists are stored somewhere in the system folders but I can't remember where exactly but they are not in any type of format you can use. They are databases not playlists and can't be read by a pc using windows media player or other application.
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My lists are .WPLs (Windows Media Player lists), and I swear, they are indeed being converted and I assume the originals are being deleted after the conversion. What I want to know is where the converted lists would be stored on the phone. I, too, do not make lists on the phone, but did so just to test. I cannot find that one, either.
As far as rebooting is concerned, I have done that, but that does not help the music app find the lists I copied over... not after that initial first bunch of lists was copied, anyway.
The phone does not store playlists internally as any recognizable playlist type thats why you can't find them. I tried for years to find an answer as to where they are and how to recover them. The answer is you can't. Nothing except the phone itself can recognize them as playlists. You are better off converting the ones on your pc to m3u playlists from my experience as I've had nothing but problems with wpl's and I've never had a problem with m3u playlists.
In windows media player just open your playlist by doubling clicking it, it should start to play, at the top under Library>Playlists> right click on the name of the playlist and a new menu opens up and under File is the option to Save Now Playing List as: select M3U. You will then have two identical playlist in the playlists folder, one M3U the other WPL. I just deleted my wpl's once I was satified with the new m3u's. I then clear my phones media cache to delete all the internal playlist and store my m3u playlists in a folder on my sdcard, sdcard>music>playlists.
Doing some looking around and the playlists seem to be somewhere in /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/. These files are sql databases and useless for trying to get data out. I can't find the actual playlist in a readable form all I find is references to where they are, except for a test one I made using the music app, while it shows its name there is no location given for where it is.
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The phone does not store playlists internally as any recognizable playlist type thats why you can't find them. I tried for years to find an answer as to where they are and how to recover them. The answer is you can't. Nothing except the phone itself can recognize them as playlists. You are better off converting the ones on your pc to m3u playlists from my experience as I've had nothing but problems with wpl's and I've never had a problem with m3u playlists.
In windows media player just open your playlist by doubling clicking it, it should start to play, at the top under Library>Playlists> right click on the name of the playlist and a new menu opens up and under File is the option to Save Now Playing List as: select M3U. You will then have two identical playlist in the playlists folder, one M3U the other WPL. I just deleted my wpl's once I was satified with the new m3u's. I then clear my phones media cache to delete all the internal playlist and store my m3u playlists in a folder on my sdcard, sdcard>music>playlists.
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OK, I converted a list to M3U. HT Sync still sees nothing in the UI. I changed to Disk Drive connection, copied the M3U from the PC to the folder on the SD card that I previously copied all my original lists to, and even did the safe removal of usb function on the PC. I also re-booted the phone. STILL no new playlist in either the music app, or in the folder I had just copied it to! I did not delete all playlists on the phone, as you do, for fear I will permanently lose all the ones that are already there. I gotta tell you, there seem to be so many things that don't work the way they should. How the heck did this phone (or is it Android itself, if that's the real culprit) get to be so popular?
I just enabled Documents syncing, and placed a .WPL and the new M3U files in an empty folder on my PC. I added that directory to the Document sync. Performed the sync, and those don't show up on the phone.
I then copied the files manually to the My Documents folder on the SD card. Changed connection to Charge Only, and then back, and the files were still there, untouched (at least not deleted. Problem is that the music app doesn't see them.
Disconnected and reconnected the phone. Alas, the files were gone!
For grins, in Documents sync option, added a folder that had other files in it, and no playlists. That didn't even sync!
So, this is a phone setup for music, and I can't send playlists to it.
This phone has a sync function with Documents and Playlists functions, and neither work. I guess I should be thankful I can sync Outlook contacts and Calendar.
Unless someone can tell me if all these problems are gone with ICS before my 14 "return" days are up, I might have to think strongly about whether I should go back to my Touch Pro 2, and wait for Windows Phone at the end of the year.
Tried one more thing, and got one step closer:
Opened Windows Media Player. Connected as Disk Drive. This enabled WMP to see the device as a Sync target. Made an M3U list with song on my PC that were already sync'd to the SD card. Ran the Sync. It re-sent the songs to another location, and put a folder in that new location called Playlists. Although the music player cannot see the playlist, it also did not delete it. Opened ES File Explorer and it saw the list. Only trouble is that it can't do anything with the Playlist. But, I am that much closer to getting a playlist to stick on the phone.
If I could only get the music app to recognize the playlist, I'd be in business! I even rebooted, and although the playlist is still there, the music app seems to not want to see lists copied OR sync'd to the device anymore, no matter what. Even if I installed another music app that COULD read the .M3U, if it has its own player, I would lose Beats Audio, like I do now if I try to open an .MP3 via ES File Explorer, even if I do choose to open it with the phone's default music app.
SIGH, it really should not be this hard.
Anybody have ANY ideas?
One thing it could be is that windows media player won't create an m3u playlist during a sync, if it copies music to your phone then creates a playlsit for that music it wil be in wpl format, and android phones have problems with the wpl format.
All I do is sync my music to my phone using windows media player. It automatically creates the directory sdcard/music. I then manually copy the m3u playlists to a new directory I make, sdcard/music/playlists. Then everytime I sync new music to the phone I manually update the m3u playlists, been doing it this way for about 2 years now without one problem.
And I have a huge mp3 collection on my phone, 8 playlists with over 3000 songs, 12 GB. It took me weeks to put them to together, manually embedding the album art in each mp3, so I'm pretty fussy about my phone recognizing them properly. My total collection is over 12,000 mp3's, 70 GB. I use the cloud if I want to listen to a full album.
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One thing it could be is that windows media player won't create an m3u playlist during a sync, if it copies music to your phone then creates a playlsit for that music it wil be in wpl format, and android phones have problems with the wpl format... All I do is sync my music to my phone using windows media player. It automatically creates the directory sdcard/music. I then manually copy the m3u playlists to a new directory I make, sdcard/music/playlists.
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Wait, WMP doesn't CREATE playlists during a sync. In WMP, when you connect a device and go to the WMP sync panel on the right, all you do is drop a playlist into the sync panel. When you sync, all songs in the play list, as well as the playlist itself, are sent to the device. What I described in my post above was that I created an M3U list in WMP (as you suggested previously), performed the sync, and the sync indeed occured. The music went into a music directory on the root of the card, just as you describe, and the M3U list went into a music/playlists folder AUTOMATICALLY. I did NOT have to manually copy the list.
EDIT: If you do this with a .WPL, the list never gets copied, and music goes into a slightly different location, however, all music (no matter if you use WMP Sync, or HT Sync, always syncs properly, and always works. It's the play list stuff that disgusts me.
ANOTHER EDIT: Never mind what I said about the Playlists staying there. First, I just went to look and the playlist was there, but it was empty, 0kb. I then changed back to Charge Only, and as expected the playlist was not readable. Checked to see of the Playlist was still there in the directory structure and it was gone. I think it's time to call a spade a spade.
Then everytime I sync new music to the phone I manually update the m3u playlists, been doing it this way for about 2 years now without one problem.
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Now, that's weird. In my case I would NOT have to update the playlists because they are getting copied automatically. Trouble is, the Music App does not recognize them! What OS are you running?
I would assume there are other 3rd party music apps with sync that work, but if you go that route you lose beats audio, correct?
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Wait, WMP doesn't CREATE playlists during a sync. In WMP, when you connect a device and go to the WMP sync panel on the right, all you do is drop a playlist into the sync panel. When you sync, all songs in the play list, as well as the playlist itself, are sent to the device. What I described in my post above was that I created an M3U list in WMP (as you suggested previously), performed the sync, and the sync indeed occured. The music went into a music directory on the root of the card, just as you describe, and the M3U list went into a music/playlists folder AUTOMATICALLY. I did NOT have to manually copy the list.
EDIT: If you do this with a .WPL, the list never gets copied, and music goes into a slightly different location, however, all music (no matter if you use WMP Sync, or HT Sync, always syncs properly, and always works. It's the play list stuff that disgusts me.
ANOTHER EDIT: Never mind what I said about the Playlists staying there. First, I just went to look and the playlist was there, but it was empty, 0kb. I then changed back to Charge Only, and as expected the playlist was not readable. Checked to see of the Playlist was still there in the directory structure and it was gone. I think it's time to call a spade a spade.
Now, that's weird. In my case I would NOT have to update the playlists because they are getting copied automatically. Trouble is, the Music App does not recognize them! What OS are you running?
I would assume there are other 3rd party music apps with sync that work, but if you go that route you lose beats audio, correct?
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I use the stock music app.
I don't not do any type of file management of my music using the phone period . I purchase all new music using my pc (windows 7) then add it to my playlists, sync the new music files to the phone over usb using Windows Media Player Sync then copy and paste the new playlists onto the phones sdcard. This way nothing gets screwed up. Windows Media Player has never copied over a playlist to my phone during a sync, even when I drag a whole playlist over to the sync box. So not sure why it did it for you unless the playlsit was a wpl then maybe thats why it was copied over. That said I really do not think android can even recognize wpl's and I stopped using them entirely 2 years ago. They gave me nothing but problems and now I srtrictly use m3u's.
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I use the stock music app.
I don't not do any type of file management of my music using the phone period . I purchase all new music using my pc (windows 7) then add it to my playlists, sync the new music files to the phone over usb using Windows Media Player Sync then copy and paste the new playlists onto the phones sdcard. This way nothing gets screwed up. Windows Media Player has never copied over a playlist to my phone during a sync, even when I drag a whole playlist over to the sync box. So not sure why it did it for you unless the playlsit was a wpl then maybe thats why it was copied over. That said I really do not think android can even recognize wpl's and I stopped using them entirely 2 years ago. They gave me nothing but problems and now I srtrictly use m3u's.
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I don't get why it doesn't work for me. I mean, think about it. My first drag 'n' drop of my .WPL playlists worked! So I KNOW Android saw them, and converted them. Now, no matter what I do, NO playlist has ever again been able to be added, even if it is M3U. That said, I am going to wipe out all Music App storage, then use only WMP to sync the data, then copy over a M3U playlist manually. Maybe just the fact that the Music app converted the WPLs caused the playlist data file to be corrupted. You did say it was an SQL file, right? It's worth a shot. Here goes.
Then again, you are unlocked, too. Although it SHOULDN'T make a difference, SHOULDN'T is a big word in computers.
OK, guess what? I deleted all music. I then went into Manage Applications, and told the phone to delete all Music App data. It did not delete those initially converted playlists. I deleted all the playlists anyway, and rebooted.
Used WMP to sync, then dropped in a M3U. Just as I expected no playlist shows up on the phone AND I now lost every single playlist I previously had on the phone. I am now kicking myself in the ass for trying that!
This gets better. Now, HT Sync will no longer send ANY of my .MP3s to the phone! What terrible programming of both the phone and HTC Sync.
OK, looks like the sync function is not made well at all. When I deleted the files, the function still thinks they're on the phone, so they don't get copied again. I tested this by adding a new .mp3 into the music folder on my pc. When I invoked the sync, that particular file was then sent to the phone. So, I copied all the files back in manually. Still have no playlists though, so still a reall half-assed app, to say the least.
I don't use HTC Sync and that could be the problem you're having. I use Sync in Windows Media Player, I don't sync my phone to the pc either I just use the Sync function on the right hand side of WMP there two seperate functions. And if you have all your playlists on your pc in M3U format then you can never lose them if you wipe the phones cache. This is why I did this as I switched ROMs a lot and would always lose all my playlists, I tried MyBackup Pro to save them but sometimes it would work right and restore them and sometimes it wouldn't. So now I just stick to keeping my music and playlists on my pc and manage them from there and syncing them over.
Remember to reboot the phone after adding the playlists and depending upon the size and speed of your sdcard it can take up to 30 minutes once you reboot the phone for the playlists to reappear. My 32 GB class 6 micro sdcard takes forever to scan them back in on my Inc. I'm using the stock 16 GB in my Rezound and its slow too.
You also can skip syncing all together and just drag and drop your entire music library onto the sdcard. I do this in emergencies but prefer to sync the music with WMP as it then remembers what songs are on the device so I don't get duplicates. WMP stores the playlists in the same music directory on the pc as the mp3's so everything gets transfered.
Also the reason I wipe the music cache is if I don't I will get duplicates so I always wipe it if I'm doing a major overall of my music. And like I said everything I have is on my pc so I don't lose anything. And since all my music and playlists are all on the sdcard anyways wiping the cache really has no effect for me except to delete any internal playlists that might have crept in. Once the phone rescans the sdcard I'm golden.
The reason it takes awhile for your card to see the songs is because you likely have a ton of song files in the folder. ;-)
I already tried using WMP to sync, but it makes no difference. I made a M3U with 3 songs in it. I turned off HT Sync's Music option, then in WMP dragged the new M3U to the sync window on the right and sync'd. All songs in that playlist indeed sync'd. I then manually copied the M3U to a Playlist folder inside the Music folder on the SD card. For safety's sake, did the Windows stop USB to flush the RAM cache to the disk to ensure writing of the M3U files. Rebooted the phone.
I've even tried manually creating a playlist. All to no avail.
I wouldn't be surprised if this works for you simply because your phone is unlocked, but I've given up. I have a commercial band, and need playlist sync'ing functionality more than I need Beats, since the phone is a backup to my PC for in-between-sets music (in case we have PC problems at a gig), so I am now looking for a new music app that supports syncing from the PC. Know of any?
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The reason it takes awhile for your card to see the songs is because you likely have a ton of song files in the folder. ;-)
I already tried using WMP to sync, but it makes no difference. I made a M3U with 3 songs in it. I turned off HT Sync's Music option, then in WMP dragged the new M3U to the sync window on the right and sync'd. All songs in that playlist indeed sync'd. I then manually copied the M3U to a Playlist folder inside the Music folder on the SD card. For safety's sake, did the Windows stop USB to flush the RAM cache to the disk to ensure writing of the M3U files. Rebooted the phone.
I've even tried manually creating a playlist. All to no avail.
I wouldn't be surprised if this works for you simply because your phone is unlocked, but I've given up. I have a commercial band, and need playlist sync'ing functionality more than I need Beats, since the phone is a backup to my PC for in-between-sets music (in case we have PC problems at a gig), so I am now looking for a new music app that supports syncing from the PC. Know of any?
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Actually this all worked for me when I had the phone locked, its the first thing I set up when I got the Rezound a couple weeks ago. I actually just dragged and dropped my backed up music folder off my Incredible onto the phone and had no problems with it. Something is screwy on your phone because it should be able to read M3U's and not move or delete them at the most you would have duplicate playlists. Its as if something is writing to your sdcard overwritting this particular data. Weird.
Winamp I believe was actually trying for wireless syncing at one time. Poweramp is another good one but not sure about the syncing and its not free, like $5 or $15 somewhere in that range, the free version has like a 10 day trial period then it locks up. I've never used either for more than a day as I like the stock players widgets and every single music app out there has sucky widgets. I have used Mixzing (paid version) and actually like it over the others for its editng abilities but not sure if it has syncing and I haven't used it in over a year.
I also saw your other post on apps to sync but decided against replying to it. I've never found an app or program that can sync playlists and believe me I've searched. One of the problems is that the phone's playlists are stored in the cache folder and you need root access to get into it. Then they aren't stored in a playlist format so they can't really be read as such anyways. Just too many obstacles to overcome.
I've seen so many posts on the web about playlist problems, so I don't think I am the only one having this issue. In fact, you might be one of the LUCKY ones.
Hey, did you unlock per the HTC Dev instructions? You also said previously that the playlists are in a database format of some sort (SQL?), right? If that's the case, then we should be able to edit the files manually, right?
The reason I ask about the unlock thing is so I can get access to the playlist files. Maybe I can copy the file(s) to my PC, then just write a utility that will write to the playlists file(s), then just transfer whatever I need to the appropriate directory?
And, thanks for the insight on the other music apps. Now, I won't even bother trying to find something. I, too, prefer to use stock apps, but I gotta tell you, I've never encountered a device where so many built in things don't work right. And, to think Android has been out for quite some time; the implementation of some of these apps shocks the crap out of me. I mean, this is a music phone that can't sync playlists, without major headaches (even YOU should not have to copy lists manually, you know what I mean?). The MAJORITY of HTC Sync functions do NOT work (shouldn't it be the majority SHOULD work), (HT Sync connectivity is spotty as well), Voice Search doesn't work right, etc. Then again, maybe Android itself isn't all that it's cracked up to be... why else would playlist sync'ing, as well as other data sync'ing, not be as prevalent as you would think? These are, after all, devices designed to make data more portable, so sync should be a top priority. But, maybe the OS is just not robust enough, or just not mature enough to accommodate good developers.
I used the HTCdev unlock method on the HTC website, but it does wipe your phone completely if you do it.
I used to have all kinds of problems with my playlists on my Incredible until I switched to strictly using external M3U playlists on my sdcard and stopped using the internal playlist function all together. What I mean by this is that I used to download music directly to the phone then add it to a playlist using that function in the music app. However this would then create a duplicate internal playlist and not update the external playlist on the sdcard. Only the internal playlist would have the new music included in it as the phone can't write to external playlists. Having two different playlist locations really screwed up my music. So now I stick strictly to keeping only the M3U playlists that are on my sdcard. My phone does not copy them to the internal cache which appears to be what your phone is doing.
The internal playlists are stored in SQL databases, cache folder and you need root access to get into it, but I have not found anything looking like usable data in the ones I searched through on my Incredible. My Rezound is not rooted. My memory of how to access data in a database is failing and comes from the early 90's when you had to know such things.
Edit: Guess what I just checked my library and I now have duplicate playlists on my phone, this is pissing me off. I generally listen to the same playlist everyday so don't open the library very often but the last time I did, over a week ago probably a couple days after unlocking, I only had one set of playlists. So now my phone has copied my external playlists to the internal cache. This is only on my Rezound too the Incredible is untouched so something is different in how the music app's read and then store data. Bummer, I can't tell which playlists is internal or external as there is no properties function in the settings.
Edit 2: Okay cleared the data from media storage, rebooted the phone and I'm back to one set of playlists. We'll see how long this lasts.
Evening everyone, I have spent the last 20 hours of my life confused and beyond angry at Google Music. Missing Tags repeat albums and don't even get me started on the album art work missing. I am OCD about my music library, always have been that's why (when I used that god awful software) during my iTunes years I meticulously spent hours fixing genres adding art work and capitalizing the correct letters in titles artists and albums, spent hours downloading HQ album covers and all was well. Unfortunately for me none of that corrected info actually gets tagged in the actual file the metadata remains unedited and no artwork actually becomes embedded Tunes just simply says OK that's what you want to see for that song but only of course on Apple's devices. So I was left with all these files from which were jumbled up in Mp4 and Mp3 and WAV some with artwork some without.
So Yesterday I began the process of figuring out how to finally organize all of my music once and for all so that Google Music would show album art correct names yada yada yada. I then thought to myself I am sure of it that many others would like to see how I did it so that they too could enjoy a perfect Library on Google's wonderful streaming service, or off the SD card. I will say this is extraordinarily time consuming but since I am making this guide it should at least allow you to cut an hour or two digging for software and generally wanting to tear your hair out in frustration over figuring out why the hell the metadata editor wont edit the files or show up in the directory. So gentlemen and ladies alike here are my efforts in order to finally have a perfect music library forever.
Software you will need
ID3 - This is the program that allows you to edit the metadata and provide proper naming and artwork
http://www.nch.com.au/tageditor/index.html
Mp4 - Mp3 Converter - As Itunes and Apple are stupid and use a stupid file codec the Mp4 metadata cannot be directly edited The Tag editor can only edit when the files are Mp3( if you never used itunes you may be able to skip this) .
http://download.cnet.com/Free-M4a-t...7723.html?tag=dropDownForm;productListing;pop
1.) First will want to convert all non Mp3 formatted files into Mp3. You can either edit and convert together ( I would not recommend this) or you can queue everything that needs to be converted first. That is what I would do.
Sub Step a.) While it is converting go to Google and Image search all the album covers you will need and put the cover art .jpg into the folder for the album to which it belongs 500 x 500 pixels is perfect size for album covers and is the most widely used size for these images.
2.) While it is converting go to Google Music and delete your Library( NOTE that you better only delete things that you have the file for) I take no responsibility for you deleting music and then never getting it back that's on you. I have all my music in a specific folder and knew I could delete it. Also take note that DRM music from ITunes cannot be edited or uploaded. ( I paid well over a hundred bucks to Apple to get what I could DRM free) Once you have a clean slate you can allow the converting process to finish.
3.) Once you have your converted files you can go into your music folder location and see that you will now have duplicates of the files that were converted(One being Mp4 and the new Mp3 file). Create a new folder for your new files. What I mean by this is take all the Mp4 files( don't delete them just in case you still need it) and separate the Mp4 Files and Mp3 Files into new folders for example:
Folder 1 ( band Name: Mp4)
Folder 2 ( Band Name: Mp3)
THIS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT
if you do not separate the files you will upload duplicates to Google Music and it will default to the previous file leading you back to where you started (I did this and almost threw my computer out the window from frustration) Also leave the Cover art you downloaded in the Mp3 folder not the mp4 which will make adding the cover art much quicker
4.) Now that you have your library converted and separated the new and old files you will have an Mp3 Library and an Mp4 library( I know it blows to have identical folders but its just how it is and will make sure your library is as organized as possible and keep you from loosing your tunes.)
5.) Open the Stamp editor and you should now be able to edit all the Metadata you want using the program.
I am about to start Homework check back here later tonight or tomorrow for screenshots and tips to make this easier.
Quick Tip - this is how my Music Directory is organized
folder Named after artist
Sub folder contains Albums
Each Album is a sub folder containing the Google Image we downloaded earlier and the Mp3 Files to which will be edited ( I HIGH SUGGEST FOLLOWING THIS)
Very nice guide! im ocd about my music library too. I wish i could've just hired somebody to fix my whole library instead of wasting 20+ hours trying to. :crying:
I thought about it yesterday when I was doing all of this, A company that would organize music would probably be very profitable. Im not sure how you would structure paying but it would be a smart idea.
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
Max725 said:
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
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I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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zkrp5108 said:
I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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What about m4a? And the reason I don't want to convert flac files is that flac is lossless. It has all the same information as a native wav file, but it somehow takes up a little less space, although much more than mp3. The flac codec is open source and all, so I don't see why there should be problems editing metadata in flac files, I just haven't looked which specific programs can do it.
And I tried Poweramp, but didn't see any settings for genre-specific hierarchy - you can choose to have it show genres-artists-albums or genre-albums or anything like that, but you can't make it different for each genre. By the way, I really don't care about options or eq - I believe that classical music should be heard exactly as in the natural performance, and I trust the professional sound editors whose job it is to optimize all the different instruments and ranges in the other songs I have. In fact, I have currently settled on EZ Folder Player, which just opens to a specified folder, from which I can navigate through the folders I set up to any album or song and play it. I believe it has no eq or sound settings at all.
I'm pretty sure that the mp4 and m4a files are both convertable using the program but I'm not sure lol. This was specifically to aid those that used iTunes in the past but switched to android and Google music' and how to add tags to mp3 files that people download from the internet. As for the hierarchy your looking for power amp allows folder browsing add well. But not in a custom way like your looking for. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful on that subject if I come across something I'll be sure to put an answer here for you.
As for your distaste to EQ all headphones are different because they produce different ohms and the studio quality sound the engineers get in the studio are on headphones that are studio quality I used to work in a f film department and trust me consumer grade headphones don't even compare. The eq just allows me to tailor my music b based on the pair of headphones I'm using on a given day.
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redwaldo said:
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
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+1 on mp3tag, I use it all the time on my collection. You can drag a folder over it and it just loads all the tags for you for updating/reviewing/modification. You can mass update tags like album, artist, etc. You can also use the tags to rename the files.
dBpoweramp - Swiss army knife of file conversion, it integrates into the windows right click menu, highlight your tracks, right click, convert to, pick your format and settings and go. It's multithreaded and will use all your cores to convert also. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm It's a little pricey but it makes things so easy. It is fully functional for trial use if you want to test it beforehand.
Did this awhile ago, ended up up just using media monkey to organize and found a lot of the meta data myself.
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