ok so i have like 5,000 mp3s on my 32gb card. but has anyone else had this problem? or better yet found a fix?
edit / update : its fixed. not sure what i did but this has hppened befor and im sure it will happen again. if i can replicate the problem and replicate the fix i will do a write up on it.
UPDATE I found a fix and started a thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15600010#post15600010
Happens to me all the time, that's why I removed all the art from my songs.
Wiping cache should fix it, but I don't quite remember...
Have you tried the album art grabber app?
If not, use the following for your music app:
- UberMusic beta
- Zimly Media player
Those will either get album art automatically or use a zune-like design for a default album art
Enjoy
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I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem and/or knows how to fix it.
I can see in Media Go that an album/song has album art attached to it (I can even see that there is album art in Windows explorer and iTunes). I've tried deleting/adding the art via 3rd party mp3 tagging software but that doesn't seam to make a difference.
I've tried copying the music using Media Go and dragging and dropping onto the memory card but the art still doesn't show on the phone. The funny thing is that it's not all albums, just a 'select' few.
I've also tried downloading the art via the phone itself however it either can't find the art or it's wrong.
Anyone know how to fix this?
I believe it has something to do with the aspect ratio of the album art. if it isn't a perfect square (500x500 or 450x450 for example) mediascape will not recognize the album art.
Thanks for the response, I've checked and that doesn't seam to be the case (some art which shows is not square and some art which doesn't show is square).
Also when Mediascape searches for album art it sometimes finds (wrong) old shaped album covers.
Any other ideas?
I had a problem like this before. Try this.
Go to your SD card and there's a folder called "albumthumbs" which stores a cached version of all the album covers. Delete all the files in this folder. Mediascape will then re-cache with all your updated album covers.
It fixed most of my albums but there are still a few that aren't right.
Hope that helps.
Nope, that didn't work either, in fact not the are more albums without art!
I had the same issue. I've not figured the reason, but I've worked around it removing the album art and adding it again with Mp3tag.
Did you try the "retrieve the album art" feature of mediascape ? (reading your post it's unclear whether or not you know about the feature)
It's really simple, just get a wi-fi connection, and it'll automatically read the album tags to get the proper album art.
I know it worked perfectly for me, also the phone didn't show any of the album art (even though some of my tracks had one) before doing that.
I tried re tagging my tracks with (Easy CD-DA Extractor) still no luck. Every single other player on my PC, stereo, Car etc. can read the the album art but not mediascape
This is my trick:
1. Clear all unnecessary tag from the file (eg: using eyeD3).
2. Inject album art to the file (eg: using albumart-qt).
3. Copy the file back to device.
4. Remove all Mediascape cache data (from Manage Apps menu).
5. Restart the device.
All the tools I use is running on Linux, but I'm sure there's counterpart tool on other platform.
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I sprung for the album art grabber app from the market. It allows you search the net or add art from the SD card.
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Did you try the "retrieve the album art" feature of mediascape ? (reading your post it's unclear whether or not you know about the feature)
It's really simple, just get a wi-fi connection, and it'll automatically read the album tags to get the proper album art.
I know it worked perfectly for me, also the phone didn't show any of the album art (even though some of my tracks had one) before doing that.
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Tried this and no luck, either it couldn't find the album art or it was totally wrong (it looks like it searches by artist rather than by album).
TheRainMaker said:
This is my trick:
1. Clear all unnecessary tag from the file (eg: using eyeD3).
2. Inject album art to the file (eg: using albumart-qt).
3. Copy the file back to device.
4. Remove all Mediascape cache data (from Manage Apps menu).
5. Restart the device.
All the tools I use is running on Linux, but I'm sure there's counterpart tool on other platform.
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I will look into this, I'm running Win 7 but I'm sure I can try the same process.
Baggyb said:
I sprung for the album art grabber app from the market. It allows you search the net or add art from the SD card.
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I'll give this a go also.
I've email Sony Ericsson support, I doubt I'll get a usefull answer but if I do I'll share it with the forum.
Thanks all!
UPDATE: Baggyb your trick with album art grabber app worked a charm.
Many thanks!
Sorry for the bump, but I might have found something that could help aswell.
I had the same problem. Mediascape wasn't able to put the correct album art on the songs I had on my X10.
Every other mediaplayer showed the correct album art, except for Mediascape.
Apparently all I had to do was add the song name at the album name and all of a sudden the correct album art was shown.
With Media Go that's quite easy.
Just put your songs in the map "music" of your X10 and go to Media Go.
Select the tab "Music" (@Phone Card) and you'll see your music currently on your X10.
Select a song and go to properties.
Click on the tab "artwork".
Add the albumart of your choice.
Then go to the tab "music" of properties.
Copy the title of the song and paste it @ "Album"
And you're done.
Seems a hassle to do this at every song, but it works so for me it was worth it.
Sony really makes it a hassle to put album art into the songs, they should come up with a solution and tell us the consumer in their user manual. The user manual really sucks as there is not much detail info into the product itself...
Just toss the correct album art into the album folder and name it albumart.jpg . It's very simple and works 100% for me.
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Tried this and no luck, either it couldn't find the album art or it was totally wrong (it looks like it searches by artist rather than by album).
I will look into this, I'm running Win 7 but I'm sure I can try the same process.
I'll give this a go also.
I've email Sony Ericsson support, I doubt I'll get a usefull answer but if I do I'll share it with the forum.
Thanks all!
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DO you have only new music btw?
I noticed that the Retrieve Album Art feature in Mediascape takes a few days to get the latest album covers... for example The Final Frontier album cover was only added a couple of days ago...
Ok. I also fond of tagging all my mp3 with album arts. Have wasted like all days long just to make it looks very nice in MediaScape And now currently, all my songs shows album arts in MediaScape.
Always use MediaGo for managing your mp3, also i don't even bother where they put the mp3 in sdcard. I already passed the "organize things in folder manually" life after i struggle to organize my 4TB stuff in separate hard drives
Second is to assign the album art to Album Properties instead of individual songs.
For songs that you already transfer to X10 without Album Art, by adding album art to Media Go and do the transfer again won't update the album art in timescape. You go and delete the content of albumthumbs in sdcard, then it will usually work.
No rules about dimension ratio and resolution for album arts.
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I have a SE Xperia Mini Pro.
I discovered the same problem. Album art would not display for Albums previously copied. (This was after spending 3 days sorting out Media Go with Art!!!)
I found a fix using an App called "Album Art Grabber".
Once I run it on the phone, it automatically finds the album art linked in the MP3 file. Once I run media scape the art has reappeared. Appears to work.
Benj.
I cleared my Cache of album thumbs as it was massive!
Only problem now is that some tracks don't have album art, others do.
Every track has album art in Poweramp, so im wondering why its not working on the stock music player?
That's a good question!
well i once read something about this. i had a similar problem but vice versa. poweramp didn't show album art. the problem lies with the combination of the album arts and the tracks itself probably. you should use a programme to create album art for albums. worked for me.
think the programme is called mp3tag.
hope it works for you
Hi all...am facing a strange problem.
After updating to 2.3.3, the music app fails to read the embedded album art in all my music files. But the album art is displayed perfectly by all other players like MixZing. What's wrong? I tried removing and re-transferring the semcmusic.apk and mediaprovider.apk files, but no effect. I have also tried clearing the app data but nothing seems to work.
I am really liking the new music app by SE - but without the album art, it looks all bland. Any suggestions?
I'm facing the same issue here in stock 2.3.3 music player.
I tried the ubermusic, but, unlike you, the problem persists...
I'm really waiting for sugestions.
try going into applications and look for media storage and clear data. This will remove all your songs from the music player until your device re-scans your sd card.
After that you can download and app like album art grabber for free and it will get the album art for most if not all of your songs.
Thx ..i was really confused ..trying diff music players so as to get album art.. u have solved my problem thx...
Worked for me...thanks!
clear media storage helped me too thanks!
I tried media grabber and iTag ...and it works fine for me...thanks for the tip...
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try going into applications and look for media storage and clear data. This will remove all your songs from the music player until your device re-scans your sd card.
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Thanks! Did the trick.
Did a forced re-scan thru ÜberMusic app and the pics came back.
(I always have album art manually inserted.)
Hi all
Just recently migrated from a desire to an s2 and am having a weird issue with album art and tags in the default player. A lot of my music has weird corrupt tags and missing or corrupt album art. The same files are fine in other players like poweramp and were fine on the desire.
I'm using mediamonkey to manage my music and the art is embedded in the mp3s Has anyone else had a similar problem or have a suggestion for a solution? It happens on stock rom and also on MCR.
Album art problem on Galaxy S2 by atconc, on Flickr
This exact same thing is happening to me on my Galaxy Player 5.0. (Basically the same as an SII but without the cell radios)
If I can figure out a fix, I will update this. Otherwise -- anyone else had this happen?
The ID3 metadata has a few different formats in place (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3_tag ). I'm betting your embedded cover art doesn't quite line up with the expectations of Samsung's music player
Try another music player app (which is more flexible in reading ID3 tags) or another mp3 tag tool (to include the cover art in a format which Samsung's player likes).
It appears to be due to ID3 tags being in ID3 v2.4 (or more specifically ID3 v2.4 UTF-8), as pointed out in:
http - (code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2071)
So, I used MP3Tag to convert all my tags to ID3 v2.3 (UTF-16). The issue went totally away. See if doing this to the music on your Samsung fixes it, atconc!
I was finally able to fix this, under tools - advanced tag management in media monkey there is an option to clean tags, I used this to clear the existing tags (it only clears them from the files the Meta data is kept in the library) then in the same menu used synchronize tags to write new tags to the files. I had it confirmed by media monkey support that it writes v2.3 tags so this replaces any incompatible tags and also anything corrupt.
Before re-syncing the fixed files you need to go into settings - applications - all -media storage and do "clear data" and restart which will remove cached images.
This worked for me and I now have nice clean tags and album art.
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courtlandj said:
It appears to be due to ID3 tags being in ID3 v2.4 (or more specifically ID3 v2.4 UTF-8), as pointed out in:
http - (code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2071)
So, I used MP3Tag to convert all my tags to ID3 v2.3 (UTF-16). The issue went totally away. See if doing this to the music on your Samsung fixes it, atconc!
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Just exactly how did you manage to convert it. I spent almost an entire day putting those TAG's and now Samsung is just showing the same album art for all the Artists. Its frustrating me a lot now.
Wondering of anyone has any insight for resolving issue of album art not showing up (music plays fine) any music player (Google, Power Amp, etc) with the Samsung 10.1. Scanned some other posts but none were for the tab, were also from last year or longer and were of no help. Files are MP3 and transfering from PC with Windows Media player or from Amazon cloud. Seems to be random. Is there a way to update? Can't seem to figure it out. There seperate files under and Album folder but still some album art shows ou and sometimes not.
Thanks to anyone who might be able to shed some light.
I had the same problem and spent hours trying to figure it out! My problem was actually on the HTC One X but I suspect it's the same issue.
At first I thought it was probably an issue with some files cached somewhere because I'd moved a few things around and deleted and renamed some files, but after noticing I had the same problem with players other than the stock player, that pretty much ruled that out, but I still just couldn't figure out why no matter what I did, two of my 300ish albums were showing without artwork.
Eventually I figured out it was because Android didn't like something in my ID3v2 tags. Because most of my music is in OGG format this generally isn't a problem, but I've still got a handful of MP3 albums, two of which had this problem. The tracks in one of these albums had 'Encoded by iTunes' in the 'Encoded' field of the ID3v2 tag; removing this from the fields resolved the issue and brought back my artwork. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the tags in the tracks in the other album, but removing the ID3v2 tags then adding them back in fixed the issue for that album too!
So I've still not got a clue why this causes a problem, because the ID3v2 tags weren't incorrect, but Android wasn't happy with them for some reason, even though the tracks still played fine.
I hope this helps someone else anyway - I'd be interested to know if it fixes the problem for others too
same problem
I have the same problem after installing walkman by thilinac
Any clue?