I'm using the pre-installed Music player app to play my WMA files.
I've used WMP on my PC to sync all the music to an MicroSDHC card. That completed ok, and I can see all my music through the player. There are a few hundred albums, but only 2 of them show album art.
Is there something else I need to do to make sure all the album art is visible when scrolling through the list of albums?
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I am having the same problem with the stock music player, but with MP3 files. Only around 10 out of 300 files have the album art showing. Did you find out what the problem was?
I have embedded the album art within each file. The same files had the album art displaying perfectly on my previous phone, the N97 Mini. So I know the problem is not with the mp3 files.
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I am having the same problem with the stock music player, but with MP3 files. Only around 10 out of 300 files have the album art showing. Did you find out what the problem was?
I have embedded the album art within each file. The same files had the album art displaying perfectly on my previous phone, the N97 Mini. So I know the problem is not with the mp3 files.
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Thats becos their extension of those file is m4a. The phone find it hard to read those taggs so it comes up as unknonw artiste. Try to download MEDIA FIX from the android market.it should fix almost the whole issue. that is if the issue is with the file extension. cheers
I found out that WMP does not put the artist details into the metadata tags of the music when you perform a sync from its library to a a target such as a USB drive or SD card.
As a workaround, I just used Windows Explorer to drag the music folder to the SD card. All the album art then showed up in the music player. I've seen a few solutions for syncing music onto the SD Card but haven't tried any yet. WINAMP is meant to do it but the reviews say it's a bit troublesome. I don't get much music, so now it's copied over the card it's easy to add more albums. I guess if you are always adding more music to your library that could become tedious.
I had the same problem with the stock music player. I use PowerAmp music player instead now, It shows all the album art, plus if some are missing it will find them for you. It is the best music player on android market, better than stock music player.
playerpro is also a good alternative
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Same here bro
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Thanks guys but my problem was solely with the album art not showing, the other tags were being displayed correctly. Anyway, I fixed it by putting the album art jpg (renamed to folder.jpg) inside each albums folder. This did the trick, and now the album art is displaying properly in stock player, Winamp and Poweramp.
Seems the S2 in some cases, cannot read the album art embedded in the individual mp3 file itself, but can pick up the folder.jpg file in each albums folder.
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
Recently i changed my ROM and since then all music apps, including stock, says i only have a few songs on whereas Astro File manager shows i have all my albums and i can only listen to them through there, not a normal music app. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks ;D
What Rom you on?if miui go to music folder in settings but if still you have nothing You can try this app available on Google play
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=media+scanner+
Im on FeraVolt v16 but the problem occurred when I tried v13 I think
il download the app and see what is says
Thanks
Anyone be able to shed some light on how I can get my music back?
What media players have you tried?
Even have you checked permissins to the music folders if there are readable and writable for all?
Iv tried stock music player, DoubleTwist, Meridian, AMP? maybe some others? and none of them could 'see' most of the songs. I know they are on the card in the music folder, would i maybe need to move them to a new one? The music apps can see 7 songs, but i have alot more on my card :/
Try MortPlayer - It is folder based (I love it, because play randomly by files,to albums etc...). Run it and select you music folder to scan it and see it it will be seen.
Il try that once my phone has charged fully, i ordered a new one after mine started to fail :/ should i delete battery stats after the charge to 100% do you think?
I think that it is not necessary if you wont observe some kind of strange reportings of battery level.
Thanks for the recommendation, MortPlayer seems to be working well. Just trying to gte the correct ablum arts now
You should be fine by rebooting the phone, if not then try wiping cache data and dalvik
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Thanks for the recommendation, MortPlayer seems to be working well. Just trying to gte the correct ablum arts now
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Anytime
Use TCM musicTag Editor - simple and usable
Mortplayer uses the covers inside the music files or in their directory for eg. album art. Similar like dekstop players.
But still cant understand why other players cant recognize other music, as mentioned before, try reboot and even the wipe data of "Media provider".
So yesterday I had cleared caches and fixed permissions on my phone to fix an issue I was having. When I booted however, none of my pictures or music would show up. I did several reboots and it did not fix it so I downloaded Media Rescan from Play Store to get my media back. It worked, but now I have ringtones in my music player and backgrounds/icons in the gallery. How can I get these out of there?????
Sort folders out on your SD card or internal storage.having them scattered outside their appropriate folders will make them show up in music player, as same for photos.
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I have downloaded two three songs on my mobile through chrome, then through ES file explorer, i moved those songs to /sdcard/Music/ where rest of my mp3s are.. the problem is that these new songs are not shown in the Music app.. months ago, I had copied songs from my pc to my phone /sdcard/Music/ through ES file explorer.. and they showed up fine..
can anyone help me out with this?
my phone is rooted
ICS 4.0.4
CWM recovery
Seems like this isnt HTC or app related issue
even samsung users are having this sort of issue..
now im loosing my interest in android
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even samsung users are having this sort of issue..
now im loosing my interest in android
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Never lose interest in Android. Try clearing data and cache of the music app.
still.. lost a bit
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Never lose interest in Android. Try clearing data and cache of the music app.
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yeah i tried it all, but clearing cache didnt work..
i read somewhere that I should fix the permissions through the recovery, but this caused another issue, there is an issue with CWM recovery, on fixing permissions it messes with the permissions of contacts pictures, hence the contact picture wont show up in messages.. so after trying fixing permissions, i got another issue at my disposal, although I did found a solution and fixed the contact picture issue.. but the Music library problem still remained..
I also read that there is a file .nomedia which causes this problem, but removing it didnt do any good either
meanwhile i found twrp released for desire x, and replaced CWM with twrp 2.5(official one, not Yasir's 2.4.3, i didnt know the difference so i just went with the latest one).. and then I fixed the permissions, and I also factory reset my phone.. which erased all of the data, then I copied things back and it all worked fine..
dont know if the factory reset fixed the issue or fixing the permission, as i went to sleep inbetween this whole mess to clear my mind (may be this made it work )
Maybe youre music Player was just rescaning for new Media, it can take a wile for me as i have tons of Files and twice as many folders
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it wasnt fixed
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Maybe youre music Player was just rescaning for new Media, it can take a wile for me as i have tons of Files and twice as many folders
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na man.. i thought its fixed as after going through what i have stated above, there appeared songs in the music library while i was actually copying songs, so i thought its fine now.. but today when i opened the music app, i found its showing almost half of the songs.. there are about 103 songs, its showing just something around 65..
i found one more thing, that when i open the Music folder in ES File Explorer, then some song icons contain there album art, and these are the only songs which are shown in music app.. there are 7 albums in the Music folder(means seven albums containing around 13 songs each) and 6 songs directly in Music folder.. in Music app, i get 5 albums, in one album there is only 7 songs shown in Music app while there are 14 or 15.. I opened this album on ES file explorer and found that there are only seven songs in that album with album art, this is when i found this.. this is pretty strange, can someone help me with this?
Perhaps unsupported Format, try Manually adding the Media if possible in your music Player (think you can in poweramp)
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Nope it isnt unsupported format..
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Perhaps unsupported Format, try Manually adding the Media if possible in your music Player (think you can in poweramp)
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i can play all the media files in my phone through ES File explorer Media player, and also by Music app (if i navigate to the music file by my file manager and then play it, though by this method it plays as a popup, you cant multitask, its like a preview thing, plays as long as you dont move away from the popup).. but it just dont show up in Music App, because of which i cant listen to half of my music while doing some other work, alternative is to use ES Media Player, but why the hell does Android Native Music App is sucking so bad? if I am supposed to select best app for myself then why it wont let me delete system apps? (after deleting them they get back after restart)
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i can play all the media files in my phone through ES File explorer Media player, and also by Music app (if i navigate to the music file by my file manager and then play it, though by this method it plays as a popup, you cant multitask, its like a preview thing, plays as long as you dont move away from the popup).. but it just dont show up in Music App, because of which i cant listen to half of my music while doing some other work, alternative is to use ES Media Player, but why the hell does Android Native Music App is sucking so bad? if I am supposed to select best app for myself then why it wont let me delete system apps? (after deleting them they get back after restart)
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Do you have tagged all the music correctly? It won't scan it sometimes if it isn't tagged properly...
No I havent tagged them
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Do you have tagged all the music correctly? It won't scan it sometimes if it isn't tagged properly...
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What do you mean by have I tagged them correctly? How m i supposed to do this?
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What do you mean by have I tagged them correctly? How m i supposed to do this?
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By tagged music, he meant music with right set of id3 tags (in our case, at least name of song), to check if you have tagged music... is player showing name of song, author, album name, or it is "untitled track XYZ"? If it is untitled track, then tag it ffs (untagged music should be illegal), good tool to tag music quickly a precisely is program called musicbrainz picard, just download it somewhere. try manualy search tags in the files that are not showed up in music player...
Every single song is properly tagged
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By tagged music, he meant music with right set of id3 tags (in our case, at least name of song), to check if you have tagged music... is player showing name of song, author, album name, or it is "untitled track XYZ"? If it is untitled track, then tag it ffs (untagged music should be illegal), good tool to tag music quickly a precisely is program called musicbrainz picard, just download it somewhere. try manualy search tags in the files that are not showed up in music player...
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Every single song is tagged.. i didnt know that this means tag else i would have confirmed it before..
any other suggestion ?
This is bizarre
what music player are you using, have you tried turn it off and on again, clear music players cache and then rescan for music?
using default HTC MUSIC APP
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what music player are you using, have you tried turn it off and on again, clear music players cache and then rescan for music?
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clearing data by going to app settings through app manager solved the issue, i think.. i did this then opened the music app, no songs in its library, then waited for a while just to make sure it isnt searching, and it didnt show any song.. then i opened ES File Explorer went to Music library and noticed that now more songs have album arts, infact noticed some songs getting updated by album art.. then went to music app again and thank god.. all songs are being displayed now..