On my tablet (4G US-Version), all music apps are showing Chinese characters instead of umlaute (ä, ü, ö etc.) for music information (artist, album, track etc.)
As it is universal to all music apps relying on the built-in music provider, I thought it is an issue with encoding of the tags in the mp3s, so I played around with UTF-8, UTF-16, id3v2.3, id3v2.4 all showing the same result...
Is someone experiencing a similar problem or more importantly has some sort of solution ?
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I'm looking for a music player that reads the album artist (or band) tag of music files, if anyone knows of one. Or a means to modify existing players to read this tag. So far I've come up with absolutely nothing.
Appreciate it!
Do you mean like album art showing up? I re-tagged all my music on my pc, making sure artist/title/album and corresponding album art were all correct and the stock music player reads it just fine.
Bronk93 said:
Do you mean like album art showing up? I re-tagged all my music on my pc, making sure artist/title/album and corresponding album art were all correct and the stock music player reads it just fine.
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I think he's referring to the fact that the Samsung player can't handle more than some small and finite number of artists. If you load too much music, it gives you an error when searching by Artist.
I just downloaded the new WinAmp and am definitely digging it. MixZing is also good if you need EQ.
What I mean is reading the ID3 tag value for %album artist% or %band%.
%band% is what WMP12 and iTunes use for their album's artist. %album artist% is used by most other players (foobar).
WMP12 uses the %artist% field for contributing artists on the track, which is how my whole music library is tagged (so none of my songs have ft. Kanye West in the title)
For an example song, The Fire by The Roots, featuring John Legend
%track% - 11
%title% - The Fire
%album% - How I Got Over
%album artist% - The Roots
%band% - The Roots
%artist% - The Roots; John Legend
%genre% Rap & Hip-Hop
The problem is that all of the music players I've encountered thus far read the %artist% tag as the album artist, so what I get is a ridiculous artist list like
The Roots
The Roots/Dice Raw
The Roots/John Legend
The Roots/Mos Def/Styles P./Dice Raw
The Roots/Truck North/P.O.R.N./Dice Raw
Which is a huge pain in the ass, because I can't easily select all the songs by the roots.
I don't have a problem with the artist list crashing in Samsung's Music Player, but I do have a problem with it and Cubed both crashing when attempting to search music. Also, Winamp's search just flat out turned up no results. Yet ringdroid's search works great. Lame.
I do have a gripe about Samsung's display of the album art, as every file has 500x500 px art embedded yet it displays junk art. But that's for another day.
Ok, so I've been using the stock android music player for over 2 months now. It has all the functionality I want in a music player except maybe editing tags (album name, artists, etc) and finding album art (Album Art Grabber is my current solution to this).
The problem I have been having with this player is that when transferring music to the phone via 'Windows Media Sync' option is that sometimes the album art will not appear on the phone (happens to quite a few albums) and also the tags will be messed up. For instance, just recently I turned the phone on and was browsing my music library and all of a sudden the song titles appeared in lower case (ie. 'Tighten Up' became 'tighten up') I know this is a small thing but I find it annoying a little. Other things like artists will appear as 'Unknown'.
Anyone experience these problems as well? What programs/apps do you guys use? I've tried out poweramp trial version and it does allow my to edit tags but I was wondering if there is an app that is a sort of one click 'Find Album Info' like in Windows Media Player?
Check the music player called Neutron on the app market
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I would like to ask if someone knows, how can i make my songs (.mp3) to have recognizable characters at every android media player. Let me make clear to you that non-english characters (greek letters) at my songs are nearly unreadable at players. Media players play such songs normally but i can not read their IDE tags (for example: individual artist's name, album's name, e.t.c....) Every android file explorer can identify their name, (so windows 7 do) but not the android players ( i have tested almost every media player available in market, now i am using miui player with the same problem). I have HTC magic with CM7.2 and the problem is with greek letters in songs which they appear to me as chinese ones and therefore i am not able to make playlists, choose a specific song from my list... How can i fix this??
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Use ID3 Fixer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer
Hi, I have tried load of music playes and a few "dedicated" audio book players and none of them seem to be able to catalog the music correctly. The best at it so far is the Sony music player which is hacked form a ROM, however I cant get the EQ to do anything on this and I find the controls a bit fiddly even on my tablet.
My main issue with other playes is the catalogging, I can find no player at all that will properly deal with chapters or have a system where you can properly choose who to sort the music / track definition by name / number etc. So, I end up with mp3 playing out of order so I end up having to create huge playlists just to be able to read a book, some have 30+audio chapters.
Does anyone else use audio books who can recommend something that just works?
I was extremely excited to take advantage of Google's free music cloud..... But I uploaded my 19000 song library only to find that about 3000 of my songs don't have proper tags. They all display perfectly fine in foobar2000, my iPod, etc. But in Google music tons of songs are missing artist, album, title or a combination of fields.
I use foobar to tag and changed all my mp3 tag types to v2.4. I also used the rewrite tags to file option and reuploaded all of my music. Nothing ive tried worked.What do I do so Google music stops messing up my tags?