I'll update my album art and all the albums will come up. But whenever I make a change like put a new boot animation, change battery icon or whatever the album art resets. I've literally had to update it 6 times in the past 2 days because I kept wanting to change something. Is there anyway to keep it on? I have all my music on my sd card so I figured changes on my system wouldn't affect the music on my sd card. Any ideas how to keep it?
Thanks.
What music player?
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Dr.Strangelove. said:
I'll update my album art and all the albums will come up. But whenever I make a change like put a new boot animation, change battery icon or whatever the album art resets. I've literally had to update it 6 times in the past 2 days because I kept wanting to change something. Is there anyway to keep it on? I have all my music on my sd card so I figured changes on my system wouldn't affect the music on my sd card. Any ideas how to keep it?
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I've actually noticed this too.
I'll go one step further and tell you that I was listening to Limp Bizkit and the album art for Pink Floyd was showing. Annoying.
What? I like all different types of music! Big whoop! Wanna fight about it?
I use the default music player. And yeah like binary was saying it's annoying. I didn't know Black Sabbath had a Jay-Z album cover. Also there is one album with santana on it that is on pretty much everyone odd song I have.
I've discovered you need to create a folder for every artist/album. I just imported my music in iTunes (yuck), deleted my music folder on the SD card, and copied the new music into a folder for music. If you go this route, make sure 'keep itunes media folder organized' is checked under 'preferences' and 'advanced'.
This has fixed the problem for me. Every artist before this was Michael Jackson. It drove me insane!
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I've discovered you need to create a folder for every artist/album. I just imported my music in iTunes (yuck), deleted my music folder on the SD card, and copied the new music into a folder for music. If you go this route, make sure 'keep itunes media folder organized' is checked under 'preferences' and 'advanced'.
This has fixed the problem for me. Every artist before this was Michael Jackson. It drove me insane!
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hi there..
I embedded all album arts into the mp3s in my pc using mp3tag... all working in my pc...
so i copied all the mp3s into my sensation XE.. all the album art is not displaying in the stock music player like it shows in the pc..
i tried viewing all the mp3s in my phone using another pc, all the album art is there.. but the phone is not displaying.. any help?
I'm gonna bump this one.
I have the exact same problem. I've used hours upon hours on sorting my music through mp3tag, giving them new names, making new folders, finding and embedding artwork in tags, and so on. And when I decided to throw it all on my Desire S, it almost didn't show any artwork at all! I shows like 1 percent or so, the rest is just blank.
Now, I know the phone can show it, cause a lot of the music has been on the phone before and showed artwork. BUT.. the problem was it didn't show all artwork (only around 90 percent or so), so I decided to transfer all my music onto my 64gb mincro-sd card once again (have around 50gb of music), only this time having sorted it all through said mp3tag.
I've used both the stock HTC music player, Winamp, Doubletwist, PowerAmp and others, but noone seems to be able to load all of the artwork. It propably has something to do with the android media scanner, but I have no idea how or why, everything I've tried seems to fail: Clearing the media scanner cache, restarting the phone etc. Maybe it's due to some spacial limitation on 'new scannable media' in incoming media scans on startup, who knows.
All the artwork shows up beautifully in Winamp on my computer, but not on my Android. And it pisses me off, as I'm actually quite fond of the whole Android experience. But as a music lover it's just soooo annoying that it's so terrible at handling music and related artwork.
I could of course use e.g. PowerAmp to fill out missing artwork, but it'll propably only work for the app itself, and I have too many albums to be arsed to do it all over again. As said, I already did use so much time on embedding artwork to id3v2.3 tags, and I just don't understand why the phone can't load those tags and related artwork without problems.
Anyone tried the same? Something similar? Other thoughts?
I use Android 2.3.5 btw.
SAME HERE
BUMP! as well!!!
owning a droid razr here and i have the similar problem as well... BUT I CAN SEE MY ALBUM ART AT THE LOCK SCREEN
other apps such as doubletwist etc are able to show my album art but the STOCK music player doesnt even show a SINGLE album art...
i classify all my song in their albums like a;ways and tag them from mp3tag...
100% sure they are there but they cant seem to show up on the app
Hope ics update will come earlier and fix this???
BTW
my phone had successfully shown the album art the first time i uploaded them into my internal storage but now it cant seem to work as before any more
after syncing them to my 16gb sandisk microsdhc....
now syncing it to my interal storage doesnt work as well...
Bump. Even downloading using album art grabber, and setting it to overwrite the default artwork, it doesnt stick. Plus, everytime i restart, all my artwork needs reaaplying, everytime i copy/to from the card, the artwork messes up, and my playlists vanish. Album artwork has already been pre-embedded, but winamp wipes it on transfer, forcing me to use album artwork grabber app. Is there ANY way to make these changes stick?
Hey,
I havn't come accross a way to disable album art in the default music player.
Is there a way? All the default ones are absolutely hideous.
Does anyone know the path to the images? I'm rooted so i could replace them myself.
Thank you.
I don't know the specific location, but have a look into the free app Album Art Grabber. It lets you choose new album art from lastfm, musicbrainz or your SD card. I just used it to update all my album art and it did all the well known ones automatically, and then for my more obscure music or stuff not in proper albums, I just did those myself manually.
uzzy said:
Hey,
I havn't come accross a way to disable album art in the default music player.
Is there a way? All the default ones are absolutely hideous.
Does anyone know the path to the images? I'm rooted so i could replace them myself.
Thank you.
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Just put the cover image on the folder and it should work.
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Just put the cover image on the folder and it should work.
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I copied a few folders containing FLAC music files and album art on to the SD card.
The SG3 eventually discovered and used some of my images, but it doesn't seem to use the jpegs called Folder.jpg or folder.jpg, but instead it's (apparently) randomly picking a different image, albeit from the correct folder.
I have usually found that the main album art image should be titled "folder.jpg" for the most universal compatibility with different music players, so I'm puzzled that the SG3 seems to studiously ignore it!
Could my album art files be too large? I've not experimented much yet.
Ideas welcome!
Thanks
Well maybe it's because of the size, I don't have to name it folder.jpg it just takes the 1st image on the folder I think. I just copied my music on my GS3 and I have some folder with covers and I noticed it always takes the 1st pic as album cover, for example I have Front.JPG Front2.JPG Front3.JPG and Front4.JPG and it is displaying Front.JPG as cover, on another folder I have Lady GaGa-The Fame [Front].jpg Lady GaGa-The Fame [CD].jpg and Lady GaGa-The Fame [Back].jpg and it is displaying Lady GaGa-The Fame [Front].jpg just try to name it cover.jpg and it should work imo, if it doesn't work try to reduce the image size to see if there is a limit.
Well, I deleted all the album art that I DIDN'T want from the music folders in the SD Card (just leaving the cover images), but the wretched wrong images remained showing in the music player!
SO I went to the Applications Manager (under "settings") then to "Media Storage", cleared the cache there and restarted the phone.
Sure enough, the correct album art now shows. Much happier!
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Well, I deleted all the album art that I DIDN'T want from the music folders in the SD Card (just leaving the cover images), but the wretched wrong images remained showing in the music player!
SO I went to the Applications Manager (under "settings") then to "Media Storage", cleared the cache there and restarted the phone.
Sure enough, the correct album art now shows. Much happier!
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I'm glad you found out, thanks for sharing.
Power Amp will give you complete control over such things and is probably a better solution than the stock player to boot, for local files anyways...
That being said I use an app, forget what it's called, MP3Tag that lets you embed your own images in your mp3 files and you never have to worry about images being wrong again as long as the music app you use is configurable so that it won't try to get it's own art. .....any of them worth a crap are...
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Yes but the post is nearly a year old why trawl .Post was dead until you resurected it from the depths .
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I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
Try clearing data in "MediaScanner" in the applications manager, and then rebooting. Give it a little while as it can take a few minutes to scan the entire phone.
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I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
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Try putting the music somewhere else on your SD, before deleting caches and data... If that doesn't work, you can always just delete the cache of your music player, that usually works, but try not to delete the Media Scanner's Cache, that means it will take longer to boot and get to the launcher...
If you want, you could also just download Google Play Music, it's better than Samsung's Music player (Because Music Player leaves a second out of the music..) and Play Music is much smoother than Sammy's..
Try one of those and if it still doesn't work, do the Media Scanner Cache.
Anyways, hope I could help you!
You can also decrease the scanning times by using the SD watcher mod here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28795745&postcount=2
Thanks! I'll try all the options provided and will let everyone know the results.
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I just received my HTC One X+ earlier this week. They sent me the 64GB one which I was more than happy with and decided to put my whole music collection on.
I connected by USB and just transferred (drag and drop) it to the music folder within the HTC One X+ using Windows explorer. The first time I did it I noticed that some albums were split up in the stock music player. I checked Winamp Pro app and that too was picking them up as split up. I reconnected the phone and checked in Windows explorer but everything was fine, one folder for each album, just like I have on my PC. I deleted all the contents of the music folder on the phone and transferred them over again, but once again it split them up just like it did the first time. It is weird because it is just random songs it splits into another album, with the same album art and same album name.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have a solution?
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I just received my HTC One X+ earlier this week. They sent me the 64GB one which I was more than happy with and decided to put my whole music collection on.
I connected by USB and just transferred (drag and drop) it to the music folder within the HTC One X+ using Windows explorer. The first time I did it I noticed that some albums were split up in the stock music player. I checked Winamp Pro app and that too was picking them up as split up. I reconnected the phone and checked in Windows explorer but everything was fine, one folder for each album, just like I have on my PC. I deleted all the contents of the music folder on the phone and transferred them over again, but once again it split them up just like it did the first time. It is weird because it is just random songs it splits into another album, with the same album art and same album name.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have a solution?
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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I have that same issue....i'm still trying to track down the cause myself.
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What folder they're in doesn't matter, you need to check the metadata. Probably some songs have the artist as "BandA" and some have it as "Band A" or something silly like that.
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Thanks, but I have tried this. I am meticulous when it comes to the metadata tags and have been for years. The tags in Winamp on my PC are fine and nothing is split up. There's no spaces at the end of any of the information in the tags. They all show up fine on my Galaxy S1 and it is the same files I am copying over.
An example. On my PC I have 4 Angels & Airwaves albums, all tagged correctly. All displaying Album, Artist, Title, Song Number correctly. On my Galaxy S they are too. But on the One X+, those same files- some show up as 'Angels' for artist with 3 albums none split. Then there's Angels and Airwaves (they're tagged with & in the metadata on my PC) showing up with 2 albums which is 1 album split into two. It seems something is going wrong with the One X+ when I put these files on. It has to be the phone during transfer, because the Winamp app on my phone, along with the stock player, is showing the files like this.
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Thanks, but I have tried this. I am meticulous when it comes to the metadata tags and have been for years. The tags in Winamp on my PC are fine and nothing is split up. There's no spaces at the end of any of the information in the tags. They all show up fine on my Galaxy S1 and it is the same files I am copying over.
An example. On my PC I have 4 Angels & Airwaves albums, all tagged correctly. All displaying Album, Artist, Title, Song Number correctly. On my Galaxy S they are too. But on the One X+, those same files- some show up as 'Angels' for artist with 3 albums none split. Then there's Angels and Airwaves (they're tagged with & in the metadata on my PC) showing up with 2 albums which is 1 album split into two. It seems something is going wrong with the One X+ when I put these files on. It has to be the phone during transfer, because the Winamp app on my phone, along with the stock player, is showing the files like this.
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For example with me is with Soundgardens new album has this ONE song that is split from the rest...and I cannot find any reason for this whatsoever.
arminyack said:
For example with me is with Soundgardens new album has this ONE song that is split from the rest...and I cannot find any reason for this whatsoever.
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Retag all your files in your pc first either in iTunes if you use it or any proper metadata editor. You can use the ones from the playstore as well but might take for ever on device. Some tips, the less info the better for music. Artist, album and year is all I put beside track name of course. If you do use iTunes then doubletwist is your best friend. Delete your players app cache and data as well when you reload your library
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i had the same issue. use this program to check your tags. i thought that i had everything exactly the same on mine, but found one little difference and that would cause them to be split up. removed the difference, and everything was ok.
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
Stereo8 said:
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
BatEarsJoe said:
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..