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
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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?
I'm of the old-school variety, and carry my music on my sdcard. When I first updated to the Google Music Beta app, it was all sorts of messed up, tag-wise. Looking through my tags, I realized how badly they were in disarray, with Google Music often considering two tracks to be on different albums if the only thing that differed was, say, the album art.
I realized how inconsistent my tags were, and decided to fix that issue. Over about two weeks I tidied up the tags in my MP3s, made cover art consistent, and so on. By the end of the process Google Music was reading everything correctly.
This last update, however, messed everything up again. Once again, about half of my albums are without cover art in the app, and about a third are split into multiple albums, with one or two tracks in one and the rest in the other. And, frankly, I can't figure out the issue. Every program I use to read the tags reports back the same thing; identical tags, except for track number and title. Album art is embedded into the files, and looking over it, the files I used were the exact same one, just replicated across all tracks in an album. I even checked to see if the issue was different versions of the MP3 tagging standard used in the same album, and it's not.
I tried clearing the data for Google Music, changing the name of the directory all my music is housed in, and even put a copy on my desktop PC. If I load the library into Clementine or Winamp, it reads the tags correctly with no duplicated albums or missing cover art.
I'm kinda running out of ideas here. Is there some special trick to getting Google Music happy with the way songs are tagged?
Im running it old school on my sd card. Theres really no need to stream tunes when everyone has a data cap
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I'm...not sure what I'm supposed to take from that. I'm running from the sdcard as well.
As I have found out by now, the folder that stores album artwork thumbs (Andoid/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs) should be the one responsible for keeping album artwork used by the various music players. However, I seem to have problems with the folder storing all my thumbs. For some reason it only stores 25 thumbs, resulting in a very low amount on viewable album artworks in these music players.
I have tried retransfering my music to my SD-card, deleting the stored media and run the media scanner, I have even tried deleting the albumthumbs folder, but nothing seems to help. I might have to try to make a clean installation of android, but I really, really hope I don't have to go this far.
Now, I did make a weird discovery: After having deleted the folder and emptied the media storage, I opened the stock Android Music Player which immediately started searching for albums and artists, and in the early phase of this scanning it actually showed if not all, then at least almost all the artwork. Of course there wasn't that many albums to show since it had only began sweeping the media storage for thumbs. But as it progressed, almost all artwork went blank again, leaving only a narrow selection of viewable album art. Nevertheless I now know that it should be possible to show all the album artwork thumbs, but something blocks it, resulting in a limited number of viewable artwork.
I really don't know what the issue relies on, might be the media scanner or whatever.
Have anyone got any idea what this might be due to? I'm pretty sure that a lot of people who have artwork problems have issues with this folder as well, just not knowing it.
Im loving the S3 so far, even on stock firmware, however i find some things really annoying and i was wondering if anyone else has a work around.
In the music player, for some reason the songs get re-ordered and split up.
Im sure this has something to do with the ID3 tags on the MP3, but I was wondering if someone would be able to help me confirm this.
I have updated the ID3 tags on the albums, and most now go together but the album order is still screwed up.
Any ideas guys ?
Album artist is one that splits them up. Not sure about the trac order, aggravating though
Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer&hl=cs but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
I had (have) similar problems with my Logitech Squeezebox... on some songs I could not figure out what the problem really is!
Be aware there can be extended tags which are not seen easily with MP3tag (I use it, too), try to use another software for tags like MediaMonkey, maybe it helps...
I encountered the same issue in my AT&T HOX+ right out of the box. The only way to fix it is by re-applying the song information in the computer (as in selecting all the songs from the affected album, right-click/properties, delete album name, write deleted album name, Press OK) before importing it to the device. Since this is not a pleasant process if, like me, you have a bunch of music you want to import and most of it has the glitch in question, a quick workaround is to use Google Music as your music library/Player. it has no problems with the ID3 tags whatsoever. Hope this helps!
Wlk said:
Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums ... but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
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Usin google music since i posted first post, only working solution for me