I'm sure this must have been asked before, but try as I might I can't find a conclusive answer here or on Google, so sorry in advance if its posted elsewhere. I really have tried.
I just updated my phone to ICS, and now the media scanner's album art cache is way lower resolution/quality than what it used to be. I've seen this issue on other ICS phones too. My questions are:
1. Does this affect ALL ICS builds or have some manufacturers fixed it?
2. Is there any way to fix it? (i.e. replacing Media provider with a hacked apk etc.)
I know you can just use a media player that reads the art directly, but that doesn't fix the problem. It just skirts around it.
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I get this everytime i try to play a song. Clicking on the notification does nothing. The music plays fine but i dont know what i should do about these.
what rom are you on. Some devs take out DRM libraries used to authorize songs...did you actually buy those songs or did you download them from somewhere?
What ROM are you using? Check to see if the ROM maker removed DRM framework (some have).
das bamf(version from rom manager) i think i read somewhere that the drm licenses were taken out
is there a way to avoid them popping up each time i access the music player?
I'm pretty sure I am not breaking the cardinal sin of asking a stupid question with an answer right in front of me. If I am, I am truly sorry. I searched, and did not find any threads on this.
I recently modded my TP with CM7 (I'm very new to all this). Everything went fine, no issues here.
I plan to use it to play video's from time to time, pre-loaded in case there is no net at the location, etc. I use astro file manager on my phone, and since I love it, I grabbed it for the TP also. Problem is, it really seems like it cant see anything.
I am thinking the folder path mappings are off or something? I see that I can define where I want "external storage" to look, (default is... /mnt/sdcard)?
I even tried to take a screenshot and got... "Error: /mnt/sdcard/tempshot.bmp (Permission denied)" Screenshot saved to null
Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks!
-- Ps, if I can get this sorted out, my main question was which video files are supported for playback with this CM7 rom through the TP.
These were answered before, but for the most part buried in threads. Your external SD is actually listed as EMMC and it's not in your primary directory, you actually have to go up one.
Android should play most formats it would normally, but as this is still alpha, there is no hardware video acceleration, so anything higher resolution then a internet video will most likely be choppy.
There are some video players that people have had luck with, and overclocking the processor also can help until we get hardware acceleration.
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Ah ok. I was somehow able to get the stock filebrowser to see my directories without a problem after I poked around a bit. I then ran into what you already answered for me . Video's do indeed seem choppy... I think I'll try to reduce the quality of an avi I have and see how that go's.
I'm not ballsy enough to OC anything. It took me a lot of guts to flash the damn thing anyway, thanks for the heads up though.
-- figured I'd post how it turned out.
I used Xilisoft HD Converter and converted using the android specific output setting, and 640x480, runs great using double twist.
I use the default Motorola music app a lot. But with the latest 2.3.6. update (651.167.20.XT910) i have a issue with the albumart.
Most of the times it won't show up. I created folders with a .jpg file with the folder name. I changed al my mp3's with mp3tag software and added the cover in the mp3.
But i have a couple of albums with working covers but most of the won;t show up.
Does anyone has a tip for me?
Solution found ?
Hi,
I got same issue than you. Did you found a way to fix it ?
Thanks
developers please help us, having my album covers is really important to me, I'm stuck with this phone for two years and not being able to have album art on the stock music app is really frustrating, I've tried it all and nothing works u.u
Hi guys... I've searched everywhere for a solution to this but cant find one. Got my new Xperia S yesterday everything worked fine... loved the new feature where you can download album art using the stock Sony music player.
I then unlocked the bootloader and rooted - that worked fine too, no issues. However since doing that, the stock music player just says 'unknown error. could not download' when I try and download ANY art for any track (the ID tag info is correct btw). So i thought MAYBE its to do with the process I did, so I relocked the bootloader and reinstalled the 67 firmware which again works fine no issues, however the music player is still saying the same thing... 'unknown error. could not download'.
If I use poweramp I can download album art fine no issues its purely the stock Sony music player.
I'm a little stumped now as I'm fairly good with all this stuff but not having that ability is going to annoy me Anyone got any ideas how to sort it or what the problem is....? Thanks
Noticed the same issue.
I also unlocked bootloader and root. Might be the problem indeed. Therefore it was working just fine.
There must be loads of people who have unlocked the bootloader and rooted their Xperia S but they are obviously not getting this issue with the album art not working as I can't see any previous posts about it.... unless they haven't checked if their works after??
Either that or:
1. Didn't spot the download Album Art feature
2. Did but didn't need to as MP3's already featured Album Art
As the warnings say, when you unlock the bootloader you also lose your DRM Keys, even relocking won't get them back, so features such as TrackID (and it appears album art) won't work anymore.
I'm also assumpting that you can't stream or download any DRM protected content, not sure if Sky Go or NetFlix would be affected.
I always use art grabber on PC before I put music files into my phone. Maybe it is due to loosing DRM keys when you unlocked bootloader?
I use Mp3Tag along with MusicBraiz Picard, best 2 I found, when I was updating my 3000 tracks.
sixdaysandy said:
As the warnings say, when you unlock the bootloader you also lose your DRM Keys, even relocking won't get them back, so features such as TrackID (and it appears album art) won't work anymore.
I'm also assumpting that you can't stream or download any DRM protected content, not sure if Sky Go or NetFlix would be affected.
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Yes fair enough the warnings were there, but i'd assumed the warnings related to digital rights management (ie DRM content streaming such as Sky Go which I never use anyway...) all I am trying to do here is download album cover art so I dont understand how unlocking the bootloader/rooting has affected that. The error appears like the path to get the album art details has been wiped during the process and it just needs reinputting (or something to that effect). Bearing in mind the other music players that can download album art still work, its purely the stock music player. I really didnt realise DRM had anything to do with album art downloading
I would neither, to be honest, but at the moment looks like it.
Same problem here...
I downloaded image from google and made custom cover art
Just for info, Track ID works fine after unlocking bootloader/rooting as does Sky Go and Netflix....its just the damn album art!
Evil_Sephiroth said:
Same problem here...
I downloaded image from google and made custom cover art
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I tried to do the same, but from 5 albs only got cover assigned.
My downloaded pictures has 220x220 and file is called "cover.jpg"
what do I do wrong??
Well... You can fix it on unlocked BL. In ThalinaC's Walkman port there are some drm files, and if you clean SemcMetadataCleanup's aka Download Music data and install the one from Xperia T, the feature should work.
Mine has stopped DLing art work and my BL is locked.
Hi,
Last night I finally got the upgrade for ICS (sim-unlocked)
This morning I played some music and found UberMusic was ok except the artist pics on the Now Playing screen were wrong. I re-installed the app, and this fixed that problem, but now none of the home screen widgets work properly. The buttons will highlight when touched, but don't actually operate.
(Full screen operation does work properly though)
I've tried another re-install but it's not helped. I've tried using different launchers, including the developer's own LauncherPro, but they all have the same problem.
Has anyone else found the same problem, and found a fix?
I understand the developer (Federico Carnales) doesn't support his apps once they've been released, which is a pretty *****y way to go, but I have to say I haven't found anything better in look-and-feel (InstaMusic has horrid scrolling, PowerAmp not as clean and elegant)
Any suggestions of good alternative players, preferably with a similar Metro style and nice selection of different sized widgets would be welcome!
(Edit: As my post has been moved to the Q & A thread, I should add I've got a Samsung Galaxy S2, connected to O2 but unbranded)
Edit2: Well, blow me down with a spoon, it's only working again! I don't know whether it's the action of trying different music players, or switching temporarily back to TouchWiz, but the widgets work again. Yippee
Whilst you're reading this I might as well pass on my related experience: I've had a couple of irritating problems - a lot of my cover art has disappeared, and some of my albums have been split into two parts. Well, the cover art problem is fixable with Cover Art Downloader, and using MP3TagEdit on my pc in extremis... and the splitting of the albums? That occurred because some of the tracks had an 'album artist' set whilst others didn't. So blanking all those fixed it.
I hope the ubermusic developer will update it for ICS. The Bluetooth headphone play and pause buttons doesn't work. The rewind, forward, volume buttons works. Presently I need to play and pause directly using the app, and not the BT headphone button, it is a bit annoying. But I can live with it
The ubermusic developer (the same guy who created Launcher Pro) has been quiet for quite a long time now. Doubt he is actually going to update any of his apps.
Posted from my rooted Motorola Atrix.