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.
Tsukurimashou said:
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 was wondering if anyone else is having this problem and/or knows how to fix it.
I can see in Media Go that an album/song has album art attached to it (I can even see that there is album art in Windows explorer and iTunes). I've tried deleting/adding the art via 3rd party mp3 tagging software but that doesn't seam to make a difference.
I've tried copying the music using Media Go and dragging and dropping onto the memory card but the art still doesn't show on the phone. The funny thing is that it's not all albums, just a 'select' few.
I've also tried downloading the art via the phone itself however it either can't find the art or it's wrong.
Anyone know how to fix this?
I believe it has something to do with the aspect ratio of the album art. if it isn't a perfect square (500x500 or 450x450 for example) mediascape will not recognize the album art.
Thanks for the response, I've checked and that doesn't seam to be the case (some art which shows is not square and some art which doesn't show is square).
Also when Mediascape searches for album art it sometimes finds (wrong) old shaped album covers.
Any other ideas?
I had a problem like this before. Try this.
Go to your SD card and there's a folder called "albumthumbs" which stores a cached version of all the album covers. Delete all the files in this folder. Mediascape will then re-cache with all your updated album covers.
It fixed most of my albums but there are still a few that aren't right.
Hope that helps.
Nope, that didn't work either, in fact not the are more albums without art!
I had the same issue. I've not figured the reason, but I've worked around it removing the album art and adding it again with Mp3tag.
Did you try the "retrieve the album art" feature of mediascape ? (reading your post it's unclear whether or not you know about the feature)
It's really simple, just get a wi-fi connection, and it'll automatically read the album tags to get the proper album art.
I know it worked perfectly for me, also the phone didn't show any of the album art (even though some of my tracks had one) before doing that.
I tried re tagging my tracks with (Easy CD-DA Extractor) still no luck. Every single other player on my PC, stereo, Car etc. can read the the album art but not mediascape
This is my trick:
1. Clear all unnecessary tag from the file (eg: using eyeD3).
2. Inject album art to the file (eg: using albumart-qt).
3. Copy the file back to device.
4. Remove all Mediascape cache data (from Manage Apps menu).
5. Restart the device.
All the tools I use is running on Linux, but I'm sure there's counterpart tool on other platform.
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I sprung for the album art grabber app from the market. It allows you search the net or add art from the SD card.
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Did you try the "retrieve the album art" feature of mediascape ? (reading your post it's unclear whether or not you know about the feature)
It's really simple, just get a wi-fi connection, and it'll automatically read the album tags to get the proper album art.
I know it worked perfectly for me, also the phone didn't show any of the album art (even though some of my tracks had one) before doing that.
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Tried this and no luck, either it couldn't find the album art or it was totally wrong (it looks like it searches by artist rather than by album).
TheRainMaker said:
This is my trick:
1. Clear all unnecessary tag from the file (eg: using eyeD3).
2. Inject album art to the file (eg: using albumart-qt).
3. Copy the file back to device.
4. Remove all Mediascape cache data (from Manage Apps menu).
5. Restart the device.
All the tools I use is running on Linux, but I'm sure there's counterpart tool on other platform.
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I will look into this, I'm running Win 7 but I'm sure I can try the same process.
Baggyb said:
I sprung for the album art grabber app from the market. It allows you search the net or add art from the SD card.
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I'll give this a go also.
I've email Sony Ericsson support, I doubt I'll get a usefull answer but if I do I'll share it with the forum.
Thanks all!
UPDATE: Baggyb your trick with album art grabber app worked a charm.
Many thanks!
Sorry for the bump, but I might have found something that could help aswell.
I had the same problem. Mediascape wasn't able to put the correct album art on the songs I had on my X10.
Every other mediaplayer showed the correct album art, except for Mediascape.
Apparently all I had to do was add the song name at the album name and all of a sudden the correct album art was shown.
With Media Go that's quite easy.
Just put your songs in the map "music" of your X10 and go to Media Go.
Select the tab "Music" (@Phone Card) and you'll see your music currently on your X10.
Select a song and go to properties.
Click on the tab "artwork".
Add the albumart of your choice.
Then go to the tab "music" of properties.
Copy the title of the song and paste it @ "Album"
And you're done.
Seems a hassle to do this at every song, but it works so for me it was worth it.
Sony really makes it a hassle to put album art into the songs, they should come up with a solution and tell us the consumer in their user manual. The user manual really sucks as there is not much detail info into the product itself...
Just toss the correct album art into the album folder and name it albumart.jpg . It's very simple and works 100% for me.
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Tried this and no luck, either it couldn't find the album art or it was totally wrong (it looks like it searches by artist rather than by album).
I will look into this, I'm running Win 7 but I'm sure I can try the same process.
I'll give this a go also.
I've email Sony Ericsson support, I doubt I'll get a usefull answer but if I do I'll share it with the forum.
Thanks all!
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DO you have only new music btw?
I noticed that the Retrieve Album Art feature in Mediascape takes a few days to get the latest album covers... for example The Final Frontier album cover was only added a couple of days ago...
Ok. I also fond of tagging all my mp3 with album arts. Have wasted like all days long just to make it looks very nice in MediaScape And now currently, all my songs shows album arts in MediaScape.
Always use MediaGo for managing your mp3, also i don't even bother where they put the mp3 in sdcard. I already passed the "organize things in folder manually" life after i struggle to organize my 4TB stuff in separate hard drives
Second is to assign the album art to Album Properties instead of individual songs.
For songs that you already transfer to X10 without Album Art, by adding album art to Media Go and do the transfer again won't update the album art in timescape. You go and delete the content of albumthumbs in sdcard, then it will usually work.
No rules about dimension ratio and resolution for album arts.
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I have a SE Xperia Mini Pro.
I discovered the same problem. Album art would not display for Albums previously copied. (This was after spending 3 days sorting out Media Go with Art!!!)
I found a fix using an App called "Album Art Grabber".
Once I run it on the phone, it automatically finds the album art linked in the MP3 file. Once I run media scape the art has reappeared. Appears to work.
Benj.
Can you make the Gallery & Media Player read only Specific folders?
i sure many peoples have this problem that they have album art and other images file form different apps showing in the gallery that the android by default scan.
that is a way to config this in android? or " there is an APP to that? "
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Can you make the Gallery & Media Player read only Specific folders?
i sure many peoples have this problem that they have album art and other images file form different apps showing in the gallery that the android by default scan.
that is a way to config this in android? or " there is an APP to that? "
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The only workaround that I'm aware of that works is to create a blank file called .nomedia and place it in any folders you don't want the media scanner to index.
I had to do this with several games that dumped their artwork and sounds in folders on the internal SD, and it kept them from showing up in Gallery & Media Player.
.nomedia files are handy for game and app images, but not so much for album art -- it removes them from the music library too.
One tip I heard but haven't tried yet -- Load your music, with album art. Fire it up in the music player so you see the art once. Then delete the art using the gallery. Supposedly the music app caches the art so you keep your album art but clean up the gallery. Untested, but worth a shot.
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.nomedia files are handy for game and app images, but not so much for album art -- it removes them from the music library too.
One tip I heard but haven't tried yet -- Load your music, with album art. Fire it up in the music player so you see the art once. Then delete the art using the gallery. Supposedly the music app caches the art so you keep your album art but clean up the gallery. Untested, but worth a shot.
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In the case of album art, I can verify that what you say works!
What do you mean create a blank file? Sorry, I don't fully understand how to create a blank file.
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What do you mean create a blank file? Sorry, I don't fully understand how to create a blank file.
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Nevermind. I figured it out.
i hop Google will fix it in Android 3.0
masterotaku said:
The only workaround that I'm aware of that works is to create a blank file called .nomedia and place it in any folders you don't want the media scanner to index.
I had to do this with several games that dumped their artwork and sounds in folders on the internal SD, and it kept them from showing up in Gallery & Media Player.
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i hop Google will fix it in Android 3.0
specially when android moving to multi platforms.... the Tabs and Net books
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?
Thanks.
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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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Hey all,
This has been bugging me for a month. lol
I've found a couple other similar threads..
but no real solution yet, not that I can find anyway.
I want to be able to prevent all of my album art from being displayed in my gallery, and only to show the images/folders that I've actually placed in my gallery.
When i open my gallery,
I see all the images & folders that I've put there,
but I also see ALL of the folders with ALL of the album art..
and this can be a pain in the ass.
Is there any way to prevent this?
I want the album art to display in my music player-
(when that album is playing).
But I don't want to have to scroll through every frickin folder of all album arts every time I open my gallery to find pics/images.
Get's to be too much when you have over 20GB's of music and pretty much all of them have album art folders.
Is this do-able?
Any help or info is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Rasa
alright, well I found this app..
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpro&feature=search_result
and it seems to work decent.
not ideal, but good enough for now. lol
edit: yep, seems to have hidden them while still showing up in my music player. :O Niice.
Adding a .nomedia file into a folder will cause the mediascanner to skip that folder (and all sub-folders) so they won't show up in the gallery app. Unfortunately, that also means the folder won't show up in the stock music player either.
Unless you're really in love with the stock gallery app my advice is to use a third party gallery replacement app like Quickpic instead and then exclude/include particular folders in the app settings.
Quickpic for the super win!
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Thanks for the replies, guys.
Normally I wouldnt/dont like the stock gallery apps,
but the one that came on my galaxy player is actually quite nice.
I've tried quickpic but really don't find it as nice as my stock gallery.
Turns out that the app i linked to, "hideit pro"
works perfectly for what I needed.
So I'm good. for now anyway. lol
Thanks again.
and thanks lufc for moving the thread, sorry for the confusion.
go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/iss...&ts=1343920475
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go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/iss...&ts=1343920475
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page doesnt exist. lol
I figured this out anyway..
I either just use ICS Gallery and it gives me the option to "hide" any folders I want,
or I can use gallery lock, but Gallery ICS works great.
Solved !
updated link, AND - I found a great solution to the problem. (posted in the link)
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35879
Rename Music folder to "media"
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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I have just tried this and there is no change...all album art is shown in the stock gallery.
Using CM10.1 Rom on an HTC Desire S
The easiest way to do this is NOT by downloading app. Well yes, any file explorer app I have File Explorer and File Explorer (root add on), then go to the folder in which the album cover is in and rename the album cover to "albumart.jpg". Do this for every album art cover you have. You may want to organize your music if it isn't already since you can't have the same name files together so something like this: sdcard\media\music\vampireweekend\contra\ and create another subfolder for another album like this: ..\vampireweekend\vampireweekend\
That way each album has its on album art work. Then after you've renamed all your album covers to "albumart.jpg" reboot and viola they're gone! This worked for me and I don't see why it shouldn't for you.:good:
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No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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Cool this works a charm on 4.2.2 Stock Gallery app.
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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This works well, however my music can not be found anymore in the Play Music app... Not the solution then
!!EDIT!!: Sorry I was too impatient. After I waited some more and started up the Play Music app, all my music was there Thanks!
Delete Cover or album art in Android stock gallery
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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No album or cover art in my gallery anymore. Thanks for that!
The media folder contains stuff like Facebook_pop.m4a etc. Now they are showing up in my music player list(rocket). Any ideas?
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Best way that I have found to hide in stock gallery.
-Install QuickPic
-place random picture inside of your main music directory on your SD card (ex /media)
-Hide the folder in quickpic
-Exclude the folder in quickpic
Now none of the album art shows up in either quickpic or stock gallery.
I got my spare battery and 200gb SD card from LG. I decided to put all my music collection on the card that way I dont have to stream it, which sometimes I cant in bad service areas. I put a lot of the music on the card and see that the album art is now showing in the gallery. Is there a way to exclude these images from the gallery? It has added a bunch of folders that are not needed.
Any info is appreciated.
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I got my spare battery and 200gb SD card from LG. I decided to put all my music collection on the card that way I dont have to stream it, which sometimes I cant in bad service areas. I put a lot of the music on the card and see that the album art is now showing in the gallery. Is there a way to exclude these images from the gallery? It has added a bunch of folders that are not needed.
Any info is appreciated.
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Using a file manager, create a file called .nomedia in the folder that contains the album art. You may need a 3rd party file app from the Play store, not sure if the stock one lets you create files.
Edit: I just noticed this presents the music player from recognizing the music as well. I feel like I've done this before tho.. Lol
Album art file should be named albumart.jpg and they won't show up
If you use a tag editor to load the images ( this may require you to transfer them to the internal memory then back to the SD) then you can delete the files all together.