Albums showing up twice in Music Player app - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I'm running stock rom on my sgs3 rooted and for some weird reason quite a few of the albums in my music player app are doubled. Also another thing that irks me is that for example, I can't cap the M on moby, as you can see in the 1st screenshot, I've tried many times of taking the song off my phone, editing the details on it and then putting it back on but it'll always stay as moby :/
Screenshots are underneath.
~Nik

Make sure that all the information on the music files is the same. This includes album name, artist, genre and everything else
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Try unmounting then remounting your SD card.

They definitely are all the same, I've taken all the songs off my phone and edited them all so that they all have the same album name/artist, genre is also the same although I don't see how that should effect it. :/ As you can see from the screenshots the titles of the album and the artist names are both identical yet they're seperate for some reason.
~Nik

The songs are all in the internal memory, I am quite a noob with android I must admit, so how do I unmount then mount the sdcard?
~Nik

/mnt/ incorrectly displaying
I had the same problem on my galaxy note 10.1. Looking at the folders view in music player, it was showing every track twice- once in /sdcard/nas and once in /mnt/sdcard/nas - which is of course the same location., the nas folder on the internal storage. The only folder that was NOT resulting in duplicate entries was /sdcard/Samsung/music, so i moved them into there. I had to restart music player and now they only show once. This is (to use a purely colloquial term) a bit arse, and is something that needs to be resolved. Hope it helps someone else.

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[Issue] Can't Scroll in Stock Music App

So here's the issue. I have about 2500 songs on my 32 GB SD card in a single folder. Some of the songs have symbols and numbers in front of their titles such as #, 0-9, -/_ and (). They show up first in my songs list.
However, it gets stuck at # when I try to scroll through the list of songs using the slider, which means I have to manually flick through the list until I find the song I want. I can't scroll down the list of songs at all because of this.
Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about:
Broken: i.imgur.com/JMSLE.jpg
Normal (in Music Mod): i.imgur.com/dw2lC.jpg
Any help with this issue? Does it happen to other people as well, or is there something wrong with my SD card/way my songs are formatted? The HTC app has always had issues (on my Incredible, it used to only show 100 of the 2500 songs) but this is ridiculous.
Additionally, since it seems like it could be such a simple fix, would anyone be willing to push out a patched HTC Music app for the Rezound that fixes this issue? I'd be very appreciative, since HTC's app looks nicer (at least to me) than music mod and I like having my Beats as well
I would get a mp3 tag editor and use it to rename the song filenames to a standard format.
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I have about 50 songs that have special characters at the beginning of them (parentheses, dashes and numbers). Besides, I can't be the only one that has this issue...
Could we get any devs to look into this? I'm also willing to help out with a patch but I'm not really too familiar with android apps yet.
same happens to me but only while trying to use the side scroll bar with my album list.
I have a bunch of multi-national songs..some with chinese characters and I don't have this problem at all. I generally don't use the stock player but when I do, I can scroll without issue. Maybe one or more songs is jacking up the index(bad characters). I would try to editing a few ID3 tags and see if it helps. Just for grins see if you have the same issue with poweramp or google music.
Believe it or not, Google Music can't see my library. It's the only player that doesn't work for whatever reason. I use bTunes, Music Mod, Doubletwist, but have yet to try out Poweramp or Winamp. I think Google Music has that issue because I noticed that there are TWO sd card mount points on the phone - one for internal storage and one for external.
EDIT: It seems that the Google Music issue was fixed in the latest update, no issues otherwise. I tried Poweramp but it seems to be triplicating every song I have in the list.
Mine does this as well, but only in the songs list, not any other and I have about 1600 songs.
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Disable/Delete or Replace default Album Art

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!
fasty said:
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...
wrong forum
asheezz said:
wrong forum
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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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[Q] S3 cannot detect ALL my music files

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.
android.francis said:
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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[Q] Music Albums Splitting

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?
chris9486 said:
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.
TotalLamer said:
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.
TotalLamer said:
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.
chris9486 said:
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.

[Q] Android Folder Structure

hey guys,
ive searched the web and cant find any answers to this so here goes:
i Listen to audio dramas and mostly get them as podcasts with itunes, i dropped them onto my sd card so i could listen to them on my phone, they are all in folder format separated by chapters.
on the sd card they are labeled folders 1-47 however, for some reason every media player ive tried, even folder player which is meant to simply play items in folder format rearranges my folder structures so instead of 1-47, it only shows the first folder "chapter 1" then its 11 on wards with the missing folders scattered in between and in media players they are seen as one album and randomly structured throughout.
how do i get it organized? ive tried podcast players, lots of paid/free media players none of them do it. it has to be android as in itunes and windows for that matter they are all in order.
does anyone know why it does this? i remember android doing the same thing years ago and i just used to fix each item individually but really that isnt an option now since there are 100s of mp3s
i dont see what the difference is from music albums to these, i even set them in a album centric folder structure to see if that would work but no dice. its really annoying
any insight on this would be great,
thanks
Name 1-9 as 01,02 etc should keep them in the right order then
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Thanks for your reply. Already in 00 format, doesn't do a thing unfortunately. I've found a work around by simply using a podcast app and downloading direct to the device.
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