Hi guys... In my Music & Videos app, the artist images just won't show up. I've made sure that in the settings I'm letting the app connect to Zune, updated all my albums with find album info in Zune and then sync the albums with my phone. None of that has done anything. The image of the albums are showing up in the app, but not on the locked screen... the artist images just won't show up... :/ I have http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520352 ROM... Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong? :silly:
Nothing. There are some restrictions due to region, for ex. showing music art in lockscreen. Zune can only show those covers that are available in marketplace, co if U can't buy music in marketplace in Ur region, therefore Ur player can't show covers in lockscreen
killmyself said:
Nothing. There are some restrictions due to region, for ex. showing music art in lockscreen. Zune can only show those covers that are available in marketplace, co if U can't buy music in marketplace in Ur region, therefore Ur player can't show covers in lockscreen
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Tnx for the info... I solved by tapping on the artist, and then on the marketplace... Then wait for Zune to download the artist images...
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Hi
When i download some songs they are normally "Album : Unknown Album"
I also download some songs through the iMusic Tao app and it annoys me when they dont have an Album as the Album Art Grabber cant give it an album art so is there an apps on the market that will allow me to edit properties ?
Also whats the best ways of doing it on the PC is it just the basic vista one ?
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James
On the pc you can use wmp.
Nothing on phone to edit meta tags etc. at the moment (unless there is in which case do share )
There's mp3tagger pro in the market, its 99p. Let's u edit tags and album art. I used to use the free version which didn't allow for art change but was worked very well to edit the tag info. I guess the pro version will work just as well. Think it was developed by a member on here if I remember correctly.
Yes, that's right, I am the developer
You can choose "load directory" or "load by album" in mp3tagger pro and then bulk edit the album and artist name for all mp3s at once (it really writes the info into the files). Then you can automatically search for a cover with mp3tagger pro as well.
Hope that helps,
Lars
Another option (since I hate WMP for music) is MediaMonkey. It gives you a lot of options for syncing to different devices. You can tell it to copy folder.jpg into the album directory when it syncs, and you can also tell it to embed the album art into the mp3 files. All my album art seems to go across just fine with it.
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Yes, that's right, I am the developer
You can choose "load directory" or "load by album" in mp3tagger pro and then bulk edit the album and artist name for all mp3s at once (it really writes the info into the files). Then you can automatically search for a cover with mp3tagger pro as well.
Hope that helps,
Lars
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Hey just bought your program the other day, really like it, helps sort out my album art problem, just one thing i would really like to see would be grouping of files by a search name as you could have directorywith 100's of different music files in them.
jameslfc5 said:
Hi
When i download some songs they are normally "Album : Unknown Album"
I also download some songs through the iMusic Tao app and it annoys me when they dont have an Album as the Album Art Grabber cant give it an album art so is there an apps on the market that will allow me to edit properties ?
Also whats the best ways of doing it on the PC is it just the basic vista one ?
Cheers
James
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Theres a program i use on the pc called "Tagscanner" http://www.xdlab.ru/en/
its free so give it a try does tag editing and album cover, its very advanced for a free progam aswell.
snaphapman said:
Hey just bought your program the other day, really like it, helps sort out my album art problem, just one thing i would really like to see would be grouping of files by a search name as you could have directorywith 100's of different music files in them.
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Sounds like an interesting option, I will add a filter dialog in the directory/file chooser in the next version.
You may want to check the latest version of mp3tagger pro in the market, it now has a filter for loading multiple files inside a directory.
imusic troubleshoot
How can i troubleshoot i music Tao?
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.
Sent from my X10i using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
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).
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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.
Sent from my X10i using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
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I will look into this, I'm running Win 7 but I'm sure I can try the same process.
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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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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.
Hi
Before lumia I had HTC HD2 and I was using wp7 on it for some time (but the baterry was horrible compared to android) and in Music & video app if I was playing music, background was picture of band or something like this, and there was also artist info. Now with lumia I don't have it.
Is it because I'm in Poland? And is there any way to make it be there (but I want to use my polish live account/ for hd2 I used US account, because I had to get this live access code...)
Did you check, if your ID3 tags are still valid. It's possible that other tags are read instead of the ones that the HTC reads. You have like 'Artist', 'AlbumArtist' and 'ContributingArtist' try filling up the blanks on your tags. On my Lumia, when I pres the 'power' button, the phone will light up and show me the tracktitle and artist from the song it's playing. No worries here!
Check also in Zune what happens when you import this artist/music.
No, ID3 tags are good, names are displayed properly. But when I had wp7 on HD2 (with US live account) in music & video app background was picture of band, and there was another "bookmark" for band biography, also tile was live and displayed currently playing band picture. And now with PL account and lumia there is no such thing.
It's the same for me as well.
I know it sounds silly but in settings/lock+wallpaper there is an option to show artist when playing music, Maybe something you overlooked? Also in Settings/Applications/music+videos connect with zune should be on, hope that sorts it for ya.
So after downloading a album artwork grabber the stock music player so finally done . . .
Or so I thought . . .Going into some artist shows the same album broken up into maybe 5 different albums . . .So I have say Linkin Park then Hybrid Theory slip up 3 times with a single or few tracks in.
How do I fix this? I know Itunes would do it if there was a space in the album name or something stupid like that .
I always find then moving media to a device you should make sure all your albums are using the right "tags". I use WMP to move all my songs as the GS3 is a media device and this makes it very easy to move your album correctly.
If that's not helping the PlayerPro application on the play market grabs album artwork for you and its very good at tagging songs correctly: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&hl=en
ok heres my problem,
i changed my windows live id by resetting my phone so that i could use my country (india) features in marketplace.. but now my zune player got crappy.. it doest show the album art on my lock screen nor does it have that artist info etc.
is there a solution?
settings -> lock+wallpaper ->show artist when playing music -> on
Make sure Zune recognizes your music.
all the settings are correct
it was working fine tilll i changed my windows live id
any solutions?