Would love to know how to set an image of my choosing for an artist in my Google Play Music Library. Tried going into the cache and switching images out but then the image doesn't load. Anyone know of a trick?
would love to know that to!
any ideas?
I would like to know the answer to this as well. I've got many artist friends in my library and instead of seeing their album covers as the default artist picture, I'm seeing the likes of the Twilight cast and Will Smith.
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I'm looking for a music player that reads the album artist (or band) tag of music files, if anyone knows of one. Or a means to modify existing players to read this tag. So far I've come up with absolutely nothing.
Appreciate it!
Do you mean like album art showing up? I re-tagged all my music on my pc, making sure artist/title/album and corresponding album art were all correct and the stock music player reads it just fine.
Bronk93 said:
Do you mean like album art showing up? I re-tagged all my music on my pc, making sure artist/title/album and corresponding album art were all correct and the stock music player reads it just fine.
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I think he's referring to the fact that the Samsung player can't handle more than some small and finite number of artists. If you load too much music, it gives you an error when searching by Artist.
I just downloaded the new WinAmp and am definitely digging it. MixZing is also good if you need EQ.
What I mean is reading the ID3 tag value for %album artist% or %band%.
%band% is what WMP12 and iTunes use for their album's artist. %album artist% is used by most other players (foobar).
WMP12 uses the %artist% field for contributing artists on the track, which is how my whole music library is tagged (so none of my songs have ft. Kanye West in the title)
For an example song, The Fire by The Roots, featuring John Legend
%track% - 11
%title% - The Fire
%album% - How I Got Over
%album artist% - The Roots
%band% - The Roots
%artist% - The Roots; John Legend
%genre% Rap & Hip-Hop
The problem is that all of the music players I've encountered thus far read the %artist% tag as the album artist, so what I get is a ridiculous artist list like
The Roots
The Roots/Dice Raw
The Roots/John Legend
The Roots/Mos Def/Styles P./Dice Raw
The Roots/Truck North/P.O.R.N./Dice Raw
Which is a huge pain in the ass, because I can't easily select all the songs by the roots.
I don't have a problem with the artist list crashing in Samsung's Music Player, but I do have a problem with it and Cubed both crashing when attempting to search music. Also, Winamp's search just flat out turned up no results. Yet ringdroid's search works great. Lame.
I do have a gripe about Samsung's display of the album art, as every file has 500x500 px art embedded yet it displays junk art. But that's for another day.
Where does Google music grab the album art from? Browsing through my collection the vast majority are horrific. I mean seriously small scale images, barely recognizable on the tablet.
Is there an app or program that allows a quick(ish) update of the album art? I dont have the time or energy to sift through 600 albums and update all the art manually.
It's just depressing. Google music isn't great by any means, but this is something so basic. Yet it seems to use the smallest files it can find and stretch them out to a horrible result?
Also is it true that there is no way to use a 3rd party music app with google music? No other player seems to be able to detect the music on my phone despite having several playlists pinned to the device?
I have looked around for a while now for the solution to this problem, however everyone can only seem to come up with a way to alter the files. I was hoping that the Android system would just be able to pick up media files like any other device.
The problem is that the Media scanner will split up an album (from the same artist) into different folders, so Album A with songs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 will be split up into Album A 1,3,4,5,6 & Album A 2,7,8,9. Not only this but I am experiencing albums with Same and or Different artists being split up with 1 song per folder, so 40 song album gives me 40 folders. This apparently is due to the id3 tags and the way that the media scanner reads each album. For some reason the older firmware updates for android could only read Album and Artists then got changed to Album Artits.
I am running Ice-Cream Sandwich and was hoping by this firmware Google would have fixed this problem as it's quite an annoying issue, I dont want to change the ID3 tag for every album before I put it in my phone as it becomes tedious, dragging and dropping is what i feel should be the only step to get Music on your Android device.
Thanks for anyone that can provide assistance
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I am running Ice-Cream Sandwich and was hoping by this firmware Google would have fixed this problem as it's quite an annoying issue
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It's a feature, not a bug.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1262090
If you're going to the trouble of downloading an album (presumably from a questionable source since the tags are messed up) is it really that much extra effort to drag a folder into your favourite tag editor to auto-populate/clear the Album Artist tag?
Edit: From a quick glance, there's plenty of ID3 tag editors on the Google Play Store too.
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If you're going to the trouble of downloading an album (presumably from a questionable source since the tags are messed up) is it really that much extra effort to drag a folder into your favourite tag editor to auto-populate/clear the Album Artist tag?
Edit: From a quick glance, there's plenty of ID3 tag editors on the Google Play Store too.
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Yeah fair point, I just feel life if there is a folder with the same Album name the songs within should automatically be created within them, removing that extra step to change the files yourself. Ill have a look at the ID3 tag editors on Google Play, thanks alot for your help.
Even if there can be a change made to the scanner through the SDK even, that would be great for a custom rom.
anyone managed how to make this work like it should with ICS?
I have the following:
different %title% and %artist/ for every file
same %album% for all files
what I've already tried :
1) %album artist% with the name of the album
2) %albumartist% with the name of the album
3) blank %album artist% and %albumartist%
4) %compilation% tag set to 1
none of the make it work like it should. any suggestions?
For some reason, I am missing the artist pictures on my google play music web player. When I go to the app on my phone, it displays correctly. Anyone know why? Everything is tagged correctly.
I'm looking for a simple, beautiful and good music player to listen to my mp3 files
I think the Spotify music player is perfect, with the dark and clean visual and the album art at the perfect size
I just looking for a simple music player, doesn't need to have equalizer or anything like this
Is there anyway to download the Spotify music player to listen to my mp3 files? Or there is a music player with the same visual like Spotify?
I personally really like Shuttle but I'm not sure if it fits your definition of 'simple' or not.
I would like the Spotify visual
https://smartphonesshop.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screenshot_2016-01-26-12-10-13.png
https://lh6.ggpht.com/tLxaDhkxtfPNuj90qIIgEXtXvCoSYBiAmDBf1wYHEtgZFsm0oAR2zWziLdjhNpZ85Q8=h900
http://media.148apps.com/screenshots/324684580/us-iphone-1-spotify-music.jpeg
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I would like the Spotify visual
https://smartphonesshop.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screenshot_2016-01-26-12-10-13.png
https://lh6.ggpht.com/tLxaDhkxtfPNuj90qIIgEXtXvCoSYBiAmDBf1wYHEtgZFsm0oAR2zWziLdjhNpZ85Q8=h900
http://media.148apps.com/screenshots/324684580/us-iphone-1-spotify-music.jpeg
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BlackPlayer Music Player seems to be close to what you're looking for.
The bottom volume bar can be removed from the settings.
Also note that the album art image is set to fit the screen height by default, which means it will be zoomed in at first. You can set it to be centered, like I did, from the settings too.
AIMP. Nothing comes close in terms of reliability and simplicity. Foobar2000 is coming to Android soon as well.
Phonograph is clean and material, without sacrificing information with blank spaces.
You can delete songs straight from Phonograph. Hadn't had any lag or ceashes.Nice looking tablet UI too.
Help with ID3 Tagging
Hi,
I am sure that this isn't the proper place to post this question,
but I need somebody's help!
Please take a look at the attached screenshot,
I accidently tagged Eminem's album with a special character "E".
No matter what music player i use to edit the tag, whether it be Poweramp, Rocket Player, Hi Music, or Shuttle Player, I can't seem to get it to go back! I've tried everything!
I've even tried downloading an ID3 Tag editor from the Play Store...several actualy, but for some reason my phone is set on keeping Eminem's Encore album with a special character E.
I even tried deleting the album, booting into recovery, wiping davlik cache and the cache partition, rebooting my device, and re-adding the album, but I still experience the same issue.
Does anybody know of an app or a fix for editing tags with special characters? Once I went special character, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to go back.
All suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks World!
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