my HTC Desire X recently got an update to JB 4.1.1 but after the update, the folders are not getting diaplayed in their original hierarchy in the music player apps like PowerAmp and also the default HTC Music player.
Like lets say I have three folders A, B, C and they each contain three more subfolders A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3.....
But in the folder view of PowerAmp, all the folders are listed recursively in a single list e.g. A,A1,A2,A3,B,B1,B2,B3,C,C1.C2,C3!!! Also note that in this case the folders A, B and C are only containing files other than those three subfolders.
I initially thought this was an issue with PowerAmp but since it's happening with the default music as well, I came to a conclusion the issue lies somewhere. Tried clearing the cache for those applications and rescaning again. No luck!
How do I fix this!!! It's driving me nuts!!
udayk said:
my HTC Desire X recently got an update to JB 4.1.1 but after the update, the folders are not getting diaplayed in their original hierarchy in the music player apps like PowerAmp and also the default HTC Music player.
Like lets say I have three folders A, B, C and they each contain three more subfolders A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3.....
But in the folder view of PowerAmp, all the folders are listed recursively in a single list e.g. A,A1,A2,A3,B,B1,B2,B3,C,C1.C2,C3!!! Also note that in this case the folders A, B and C are only containing files other than those three subfolders.
I initially thought this was an issue with PowerAmp but since it's happening with the default music as well, I came to a conclusion the issue lies somewhere. Tried clearing the cache for those applications and rescaning again. No luck!
How do I fix this!!! It's driving me nuts!!
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Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer&hl=cs but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
I had (have) similar problems with my Logitech Squeezebox... on some songs I could not figure out what the problem really is!
Be aware there can be extended tags which are not seen easily with MP3tag (I use it, too), try to use another software for tags like MediaMonkey, maybe it helps...
I encountered the same issue in my AT&T HOX+ right out of the box. The only way to fix it is by re-applying the song information in the computer (as in selecting all the songs from the affected album, right-click/properties, delete album name, write deleted album name, Press OK) before importing it to the device. Since this is not a pleasant process if, like me, you have a bunch of music you want to import and most of it has the glitch in question, a quick workaround is to use Google Music as your music library/Player. it has no problems with the ID3 tags whatsoever. Hope this helps!
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Today I tried to copy my collection of music to One X+ and found strange and irritating problem. When I run default Music app (same behaviour in PlayerPro), some (like one of 10-20) albums are just shown duplicated with same name/artwork in artist view and when I check what songs do they contain, then I find that one copy is almost complete album and other contains just one song which is ofc missing in first album.
I checked all tags multiple times, even erased them a made fresh copy (using Mp3tag), tried different versions of tags, cleaned MP3 files with MP3val, but problem still persist. Its driving me crazy, every single song has correct tags, same album name as others and yet it show one album as two copies with same name. When I was messing with ID3 tags trying different versions, then I found strange thing. If I delete problematic album from device and copy it again with different tags version, it still gets duplicated, but lone song placed to duplicate copy of album is different! And it is just random.
Seems to me that my phone is joking with me, always same albums get duplicated, but every time I try to copy them from computer, it is different song in that duplicated album.
It seems that it is not just my device, because I found this utility which actually works and can fix duplicated albums ... but I dont want to run some program every time I add some new music. There has to be some global solution. Or not?
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Usin google music since i posted first post, only working solution for me
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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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.
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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.
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I have that same issue....i'm still trying to track down the cause myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
so what's the trick for keeping all my music in their respected folders, so that when i pull up the albums list. everything is in the folder and not scattered throughout the list as their own individual albums?
when android was in the 2's, i had absolutely no problems. everything was right where it was supposed to be. exactly as it looked on my computer when phone was plugged into computer., but ever since 4's came out. i've had problems with missing songs and other songs scattered.
i've copied my music folder onto my computer so i can maybe redownload and start off from scratch. i've deleted the music folder from the phone.
right now i've only got one album. 8 songs in that album folder. only 7 are listed, the 8th song comes up as it's own album. if i continue reloading all my music i'm not going to be any better off. i'll still have a scattered list of albums and songs not where they are supposed to be.
i don't know if i'm missing songs on the phone itself as there's too many to keep track of. everything is on the computer, i'll just have to sort through peice at a time.
i'm also having problems with album names. half my folders simply pull up as UNTITED and some dates and what not.
all my folders that have specific bands in each folder come up with the bands name. but my folders that have various music in them and are titled as the type of music, come up as UNTITLE ALBUM. so i have no clue which folder contains which type of music. for instance, rock folder, country folder, say UNTITLED.
is there a trick to fix this insanity. i really don't want to buy a seperate mp3 player and have to deal with either more cords or batteries. my phone can do everything that life throws at it basically. i'd like to just keep it like that. and have my music work, like it did in the old days when phones came with android 2.x
EXAMPLE: i have 8 nickleback songs in one folder. folder comes up as nickleback but only 7 songs are in the folder. the 8th song is a album on it's own.,
EXAMPLE: i have 12 fleetwood mac songs in one folder. all 12 songs come up in the album. but instead of being called fleetwood mac. it's called UNKNOWN ALBUM (date). date being when it was created.
this is on my verizon phone. my sprint note2 seems to be worse. 5 nickleback in one album, the other 3 are their own albums. fleetwood mac album as all the songs, but again. unknown album.
looks like an issue with android and windows phone. and the best answer anyone can come up with, is something about tagging.
might have to convert myself to iphone.
I originally posted this for the S7 Edge, but have since changed phones (and providers) and I'm still experiencing this issue. Hopefully someone out there knows an answer...
I've searched for this and haven't been able to find the answer. It's driving me crazy.
Using Gone Mad Media Player (GMMP), I have in the past been able to edit the id3 tags on a certain album (that for whatever reason will not edit on my PC, the files all show edited properly) to change the Album Art tag from whatever it is to "Various".
I was able to do this on my Nexus (not rooted) just fine.
I loaded my music on the SD card and away I went. I went to perform the same edit and was asked to grant write permissions to GMMP. Weird (first time I've had to do that in the 5.1.1 > 6.0 > 6.0.1 of my Nexus), but ok. I granted the permissions.
The App still won't perform the requested changes. It goes through the motions but the files remain unchanged.
Does anyone have a solution for this? I tried other id3 editors but nothing has worked.
I should note that when I originally copy this "Album" (95 songs in a compilation mix), it shows up as 4 separate albums. 1 with 88 songs, 1 with 1, and 2 with 3 each. When I edit the tag as I have in the past to change the Album Artist to Various, the 7 songs that aren't part of the original 88 all go into one album, so now I have 2 mix albums. One with 88 songs, one with 7. But if I go into that 7 song album and edit an id3 tag on an individual file, nothing will change (and the id3 stays as the original, rather than Various).
mp3tag on my computer shows all 95 songs as having the same Album Artist.
This is still an issue, even moving this particular album to the internal storage... 88 songs in one album with the exact same title and album artist as the other 7 (which are in a second album, but not combined with the first for some reason).
I'm wondering if there's something about the Nexus (unrooted, totally stock) that allows this where the G7 (and S7 Edge, for that matter) won't allow it, even on the internal storage.
Ok, I feel dumb...I just got it to work.
FYI for anyone having the same issue (probably specific to GMMP, actually):
Even with the Ignore Year option set to Always, it doesn't. When I changed the year on the album to 2016, everything worked perfectly.
First of all I totally understand that it was my fault. I should never believe first hit in Google results. But still, since Google basically owns Android, it would make sense if they didn't link to an article that breaks it. But whatever.
So I had problems with last.fm scrobbling out of nowhere (I didn't change tags, didn't update scrobbler or music player (jetAudio)). And for some reason last.fm started to take file names as if they were tags. So I went to my PC, removed track numbers and then artists names from the files names. Still jetAudio didn't seem to notice so I Googled how to force rescan of media library. And I was dumb enough to rush and fallow the first guide in the search results. I wiped media storage data and restarted the phone.
Help: How do I Reset the Android Media Scan Database?
How do I Reset the Android Media Scan Database?
www.doubletwist.com
After that only one song is shown in the player. Tried reinstalling and still nothing. Just one song is shown.
Interestingly, Mixplorer and Poweramp both see all the songs. FX and jetAudio don't.
I tried cleaning cache in TWRP and even restoring media storage's data from my other phone (I own two devices and they are almost identical in apps and data). None of the apps that supposedly force refresh media storage work either.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
EDIT : I somehow fixed it. I renamed the folder to music2 and renamed it back, it solved the songs not showing but still couldn't search for artists/songs at all. Then I went to Oneplus stock file manager and turned on showing of hidden files and refreshed audio files section on the main screen and it worked. No idea if the hidden files section actually did anything since no audio files were actually hidden and I didn't have any .nomedia files
Poweramp can play them?
Clear the data or reinstall effected apps.
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Yeah both Poweramp and Mixplorer see all the files. But FX file explorer and jetAudio don't. Reinstalling and clearing their data does not work.
I'm trying to install system zip without wiping now, maybe that will help.
Never change your music database to fit the player. Group>album>track is my layout.
Poweramp is the only one I use in Android. If you screw around with it's database ie album names, track numbers or such Poweramp playlists will not be able to open those tracks.
I avoid using tags.
KISS, keep it simple stupid
Could scoped storage be blocking access?
I'm hipster and I still use last.fm in 2022 so I need tags ^^
I'm still on Oreo so it can't be scoped storage.
After trying to fix it for 100th time, I managed to somehow get the songs displayed in recently added. But only that. Still can't search for title/artist.
I like Poweramp butiI'm used to my old player it would take too much effort to change it lol ;P
Yeah no scoped storage there... yay!
Manually enter "tags" in the artist, album or song file name if you must. The player is irrelevant, only the music database matters. Mine is over 240gb. Recovery without full backups be impossible. I have multiple copies on hdds and flash memory.
One of the reasons I use Poweramp is it doesn't alter the database. I use a file manager to make any changes in the database, then do a library full rescan with Poweramp then backup Poweramp's settings. Only the music database is selected in Poweramp. Since all of Poweramp's settings can be fully backed up, as long as the database remains intact it's fully restorable/transferably no matter what. It takes me only minutes to recreate the whole setup on a new device once the database is copied on*.
Poweramp is a beast to configure but once set up it's rock solid and completely reproducible by exported settings.
Think it though and develop/implement a plan that covers your six no matter what happens.
Otherwise it's just random luck... and luck always runs out eventually.
*If the device has an SD card slot with the card used as the data drive, it's a simple and fast as slamming the card in.
Thanks for the tips, I localized the database in root/data folder and made a copy just in case. It seems that jetAudio and fx use the Android system wide media database while Poweramp and Mixplorer use their own. Or at least that's how it looks like.
I bought Poweramp long time ago but only kept it as secondary player. I definitely don't mind excess of configuration options, the more the better xD