I have noticed this with my Z Ultra's WALKMAN app. I've tried deleting the cache for the album covers, delete the data of WALKMAN app etc. but it's still pixelated. The album art's size is 600x600.
Does anybody know the fix or are you experiencing this issue?
Titanicology said:
I have noticed this with my Z Ultra's WALKMAN app. I've tried deleting the cache for the album covers, delete the data of WALKMAN app etc. but it's still pixelated. The album art's size is 600x600.
Does anybody know the fix or are you experiencing this issue?
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Well I don't have a fix but I am having this issue too. How many of your album covers are blurry? I left my I pod in the washer :crying: the other day so I had to put my most listened to music on my xzu for the time being. I put about 70 albums on my xzu and only 1 is pixelated and it's one of the few I actually bought from iTunes. I used the isyncr app and it did a good job. I had one other album art that was wrong For some reason. I hope someone knows the fix. I hate having messed up album art.
Hmm, all my albums look good, so I'm not sure what's going on. I'm on 257.
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Well I don't have a fix but I am having this issue too. How many of your album covers are blurry? I left my I pod in the washer :crying: the other day so I had to put my most listened to music on my xzu for the time being. I put about 70 albums on my xzu and only 1 is pixelated and it's one of the few I actually bought from iTunes. I used the isyncr app and it did a good job. I had one other album art that was wrong For some reason. I hope someone knows the fix. I hate having messed up album art.
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Most of them are pixelated. This is rancid.
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Well I don't have a fix but I am having this issue too. How many of your album covers are blurry? I left my I pod in the washer :crying: the other day so I had to put my most listened to music on my xzu for the time being. I put about 70 albums on my xzu and only 1 is pixelated and it's one of the few I actually bought from iTunes. I used the isyncr app and it did a good job. I had one other album art that was wrong For some reason. I hope someone knows the fix. I hate having messed up album art.
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hmmm.. what does this tell us...
Buy music and album art is pixilated....
Whats the alternative?? :silly:
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Most of them are pixelated. This is rancid.
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Is it music you purchased from iTunes? Or the play store? Stuff you got for free as zip files?
I have like 2 other albums I bought from iTunes and the art is fine. Just that one for some reason
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Hi all, does anyone know how the music player picks up the album art? Some of my albums display the covers fine, some don't display them at all? My covers are named anything from folder.jpg, front.jpg, album name.jpg etc but I can't get some of them to display properly.
I us ea app to download the album arts for android. you can find it in market. it works great ad found all the album arts till now. it even gives some cover arts so you can choose from. the app called "Album Art Grabber" ok its not free but works great.
commodoor said:
I us ea app to download the album arts for android. you can find it in market. it works great ad found all the album arts till now. it even gives some cover arts so you can choose from. the app called "Album Art Grabber" ok its not free but works great.
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Second that, I have this program too, always find the covers for me, even on some singles I imported over.
I'm using the last.fm which automatically grabs the cover album for you.
nokmond said:
Hi all, does anyone know how the music player picks up the album art? Some of my albums display the covers fine, some don't display them at all? My covers are named anything from folder.jpg, front.jpg, album name.jpg etc but I can't get some of them to display properly.
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I ran into this problem too. You'll need to rename your images to "AlbumArt.jpg".
Thanks all!
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Second that, I have this program too, always find the covers for me, even on some singles I imported over.
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same for me here! however, it does not find alle arts, and if the song is really new and only released as a single (and you would want to have the cover from the single) -> no chance!
felikz said:
same for me here! however, it does not find alle arts, and if the song is really new and only released as a single (and you would want to have the cover from the single) -> no chance!
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I had that with on mp3 but if they had a function to let you choose a album art it would be great.
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I ran into this problem too. You'll need to rename your images to "AlbumArt.jpg".
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I tried this (on my Hero) by renaming an existing Folder.jpg file to AlbumArt.jpg, but after the media player finished updating itself the images still weren't shown for the tracks in that folder.
Don't the images need to be installed into the ID tags?
The built in music player that opens up in the center of the screen when you click a random music file.. I haven't the slightest idea what the name of that app is. It displays one of my personal images on the left side of the player. Does anyone know if this player has some sort of settings menu or if there is a way to change that image on the left? Thanks in advance. I appreciate it.
Hmm nobody knows this? lol
I'm pretty sure you're unable to change any settings via the "Music" that comes with the Rezound. It already has implemented the Beats Audio Equalizer that they think is best. If you want to adjust the settings to your own sound, you can always get winamp or poweramp.
Ok. Thanks man. What about that pic that it uses? It was using one of my random photos in my. Downloads folder. The photo never seems to change and really, id like to see something else besides that photo lol.. I know i can delete it.. But thats besides the point. Perhaps ill just look for another music app.
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Ok. Thanks man. What about that pic that it uses? It was using one of my random photos in my. Downloads folder. The photo never seems to change and really, id like to see something else besides that photo lol.. I know i can delete it.. But thats besides the point. Perhaps ill just look for another music app.
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I ported a lot of music from my iTunes library to this phone, and used to have a lot of artist where I would just have one song, and so the album would be called Other. Noticed this phone hates that and that I had to go rename all those songs to a different album cause it would just start putting random pictures with random songs.
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I'm on Ubermusic and for some reason it doesn't catch all my album arts but on HTC Music and even on my windows media players which is where i sync from has all the album arts.
Windows works perfectly for me, has all my albums and info organized but Ubermusic decides to skip a album art here and their.
It really annoys me since im anal about my music lol i like my **** organized.
anyone know of any work arounds to make my album art appear. ill post a screen for you guys to see of course
It usally does that wen it can't find any album art for it becuase the producers name an artist name is wrong or not there
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Everything is organized including the year of album release date lol i'm real anal bro and like everything neat.
I just can't get my head around it and figure it out
I'm sorry I know this isn't exactly the place to post this, and sorry for the all caps. But I AM TOTALLY ENRAGED BECAUSE NOBODY WOULD MAKE SOMETHING SO SIMPLE! and nobody would give an explanation as to why!
First of all, I know your music players can in fact, play music files, I tried every single music player avilable, yes I'm not kidding I tried all of them, over 50 of them. Most of them will start and play music. But that's not what's I'm after nor the reason I am so enraged.
Here is why:
THEY WON'T SHOW THE FULL ALBUM ART!!!!!
The ONLY music player, I repeat, the ONLY one out of over 50, that shows your embedded album art properly is the Neutron Music Player, but it's paied and I can't buy **** from the country I'm currently in. and the beep version is too old the touch controls suck.
WHY? WHY? WHY?
What's so difficult? You can make all these more difficult features work sometimes perfectly, but you can't make this very simple task of showing a jpeg image properly? Many of these features I have no idea why they have priority over showing an album art, especially when they seem more difficult to develop. I'm just glad I don't have an android tablet, I can't imagine how crappy it would look on one of those! I'm glad I use the iPad and all of my album art show perfectly in full quality it's just fantastic.
- lyrics and time stamped lyrics support. what's the point? most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing? Shouldn't you already know most of the lyrics in your collection? this seems like a difficult feature to develop because you have to make a scrollable surface for text ontop of the UI. Isn't that more difficult than just putting up a picture? in fact you have to show an album art anyway! why not just make it show the orginal one instead of the scaled down crappy version? it's like 5 minutes of coding!
- automaticly download album art and lyrics. I just don't get it, if you have pirated music you're too lazy to sort, get on a PC and there are plenty of programs for that! why would you do it over mobile network on your phone!?
-socal network intergration. I'm sorry I never use any of these features, I don't see the point of letting your friends know what you're listening every 5 minutes.
- n-band equalizer. get a better headphone, instead of your stock headset. it's 10 times more effective than any equalizer. the math involved in this must be very difficult especially those that can prevent capping or smooth the curve. Why does this have priority over the basic feature of showing an album art?
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A good music player is really very easy! but none of them will got that tiny final step! It's pissing me off!
Google Play Music: all you need to do is show the embedded album art, and get rid of that stupid blue background, just make it black!
Neutron Music Player: get someone to make you a new skin without all those 2006 style 3D effects.
Apollo Music Player: have an option to turn off the altomatic download, show the embedded album art.
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ok I just saw another thread giving out a bounty for a fix. Maybe I should do the same. I'll also put up a bounty of $50 for a music player that satisfies the following requirements:
-has the basic functions of a music player (play, pause, shuffle, supports MP3/FLAC/AAC)
-displays tag information such as artist, album, title, etc. with full support for unicode, no question marks, random symbols or squares.
-shows the FULL album art embedded in the file it is currently playing, with good quality scaling method without stretching, and without size limit (at least not below 2mb)
-appealing UI. For example, Apollo. Or some of the Chinese music players. Or the MIUI/ Meizu MX defult music players. NOT LIKE PowerAMP/ PlayerPro/ Neutron Player. The album art must at least fit inside the screen, meaning 720pixels wide or more.
-Power efficient, uses NEON instructions.
-buttery smooth
-ad free
optional:
-has lockscreen (Jelly Bean default) integration with FULL album art embedded in the file it is currently playing, with good quality scaling method.
-shows embedded lyrics
It does NOT have to include these features:
-sort by album/artist/recents or any other categories. as long as it has a list of songs I'm happy.
-anything to do with internet, streaming, downloading,free music none of that.
-equalizers, effects
woo you got a new phone there, what is it? android?
yea, the HTC one X on the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean! here have a try! it's smoother than iOS!
oh cool! I heard it's also quad-core right? must be really fast!
of cours, browsing is a breeze!
how about music? I see it's got Beats Audio, is it a good music player?
errrr well it makes sound, if that's what you mean. but the sound chip isn't exactly top notch.
wait, what's that? why do your album arts look like crap?
errrr, for some reason all android music players show the crappy scaled down version?
What? why? you're been talking about all these high end hardware, the Infinity Display, the quad-core processor and the 1GB RAM. All these, but you can't even see the full album art? WTF? what a piece of ****!
Don't forget to add proper album track listing in order.. My pet peeve
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Sony device had cool media player specially Xperia S. It ported to all android device give a try.
Have you tried PlayerPro, its a great simple music player on Android. Fell in love with it after got sick of PowerAMP cause when you hit the back on PowerAMP it goes back to the library and not to my homescreen.
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Have you tried PlayerPro, its a great simple music player on Android. Fell in love with it after got sick of PowerAMP cause when you hit the back on PowerAMP it goes back to the library and not to my homescreen.
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It doesn't show the full album art. haven you even tried it before suggesting?
play doesnt use embedded art?
Ive used a few players over my stay with android, my vote is with google play music. jet audio player was pretty kick ass too but i didnt like the restricted options for free version(and it let the system dsp take over if present)
for google play music personally like the blue background, after all it matches the ics/jb theme. and unlike jet player, doesnt get choppy on lock/unlock and orientation change.
btw, embedded album art for google play... miss something?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47004548/Screenshot_2012-08-23-23-43-20.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47004548/Screenshot_2012-08-23-23-44-05.png
on the second screenshot shows why jb lockscreen integration and "FULL album art" wont always work. the jb system handles the album art on that.
jacobgong said:
It doesn't show the full album art. haven you even tried it before suggesting?
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Obviously I tried it, you know heres a funny thing I use PlayerPro and it does show full album art
N7player does a good job finding album art, better than iTunes IMO because I export my library from iTunes using iSyncr and iTunes has failed to locate album art for several albums I have however N7 can locate many more covers that are missing once on my phone in addition you can tell N7 to place the art in your music folder so it can be made available to other players if you don't like N7's interface. i keep just shy of 12GB of music on my phone and i'm pretty happy with the album art situation myself it's more complete than on my iPod or iPhone.
you also need to keep in mind that all players have to search a database in order to recover album art and making sure all the relevant info is in your ID3 tags will help alot in getting the correct art.
You don't need to whine to make a point (which you do, or maybe not as it seems that you didn't dig deep enough in your pursuit).
1) Here's a surprise for you: mobile phones, and particularly smartphones, have their screen turned off when they're used as MP3 players. They'll usually be stuck in a pocket, not displaying album art. They play music, and keeping the screen on to show the cover art takes a hit on the battery.
2) Here's another surprise for you: few people bother with album art. People play pirated music.
3) And here's another surprise for you:
most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing?
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is an utter falsehood. People will listen to whatever sounds cool to them, be it gangsta ebonics at its finest, Levan's Polka or J-Pop.
What has value in music apps is not cover art: that's tertiary for most people. What differentiates them is usually format support (yes, lossless formats are not a given in all players), sorting algorithms (yes, people want to sort their music) and interfaces (there I agree that an overhaul may be necessary in the top dogs).
Are you starring at your music album art while playing music and keep screen on?
I think most people just play music while screen off. Doesnt make sense. The most important of music player is how they produce sound quality! Not album art!
And one more things is go make you own music player if you good enough or DONT USE ANDROID!!!
BTW I prefer Google Play Music.
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- lyrics and time stamped lyrics support. what's the point? most of you probably listen to music in your native language, what you can't understand what they're singing?
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Lol well i'm from Australia and you think I must love listen to the horrible crap thats the so called "real" mainstream western music.
Apparently OP doesnt know how to use android.
If you never used a Droid phone, then dont buy a highend one!
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Rockbox.
mihovil13 said:
Apparently OP doesnt know how to use android.
If you never used a Droid phone, then dont buy a highend one!
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On the contrary, I'd start with the best phone possible. Otherwise you miss out on cool things. I'm very happy that I could pick the best Android phone of the time (Galaxy S) when I started using Android...
Hzu said:
Rockbox.
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if only x.x
Am I the only one who found Rockbox a little annoying to use?
poweramp and playerpro both show embedded art
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Am I the only one who found Rockbox a little annoying to use?
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Really? I found Rockbox the easiest to use. Simple, clutter-less, no-nonsense interface. The default Cabbie theme may not be that visually appealing though. So I changed to another one. At least it's a lot better.
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Really? I found Rockbox the easiest to use. Simple, clutter-less, no-nonsense interface. The default Cabbie theme may not be that visually appealing though. So I changed to another one. At least it's a lot better.
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I felt it seems to lack the nice interface that PlayerPro has.
Im trying to get music figured out on my Z2. Really its been the only thing bothering me. Since switching from the iPhone two years ago Ive been using Google Play music. I hate how it doesnt store music on the device though. I get it though, switch devices and its always there on the Google app. But if you dont have a data connection or dont want to use a ton of data its not good. I started doing the PIN to device but I still dont see any music locally. Ive bought songs and I want them on my device.
What is everyone using on the Z2? Walkman? Google? Or what? So far the Google music doesnt seem to wanna play nice but maybe that was just while it was trying to download my songs.
Well I think I might be a corner case here, but I use Google Play Music and sync my library with iTunes using iSyncr. It's paid, but for the most part it gets the job done and transfers album art plus the other metadata and updates my playcounts.
Call me a luddite or afraid of change, but most of my songs are in 320kbps and I enjoy the quality through good headphones. There's a few apps on the Play Store that can sync your current collection on iTunes to the device. I bought iSyncr a long time ago, not sure if there are better options available but it works for me.
Well, I used that Google guide for switching to Android back when I got my Nexus but it didnt seem to move all my music for some reason. I still have my iTunes collection so maybe I need to revisit syncing it again.
I used PowerAmp with my last phone but once you get used to the walkman app it's great. You can get better sound quality from its settings too.
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I used to use ITunes, then with my Android devices I've always just manually stored all my music on my external microsd. Usually I use Poweramp but this being my first Sony device I'm starting to like the Walkman app!
I have a mac laptop and imac with 112Gb music collection on an external HDD and of course iTunes. I just make up playlists of 1) random songs, or 2) dedicated playlists or 3) collections of artists in a playlist (depending on what I'm wanting to listen to) and transfer them using Sony Bridge for Mac to the Walkman app. It's amazing the albums I've re discovered doing it that way e.g. Deadwing by Porcupine Tree, I hadn't listened to that album in years so I found my cd and imported it as apple lossless to walkman it sounds amazing through good headphones.
I find that set up works for me, as while it is importing I just go and make a cup of coffee. Besides, I quite enjoy making up playlists.
I use Google Play Music. Why not since they allow cloud storage of 20,000 songs and sync all your music purchased from Google Play?
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ZPaul2Fresh8 said:
I use Google Play Music. Why not since they allow cloud storage of 20,000 songs and sync all your music purchased from Google Play?
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Have you had any issues with it working on the Z2?
Kmac_thp said:
Have you had any issues with it working on the Z2?
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None whatsoever. Bought music from Google Play and listened to some albums for about an hour.
I am on stock ROM with root.
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None whatsoever. Bought music from Google Play and listened to some albums for about an hour.
I am on stock ROM with root.
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Do you pin the music or just stream it all? I think I had issues the first day with the Z2 because of work wifi blocking and or causing issues downloading the music.
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Do you pin the music or just stream it all? I think I had issues the first day with the Z2 because of work wifi blocking and or causing issues downloading the music.
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Stream only. I was on Wi-Fi but I don't think it would've posed a problem even if I were on data from my carrier.
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Stream only. I was on Wi-Fi but I don't think it would've posed a problem even if I were on data from my carrier.
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Good to know thanks.