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.
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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.
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!
Wlk said:
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?
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.
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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.
Hi Everyone
Had my I9100G for about six months, bought here in Tanzania, working like a charm with Cyanogenmod 10.1, updated regularly, now on RC2 from this month.
I used to have an 8GB sd card, with all my music on it, and nothing else save the odd folders created by android itself. For my birthday I treated myself to a new Transcend 32GB Class 4 card, and set about formatting it and putting it in the phone, primary purpose to store more music.
So i copied over about 25GB of music using an SD adaptor on my PC, and then inserted, and obviously the media scanner takes a few minutes to sortit all out, so I left it there, then after about 20 minutes went into Winamp (my main music player) and found of the 4000 odd tracks, that 3800 of them had "Unknown Artist".
I promptly searched these forums and others for solutions or symptoms that might have caused this, and decided to go back and try again, perhaps they didn't copy properly. I have tried using the SD adaptor on my laptop, using USB mass storage from the phone, and also using MTP, all of which have this same horrible symptom: UNKNOWN ARTIST.
Lots of posts say that this is caused by wrong ID3 tags, but the funny thing is that all of the 7GB of music i had on there before is now on the new card, and those USED to show artist names, all of them come from my main mp3 collection on my laptop, and never had this before.
I created a folder on my laptop to put all the music onto my phone, and used mp3tag to read and re-write the tags to all 4000 songs, I checked, then put them on the SD card, then checked again that the tags were still there, but when I go into Winamp (or Apollo - same result) still shows many many unknown artists for mp3s that it has worked with before without issue.
Last night, I wiped, formatted, reflashed the ROM, didn't update any apps or restore my backups, just treated it like a brand new phone, and the same thing is happening, whether i put on 200 songs or 4000 songs. It has now read the tag details for some of them, like Track 1 of lots of albums, but the other 10-15 tracks of each album have no artist. They do however show album artwork and song and album names, but no artist or genre.
What makes it worse, is that if I put my old 8GB card back in, it does the same thign to the music that USED to work fine!!!???!!!
Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this?? I don't think its the SD card, which I have tried formatted by the phone in CWM (which makes it unreadable in android) formatting FAT32 on the computer with allocation blocks of 16, 32 and 64kb, none of which make any difference. The way it is now is 16kb allocation blocks (default fo rthe card) and long formatted in windows (not the quick format - it took about 30 minutes to complete).
I shouldn't lose sleep over this, but its driving me crazy, as there are songs and albums that it used to recognise, and that the tags are there and valid in IDv3v1 and IDv3v2.3, nothign is mising, but the phone does not read them properly.
Also now it shows a different number of total tracks on each reboot, sometimes 3800 sometimes 3700 sometimes 3900....
Anybody know what else I can try???
OK... here's where it gets worse!!
I go into Albums, see a list of album names, with "Unknown Artist" below them, then if i choose to play a song, it tells me the name of the artist!!
Close/exit winamp and return and still shows Unknown Artist, but when the songs play they come up correctly??
Am i going mad???
What about other music apps ? (Native music app, Poweramp, etc) ?
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Apollo is the native music app, and really this isn't the music apps fault, this is the media scanner not updating the local database.
Both Apollo and Winamp will use the same DB provided by the Media Scanner, so it won't matter which app i use, but for reference, i get the same results using both.
So, if anyone can help me, what is the best way to format the new card, and subsequently copy my music over to avoid this problem?
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.