How do I delete the info music player has downloaded? The thing is that is has renamed music with the wrong artist/name for some garbage.. Where do I go to clear this?
I have pressed the button clear info on music player app and in 'musicdownloadedinfo' from apps but it's still there.
dont know for sure,
but i guess if it changed your music's "tags"
and seeing it screwed up you'll probably have no luck using a tag editor the easy way (it checks the info it has and completes the rest)
but there's 1 more thing i found that should have more succes at getting the right info.
Acoustic fingerprinting
Main article: Acoustic fingerprint
An acoustic fingerprint is a unique code generated from an audio waveform. Depending upon the particular algorithm, acoustic fingerprints can be used to automatically categorize or identify an audio sample. Practical uses of acoustic fingerprinting include broadcast monitoring, identification of music and ads being played, peer-to-peer network monitoring, sound effect library management, and video identification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_editor
at the bottom it shares a list of editors you might wanne check out .
Evening everyone, I have spent the last 20 hours of my life confused and beyond angry at Google Music. Missing Tags repeat albums and don't even get me started on the album art work missing. I am OCD about my music library, always have been that's why (when I used that god awful software) during my iTunes years I meticulously spent hours fixing genres adding art work and capitalizing the correct letters in titles artists and albums, spent hours downloading HQ album covers and all was well. Unfortunately for me none of that corrected info actually gets tagged in the actual file the metadata remains unedited and no artwork actually becomes embedded Tunes just simply says OK that's what you want to see for that song but only of course on Apple's devices. So I was left with all these files from which were jumbled up in Mp4 and Mp3 and WAV some with artwork some without.
So Yesterday I began the process of figuring out how to finally organize all of my music once and for all so that Google Music would show album art correct names yada yada yada. I then thought to myself I am sure of it that many others would like to see how I did it so that they too could enjoy a perfect Library on Google's wonderful streaming service, or off the SD card. I will say this is extraordinarily time consuming but since I am making this guide it should at least allow you to cut an hour or two digging for software and generally wanting to tear your hair out in frustration over figuring out why the hell the metadata editor wont edit the files or show up in the directory. So gentlemen and ladies alike here are my efforts in order to finally have a perfect music library forever.
Software you will need
ID3 - This is the program that allows you to edit the metadata and provide proper naming and artwork
http://www.nch.com.au/tageditor/index.html
Mp4 - Mp3 Converter - As Itunes and Apple are stupid and use a stupid file codec the Mp4 metadata cannot be directly edited The Tag editor can only edit when the files are Mp3( if you never used itunes you may be able to skip this) .
http://download.cnet.com/Free-M4a-t...7723.html?tag=dropDownForm;productListing;pop
1.) First will want to convert all non Mp3 formatted files into Mp3. You can either edit and convert together ( I would not recommend this) or you can queue everything that needs to be converted first. That is what I would do.
Sub Step a.) While it is converting go to Google and Image search all the album covers you will need and put the cover art .jpg into the folder for the album to which it belongs 500 x 500 pixels is perfect size for album covers and is the most widely used size for these images.
2.) While it is converting go to Google Music and delete your Library( NOTE that you better only delete things that you have the file for) I take no responsibility for you deleting music and then never getting it back that's on you. I have all my music in a specific folder and knew I could delete it. Also take note that DRM music from ITunes cannot be edited or uploaded. ( I paid well over a hundred bucks to Apple to get what I could DRM free) Once you have a clean slate you can allow the converting process to finish.
3.) Once you have your converted files you can go into your music folder location and see that you will now have duplicates of the files that were converted(One being Mp4 and the new Mp3 file). Create a new folder for your new files. What I mean by this is take all the Mp4 files( don't delete them just in case you still need it) and separate the Mp4 Files and Mp3 Files into new folders for example:
Folder 1 ( band Name: Mp4)
Folder 2 ( Band Name: Mp3)
THIS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT
if you do not separate the files you will upload duplicates to Google Music and it will default to the previous file leading you back to where you started (I did this and almost threw my computer out the window from frustration) Also leave the Cover art you downloaded in the Mp3 folder not the mp4 which will make adding the cover art much quicker
4.) Now that you have your library converted and separated the new and old files you will have an Mp3 Library and an Mp4 library( I know it blows to have identical folders but its just how it is and will make sure your library is as organized as possible and keep you from loosing your tunes.)
5.) Open the Stamp editor and you should now be able to edit all the Metadata you want using the program.
I am about to start Homework check back here later tonight or tomorrow for screenshots and tips to make this easier.
Quick Tip - this is how my Music Directory is organized
folder Named after artist
Sub folder contains Albums
Each Album is a sub folder containing the Google Image we downloaded earlier and the Mp3 Files to which will be edited ( I HIGH SUGGEST FOLLOWING THIS)
Very nice guide! im ocd about my music library too. I wish i could've just hired somebody to fix my whole library instead of wasting 20+ hours trying to. :crying:
I thought about it yesterday when I was doing all of this, A company that would organize music would probably be very profitable. Im not sure how you would structure paying but it would be a smart idea.
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
Max725 said:
Thanks for the guide - I've been meaning to do this for a while (I also fell victim to iTunes not editing the actual metadata but remembering the tags in its own devious way), and I may actually do it now.
However, I was wondering - is the conversion from mp4 or from m4a to mp3 entirely lossless? If not, is there an easy way to edit the metadata on m4a files?
Also, my music is about two thirds flac (my classical music) and the rest mostly m4a and some mp3. Will the tag editor work for flac files? (I of course cannot convert them to mp3).
Also, another slightly related question: I have been looking since I first got a phone for a music player in which I can set up the library the way I want.
That would be like this: first, I select a genre (Classical, Joshua Bell, Русские песни (Russian songs), Chansons françaises (French songs), or Other.
If I select Classical, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums, to artists and then to albums, or directly to albums.
If I select Joshua Bell, I can choose to go to composers and then to albums or directly to albums.
If I select Русские песни or Chansons françaises, it will go to artists and then to albums.
If I select Other, it will go directly to a list of albums.
So far, I have always just used folder players, but I will thank immensely anyone who finds a player that I can set up like this, that can also play flac files and is generally usable.
(Really - I will thank all of the posts you've made, or at least all that I can thank in 15 minutes of uninterrupted thanking).
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I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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zkrp5108 said:
I did not find anything that allowed for editing mp4 metadata(the DRM was to blame I believe). If I did it wasn't free which is why I ended up doing this in such a backwards way(spent an hour or so trying to find the software I used). There are flac to mp3 converters which I believe I saw on CNET. So you could in theory do this still but you would need to convert two different file types so it will just take longer.
As for You're second question I think "I think" poweramp allows for the kind of hierarchy control you are looking for. It also has the most options, auto album art work updater, and the best eq.
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What about m4a? And the reason I don't want to convert flac files is that flac is lossless. It has all the same information as a native wav file, but it somehow takes up a little less space, although much more than mp3. The flac codec is open source and all, so I don't see why there should be problems editing metadata in flac files, I just haven't looked which specific programs can do it.
And I tried Poweramp, but didn't see any settings for genre-specific hierarchy - you can choose to have it show genres-artists-albums or genre-albums or anything like that, but you can't make it different for each genre. By the way, I really don't care about options or eq - I believe that classical music should be heard exactly as in the natural performance, and I trust the professional sound editors whose job it is to optimize all the different instruments and ranges in the other songs I have. In fact, I have currently settled on EZ Folder Player, which just opens to a specified folder, from which I can navigate through the folders I set up to any album or song and play it. I believe it has no eq or sound settings at all.
I'm pretty sure that the mp4 and m4a files are both convertable using the program but I'm not sure lol. This was specifically to aid those that used iTunes in the past but switched to android and Google music' and how to add tags to mp3 files that people download from the internet. As for the hierarchy your looking for power amp allows folder browsing add well. But not in a custom way like your looking for. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful on that subject if I come across something I'll be sure to put an answer here for you.
As for your distaste to EQ all headphones are different because they produce different ohms and the studio quality sound the engineers get in the studio are on headphones that are studio quality I used to work in a f film department and trust me consumer grade headphones don't even compare. The eq just allows me to tailor my music b based on the pair of headphones I'm using on a given day.
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redwaldo said:
Thanks for the guide! Here's some things I found useful when dealing with my own library: (unfortunately I can't post links because I'm a new user, but all of these can be found as the top link when you google them)
mp3tag is a very powerful tag editor, and very easy to use for batch operations.
id3remover can completely remove all metadata from a file. I found this useful because sometimes files have tags that editing programs can't read but will mess up library sorting in Google Music or your music player.
Album Art Exchange is a great website for very high quality and high resolution album art.
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+1 on mp3tag, I use it all the time on my collection. You can drag a folder over it and it just loads all the tags for you for updating/reviewing/modification. You can mass update tags like album, artist, etc. You can also use the tags to rename the files.
dBpoweramp - Swiss army knife of file conversion, it integrates into the windows right click menu, highlight your tracks, right click, convert to, pick your format and settings and go. It's multithreaded and will use all your cores to convert also. http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm It's a little pricey but it makes things so easy. It is fully functional for trial use if you want to test it beforehand.
Did this awhile ago, ended up up just using media monkey to organize and found a lot of the meta data myself.
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Hi, I have tried load of music playes and a few "dedicated" audio book players and none of them seem to be able to catalog the music correctly. The best at it so far is the Sony music player which is hacked form a ROM, however I cant get the EQ to do anything on this and I find the controls a bit fiddly even on my tablet.
My main issue with other playes is the catalogging, I can find no player at all that will properly deal with chapters or have a system where you can properly choose who to sort the music / track definition by name / number etc. So, I end up with mp3 playing out of order so I end up having to create huge playlists just to be able to read a book, some have 30+audio chapters.
Does anyone else use audio books who can recommend something that just works?
AudioBuk is a brand new audiobook player for Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatches.
About audiobooks
An audiobook is a recording of a text being read. Usually a compressed folder (ZIP file) can be downloaded with every recorded chapter and additionally a cover image to display in the audio player.
Best places to download free audiobooks are:
http://librivox.org/
http://www.loyalbooks.com/
http://www.librophile.com/
http://www.freeaudiobooks.ws/
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
http://www.free-audio-books.co.uk/
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video
FEATURES
Compatibility
Samsung Galaxy Gear2/Gear2 Neo/Gear S
Standalone App
AudioBuk only needs the smartwatch,there is no cloud or website behind it.
Playback position
The current playback position is automatically saved whenever you change the audiobook, the audio track or quit the app
Bookmarks
Up to 5 bookmarks per chapter or audio track
Bookmarks are set by double tapping the cover image of the current audio track
Bookmarks are chosen by tapping on it
Bookmarks are deleted by swiping up or down
Skip Time
Configurable skip time from 15 to 60 seconds forwards or backwards
Sleep Timer
Configurable sleep timer from 1 to 60 minutes.
The sleep timer only starts when AudioBuk is playing an audio track
Audio Volume Control
It is possible to configure the audio volume from 0 to 100%
Audiobooks detection
The first time AudioBuk is started it creates the abooks folder inside the Sounds folder
AudioBuk detects audiobooks in any folder inside abooks folder or simply in the abooks folder
Folders within folders with audio files are not mandatory but recommended for better organization
It is possible to have some audio files in the abooks folder or in other folders inside the abooks folder
Cover images
Cover images are displayed by AudioBuk for better user experience
Must be in PNG or JPG format
Size must be from 100x100 to 600x600 pixels
Can have any name if they are located inside an audiobook folder
Cover images need a name following some rules if they are located in the abooks folder directly
Cover images must have a name similar to the audio files of an audiobook
If an audio file is named wuthering_heights_01.mp3, the cover image can be named wuthering.png or wuthering_heights.png
Continuous Playback
Continuous playback is set by default allowing to move automatically to the next audio track
Play at start up
AudioBuk can start by playing the current chapter or audio track for better user experience
Multi-Language
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese languages are supported.
The default app language is English.
Audio formats
The following audio formats are supported: MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA and OGG
Limitations
Audio files must be uploaded from the computer via USB
Audio files can only be uploaded to the predefined abooks folder inside the Sounds folder
Only 5 bookmarks per chapter or audio track can be used
Cover image names must begin with the name of the audiobook or audio files (the common part of their names) if they reside directly in the abooks folder
Cover image size is limited (see Cover Images)
It is necessary to quit AudioBuk before updating audiobooks (add new ones or delete old ones entirely or partially)
Allowed audio formats are limited (see Audio formats)
WHAT ABOUT THE GEAR S2
AudioBuk for the Gear S2 is on its way!!!
17th August 2015, 09:16 PM
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Agree with needing stand-alone apps. Can you create an audiobook app with bookmarking and 15 second forward/backward skip functionality? I go running with my Gear S and gave up on trying to listen to...
I wanna thanks your patience, your thoughts, your suggestions and advice, especially to Xendula, a senior member of this forum. AudioBuk was developed under his request, so I decided to mention him on the app's credits as "Original Idea By Xendula".
As usual, I expect your valuable comments and critics.
This sounds perfect! What are the chances for getting this for the gear s2? And is it a paid app? I would be happy to pay, but right now, Samsung has restricted the app store to only free apps for those without a Samsung phone. I don't know if there is a way to add an in app purchase so we can pay for it after. I am not even sure if noon Samsung phone users can even do in app purchases right now. It is very frustrating.
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A very good application likes me so far i have seen.
But for people who wont use credit cards is that a pitty because all paying goes there.
No possible other choice to get things. Bad future Yoda says...
Any word on when this will be available for the Gear S2? Waiting patiently.
Gear s3?
No plan of releasing the app for gear s3?
Audiobook to Galaxy Watch
Audible only develops an app for Apple Music and it's very convenient for me to listen to audiobooks on my Galaxy Watch. So I choose to convert the audiobooks to MP3 and transfer to my smartwatch. This way takes some time but it really works. I use TunesKit Audible Converter by the way.
https://www.tuneskit.com/audiobook-tips/audiobooks-on-samsung-galaxy-watch.html
Hi!
I'm having trouble finding an app, or even two apps, that'll suit my needs. I've got music and audio books all locally on my phone in separate folders. I'd like to be able to play my audio books in order and also separately shuffle all the music I have. I think if I could find a music app that let me specifically point to a folder to shuffle that would help a lot! Also, streaming isn't really an option.
Right now I've got Play Music that mixes in all my audio books between my songs. Not ideal! I'm on an S8+ if that matters.
Thanks for anyone who has advice for me.
After lots of fiddling I found a solution.
I hid the Audio Book folder.
Basically what I did was use Astro File Manager to add a dot to the beginning of my audio book's folder's name (and gave it a slightly different name just to make sure), and that made it disappear out of Google Play. Then the audio book reader I use, Smart AudioBook Player, can read hidden folders. I've now successfully separated my audio books from my music. So whenever I feel like it, I can jump into a book where I left off, or go to a random song!!
I hope this helps someone else.