Anybody know a way to do this? When I add them in iTunes they don't stay embedded on my G2. Is there a better way to do this? Or a way to do this on the phone itself?
I'm curious too, same problem here. It seems any I've manually added to iTunes will sync over through DoubleTwist or copying, but if I let iTunes add them they get lost somewhere along the way.
Album Art Grabber is a free app on the market that will add them through the phone for completeness, but I'd prefer to know how they are disappearing.
I am not sure how some files keep the artwork and some don't, but I use MP3TaggerPro on the phone to correct.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/mp3tagger-pro/de.mobile.pro
I can't confirm that it works because I'm still in Iraq far from where my G2 waits, but I use MP3 Tag for my tag editing needs. You can edit existing tags, or add/subtract new tag info and embed album art. The batch editing feature is GREAT with audiobooks. Works awesome with a Zune HD.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
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I'm curious too, same problem here. It seems any I've manually added to iTunes will sync over through DoubleTwist or copying, but if I let iTunes add them they get lost somewhere along the way.
Album Art Grabber is a free app on the market that will add them through the phone for completeness, but I'd prefer to know how they are disappearing.
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You're a life saver.. didn't realize this would let me apply album art from my SD card...
Doesn't help with sync issues but I don't really care about that.
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Dear Xda-developers
Does anyone here know how to sync music with Itunes keeping all album arts?
Right now I am using the Itunes Agens program to sync and also used Salling MediaSync once.
Both of them sync the music from Itunes, but not the downloaded album arts. They only sync manual album arts.
Is there any method to sync my Itunes songs with the auto-downloaded album arts? Or do I have to add manual album arts to all my songs?
P.S.
I have like 10+ GB of songs so I really dont wanna add album art to them all again...
i wanna know too!
I would like to know also.
I am getting my Magic this week and would hate to not have the album artwork after having the album artwork.
bump thread! any input will be appreciated!
there is an app in the market for this. i had the same problem 2 days ago and i stumbled upon it. i think its about $2 but well worth it. i havent loaded a ton of music yet but it worked for all the songs i had on my sd card. the name of the app is "album art grabber".
I know RockOn music player automatically d/l album art if you wanna check it out.
Hi,
Transferred my music from WMP over to my Nexus and only some have album art.
My album art has been manually added as "cover art" through WMP.
Would I have more success if I manually add the album art in iTunes?
Does anyone have this problem and has found one is better than the other? These are the only two media players I've ever used but have just come back to Windows so could consider WinAmp if anyone knows how that works with the Nexus?
Cheers. Paul.
Mate all my itunes music had album art.. i transferred it and its not showing :S only some of it is
Was your album art manually added and embedded into the files or just downloaded via iTunes?
Majority by itunes...
It may not be this ultimate fix and it may or may not work on the nexus(I'm still on G1) but Album Art Grabber in the market works well...until you wipe.
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Majority by itunes...
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This is the problem.
iTunes stores the album art in a different folder and assigns it to the music when loaded.
It does this ONLY if the artist and album title are completely correct, but does not embed it to the track or folder.
There is a way to assign the album art and EMBED it into each track without having to worry about .jpgs hanging around
see here (post 4)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=618426
that program works great haha
how do i fix the unknown artist thing.. and missin album title.. i edit it in itunes but it doesnt change
You mustn't be editing it properly.
Remeber you have to edit the Artist, Album in iTunes but ALSO the track title in windows explorer (iTunes changes the embedded info).
Windows may show UNKNOWN album or artist but in iTunes it will be right.
Make sure you change it all, but it is tedious, but once it's dine it'll never need doing again and no unsightly .jpgs in all your music folders.
Oh i get you now mate.. See im on a mac :S thats why im getting confused with how to edit it out of itunes..
I get albums doubled aswell.. must be cus of the name..
Is there no program to edit it on the phone?
Theres a couple for gettin the album art on the market, 'album art grabber' as someone mentioned and 'mp3 tagger' does as well i believe
yeye got the albumart sorted
i mean one that would let me edit
Artist, Album, etc on the phone.. cus using a mac i carnt edit it on here really
Can anyone confirm if the HTC music player app as part of sense can display the embedded art in MP3 files?
I have a very organised collection.. and all the MP3's have (one piece of) embedded art which works in Media Player, and on my iRiver MP3 players with Rockbox..
But on my Hero.. no art is shown.
I understand it should be.. can anyone shed any light on this?
(I'm on Modaco 3.1, but the same thing happened with the Stock ROM as well so I suspect it's somethign I've done wrong.)
All the tags are perfect and all the art was added with mp3tag which seems to be recommended for this job by a quick google..
I've run out of ideas!
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Can anyone confirm if the HTC music player app as part of sense can display the embedded art in MP3 files?
I have a very organised collection.. and all the MP3's have (one piece of) embedded art which works in Media Player, and on my iRiver MP3 players with Rockbox..
But on my Hero.. no art is shown.
I understand it should be.. can anyone shed any light on this?
(I'm on Modaco 3.1, but the same thing happened with the Stock ROM as well so I suspect it's somethign I've done wrong.)
All the tags are perfect and all the art was added with mp3tag which seems to be recommended for this job by a quick google..
I've run out of ideas!
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try this: download and install itunes, if you're not on mac.
then obviously, import all of your music
tell me if itunes shows your cover art so I can help you further
Works on Mine
My Missus is the Queen of MetaData and has an immaculate set of MP3s together with Album Art etc.
It's all displayed correctly on mine (Modaco 3.1)
Sorry it's not a solution but it may help in fault finding.
Brynn
Yes the art is all visible in iTunes.
It's weird.. I've actually found a few tracks where it does work.. but they are identical to other tracks where it doesnt.
It seems to prefer smaller artwork, in an exact square shape.. but even changing other tracks to that doesnt guarantee it will be shown.. which is more annoying!!
I can't help you with making it more automatic, but a program called Album Art Grabber is in the Market and it works wonders. Someone here on xda made it, although I can't recall who. They should be able to shed some light on how Android accesses album art.
Or, having AlbumArt.jpg in the same folder as the music should do the trick!
There are some free PC-based utilities to get these as a batch-job for you I think, but I use script in Amarok (CopyCover2) which stores the playing album's image there for me.
Download a tagger (Sorry I can't suggest anything I'm on linux) that allows you to view both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags (there is one, I used to use it but I don't remember the name).
If you're using ID3v1, copy them over to ID3v2 or viceversa.
This may solve your problem, chances are your music is tagged with ID3v1 and Hero only supports ID3v2.
Can someone please tell me the best way to save album art? Everytime I update or change roms I lose the cover art. Now I am currently using "Cover Art Downloader" which will automatically find the covers in batch mode when you want, but I was wondering if there is a way to save it with the music on the ext. sd card. Does anyone know how to do this?
I am using the same app. I don't think there's a way to save them. Every time I flash a new rom I have to redownload them too. Its a pain!
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If you sort music by album, there's a way to do:
You can grab the album cover pic from amazon, scan it yourself, or search, and put it to corresponding folder with audio files.
I did the same thing and I have album cover on every album folder.
I use mediamonkey to organize my mp3s and it has the ability to embed the cover art into the mp3 itself so it always stays with the music. Media monkey also has the ability to sync playlists using the media player usb mode on the phone.
where do you get media monkey? i don't see it in the market.
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where do you get media monkey? i don't see it in the market.
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Yea, you wouldn't - it is a PC application.
It also has the ability to reencode all your music on the fly while transferring. I keep all my music in archive quality MP3 and Flac files, but I don't want it to take up that much space on my phone, so I have it automatically transcode everything to 64Kbps WMA on transfer, which sounds ok in my cheap earbuds anyhow. The downside is that I lose my embedded album art, so keep in mind that the embedded album art and the transcoding to save space are mutually exclusive if you use Media Monkey. Both features are great, you just have to pick which one is more important to you.
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If you sort music by album, there's a way to do:
You can grab the album cover pic from amazon, scan it yourself, or search, and put it to corresponding folder with audio files.
I did the same thing and I have album cover on every album folder.
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Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.
what does music player look for?
Where does the music player look for album art, and where? An image file with the same album name? It is ok with embedded art too?
If you use poweramp it will just re dl the set for you or you can manually do it through album art app. I know this didn't answer you exactly but it's a solution
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.
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I had this same issue and my way around that was to delete all of my old cover art and then use "Album Art Grabber" from the Market, which collects everything automatically and puts it into 1 folder.
In the end, I have 1 folder in "My Gallery" with all of my album artwork and everything is nicely organized in one place. I also think you can choose the folder you want to save your artwork to....At the very least, you could always copy the artwork folder and place it wherever you want (SD Card or Internal HD).
Hope that helps!
- Mat
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Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.
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.nomedia - As in create a file named .nomedia in the folder and nothing from that folder will show up in the gallery.
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.nomedia - As in create a file named .nomedia in the folder and nothing from that folder will show up in the gallery.
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Won't that also keep your MP3s in the folder from showing up in the music player?
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If you guys dont mind spending a little money Poweramp does all this automatically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1UO6DakowM
I listen to mostly hiphop and r&b and the audio is great. I plug it up to my car auido jack and sounds amazing through my ported subs. Also really good thru headsets.
I personally started using this program when stock android and touchwiz music player was playing the audio from installed games, ringtones, some videos, movies, and podcast.
This program only plays music form the folders you select. THis works great with the vibrant having 2 seperate memory cards. Because I have music in the internal/external.
Edit: I also wanted to add that cover art got on my nerves when I have atleast 100 albums on my sd cards. Its not always simple as adding a picture to the album folder. You usually have to rename them to Cover.jpg/Cover.jpeg/Albumart.jpg etc. I have majority of my music on my external 16gb and it had compatibility problems when having certain albums in the same folder. Poweramp takes care of all of that. I dont pay for a ton of apps but this one I would recommend.
if you get the "donate" version of cover art downloader, there is an option in the settings to "embed cover art into id3 tag (mp3 only).
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Won't that also keep your MP3s in the folder from showing up in the music player?
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I don't believe so because it is a flag used by the gallery app, not the music player app. Any application can behave however it is programmed of course, but most picture apps honor the file and most multimedia apps don't.
The best way is also the biggest pain-in-the-butt way.
Use a computer program on a desktop computer to embed the album art into the mp3 itself. Then transfer the mp3 files back to your vibrant.
I use MP3 Tagger, which also lets me correct MP3 ID data.
It is a work in progress for me. I have done all of my mp3 files beginning with 'A' and 'B'.
At my current pace I should be done in about 5 years.
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I don't believe so because it is a flag used by the gallery app, not the music player app. Any application can behave however it is programmed of course, but most picture apps honor the file and most multimedia apps don't.
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I'm positive the .nomedia file will keep audio from showing up in the music player. I did this to keep lets golf sounds and other game sounds from showing up there. So that file would keep the image from showing up in the gallery, but also the mp3's wouldn't show up in music player either.
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I am not able to see any of my album covers in the music app. is there a way to download the album covers or do I need to download my music from my PC again.
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I am not able to see any of my album covers in the music app. is there a way to download the album covers or do I need to download my music from my PC again.
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I guess no one else has this problem.
keep us posted
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I am not able to see any of my album covers in the music app. is there a way to download the album covers or do I need to download my music from my PC again.
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Note sure dude - keep us posted if you get it fixed. Saw LG G2, thinking about getting it.
Thank you for bringing this up, it's something I'd like to check on my phone. I know that just because your music has art in iTunes (whether you bought tracks, or ripped them from a CD), it doesn't translate over into the Android player. I spent a long weekend manually downloading and tagging most of my collection with Mp3tag, a free program. It checks your music library (you tell it which folder to search) and allows you to edit tag information, including art. It also will search your files against a couple of databases, including Amazon, to attempt to find the artwork.