Just ot my Xperia before NY's eve and I love it! But I have a question - does anyone know a way to make predefined albums in the Media Panel instead of all my pictures appearing in one giant gallery? It just gather every single photo from the phone and memory card and displays them.. How do I make my own folders/galleries/etc..?
And maybe something simillar for the video seciotn of the Media Panel?
Cheers Xperiancers )
Heh I should have searched a bit more efore posting...... So no uck with this, no folders for the media panel
The thing that I wanted this for was to be able to play the cool "zooming-out-and-moving" slideshow that the media panel has with selected images rather than all of them, or just camera pics...
No way of having this?
Cheers
Anyone?
dreamerworx said:
The thing that I wanted this for was to be able to play the cool "zooming-out-and-moving" slideshow that the media panel has with selected images rather than all of them, or just camera pics...
No way of having this?
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Anyone with the same issue?
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all my albums are in seperate folders in mydocuments on the storage card but media panel lists them all in one folder called pictures, any way to get media panel to display the seperate picture albums?
thanks
jkr284 said:
all my albums are in seperate folders in mydocuments on the storage card but media panel lists them all in one folder called pictures, any way to get media panel to display the seperate picture albums?
thanks
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I'm having the same problem, but still did not find a solution.
Indeed, this is quite an annoyance. I dont understand that S.E. did not 'notice' this in the first place.
Same problem,
I have many pictures on my phone from my GF that should stay private so i have moved them into a secret folder just incase but when i go into media pannel they are there for all to see, i was flicking throught my normal pics showing my mate some stuff and a pic of my GF popped up and his eyes lit up.
Damn you SE
Agree!!! SE should have thought of this.
Explanation and solution
Please read this thread for explanation and possible solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3097317#post3097317
What do i have to do to get album art to show on every album in media player and media panel some show and some dont.Do you need to us art that is a specific size. Please help
You need to learn how to search these forums.
Hi,
I use a tool called Tagrunner and it integrates the Album Art in the .mp3. I think there are also some freeware tools that do that...
I think there is a way to add a .jpg file in the album folder but for me the method to integrate the picture directly in the .mp3 is better...
artesea said:
You need to learn how to search these forums.
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Yes i do but advice is what i want not telling off.
Update on this issue.
I used mp3Tag to check all my music. Many already had coverart tagged in them but the X1a would not show it. I then realized that the ones that were showing were 300x300 pixels or less. The X1a may show larger files but my larger files were off iTunes and 600x600 and they definitely would not show.
So I went out to mog.com and found all my artwork in smaller file sizes. I attached the new artwork using mp3Tag and presto, everything works now. It took a bit of time but if you want it to work, this is the only way.
in order to visualize the cover, I use TAGScanner, and integral the cover within every mp3 album.
Making this, I can see all the covers some in Music, of the Media Xperience Panel.
Max
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ummmm yea dont be a *****
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AL9AsP2P77A&feature=related
Above link takes you to a video showing the X1's features.
At 3:45 minutes into the vid, he starts showing a picture album with many super-cool features!
Who can tell me what the hell this album is and where I can get it?
Edit: After closer inspection it seems to be the camera album, but mine looks nothing like it.
I would love to be able to use that as my standard picture viewer.
If i am not mistaken that feature is part of the Media Panel
yeah id agree thats the media panel.
Thought it was the slideshow panel at first, but it's not.
Yeah its the Media panel
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i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??
amir84 said:
hi
i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??
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Search the Market, there's a lot of free apps there that you can choose from.
i allready did sch there
didn't find anything useful thats why i'm asking here maybe for some recomndetion
I'm using MixZing for playing music ...
funny these threads. listed as one of the main selling points of this device was mediascape. you must have read that but bought it anyway! did you not try the phone 1st? this is a prime example of why we all should! not having a go so dont start flaming! expressing my opinion. there is no app within the app store that will deliver anything near what mediascape does right now so for this phone its the best you gonna get! in time when custom roms are being made then we may see the likes of what htc have to offer. we are also currently lacking in apps that do offer more but hopefully corecodec will develop an app for android! until then and until custom roms are available i would just stick with mediascape. no matter how much you hate it, the alternatives are even worse!
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some coredec images for the cp2.0 for android.
http://tweetphoto.com/10841643
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I'm using MixZing for playing music ...
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i like MixZing! thanks!!
is there any good app also for Photo Viewer ??
playlists
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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Yeah... I don't think that's possible. Which kind of sucks but something I can live with. I mostly just use Spotify anyway.
And I also want to know about any good picture gallery. I had one but it wasn't really good at all.
Ah, fair enough. At least it's not me going daft. I was searching Google and the results were implying that you could generate lists but they must have meant that it could be done via media go software.
As far as media players go i would consider that to be a basic feature that is required (especially if you have a large library).
As for the gallery I can't say I'm too impressed with that either. However I did like the one previewed on the mini. Hopefully that will be included in future updates, if there are to be any.
Just typing this on the phone itself using the HTC keyboard. The only thing missing are the directional arrow keys, tapping the screen in the correct place is hit and miss for me.
You can generate Playlists with the Astro Filemanager, which you should have installed anyway...
Yeah I do have that instaled. I'll try that out. Cheers mate.
PiQture is pretty good photo viewer.
I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
Im using the file manager by nalic (green and blue pie chart icon). Navigate to system/media/audio/ringtones (ogg) and play one, a different player called music opens to play it, now leave the file playing and pull down the notification tray and touch the play icon then press the left menu key then library button and you are in.
Now this player will be listed in the recently used app list (hold middle button) unless it gets moved off the list by opening more than 6 more apps without opening it again to bring it to the front of the list.
I like this one better than mediascape as its less cluttered and straightforward and you can create playlists which are drag and drop editable and show up in mediascape.
It would be nice to get to it easier though.
There is also a video player and picture viewer but they are very simple with few options.
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I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
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I found it too. I managed to create a shortcut on home with Tasker :
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Hope this helps.
One of my main reasons for wanting the X10 is mediascape. Since I've only seen videos, and you guys actually have the X10... I'm looking forward to hearing why Mediascape is a poor media player and gallery. It certainly looks more robust and feature filled than any of the current media players I've seen.
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Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music
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it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music
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Or get a file manager from the market and follow my instructions above, any playlists created will be automatically integrated into mediascape.
Its easy once you suss it. !
Hi,
Anyone know how to disable the mediascape from caching thumbnail for music file ? I think this would vastly improve the speed, as mediascape would only have to read the tagging info and not the image/albumart.
I tried to set the folder as read only, but it doesn't work, the phone still write to it
Hi all - I've sussed this out (alternate Music player and playlists)... download an app called "AnyCut" from the market... in here you can add all sorts of different things.. one of which is under the "activity" option.. called "Music" this is the stock android music app (mentioned by baggyb above).. this way you'll have a link to the music app on your home page which you can then use to create your playlists...
All these work arounds to create playlist are fine but the main PIA is when I want to add tracks to Current Play list while listening to music. Can't be done. I hope SE will soon release a upgrade to address some of these basic issues.
Also, when you try to add contact as Shortcut on Home Screen it brings up list of all contacts and there is no search or 'letter' list on side to select the names. You can to scroll all the way down to select names. I guess SE QA and design team tested the phone only with one track of music and one contact in address book.
Now that uncle Sam fixed the media scanner not reading properly iTunes tags and album arts, there are tons cover arts appearing in the photo gallery!
Wonder if this is by design or a sort of bug?
There should be a way to hide those cover arts from the photo gallery....
Make a emty file called .nomedia and place in the folder or use program from Android Market to do it for u.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.studiokuma.nomedia
In what folder should I place the .nomedia file? I wish to use the album arts ONLY in the music player....
I see... maybe you mean in the Music folder? This will prevent the gallery to use those icons? But will it keep the music player to show correctly tha arts?
Yes it will prevent the art from showing in the stock media player. Get a media player where you set the folders, like poweramp, and then you can have the .nomedia file in the music folder to stop gallery from seeing it but the player will still pick it up
Humm...but i'd like the stock media player to show the album arts now that it works! What I'd like to disable is showing the album arts in the photo gallery
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Humm...but i'd like the stock media player to show the album arts now that it works! What I'd like to disable is showing the album arts in the photo gallery
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Well i hate to say it but your stuck. You can't remove them from the gallery without the nomedia file. In turn will hide the album art from stock player
Oh well! I will post a message to Samsung customer support!
It looks like they listen customer requests
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Oh well! I will post a message to Samsung customer support!
It looks like they listen customer requests
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Samsung can't do much it is a limitation in android.
I really hope you were joking about Samsung lol
I have all of my photos named folder.jpg/jpeg (I forget which extension) and they don't show up in the gallery.
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I really hope you were joking about Samsung lol
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Haha! No, really, I'm serious! I mean I've been messing with Nokia customer support for years, and basically it didn't exist, no wonder they're collapsing.
When I've noticed the .m4a missing tags and cover arts I have posted a message to Samsung customer support here in Italy and the day after I got a phone call from them and I was astonished when the guy told me that "Samsung is aware about this problem, because the media scanner is faulty when dealing with ID3 tags in .m4a" !!!!!!!
At the moment they're doing pretty well!
I just don't use default photo gallery. Try QuickPic for example. It can't show Picassa albums, but it allows good control about what folders to display and what not.
Good to know, I'll take a try, btw I was tryng to remove Picasa album showing
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Haha! No, really, I'm serious! I mean I've been messing with Nokia customer support for years, and basically it didn't exist, no wonder they're collapsing.
When I've noticed the .m4a missing tags and cover arts I have posted a message to Samsung customer support here in Italy and the day after I got a phone call from them and I was astonished when the guy told me that "Samsung is aware about this problem, because the media scanner is faulty when dealing with ID3 tags in .m4a" !!!!!!!
At the moment they're doing pretty well!
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I,wish you better luck then most,others have found when we have pointed out huge issues with them, and got we are working on it. That,was almost a year ago and guess what. Still not fixed.
I recommend QuickPic, it's a much faster and better gallery than that comes with Android. Also you can tap on a folder and exclude/hide it from the listing.
Awesome app, still wondering why Google hasn't bought the app and replaced the stock Android one with that one.
Well i hate to say it but your stuck. You can't remove them from the gallery without the nomedia file. In turn will hide the album art from stock player
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Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
urfel said:
Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
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NIce one this, worth it giving it a try... maybe with a subfolder-recursive script that does the job...
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Wells it's not true. You can hide album arts from gallery simply by changing their names to "folder.jpg". Than gallery will ignore them, though player will still use them.
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Learn something new everyday. But there is no way I ma changing the files just for the system to change them back the next time i sync to my pc
Ahhh!!! I have just realized that those arts are related to mp3 with external album art only! The trick would simply be to repack cover art into the mp3 itself.... correct?
OT: now that the cover art is being used at larger resolutions,whne the music player plays the track, it shows some album arts with very poor resolution. I wonder if there's a tool that could list what tracks are using low resolution cover arts so they could be fixed...