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
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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...
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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.
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Does anyone know what I need to do to get album art to display in the Music Player ? I have tried placing image files in the same folder as the music and have tried naming them with the name of the Album and also with the name "Folder" all to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
ohnophone said:
Does anyone know what I need to do to get album art to display in the Music Player ? I have tried placing image files in the same folder as the music and have tried naming them with the name of the Album and also with the name "Folder" all to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Rename the "Folder.jpg" to "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg".
If you use itunes just drag an image into the album art box on the show info dialog box then copy the mp3 files to the phone. You can select all the songs in the album and do them at the same time. Don't use itunes' built in get album art feature, it doesn't work. I drag and dropped them from amazon.
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Rename the "Folder.jpg" to "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg".
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Is "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg" the folder I need to find in order to solve my problem detailed in the link below? If so, where can I find the damn thing to empty it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449734
shinytoaster said:
If you use itunes just drag an image into the album art box on the show info dialog box then copy the mp3 files to the phone. You can select all the songs in the album and do them at the same time. Don't use itunes' built in get album art feature, it doesn't work. I drag and dropped them from amazon.
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Or use something like Media Monkey - Download Here. It's free and works for me.
I had a similar problem with my touch pro - ie i synced my music via windows media and the artwork never appeared. However, after inserting my memory card into the Touch HD, strangely all the artwork appeared! Not sure why it didnt show on the touch pro, but i guess its the same issue with the HD?
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Rename the "Folder.jpg" to "hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg".
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will it work if I place this folder in microsd?
I put directly album art in each mp3/aac file with mp3tag software (i do it in batch for album). I have no pb to see it in htc music player.
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Or use something like Media Monkey - Download Here. It's free and works for me.
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How do you use MM to put the album artwork in place though? I've taken my micro SD card, put it in my PC, added it to MM library and then a few tracks I've selected auto tag from Web. When it asks about album artwork I've selected to store it in the tag. The artwork shows in MM, but when I put it back in the HD it seems to have not worked
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How do you use MM to put the album artwork in place though? I've taken my micro SD card, put it in my PC, added it to MM library and then a few tracks I've selected auto tag from Web. When it asks about album artwork I've selected to store it in the tag. The artwork shows in MM, but when I put it back in the HD it seems to have not worked
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Been at this for hours today but so far this worked for me . . . .
I took the SD card out and put it into my PC via a micro reader - went to the 'My Music' folder on my SD Card. Made sure I was using MM from this point on. . .
Then I Right clicked on a track - chose 'properties' then went to the 'Album Art' tab - to check that the art has indeed gone there. I then went to my SD card - making sure that 'Hidden Folders' were displayed and deleted the 'once hidden' existing art files stored in the same folder as the MP3's. Shoved the SD card back into the HD and it worked ok.
My problem was that I had different art for the back and front artwork which was causing confusion both for me and the HD but I've learned that there is a lot more potential info stored on MP3 tags than I previously realised.
Nope, that doesn't work for me I still get the htc standard image.
When I put the memory card in the PC it could see the album art by the HD apparently can't?
Anyone else got any ideas?
How to get proper Album Art behaviour in TouchFLO 3D on Blackstone
So, just to make it even cleared:
Code:
SD CARD
--My Documents
----My Music
-------Artist
-----------Album
---------------Track 01.mp3/wma
---------------Track 02.mp3/wma
---------------Track 03.mp3/wma
---------------Track 04.mp3/wma
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---------------hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg
hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg needs to be a 256x256 pixel image.
Do the same for other albums, there will be NO problem at all.
A good practise is to back up all your music from SD card to PC, delete everything music on SD card and recreate your music library from scratch, this time respecting what I outlined.
Cheers!
EDIT: Do not use embedded album art (i.e.: embedded pictures in tags) as it will only mess things up. Clean audio files with hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg file in album folder, together with the audio files.
EDIT 2: There are some Manila versions that use Folder.jpg as an album art reference. Other versions use ~htc_Albumname.jpg files. I've found this solution I described above to be the best solution.
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Nope, that doesn't work for me I still get the htc standard image.
When I put the memory card in the PC it could see the album art by the HD apparently can't?
Anyone else got any ideas?
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Sorry mate but will post again if I come up with anything as some of the album art on my HD remains incorrectly associated with the respective MP3 and therefore needs further investigative work.
Perhaps someone more aware of the internal machinations of WM 6.1 & the Touch HD will be able to direct us to where the phone actually stores the info used by TouchFlo in relation to Album Art & MP3s.
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Sorry mate but will post again if I come up with anything as some of the album art on my HD remains incorrectly associated with the respective MP3 and therefore needs further investigative work.
Perhaps someone more aware of the internal machinations of WM 6.1 & the Touch HD will be able to direct us to where the phone actually stores the info used by TouchFlo in relation to Album Art & MP3s.
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You can find that info in Application Data\HTC\Audio Manager.
If you use my method and copy and organise files the way I described it (by simply copying them to device, via USB Storage Mode), there will be NO problems.
I have 50+ albums from 20+ artists and I keep changing the content, it updates on the fly, not a single glitch.
There is for sure a bug in the cover art of touchfow3d. It should use the embedded images in the MP3, but it does not. It will do that for only one file and all other files within that folder get the same cover art.
Of course you can work around this by grouping an artist/album in the same folder, the problem is that in my case I prefer the folder ordering done in time. It's of the 90's, 91's, 92's and so on.
Apparently the software thinks we all group our songs in albums so no need to scan the other files in that folder. Just reuse the same image found on the first MP3. I consider that a bug...
At present I don't store 'albums' on there, just individual tracks that I like, so this is a bit of a pain in the bum.
Setting up a folder for each track would be rather annoying...
AndyCr15 said:
At present I don't store 'albums' on there, just individual tracks that I like, so this is a bit of a pain in the bum.
Setting up a folder for each track would be rather annoying...
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Agreed - whole albums are something I store on my 80GB iPod not my phone.
However, as this is a 'bug' then it means I can stop trying to find a solution & just put up with naff album art being displayed alongside the MP3 being played. For me it's a minor issue on a phone that I am, overall, impressed with so far.
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Agreed - whole albums are something I store on my 80GB iPod not my phone.
However, as this is a 'bug' then it means I can stop trying to find a solution & just put up with naff album art being displayed alongside the MP3 being played. For me it's a minor issue on a phone that I am, overall, impressed with so far.
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Even if you have singular files (rip from CD or whatever) and you update Album information from most players, they will regroup the in Artist\Album\Track order. Try to follow this.
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regroup the in Artist\Album\Track order. Try to follow this.
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OK - I couldn't resist and did exactly as you suggested. I did the following :
- created a folder in 'My Documents' on the SD card called 'My Music'
- for each track I created a folder named with the artists name
- inside the artists name folder I made another folder with the album name
- finally copied the track into the album folder
and all appears to be fine. I used Media Monkey to find and attach the album art to the MP3 and so far the correct album art is being displayed along with the correct track.
Thanks for the tips tnyynt - much appreciated & as all my other tracks (on my itunes/ipod) are already in the artist/album/track format then adding files will be a lot easier from now on - I just wont be able to drag and drop individual tracks into a single folder & expect the HD to organise itself.
What are the chances someone might find a 'fix' to this 'bug'? I really don't fancy all that messing about to be honest. Each time I have a few tracks I want to add, I have to be creating all those folders too
I have a number of tracks that have Album Art embeded. For some strange reason the the music player selects the same graphic for every track.
Have no problem with a complete album with a folder.jpg file, but my problem is that I have a folder with a collection of MP3 files. They all look fine in Media Monkey and MP3Tag.
Update: Just noticed that a hidden file is created (~hTC_Misc-MP3.jpg) and this appears why all the graphics are the same. Is there a way to stop this so the graphic is read from embeded image??
Any ideas ???
Well, usually, different tracks come from different albums. Create your folder structure accordingly.
If your different tracks situation is a compilation, than the compilation is an album itself and needs an album art of its own.
i got that problem when I was using the HD2 ONLY in landscape mode, are you using it in landscape mode?
I need landscape mode while driving, but it just doesnt work properly, so sad... have to use pocketplayer
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Well, usually, different tracks come from different albums. Create your folder structure accordingly.
If your different tracks situation is a compilation, than the compilation is an album itself and needs an album art of its own.
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I have a folder with a collection of about 50 random tracks, so it would be a bit of a pain to put them in different folders, but I get your point. Perhaps the only thing to do id to create my own compilation cover.
Perhaps this is just a pit fall with the standard media player.
Use this:
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
It's excellent. You can remove any unwanted artwork that is embedded and if you want give each track it's own cover.
All my artwork is correct after using this.
Ok, I might call this as an Album art Update problem..
When I do an update album art for all song.. It shows "link to gracenote" But I doubt it actually updates anything.
But when I do an update album art for current song. It does update the album art for the same. Also it shows an Album art download result, in the same place.
Is there a way to get it fixed.
I am on a Stock ROM , SIM Free..Specifically (1.48.720.2 WWE)
Mansoor...
Well any help on this..
Can't help with your problem but I can confirm this facility is quite rubbish. Sometimes no art at all and sometime the wrong art!
gareth824 said:
Use this:
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
It's excellent. You can remove any unwanted artwork that is embedded and if you want give each track it's own cover.
All my artwork is correct after using this.
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I've never bothered with album art - more interested in the music - it is interesting to find out that you can embed art into ID3 tags. I'll give it a go.
Also take a look at mp3tag at http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ which is donationware, I use it for files and it's perfect for me.
rjstep3
Hi, I can get some jpgs to show as album art by placing the image in the same folder as the mp3 but it doesnt always work.
Anyone know why?
Thanks
snear said:
Hi, I can get some jpgs to show as album art by placing the image in the same folder as the mp3 but it doesnt always work.
Anyone know why?
Thanks
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I use media monkey to add album art to mp3's, give it a try.
Nice one , is that in the market?
I use albumartgrabber,so i dont have to place jpeg,s in my mp3 folder.
This works very easy .
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ModdoG said:
I use albumartgrabber,so i dont have to place jpeg,s in my mp3 folder.
This works very easy .
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i use album art grabber as well, does the job well
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Nice one , is that in the market?
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digital monkey is a software for your pc.
That's a work around
I see that adding the artwork into the file as a tag would work but I see that as redundant data.
Why does putting the jpg into the folder work sometimes and not others?
Tom
Image may be too large for it to detect it as album art?
Embedding the art with Media Monkey or mp3tag is the way to go, never have problems with mine...
NZtechfreak said:
Embedding the art with Media Monkey or mp3tag is the way to go, never have problems with mine...
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This method only worked for about 30% of my albums and I never understood why. Eventually I bought btunes from the app store, really nice program with a widget and lockscreen controls. It downloaded all of my missing artwork and I've never looked back
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I see that adding the artwork into the file as a tag would work but I see that as redundant data.
Why does putting the jpg into the folder work sometimes and not others?
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I would like to know this too , even image that worked in another folder doesn't work in different folder?
i dont understand why the default player only seems to find a few album covers whereas 3 music player finds them all. the id3 tags are a filled in correct. :L
I had to clear out and reset my ID tags and embedded album art multiple times to get the Desire music player to recognise them all.
Album art grabber is great.
i sort of got how it works, it's similar to Sense ui on winmo.
1. Get the cover, small res files are better (500x500 cover is good).
2. Rename the file as: ~hTC_album name.jpg (exact album name with spaces)
3. Copy the cover in the album folder and mark the file as hidden (right click on the file > properties > check hidden).
This one worked for me but some albums still won't get the cover from the folder.
I'm trying to figure this out because it seems that with some if I don't have the album art it manages to find it, others have blank album art. Some of them, for example if I have an album within a folder, will use the 'cover.jpg/png' file as the default cover which is desirable.
What I'm trying to do is to get most my music with album covers. Suggestions?
sword- said:
I'm trying to figure this out because it seems that with some if I don't have the album art it manages to find it, others have blank album art. Some of them, for example if I have an album within a folder, will use the 'cover.jpg/png' file as the default cover which is desirable.
What I'm trying to do is to get most my music with album covers. Suggestions?
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seperate everything into seperate folders and add jpg's walla
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seperate everything into seperate folders and add jpg's walla
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That seems like something iTunes would do.
then use doubletwist music player and sync with itunes. . . answered your own question
Eh I prefer drag and drop but I'll check it out.
i think some mp3's themselves will have the album art info embedded into the file.
as for folders and art...
if you include a jpg called "AlbumArt.jpg" within your folder, it will always use that file for album covers (this is what i do).
If it's like iTunes (and other apps, I presume), with accurate ID3 tags, it looks up and downloads the album art from somewhere. Without accurate or enough data, it shows nothing.
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.
jalin725 said:
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
jalin725 said:
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.