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Htc Album with folder selector/folder ignore?

Hi everyone,
My name is Carlos and i'm from Barcelona, and this is my first post here.
I have a HTC Diamond, and i would like to know if there is a way to ignore folders into the HTC Album, because i'm very tired of browsing on dumb folders when i want to see my real photos.
I've read in other threads about putting folders the "Ignore" entry in the registry, but it seems it doesn't works... or maybe i do not know how to do it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=404948
Is there a way to get rid of these folders that i do not want to see? Is there a new version of the HTC album with some kind of folder selector? Or any other third part software to do this?
I'm really desperate on this, because i love the HTC Album, but is really annoying to browse so long to find my photos amongst that crap...
Many thanks!

you can always select the folder you want to browse by clicking "album" (left softkey in htc album) and then select the good folder

Set the "hidden" file attribute on all jpegs in folders you want to ignore.

does the photo viewer pick every single jpeg on the phone by default or does it only show pictures from certain folders - i.e my pictures folder (wether internal storage or located elsewhere).
I got a load of photographs I dont want anyone to see (wink wink nudge nudge) just by picking up my phone and selecting photos.
Ive got to many to mark each one as hidden.

I remember I managed it to work before last hard reset, but now I forget how I did that... I'll look into it and let you guys know if if find anything out

That's just the problem, the album picks EVERY single jpg in the phone, and there's no option to avoid it.
Now I have about 200 folders when i click on Album list, so the album is not useful anymore, i do no not want to waste 3 minutes to browse down in the album list to find that pictures that i'm loking for...
The "hidden" option it doesn't works... too much folders to hide anyway...

The hidden option works absolutely fine on my Diamond. It's the files that have to be hidden not the folders.
if the photos are in internal storage, connect the Diamond to a pc as a USB drive and do a search for all jpeg files from the pc . Select all the search results (or just the ones that need hiding) and right-click to adjust all the properties at the same time.

Davey101 said:
The hidden option works absolutely fine on my Diamond. It's the files that have to be hidden not the folders.
if the photos are in internal storage, connect the Diamond to a pc as a USB drive and do a search for all jpeg files from the pc . Select all the search results (or just the ones that need hiding) and right-click to adjust all the properties at the same time.
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WOOOOOW !!
Davey101, that was a pretty brilliant idea!!
I thought I should hide folders, not individual files. I follow your instructions to hide all the undesired jpg files. I've seen other folders in the Album with bmp, png ad gif files, and they were also hidden.
Maybe is not the best way to definitely solve this matter, but it seems there is no other one for the moment, and the result is that now i've just have what i want in the Album list. Cool
Many thanks for your help!

Folder Seleting
Also,Dont know if you already know but every photo album folder listed from the album button has the setting to select it has your favourite.Your favourite album will then be accessed from the "photos and videos link from tf3d.Saves searching through lots of folders!

Sync Album Art to the SD Card

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Sync Album Art to the SD Card
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I have found that you'll always want your album art tagged to your music, especially if you use S2P, here are two ways to sync, EASY and FAST.
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The EASY way
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Using this method, you simply sync your music directly from your computer to your device. The transfer rate is awfully slow, but if you use WMP on your computer, it will sync additional info like your updated ratings and play count. Don't completely worry about the speed, as it's only slow the first time you sync, after all the music is on the card, you are good to go, unless you have new tracks. I use this way myself and have found it to be the best, since it updates the track info and autoplaylists as my other data syncs.
Code:
1. Be sure your SD card is in your device first!
2. Open WMP on your desktop and select the "Sync" tab.
3. Two "devices" should have appeared in the left-hand pane, your device and SD card.
If you use WMP on your device, completely ignore the reference to your device for
syncing, otherwise everytime you open your library on your device, you'll have to
set the library to the SD. Not a huge deal, but gets to be annoying after a while.
4. Right-click on your SD card in the left-hand pane, and select "Advanced Options...."
5. When the popup appears, choose the "Quality" tab.
6. Make sure the first option to convert the files according to the device is UNCHECKED!
7. Choose "Apply", then "OK", now your good to go!
The reason for this is, WMP recognizes the SD card as a device without a screen, so to save room, it removes the album art, so simply by not converting any of the media, it will keep all tagged data.
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The FAST way
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By syncing this way, you fool your computer into thinking your SD card is a device with a screen. You'll sync the music directly to your SD card through your computer with a card reader, which makes it MUCH faster than the first option. The only downside, you'll have to remove your SD card everytime you need to re-sync. A little more work required, but only once! I forget where I found this, but thanks!
Code:
1. Sync your device with WMP on your desktop, but only sync ONE song.
To do this simply open the "Sync" tab, choose your device on the left-hand pane,
and drop any ONE random song in the right-hand pane. I must emphasize only ONE,
since it's all you need, and memory is low.
2. After your done with the one song, disconnect your device from your computer.
3. Make sure your SD card is in your device.
4. Locate, with a file explorer, the root of your device "\", just hit "Up", until you
have reached the top!
5. Find the file, probably at the end, named "WMPInfo.xml"
6. MOVE, not copy, that file to the root of your SD card "\Storage Card",
if asked to overwrite, select yes.
7. After you have moved the file, remove the SD card from your device, and insert it
into your computer.
8. As before, choose the "Sync" tab, you'll find you SD card in the left-hand pane,
now choose to sync the music you wish.
9. While syncing, or at any time, you may delete the one song you previously synced.
You must transfer the .xml file because it contains the info that notifies WMP that the "device" [SD card] has a "screen", so it will include the album art during the sync.
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Thank you for the tip. I always had issues with WMP and syncing to my card when it came to album art. But also if you are lucky enough to get your hands on mediamonkey, it will grab high quality album art, organize, and sync it all to the card or the phone without issue. (and its a nice media player.)
Now if only I could figure out how to do it on linux easily.

how do you get album art for every song easily?
i mean this would be so much better for me if my songs had album art...

kidnamedAlbert said:
how do you get album art for every song easily?
i mean this would be so much better for me if my songs had album art...
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Update album info in the library in WMP. If that fails, download from Amazon and put it in the same folder as the album and name the art as folder.jpg

1999TL said:
Update album info in the library in WMP. If that fails, download from Amazon and put it in the same folder as the album and name the art as folder.jpg
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i didnt know wmp did that!
thanks!

I did have bad reading comprehension though. You said for each song individually. I would like to know how to do it. I just do it for albums. But I'd like a program to add it to each file individually if I have singles. The problem with this is, HTC audio manager and WMP dont play nice with embedded art using the advanced tag editor.

1999TL said:
I did have bad reading comprehension though. You said for each song individually. I would like to know how to do it. I just do it for albums. But I'd like a program to add it to each file individually if I have singles. The problem with this is, HTC audio manager and WMP dont play nice with embedded art using the advanced tag editor.
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oh yeah i just realized that. i used to use Media Monkey but its not free and i messed up alot of my songs not knowing how to use it.

Try a program called Mp3tag
//Drakfisken

How to correctly upload songs to HTC HD2

Hi all
Uploading songs to HTC was a messy affair initially.Following are the lessons i learned the hard way.Hope these may come handy for a new user of this amazing phone:
Mistake 1:First i created a folder in Storage Card-->Music-->English and uploaded around 500 songs into it.The result was that the music player took ages to load and was extremely sluggish.
Lesson learned:Never upload more than few(20-25) songs in a single folder.
Mistake 2:Next i used Windows Media Player to sync the music with HD2.The syncing was super fast with songs automatically organized into artist folders.Neat.But wait,when i opened my music player,the albums were blank.The songs where there all in the storage card but some how the music player was unable to read them.
After many unsuccessful tips gathered from net,i finally solved this by copying all files from HD2 back to my PC and pasting them back to Storage Card-->Music-->English (of course after deleting all files from there first)
Lesson learned:Never sync with Windows Media Player(this also leads to few other problems)
Mistake 3:Use ID3v2.4 UTF-8 in Mp3tag.When i did this,HD2 was unable to show the album/file cover art.
Lesson learned:Use ID3v2.4 UTF-16 to tag the files if you want the album art displayed.
Why not use Automatic album art update?:The Automatic album art update in HD2 works like a charm but it always go for the lowest quality image.
Finally:
This is how i upload music files to get the album art display correctly:
Tag files with Mp3tag using ID3v2.3 UTF-16 (Tools-->Tags-->Mpeg.Check ID3v2.3 UTF-16 in "Write".Leave other options unchanged).
Active Sync HD2.
Explore-->My Windows mobile based device-->Storage Card-->Music.
Create a artist named folder in Storage Card-->Music-->English (or any other name of your choice).
Just copy and paste the song/songs of your choice into this.
It works just fine for me
Hope u too will find this useful !!!

very useful post thanks for sharing
should be made a sticky because it is actually a very common problem
thanks again

right no offence here but surley my method is easier, if your tracks are tagged properly which most peoples are create folder on storage card called music, i have mine like this
storage card >band name>album
pop them on the card.
album art rename the picture in the album to folder.jpg
works simple

I must be lucky. Never had a problem using Windows media Player to sync music to my HD2. Works flawlessly syncing to my MicroSD card. No extra steps required. Album art transfers fine for me too but I have noticed that the Update Album Art feature does sometimes provide better quality features.

trev666 said:
right no offence here but surley my method is easier, if your tracks are tagged properly which most peoples are create folder on storage card called music, i have mine like this
storage card >band name>album
pop them on the card.
album art rename the picture in the album to folder.jpg
works simple
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Isnt this exactly the same as what i said (minus the last step of renaming the picture)

over 60gig's worth of music is album art tagged (mp3 tag) and levelled out (mp3 gain) on my pc and using sync is sweet for me. after uploading an album to my phone i always refresh the sync button though as i once bricked my phone after putting 20 albums on all at once...

donwhann said:
over 60gig's worth of music is album art tagged (mp3 tag) and levelled out (mp3 gain) on my pc and using sync is sweet for me. after uploading an album to my phone i always refresh the sync button though as i once bricked my phone after putting 20 albums on all at once...
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How much memory r u usin?
Also,an album may contain few singles with a diff cover art.But once we upload,the album art over writes it.U kno anyway 2 avoid this without putting singles into individual folders?

I have to completely dissent
The only sane way is trashing the builtin eye-candy media player and disable its tab, install mortplayer and copy your music over, wherever and however you prefer, then simply add it and press play
It's not like you're watching the animation of albums and songs passing by when you listen to your MP3s, you're most likely keeping it in your pocket with the display off.
If that's only for the sake of impressing friends, you may just keep the music tab and use it with 10 songs to show off the graphics

well,using a 3rd party software is the easiest way out....but i want to use the default player with full features on.
Also I want to see the album art while selecting a song and it completes the experience....nothin 2 do with impressing friends.
In btwn,Mortplayer indeed is a good player..... I liked GSplayer too...

nessqn said:
Hi all
[*]Tag files with Mp3tag using ID3v2.4 UTF-16 (Tools-->Tags-->Mpeg.Check ID3v2.4 UTF-16 in "Write".Leave other options unchanged).
[*]Active Sync HD2.
[*]Explore-->My Windows mobile based device-->Storage Card-->Music.
[*]Create a artist named folder in Storage Card-->Music-->English (or any other name of your choice).
[*]Just copy and paste the song/songs of your choice into this.
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It works just fine for me
Hope u too will find this useful !!!
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So if I'm reading your instructions right, I have to create a folder of each artist then transfer the music over? Even if I do that which takes a lot of time, when you transfer the music over using activesync it tries to reformat the songs and that could take forever. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, I'm brand new to WinMo.

I think to make the transfer of the files faster, use a card reader, load all the songs on the memory card, pop it back in, and off you go.

nessqn said:
well,using a 3rd party software is the easiest way out....but i want to use the default player with full features on.
Also I want to see the album art while selecting a song and it completes the experience....nothin 2 do with impressing friends.
In btwn,Mortplayer indeed is a good player..... I liked GSplayer too...
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ok then, I stand corrected you alone can decide what you want your phone to be doing Me, I tried using manila player, but gave up after couple minutes, realizing that it just picked up the mp3s at its own leisure without me being able to control it in any way. Another manila tab off the hook

so i simply cannot put all my music into storage card>Music? i have to make new folders within music folder of each band name and album?? i guess my question is.. whats changed?? from touchflo 3d to sense??
because i uploaded my music just like that... on ym fuze.. and everything worked perfectly... and it was all under the music folder. no individual band names necessary... so did they change up something or what??

~~Tito~~ said:
I think to make the transfer of the files faster, use a card reader, load all the songs on the memory card, pop it back in, and off you go.
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How is removing the SD card, load the songs then pop it back in different from connecting the phone to the computer and selecting the Disk Drive option instead of ActiveSync? Also, do you have to remove the back cover of the phone, not the batter cover, to remove the SD card? I had a hard time trying to pull that sucker out. Thanks.

wiggindude said:
So if I'm reading your instructions right, I have to create a folder of each artist then transfer the music over? Even if I do that which takes a lot of time, when you transfer the music over using activesync it tries to reformat the songs and that could take forever. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, I'm brand new to WinMo.
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ActiveSync-->Tools-->Options:see whether box for Media is unchecked.

wiggindude said:
How is removing the SD card, load the songs then pop it back in different from connecting the phone to the computer and selecting the Disk Drive option instead of ActiveSync?
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I think its the same...

nessqn said:
ActiveSync-->Tools-->Options:see whether box for Media is unchecked.
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I checked the the Media box is checked. It got stuck at 89% transferring so disconnect the phone, connect using Disk Drive, delete everything under the Music folder and I am going to retry again. I have also put a movie under the Video folder but I couldn't locate it anywhere. I tried Pictures & Video, I tried looking at the document folder, nada...sigh.

wiggindude said:
I checked the the Media box is checked. It got stuck at 89% transferring so disconnect the phone, connect using Disk Drive, delete everything under the Music folder and I am going to retry again. I have also put a movie under the Video folder but I couldn't locate it anywhere. I tried Pictures & Video, I tried looking at the document folder, nada...sigh.
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keep the media box unchecked.otherwise the folder will be formatted each time u active sync with pc.
if u find it hard to create artist named folders on your own,sync using media player;it will do the job for you.But then sense music player may not detect the songs.If that's the case,try opening a single song with file explorer or phone media player.then soft reset.the songs may appear.for me it dint work as i mentioned in the first post.so i copied all folders in "music" to pc and deleted the folders in "music" and re pasted the folders to "music" from pc.

nessqn said:
keep the media box unchecked.otherwise the folder will be formatted each time u active sync with pc.
if u find it hard to create artist named folders on your own,sync using media player;it will do the job for you.But then sense music player may not detect the songs.If that's the case,try opening a single song with file explorer or phone media player.then soft reset.the songs may appear.for me it dint work as i mentioned in the first post.so i copied all folders in "music" to pc and deleted the folders in "music" and re pasted the folders to "music" from pc.
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Thanks. I will give this a try and report back.

OK. I followed nessqn's instruction and all the songs are there along with the album arts. But it freezes everytime I go to Music. I have to take out the battery or do a soft reset. Is it because it's trying to compile the library therefor it's slow?

Get media player to only find real MP3 music? Not system sounds?

Hello!
How in the world can you designate the media player to only find and list ACTUAL songs? I can't seem to point it to only my music folder... it wants to update the library with ALL audio on the phone and memory card... I keep getting system and GPS navigation sounds "turn left", "in a quarter mile" randomly playing in between songs... so annoying..
Any help is appreciated!

Make a dedicated playlist

KingSkeme said:
Make a dedicated playlist
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sad 2 say its a defect n the well thot out planz.... i use wmp n find my folder n press play... voila

We got this one licked
There's a way around this, and it's fairly simple...
First, it's happening because the "program files" folder on the SD card was never marked as "hidden" from the factory, like the one on the phone is...so any sound files that get placed there from program installs are getting indexed by the music tab.
Just use Total Commander (if you don't have it already, it's darn well time you got it), and navigate to the SD card contents, tap+press the program files folder, then select "properties" from the menu. You'll see the check box for "hidden", check that, then click ok, and soft-reset. When sense comes back up, go to your music tab, wait for it to re-index, and you should no longer see all those unwanted audio files

[Q] getting photos from HD2 WP7.5

Hi . What's the easiest way to get my photos from the phone to my PC. I'm not having much luck with Zune .
I can view the pics in Zune collection and on the phone but cant find a simple way to transfer them to my PC
Am i missing something here ??
Thanks in advance

try these hacks
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2...a-windows-phone-7-device-in-windows-explorer/
http://windowsphonehacker.com/artic...orage_access_on_your_windows_phone_7-11-18-10
http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/
hth

thanks for the reply . The hacks don't work with the latest versions of Zune i'm afraid.
Anybody else ??

it's easier with Zune...
start Zune and sync device
on top you have for choose: Quick play, Collection, Marketplace, Social, Device
if you want copy media from device to PC, select Device
in second row select Pictures
now simply select what you want, right click and Copy to my collection
pictures is saved to your default Pictures folder on PC (for example C:\Users\XXXXX\My Documents\My Pictures)

dxdy said:
it's easier with Zune...
start Zune and sync device
on top you have for choose: Quick play, Collection, Marketplace, Social, Device
if you want copy media from device to PC, select Device
in second row select Pictures
now simply select what you want, right click and Copy to my collection
pictures is saved to your default Pictures folder on PC (for example C:\Users\XXXXX\My Documents\My Pictures)
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Thanks DXDY
Got it all sorted now
Cheers