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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?
Cheers
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Anyone with the same issue?
Hey there, dont know how many of you care about playing MP3s on you Vibrant, but I love it. The downer for me right now is have a beautiful Super Amoled screen and then blurry album cover art when your playing your mp3s. Ive always manually imported my cover art with itunes. the cover art I use is typically 800x800, but of course the area on our phones that shows the cover art is much smaller. So all the more reason the picture should look just as sharp as it does on my monitor when Im playing music with windows media player or on my ipod. Anyone else notice there album art cover blurry looking.
I was literally just trying to figure this out as well. I thought that was just me. Not really sure how to fix it unfortunately.
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Tempott said:
Hey there, dont know how many of you care about playing MP3s on you Vibrant, but I love it. The downer for me right now is have a beautiful Super Amoled screen and then blurry album cover art when your playing your mp3s. Ive always manually imported my cover art with itunes. the cover art I use is typically 800x800, but of course the area on our phones that shows the cover art is much smaller. So all the more reason the picture should look just as sharp as it does on my monitor when Im playing music with windows media player or on my ipod. Anyone else notice there album art cover blurry looking.
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Most likely iTunes down-rez'ed the pictures for iPod use. For our Vibrants a 480x480 would be the minimum resolution on the covers to not have to do any blow-up that causes pics to get blurry. What I've been doing is using Mp3Tag and just load the cover art into each song. Most of mine were downloaded off Amazon's CD pages or Google image search of the album name. They're mostly 300x300, 400x400, or 500x500. 300x300 does still look blurry but better than what MixZing downloads on its own.
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Most likely iTunes down-rez'ed the pictures for iPod use. For our Vibrants a 480x480 would be the minimum resolution on the covers to not have to do any blow-up that causes pics to get blurry. What I've been doing is using Mp3Tag and just load the cover art into each song. Most of mine were downloaded off Amazon's CD pages or Google image search of the album name. They're mostly 300x300, 400x400, or 500x500. 300x300 does still look blurry but better than what MixZing downloads on its own.
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At first I thought itunes may be compressing the Album Artwork as well, sorta how Kies was compressing imported pics. But then I realized it cant be itunes because the same mp3s display artwork full size and clear on windows media player. So Im actually thinking it may be the android operating system or the mp3 player on the phone. Gotta get fix because its really anoying me. This display doesnt deserve such low resolution pics.
It's the music player. If you use 3 or double twist the artwork is not blurry.
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I just double checked, it is indeed the default music player. Same mp3 file looks better on MixZing than on the default player.
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I just double checked, it is indeed the default music player. Same mp3 file looks better on MixZing than on the default player.
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Yes I just tried MixZing and the album art show crystal clear. I was trying ^3 and it has a really cool interface, the album art at first looked sharp but then it started using lower resolution art, even when I chose for it to use the embedded art. Couldnt get it resolved. I think I will stick with MixZing for now. If I dont run into any issues down the road, I will buy the full version. I cant think of why the stock player would use such low resolution album art on such a beautiful display. Hopefully they fix that in an update down the line.
It looks great on my songs. But I can't recall how I got the images on the albums. I think I may have used some software to download the images. Or I may have copied them over from iTunes. In any case, I don'tthink there is inherently anything wrong with the software.
This is a screenshot of one of my albums. It looks a little fuzzy on the desktop since it's just 480x800. But it looks fine on the phone.
http://picasaweb.google.com/milindr/Android#5513509779849766770
Mine too seems fine/clear. The artwork I used ranges from 200x200 to 1000x1000, and I used MediaMonkey to add it. It works pretty well for finding most album art but if I didn't like the quality I would just do a Google image search for a better copy.
Are you using embedded album art or just .jpg files in the folders?
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Mine too seems fine/clear. The artwork I used ranges from 200x200 to 1000x1000, and I used MediaMonkey to add it. It works pretty well for finding most album art but if I didn't like the quality I would just do a Google image search for a better copy.
Are you using embedded album art or just .jpg files in the folders?
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I'm also using media monkey and the album art is blurry. I do have embedded jpegs, but also copied them to the folder, because embedded were not showing.
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Why do some albums not show in mediascape (and can therfore not be played) despite showing on the SD card and through the computer link up?
Help
Are they in an obscure folder? or are they a non-supported file format????
Neither.
A two disc set and disc two shows but disc 1 does not. No apparent differences between them either. Spooky
Well, for my experience, I managed to assign 90% of my 1700+ songs with a program called Media Monkey.
The album arts are embedded, not linked.
I even took the trouble to clear cache and restart the phone everytime I transfer. But then seems like only around 40% or so arts could be displayed.
I don't think the picture proportion is a problem, cos some of my album arts are Japanese singles (in the 90s and early 2000, Japanese liked to have singles in mini CD form, and their covers were tall designs).
I've exhausted ideas too. Hope someone can enlighten us.
And oh yeah, I tested the songs from the phone by playing through Wondows Media Player. The album arts are definitely there.
I found that Mediascape did some weird things on my phone as well. Some albums show the correct album art, some don't....some albums are duplicates. I have gone in and checked the SD card to make sure everything is tagged properly and all....but still no fix. I downloaded Museek from the market place and only use that to listen to music.
Timescape and Mediascape are useless in my opinion
Yep, just checked with a file manager and the files are there and they will play using the manager but do not register in Mediascape. All tags appear ok.
Weird.
Hi am not sure if any of use have exprienceed this but when i put my music on to my x10 and photos to when i go to mediascape and the pictures and music it tells me the file wont play ive tried the music on diffrent phone and it works just wont on this one music is in mp3 format and pictures jpg. is there anything im doing wrong or putting files in wrong folder on x10
does the mediascape detect the photos and videos?
hi yeah it detects them being there on some things mostly music but when i click to play it says somthing like failed to play then it gives me the option to delete it or cancel
can you post the exact error message?
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.
zelendel said:
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...
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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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...