Hi ...
I'm having a problem seeing the real pictures that are put on the ID3 tags..
The same picture [of a singer] is shown on all music files and i want to know how to solve this problem.
Does it have something to do with the memory card ?
THANKS .
BoxIL said:
Hi ...
I'm having a problem seeing the real pictures that are put on the ID3 tags..
The same picture [of a singer] is shown on all music files and i want to know how to solve this problem.
Does it have something to do with the memory card ?
THANKS .
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Go to menu in music tab and update album art.
I suggest on WiFi.
When I did so, it updated many of my songs, however for my band (Odd Thomas) it selected an album cover for Earl Thomas and when I went to find the jpg and fix it, it was not in my music folder, so I am not sure where manila stores this data.
I can see some of the jpgs but not all of them.
i didn't understand your answer...how can i update album art ?
only if you have Manila 2.5, I think
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.
Hi all,
I am still on original firmware JF3 but from what I've understood the problem persists even with latest firmware :
FLAC tags are not displayed on the stock audio player.
Some would suggest to switch to an alternative audio player but I like this one quite a lot, espacially the drawer function on the lock screen to control the player without having to unlock the screen.
Has anyone heard of a way to correct this? This is big trouble for me as all my music is on this format. On my former music player Samsung YP-Q1, it had also taken several formwares to display FLAC tags correctly but I expected Smsung to handle that from the start with such a top rated smartphone.
Anyone interested
Back on the subject, no news?
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Back on the subject, no news?
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agree this one of the (minor) critics I have, its annoying.
I have a lot of FLAC files as well and it's 50/50, some work perfectly with the tag, others don't. I'll have to take a look, i think it has to do with the tag version
Did you find a pattern? Is it ID3 tags vs. FLAC tags? If so, which version of ID3 works?
I've tried many different apps and tag types, but never got them working in FLACs on my stock (JF5) Galaxy S. I'm still hoping there is a way to get them working or that some new fw fixes this.
If someone knows how to get tags working for FLACs please share it with us...
Anyone looking into this at all? It's exremely annoying indeed!
I use Tag&Rename for my taggin. I have tried lots of music apps and a number of firmware updates... nothing has worked.
Did you try another software? try mediamonkey for instance. If it does not work maybe you can use mediamonkey for using folders instead of tags. (genre by genre or artist by artist or both? )
This is a workaround but tags allow alternative sorting by gender which is what I miss.
The stock firmware already uses the folders by default as it doesn't recognize the tags, not exactly the same thing you say of course because here it does it only with one folder depth.
I have the T-Mobile USA HD2, latest stock ROM.
I really like the HTC music player that comes with it, due to that cool feature when turning the phone to landscape, the way that one can scroll through album covers.
The only problem--it somehow cannot see a lot of the cover art, and shows a default blank cover for many albums.
The cover art for those albums is there--for instance, if I play the same album in Windows Media Player or TCPMP, one sees the cover art. But the HTC Music Player shows that blank album cover for many albums.
I do the command of "Update Album Art", and it shows it is connecting to Gracenote, but that does not help.
Anyone here found a fix for the problem?
In doing a search on Google, I found a thread where the problem was discussed concerning a different HTC phone, I think an Android model. One poster found a solution to delete the database through Managed Programs, then reboot, which rebuilt the database. (Some others tried that, and it did not work though.) Anyhow, on the HD2, there is nothing in Managed Programs about deleting the database. Anyone know how to do it? Find the database file in File Manager and delete it that way?
Anyhow, if anyone has solved the problem on the HD2, please share your solution.
The included HTC Music Player (latest stock TMOUSA ROM) seems to have serious problems with its database.
Of course there are other options--such as the included Windows Media Player, and freeware solutions as TCPMP, commercial music players, etc.
But I like the HTC Music Player, how it plays from your home screen.
I like what happens when one turns the phone landscape, and sees a shuffle of album covers. Is that a gimmick? Yes, but I like it. Kind of fun to choose an album that way, like shuffling through CDs at home, rather than from a list like in WMP.
Yet, the app seems to have serious problems with its database. Although I have tons of music on it (more than 10 GB, all on the storage card), sometimes it cannot see any music at all.
Sometimes it shows no cover art (which is especially crucial for that album shuffle view), although the cover art is embedded in each song, and if one looks at the .vin file that HTCMP put in the folder, the cover art is there too, put there by the app. But somehow, it often doesn't read it. I do the "download cover art" thing, it shows a connection to Gracenote, but some albums never display their cover art, although it is already right there embedded in each song on the album.
What is going on with this app and its database?
Ia there any fix for it?
Is HTC aware of the problem, and working on a fix?
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While discussing the HTC Music Player, one other thing I am curious about. The phone also includes an HTC Video Player, in the windows folder, but with no link in the start menu to it, so most people will never discover it. (They do call that video player, though, to play the included "Transformers" movies, rather than WMP.) Why did they include their own video player, yet not even have a start menu item for it? Does it have any advantage over WMP for playing video?
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The included HTC Music Player (latest stock TMOUSA ROM) seems to have serious problems with its database.
Of course there are other options--such as the included Windows Media Player, and freeware solutions as TCPMP, commercial music players, etc.
But I like the HTC Music Player, how it plays from your home screen.
I like what happens when one turns the phone landscape, and sees a shuffle of album covers. Is that a gimmick? Yes, but I like it. Kind of fun to choose an album that way, like shuffling through CDs at home, rather than from a list like in WMP.
Yet, the app seems to have serious problems with its database. Although I have tons of music on it (more than 10 GB, all on the storage card), sometimes it cannot see any music at all.
Sometimes it shows no cover art (which is especially crucial for that album shuffle view), although the cover art is embedded in each song, and if one looks at the .vin file that HTCMP put in the folder, the cover art is there too, put there by the app. But somehow, it often doesn't read it. I do the "download cover art" thing, it shows a connection to Gracenote, but some albums never display their cover art, although it is already right there embedded in each song on the album.
What is going on with this app and its database?
Ia there any fix for it?
Is HTC aware of the problem, and working on a fix?
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While discussing the HTC Music Player, one other thing I am curious about. The phone also includes an HTC Video Player, in the windows folder, but with no link in the start menu to it, so most people will never discover it. (They do call that video player, though, to play the included "Transformers" movies, rather than WMP.) Why did they include their own video player, yet not even have a start menu item for it? Does it have any advantage over WMP for playing video?
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As far as the data base goes it has a problem reading large amounts of music. Still on the stock SD card? Is HTC aware of this.....Most likely as it has been a prob from the start, is there a fix....not that I have found. The video player works from the albums tab as it pics up the movies and displays them in that tab.
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As far as the data base goes it has a problem reading large amounts of music. Still on the stock SD card? Is HTC aware of this.....Most likely as it has been a prob from the start, is there a fix....not that I have found. The video player works from the albums tab as it pics up the movies and displays them in that tab.
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Yes, I use the stock 16GB SD card. Why? Is there a problem with that?
It is unfortunate, since that album art landscape thing is so cool, yet the HTC Music Player does not see the cover art of many albums, although it itself has created the .vin file in each folder, which is a renamed .jpg of the correct art.
And sometimes it cannot find any music!
I sure wish there would be a fix.
No registry fix or anything, that will help it?
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Yes, I use the stock 16GB SD card. Why? Is there a problem with that?
It is unfortunate, since that album art landscape thing is so cool, yet the HTC Music Player does not see the cover art of many albums, although it itself has created the .vin file in each folder, which is a renamed .jpg of the correct art.
And sometimes it cannot find any music!
I sure wish there would be a fix.
No registry fix or anything, that will help it?
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No there really isnt a prob with the stock SD card except it is a class 2 card so it reads and writes slowly, alot of my issues were fixed when I got a 16gb class 6 off ebay. Make sure all your music is in this format, Artist\album. the album art is handled my the id3 tags so make sure those are all set right. there should be 5 .jpg files in each album folder. I have uploaded a folder with the album jpeg files for you to compare yours to so hope it helps
Thanks. I am downloading your 7z file, and will take a look at it. I have only seen one .jpg in each album folder, which the HTC audio database renames to .vin extension.
Most of the time, that ,jpg is the correct album art for that album. Funny thing is, even so, with many albums the cover art does not display.
I have found a solution (in another thread here) to the problem of when one opens the HTC Music Player, go landscape to see all the albums, and it says something like "no music found", then starts a long search for your music.
It seems like the app forgets its databse every time you reboot the phone. Then when you start the music app, and click anything needing access to the library, it then starts searching for your music to put in the db.
If you add a link to the audio manager file (something like audiomanager_en.exe (in the Windows folder) to your \Windows\Startup folder, that will make it recreate the database on startup, so it will be ready when you want to play some music.
Seems an unnecessary waste of memory and boot time though, to have to do that. You don't need to do that with WMP. It remembers its database, and is there and ready when you use it. If you have added music, you can click rebuild library, and it will then rebuild it. But it does not need to rebuild after every reboot.
Makes me think of stopping the use of the HTC music player altogether, and just use WMP or alternatives like TCPMP and Mort. (Although the latter two don't use library at all, don't know why, just files and play lists.)
But there are nice things about the HTC Music Player--its integration into Sense, and that cool landscape cover art thing. I just wish they would fix the bugs, and get it working properly! (Anyone know if HTC will issue an update for the music player?)
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No there really isnt a prob with the stock SD card except it is a class 2 card so it reads and writes slowly, alot of my issues were fixed when I got a 16gb class 6 off ebay. Make sure all your music is in this format, Artist\album. the album art is handled my the id3 tags so make sure those are all set right. there should be 5 .jpg files in each album folder. I have uploaded a folder with the album jpeg files for you to compare yours to so hope it helps
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Just looked at your .7z file. As you say, there are five album art .jpgs inside that folder.
It makes me wonder--what phone are you using? I think your HTC Music Player is different than mine.
The Music Player on my phone only creates one .jpg cover art file inside each of all my music folders, including those that work in showing cover art, and those that don't. (I guess it looks at the art embedded in the music file tags, and extracts the cover art in a separate file. It is a .jpg file, but renamed with the extension .vin.
Five cover art files, as exists in your folder, is non-existent on the TMOUSA HD2.
Funny thing too---In albums that do not show the cover art in the music player app, the .vin file the app created inside the album's folder--is still usually the correct album cover art. So the app can read the cover art embedded in the music files, creates its one folder ,jpg renamed .vin for the art, but still does not display it in the app.
Hey HTC, fix this app!
I wonder if it might have something to do with the resolution of the cover art?
While it might be able to read all cover art, and make the corresponding .vin (.jpg) file of it in the folder, the app only displays cover art that is in a certain pixel resolution, or a certain range of resolutions?
Could that be why some cover art displays, and others do not?
Anyone know?
I was using the HD 2. I copied the folders from my music file on my pc to my phone. so that may be the reason for the extra image files. but as it always showed the album art I left them there
HTC audio manager shuffle problem
Hi Guys,
This old issue is still unsolved on the last update 3.14, and it is really driving me crazy.
Have you been able to solve it?
Have anyone tried the latest OBOE 1.18 files?
Brgds