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Album Art In Media Panel

Hi
How do I get album art to appear in the media panel when I browse through my albums?? All my tunes are on a microSD, and each album has a jpg album cover within its folder. WMP can see the album covers, but the SE media panel just shows the default turntable icon.
Any idea's?
Nigel

I would like to know this as well.

I real elsewhere that this is a no - which makes the media panel all but useless for me - I am too used to nav via pics!
Try Kinoma Player (or free player) which does do album-art.
Nigel

veletron said:
Hi
How do I get album art to appear in the media panel when I browse through my albums?
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No idea, one of my albums has art appearing, the other 20 don't.

artesea said:
No idea, one of my albums has art appearing, the other 20 don't.
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I've got album art appearing on my media panel for just about all my albums, i think the trick is to embed the album art into the MP3s themselves, rather than using an external jpeg image, which is something i did a long time ago for my PSP... looking through my collection the only ones without album art are the albums i have got since i last updated my PSP, so i think that's a fairly safe bet.

sheesh... then I've got to embed my MP3s with the album art one by one? Hmmm... if so guess that's one area where my Touch Pro's media player's better. All I need is the album art named as 'folder.jpg'. Thought it'd work for this as well.

Album art
if its a win mobile phone jus sync with window media center easy as can be can even copy album art else were and paste rite into your media center NYC BayBee

Realized that when playing in Windows Media Player, I can see the album art. Not only that, I can see the chinese font (whereas using the media player panel, all I see are question marks).

When I synced my music collection with WMP, I got to see all the artwork in the media panel, but the playlists themselves are not synced by WMP, which is not handy as I mostly listen to those playlists themselves. Based on some tips, I went to iTunes and synced with Salling Media Sync, which does sync all MP3's and playlists, but now the artwork is no longer shown in the media panel, even though all MP3's files still have the artwork embedded in them. This is strange and annoying: either no artwork or no playlists.

You need to tag your mp3 files correctly use the below program to alter the mp3 tags and embed the album art
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
If you've got a lot it may take some effort but it's worthwhile.

THJahar said:
You need to tag your mp3 files correctly use the below program to alter the mp3 tags and embed the album art
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
If you've got a lot it may take some effort but it's worthwhile.
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I have done that. I used that same program to embed all the covers in the MP3 files. Have been working on that for days, but still it doesn't show up in the media panel.

Put Music Album art on Incredible?

Ive been trying to get the music album art on my incredible, but Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? I want to so i can use the Album art live wallpaper. I know their are some apps in the market that do this, but they are listed as not working with the incredible. Other apps just display the album art and not download it to the proper directory like I want it to. I use double twist to sync my iTunes library but, won sync the album art. What are some simple ways to get the Music album art on the Incredible?

Download "Album Art Grabber". It automatically grabs album art for every song on your SD card. You can also manually switch each to other possibilities if the one it gives is incorrect. I've been using it for a while and love it
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mylittlebigapps.android.albumartgrabber

I would but it says the incredible isn' t supported. Any other suggestions?
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I just downloaded it for my incredible and it is indeed, inedible! It may say it doesn't support it but it does
Edit: ok it def works good but it is a lil slow. Maybe that's because i have 3500 songs lol.
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Maybe its not the easiest, but I would embedding album art in your mp3s with a program like mp3tag. I was having problems until I did this. Album art should work across any device or program that supports album art going forward after you take the time to do this.
Just my .02$

Mediamonkey. or for simplicity use cubed player

Album Artwork Looks Blurry

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.

jkcheng122 said:
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.

jkcheng122 said:
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?

jayzusfk said:
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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Album Cover Art

Can someone please tell me the best way to save album art? Everytime I update or change roms I lose the cover art. Now I am currently using "Cover Art Downloader" which will automatically find the covers in batch mode when you want, but I was wondering if there is a way to save it with the music on the ext. sd card. Does anyone know how to do this?

I am using the same app. I don't think there's a way to save them. Every time I flash a new rom I have to redownload them too. Its a pain!
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If you sort music by album, there's a way to do:
You can grab the album cover pic from amazon, scan it yourself, or search, and put it to corresponding folder with audio files.
I did the same thing and I have album cover on every album folder.

I use mediamonkey to organize my mp3s and it has the ability to embed the cover art into the mp3 itself so it always stays with the music. Media monkey also has the ability to sync playlists using the media player usb mode on the phone.

where do you get media monkey? i don't see it in the market.

roly17 said:
where do you get media monkey? i don't see it in the market.
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Yea, you wouldn't - it is a PC application.
It also has the ability to reencode all your music on the fly while transferring. I keep all my music in archive quality MP3 and Flac files, but I don't want it to take up that much space on my phone, so I have it automatically transcode everything to 64Kbps WMA on transfer, which sounds ok in my cheap earbuds anyhow. The downside is that I lose my embedded album art, so keep in mind that the embedded album art and the transcoding to save space are mutually exclusive if you use Media Monkey. Both features are great, you just have to pick which one is more important to you.

mingkee said:
If you sort music by album, there's a way to do:
You can grab the album cover pic from amazon, scan it yourself, or search, and put it to corresponding folder with audio files.
I did the same thing and I have album cover on every album folder.
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Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.

what does music player look for?
Where does the music player look for album art, and where? An image file with the same album name? It is ok with embedded art too?

If you use poweramp it will just re dl the set for you or you can manually do it through album art app. I know this didn't answer you exactly but it's a solution
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.

shrapnelx said:
Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.
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I had this same issue and my way around that was to delete all of my old cover art and then use "Album Art Grabber" from the Market, which collects everything automatically and puts it into 1 folder.
In the end, I have 1 folder in "My Gallery" with all of my album artwork and everything is nicely organized in one place. I also think you can choose the folder you want to save your artwork to....At the very least, you could always copy the artwork folder and place it wherever you want (SD Card or Internal HD).
Hope that helps!
- Mat

shrapnelx said:
Just be aware that if you do this, all the album cover pictures will now show up in the gallery which kind of sucks if you have a lot of albums.
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.nomedia - As in create a file named .nomedia in the folder and nothing from that folder will show up in the gallery.

T313C0mun1s7 said:
.nomedia - As in create a file named .nomedia in the folder and nothing from that folder will show up in the gallery.
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Won't that also keep your MP3s in the folder from showing up in the music player?
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If you guys dont mind spending a little money Poweramp does all this automatically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1UO6DakowM
I listen to mostly hiphop and r&b and the audio is great. I plug it up to my car auido jack and sounds amazing through my ported subs. Also really good thru headsets.
I personally started using this program when stock android and touchwiz music player was playing the audio from installed games, ringtones, some videos, movies, and podcast.
This program only plays music form the folders you select. THis works great with the vibrant having 2 seperate memory cards. Because I have music in the internal/external.
Edit: I also wanted to add that cover art got on my nerves when I have atleast 100 albums on my sd cards. Its not always simple as adding a picture to the album folder. You usually have to rename them to Cover.jpg/Cover.jpeg/Albumart.jpg etc. I have majority of my music on my external 16gb and it had compatibility problems when having certain albums in the same folder. Poweramp takes care of all of that. I dont pay for a ton of apps but this one I would recommend.

if you get the "donate" version of cover art downloader, there is an option in the settings to "embed cover art into id3 tag (mp3 only).

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I don't believe so because it is a flag used by the gallery app, not the music player app. Any application can behave however it is programmed of course, but most picture apps honor the file and most multimedia apps don't.

The best way is also the biggest pain-in-the-butt way.
Use a computer program on a desktop computer to embed the album art into the mp3 itself. Then transfer the mp3 files back to your vibrant.
I use MP3 Tagger, which also lets me correct MP3 ID data.
It is a work in progress for me. I have done all of my mp3 files beginning with 'A' and 'B'.
At my current pace I should be done in about 5 years.

T313C0mun1s7 said:
I don't believe so because it is a flag used by the gallery app, not the music player app. Any application can behave however it is programmed of course, but most picture apps honor the file and most multimedia apps don't.
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I'm positive the .nomedia file will keep audio from showing up in the music player. I did this to keep lets golf sounds and other game sounds from showing up there. So that file would keep the image from showing up in the gallery, but also the mp3's wouldn't show up in music player either.
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Unknown Artist Problem

Just got my SGS2. Fired up iSyncr and iTunes and synced about 1600 songs to my new phone.
Media Scan then completed
I fired up powerAMP and PlayerPro and stock music player.
ALL of them showed 408 songs as unknown artist.
Yet on my Motorola Defy and in iTunes all the artists are perfect. I have formatted the sd card and resynced the music still no good.
Anyone else experienced this problem?

Yes, though I used TuneSync to move them over. I just removed album art from one album and had iTunes reload it automatically. Then I sync'ed again, now the music shows up. All of it, even the stuff that I didn't touch. Weird. (XWKE7, rooted)

How do you sync iTunes with this phone?
I haven't got the phone yet but it would be good to know

programs on the phone called isyncr or tune sync will do it.
though any m4a/acc music wont show artist names correctly.

Does it come pre installed?

no, they can be purchased from the market.

I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...

NZtechfreak said:
I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...
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itunes isnt a problem for me. in fact i love it. isyncr has always been brilliant at keeping my android and itunes libraries in sync. Its just this sgs bug that is causing trouble. Hope samsung fixes it soon.

Same here, NickChaplin. TuneSync worked flawlessly on Cyanogenmod.

The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.

Luinwethion said:
The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.
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i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.

NickChaplin said:
i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.
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What'd you use to convert your music?
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brandenk0 said:
What'd you use to convert your music?
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iTunes
less than 10 characters

poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.

intruda119 said:
poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.

What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.
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intruda119 said:
What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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sorry, all my music already has album art.

Try MediaFix from the Market.

Try MIUI Music APK. That always popped out artist info, lyrics, CD art, and everything else automatically for me. Well, 90% of the time at least.

There is a bug in Android's media indexing & storage service. Sometimes it doesn't get the artist. Some apps like Mediafix or TuneSync index the music themselves and put the correct artist in the service's database. Until the bug is fixed, the only way to solve the problem is to either use players that don't rely on the service or to fix database yourself with the appropriate applications. MIUI's player will only work better if it doesn't rely on Android's internal indexing. I'm pretty sure it does rely on it.