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[Workaround] Have Media Panel recognize synced Playlists

I don't know how the majority of you sync music to your X1s, but I've been using Windows Media Player (Desktop version) to sync all of my previous HTC phones, and figured that it would be the best way to sync my new X1 too. The issue is, as I'm sure most of you have found, that Windows Medial Player syncs playlists to the phone in .asx format, which happens to be unreadable for the media panel.
This is pretty unacceptable... (Please let me know if the newer media panel fixes this issue). So I've come up with two workarounds for you guys to choose from. The first is involves a program called "Playlist Editor". The second involves using the pay app, "CorePlayer".
Playlist Editor is a simple playlist manager for use on our devices, it allows you to save your non-compatible asx playlists in a multitude of compatible formats. Download it here
Just navigate to your playlist (even though there isn't any text that shows up, use the left softkey to go up a directory) and then goto the "Save As" menu from the program.
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CorePlayer as most of you know is a robust media player, with the added feature of being able to re-save a playlist in an alternative format. Navigating it is a bit more complicated however, but it doesn't balk at any of my playlists like Playlist Editor has for a few. Here are the steps.
Step 1: Goto File>>Open>> Navigate to your playlist
Step 2: Goto Database view, and navigate to the virtual folder containing your playlist
Step 3: Click the Database softkey, and click Store As Playlist

BTW, please post if you have a more automatic solution.

sonus said:
BTW, please post if you have a more automatic solution.
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As long as I know, the new MXP panel can handle desktop playlists

So with this program it's finally possible to creat playlists on the computer for the xperia media panel
@getrab
It can, but it's buggy. Some playlists are always shown as empty, I don't know why.

HTC Music app

I've been trying to get album artwork to show up in the HTC music app but cannot figure it out. I've put a folder.jpg in the folder containing the music, even embedded the artwork into the mp3, but for whatever reason, some albums will not show any artwork.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
Downloaded MP3Tagger Pro from the Market, and that let me add artwork to the ID3 tag on the phone.
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I have tried mp3 tagger and album art finder - both add the album art but strangely enough when I reboot my phone the album covers are missing. Anyone else having this problem?
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I'm using "3" (cubed) for a music player app. That actually downloads and lets you select album art. I was also frustrated getting ID3 tag images to show correctly, so I'm just using a different music app.

I like 3, but right now, it only sees the music you have on your SD card, and not in the phone memory.

I use the HTC music app, and it imported all my album art in just fine. I just include a .jpg in the folder with the music, and it auto sets it to the album art.

Elite Precision said:
I have tried mp3 tagger and album art finder - both add the album art but strangely enough when I reboot my phone the album covers are missing. Anyone else having this problem?
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I'm experiencing the exact same problem with my phone. Any suggestions??

Hi,
I am the developer of mp3tagger pro. If you used the mp3tagger pro option "easy album art finder" (which is doing the same thing as album art grabber) the album art is not persisted to the files itself but only to the internal android media database. This would be erased eg. after a firmware reset (it is strange that you are experiencing this after a normal restart though).
And this is why you have the additional "load by album" / "load by directory" option in mp3tagger pro. This will save the results to the files itself (the same way pc based tagger software would do it) and they will survive all kinds of wiping / resetting of your phone.

Another issue with HTC Music app
I have not experienced the album art issue, but one issue I have noticed is with the "default playlist." I'm not sure if it is a bug or what, but I normally keep my music on "shuffle all." After a certain amount of time of not using the music app, then next time I open it, it reverts back to wanting to play the first 100 tracks in my library. I then have to click back on the library list and choose "shuffle all" again to get the rest of my music to load up.
My BT is fully integrated with my car stereo and this one little thing is the only thing causing me to have to pull my phone out of my pocket when I get in my car.
Has anyone else noticed this when using the HTC music app? On my Droid, using the standard 2.1 Music app It would always just pickup playback where I left off.

[Q] MediaServiceConnection on Gingerbread

I am looking to control the stock Android music player (I want to launch a particular song using the default music player) using my application.
Stuff that used to work on Android doesn't work on Gingerbread, with the error: "Not allowed to bind to service Intent { cmp=com.android.music/.MediaPlaybackService }"
From my research, I have found that this interface is not exported. Is there any other way I can launch the default media player with a track (or interrupt it and play another one)? I know it isn't official, but since widgets like Pure Music Widgets do this, I know it must be possible (or do they simulate bluetooth media buttons?) and this is XDA, anything is possible here
My apologies if this question has been asked and answered, could you please just point me to that thread. I searched and searched, but I couldn't find anything along these lines.

This was just posted yesterday:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1040848

Thanks, I did see that but that's not what I'm looking for. I want to play music using the default music app/service, not play music inside my own app.
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Code:
Intent audioIntent = new Intent();
audioIntent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
File file = new File("/mnt/sdcard/your/music/file.mp3");
audioIntent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), "audio/*");
startActivity(audioIntent);
OR
Code:
Intent audioIntent = new Intent();
audioIntent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Uri externalUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
//audioID is the id of the audio file in the database
Uri auidoUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(externalUri, audioID)
audioIntent.setDataAndType(auidoUri, "audio/*");
startActivity(audioIntent);
The second method will let the user see the artist info/album art/etc (stored in the db), the first will let them play the song but all the info will be blank. You need to get the audio ID for the file from the MediaStore Content Provider if you want to use the second method though.

ananthb said:
Thanks, I did see that but that's not what I'm looking for. I want to play music using the default music app/service, not play music inside my own app.
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Also, what Gene Poole posted was correct, it would start the default video player, not his own app.

Perhaps I didn't explain what I wanted clearly enough.
I would like my app to start the default music player, make it play a song and quit (itself, not the default music player). When I use the code above, I see a black screen with a trackbar and the music stops playing when my application quits. That's not what I had in mind.
Screenshot of what happens when I use that code is:
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is that honeycomb?

Nope, that's my HD2 running CM7 with tablet tweaks.
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Well that's not the stock music player from what I can tell. Or there is something else wrong there. The code posted for you was correct, something in your modded phone is causing it to show up like that.

[GUIDE] Fixing music player splitting up Albums

When you put music on your phone the music player sometimes splits up the albums like this: (not my screenshot, credit to styckx)
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I am not responsible for anything this may do to your phone, or your music (although nothing should happen to it)
This is how to fix it, simply without having to edit song on PC:
1. Go to settings > applications > media storage and tap "Clear Data"
2. Install ZduneX25's epic port of the Honeycomb music player (may work with Gingerbread player, not tried, can someone try and skip this step) from here:
On ZDuneX25's deviantART (install by replacing Music.apk in /system/app with it with root explorer, changing its permissions to rw-r--r-- and rebooting.
3. Open the music app and it should be sorted (worked for me)
Done!
If you want the CM7 music app's apk to copy back to /system/app as above you can download it here

If this is happening it is because the id3 tags are different somehow. You are better off just using a program to fix it.
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If this is happening it is because the id3 tags are different somehow. You are better off just using a program to fix it.
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They're exactly the same and this process sorts it. Also, a program takes ages!
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I just use mp3tag on the PC. The ui is a little confusing but you can actually match the songs with the tags from amazon including embedded album art. Takes some time but my music is now perfect on every device I put it on. I have noticed Google music loses some of the metadata when uploading for some reason. I have to always re-enter the album artist for some reason.
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Glitch for Changing Artist Name on HTC Sense Music Player?

I have two songs that I want to change the artist name to reflect a change in letter casing. At first, I had these two songs downloaded from the gtunes music downloader app, but after discovering that the files were 128kbps, I had deleted them, although I did change the file name a day or two before deleting it. I imported these songs later on, but with a higher bit rate. The album art, song title, and album title were tagged on each song, but the artist name did not change (All the changes just involved capitalizing the artist and song tile). The file name, however, is the same as it was when I deleted it. Since noticing this problem, I have used multiple tag editing apps from the Play Store, but the HTC Sense music player does not reflect the change, nor does other local music playback apps like doubleTwist.
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I hope the image helps....just hoping to capitalize that first letter of the artist on the music player lol

Is one of the apps you've tried iTag? It almost always works for me.
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Is one of the apps you've tried iTag? It almost always works for me.
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I used iTag, DroID3Tagger, and AudioTagger (correct me on the name if I'm wrong). In all those apps, it appears capitalized. Even when I view the two files in Windows Explorer, it's how I want it to be. Still, it doesn't match up on the music player.

Try clearing the cache and data (unless you have playlists) of the music player. It's a long shot, but perhaps the changes you've made haven't come into effect yet?

I tried those options, but there's no luck. Still the same typing on both artists...my best hypothesis on this music player right now is that it
must have some kind of cache deep in the storage that won't let me change it
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