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Music album art in gallery

I tranfered some music folders from my computer to my SD card and now I have Album Cover Art in my Gallery how do I fix
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BoogieTilt

google "android .nomedia" and read the guides from there

I used ".nomedia" and it works like a charm.

It's possible the music folders had image files in them along with the music. Depending on what you use to play your music on the computer, the image files could very well hidden files on your computer.
For example, Windows Media Player does this when it looks up song info to fill out the ID3 tag info in a file.
Although I'm not sure if a Windows file attribute of hidden would affect how it displays on Android.

Make sure your album art is in the same folder as the music relating to it and rename it 'albumart' (it has to be a jpg file). That way the gallery will ignore it.

Easier way to prevent this issue would be to not have album art in the music folder, or simply save the art to the ID3 tag. Album art info should be in the MP3 file itself if your did that.
Otherwise, what C.Slater said works best or use the .nomedia trick (which is still annoying to do).

Some players wont display embedded art.

Had the same problem, just deleted all the music album art jpgs from the sd card and that fixed it. Album art is stored in the files themselves it seems so they are not needed.
My old touch pro 2 stored album art in jpgs so that's where the problem came from.

krabman said:
Some players wont display embedded art.
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Those players shouldn't be supported.

Album art
muncheese said:
Those players shouldn't be supported.
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And they call it a SmartPhone

Download music player "3" by Filipe Abranters.
Search MARKET place with words "RockON" and select "3".
Best music player there is, and it can download art and other stuff for free and quick as hell.
And it's great widget to.
And you'll never have to worry about art albums !

Gallery view showing music album thumbnails!

I go into Gallery to view my albums of pics and unfortunately it not only puts a folder in the gallery for each folder of pictures I have but also for every single album or single in my phone/memory card (album art). uggggh I don't see any settings to disable that or omit certain folders. any hacks?

Yeah, I've got the same issue. Furthermore, the music app shows all of my additional ringtones and notification sounds. Haven't found a fix yet.
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Same issue here, but to be fair I don't think it is a Vibrant issue, it's a general Android thing. My G1 always did this too pre and post froyo... I never bothered to figure out a fix though.

yeah I had this issue on my G1 also. Nothing new. I wish there was a filter setting or a watch-folder setting

mine does NOT put the album art in the gallery. i have my music on the sdcard in a folder called MUSIC
but my music app does give me every sound under the sun. it's annoying because i am now FORCED to make playlists without the erroneous phone sounds. never had to do that before. ;/

android's going on 2 years old and El Goog has still completely ignored these little bugs

southpaw773 said:
android's going on 2 years old and El Goog has still completely ignored these little bugs
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It's not a bug. A bug would be if the gallery app was *designed* to NOT show certain images. It's not. it's designed to show every image on the storage drives. It's a poor design, not a bug.

the Gallery just needs to have the ability to hide certain folders and files so you do not see them... Has been an issue for me since my G1 and 1.0!!

Hopefully your album art is in a different folder than your music. If so, stick a .nomeda file in the folder. (Just use notepad and save as type "all files" so it doesn't add a .txt to the end.) Works for hiding sound files too.

I don't have any album art showing in my gallery because I embed the album art in to each MP3 file's meta data. Use something like MP3 tag to do it (Winamp I think does it too). If you use WMP to Sync music like I do, the music player doesn't see most album art anyway. It's best to just embed the image in to the meta data.

Here's the solution:
rename all the .jpg in the music folders "Folder.jpg". This works for me. I'm assuming of course you have one folder for each album and each folder has 1 pic file for the cover art.

jkcheng122 said:
Here's the solution:
rename all the .jpg in the music folders "Folder.jpg". This works for me. I'm assuming of course you have one folder for each album and each folder has 1 pic file for the cover art.
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The best way to do it is to use something like MP3Tag to embed the album art in each MP3 file. This makes sure each song has the album part showing up. That way the gallery doesn't index your album art as well.

coolguy949 said:
The best way to do it is to use something like MP3Tag to embed the album art in each MP3 file. This makes sure each song has the album part showing up. That way the gallery doesn't index your album art as well.
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Hmm I might do this for the misc singles that are placed in a single folder. Yay for more things to kill time at work with. Thanks.

coolguy949 said:
The best way to do it is to use something like MP3Tag to embed the album art in each MP3 file. This makes sure each song has the album part showing up. That way the gallery doesn't index your album art as well.
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OMG I discovered MP3Tag yesterday. AMAZING. Thank you for this tip!

here try this: gallery excluder app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063358
it excludes wht u want to and not!

I've stopped using the gallery and uninstalled it. Moved onto an app called Just Pictures, you can hide and exclude folders and pictures and such.
And Music i've gotten rid of the stock music player and just run MIUI player. Has the option to exclude files under a certain size (good for avoiding ringtones).

on CM7 the following works:
using the stock file manager, go to the folder which contains the files you don't want to appear in the gallery / music player. Then go to settings and there you have "exclude from media scan".

.nomedia file in the folder...simple

movieaddict said:
here try this: gallery excluder app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063358
it excludes wht u want to and not!
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This is the quickest and best app ever.

Sdobron said:
.nomedia file in the folder...simple
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Which will keep it from seeing ANY media in the folder, like your MP3s...
Definitely best to embed the album art in the MP3.

How Does Music App Get Album Art & Organize

Anyone know where the stock Music app is getting the album art from?
I took some mp3s where I purposefully changed the tags to bogus data--for an unrelated test--and put them in their own folder on the phone and it is giving it the original artists album art.
How's it doing that?

I'd like to know this too. I was putting the album covers in the same folders as the mp3's, which works for the music player to show the correct albums. But then in my gallery I have all the albums showing up as their own folder. Would like to just be able to put them all into one folder if possible?

[Q] Help! Mediascape shows me wrong album art for my songs

I just bought the xperia x10 a while ago and started to listen music on it..
I download music on limewire and put them all on my 8GB micro sd...
Pop in the micro sd to my xperia x10, boot it, mediascape,... whats wrong?
Some of my songs shows up the wrong album art. and whats strange is that all the songs with the wrong album art HAS THE SAME WRONG ALBUM ART.
So its weird, for exemple:
I have for example on my phone:
Dj Nightlife : Display right album art
DJ Ravine: Display right album art
Akon: Displays DJ Ravine's album art instead of akon album art...
Lil wayne: displays dj ravine's album art instead of lil wayne album art
please help im getting pissed
thank you

I would try fining the album art on your SD and deleting in, make sure its the right stuff your deleting though and letting mediascape re scan it all. and make sure the mp3 files have thr right artist etc listing in their details [right click the mp3 file and properties, details tab]

What you need to do is to view the files in media go and manually fix the mp3 tags of each song, it sucks i know. But thats becouse the guy who created the mp3s was sloppy.
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Tjotte said:
What you need to do is to view the files in media go and manually fix the mp3 tags of each song, it sucks i know. But thats becouse the guy who created the mp3s was sloppy.
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nonono it works all fine on my ipod touch, i even added the albums manuelly on itunes

use media go to change the cover art xD is faster and you can delete anything you want from there like custom cover arts or copyright comments

[SOLVED] Album Art Not Working on Any Build

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone can fix the album art bug? All builds have it, for some reason the album arts get shuffled around a little and one specific album art will be tagged onto multiple random songs.

+1 for a fix

I don't have any problem on my side, no bug and all album arts are working correctly. I'm using the default ones created by Windows Media player.

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I have Rick Ross album art on over 300 songs and I only have 6 Rick Ross songs. I agree, pretty annoying. We do so much with our SD cards I am really not surprised this happens. Would like to know why though.

I have no problem with album art.
I followed this guideline to do it:
- Put your music in the /media/music folder.
- I manually added mij album art by putting a "AlbumArt.jpg" file in every album / folder I have.
- Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Music (Select all applications first) -> Clear Data.
- Reboot android.
Hope this helps for you.
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I have no problem with the album art I attached to my files via mediamonkey on MDJ HD 4.4...
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psykick5 said:
I have no problem with the album art I attached to my files via mediamonkey on MDJ HD 4.4...
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are u syncing with media monkey or just dropping your files straight into the music folder?
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Why is this thread titled as SOLVED, when I don't see any clear solution?? I use MediaMonkey to tag my mp3s, and when I transfer the mp3s over to my SD card, the album art is still jacked up.

raysacr said:
Why is this thread titled as SOLVED, when I don't see any clear solution?? I use MediaMonkey to tag my mp3s, and when I transfer the mp3s over to my SD card, the album art is still jacked up.
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yeah, same problem here too.