Alright so, I am one (and I know I am not the only one) who downloads music.. Anyways So I have Albums On my computer I put them on there own folder onto y memory card and when my phone Music app reads it the albums are split into two which is annoying when it's suppose to be one. How can 1 fix this?
Edit the tags to make sure everything reads exactly the same. Almost every time that's happened to me, it was because the album artist was different between the songs.
crawler9 said:
Edit the tags to make sure everything reads exactly the same. Almost every time that's happened to me, it was because the album artist was different between the songs.
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What app or program do u use to edit tags?
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What app or program do u use to edit tags?
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I honestly don't remember. iTunes would probably work but I just googled ID3 tag editor and find a program that'll work that way.
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I use iTag from the market
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Hi, I can get some jpgs to show as album art by placing the image in the same folder as the mp3 but it doesnt always work.
Anyone know why?
Thanks
snear said:
Hi, I can get some jpgs to show as album art by placing the image in the same folder as the mp3 but it doesnt always work.
Anyone know why?
Thanks
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I use media monkey to add album art to mp3's, give it a try.
Nice one , is that in the market?
I use albumartgrabber,so i dont have to place jpeg,s in my mp3 folder.
This works very easy .
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ModdoG said:
I use albumartgrabber,so i dont have to place jpeg,s in my mp3 folder.
This works very easy .
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i use album art grabber as well, does the job well
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Nice one , is that in the market?
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digital monkey is a software for your pc.
That's a work around
I see that adding the artwork into the file as a tag would work but I see that as redundant data.
Why does putting the jpg into the folder work sometimes and not others?
Tom
Image may be too large for it to detect it as album art?
Embedding the art with Media Monkey or mp3tag is the way to go, never have problems with mine...
NZtechfreak said:
Embedding the art with Media Monkey or mp3tag is the way to go, never have problems with mine...
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This method only worked for about 30% of my albums and I never understood why. Eventually I bought btunes from the app store, really nice program with a widget and lockscreen controls. It downloaded all of my missing artwork and I've never looked back
turnipman said:
I see that adding the artwork into the file as a tag would work but I see that as redundant data.
Why does putting the jpg into the folder work sometimes and not others?
Tom
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I would like to know this too , even image that worked in another folder doesn't work in different folder?
i dont understand why the default player only seems to find a few album covers whereas 3 music player finds them all. the id3 tags are a filled in correct. :L
I had to clear out and reset my ID tags and embedded album art multiple times to get the Desire music player to recognise them all.
Album art grabber is great.
i sort of got how it works, it's similar to Sense ui on winmo.
1. Get the cover, small res files are better (500x500 cover is good).
2. Rename the file as: ~hTC_album name.jpg (exact album name with spaces)
3. Copy the cover in the album folder and mark the file as hidden (right click on the file > properties > check hidden).
This one worked for me but some albums still won't get the cover from the folder.
I've tried to use both Double Twist and Song Bird.
The problem with Double Twist is it will not sync videos because it tries to convert them for the phone. Problem is I don't want them converted because they play fine when I copy them.
Song Bird does music well, but what about videos? I did notice when it scans my library it doesn't seem to capture all of my music.
Anyways is there anything else out there we can use for our Vibrants?
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I've tried to use both Double Twist and Song Bird.
The problem with Double Twist is it will not sync videos because it tries to convert them for the phone. Problem is I don't want them converted because they play fine when I copy them.
Song Bird does music well, but what about videos? I did notice when it scans my library it doesn't seem to capture all of my music.
Anyways is there anything else out there we can use for our Vibrants?
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There's "The missing sync" but it seems to have bad reviews.
Why not just copy and paste onto sdcard? Also, kies might offer some sync solution
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disturkis4u said:
Why not just copy and paste onto sdcard? Also, kies might offer some sync solution
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I do copy and paste currently.
I just thought with the awesomeness of our phones that somebody would have figured out something cool by now.
Any pc/mac based sync app that can handle file trees should get the job done. Rsync would work..
Isyncr in the market is amazing.
I tried everything to have the good covers for my musics on my phone the problem is my songs where downloaded from many different sources thus having like many folders like /musicbox / unknown and stuff like that i cleared them more then 100 times and personally picked the covert arts but they all get mixed up never shows up the good ones im a about to commit suicide ! It makes me not wanting to listen to music seriously ! I remember it was all good on 2.1 back in the days when i first got my x10
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I tried everything to have the good covers for my musics on my phone the problem is my songs where downloaded from many different sources thus having like many folders like /musicbox / unknown and stuff like that i cleared them more then 100 times and personally picked the covert arts but they all get mixed up never shows up the good ones im a about to commit suicide ! It makes me not wanting to listen to music seriously ! I remember it was all good on 2.1 back in the days when i first got my x10
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you use wmp, itunes, winamp, other?
are you downloading music from an app or torrents
I download from youtube some from musicbox app some came from my comp its all mixed up i dont wanna erasr my whole sd card
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Try albulm art grabber in the market
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I use torrent and never faced problems
Well, from my understanding you are looking to have the correct album art for each song/album on your phone correct? This problem plagued me for a while, I couldn't find an easy way to automatically embed the album art into the id3 tags for songs on the computer... so I starting looking at apps for android. easiest way BY FAR is to buy the donate version of Cover Art Downloader. It will embed the album art into the mp3 file so you can copy em all to your pc and the album art will stick with it.
The free version of the app doesn't embed the art into the mp3's id3 tags but it will still work to show you the art on your phone if that's all you are wanting.
I also did album art grabber its because when i download them the description is not well filled out even if i change them whit mp3 tag it still mixed up
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you don't have to format your sd card; probably wouldn't hurt.
You should take all your music off of your sd and consolidate into one music folder on your computer; Music-->Artist-->Albums and/or Songs-->Songs.
Throw it into either itunes for that what ever fixer finder thing it has, or better yet throw it into winamp as local media and go through song by song (you can select multiples) ctrl+e to open up up the file(s) to edit the metadata so you can format each/all the songs to uniform artist/albums/titles.
also for artwork you can select songs and press alt+3 and click on the Artwork tab and then download artwork there's also an auto-tag feature on the default tab (doesn't always work)
So i should grab winamp on my pc ? Ill try that and my musics are all into sdcard/music there isnt any other folders in it should i add ? Album>artist >songs?
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Or you could use Mediamonkey to organize your library. =)
Or try the correct forum
I put some mp3's in sdcard/music. They do not show up in the play music app. I hit settings, refresh, but they still don't show up.
What's the deal?
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I put a fair amount of music in that same location and I got an error about one file but all the others show up and play normally.
Maybe try restarting the app? Otherwise it might be something about the files themselves that the app is having problems with.
Try am app called "SD card rescan" that a worked for me with slight patience or try rebooting it
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Mine showed up eventually, the app seems to take its own sweet time finding stuff
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I had to wait a week for it to show that I had added songs to a playlist
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Mine take a reboot to show up.
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I have tried rebooting, turning the device off, etc. When I click on any of these mp3's, play music opens and plays the files. So the app has no problem playing these mp3's.
Obviously it's not rescanning the device.
Edit: still no joy this morning. Then I turned the device off and back on.
Now it shows up under artist, but not album. Is there some secret to making a folder so it shows up under albums?
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leebo said:
Now it shows up under artist, but not album. Is there some secret to making a folder so it shows up under albums?
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In whatever you're using to sideload the mp3's, you can make sub-folders in the target folder. If you're connecting from a PC with USB, you can simply make folders the same way you do on your PC. I did this, and now the folder shows up in the music library.
The Android OS have a system service called the "Media Scanner" that will once in a while scan your storage for media.
I read the thread and what is been reported is two different points:
1. Sometimes it really does take a bit for the scanner to kick in and start its thing. 99% of time you reboot it does perform a full scan, so rebooting and waiting a few minutes before checking always helps.
2. the music show under artist but not album, that is to do with the MP3 tags. If you check your mp3 on Winamp or iTunes there are options to change/edit the MP3 tags, where you can set artist name, album name, year, style, album art, etc, etc... if those info are correct in the file, it will show on the player in the correct section, if it is not correct, well.. fix it, then move to your device.
hope it helps.
Budius said:
2. the music show under artist but not album, that is to do with the MP3 tags.
hope it helps.
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Well, it finally also showed up under albums. What's weird is it showed up under artists a few hours b4 it showed up under albums. What's up with that?
Another question: After copying MP3's to your device, even after they show up in the Play Music app, they do not get uploaded to your Play account?
I went out today and thought I would listen to this album on my phone. It didn't show up. Back at home, it doesn't show up on my computer's web browser when connected to my Play account. So is it a one way upload? Computer to cloud, but not mobile device to cloud?
Yep, the only way to upload is from the PC. The mobile app was never meant to do it.
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I put mine on Google's servers A lot easier to stream it all rather than worry about remembering to copy it to my phone and tablet.
Usually I do too. But I downloaded this album direct from the artists web site on my Nexus. Later I will connect it to my pc and copy it over.
It just seems so archaic.
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I was having some similar issues, but after trying out a few different things that seemed to work for others, mine showed up. Not sure exactly what was the magic trick, but a mix of restarting, rescanning, etc. seemed to help... Thanks all!
Does anyone know of a good music manager for android? Im having two problems, the first problem is half of my music albums dont have album art, and the second problem is i have more than one icon for a single album. For example i have Trey Songs album with two different icons. one folder have half of the songs and the other folder have the other half
Try musiXmatch app from play store or the stock touchwiz player. I find these two good.
Other option is n7 player and power amp player.
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If your music data itself is messed up, changing players wont necessarily fix your problems.
I highly recommend musicbrainz for cleaning up massive libraries. It fixes tags, renames files, and will structure your music on disk like itunes. From there you can push it back to your players for sheer pleasure.
Btw , this is a desktop app, not one from the android stores. And it's free.
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If your music data itself is messed up, changing players wont necessarily fix your problems.
I highly recommend musicbrainz for cleaning up massive libraries. It fixes tags, renames files, and will structure your music on disk like itunes. From there you can push it back to your players for sheer pleasure.
Btw , this is a desktop app, not one from the android stores. And it's free.
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that sounds like something i need
Sometimes it'll choke on tracks that should be common and easy to identify. Don't fret, just tell it to try again and it will generally fix itself. On really stubborn ones you may have to kickstart them by entering some of the missing data (artist, title) before it'll properly recognize them.
Good luck !
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