So I discovered this bug(if you can call it that) in the music player recently,now bare with me on this,might be a little bit tough to explain...
Lets say i want to add a new song that we will call song1,that song is in an album called single track.If the song has an album art,the player will automatically bind it to the album,so whenever I add a new song in that album it will read the album art from the first song,not the id3 tag from the mp3.Even if the original song didn't have album art,song2 would also be displayed without it.Now even if I delete the original song,or add album art to it,the album data is stored in the phone itself. This is really annoying a lot of time since i have to name albums "Singletrack1-Lmfao" or "Singletrack1-Example" and all artists have single tracks.
I contacted SE support and those BASTARDS said they couldn't do anything. So i ask you...Is there any way to fix this,or make SE include the fix in 2.3.4?
Congrats to 2 of you who got The IT Crowd refference
I've seen this problem with other phones as well. My current Omnia 2 (which uses completely different software) has the same problem...if I have 2 songs with the same name, the second one will use the album art of the first one, despite the album art being set correctly in the ID3 tag.
Only way around it is to rename the file to something slightly different.
it always does it that's why i'm also annoyed.. apart from that, it also gives wrong album art to songs that doesn't have art themselves.. i.e., Teddy Geiger songs have Celine Dion's All the Way album art.. sucks
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No matter if I used media sync with Windows media, or my iTunes interface program....I would only get about a 1/4 of the album art to load and show up.
Even using mp3 tag the Xperia wouldn't see but maybe 1/2 the albums.
So I had to sit there and "update album info" over and over on the PC's windows media player. Each time it may or may not grab album art, or it may only grab a little bit of info, or it may or may not create the folder.jpg file.
So I ended up having to open both sets of folder and transfer the folder.jpg for every album one by 'effing one.
I am just complaining so sorry for the b*tch fest. I know others here feel my pain so it is good to complain to people who can sympathize.
BUT GOOD LAWD can't Microsoft improve such a simple, stupid function?
Pants isn't it...
At least it's the windows side rather than the mobile side that's at fault for a change.
I tend to find the album art on amazon, (the mp3 off the USA site has decent cover art) and drag it to the cover in WMP. Is a bit quicker.
FWIW there's a PPC prog to do this automatically, it's not perfect and can get a bit confused.
adn on the pc this post might help..
http://lifehacker.com/software/albu...ary-into-shape-part-ii-+-album-art-231476.php
i didnt find it too hard, i just use itune to grab the album art, and copy the entire itune folder over to the storage card, all album arts showed up fine
I have tried different apps (Windows Media Player, iTunes, Tag & Rename, Winamp and so on) and I have found one app with perfect handling of album art: Easy CD-DA Extractor. It adds album art perfectly within the ID-tag and the file. No problems with "folder.jpg" and such things.
It works perfect on my Xperia X1 with Pocket Player and OggVorbis. And I have tried MP3 and AAC with it without any problems. Even album art and eAAC+ works perfect both on X1 with Pocket Player and my Nokia E90 (who has strict requirements regarding album art, other apps can´t add them correctly but Easy CD-DA Extractor can).
Try that app and be happy.
I tagged mine in the latest version of mp3 tag. It embeds them and they worked fine, for some reason media monkey and the previous version of mp3 tag couldn't do it so they would appear in the media panel (or my ps3)...
Shame about media monkey, its a really nice media management software...
WMP, Mortplayer and S2p all fine,but media panel(orig or pubba prog) only see similar to urs...1/4.
My music is on SD and synced directly from MP11..
Any solutions?
NZtechfreak said:
I tagged mine in the latest version of mp3 tag. It embeds them and they worked fine, for some reason media monkey and the previous version of mp3 tag couldn't do it so they would appear in the media panel (or my ps3)...
Shame about media monkey, its a really nice media management software...
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??? I can't comment on the phone, but I use Media Monkey to tag my MP3 with text info and album art, and it shows up on the PS3 fine... Maybe it's a setting somewhere? I just use the defaults for adding album art in MM.
I only use MP3Tag to label the filenames; I find MM allows me to tag more info to an MP3 than MP3Tag does.
media monkey works for me too - I can see album art in wmp, core player, tf3d and media panel.
I guess it is all depend on how the images are stored and referenced on your PC? some players just read folder.jpg, others look at the id3 tags instead, if you make sure you have all bases covered, ie tags point to folder.jpg it should work
Your problem is not with the Xperia then, your subject title is misleading. Use tagscanner to apply the album art, works on every file.
mp3tag
Same, I use mp3 tag, because I have 4 monitors I just sit there with amazon on one, mp3 tag on another, xperia on another and my music folder on another. Drag the art from amazon to mp3 tag, use the music folder to drag the stuff i want to change to mp3 tag, then when done drag it all to xperia.
I gave up trying to get automatic album art a long time ago, I do it all myself for old music, anything I download normally has the art embedded and when I'm ripping CDs i never seem to have a problem with art.
But I guess not everyone is legit
I've searched on here and on google, found a few people referencing the same issue but no resolution.
When flipping through albums coverflow style, and selecting one, it plays the songs in alphabetical order, not track order. If I go into the album using the list, it plays back properly. Anyone managed to solve this issue, or doesn't get it at all? I got it on the original T-Mobile rom, and also on Modaco 2.2.
Also, does anyone know how to get it to let you flip through albums again once you have gone down to a lower level?
I think your describing the same problem twice .
The 'album flip' is just that it displays the album art for what is in the NowPlaying list. Songs from the same album are grouped together if they are queued neatly next to each other.
So, if I got 2 songs from album A in the NowPlaying list, then 2 songs from album B, then 2 songs from album A again.... it will display 3 albums in the flip.
If you would add all your music on your SD card back to the NowPlaying list, neatly ordered by album / track, you would get the flip back that you want.
But since the music player has a simple dumb bug in that it adds the songs in the completely wrong order, the only method of doing so is creating a playlist with all your music beforehand on your PC and opening that.
Yeah I think you're right. If I go into the album list, then select play all, it nearly works - it lets me flip through the albums correctly, but the tracks are then in alphabetical order. It's nearly there, and better than it was on the Diamond, but still frustrating!
and making a playlist that contains all your music (make it on the PC, with the songs in the correct order) does that help? Not perfect, but at least a work around until they fix the music-order bug.
I use media monkey to upload music and the generated playlists work fine.
Guys,
One thing I have noticed which is annoying the heck out of me, when I copy my albums into the Music folder on my memory card, with correct ID3 tags (i.e.e correct Album name, Artist etc..) it seems to show all the individual tracks from the album in the default music view with cover art.
Is there anyway to have it show only albums until you actually select one, then show you individual tracks?
That's weird. Mine shows albums in the horizontal coverflow mode, then when you tap an album, you get a list of tracks.
HTC's audio manager is quite (unnecessarily) strict with ID3 tags compared to other players. It treats tags as case-sensitive ('Death metal' is not the same as 'Death Metal'). I've had to go through all my albums with the free desktop program Mp3tag and make sure everything was absolutely perfect.
For instance, check if the artist and album tags are exactly the same for each track. If you have compilation albums, maybe that's the problem?
hmm that is strange - just to be 100% I will check tonight including checking case's.
never thought of that, cheers
**edit** just realised i can check here and looks like you hit the nail on the head, the issue is with compilation albums having individual artists. on my iphoen as long as I set album artist to Various or VA it was all ok. silly strict rules lol
I used Conduits Pocket Player for a while, which is a great player but needs a lot of program memory.
When I switched to HTC's player (simpler but also faster, lighter and built in) on my Touch Pro, my music library, which was perfectly organized and clean in Pocket Player, appeared to be a mess. Took me quite a while to get everything sorted. HTC's player is just much less forgiving.
Mp3tag is a great program for sorting through tags, also embeds album art so they show in every player I've thrown them at (PS3, Touch Pro, Xperia, i8910 - which is S60v5 and very, very fussy on album art).
There are others with nicer UIs, Media Monkey being a good example, but I've not used anything else that "just works" like mp3tag.
Mp3tag is a great program for sorting through tags, also embeds album art so they show in every player I've thrown them at (PS3, Touch Pro, Xperia, i8910 - which is S60v5 and very, very fussy on album art).
There are others with nicer UIs, Media Monkey being a good example, but I've not used anything else that "just works" like mp3tag.
I have a number of tracks that have Album Art embeded. For some strange reason the the music player selects the same graphic for every track.
Have no problem with a complete album with a folder.jpg file, but my problem is that I have a folder with a collection of MP3 files. They all look fine in Media Monkey and MP3Tag.
Update: Just noticed that a hidden file is created (~hTC_Misc-MP3.jpg) and this appears why all the graphics are the same. Is there a way to stop this so the graphic is read from embeded image??
Any ideas ???
Well, usually, different tracks come from different albums. Create your folder structure accordingly.
If your different tracks situation is a compilation, than the compilation is an album itself and needs an album art of its own.
i got that problem when I was using the HD2 ONLY in landscape mode, are you using it in landscape mode?
I need landscape mode while driving, but it just doesnt work properly, so sad... have to use pocketplayer
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Well, usually, different tracks come from different albums. Create your folder structure accordingly.
If your different tracks situation is a compilation, than the compilation is an album itself and needs an album art of its own.
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I have a folder with a collection of about 50 random tracks, so it would be a bit of a pain to put them in different folders, but I get your point. Perhaps the only thing to do id to create my own compilation cover.
Perhaps this is just a pit fall with the standard media player.
Use this:
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
It's excellent. You can remove any unwanted artwork that is embedded and if you want give each track it's own cover.
All my artwork is correct after using this.
Ok, I might call this as an Album art Update problem..
When I do an update album art for all song.. It shows "link to gracenote" But I doubt it actually updates anything.
But when I do an update album art for current song. It does update the album art for the same. Also it shows an Album art download result, in the same place.
Is there a way to get it fixed.
I am on a Stock ROM , SIM Free..Specifically (1.48.720.2 WWE)
Mansoor...
Well any help on this..
Can't help with your problem but I can confirm this facility is quite rubbish. Sometimes no art at all and sometime the wrong art!
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Use this:
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
It's excellent. You can remove any unwanted artwork that is embedded and if you want give each track it's own cover.
All my artwork is correct after using this.
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I've never bothered with album art - more interested in the music - it is interesting to find out that you can embed art into ID3 tags. I'll give it a go.
Also take a look at mp3tag at http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ which is donationware, I use it for files and it's perfect for me.
rjstep3
I had an iPhone before I switched to the S8. I used the smart transfer to get the music into the S8. Everything was fine on the iPhone but in the Samsung music app, the artist names and album names were wrong for several tracks.
When I went to the "details" of a track and removed the incorrect album, the album art disappears. The album art, artist, and album name is all correct when I look at the mp3 files on my computer or either use another music player app. The problem is just with the Samsung music player.
I have 2 examples here. imgur.com/a/Rcy5z
First is a song by Drake and Future called Big Rings. The first picture shows the wrong artist. When I went to the "edit" option, the artist shows up right.
Second is a song by Lil Dicky. The first picture shows the wrong artist and album. The wrong album is part of another artist's song. And as before, going to the "edit" option shows the right artist and album.
Even after I go the "edit" option and delete all the details and then type out the correct ones again. Nothing changes.
Anyone know how to fix this issue? I know I can use other music apps but I want this to work.
Use PowerAmp
Use PowerAmp. Excellent tag editor. Also, make sure the album art is in the folder where that album is stored and has the correct suffix filename.albumart.jpg or w/e it is. Also, using the MyFiles app you should be able to rename the mp3 file itself if need be.