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album art in default music player

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

snear said:
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.

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.

[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.
DR...

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.

Album Art on local files [SOLVED]

I have a folder on my Nexus 4 that contains about 20 albums, all the tracks have album art as I have checked them with mp3tag.
I also have exactly the same folder and data on my Nexus 7.
On my Nexus 4 one of the albums refuses to show the album art whereas it is fine on my Nexus 7. In the play all songs link the art is shown but against the album and the songs it is not. I have tried stopping Google Music and clearing data but it makes no difference.
Anyone have any idea how to resolve.
Also where is the music that is pinned to your device from the cloud stored.
Cheers
Baz
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Baz8755 said:
I have a folder on my Nexus 4 that contains about 20 albums, all the tracks have album art as I have checked them with mp3tag.
I also have exactly the same folder and data on my Nexus 7.
On my Nexus 4 one of the albums refuses to show the album art whereas it is fine on my Nexus 7. In the play all songs link the art is shown but against the album and the songs it is not. I have tried stopping Google Music and clearing data but it makes no difference.
Anyone have any idea how to resolve.
Also where is the music that is pinned to your device from the cloud stored.
Cheers
Baz
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Sorted it, I had to remove the google media database.

GS4 Stock Music Player App Tag & Album Art Issue

Most of the album art on the stock music app are fine but there's 4 I came across that have album covers that don't match with the music. They were there when I downloaded the song but I didn't care about them since I was using Poweramp but I wanted to switch to stock for the air gestures and adapt sound. Anyways... I tried transferring the 4 songs to my computer to edit the tags using an mp3 tag editor and transferred them back on my phone and it didn't work. I also tried deleting the songs from my phone and putting the album art-less songs back. The same artworks still remain. I also used a couple of tag editors from the play store. Still no luck. Any ideas how I can remove these annoying artwork from my music player? Thanks in advance!
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I had the same problem. You need to force start android's media scanner. Unfortunately, you can't do that manually without an external app, like that one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascanner
If that doesn't work, go to app manager and clear "Media Storage" data, then run this app again.