Hi,
I have a few Vietnamese song albums with album names, song names and singers are all in Vietnamese characters (unicode fonts). These albums have no problem showing it correct Vietnamese characters when played by Google Play Music app on my HTC M8 (running stock Android 6.0).
However, when I transferred these albums to my new Nexus 6P, names of the albums, songs and singers are not displayed correctly. Some, or all, characters are "replaced" by some strange characters (looks like Chinese, Koreans... characters). This causes one album now become a number of different albums (sharing the same album cover, but different names due to its album names are now spelled differently. Same problem happens if you sort by singers (one singer now becomes more than one).
Has anyone had this problem, and is there a way to fix it?
PS. English song albums are not affected by this.
Thank you a lot.
Have you found the solution to this problem? I'm having it for quite some time now :/
If i remember correctly the HTC has some extra language font packs installed by default. You will probably need to install something similar. I'll see if i can dig it's name out from my "old apps"
Damn racists! The phone is made by the Chinese you know! They are f-ing with you.
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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.
If i try to sort by artists or search in music it crashes and says not enough space in music database...I have 4gb of free space on card and more than that on device, any help?
same here, I would love a fix because I actually like the stock player and dont want to change it out.
is moving to the internal sd an option?
i had the same issue and found a thread here or on another site suggesting to move the music to the internal sd card. i did this and it worked for me.
granted, you have to have less than ~13G of music for this workaround.
I did not have this problem with the music stored on the external SD card (2gb, damn near to useless). With the music on the internal storage, I get this problem. I for one think it's completely unbelievable that this $500 device with 16gb of internal storage can't handle 10gb of music stored on it. I had a guy tell me music players weren't that great for android phones, but I didn't imagine it could be this bad. I've been trying all weekend and I have yet to find anything offering even minimal functionality. This really blows my mind.
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
i have a 16gb card full of songs and i don't have this error
Does it matter how the files are organized?
What about when using a different music player?
I have a co-worker who also has the phone and is seeing this problem. I've got a 32gb card coming in the mail and I was hoping to put my music collection on it. If the app can't handle a certain size, that will suck.
Could it also be the music file types/bitrates?
Anyone have any idea why some are seeing this and others not?
The first time I synced I didn't have trouble, and then, after adding a bunch of album art I get it consistently. I haven't bothered to track it down past that, since switching to Mixzing worked around the problem.
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i have a 16gb card full of songs and i don't have this error
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QFT, I have no issues aswell
I finally got my sd card and put it in the system. I started transferring my music and it quite near the end with something about the path being to deep. However, with about 16.5 out of 17.5 gb transfered I was able to sort by artist without a hitch.
I don't know why the transfer failed because when I plugged it back in and resumed where it left off every thing transfered fine.
However, I now get the out of memory crash when sorting by artist.
Not sure if it is some particular file (name, length, etc.), or if it is because my damn dog decided to run into the cord and unplug it without safely unmounting, but i'll try and figure it out.
I'm going to delete files, from the set that didn't transfer the first time, one by one until it works or I get back to the state where it was working. If nothing comes of that, I'll delete all and add back in until it stops working.
Maybe it is the number of artists? The files that didn't transfer the first time where from the various artists folder in my collection.
Or maybe warren g and nate dogg regulated my stock music app?
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It appears it is related to the number of artists.
I reproduced the problem, then went into my various artists folder and removed albums one by one until the problem went away. I then added the album back in that made the difference between it working and not. I then removed a song at a time until the problem went away again. I then added a song from another artist back in and it once again failed.
So it appears there is a cap on the number of artists.
I'll continue working on this and report back the exact number of artists that causes the issue.
OK, well I thought was the number of artists, but now I'm not so sure.
Maybe it has something to do with how the app handles various artists and/or unknown artists.
I added all my music, then deleted tracks from various artist albums until it worked again. I then put back the various artist album track and it didn't work, as expected.
I thought this was artist based, but when I got it working again--by deleting the track mentioned above--and then added a track for a various artist album by an artist that already existed, the app crashed too.
I then thought it might be song based. So I removed that song and then added a set of songs. However, it unexpectantly worked.
The difference with the set of songs added above is that they weren't part of a various artist album. They were a new artist, but the main album artist wasn't Various with a Contributing artist of the actual artist name. Instead, the Album Artist was the artist name and the contributing artist was left blank (or had the same name).
So, it is that the music app doesn't understand how to handle various artist albums?
Could someone else with this problem remove all the various artist albums from their collection and see if their app works again?
DLarva: Thanks, your post was very helpful.
I read elsewhere that when the player has a hard time with VA tracks, it does not recognize them as separate albums or something. Does it allow you to have some tracks by "Various Artists", but then begin to fail after reaching a certain number?
This is good that you found that was the key, because it is easy to work around!
On my vibrant I can only have 3 songs from a various artists album. It doesn't matter what the other tags are--like contributing artist--as long as the album artist is Various.
I'm guessing others will have a different number. This is because when I was experimenting I once had it working with several more various artist songs, but that was when I was missing a handful of my standard albums.
So it seems that various artist songs cause the issue, but that the number your vibrant will handle varies by the amount of artists or standard songs you have on your system--or some other unknown factor.
Any chance something like this will get fixed?
Anyone out there also dealing with this issue and can tell me how many Various Artist tracks they can get on their phone before it crashes when sorted by artist?
I'd like to try and narrow this down a bit further before calling Samsung tech support.
Found a co-worker with a Vibrant and confirmed that he could have a different number of various artist songs on his.
Also deleted a folder for an artist with 3 ablums and was able to add 3 albums worth of various artist songs.
So, it either is something like the number of folders or perhaps albums, or it is some complicated combination of things.
have this problem and it is ****ing annoying. Have to use TuneWiki instead of the stock app.
Just when I think I have it figured out, it all goes to...
I added a new album, from an existing artist, and now without any various artist albums I'm getting the crash.
At this point I'm left with the conclusion that its the number of songs, or folders, or some combination to complicated to figure out.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
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I know workarounds suck for something like this, but there is another one available if you don't want to stop using the TW music player, and you don't want to delete or relocate your music.
Basically, you copy all artist information to Composer in the ID3 tag, and hide the artist tab in the TW music player. All functionality will be there.
I used mp3tag, and it worked really well.
If anyone is interested...
1. Load up your music in mp3tag
2. Select all your music in the app.
3. Push Alt-5.
4. On top right, click on "New".
5. Name it anything you want.
6. Click on "New" again.
7. On the drop-down, click on "Format Value".
8. In Field, select "COMPOSER".
9. Click on the right arrow next to Format String, and select "Artist".
10. Click OK... OK.... Make sure that only your new action is checked, and click OK again.
11. Click on Save.
This doesn't rename your files or change functionality or usability at all.
Now your music is formatted so that when you show the Composer tab on your Vibrant, it will show you all artists.
And it doesn't crash when sorted by composer with the same set of files that crashed when sorted by artist?
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The problem is that under music, one artist often splits into two different ones, even though there is no difference in their names in iTunes etc.
For an example, let's say I have Lady Gaga.
The it'd look like this:
Lady Gaga:
Bad Romance
The Fame Monster
Lady Gaga:
Poker Face
It's not a huge deal, but it's really been irritating me. Does anyone know the reason and how to fix it?
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The problem is that under music, one artist often splits into two different ones, even though there is no difference in their names in iTunes etc.
For an example, let's say I have Lady Gaga.
The it'd look like this:
Lady Gaga:
Bad Romance
The Fame Monster
Lady Gaga:
Poker Face
It's not a huge deal, but it's really been irritating me. Does anyone know the reason and how to fix it?
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Well, I'm no I.T. freak, but I'm guessing it might have something to do with the texting codes or language thingee? Like maybe the anomaly was typed when the language was set to Chinese or Japanese or something.
Why not try this:
Go open your 'Bad Romance"s properties, copy the Artiste name and paste it into "Poker Face"s? Most probably this'll work.
Perhaps. But in almost all cases I either didn't tag them myself, or I imported them into iTunes myself (and I don't change input method in the middle of importing), so that's why I think it's so odd. It's also very inconsistent, doesn't happen to every artist, regardless of tagging =P
This is a metatag issue, all my tracks from one album display as one artist so you need to sort out your tags for your files using something like MediaMonkey (best I've used).
Well, I don't really use iTunes (not because I'm anti apple, but stupid software can't play wma files, and we all know wma files are generally smaller in size with equal sound quality as mp3s, so I choose wma to save a whole lot of storage space. Plus the wma tags never screw up asian characters, which happen frequently with ID3tags), so I dunno how it works, but I still think it might be due to tags from different source of the album information.
Why not try the copy-and-paste method I suggested and see if it works?
And yeah, I use Mediamonkey too. Easy to use. Been using it to clean up my 1800+ songs and album arts +_+
I'm happy with the stock HTC Music player, but what I don't like is that there is no duplicate deletion function for playlists, rather if the song is on a playlist twice, my only option is to DELETE THE SONG FROM MY SDCARD!
I also am unable to edit the tags (like if on my computer I've edited the tags so a song is like "Aira Mitsuki - Fantasy.mp3", it might show up on my Android as "Aira Mitsuki - Shintakemodo.mp3" (and it'd be in Japanese characters, and no that translation is not correct, just typing random transliteration haha).
Anyone know of an addon, or must I use a different player?
~ I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2 and everything stock (unlocked but not rooted, living in China haha).
I would suggest doubleTwist, but if dupes are an issue then you can usually locate them using a file manager, like Astro or something
Honestly, the bigger concern is tag editing.. the duplicate files is inconsequential.
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I'm happy with the stock HTC Music player, but what I don't like is that there is no duplicate deletion function for playlists, rather if the song is on a playlist twice, my only option is to DELETE THE SONG FROM MY SDCARD!
I also am unable to edit the tags (like if on my computer I've edited the tags so a song is like "Aira Mitsuki - Fantasy.mp3", it might show up on my Android as "Aira Mitsuki - Shintakemodo.mp3" (and it'd be in Japanese characters, and no that translation is not correct, just typing random transliteration haha).
Anyone know of an addon, or must I use a different player?
~ I'm using HTC Desire with Android 2.2 and everything stock (unlocked but not rooted, living in China haha).
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you are talking about editing the ID3 tag or the file name? Not sure if it makes a difference though. I am also using the Stock HTC Player in connection with iTunes Playlists (will be synct with HTC Sync). No issues like that yet, I am always adjusting the ID3 tag in iTunes itself (for instance for Thai songs).
editing
what I'm referring to is editing the filename and the id3 tags/properties. As well, is there a way to select songs and create a playlist from your computer, and then have the phone recognize it? going through manually and adding 1 song (or a group of songs from 1 artist) at a time to 1 playlist on my phone is ANNOYING (I have 1300 songs on my SD card)
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Honestly, the bigger concern is tag editing.. the duplicate files is inconsequential.
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Ok I misunderstood the issue, but maybe that's something that could be quite useful! And maybe even integration with gracenote or musicbrainz to retrieve data for the track(s)? This is waaaay out of my league I'm afraid but anyone who can do this, I'd happily accept commission for the idea
So today I flashed the gingerbread .602 sbf bc my rooted droid x was still on froyo. Anyway, I was in the process of setting everything up on my phone and noticed I was missing my album covers. I downloaded the cover art downloader. After I restored my album covers I was disturbed to find that about 4 of my albums were duplicated, but not the songs. Like "Big Willie Style" for instance. The first duplicate might have tracks 1,4,7,9 and the second duplicate might have tracks 2,3,5,6, and 8. The diving was totally random. Anyway, how can I merge these albums back together?
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I just had to go and fix this same issue with Google Music duplicating my albums, but not the songs. The problem is your tags. For example, lets say you have a 15 track album. 14 of the songs tags may say, Produced by Jay-Z. But that one other song may say, Produced by Jay-Z and Kanye West and that will create a entire different album(stupid, I know.) What you would have to do is go and edit it to only say, Produced by Jay-Z and it will combine everything back into one album. Rememer that all the tags like the Artist name, Genre, Producers, Year the album was produced, etc... must be the same for it to combine as one album.