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[Q] New to Android [iTunes Album Sync]

Hello all,
I am a former iPhone user to just received his Moto Atrix today and I am trying to get some music on the device.
My iTunes library does not revolved around playlists, but instead I use the "Albums" view to play/sync music (to my iPhone). When I sync the iPhone, I have an option of checking which albums I want to sync.
Is there any software I can get/purchase that will let me do this for the Droid. I would like to still use iTunes as my music management software, but sync Albums onto my Atrix. I have tried some software (doubleTwist) but it only allows syncing of playlists (which I don't have). This software would also have to have the ability of playing from the "Albums" on the Atrix.
[See attached for what I would like the application to be able to sync]
Thanks in Advance,
Tom

jiggytom said:
Hello all,
I am a former iPhone user to just received his Moto Atrix today and I am trying to get some music on the device.
My iTunes library does not revolved around playlists, but instead I use the "Albums" view to play/sync music (to my iPhone). When I sync the iPhone, I have an option of checking which albums I want to sync.
Is there any software I can get/purchase that will let me do this for the Droid. I would like to still use iTunes as my music management software, but sync Albums onto my Atrix. I have tried some software (doubleTwist) but it only allows syncing of playlists (which I don't have). This software would also have to have the ability of playing from the "Albums" on the Atrix.
[See attached for what I would like the application to be able to sync]
Thanks in Advance,
Tom
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Try doubletwist

neer2005 said:
Try doubletwist
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That's the one I just tried. It only seems to be able to sync "Playlists" and not Compilations/Albums

Sorry I must have skipped that part in your post.

You can try this http://androidforums.com/android-media/139655-how-sync-itunes-android.html

neer2005 said:
You can try this http://androidforums.com/android-media/139655-how-sync-itunes-android.html
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Giving this a try now. So far so good. I am syncing the music now, which is half the battle. Hopefully some music player will be able to "detect" these albums. I will be trying MixZing first.

Make a playlist with everything you want to sync

Or you can download the Motorola medialink software, as it can sync all your itunes musics. Of cause the DRM free one's.

thunderpack said:
Make a playlist with everything you want to sync
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This is essential anyway if you have more music than you have space on the phone, which if you are into music - is likely. In that case, stick to doubletwist.

stonec11 said:
Or you can download the Motorola medialink software, as it can sync all your itunes musics. Of cause the DRM free one's.
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iTunes agent worked beautifully. I am able to see my albums in the Music player as well as Mixzing.
Cleaned up some album covers that were missing using the free album cover app.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

jiggytom said:
iTunes agent worked beautifully. I am able to see my albums in the Music player as well as Mixzing.
Cleaned up some album covers that were missing using the free album cover app.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!
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No problem.

Unknown Artist Problem

Just got my SGS2. Fired up iSyncr and iTunes and synced about 1600 songs to my new phone.
Media Scan then completed
I fired up powerAMP and PlayerPro and stock music player.
ALL of them showed 408 songs as unknown artist.
Yet on my Motorola Defy and in iTunes all the artists are perfect. I have formatted the sd card and resynced the music still no good.
Anyone else experienced this problem?

Yes, though I used TuneSync to move them over. I just removed album art from one album and had iTunes reload it automatically. Then I sync'ed again, now the music shows up. All of it, even the stuff that I didn't touch. Weird. (XWKE7, rooted)

How do you sync iTunes with this phone?
I haven't got the phone yet but it would be good to know

programs on the phone called isyncr or tune sync will do it.
though any m4a/acc music wont show artist names correctly.

Does it come pre installed?

no, they can be purchased from the market.

I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...

NZtechfreak said:
I'd suggest giving iTunes away, only gives you headaches if you aren't an iOS user. Better to have a properly curated tag collection...
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itunes isnt a problem for me. in fact i love it. isyncr has always been brilliant at keeping my android and itunes libraries in sync. Its just this sgs bug that is causing trouble. Hope samsung fixes it soon.

Same here, NickChaplin. TuneSync worked flawlessly on Cyanogenmod.

The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.

Luinwethion said:
The same here, all the songs i bought from iTunes my SGSII won't recognize the artist name.... On my Desire it works perfect.
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i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.

NickChaplin said:
i converted all mine to mp3. No problems any more.
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What'd you use to convert your music?
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brandenk0 said:
What'd you use to convert your music?
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iTunes
less than 10 characters

poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.

intruda119 said:
poweramp solves all problems. Better than any stock music player.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.

What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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nope, poweramp, player pro, winamp, double twist AND stock media player ALL have the same problem.
Thats because its a problem with the way the media scanner reads the ID3 tag of the m4a file and then adds it to the android music library that ALL the above media players read from.
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intruda119 said:
What? I had the same issue with my vibrant. Poweramp automatically fetches album covers. Even random mixtape songs.
I agree it should work by default. But its hit or miss with devices. Poweramp solves this problem by fetching the album covers.
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sorry, all my music already has album art.

Try MediaFix from the Market.

Try MIUI Music APK. That always popped out artist info, lyrics, CD art, and everything else automatically for me. Well, 90% of the time at least.

There is a bug in Android's media indexing & storage service. Sometimes it doesn't get the artist. Some apps like Mediafix or TuneSync index the music themselves and put the correct artist in the service's database. Until the bug is fixed, the only way to solve the problem is to either use players that don't rely on the service or to fix database yourself with the appropriate applications. MIUI's player will only work better if it doesn't rely on Android's internal indexing. I'm pretty sure it does rely on it.

My Library widget missing album art

Found a few threads on google, but nothing here. All my mp3's are perfectly tagged, and have art embedded. In Music they show up fine, even in the 'last added' tab... but in the widget they do not show up..
In fact these mp3's are from Amazon, so I know they're ok..
Any ideas?

I have found album art only shows in the widget when it is uploaded to google music itself.
I had some music on the N7, all album art showed in the app but not in the widget.
Upload exactly the same files to google music and it all shows up in the widget.

shaneydroid said:
I have found album art only shows in the widget when it is uploaded to google music itself.
I had some music on the N7, all album art showed in the app but not in the widget.
Upload exactly the same files to google music and it all shows up in the widget.
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Hmm how did you do that from the UK? Just comes up with 'We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.'

marky9074 said:
Hmm how did you do that from the UK? Just comes up with 'We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.'
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http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Bl...d-Install-Guide-free-cloud-music/bc-p/3818159

Even using Tor with a US IP address I cannot log in

shaneydroid said:
http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Bl...d-Install-Guide-free-cloud-music/bc-p/3818159
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Ahh yep, was following this guide :/

Hmm managed to get into it on Tor eventually (once in about fifty attempts), but then the guide says once registered you can use from any location... but still getting same message from UK IP. Then I tried to get back in with Tor, and again, with a US IP comes up with the warning! Give up :crying:

Sorry, was about 3 weeks ago I did it, wonder if they blocked it? Though I am still able to upload to and use the service.
There's another guide here that does it differently: http://www.knowyourmobile.com/features/1207574/how_to_enable_google_music_in_the_uk.html
I will try to find the exact guide I used before to see if anything is different to the one I posted.
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This thread might be more helpful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1353626

Worked for me an hour ago
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marky9074 said:
Found a few threads on google, but nothing here. All my mp3's are perfectly tagged, and have art embedded. In Music they show up fine, even in the 'last added' tab... but in the widget they do not show up..
In fact these mp3's are from Amazon, so I know they're ok..
Any ideas?
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I have the same problem sometimes... but it does not bother me, as it goes away by itself.

So theres no way for music that is saved locally on my N7 to have its album art show?

i know a way around
just use tunnel bear
select us ip
login into ur Google account from there
and the go to google music
get the music manager
upload some songs
and now turn off tunnel bear
once activated ur google music auccount will not be disable even if u login from original ip
i know this cause i stay in India where google music is disabled and i got it working this way for my account.

Back to original topic
I'd like to know about this too. I have music both on my device and it's also uploaded to Google Play from my computer. Not having album art really bugs me for some reason. I live in the USA so I don't have to do anything weird with Google Play, it works fine.
EDIT: I figured it out. I went to my Google account and synced music/library. It shows the same albums but they have artwork note now.

Album art

Hello
Does anybody know how i can get album art onto my nexus 7, just shows the stock google player picture when i pla music and i want it to show the songs album art if poss. Did a forum search but nothing popped up. Thanks

steve50 said:
Hello
Does anybody know how i can get album art onto my nexus 7, just shows the stock google player picture when i pla music and i want it to show the songs album art if poss. Did a forum search but nothing popped up. Thanks
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I have all the .mp3 tracks for each album in a folder. Also in that folder is the cover picture labelled albumart.jpg. Try clearing the data in the Google Play Music app. That forces the player to rescan for music files.

There are apps on Google play store that can do it, such as 'album art grabber' etc
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Google my music widget not displaying artwork?

Hello guys I have a bit of an issue with the Google play music widget, it doesn't display album art from albums I've imported manually but does with music present installed on the phone. If i open one of the albums from the widget, the app displays the imported album artwork fine. What am I missing?
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Anyone?
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Anyone?
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Happens to me to, I guess its a bug of the nexus 4 or jellybean

MIne does this too. I displays some but not others. It's wierd.

I have the same problem on my Nexus 10. Seems like the My Library widget only displays the artwork for media stored in the Play cloud not on the device itself. Google should fix this.

@HankStorm Yeah I had just copied my albums to the PC, then uploaded to cloud, I can now see album artwork from the widget and download the albums from there to my phone if I so wish. Only took about an hour to do ha!
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It's a real shame Google won't let you upload straight from your device as I download a lot of mix tapes straight to my phone.
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Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.

bleys121 said:
Kill any other media players you have running. That worked for me. Widget was back in an instant.
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Thanks for the advice, the widget worked fine to start off with. It just didn't show artwork for albums imported manually and stored locally on the phone. It's sorted now though.
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Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear

berz said:
Download apps like album art grabber which will get u all the art work .
after that just clear the cache and force close the play music app and reopen it all the albums will appear
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As I said in original post. The albums already contain artwork. The app displays it just fine, the widget doesn't. It did fix by uploading the albums to cloud. But I will try the fc as you suggested next time and see what happens. Thanks
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Same boat. I thought about using the Play Music system with the cloud and all to see what happens... but man, what a bunch of extra stuff to do.
Call me old school but I've never used any kind of 'manager' I just copy and paste, how does it get more simple?

I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.

bblzd said:
I'm having this issue and it's very annoying. album art grabber doesn't work it thinks most of my albums already have art and the ones that have zero it downloads something but it never appears even after clearing the app cache and force closing.
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same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?

piebobs said:
same problem here on nexus 5 ,play music app shows art work fine the widget doesn't, seems a bit long winded to have to upload it elsewhere and then back to phone ,surely the widget gets its info from the app?
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Seeing as it's only a problem with the widget I abandoned it. Not worth uploading everything and then having to distinguish between On Device or not, potentially streaming files that are available locally.