Hi:
I have all my music stored on SD card. I sync it with Windows Media Player. All songs appear normally in Windows Media Player and when I use Files Explorer on Tilt 2 to view the songs on SD card.
My problem is, when I use the music player in TF3D, and look at library/songs, many songs appear twice. The really odd part is that a song may appear once with album art (which all my songs have), and a second instance with no album art.
When I play songs on the music tab in TF3D both instances of the song play. What I mean is, sometimes a song will show with album art, and sometimes the one without album art shows. The same is true if I edit a song title etc through Windows Media Player (I believe it is version 11). A song will show as the pre-edited version sometimes, other times it shows the edited version.
Any ideas? This is really driving me nuts.
Thanks!
I have a similar problem - but possibly the opposite to yours.
I have approx. 15Gb of music on the MicroSD on my TP2, and regularly use Windows Media Player to sync new music to the phone. However, Windows Media Player appears to sync ALL the music BACK to the PC as well - meaning I have each song duplicated on the PC (sometimes many times), which is rapidly filling up my hard drive unless I periodically manually delete all duplicates (which is painful).
I'm sure there must be a setting within Windows Media Player to stop this happening - but I still want to be able to sync music TO the phone (just not back).
Has anyone else encountered this issue or know a solution?
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Hi guys,
Since a few weeks I own an HTC Touch Pro 2 running Win ME 6.1. It's a company phone, bought separately (so not combined with an operator contract). I'm running it almost freshly "out of the box" with just one additional application (TomTom) installed to it.
I bought an 8 gb uSDHC flash card, and put 1g of TomTom maps and about 3g of MP3 music on it. The most mp3's are 320 kbit cbr. Please do not start a discussion whether this is useless on a phone or not; the music comes from my central library from where I feed a lot of different media devices like an iPhone, some software mediaplayers, an old iPod, a Windows (Vista) Media Center and a Logitech Squeezebox. None of these devices give problems, only the HTC Touch Pro 2 phone is giving me a headache.
To these mp3's I have attached artwork, using MediaMonkey. I thought that would give a nice look to the music app., as it allows to browse through the music library showing this art.
But! The music players goes berzerk. It leaves me waiting for hours and hours ("searching"). But even one NIGHT (10 hours or so) of searching won't give me the complete library. The artwork does not match the music, sometimes all songs have the same artwork and the player won't browse through the music (not with the up/down software buttons on the left and not with the 'sweep' move). Sometimes it starts to browse by itself, giving me a minutelong show of coverart (but without music). If I succeed to start a song to play, playback sometimes gets interrupted at random times (and sometimes not, playing the song perfectly).
What a mess.
When I play the same music from the same source using the Windows Media app. on the phone, I have no problem at all. Within 20 seconds the library is updated, coverart is shown and the music plays and can be browsed without any delay or interuption.
Things I've tried:
1) Resetting the phone;
2) Renaming the file Audiomanager_Eng which is in Application data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng, then resetting the phone, then deleting the renamed file and start a new library search (by starting the music app);
3) Formatting the uSDHC card and rewriting the content to it, followed by step 2);
4) Formatting the uSDHC card with a different blocksize (I tried 1k, 4k, 16k and 64k, doesn't seem to make a lot of difference) and rewriting the content to it, followed by step 2);
5) Testing the content of the uSDHC card in the different states while working on step 4), by playing the music directly from the uSDHC card in Windows Vista on a host computer. No problem at all: Coverart was shown and music played flawless;
6) Copying part of the the content of the uSDHC card to an iPhone and playing the music on it. No problem at all: Coverart was shown and music played flawless;
7) Removing the largest coverart and replacing it with smaller images. The largest remaining coverart is approx. 500 kb (5 jpg's of 100 kb each). Again, this is no problem with any of my other music devices.
Who recognises these problems and even more important, who has the solution?
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I got the same albumart for almost all my music, the problem is its a picture that copied to all songs by itself!
On my 8GB SDHC SanDisk I got about 2GB of music - I can flip through the songs with the softkeys and with the 'sweep' move but they all have the same (anoying) picture...
Edit: What I forgot: On my SDHC there is always a hidden file named 'hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg' showing this specific Albumart that is shown for all songs - even if the songs have different Albumarts on my Desktop (just copied them from the SD to proof the Arts are still there)
Additionally, I have removed all coverart except the front cover. So each mp3 now only has 1 jpg attached. Result: The problem that all songs have the same cover has become much worse. Almost every song has the same cover now.
This thing drives me mad;-(
I can't believe no one else has this problem. Anyone?
Mad Marc said:
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I got the same albumart for almost all my music, the problem is its a picture that copied to all songs by itself!
On my 8GB SDHC SanDisk I got about 2GB of music - I can flip through the songs with the softkeys and with the 'sweep' move but they all have the same (anoying) picture...
Edit: What I forgot: On my SDHC there is always a hidden file named 'hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg' showing this specific Albumart that is shown for all songs - even if the songs have different Albumarts on my Desktop (just copied them from the SD to proof the Arts are still there)
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Hi there, try to delete that file, activate the music player, take out the SDHC card, wait until the mp says "no music" and insert the card again. This gave me approx 98% of the covers. Still some tracks don't swow their own covers, I'm clueless on the reason for that.
Does this work for you?
I might have found something.
It seems like coverart is linked to the album tag and not to the title or artist (or a combination of those) tag.
The hidden file you're referring to seems like a default image which is shown when there's no image found with the same name as the album.
Would you please check your library and tell me if you have missing album tags?
Hi,
I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
I have a problem with HTC Music player not showing some artworks (which are directly saved in mp3). I already tried 3 (Cubed) player as well and it has the same issue.
I also tried updating the artwork several times just to make sure Desire would recognize the change but no luck. The phone does not refresh the id3tag at all. Winamp and WMP on my desktop show the artwork correctly.
Does anyone else experience something similar?
Well, it seems that deleting the folder albumthumbs from SDcard solved this issue.
Although it does not explain why the phone is unable to refresh the id3 tags even when the affected songs are deleted and copied back again.
Oh well
Have you tried to use the app called SDrescan?
I have been having an issue with my phone and my music. All my music is organized by Genre, Artist, Album. After I sync my music with my phone, the Samsung media scanner starts up and scans my 2 SD cards. I then go and start the stock music player and all of the genres of my music have been changed. I have triple verified that the genres are correct using MP3Tag, Windows Media Player, and Winamp. I have even mounted the SD card to the computer and verified that the genres are correct. It seems that the Samsung Media Scanner is changing the genres. I have tried multiple music apps and none of them except for poweramp recognize the genres of my songs correctly. Poweramp has its own built in media scanner, that is the program itself scans the SD cards and builds its own library. I am not too fond of poweramp and would prefer to use the stock music player. The funny thing is when I stick my SD card into an EVO all of the music genres show up correctly in the stock EVO music player. So the issue must be with Samsung's media scanner reading the songs ID3 tags. Does anyone else have the same issue, and is there a way to fix it? Also, how does everyone sync their playlists on their phones? I currently use windows media player to sync my music. I also tried syncing my music with winamp but that did not work either, even with the winamp app on the phone. I am currently using PhantomHackers Blazer rom, and I had the same issues with the stock rom.
My head is spinning after reading this, can you please re-state your question a bit clearer not sure i or anyone understands whats wrong.
Mynaga said:
My head is spinning after reading this, can you please re-state your question a bit clearer not sure i or anyone understands whats wrong.
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Changed it up a bit, I hope that is clearer. No wonder I was not getting any responses.
wrong genres
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Changed it up a bit, I hope that is clearer. No wonder I was not getting any responses.
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I have also noticed and been very annoyed by this. I usually end up using the Google Play Music when I want to listen to my music by genres.... I would love to know if there is a fix for this.
Does anyone else have issues with missing music metadata?
I sync it from itunes (isync), but on my phone it comes up as unknown artist for some of them. Even odder is sometimes it's only half of an album that is "unknown".
It seems to only be for mp4 files and across the players I have used (default Music app, poweramp, and doubletwist).
I have tried converting the ID3 tags in itunes but this hasn't fixed it.
Any ideas?
everything was working just fine until today when i go to play a specific playlist. i use it as my mp3 from time to time, and my playlists, created and transferred onto the ext microSD using windows media player, have always shown up. that is until today, when i go to play a specific playlist, and the only selectable i see under the playlist tab is Quick List, which when i select, shows no recent music played . I turn the phone off, then on again, but it doesn't help.
HOWEVER, all my music shows up under the All Music tab, it shows my seperate albums in the Albums sections, same thing for artist, genres, etc, and all my music is playing just fine too. what can the problem be?
Phone - tmo samsung galaxy note 2 running the latest update, completely stock (no root, etc)