How does the HTC Album art work exactly? I've ripped a bunch of music to my HDD and transfered them to my phone. I've tried leaving them untitled after they're ripped and HTC doesn't load the album art. I've tried renaming them and none of them will work. What am I doing wrong?
I've even tried all the Update Song options.
Im Packing said:
How does the HTC Album art work exactly? I've ripped a bunch of music to my HDD and transfered them to my phone. I've tried leaving them untitled after they're ripped and HTC doesn't load the album art. I've tried renaming them and none of them will work. What am I doing wrong?
I've even tried all the Update Song options.
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You could try using iTunes or Windows Media Player to attach album art to your music. Personally, I use itunes because it has a "get album artwork" feature (right click the song title). That, and I have an iPhone. Hope that helps.
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I just got the tough pro 2 with TFHD and I've been trying to work on this problem all day.
I have all my music inside one folder on my SD card called "Music" all the album artwork is embedded into the MP3.
When the touchflo sees the music it takes a random album artwork from one of my songs, AND MAKES IT THE SAME FOR ALL. Its driving me nuts! Every song in my library has the same album artwork. At this point I just want to not even use the album artwork because its so frustrating.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I deleted the HTC/AudioManager_Eng/AudioManager_Eng file, and that still didnt work.
Thanks!
MustangChris04 said:
I just got the tough pro 2 with TFHD and I've been trying to work on this problem all day.
I have all my music inside one folder on my SD card called "Music" all the album artwork is embedded into the MP3.
When the touchflo sees the music it takes a random album artwork from one of my songs, AND MAKES IT THE SAME FOR ALL. Its driving me nuts! Every song in my library has the same album artwork. At this point I just want to not even use the album artwork because its so frustrating.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I deleted the HTC/AudioManager_Eng/AudioManager_Eng file, and that still didnt work.
Thanks!
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Try deleting all your music, doing a soft reset and then re-import your music via windows media player. Update your library via windows media player on the TP2, one more soft reset and then it should work. It helped me fix the problem.
MustangChris04 said:
I just got the tough pro 2 with TFHD and I've been trying to work on this problem all day.
I have all my music inside one folder on my SD card called "Music" all the album artwork is embedded into the MP3.
When the touchflo sees the music it takes a random album artwork from one of my songs, AND MAKES IT THE SAME FOR ALL. Its driving me nuts! Every song in my library has the same album artwork. At this point I just want to not even use the album artwork because its so frustrating.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I deleted the HTC/AudioManager_Eng/AudioManager_Eng file, and that still didnt work.
Thanks!
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Mate, did the same thing on mine.
The Tab Player is really a piece o junk in comparison to say, Nitrogen!
I even deleted the cache on mine after having the same issue, it then happily picked another singular album cover and ran that onto everything again. I do not think you should HAVE to run a playlist through Media Player to work properly, this is an HTC issue and with luck, may get dealt with on the WM 6.5 update.
In the meantime, use Nitrogen, truckloads beter than the TAB and Media Player and it is well supported, essentially free and WORKS really well on TP2.
Cheers
Jabberoo
I did everything and it still didnt work so here was my fix:
I set iTunes to manage my music, then dragged all my music into iTunes. Once the music made a copy into my library, I went into my Itunes music folder and all my music was in folders that corresponded to artist, and album.
Then I dragged all these folders and music into my phone and the album art worked correctly because each album had its own folder with an image.
Interesting. That is how my music is organized (wmp can organize your music files too) and I haven't had that problem so that must be the trick.
The title says it all.
Opening the MP3s in any Windows MP3 player show the album pictures.
Any idea why the original music player in the Desire doesn't do it?
Rooted Desire with R5 rom from Modaco.
I've got a similar issue. I can see 90% of my album art but some are missing despite being present in the folder I've put on my desire!
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I had this. I even tried embedding album art in the mp3 and making sure there was a jpg in the same directory. However, the HTC app simply refused to use some no matter what I did.
The solution? I downloaded MixZing from the marketplace. I liked it so much, I upgraded to the non-Ad version.
I couldn't persuade my Desire either.
I embedded all artworks directly into mp3, deleted the albumthumbs directory several times... no luck.
But what is more annoying is that for some mp3s it displays the completely wrong artwork. I opened the mp3 in Winamp, WMP - the artwork is correct. When I play it in Desire the artwork shown is completely different.
PS: Meridian behaves the same way.
Have you tried deleting all the files in the /sd card/albumthumbs folder and rebooting your phone?
I had this issue when I first got the phone, I managed to fix it by clearing out the tags of each album and filling them again, took multiple attempts though.
EroThraX said:
I had this issue when I first got the phone, I managed to fix it by clearing out the tags of each album and filling them again, took multiple attempts though.
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this worked for me too.
It does work but only if you never add more music. I always seem to get problems with new mp3s added.
And I never understood where does it take the incorrect artwork from.
clear data at Media Store! Thats works fine!
Settings > Applications > Manage applications > Media Storage
then reboot the device...
xdad, your solution works, thanks!
Morning all
I've had a look at the search function but nothing seems to answer my question
After coming from the HD2 with flawless sync'ing with WM12 i now have a better phone that won't sync at all with windows media player. Nothing appears at all in the WM12 windows when i am connected in Disk drive mode or HTC sync.
I have tried media monkey but have all my music sorted via WM12. does anyone know how its possible to sort it or am i flogging a dead horse?
thanks
I'm stealing your thread here a bit. I wonder how you organize your music to get the album art to show up.
On my old Touch Diamond 2 I put the music on my storage card like this (Storage card\music\artist\album), in every album I had the files included in the album and a album art named Folder.jpg, HTC music player then made it's own album art based on the ones I put and scaled them. Is it the same on the Desire?
my albums that are organised off WM12 which either get the album art manually when i drag and drop it or they download auto appear in the Desire however some don't no idea why and i have given up trying. The desire seems to arrange its music is singles even for albums so you end up with loads of folders and 1 file inside instead of 1 artist and then the albums for them like in the HD2.
But still i do require an answer for WM12 if anyone knows
windows mobile is made to sync with wmp12 obviously android isnt, the htc music player can read wmp id3 tags so as long as you music is organised in wmp12, just copy the albums to your sd card and all the album art and track names should show up the same, it does for me anyway
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I'm stealing your thread here a bit. I wonder how you organize your music to get the album art to show up.
On my old Touch Diamond 2 I put the music on my storage card like this (Storage card\music\artist\album), in every album I had the files included in the album and a album art named Folder.jpg, HTC music player then made it's own album art based on the ones I put and scaled them. Is it the same on the Desire?
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i organise my music like /sdcard/my documents/music and just drop the folder with indervidual albums into the music folder, like on my pc, and it all works sweet for me also i dont put any album art in, as thats included in the id3 tag
whats the way that you get playlists onto the desire quicker than making them on the phone its self?
i'm assuming that if i make the playlist via windows then drop it onto the phone it won't work due to the files addresses pointing to PC directories.
I have three albums that I can't get the album art to show up in HTC Music player no matter what. 400+ other albums works fine (some after I clean the tags and re-apply the album arts)
1. I've cleaned the ID3 tags clean of album art multiple times.
2. I've tried linked folder.jpg, unlinked folder.jpg, embedded album art
3. Tried multiple sizes and types of album art source
Any ideas?
Did you check the size of the folder.jpg files? Also make sure the resolution isn't ridiculous like 1600x1600, which would be causing the large file size anyway.
I've tagged thousands of files and when I got a Sansa I started to notice that big album art wouldn't display. I always check my master folder.jpg then batch-embed with Tag & Rename after.
Hope that helps!
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SilverZero said:
Did you check the size of the folder.jpg files? Also make sure the resolution isn't ridiculous like 1600x1600, which would be causing the large file size anyway.
I've tagged thousands of files and when I got a Sansa I started to notice that big album art wouldn't display. I always check my master folder.jpg then batch-embed with Tag & Rename after.
Hope that helps!
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I did check. Initially, I thought my 500 x 500 jpg were too big. I resized them, still doesn't work. Possibly corrupt jpg? So I downloaded from new source.
Later on, I noticed that some of my album have album images larger than 500 x 500 and they do work.
Just 3 albums out of 431. I might try re-downloading these files from another source.
album art grabber >
try it
davebu said:
album art grabber >
try it
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I use Mediamonkey. It is superior.
Anyways, I re-downloaded the three albums. Two of them got fixed. One still refuses to work.
F#$k Franz Ferdinand. I don't even listen to that crap.
jerryparid said:
I use Mediamonkey. It is superior.
Anyways, I re-downloaded the three albums. Two of them got fixed. One still refuses to work.
F#$k Franz Ferdinand. I don't even listen to that crap.
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are you familiar w/ unix/linux commands? try using adb shell to touch the album's files... this MAY make HTC music re-cache the album art for that....
shad0w77 said:
are you familiar w/ unix/linux commands? try using adb shell to touch the album's files... this MAY make HTC music re-cache the album art for that....
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I do delete cache on every file update.
jerryparid said:
I do delete cache on every file update.
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i know, but i tried this and worked for me... try touching your music files... this will change the modified date and hopefullyt wake up the htc music app to reset the album art
For some reason all my songs have the same album art..
Its sooooo annoying..
I've tried flashing different roms (currently I'm using the JoyOs).. but this problem exists everywhere..!!
I've attached a screenshot.. Out of the 5 albums 4 have the same album art..!
Please help guys..! :fingers-crossed:
use a app to get album art
my wildfire also had this problem. I had to manually change the wrong album arts. there is an app called ITag, that's what I used.
I think when we have photo(s) in the folder that contains those songs, media library mistake them for album arts and apply that image to all or some songs In that folder.
hope this Info helps
Shubham87 said:
For some reason all my songs have the same album art..
Its sooooo annoying..
I've tried flashing different roms (currently I'm using the JoyOs).. but this problem exists everywhere..!!
I've attached a screenshot.. Out of the 5 albums 4 have the same album art..!
Please help guys..! :fingers-crossed:
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I use to get this with most cm7 based roms, as suggested above use app that can grab album art, or try a music player winamp or poweramp (others probably have same feature) as it searches the web for the correct album art and Presto! No more barbie girl on your Avenge sevenfold albums