Lucky for me I still mainly buy CD and not downloads
So, how to I copy my CD's via my win7 pc to desire complete with album art work?
I've tried two options.
One is doubleTwist
The problem I have with it is it's slow at times, especially when starting and the initial sync with your device. It also handles tagging for compilation albums very poorly. For example I have a Motown album. Obviously there is no main album artist, and each track has an artist. In iTunes there are separate fields for Album artist and Track artist. doubleTwist can't parse this data and creates an album on your sd card for EACH and every artist it finds. So rather than my folders being organised as on my PC like Artist>Album>tracks, with this Motown album being found in Various Artists>Motown 50>tracks, I ended up with dozens of extra artists each with their own album called Motown 50. So there would be a Stevie Wonder folder...he'd have an album called Motown 50...then there'd be a Marvin Gaye folder and he'd have an album called Motown 50 too. SO as you can imagine the Album view on the media player looked a mess! There's also a complimentary Android app in the market which is actually much better than the built in music player. You also don't have to use the desktop app to use the Android app so give that a spin either way.
Next option is MediaMonkey
Now this is much better. It not only helps you organise your music, allowing for tags that even iTunes doesn't handle, but it will fetch album art for albums you don't have them for...as well as tag info for tracks you haven't tagged. The downside is it's not the most user friendly of apps. I got a few settings wrong and it scattered my music in random locations all over my SD card...it was hell to clean up. It managed to maintain my albums and tagging though. You just have to be very careful with it.
I use MediaMonkey to manage my mp3 library and to sync with my mp3 player. Not the prettiest of programs and sometimes not that intuitive when you first start to use it buit its very powerful - free too unless you want it to rip mp3s for you then you gotta pay for the Gold edition. You can though always use another ripper.
For my Desire though I just copy and paste the files to the SD card. MediaMonkey has already sorted out all the tags and album art for me so those are part of the file copied. I find it's far easier this way.
why can you just do what I do , copy them over in HDD mode , or even take out the Mme card and copy them over , and add a jpg to the folder where the album is .. eg album called wham be in a folder called wham with wham artwork as a small jpg... easy ...
dgattenb said:
why can you just do what I do , copy them over in HDD mode , or even take out the Mme card and copy them over , and add a jpg to the folder where the album is .. eg album called wham be in a folder called wham with wham artwork as a small jpg... easy ...
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works well
On a Win7 PC you have everything you need without installing any other software
Open up Windows Media Player and use that to BURN the CD. This will create a WMA (go for the WMA lossless option if you want the best quality) file.
Windows Media Player will automatically identify the CD, download track and album info and even the album art information if you want.
You can now start creating playlists. These are lists of tracks/albums that you add to.
Now connect your Desire in HDD mode. Media Player will take you through the sync process and allow you to choose which playlists to sync.
Now everytime you connect your Desire to your PC and run Windows Media Player, it will automatically sync your playlists to your device where you can then listen.
For some reason, most people forget about Windows Media player yet for a non iTunes user it is probably the best solution out there because it does the sync part so well
@ mark
works brilliantly
Im going to go against the grain and NOT recommend Media Monkey (although I do love the program) it just isn't reliable for ID3v1 tags.
Use whichever program you want to rip the mp3, there's a host of free software out there on 30 day trial, or limited use, all of which will do the job.
Use Tag Clinic (currently 4.3)
to fix your tags, use only ID3v1 tags, strip out any id3v2 tags (there are two seperate views for the two tag version in Tag Clinic, which is what makes it better and simpler than other software.)
Also only use the id3v1 generes that are available int he dropdown list, this I found as the only way to get reliable genres to stick.
Add jpegs of your album art to each folder, keep the dimensions less than 300px X 300px otherwise some players will not show it, regardless as to whether the file is available. also call the jpg, folder.jpg. (this is where media monkey IS helpful as you can copy an image from google images and paste it into the album art preview window and select 'save a copy to the folder as folder.jpg'
you should be all set, this I've learned after piddling around for hours trying to get MixZing to work with my SD music collection. I've read all the posts and made a few discoveries on my own.
Until ID3v2 tags are recognised (or recognised in parallel with ID3v1 tags) then this is the only way to get your collection showing properly.
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I've got a UK Touch Pro 2 from Orange with the official latest Windows 6.1 (!) ROM on it, and transferred about 10 songs from itunes onto it earlier. So far, so good.
I then decided actually I don't wat those songs, so I managed to delete them from the storage card, but they're all still showing up on the 'Now Playing' list along with little exclamation marks as if to say it (obviously) can't find them any more.
Does anyone know how I can clear this list??
Many thanks!
Hi --
I've been spending a lot (read "too much") time with the TF3D audio app recently, loading lots of music, so I have experience with your issue.
Basically, the Now Playing list will not reset until you "make" a new one, i.e. until you choose to play something else and thus have something else "Now Playing." Strange, but that's how it works...
The easiest way is to go into the Library, and choose one of the following that DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY OF THE DELETED SONGS: 1) an album; 2) a playlist; or 3) an artist. Then select any song from that category. The music player should now bring you back to the Music tab home screen, and you'll notice that only the songs from that category will be in Now Playing. When you go back into the Library the deleted song listings should now be gone completely.
Thanks jasmithers, a very useful tip - I shall give it a try!
The Touchflo music appears to be quite worthless. I cannot get the app to identify any artists, albums, genres, etc. I have approx 1400 songs in the sd card and it finds nothing.
exmeaguy said:
The Touchflo music appears to be quite worthless. I cannot get the app to identify any artists, albums, genres, etc. I have approx 1400 songs in the sd card and it finds nothing.
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If you mean that the tracks don't show up at all, perhaps they are in a DRM format, e.g. iTunes' .aac, that the music player can't read?
If you mean that the tracks show up but the artist/album/genre ID doesn't show, perhaps the data hasn't been entered into the tracks? On your computer, right-click on one of your music files, choose "Properties," and see if it brings up any info. If not, you can manually enter it (although it's a time-intensive process).
The TF3D music player keeps losing the indexed list of songs by artists, albums, genres. I will go to Winmo media player and scan for songs. The TF3D music player uses the scanned list from media player but it seems to lose the list after some action that I have not identified. Should not be this difficult.
can a specific directory for music be set in the stock player?
I can't find an option and the result is that directories that have audio files (eg /dictaphone) are appearing as albums - even though the player than can't even read the format. Very annoying having to thumb through a lot of irrelevant directories. I want it to look for music in a single directory rather than the device as a whole.
Thanks, M1
i'd like to see this tweak too!!! i have my music organized into one folder. i don't want all the other sounds from programs or games or anything.
a solution is the .nomedia file put into those folders but it's time consuming if you have many folders
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My audio book files are appearing as albums in the HTC music player.
I tried the .nomedia trick, but then the audio book files became invisible to the audio book player as well
another case of the usability thinking being skin deep I'm afraid.
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It s been very difficult for me to add the album arts to the HTC music player..
But it's done
I write this post if someone else is concerned by this issue, juste do this:
- I found that it's hard for the player to read the "Albumart.jpg" file in the directory so you will have to add the picture in the tags of the mp3 (media monkey is very good for that)
- The most important: Even with the previous step the pictures didn't appear.. I found the solution by chance..
If you want your pictures to appear you have to rename in the directory Music>Artist>Album the album names with a name different from the name of the album in your mp3 tags.
I really can't understand that but anyway it works!
OMG Thank You!! works on HTC Evo
I use MediaMonkey too and have the album art embedded in the tag rather than as a separate file. I just copied everything over manually using explorer and all the art work showed up immediately - maybe I just got lucky....
Just tried this with some albums where the art wouldn't show up and sure enough, it works. Why on earth does it rely on the directory name to match the tag? Madness
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If you want your pictures to appear you have to rename in the directory Music>Artist>Album the album names with a name different from the name of the album in your mp3 tags.
I really can't understand that but anyway it works!
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I have all my artworks embedded directly in mp3 files and all of them are i one big directory called Music.
I'm not sure how can I achieve correct (or any) artwork to be shown....
the htc player won't recognize any changes unless you rename the folder as you have already found. An easier solution is to go into settings - manage applications - media storage - clear data. This will wipe the media database. Reboot your phone. Open music app - be patient while the database is rebuilt.
The only reason why i am using the HTC Music App is because of its integration with the lock screen.. that feature has got me by the balls, because everything else of the app suck!
No good way to search by folder, bad album art management!
Horrible in my opinion: if you bunch up all your music together in a single directory it work pick up correct album art, u can't put it in any directory it must be in sdcard\media directory, you must sort by album name .. .too many limitations! not everyone sorts their music colection by album names and create album names for every song! Jeez! Fix it HTC!
Album Art display workaround
For me non of the solutions worked on HTC Inspire - very frustrating in addition to other crap constantly starting like Facebook - which I hate etc.
But I connected the phone to PC and browsed on the SDCard for Android/data/com.android.providers.media and I deleted the whole folder. After that all album arts are visible again in both players HTC and winamp. Now I have to find the solution for the disappearing playlists
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 was just wondering what the best way to edit music files is before adding them to my evo. I have my music perfectly organized in itunes but when I drag and drop in my sd and look through my phone most songs don't have artwork or artists. I tried editing them in windows media player but that didn't work so what's the best program to organize my music.
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I use MP3Tag for editing that info ( i do it before importing it to iTunes ), but i would think that should still be intact if you have it in iTunes. If you already have the music on the card, you can try installing mp3tag, right click the folder on the SD Card where you have your music, select "MP3Tag" & it will open all the MP3's in that folder for you to edit the meta data.
doubleTwist. 'Nuff said.
I've always been a proponent of proper ID3 tagging. I use Tag&Rename, which is great for batch operations and will even let you embed album art into each individual file. Develop a system of your own. I have my music folder classified by genre, and then artists within each genre folder, then albums within those. I would suggest at least keeping folders for artists.
Also, I hate iTunes because the one time I actually tried it, it reorganized all my files, copied them, retagged them, and screwed them all up. And because it's Appleware. Do the work and you'll be rewarded.
I've been using iTunes for my main collection, then when I copy stuff onto my SD card, if I care enough at the time (Hey! Sometimes I'm in a hurry!), I'll use dBpoweramp's ID3 editor. Lets me embed album artwork and edit the tags on just about any file type, from MP3 and AAC to FLAC and ALAC.
ive tried doubletwist and i wasnt a huge fan. sorry for such a late response i forgot i made this thread lol im going to try Tag&Rename see how that goes ill reply after. only reason i use itunes is because i used to have an iphone lol and i had spent a while organizing all my music on itunes not realizing it didnt actually change the file and i didnt feel like reorganizing it all over again but now i feel up to it so hopefully this doesnt take forever