Does anyone know why album artwork might not appear even when I've confirmed the mp3s have artwork attached? I have some albums and while all has artwork, only about half of them will show it. Verified with a third party program. I don't get it.
Are the covers labeled albumart.jpg?
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agentphantom said:
Are the covers labeled albumart.jpg?
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That shouldnt matter. The art should be embedded in each mp3.
sitlet said:
That shouldnt matter. The art should be embedded in each mp3.
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Point taken. The embedded art didn't work for me though, but the albumart did.
Yes, the artwork is embedded. I tried like you said and placed album artwork in the folders, however, only one album was recognized with the artwork, the rest still won't show. Makes no sense??
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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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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.
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....
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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....
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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
I love the Android system. I loved my Hero and I love my EVO. But it's **** like this that makes me question just how serious is Google about beating Apple because sometimes they seem to do a really half-ass job.
DISCLAIMER: I do not want to use a 3rd party music app because I should not HAVE to use a 3rd party music app. The stock app should JUST WORK.
Anyway... All my music goes through iTunes for tagging and importing album art. I do NOT use 'albumart.jpg.' I just embed the cover into the mp3 using iTunes.
So my obvious question is: why does the stock music app only show SOME of my album art????????????? Why has this not been resolved in the past how many ever years????
What's more is that not only does it not show my album art for some songs, but it shows the WRONG aka, album art from OTHER songs in some songs! For example: in song B it will show the album art from song F. Yet in iTunes, Winamp, my iPod, Windows Explorer, it shows the correct art!
If it didn't want to show any art for some I'd just say, forget it. But it drives me up a ****ing wall when it completely screws up the covers!
I don't have any albumart.jpg's or any other cover jpgs that would point to a cover! I've scanned that SD card thoroughly! I even wiped cache, dalvik-cache!
WTF?!!? This is a question and a rant in one...
And don't tell me, use MixZing or use Cubed - I know they work, I've tried them - my point is, this is the ONLY platform where little things like this are screwed up!
Telling me to use a 3rd party app to circumvent a "FEATURE" that works everywhere else is not a suggestion of a better program, it is admitting that you too believe Android is inferior and you need 3rd party apps to make it work right.
Any suggestions other than "use another app" are welcome.
Actually, this is NOT the only platform where things like this get screwed up. My gf's ipod gets album art wrong all the time, and she gets all of her music directly from itunes.
I never have this problem with my EVO, but all of my music is either from Amazon MP3 or ripped from CDs that I own.
Oh, and why are you so against using a 3rd party app? You do realize that the stock music player is just an app....right? Android isn't based around media consumption like iOS, it's more of a multi-purpose OS. YOU choose the apps you want to make the OS your own. It doesn't mean the OS is inferior. If anything it makes it BETTER.
Of course, if you like to have everything the same as everyone else, I hear Verizon has a new phone coming out on Feb. 10th that you will probably like.
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I put together my own mp3 files/tags/album art myself; sometimes using iTunes if I am working on it at work. Where do you get your music from? Are you sure the information was correct for the files you were attempting to play? So far I have always seen album art for any song I was playing and I cannot ever remember seeing wrong album art. I use the stock player in cyanogenmod 6 and now 7.
How exactly are you inserting the album art in itunes? You're not just using the "get album artwork" functionality and calling it a day, are you?
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How exactly are you inserting the album art in itunes? You're not just using the "get album artwork" functionality and calling it a day, are you?
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Unless you use one of the scripts out there to embed it, all iTunes is creating is a metadata link. It doesn't insert anything.
posguy99 said:
Unless you use one of the scripts out there to embed it, all iTunes is creating is a metadata link. It doesn't insert anything.
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Yep, exactly why I asked the question
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My cover art got mixed up before. There are a couple free "album art grabbers" on the market that I've used, they got right. I had to use the app to clear existing album art, then hit "fetch missing art ", then let it do its thing. It was easy, and worked for me.
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I've never been a fan of album art, or at least not of the way its set up on whatever.
My ipod, my evo, windows media player, etc. Its always getting flipped around. Sometimes with albums i download, they come with the cover art, and that art always gets switched with a different album.
I've gotten into the habit of just deleting all album art i find on any devices. It saves hassle. I agree, its a stupid thing, but I don't think its necessarily google's fault. Its just errors with file names, etc.
typeadam said:
I love the Android system. I loved my Hero and I love my EVO. But it's **** like this that makes me question just how serious is Google about beating Apple because sometimes they seem to do a really half-ass job.
DISCLAIMER: I do not want to use a 3rd party music app because I should not HAVE to use a 3rd party music app. The stock app should JUST WORK.
Anyway... All my music goes through iTunes for tagging and importing album art. I do NOT use 'albumart.jpg.' I just embed the cover into the mp3 using iTunes.
So my obvious question is: why does the stock music app only show SOME of my album art????????????? Why has this not been resolved in the past how many ever years????
What's more is that not only does it not show my album art for some songs, but it shows the WRONG aka, album art from OTHER songs in some songs! For example: in song B it will show the album art from song F. Yet in iTunes, Winamp, my iPod, Windows Explorer, it shows the correct art!
If it didn't want to show any art for some I'd just say, forget it. But it drives me up a ****ing wall when it completely screws up the covers!
I don't have any albumart.jpg's or any other cover jpgs that would point to a cover! I've scanned that SD card thoroughly! I even wiped cache, dalvik-cache!
WTF?!!? This is a question and a rant in one...
And don't tell me, use MixZing or use Cubed - I know they work, I've tried them - my point is, this is the ONLY platform where little things like this are screwed up!
Telling me to use a 3rd party app to circumvent a "FEATURE" that works everywhere else is not a suggestion of a better program, it is admitting that you too believe Android is inferior and you need 3rd party apps to make it work right.
Any suggestions other than "use another app" are welcome.
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I like the music app, simple easy to use, I can scroll through text to find my album really quick, oh yeah apple screws up tags all the time, I have a collection of cd's burned from itunes and I am loading them back into my computer windows nor itunes knows whats on the disc
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Actually, this is NOT the only platform where things like this get screwed up. My gf's ipod gets album art wrong all the time, and she gets all of her music directly from itunes.
I never have this problem with my EVO, but all of my music is either from Amazon MP3 or ripped from CDs that I own.
Oh, and why are you so against using a 3rd party app? You do realize that the stock music player is just an app....right? Android isn't based around media consumption like iOS, it's more of a multi-purpose OS. YOU choose the apps you want to make the OS your own. It doesn't mean the OS is inferior. If anything it makes it BETTER.
Of course, if you like to have everything the same as everyone else, I hear Verizon has a new phone coming out on Feb. 10th that you will probably like.
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I was venting buddy, no need to be a ****. As for the iPod, I've never had album art problems, yet I do have them w/ the EVO. Both issues unlike yours so obviously not all devices are 100% perfect...
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How exactly are you inserting the album art in itunes? You're not just using the "get album artwork" functionality and calling it a day, are you?
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Nope, I don't do "get album artwork." I've done literally THOUSANDS of mp3s where I'd put them into an iTunes playlist and manually insert the album art through the "edit" or "get info" or whatever that menu is called. I'd say 80% of the time it works.
If I buy a song from iTunes, convert it to MP3 and put it on my EVO the album art ALWAYS works. If I have an album art-less MP3 and insert an album cover using iTunes, it only works about 80% of the time.
Anyway, this is moot now b/c I found out what the problem was. The album art was being cached on my EVO. I have 2 music folders inside my "Music" folder. I just renamed those 2 folders and the Music app now reads 97% of the album art that I've done through iTunes even old-ass MP3 from before there was album art, it works through iTunes.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread.
I am severely anal about my music collection. I have around 17000 songs in it over years of ripping and way too much money spent on Amazon MP3 . I use Media Monkey to make sure all my album art is correct, everything is tagged correctly, all files are named correctly. I even deleted all images for album art and had media monkey add them to the mp3 tags themselves. Believe me it's all fine in the various DLNA/uPnP apps I use in Android, iPad, and PC's (XBMC, 2Player, etc..)
Every time I pull a bunch of files down to my phone (Nexus S) the album art ends up getting screwed up with art with the wrong albums etc (I never pull anything but full albums). I've gone in and wiped the music player data and had it rescan.. Same thing.. A few will come up bad. It's annoying. I mean how hard is it to keep the art for specific MP3's in the database correctly. It doesn't feel like rocket science.
I haven't been able for the life of me figure out exactly why this is happening only on the Android music player.
It seems that if I have two songs from separate albums but with the same album title, the album art gets confused. In this case, I have Enrique Iglesias' Escape along with Journey's Escape, with the album art for Journey showing up as the album art from Enrique Iglesias. All album art is embedded directly into the Mp3s.
What did I do wrong?
WhiterThanWhite said:
It seems that if I have two songs from separate albums but with the same album title, the album art gets confused. In this case, I have Enrique Iglesias' Escape along with Journey's Escape, with the album art for Journey showing up as the album art from Enrique Iglesias. All album art is embedded directly into the Mp3s.
What did I do wrong?
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Nothing. Android has had huge album art issues all along. I'm happy that the GNex is not exhibiting the plague of album art issues it used to have. This is small potatoes compared to the mess it was on my Nexus S.
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Nothing. Android has had huge album art issues all along. I'm happy that the GNex is not exhibiting the plague of album art issues it used to have. This is small potatoes compared to the mess it was on my Nexus S.
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That's true. My Milestone would ignore punctuation, like full stops, from the album art title. e.g. F.A.M.E. would be confused with The Fame Monster. What the hell?
So there's nothing I can do about this?
I have a few albums where the album art refuses to change no matter which program I use.
Based on some searching I found that if you delete all files in "com.android.providers.media\albumthumbs" that the phone should stop forcing its art on specific albums. However after doing so you also have to change the folder to read-only.
I did this on an old s5 neo and it worked.
However on my current s9 I don't have the option to delete files in this folder. So, I found the folder by connecting my phone to my pc and deleted all the files... but I can't change the permission of the folder either on my phone or pc to read-only, so the album art is still not changing.
Tried a bunch of different apps, and in the apps the art is ok, but in the actual music player it's not.
Is there any work around for this? Or any other way to force the album art to change? Any way to change the folder to read-only?
Thanks!
It seems strange that art wouldn't change. Are you sure there isn't art embedded into the files? Download a music tagger, I recommend Mp3tag if you're on Windows, and open the files in there to see if there's any art embedded. Also make sure there isn't a hidden folder.jpg anywhere. If you can't figure it out maybe upload one of the files and I'll have a look to see if I can find the problem.
Hey sure thanks so much if you could help that'd be great.
Here is one of the files. I just opened it in mp3tag, deleted the album art, added a high quality pic. Yet when I uploaded to my phone it still shows some low quality crap as album art.
https://ufile.io/2polz
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Hey sure thanks so much if you could help that'd be great.
Here is one of the files. I just opened it in mp3tag, deleted the album art, added a high quality pic. Yet when I uploaded to my phone it still shows some low quality crap as album art.
https://ufile.io/2polz
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I've taken a look and the file appears to be OK. Did you happen to check if the previously embedded pic was low quality? Because if it was you might just need to clear albumthumbs again, then recopy over the album with the high quality art embedded in each file (you might also just be able to put it as folder.jpg in the same folder with no embeds on any files, not certain if that works) and let the cache regenerate.
If that doesn't work then I have a couple more questions - how low quality are you talking (a screenshot would be helpful), and what music player are you using? Because testing the file in Samsung Music looks fine to me. You could also have a look at another music player with an option to ignore mediastore's cached covers (which are usually compressed more) and reads the art directly from the file. There are a bunch available that can do this like Retro, Shuttle, Phonograph, Poweramp, and probably tons more.
I've attached screenshots of what it looks like for me on Retro (with mediastore disabled) and Samsung Music.
Hey no I didn't check the previously embeded pic. I did however clear albumthumbs and then recopied the song, but still didn't work. Don't know what the f is up with this phone lol.
I'm not sure what you mean with the folder.jpg. I'm supposed to name the album art file folder.jpg?
Ya mine doesn't look like that unfortunately. Here's a pic of how mine looks on Samsung music player. Also here's the pic I'm trying to use.
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Hey no I didn't check the previously embeded pic. I did however clear albumthumbs and then recopied the song, but still didn't work. Don't know what the f is up with this phone lol.
I'm not sure what you mean with the folder.jpg. I'm supposed to name the album art file folder.jpg?
Ya mine doesn't look like that unfortunately. Here's a pic of how mine looks on Samsung music player. Also here's the pic I'm trying to use.
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Welp, my last idea apart from trying a different music player is to clear the data of Samsung Music. If that doesn't work, I probably can't help sorry.
By the folder.jpg thing I mean instead of embedding the file in every MP3 on an album, which takes up more space (say your album cover is 700 kilobytes across 10 songs, that's 7 megabytes), you can just put it in the same folder as the files (like the attached image). It could also take priority depending on the app, not sure how Samsung Music handles it.
That's alright thanks so much so far.
How do I clear the data from samsung music?
In terms of putting the album art in the same folder as the files... do I do that on my phone or my computer?
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That's alright thanks so much so far.
How do I clear the data from samsung music?
In terms of putting the album art in the same folder as the files... do I do that on my phone or my computer?
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Open Settings, then go to Apps, find and tap on Samsung Music, then tap Storage, and Clear data. And you can do it on either.
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on Samsung Music, then tap Storage, and Clear data. And you can do it on either.
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Oh man thanks so much... it finally worked. There are still a couple albums which it didn't work for but it worked for most. Maybe clearing albumthumbs again will work.
Also there's another problem, lol. The mini album art at the bottom of the screen shows up as the old one instead of the new one. I'm gonna try clearing albumthumbs and samsung music again and hopefully that fixes it.
Hey so I (or better you) figured it out finally. If you change the album art right before you clear samsung music then after clearing it will show up with the correct album art in all places. Some of the older ones I changed didn't show up, but if I changed them right before clearing they all showed up perfectly.
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Hey so I (or better you) figured it out finally. If you change the album art right before you clear samsung music then after clearing it will show up with the correct album art in all places. Some of the older ones I changed didn't show up, but if I changed them right before clearing they all showed up perfectly.
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Glad to hear you got it working!