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Album Cover not applied

I have a folder with music and place inside album cover and trying to call it like Folder.jpg or Albumart.jpg or cover.jpg but no one help me. Default Play Music application still use default cover for this folder.
Is there any way to apply my own album cover without embeded album cover to each mp3 file with programs like mp3tag?
PS: ICS 4.0.4

There is an app in the Market called Album Art Grabber. Try it out.

Ivaseg said:
Is there any way to apply my own album cover without embeded album cover to each mp3 file with programs like mp3tag?
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Why don't you want to embed the folder art to the id3 tags?
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Ryjabo said:
There is an app in the Market called Album Art Grabber. Try it out.
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comment from Play store:
It says it works with ICS but not with Google music. I guess that means you also need a third party player, but the app says nothing about this. This worked great with older Android phones, but if you are running OVA and using the native music app, forget it.
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and this is true I've tried it too and didn't work for Play Music
nxt said:
Why don't you want to embed the folder art to the id3 tags?
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Because I have some mixed folders that not real album so I want to set up for it my album cover and this is would be wrong if I set up for each file wrong album cover image
PS: problem still not resolved ^(

Use iTag. The album art has to be embedded into the song.
OR
Download cover art downloader, edit album art, wipe Google play music app data. It rescans your library and adds the art.
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I use Mp3Tag and on Android I use Album art grabber which shows the album cover picture only when I'm using custom music apps e.g. CM9 music player ...

manumanfred said:
I use Mp3Tag and on Android I use Album art grabber which shows the album cover picture only when I'm using custom music apps e.g. CM9 music player ...
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I had this problem.
Try my second suggestion.
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SocialReject said:
I had this problem.
Try my second suggestion.
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I gonna test iTag.. Thanks!

SocialReject and manumanfred can you trying read information about my problem? I ask how to set up album cover image without embeded image to each mp3 file. iTag like mp3tag applied it to mp3 file and album art grabber didn't work with default ICS player Play Music.

Ivaseg said:
SocialReject and manumanfred can you trying read information about my problem? I ask how to set up album cover image without embeded image to each mp3 file. iTag like mp3tag applied it to mp3 file and album art grabber didn't work with default ICS player Play Music.
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Did you wipe app data in settings? I said it rescans your media once you set up again. iTag was just a suggestion.
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SocialReject said:
Did you wipe app data in settings?
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yes but didn't help

Ivaseg said:
Folder.jpg or Albumart.jpg or cover.jpg
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Will the stock ICS music player read all of these? I thought it wanted albumart.jpg, but I might have had an issue with not clearing the app data.

Google play cover art problem

I've looked everywhere for an explanation on this and can't find it. Maybe you guys can help me.
Most of my songs have their respected album art but some do not. For some reason Google play picks a random cover for almost all of the songs that don't. In my case it picked a nickel back cover.
How do I make the so gs that do not have a cover just have the default blank cover that Google has?
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EDIT:
Ok so under closer inspection. Songs with ACTUAL "Unknown" album show the Google unknown album cover.
But some songs with actual cover art in iTunes (where my Google Music syncs) has a cover art but the same song in Google Play has a ****ty Nickel Back cover instead. I attacted 2 pictures showing an example.

krolla03 said:
I've looked everywhere for an explanation on this and can't find it. Maybe you guys can help me.
Most of my songs have their respected album art but some do not. For some reason Google play picks a random cover for almost all of the songs that don't. In my case it picked a nickel back cover.
How do I make the so gs that do not have a cover just have the default blank cover that Google has?
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Ok so under closer inspection. Songs with ACTUAL "Unknown" album show the Google unknown album cover.
But some songs with actual cover art in iTunes (where my Google Music syncs) has a cover art but the same song in Google Play has a ****ty Nickel Back cover instead. I attacted 2 pictures showing an example.
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Serves you right for listening to Nickelback
Cover art download from iTunes store (not embedded) won't be copied to your phone. Only covers that you add manually are carried over. At least that's the case with me.

Go to music.google.com and login to your acct
Then when you go to albums or the thing you want to change click the drop down by the picture for the album and select "Edit Album Info" and you can upload a pic you want to use for it. You will then want to sync your Google Play Music thru accounts. Added a pic hope that helps

krolla03 said:
I've looked everywhere for an explanation on this and can't find it. Maybe you guys can help me.
Most of my songs have their respected album art but some do not. For some reason Google play picks a random cover for almost all of the songs that don't. In my case it picked a nickel back cover.
How do I make the so gs that do not have a cover just have the default blank cover that Google has?
Sent from my GT-P7310 using xda premium
EDIT:
Ok so under closer inspection. Songs with ACTUAL "Unknown" album show the Google unknown album cover.
But some songs with actual cover art in iTunes (where my Google Music syncs) has a cover art but the same song in Google Play has a ****ty Nickel Back cover instead. I attacted 2 pictures showing an example.
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I've got the same issue, though it defaults to a Daughtry album cover. As much as I hate Nickelback, I think I'd prefer to have that as my default cover instead of Daughtry. Before you all give me crap, I don't have one Daughtry song on my phone, so I have no idea how or why Google decided to use that as my default album cover. And I don't use iTunes either, so I'm totally confused by the whole thing.
Anyone know how to switch the default album cover art to something else? I can't find the image file on my phone.

Had similar issues now fixed, first of all i converted all music to mp3 format, on my laptop using a free mp3 converter i found via google search, uploaded them onto my gnex then downloaded 'cover art downloader' from playstore and payed the miniscule donate fee for full options.
Donate version has extra option to embed album art into mp3's (hence mp3 conversion), auto search for missing covers, any it cant find you can manually find using app, all covers are embedded into songs as they are downloaded.
After doing this go into settings-app settings and clear cache and data from google music (btw this will wipe playlists) then reboot phone. When rebooted open google music and it will reload all music with correct covers in place.
The advantage of doing it this way is your art stays with your music hereafter.
Donate version also has auto cover search option for newly added music. Good luck
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Help with album art

OK so I'm getting kinda cheesed off with Google play music and the album art displayed. So I got 3 id3 apps, audiotagger 4.0.0, itag 1.50, and pimp my music 1.49. I'm trying to get a decent high resolution album art to stick on my MP3 albums. Iv used all 3 to try to remove any album art that's seems to be stuck to the MP3 files and then used all 3 to set the album art I want either from searching on the internet or select a picture saved to my gallery. I even went as far as deleting some 1156 pictures of the same low res album art which keeps reappearing. So for a while Google play music will show the high res album art and its great but after a while it goes back to low resolution album art which is all pixilated and stuff.
So anyone know how this could be sorted out?
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I was able to do it by modifying the cover art from my PC. Opened Play in my web browser and went to My Music. Then picked the album and modified the album info. It let me change to a better pic. So far, the higher-res pics seem to have stuck. Hope they don't spontaneously revert.
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OK great album seems to be sticking now, that particular album I got up on Google play music server and on my device.
I just can't get id3 genre tag to change for the on device music. I did already try with Google play music and its showing correct for what's 'in the cloud' but on device copy won't change, its being a little bastard. I tried the same 3 apps as mentioned before. Any ideas? Maybe they don't work so well with jelly bean?
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I deleted the copy from my device and just downloaded it from Google play server and all is well. I get ocd about my music lol
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[q] updating database?

okay, so when i add the music to my phone, everything works great, but if i change the album art for one song and replace it on the phone, the album art wont update. it will still use the older one which was deleted. so its like the database isnt updated, but if i just add or delete songs, it will update, just use the older album art. how do i get the walkman to refresh or update database? the other 3rd party players like poweramp work great, but i want the walkman to work too. btw im using xperia s, .55 firmware.
oh and one more thing, when i click on download music information in walkman, it would download like the artist images that appear in "my music" tab in the player, so not the album art, the artist image. the thing is, for example, for adele, it downloaded some 3 black guys who i dont even know who they are, and for beyonce it didnt download any artist picture? how do i manually change that?

Help Changing Album Art

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

mkmossop said:
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.

mkmossop said:
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?

mkmossop said:
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.

Xyllon said:
Open Settings, then go to Apps, find and tap
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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.

mkmossop said:
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!