Hi,
On the zune software on the PC is autodownloads an artists picture for the background for all of your music, whether it was bought on zune or not.
On the phone it only seems to do this for stuff bought or streamed on zune, is there anyway to change this?
loomx said:
Hi,
On the zune software on the PC is autodownloads an artists picture for the background for all of your music, whether it was bought on zune or not.
On the phone it only seems to do this for stuff bought or streamed on zune, is there anyway to change this?
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My phone shows images for some things not downloaded from the Marketplace. It may be it cannot find an image for the non-Zune music you are trying, or that the linking metadata is broken in some way.
if you've got the meta data on ok and played it through zune it should have updated the track etc, you will see some hidden JPG files in you MP3 folder where the songs are you have played. If there isn't any there, on the zune playlist you'll see an circled I next to the love heart, click that and it should find the song and update also. If it still doesnt update then its a meta/info problem your having.
I've updated the metadata of most files on the phone right now with the Zune software, and I've still the black background in Zune on the phone.
check settings/metadata and ratings on the pc zune and make sure the automatic retreival options is on (2nd tick box and add missing info). If your playing a tune from your playlist you can right click it, view in collection then right click the grayed zune albumn icon, click find albumn info and pick its picture etc, next, ok. Back in the playlist you'll have a full pic now. Sync it back to your phone or drag a test tune onto the phone icon and you should have it sorted now.
I will try the heart thing... All of these track have no problem getting the pictures automatically on the pc. Its just the phone it doesn't do it on
I have the album art appearing but the artist background picture is not showing. The Zune player on the phone shows a black background behind the small album art image. The hub background is also black and the live tile on the homescreen shows the default Zune icon. All the metadata is available.
What do I need to do to get the artist image to appear in the background?
apparently i also face the same problem .
i'm from singapore, where zune pass is not supported.
i am able to see the album art while playing a song on my optimus but the general background of the zune hub is black .
and i dun get the option to find out more about the artist and watsoever.
i believe its due the to fact that i dun have a zune pass .
background & live tile
The background and live tile only updates when you stream songs from Zune.
I don't have Zune pass but when previewed a track it updated the background and tile and hasn't changed since.
xtrememanix said:
apparently i also face the same problem .
i'm from singapore, where zune pass is not supported.
i am able to see the album art while playing a song on my optimus but the general background of the zune hub is black .
and i dun get the option to find out more about the artist and watsoever.
i believe its due the to fact that i dun have a zune pass .
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Not having Zune Pass is not the cause of it. The background images can appear regardless of whether you have Zune Pass or not.
In order for the photos/info to be downloaded, your music needs to be tagged properly and correctly. You can see if this is done by playing the music on your computer. If you can see photos and additional artist information on the computer, your music is tagged properly.
You won't get background images/info if your music is not tagged correctly, or if the artist does not have additional photos or information available in the Zune Marketplace. Try searching for your artist in the Zune Marketplace to make sure there is information to be displayed.
jtjagan said:
I have the album art appearing but the artist background picture is not showing. The Zune player on the phone shows a black background behind the small album art image. The hub background is also black and the live tile on the homescreen shows the default Zune icon. All the metadata is available.
What do I need to do to get the artist image to appear in the background?
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The syncing of the artist info/photos is done automatically. There is nothing you can do to force it to sync this information. With the Zune HD, you would have to leave the device plugged in, and the Zune software will eventually sync the information after it's done syncing all your other information.
Try leaving your phone plugged into your computer (with the Zune software open) for about 10 minutes and see if that helps.
What you say is how I understand it to work but its not working like that.
On the phone all my music has album art, but I couldnt get the band background picture to appear unless it was streamed from zune, even if it displayed on the PC.
However its also definetly not down to the fact it needs to be streamed from zune, but I have been playing alot of music on my phone today and I did find one artist that got the background image, and those songs were not purchased on zune.
Found the problem, not sure how to fix it though.
But I have just looked on my Zune on the PC and it isnt doing the background image on those tracks anymore either! However if I change my PC region to US and log in with the US account I had set up before Zune was in the UK it works fine again.
So it seems to be a UK only issue
Mine has slowly started working. It's weird but the phone has over the past day slowly started downloading background images for some artists, it seems once it has found one from one track it updates all tracks from the artist.
It doesn't seem to work very well in the actual zune player when showing now playing though
You could try using the Zune Social Tagger to force some some albums to link correctly, that's what I did for some things and it seems to work. Anything downloaded though the marketplace is linked anyway so that will display an image if there is one. The selection of albums and artists with background images is smaller in the UK than the US so it might not always work.
Just using the social tagger, interestingly one of the songs I bought on the marketplace on my phone has come up as unlinked on the social tagger!
I will see if this fixes it, hopefully it will.
Why does the UK have a different ammount of background pictures, that just seems silly, the bands are the same bands across the world.
cant imagine why it would be country dependant so can't see that, i'm in the UK without a zune premium pass and its all working fine for me. If in doubt wipe your phone and resync, maybe there is something from an old file stopping something or a bug. Whether its automatic or picture picked from the manual method can't say I've seen a problem (windows 7, zune, mozart 7).
xtrememanix said:
apparently i also face the same problem .
i'm from singapore, where zune pass is not supported.
i am able to see the album art while playing a song on my optimus but the general background of the zune hub is black .
and i dun get the option to find out more about the artist and watsoever.
i believe its due the to fact that i dun have a zune pass .
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I believe I have found the reason why you and I are having the same issue. The location our Live, Zune and computer is Singapore. The Zune software (Singapore location) shows a stripped down version of what you get if you set US location. I have another live and Zune tag ID located in US and when I logged into that account I am able to see the artist background picture in the Zune mini-player on the PC. I guess since Singapore does not have Zune pass, we will be missing out on all the extras (mix-view, etc)
Haven't tested trying to sync with the phone using the US based account.
Anyone know whether the phone supports 2 separate Live ID accounts?
jedix said:
cant imagine why it would be country dependant so can't see that, i'm in the UK without a zune premium pass and its all working fine for me.
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At least in your country, you get results when searching the Zune Marketplace for music.
In Belgium, any query results 0 results. I assume that the client searching on its own for stuff doesn't get anything returned either, due to the country limitation. We get video rentals, that's about it. For me, apps don't even show, altho it works fine with the same account on the phone.
I can confirm how to get it working (at least in the UK) this works for songs on the phone only I haven't tested it in zune player yet.
Once you've listened to one piece of music by that artist which contains the data for the background image, the device seems to remember this and display it if you play the same artist, regardless of the song.
So you have 2 options:
1) If you have zune pass, stream a song by the same artist for a few seconds, now all music in your collection by that artist will show the bg image.
2) Find a song by the artist in your collection that does carry the bg image (I think it has something to do with tagging) and the rest will update.
Update: You don't even need to play a song, press on the artist name when your own song is playing, it'll load the artist page with a background image. Press back and it's updated.
Edit (sorry about this): You need to click on the button to show the marketplace songs, rather than just showing your collection.
Having the Zune pass is imperative to getting this, I'm in Australia and get no search results if I search for music and also get no bio or pictures. I feel this fully relates to having Zune Pass available in your country.
So it started, that marketplace did not work and then it went to zune.
So both apps start loading and it is written loading and then it crashes.
The only way to start zune is to reboot, but marketplace wont work
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
you can go to zune.net/support and in the upper left side it will give you the status of the zune servers.
That might help you troubleshoot.
On the otherhand it may just be a glitch. Have you tried restarting your phone?
I am trying to tinker around with some DLNA playback.. And not having it work..
I installed uPnP inspector, on my desktop.. Both my devices are right there.. But youtube has no 'cast to' icon which I thought it was supposed to have if DLNA was activated. I have a few other DLNA comnpatible players who also dont seem to be picking up any of my FireTvs
Do I need to add a DLNA client to (each of) the box or should this work by default ??
PlayTo is a good app for sending videos. An alternative that I prefer is Pushbullet. If you have XBMC/Kodi installed, install the Pushbullt addon and authorize it. It uses your Gmail account to send all files to your devices. You use your Gmail to log in also. After installing the addon, go to your program addons and edit the setting of the Pushbullet addon. You will want to set it to interrupt or media will not play til other media has stopped, and you will want to set it to play everything immediatly. I prefer Pushbullet over DLNA, cause you do not have to be worried about being connected to the same network. You can send several differnt types of things with Pushbullet, you can even send browser urls, which means if you are watching a video on one of your devices, you send the url to Kodi and the video will play on the Fire TV. Does not work for all video site, but it works for a lot of sites. BTW, you can find the pushbullet addon in services on Kodi, and it creates a UI in the program addons. So go to Setting, Addons, Get addons, All, Services and you will find it there.
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PlayTo is a good app for sending videos. An alternative that I prefer is Pushbullet. If you have XBMC/Kodi installed, install the Pushbullt addon and authorize it. It uses your Gmail account to send all files to your devices. You use your Gmail to log in also. After installing the addon, go to your program addons and edit the setting of the Pushbullet addon. You will want to set it to interrupt or media will not play til other media has stopped, and you will want to set it to play everything immediatly. I prefer Pushbullet over DLNA, cause you do not have to be worried about being connected to the same network. You can send several differnt types of things with Pushbullet, you can even send browser urls, which means if you are watching a video on one of your devices, you send the url to Kodi and the video will play on the Fire TV. Does not work for all video site, but it works for a lot of sites. BTW, you can find the pushbullet addon in services on Kodi, and it creates a UI in the program addons. So go to Setting, Addons, Get addons, All, Services and you will find it there.
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I will give it a look but I am specifically trying to get DNLA working for a few video apps that should 'see' my boxes easily.. Popcorn time should give me a watch to button from my phone tablet or ipad..
Theres a spread of these.. iPlayer.. Etc.. Not all being inside kodi..
Really I just want a chromecast app.. but filing that DLNA should be the same.. Just it says DNLA is already built in, but my boxes while visible on the network, are not generating a watch to output location on any dlna enabled apps.
I told you that you need an app to send from your phone and I also told you that XBMC/Kodi was a good reciever app to recieve media. Also, Popcorn Time has a setting to use external players to send media to other devices. Just look in the list of players and install one. I recommend installing Playto and Wondershare player on you Android device to use as a sender, and simply using XBMC/Kodi on your Fire TV as the reciever. There is a setting in Kodi to turn on UPNP, turn it on and when you play videos in Wondershare or Playto on your Android device it will let you send the media to Kodi on your Fire TV. Playto is good for sending media, cause any app that has a share button can be shared with Playto and used to send videos etc. Say you are using the youtube app and wanna send a video to your Fire TV, click the share button, pick Playto, and when the video starts playing click the yellow play button and it will start playing on your Fire TV through Kodi. Of course you need an app to communicate with other devices, cause the device cannot do it on its own. Example, you have wifi, but how are you supposed to connect if there isn't a settings app to show you connections? Your device has DLNA/UPNP, but how can you use it without an app telling you where to send and recieve content? There has to be software to run the hardware. Think of it like a car, if you put it in drive where is it gonna go without the driver? The driver is the software the car is the hardware.