So I'm starting to build something with media utilities and while I know that you're supposed to use #TMU_COVERART# for the cover art but I've seen guides that add in at the front and back of #TMU_COVERART# and I am confused. How do I add in the path location to #TMU_COVERART? Can I have a custom folder where I can store all my album art and have it go there for it?
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Does anyone know where the TP2 stores Album Art - and how you can update it?
I have a lot of music of my storage card (approx 10Gb) and there are quite few of the songs which either have no artwork in Audio Manager or in some cases the wrong picture (which can be confusing).
Anyone know of a way of correcting it?
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Jim.
If you have a file called "folder.jpg" in the same folder as some of your audio files, that will be displayed while the files in that folder are playing.
It is also possible to embed artwork in individual audio file tags. I don't know which takes priority - so if there is artwork embedded in a file and a folder.jpg in the directory, the player will show one or the other but I don't know which!
Thats weird, i have embedded the art in all my files recently but the Audio manager does not show it. Is there a way to refresh it?
Kork said:
Thats weird, i have embedded the art in all my files recently but the Audio manager does not show it. Is there a way to refresh it?
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Good question. I'm getting more confused (and frustrated) by this problem myself. I have found out how to update album art in Windows Media Player on the PC successfully - but then when I sync across to the TP2 it doesn't always work.
I even have at least one album on the TP2 now, where there is no image on the Audio Manager tab (or just a generic one), but if I open this file in File Explorer (which opens Media Player) it shows the correct image!
If anyone can explain that, I'd love to hear it....
I think the problem is (unfortunately) Audio Manager doesn't read embedded album art, only the folder.jpg files. I wish they'd update it.
Also, anyone know what the best audio manager/player for the tp2 is?
I have no jpegs in my folders whatsoever, but some albums show album art, so i guess Audio Manager reads embedded art after all. It's just so that it seems to cache it and never refreshes the cache.
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
I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
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I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
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yes, that should work.
pr0nz !
Yeah that's what some people are doing to hide folders ... folders with sensitive pictures. Stealth folder.
doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
that would be great if there is a way to do that.
If you do find it, please share.
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doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
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interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
TeknoJnky said:
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
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this... this is very useful.
There's an app called HideNSeek for 99 cents. It's supposed to be used by playas that don't want various girls to see pics of other various girls in the gallery (it's even disguised as a flashlight app), but I think most people use it to block regular folders/pics (like album art) from showing up in the gallery.
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interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
this... this is very useful.
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Don't do that ! Or be aware of the consequences.
If you put a .nomedia empty file in your folder in order to prevent the Gallery from loading pictures, it will also prevent any media players (ex : music player, winamp, meridian, etc...) from scanning these folders to find music !
So, I still don't know how to prevent Gallery from showing pictures in music folders (because I prefer having a "polluted" Gallery than a useless music player!).
I'm quite sure the File Manager app that comes with CM6.1 includes the ability to "exclude from Media Scan" on any folder. Haven't tried it myself. I like my nudies exposed at all times.
+1 for .nomedia!
Theres also a vault app that hides your pics and videos
I hate to ressurect an old thread but I can't find an answer anywhere. How do I exclude album art from the gallery in AOSP ROMs without also disabling music files or the album art in a music app? I have several GBs of music and hundreds of album art files that pollute my gallery.
Thanks in advance.
I have a similar issue and I am going mad with my 1000s of media art showing on my gallery. There should be a way to manually assign afolder for indexing.
Why don't you use . (Dot) if you want to hide anything (etc .Pictures)? Adding dot in front of the name will make folder as hidden and will be visable only via some app (root explorer, bluetooth file transfer)
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why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
chmod will do it.
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why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
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Its complicated because in different case its not that simple, for example I have many deep rooted folder structure which have links to 1 master html page (actually its an offline html site where the pix are sliced) now i keep on changing over writing this folder structure so as per suggestion I will need to create .nomedia file & copy in all the sub folders>sub folders right upto the last directory. Gallery in this case index 1000s sliced images & polluting the whole gallery.
Even if I do this once I will have to do it again as it will get modified when I overwrite.
Best would be (if possible) I create a master folder & tell gallery not to index any media for all the folders & sub folder from this master folder. So I copy the folder=file in thsi master folder if i don't need them to be indexed in gallery.
But what do I do for the music album art? the media player needs to display the art so if i put .nomedia file will the music player be able to display it & the gallery wont index it?
I am yet to try this solution.
seriously dudes between chmod and chown you should be able to do anything you want. If the app tanks or ? you might have to write a small script. Worst case scenario you could probably put files on a different partition and crate a symbolic link to it.
Hi together!
I am looking for the folder, where gacenote copies its data to.
Can anybody help me out there?
EDIT: FOUND IT! It's in android/data/com.htc.album
me too! and im also looking for the folder where the sense music player keeps its data like the playlist.
Sorry to bring this old thread up again, but I was searching for the files gracenote is downloading automatically, and didn't find any answer. Problem is, that once (wrong) album art is downloaded, it can't be removed by re-syncing music to phone again.
I solved this by deleting wrong album art from
Code:
/sdcard/Android/data/com.htc.musicenhancer/files
This made my mp3-included covers visible again (works at least for HTC music player on HTC One M7 / Sense 5)
hi,
strange problem in my new g3.
i use ID3 tags to embed my album art in all of my mp3 files.
they arranged in one folder.
when i use power-amp it shows correctly every song with it's own album art BUT strangely the G3 stock music player is not showing the album art at all or (in some folders) show a particular album art of one file located in that folder (its not even the first one ??)
i also checked the files with the stock file manager app that also shows the mismatched album art just like in the stock music player.
any idea ?
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Do the songs have album title information? If not, android will replace the missing album title with the directory name these songs are located in.
Further more, some players use album arts from android database (use this to change album arts, songs need album title) or from the file itself (no album title needed)
asis217 said:
hi,
strange problem in my new g3.
i use ID3 tags to embed my album art in all of my mp3 files.
they arranged in one folder.
when i use power-amp it shows correctly every song with it's own album art BUT strangely the G3 stock music player is not showing the album art at all or (in some folders) show a particular album art of one file located in that folder (its not even the first one ??)
i also checked the files with the stock file manager app that also shows the mismatched album art just like in the stock music player.
any idea ?
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Sadly its general problem of Android and most of the devices have same disturbing issue. It was on my Gi5510 and still on my G3. Poweramp shows correct if any artwork attached. For now there is no solution seems like but will research this. This issue is really disappointing, 'cause i like to use stock music player rather than 3rd party apps but its not good when other songs artworks attached to every track. If anyone will found a solution please reply this. I will subscribe this thread. +1 for OP.
bdogan1912 said:
Sadly its general problem of Android and most of the devices have same disturbing issue. It was on my Gi5510 and still on my G3. Poweramp shows correct if any artwork attached. For now there is no solution seems like but will research this. This issue is really disappointing, 'cause i like to use stock music player rather than 3rd party apps but its not good when other songs artworks attached to every track. If anyone will found a solution please reply this. I will subscribe this thread. +1 for OP.
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asis217 said:
hi,
strange problem in my new g3.
i use ID3 tags to embed my album art in all of my mp3 files.
they arranged in one folder.
when i use power-amp it shows correctly every song with it's own album art BUT strangely the G3 stock music player is not showing the album art at all or (in some folders) show a particular album art of one file located in that folder (its not even the first one ??)
i also checked the files with the stock file manager app that also shows the mismatched album art just like in the stock music player.
any idea ?
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I used mp3 tag to embed album art for my music and had no problem with it showing up in my music. The only issue was it wouldn't show up if the image was larger than 4mb, but I doubt that's the case for you guys lol. Have you guys used mp3 tag? If not then use it, if you have then could you elaborate a bit more, because I think it may be fixable.