Hello everyone
I am looking (desperately) for an app for my Android car stereo (Xtrons 7 8.0).
Let me explain, on my USB key I manage my music like this
Artist folder 1 -> mp3 of the album
Artist folder 2 -> mp3 of the album
Compilation folder -> compilation name 1 -> compilation mp3
etc ....
I found a lot of audio applications that allow me to read all these folders and it is perfectly linked from the artist folder 1.
My concern is that if I select the artist folder 2, at the end of the last song, the application does not go to the compilation folder.
Would anyone have a proposal to make me?
thank you very much
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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
logoo said:
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
Hello,
Total newb here. Used Astro to copy some *.mp3 files to the storage card / music directory. When I try to create a playlist, the files are not shown. I have to assume it is because it is lacking some tag information.... The files exist when seen in astro.
If that is truly the case....How can I get the audio podcasts to play in MUSIC if there is no tag info?
Note: many of the podcasts I listen to are not part of a RSS podcatching system, but must be manually downloaded.
Thank you for your time
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 ...
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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.
hello
i have defy running android 2.1 and he can't open any song !!! i don't know why
if i open song >>> There are no playable songs on this playlist
in the original music app and in the other
please help me
Where do you have copied your songs?
Which format did they have?
Stored mine /sdcard/mobile/music/actor/album/song.mp3. I have only mp3-files
all music i have mp3
and i have 3 files
file 1 bs album
file 2 gaga album
file 3 justin bieber album
where i should put it ???
On the sdcard in any directory. The original player should find the files in any directory, except in the directory is an empty file named ".nomedia".
I also have this issue, noticed it by missing several alarms, found that only built-in alarm tones work, as mp3 sounds are not played by any alarm clock, any media player (songbird, default media player, ...). If anyone has any idea why this happens, please send me a note, I'd be grateful.
Hi
I have 2 questions:
1. Is it possible to create a playlist directly from the folder which has been uploaded to the SD card? A lot of my music doesn't have any tags, so in albums/artists/genres these tracks end up being under one huge Unknown folder, which is really inconvenient.
2. Is there a way to create different profiles/modes? E.g: Outdoors, Meeting, Silent, Normal? Old SE phone used to have it..
Thank you!
1. If you have winamp, you can add all of your music to playlist, select them all (ctrl+a) then right click > send to > auto-tag, wait until all done than click apply all. now your music will have artist, title, album etc. About create playlist directly from folder, well, I don't know about that
ucubz said:
1. If you have winamp, you can add all of your music to playlist, select them all (ctrl+a) then right click > send to > auto-tag, wait until all done than click apply all. now your music will have artist, title, album etc. About create playlist directly from folder, well, I don't know about that
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Thanks, although to have one huge playlist is not what i'm after.. I know you can do playlists from folder on HTC Desire, so I assumed, that there is a way doing it on Xperia as well, probably I'm was wrong