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.
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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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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.
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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!
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Hi.
I just found a problem with the TouchFlo music player, and wondered if anyone else had the same problem.
I've got all my music nicely organised, with album art, and it all works a treat, until I try and scroll through "All Songs" in the library. Basically, all the songs jump off the bottom of the screen, and usually stay there. I can't scroll up to go through the list of all songs.
Anyone else have this problem, or better still, does anyone know of a way round this?
Basically, if I've got "All songs" selected, and it's on shuffle, I get a good selection of all my songs. If I want to select a particular song, I should be able to scroll to it in the library and play it. Because of the problem, I'd have to select it via either the album or the artist, and that would change my playing selection from all songs to album/artist instead.
What a pain!
I only want to listen to Nurses Whispering Verses without losing my place! lol
I have this problem as well. Dont know a way around it tho. When i scroll up or down all my music just disappears and I'm lookin a nice bright EMPTY screen. Its annoying!
What is the best way to have album art for each album on the HD?
Hello it is a known problem with the current HTC album. It seems to be from having too many songs. I happened to me when i added about 600 or 700 songs. I tried reducing the number but had no luck until i remove them all and then readded only 450 or so and it works ok now.
For album art first you need songs arranged in /Music/Artist/Album then you can either have Folder.jpg in each album dir. or you can attach the album art to the mp3 in the file info. the album art should be 200x200. both methods work for both album and S2P using the Folder.jpg is necessary for Win Media Player.
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Hi.
I just found a problem with the TouchFlo music player, and wondered if anyone else had the same problem.
I've got all my music nicely organised, with album art, and it all works a treat, until I try and scroll through "All Songs" in the library. Basically, all the songs jump off the bottom of the screen, and usually stay there. I can't scroll up to go through the list of all songs.
Anyone else have this problem, or better still, does anyone know of a way round this?
Basically, if I've got "All songs" selected, and it's on shuffle, I get a good selection of all my songs. If I want to select a particular song, I should be able to scroll to it in the library and play it. Because of the problem, I'd have to select it via either the album or the artist, and that would change my playing selection from all songs to album/artist instead.
What a pain!
I only want to listen to Nurses Whispering Verses without losing my place! lol
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I had the same problem. then I solved everything, simply by moving the music folder!
I have had that problem as well. Present on some roms, not on others. Not present in Duttys 1.9
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll try moving the folder to see if that has any effect, or just put up with it since it's only a minor annoyance, and just hope HTC sort if in a future upgrade.
Psyberd said:
the album art should be 200x200
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You don't have to worry about the size. Mine are all different as I just googled for them and saved the biggest I could find for each album. Sometimes it wouldn't show an image, so I just deleted it and downloaded a different one.
I've got this problem and troubles me a lot,
I have over 500 songs in the library and it seems that the problem was due to too many songs on list
i think if you use advanced config or HD tweak to increase the cache size used for hte TF3d it would work properly then .. and faster scrolling too .. i am not so sure . i had this problem i did tht and deleted some songs ... then it worked fine
Anybody has a real solution??
anyone????
^_^
I'm using another rom and it's working perfectly now (i'm using this one : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=562952 but it's working with every new roms i think)
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?
Cheers,
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.
Hi All
Small question...
My Music Tab seems to display the songs i have OK, but oddly, it has picked 3 or 4 cover thumbnails and uses them for all tracks?
No real biggie, just tends to make Cover Flipping kinda redundant.
Anyone know where the cache is for these thumbnails. I did look in App Data/ etc and cleared that, but no difference.
All my songs are on my 16GB Micro SD, i do have a few hundred tracks, maybe that's it - it does seem to scan pretty slow too...?
I have also noticed the thumbnails on the Photos Tab get screwed up too. When looking at Albumss I seem to have thumbnails from other places displaying
for the wrong pictures in the wrong places..?
Could this be a cache kinda thing too?
Cheers
Jabberoo
mine does the same thing. it wont change off the first song. same artwork for ALL artists. how can it be fixed?
Anyone with knowledge...?
Cheers
Jabberoo
I think it ll extract the cover for each album and put it in the directory where the MP3 file is.
So this cover will be used for all over MP3 files in the same directory !
The solution is to have separate folders for each album you have.
At least, it was how it was working on my old Kaiser, i m not sure it still works the same way.
Album art is cached in a hidden file called HTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg under each folder, but AudioManager should generate a separate cache file for each album or song (if stored in the same folder). Try deleting the cache image and see if AudioManager will recerate them correctly.
Photo Album cache issue - try delete all files and folders under this folder:
My Device\Application data\htc\htc album\
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Album art is cached in a hidden file called HTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg under each folder, but AudioManager should generate a separate cache file for each album or song (if stored in the same folder). Try deleting the cache image and see if AudioManager will recerate them correctly.
Photo Album cache issue - try delete all files and folders under this folder:
My Device\Application data\htc\htc album\
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Thanks for all the info...
I did try the cache idea for the music tab, found the 'AM' image (saw all the others too), deleted it, it rescanned and came back with the exact same image for all - even in Library view...?
It seems it just recreates that specific AM file with the same single album art and applies to all tracks as before.
I did manage to sort the Image Thumb cache issue with your advice - thank you.
Cheers
jabberoo
The title says it all.
Opening the MP3s in any Windows MP3 player show the album pictures.
Any idea why the original music player in the Desire doesn't do it?
Rooted Desire with R5 rom from Modaco.
I've got a similar issue. I can see 90% of my album art but some are missing despite being present in the folder I've put on my desire!
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I had this. I even tried embedding album art in the mp3 and making sure there was a jpg in the same directory. However, the HTC app simply refused to use some no matter what I did.
The solution? I downloaded MixZing from the marketplace. I liked it so much, I upgraded to the non-Ad version.
I couldn't persuade my Desire either.
I embedded all artworks directly into mp3, deleted the albumthumbs directory several times... no luck.
But what is more annoying is that for some mp3s it displays the completely wrong artwork. I opened the mp3 in Winamp, WMP - the artwork is correct. When I play it in Desire the artwork shown is completely different.
PS: Meridian behaves the same way.
Have you tried deleting all the files in the /sd card/albumthumbs folder and rebooting your phone?
I had this issue when I first got the phone, I managed to fix it by clearing out the tags of each album and filling them again, took multiple attempts though.
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I had this issue when I first got the phone, I managed to fix it by clearing out the tags of each album and filling them again, took multiple attempts though.
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this worked for me too.
It does work but only if you never add more music. I always seem to get problems with new mp3s added.
And I never understood where does it take the incorrect artwork from.
clear data at Media Store! Thats works fine!
Settings > Applications > Manage applications > Media Storage
then reboot the device...
xdad, your solution works, thanks!
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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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
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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.
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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