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I see a lot of topics asking how to get the Artist BG Image in the Zune Player. I always reply with this solution and then, once I've replied, the threads always seem to die. This I guess suggests that not only does the solution work for me, it works for everyone else too.
I decided to post the solution here in a separate thread, as I've seen a lot of topics on the subject both here and in the WP7 forum. Hopefully this will stop new topics being made (as it will come up in the "Similar threads we found).
Anyway here's the solution:
1) Transfer your music to your phone
2) Play the music without the BG image
3) Click on the Artist's name... This will take you to the summary of the artist
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.
5) All songs* in the marketplace should now be displayed.. IF the artist has a BG image it should load up now
6) Press back to go back to now playing, the BG image should still be present and will be present now for all songs by that artist
7) Repeat the process for each artist.
*It may be albums that come first, I can't remember off the top of my head.
Known Faults:
- Incorrect tagging
For example, "Mr. Hudson" in the marketplace is "Mr Hudson" thus music tagged as "Mr. Hudson" wont display a BG Image. To identify this, nothing will load when you try and load Marketplace items for that artist. To fix, simply rename in Zune
- Certain Artists
While this has worked for 99% of my collection, there are 1 or 2 artists who have BG images when in artist view but then this image just wont copy over to now playing. I have no idea why and have no Solution for this.
I can't seem to replicate these steps.
Not able to find this step...
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.
Same here. Step 4 doesn't show anything. It will only display the albums I have of the singer. I'm using a track by Avril lavigne, which has already been linked via Zune social tagger. Again I think its somehow related to your region.
mankie said:
I can't seem to replicate these steps.
Not able to find this step...
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.
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When you play a song, click on the artist name in now playing.
You should get a summary of the artist. It should look like this:
ARTIST NAME
SONGS
IN COLLECTION
-A
-B
-C
Scroll all the way down and you should see :
MARKETPLACE
V
V
At the bottom. Click on that circle with the 2 downwards arrows in it.
knave said:
Same here. Step 4 doesn't show anything. It will only display the albums I have of the singer. I'm using a track by Avril lavigne, which has already been linked via Zune social tagger. Again I think its somehow related to your region.
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Unless the Zune Marketplace is not available in your region then it should work in said region, it's simply a link to display albums of that artist in the marketplace.
brummiesteven said:
Unless the Zune Marketplace is not available in your region then it should work in said region, it's simply a link to display albums of that artist in the marketplace.
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I've tried it several times and no dice. Searching for the artist in the marketplace shows results but doing it your way shows nothing. I'm pretty sure the mp3 files are tagged correctly, unless it's not only using the artist/album name and that's why it can't find a match.
I'm in Spain though, which might also be related, although we do have marketplace access here.
Spybreak said:
I've tried it several times and no dice. Searching for the artist in the marketplace shows results but doing it your way shows nothing. I'm pretty sure the mp3 files are tagged correctly, unless it's not only using the artist/album name and that's why it can't find a match.
I'm in Spain though, which might also be related, although we do have marketplace access here.
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Do you mean that when you click on the arrow under Marketplace nothing shows up? This means that there is something wrong in your tagging, check the Artist and Album Artist in Zune and verify that it matches the name of the artist exactly how it is in the Zune Marketplace.
The thing is that it doesnt work all the time...
I did the things that you wrote a few weeks ago from a different thread. It worked with some artists. I could hit the "arrow" button and then it would load after a second the available tracks.
But on some artists if I hit the button it shows that it's loading but then kind of fades away and there is no more option to press the button again. Seems like a bug to me cause some artists work this way. Or again, it could be some tagging problems...
BIG-Stan said:
The thing is that it doesnt work all the time...
I did the things that you wrote a few weeks ago from a different thread. It worked with some artists. I could hit the "arrow" button and then it would load after a second the available tracks.
But on some artists if I hit the button it shows that it's loading but then kind of fades away and there is no more option to press the button again. Seems like a bug to me cause some artists work this way. Or again, it could be some tagging problems...
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It's not a bug, in my experiences that's definitely a tagging problem.
The reason why it fades away is because it couldn't find any trace of that artist in the market at all.
Remember the smallest things make a difference, Capital Letters, Accents, Dots etc etc
ok, makes sense... will look through my library but take for example dr. dre. There are not that many ways to mispell him I tried every possible combination. And still zune cant match him. Searching for him works though...Really weird stuff.
BIG-Stan said:
ok, makes sense... will look through my library but take for example dr. dre. There are not that many ways to mispell him I tried every possible combination. And still zune cant match him. Searching for him works though...Really weird stuff.
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Try another Artist.
When I said this works for 99% of my collection...
Dr. Dre is one of the ones that for some reason it just hasn't worked, Will Smith is the other.
Hmm strange. Dr. Dre - 2001 worked for me
Yah, cause i'm in Canada, marketplace doesnt have any music so it doesnt sync artists
mankie said:
Yah, cause i'm in Canada, marketplace doesnt have any music so it doesnt sync artists
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Just put your PC location as the US.
VonCrisp said:
Just put your PC location as the US.
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That doesn't appear to work. I can browse US Zune content on the PC client after changing regions if I sign out of my Canadian Zune account, but even after creating a new US Zune account and logging in on my desktop client, backgrounds don't sync over to the phone (and Zune Tagger can't find any Zune music store content when attempting to link albums). It does still remember sync'd content between the phone and desktop client after switching accounts, and will sync still, but no information from the US marketplace gets to the phone. It appears that because the default phone account is linked to a Canadian Live/Zune account (needed to purchase WP7 apps), it blocks access to the US Zune marketplace info.
Have you actually tried this and had it work in a region that doesn't have any access to the music marketplace (like Canada)?
Another method
I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.
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I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.
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if I do that I get: Error, this item is no longer available at Zune marketplace..
I try with Michael Jacksons latest album "Michael". So it is a new album and I can find it in zune marketplace... So why can't I find info when I have michael in my own collection?
dodgetigger said:
I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.
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This is the same idea but just through Zune rather than on the handset itself.
Yup the above works although not all artists are supported. Good job.
Guys i'm from Malaysia but they don't have an account here so i created an American one..but i'm still nt 2 sure hw 2 do this..maybe a video..thanks..
Is there anybody who can open up the youtube xap and recompile it to make it work for embedded videos when the locale setting is not set to en-us, hope this was being fixed in nodo but its not...
Thanks a lot, i found some things about youtube in the registry as well.
Only Display Language, Region Format, and Browser & Search Language need to be set to En-US in order to make YouTube embeddings work in the browser (and it only works in actual IE, not any third party implementations).
System Locale can be set to anything, and as long as the above is set, it will work.
I know how it works and does not work, i ment regional format. Im sick and tired of manually reformatting every number i type in manually on my phone because its on US it just looks stupid... I hope someone can recompile it so it will work on all region formattings. I need the local settings for daily use. This issue should not exist in the first place and is terribly unprofessional.
Hi,
here in Germany there is no Marketplace for Podcasts and podcast streaming.
I found a way to add Podcasts on your Device in non US Countries using WP7 Root Tools (So Samsung Only ATM)
Simply browse the registry under Local Machine/Software/Microsoft/Zune/Settings
There u find a String called XUID locale
change it to EN-US and exit Root Tools.
Open up Marketplace and go into Podcasts add the Podcasts u want to, configure them and leave Marketplace.
Change back the XUID via Root Tools and go into Music Hub.
Your added Podcasts are under Podcasts. U can still stream or download or change settings for them. To stream press the marketplace section and the the play button before the Episode.
For Custom Background images u have to work more and be patient
Open up Music & Video Hub
go into every artist an let the pic beeing downloaded.
In my case all those pic have been low low res
The Pics will get stored under My Documents/Zune/Content/0800
02/art is for collection
08/art is for the Artists under the new section
In these folders there are pics called
3a.jpg
3b.jpg
37.jpg
5a.jpg
and more
So u have to know wich pic belongs to wich artist.
Here is how.
Play a song from the Artist u want to change the picture
In root tools check the registry under
Current User/Software/Microsoft/Zune/MusicVideoHub
there is the path to the image from the Artist.
Lets say its 3a.jpg
Create an Artist Pic on your PC.
Resolution 960x800 looks best for me.
Use jpg Quality 9 in Photoshop to keep performance of the Zune Hub
Now download Filedeployer from Heathcliff and create the following folder on your PC
XX-XX-XX-XX-My Documents
in there create a few more folders
Zune/Content/0800/02/art
Follow the Tutorial in this Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271962
and deploy the xap.
You have to do this for every artist pic but you can deploy them all in one filedeployer.xap
U can even add Pics to artists that doesnt have one, u just have to find out wich id the artist has on your device.
To do this create a dummy picture calle 10.jpg and deploy it to the zune content 0800 folder
Zune sets ID in sync Order (always letters first like 3a-3f then Numbers from 30-39)
Example
If you sync like this
1.Alice in Chains
.
.
5.Danko Jones
.
7.Tricky Woo
then Zune will set
1 to 3a
5 to 3e
7 to 30
Lets say all Artist between 1 and 5 doesnt have an Artist pic and the folder only contains 3a.jpg, 3e.jpg and 30.jpg
Copy your dummy file to this folder and rename it to 3b.jpg
Then Check the Artists synced after Alice in Chains.
If you found it write down id and artist.
Then rename to 3c.jpg and again check all Artists synced
between 3b and 3e.
Its a lot of work but you will have high quality backgrounds even on your lockscreen
Sorry for my Bad english
This is awesome. Some of the backgrounds Zune has on file are horrible quality and it looks really bad. I'll have to try this. Thank you.
Update on artist background
Thanks for the tutorial. It's really helpful. I decided to try and fill in the gaps in my collection and update a couple. A word of warning - it's a really time consuming endeavour and you probably have many more artists than you think.
I found a couple of differences (and builds) on the original article.
1. My 800 folder (where the backgrounds live) had two subfolders (15 and 16 in my case), both of which contained background files.
2. Mine were all of the format xx_bg_art.jpg the first two 'x's can be anything 0-9 and a-f (hex)
3. Mine exhibited virtually no recognisable pattern to fill the gaps. However I did come up with a ruse to find them. Using a file renamer, take a blank image and make 100s of copies and rename them to cover all the options 00_bg_art.jpg through to ff_bg_art.jpg. Dump these all on the phone (using the technique described above which is easier than it sounds) in all the folders that you have - you can figure this out using explorer in root tools. You'll be able to then read off background name for all artists using root tools and looking at the current background - again as described above. You then remake your set and copy them across (they will overwrite the dummy files).
(NB, there's currently no easy way to delete them again so keep the blanks really small).
I didn't do this but an even easier way to do (3) would be to include the file name in the image (perhaps using scripting in photoshop). These could then be read directly off the screen.
Oh, and before you do upload your batch to your phone, take out any where there already is an image downloaded, which you want to keep.
HTH.
Tom
UPS you are right.
They are called xx_bg_art.
As I wrote, the pattern is the sync order not alphabetical.
So when U sync Led Zeppelin and then Bad Religion it will give led zeppelin the lower id.
Anyways I think its worth the time cause the Zune Mplace pics are so annoying low red.
FWIW, the registry change (changing the locale) is possible on HTC and LG phones as well as Samsung, no problem.
The filesystem access is also possible on HTC phones, if you don't have the latest HTC update (because that update blocks the HTC filesystem acces DLLs used by TouchXplorer and such).
The best way I found to do this was reset the phone (erasing content in Zune didn't work) and then to sync artists in order and record the results along the way. When you reach an artist that has no artwork, add some to it.
Extra Notes: The number appear to be in HEX
Hope this helps people like me.
Hi since rooting my galaxy nexus everytime i reply to my emails the entire conversation ends up looking like this
E-mail app keeps changing writing to Chinese/Korean
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I'm using milestone 4 rom with leankernel
I've tested it by emailing myself and on the 5th time the previous replies changed to chinese/korean writing. Any help would be appreciated as it means I can't use my e-mail app. Thanks
anybody?
Not a problem I've had or seen reported.
The only thing I can think of is for you to check your language settings under
settings > language and input > language
and make sure it's set correctly.
If that doesn't work you could download morelocal from play store and try to use that to set your language correctly.
Or have a poke around in your email client settings.
Thankfully the problems gone as I wiped the phone and cache and upgraded the rom. Can't see the Japanese IME option in my language settings no more, so think a flash was needed.
Ok guys, I've got XBMC/KODI installed on the fire box and it's working brilliantly. However, I've installed a repo to get hold of some more items to watch and when I attempt to access this particular add-on it asks for a captcha but there is no visible captcha to allow me to enter anything using either the onscreen or physical keyboard so it won't allow me to access the content? Any ideas
sinbrad said:
Ok guys, I've got XBMC/KODI installed on the fire box and it's working brilliantly. However, I've installed a repo to get hold of some more items to watch and when I attempt to access this particular add-on it asks for a captcha but there is no visible captcha to allow me to enter anything using either the onscreen or physical keyboard so it won't allow me to access the content? Any ideas
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using kodi a long time now and don't recall coming across any captchas...I use a bare bones setup with tvaddons using addon installer to get the few addons I need and just that gives me access to just about any media I can imagine. Be weery of what repos you use. Its like anything else you download, there's safe and malicious. I have no reason to think the repo you got is bad but its just a heads up, depending on what you want there might be better options.
The thread is kind of useless if you are not gonn tell us what addon you are having problems with so that we can see if it happens to us too. I use other addons that involve captcha popups, but it depends on the stream and not the addon. Some sites require captcha input for streams. A good example is the "TV-Release" addon, all their streams in the addon require you to solve a captcha, but I have never had a problem doing so. Maybe its not the addon causing the problem, maybe its your skin that is not letting the captcha popup, or maybe its entirely something else. Its hard to know a solution without knowing what addon you are talking about. Please reply with the name of the addon. Also, change your skin and see if that helps. I have used skins in the past that would not show captchas.
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The thread is kind of useless if you are not gonn tell us what addon you are having problems with so that we can see if it happens to us too. I use other addons that involve captcha popups, but it depends on the stream and not the addon. Some sites require captcha input for streams. A good example is the "TV-Release" addon, all their streams in the addon require you to solve a captcha, but I have never had a problem doing so. Maybe its not the addon causing the problem, maybe its your skin that is not letting the captcha popup, or maybe its entirely something else. Its hard to know a solution without knowing what addon you are talking about. Please reply with the name of the addon. Also, change your skin and see if that helps. I have used skins in the past that would not show captchas.
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Sorry but as stupid as this may seem I wasn't sure about the rules mentioning add ons etc but the add on in question is 1channel ie primewire. Is it a question of trying out various skins to see if any work. The other problem is that because I wasn't able to input the captcha it shut me out of the add on?
sinbrad said:
Sorry but as stupid as this may seem I wasn't sure about the rules mentioning add ons etc but the add on in question is 1channel ie primewire. Is it a question of trying out various skins to see if any work. The other problem is that because I wasn't able to input the captcha it shut me out of the add on?
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I have never had a captcha popup while opening 1channel. I have had to solve captchas for certain links with 1channel, but never to open the addon. What you need to do is uninstall it manually. Find your Kodi folder and delete the 1channel folder from the addons folder, delete the 1channel folder from the addon data folder and delete the 1channel db files from the database folder. Reinstall 1channel, but make sure you install it from the tvaddons.ag repo. If you haven't got that repo, google for directions on how to install it.
Maybe not been clear, I can open the add on without problem and I can go to the TV series folder and view any one of the programs. But when I go to the movies folder and try and open one of the movies, that's when I got the captcha come up. Because I couldn't enter the captcha it booted me back into an empty folder. I can still go into the TV series without problem
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Maybe not been clear, I can open the add on without problem and I can go to the TV series folder and view any one of the programs. But when I go to the movies folder and try and open one of the movies, that's when I got the captcha come up. Because I couldn't enter the captcha it booted me back into an empty folder. I can still go into the TV series without problem
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Like I said, its normal to have to solve captchas to watch certain streams. I frequently have to solve captchas to watch movies or TV shows. Not sure why you are not able to enter captchas. Does the stream you are trying to watch have several sources? If so use a different source that does not require a captcha. Heres what we are gonna do, tell me the movie you are trying to watch and I will see if the same happens to me. It is a certain movie thats causing the problem right, or is it all movies that you try to watch?
The movie I attempted to watch was "Last Knights". I reinstalled 1channel and instead of booting me out of the listing when I failed to enter the captcha I returned to the movie listing and can view other movies without a problem, well so far that is. So possibly just Last Knights that is causing the problem
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The movie I attempted to watch was "Last Knights". I reinstalled 1channel and instead of booting me out of the listing when I failed to enter the captcha I returned to the movie listing and can view other movies without a problem, well so far that is. So possibly just Last Knights that is causing the problem
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I just had no problem playing the movie. I tried every link and only a couple required a captcha, and there is exactly 30 different link sources. When you click on the movie there should be a popup with all the different link sources for the movie, if one does not work, click on the movie again and try a different source. Some sites require you to solve captchas to watch content so depending on the website that the link is from you may have to solve a captcha, but for Last Knights there were only a couple sources that required a captcha to be solved. I exclusively use 1channel for reruns and movies, but there are several other addons that basically do the same as 1channel, so you might wanna try watching the movie from another addon. 1channel is far from perfect, it has several quirks like everytime I watch an episode from my favorites it sends me back to the addon screen and if I hit back it sends me back to my favorites, but I still think its the best addon for TV and movies. Is your version of 1channel 2.5.64?
Well, this is a strange one. I currently have two fire tv boxes, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. When I open up 1channel in the bedroom I can navigate to both tv series and movies without a problem. However, when I use the one in the living room I can access tv series but when I attempt to open the movies section it immediately tells me I have to type the image on the screen to proceed. Obviously I cannot see any image as this was my original problem so when I quit it just takes me to a blank directory. No matter what I do I cannot get passed the "type image on screen to proceed". I even attempted to uninstall 1channel and reinstall but when I open it up again all the settings are still there from the original setup so it still won't allow me to enter the movies section. How can I completely wipe the box of 1channel and setting so I can try to start afresh?