The one letdown with the HTC Touchflo3D Diamond audio manager which nobody seems to have addressed yet, is that it attempts to load EVERY track that you sync to your phone whenever you go to the "Music" tab.
So in my case where I have uploaded 7 albums, when I scroll to the "Music" tab, it takes about 5 seconds before displaying anything as it loads ALL the tracks from ALL the albums that I have sync'd to date.
Surely a better way for managing media would be JUST to display the albums instead of all tracks within the albums? You could then do one of the following:
- select the album that you want to play (which then loads all tracks within the selected album)
- select which albums you want to load by default (which loads all the tracks within the selected albums, which is kind of what it does now except it does it for ALL albums)
- create a playlist of tracks across multiple albums (which is the one thing you CAN do)
This seems so obvious that I am tempted to think that I am missing something. Is there a hidden config option somewhere that says "load albums" instead of "all tracks"?
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
i'm hoping for an updated music tab in manila 2.0. but who knows when that is?!?
I agree...
The music side is a disappontment so far with this phone.
My main gripe is the fact that scrolling up and down through albums looks great but when you get to an album with multiple tracks you have to scroll through all the tracks to get to the next album.
I know you can sort via artist etc. but for speed, you generally just want to flick through albums to find the one you want.
I also notice that flicking left and right just scrolls through the main phone options, this could be used to view tracks etc.
Its really simple, just copy the ipod interface:
Up and down scrolls through albums until click..
Click plays the album, right flick shows the tracks..
Some attention to this area would make this the best phone on the market.
(I actually have the touch pro but I assume the interface is the same)
Bandito.
i started to use pocket player instead of audiomanager.
i like it, but misses a few things.
pp its more heavy, but in my opinios much beter.
Same here, switched to Pocket Player 3.7.
Another downside of Audio Manager is that you cannot open a folder directly, and at times you need it in case you have uploaded your older tracks which lack ID tags.
Thanks for the reply guys, that player is superb.
All it need now is the nice scrolling album art option and its perfect!!
Is there a way I can replace the touch-flo audio app with pocket player instead??
Thanks.
bandito22 said:
Thanks for the reply guys, that player is superb.
All it need now is the nice scrolling album art option and its perfect!!
Is there a way I can replace the touch-flo audio app with pocket player instead??
Thanks.
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I haven't found a way to do this yet but in the meantime I have created a TouchFLO style skin for Pocket Player:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
You can grab it from here.
Let me know if you like it, if anyone figures out a way to launch PP instead of HTC's audio player, let me know!
bandito22 said:
The music side is a disappontment so far with this phone.
My main gripe is the fact that scrolling up and down through albums looks great but when you get to an album with multiple tracks you have to scroll through all the tracks to get to the next album.
I know you can sort via artist etc. but for speed, you generally just want to flick through albums to find the one you want.
I also notice that flicking left and right just scrolls through the main phone options, this could be used to view tracks etc.
Its really simple, just copy the ipod interface:
Up and down scrolls through albums until click..
Click plays the album, right flick shows the tracks..
Some attention to this area would make this the best phone on the market.
(I actually have the touch pro but I assume the interface is the same)
Bandito.
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Could try S2P- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377627
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cxZvahfCc
kien said:
Could try S2P- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377627
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cxZvahfCc
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Actually, there is a newer version of S2P available here (0.50 - now G-Sensor support for Diamond):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417511
However, I find it far too slow to be useable and it is severly lacking in options. I can't fault Pocket Player (except it's not free), for me it is worth every penny especially with fantastic crossfade and gapless support and Shoutcast playback which no other player (to my knowledge) can do.
kien said:
Could try S2P- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377627
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27cxZvahfCc
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That looks pretty promising. I'll give that a go now
bandito22 said:
The music side is a disappontment so far with this phone.
My main gripe is the fact that scrolling up and down through albums looks great but when you get to an album with multiple tracks you have to scroll through all the tracks to get to the next album.
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I could not agree with you more on this. Should be a way to swipe through albums (ala coverflow from iPod) rather than having to go through each and every track of an album to get to the next! Please update this HTC.
on touchflo 2d on my polaris i managed to get sp2 to open when the music tab is selected by changing the .exe name from s2p.exe to AudioManager.exe and using total commander to copy the ammended folder to windows.
tried the same on the diamond but no joy, anyone any ideas? will try looking at the manilla exe with a hex editor but think the above cheat would be best if anyone could point me in the direction of the correct exe
chrisd1a1 said:
on touchflo 2d on my polaris i managed to get sp2 to open when the music tab is selected by changing the .exe name from s2p.exe to AudioManager.exe and using total commander to copy the ammended folder to windows.
tried the same on the diamond but no joy, anyone any ideas? will try looking at the manilla exe with a hex editor but think the above cheat would be best if anyone could point me in the direction of the correct exe
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sussed this, bit of a dirty fix but better then audio manager
rename s2p.exe to AudioManager_Eng.exe (in the case of my rom) copy the folder contents to windows and when you select the music tab, it opens s2p
much better with the newer versions being gsensor enabled
chrisd1a1 said:
sussed this, bit of a dirty fix but better then audio manager
rename s2p.exe to AudioManager_Eng.exe (in the case of my rom) copy the folder contents to windows and when you select the music tab, it opens s2p
much better with the newer versions being gsensor enabled
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I followed the method. When I tried to run the music tab, it gives the error message. 'Unsigned program, try to restore or reinstall the program'
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Hey. I have a HTC Kaiser which doesn't have the HTC Album, it has an "Picutres & Video" app but I don't like it. I want to remove it and set the HTC Album as the default. SO that when I'm in Camera mode and click on Album:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
it needs to open the HTC Album but how? I saw this:
"- to set album being default viewer go to HKLM - software - htc - htcalbum - default viewer set to "1""
and did it this way:
Then soft reseted the device and it didn't work... it opens the "Picture & Video" again.
Please help!
the camera uses the file pimg.exe, which is hard coded in the rom. to get the htc album instead, you'd have to make a copy of the htc album shortcut and htcalbum.exe and rename them pimg.exe and use something like resco explorer to overwrite the one in your windows directory
steb0ne said:
the camera uses the file pimg.exe, which is hard coded in the rom. to get the htc album instead, you'd have to make a copy of the htc album shortcut and htcalbum.exe and rename them pimg.exe and use something like resco explorer to overwrite the one in your windows directory
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Can you explane me more, I'm new to Pocket PC stuff. Where can I find these files and shortcuts?
Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479
d3sm0nd said:
Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479
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Does the "Album" button in your Camera actually open HTCAlbum? Mine still opens the MSapp. This is because it is hardcoded to point to pimg.exe and a new version hasn't been released for the rest of the phones.
What those registry-edits do (and say they do) is to change what is the default open-with program. Essentially, when you click on a .bmp in File Explorer (etc), it'll open with HTCAlbum, instead of the Picture Viewer.
The only way to get the buttons in camera to launch htc album is to make a copy of htc album and rename it to pimg as said. However, this is very buggy due to the way the camera launches htc album. When you click on those buttons that triggers pimg, htc album launches but bottom tray is broken, and you cannot access the "X" button. Clicking on task manager "X" button does nothing. Also, if you cannot go back to the camera, the camera will be running in the background, which causes a bunch of problems until you close the camera from memory management.
KyleK29 said:
Does the "Album" button in your Camera actually open HTCAlbum? Mine still opens the MSapp. This is because it is hardcoded to point to pimg.exe and a new version hasn't been released for the rest of the phones.
What those registry-edits do (and say they do) is to change what is the default open-with program. Essentially, when you click on a .bmp in File Explorer (etc), it'll open with HTCAlbum, instead of the Picture Viewer.
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Yes, you're right. It doesn't open the HTC Album when I click the "Album" button in my Camera. I won't do this with the renaming.
hehe wow u guys are going to have a suprise this new years then. i provided the full oemapps and oem lang of the latest polaris rom to one of my buds and his latest kaiser rom will have all of the latest apps in it including new camera with working htc album. i wont say who is going to release the rom so i wont ruin the suprise.
d3sm0nd said:
Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479
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Problem created.
WARNING following the last suggestion in that link, could result in a forced hard reset. My touch panel was set to 30xxx and i changed it to 400 like it said. Touch screen is dead, and to my knowledge theres no way to fix it on a sprint touch. I tried to use a third party app to control the phone but i cant even click okay let the app run without the touch screen. I can get into the registry and and stare at the 400 number using only hardware buttons. Its just staring at me, damnit i really dont want to hard reset i have alot of things set up just how i want them.
The best solution is to install the new camera app from Nadavi... the shortcut goes directly to HTC camera album =)
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Its the newest version of mortplayer with this iphone skin i found... Its friggin rediculous... I couldnt ask for more in a player as of yet. It has slide left to right for next and previous song... slide up or down for next or previous playlist... song covers... and its also very customizable...
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
to install:
1. you'll need to run the mortplayer cab first
2. copy the "iphone" folder and the .mps file to "/Program Files/Mortplayer"
**make sure you are in explorer mode if you are using winzip**
3. open mortplayer
4. go to settings
5. click the "display" one
6. click choose skin and scroll up to "iphone"
7. then click save+exit
8. restart mortplayer and enjoy
View attachment iphone.zip
View attachment short_power.zip
youll probably want to play with the settings... like I said, its highly configurable...
also... as a bonus... you can extract this "short_power.zip" (backlight off) shortcut to your windows folder and that will prevent mortplayer from stopping when y. if youre woou hit the power button. if youre worried about power saving, there is an option to leave player on always. if the player isnt open, i have my power settings set to turn off automatically after 1 minute (in the windows settings) when im not running the player. and i havent had any adverse battery affects.
credit goes to sto-helit for the development of mortplayer. i stumbled upon the skin on google and the site was in another language, so credit for the skin goes to google
hope you all love it like i do... and im really looking forward to the pocket melody and slide to play
Michaelr219 said:
Its the newest version of mortplayer with this iphone skin i found... Its friggin rediculous... I couldnt ask for more in a player as of yet. It has slide left to right for next and previous song... slide up or down for next or previous playlist... song covers... and its also very customizable...
View attachment 69961
to install:
1. you'll need to run the mortplayer cab first
2. copy the "iphone" folder to "/Program Files/Mortplayer"
3. open mortplayer
4. go to settings
5. click the "display" one
6. click choose skin and scroll up to "iphone"
7. then click save+exit
8. restart mortplayer and enjoy
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View attachment 69963
youll probably want to play with the settings... like I said, its highly configurable...
also... as a bonus... you can extract this "short_power.zip" (backlight off) shortcut to your windows folder and that will prevent mortplayer from stopping when y. if youre woou hit the power button. if youre worried about power saving, there is an option to leave player on always. if the player isnt open, i have my power settings set to turn off automatically after 1 minute (in the windows settings) when im not running the player. and i havent had any adverse battery affects.
credit goes to sto-helit for the development of mortplayer. i stumbled upon the skin on google and the site was in another language, so credit for the skin goes to google
hope you all love it like i do... and im really looking forward to the pocket melody and slide to play
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I'm not able to chose this skin...
Mortplayer doesn't see it...
Any solution?
Nice! I've been looking for a good mp3 player app.
HTC audio manager doesn't sorts alphabetically instead of song numbers and that annoys me.
Americanmetal said:
Nice! I've been looking for a good mp3 player app.
HTC audio manager doesn't sorts alphabetically instead of song numbers and that annoys me.
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Have you tried the skin?
Is it working for you?
Not working , possibly because the iphone zip only contains images.
also not working for me i think that some files are missing in the archive they're all png's and no .mps (wich are skin files for mortplayer).
thx americanmetal!
flaviopac said:
Have you tried the skin?
Is it working for you?
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Nope don't see it in the skin's directory.
Missing file............
So Michaelrl219...
Where can we find the missing file??
Thanks!
there seams to be missing a iphone.mps file
Found it!
Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.
Americanmetal said:
Found it!
Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.
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IT WORKS!!!!!
Great!!
The skin is really iphone-like...
THANK YOU!
this is looking dam good only problem I only have my own song with no albumcover need to add a cover to my songs
gullum said:
this is looking dam good only problem I only have my own song with no albumcover need to add a cover to my songs
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Me too......
gullum said:
this is looking dam good only problem I only have my own song with no albumcover need to add a cover to my songs
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sorry about not replying... ill update the post... thanks to whoever fixed the zip... it needed to be in a folder named "iphone" to be recognized in mortplayer... glad you all like it...
It doesn't look like it does on the first post... Album art is shown in a small box in the middle...
littld said:
It doesn't look like it does on the first post... Album art is shown in a small box in the middle...
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Try to set a different option...
I see a big image of the album...
ok guys... ill repost this... you all shouldnt have problems like you are... one moment while i make another zip file
she's updated...
im unsure if the mps file posted was the same one... so i repacked the zip and tested it... all is good... to those who installed already, please reinstall the .mps file for the correct format if you are receiving errors
Yes, that's much much better!
Can we get a larger font for the playlist view - the font is very very tiny.
Thanks!
I have my own favourite skin for Media Player but Mortplayer has the advantage of using less memory so it could be a better choice.
I don't know if people here already know this, but you can just download the iphone.zip from the OP, rename that to iphone.mpz (be sure you are able to view file extensions to begin with), and you're good to go. Cleans up my Mortplayer directory by half, since I do that to all the Mortplayer skins I have there.
Definitely looks more like the iPhone than the previous iPhone skin i had, but it is missing buttons for some features like shuffle and repeat, but no big deal, i'll just use the context menu. thank you Michaelr219 and thank you Google!
there is any way to display on the tf3d player the albums and then click on them to enter the album playlist? i didn't find any
i belive that would be nice and useful
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no ideea?
nobody?
i'm afraid you cant do this sorry.
that's too bad
it seems that touch flo is so limited and has so many bugs...
cool design but lacks the basic things
they could learn something else from iphone not just the marketing s**t
i like my thd, but i found it the most buggy and difficult to set and tweak phone that i ever own
LE:
i use wm for a few years, so don't give me the "buy an iphone" answer ;-)
c'mmon guys!
a hint, an ideea, something.......
noris08 said:
there is any way to display on the tf3d player the albums and then click on them to enter the album playlist? i didn't find any
i belive that would be nice and useful
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I'm not sure, I understand the problem...
I go to the TF3D Player.
Tap "Library"
Tap "Albums"
Tap the album, I want to see.
- and right there... The list of songs on the specific album opens!
Tap any of the songs, and it plays.
nope, it's not that
i want to have on my tf3d music player screen (the big "rectangle" where the album art picture is displayed) album arts (pictures) of albums and not for songs
i want to flip finger and to change albums, like s2p does, and when i press or click on the desired album, to open and the to flip through songs, like it is the situation now
i hope you understand what i mean
I can see what you mean, and yes I was dissappointed that wasn't possible upon first inspection. But Henrikmand has explained how to overcome this.
I don't think TF3d is very buggy. It's the best WinMo skin/shell I've ever seen.
no, Henrikmand just explain how tf3d player works
but, in my opinion, this is a very complicated way and for sure doesn't do what i asked
and, yes, tf3d is extremely buggy and difficult to set and tweak, despite the beautiful looks
just another example concerning, again, the tf3d music player:
in order to have songs displayed in the same album, it is a must that each song has to have the same album name written within tag
for most of other players, basic ones, it is enough to through all songs within the same folder and this is it
and examples could continue! just take a look at this forum and see how many questions, issues, tweaks, tricks and so on are discussed here
this is the best barometer
noris08 said:
nope, it's not that
i want to have on my tf3d music player screen (the big "rectangle" where the album art picture is displayed) album arts (pictures) of albums and not for songs
i want to flip finger and to change albums, like s2p does, and when i press or click on the desired album, to open and the to flip through songs, like it is the situation now
i hope you understand what i mean
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OK - I see.
No, sorry! You're right... That's not possible.
noris08 said:
just another example concerning, again, the tf3d music player:
in order to have songs displayed in the same album, it is a must that each song has to have the same album name written within tag
for most of other players, basic ones, it is enough to through all songs within the same folder and this is it
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What? What other player can identify a song's album if it has no ID3 tag for it?
Also why isn't your music organised? *cringes at the thought of messy music*
fredskis said:
Also why isn't your music organised? *cringes at the thought of messy music*
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where did get that from? i have my music very well organized
maybe my english is not so good
what i mean is that if you take, for instance, a compilation like best of or golden, whatever, in most of the cases, the tags oft the songs will have the original album name and not "best off" name
then in your tf3d player you will have several albums, despite the fact that you have only 1 folder with all those songs.
other players, will take into consideration the name of your folder, and the same album art if you add one within the folder, and will not split your folder (best off album) into several albums
do you understant me or i am to confuse?
TF3D is like Winamp and WMP, (I think protocol's name is UMPC) and like most of the mp3 players (Creative Zen, iTouch, ...), it's based on tags. So it was also hard for me, but if you want to keep on using TF3D player (which is not perfect but at least is user-friendly) you have to reorganize your personal music library by checking the tags validity with WMP for example... For a compilation, tag the tracks with the same album name (Something's Soundtrack) and the same artist (like Soundtrack or The compilation name if the tracks are from differents artists), and it will be perfect in the TF3D (though you could loose artist information, but you can't put it in the track name anyway).
'Hope it helps!
Isn't the guy on this pic able to flick through his albums or am I wrong here.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Technically, yeah, he can flick through the albums. But only by flicking through the songs.
So if there's 32 songs in that album, he has to flick through each and every one of the 32 songs to browse the next album. There seems to be no way for us to flick through the album in album art mode and then subsequently select the album to browse the songs.
Was kinda surprised at the way they set it up. Not as user friendly or efficient as it should be...
I don't know if this has been added somewhere, but i searched everywhere for it and couldn't find one so i made a little tutorial on how to put album art into your music using itunes (on windows 7).
if your music has album art already you can tell by looking at the icon below the window.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
if not then it will look like this
so now lets choose that album and drag the folder into your itunes like so...
then when in itunes right click the album you just added and choose "Get Album Artwork" and the image will appear, but if you don't have an itunes account (like me) and couldn't get it you would have to go online and search for the album cover on google images. when you find your image right click it and click on "Copy Image"
after that go into your itunes and right click the album and click "Get Info" (i think it will ask something like "you sure you want to continue blah blah blah" just tick the box that says "don't ask again" and click yes. if it doesn't then you probably already did.) when the window pops up there will be 4 tabs (info, video, sorting, & options) make sure you're on the Info tab which you will probably end up at by default. on the bottom right you'll see "Artwork" with a big empty box. on that empty spot right click it and click "Paste" then click "Ok" a progress bar will show up copying the image to each song in that album.
now plug in your samsung vibrant and go to your music folder(or where ever you put your music). i like to keep things organize so i made a music folder>artist folder>album folder. so if i had one artist with multiple albums that i like i can just drag that album to the artist folder. now from itunes drag the album into whatever folder you have on your samsung vibrant or sdcard and thats it! and when thats done check if that albumart icon appears on the bottom left just to be sure.
now on your phone drag the notification bar to "Turn off USB storage" and go into your music player to see if it embedded the albumart.
i know its not the fastest way but if your ocd like me and wants every song to have an albumart then this should do the trick. i've tried doing it on windows media player but it was giving me a headache and itunes was way faster. the good thing about it is that you wont have any album covers saved into your computer or phone because it will save you a lot of space for people like me who have a ton of music in their harddrive. hopefully this helped a lot and PLEASE if i am missing something, if theres a faster way, or if theres already a thread on how to do this please tell me and i will delete this post. I know theres an app to grab albumart and all but to me personally this is faster and i've done it to over 100 albums in minutes. it will save you a lot of time in the future.
I just use an app on my windows PC called mp3tag. It lets me scrape id3 tag info and album art from Amazon.com and it's easy to use. I've been using it for a couple of years and I love it.
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using the XDA app.
Fat Tires said:
I just use an app on my windows PC called mp3tag. It lets me scrape id3 tag info and album art from Amazon.com and it's easy to use. I've been using it for a couple of years and I love it.
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using the XDA app.
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I use mp3tag as well. Works great, but I have found that the music player doesn't always display the album are even though its properly tagged.
speoples20 said:
I use mp3tag as well. Works great, but I have found that the music player doesn't always display the album are even though its properly tagged.
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I've not had this issue yet. Admittedly though, I have only tried a small handful of albums so far. I tend to use my Zune HD for most of my music listening.
I use album art grabber from the market. Does everything right from the phone.
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sultan.of.swing said:
I use album art grabber from the market. Does everything right from the phone.
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I use mp3tagger pro from the market for on the go tagging.
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Hello Guys,
So today after college, I decided to sit and organize my music. After a grueling 45 minutes on Mp3tag I accomplished the task only to find that on transferring the songs to my phone, I wasn't able to view them categorically on Play Music.
Although the music is sorted correctly, on expanding the tabs of any particular genre/album all that is shown is "Music" instead of a list of songs that belong that sub category. On clicking on the "Music" tab, it just displays ALL my songs.
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However, if I add to play list it will correctly create a play list with only the songs that belong to that sub category.
Hope I have explained myself clearly.
Any help will be appreciated :highfive:
Verify your song tags are correct on Google Music's website. That's the ID3 data has on hand, so any mistakes/errors seen on your decide will be reflected there.
Are you sure Google Play can even do categories? I level all my music volumes using Mp3Gain and those changes aren't carried over into Google Play even though they are made to the id3tag.
irishtexmex said:
Verify your song tags are correct on Google Music's website. That's the ID3 data has on hand, so any mistakes/errors seen on your decide will be reflected there.
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Didn't quite get you. But, I should be able to assign any genre I want to any song I'd like and Play should sort them accordingly.
kzoodroid said:
Are you sure Google Play can even do categories? I level all my music volumes using Mp3Gain and those changes aren't carried over into Google Play even though they are made to the id3tag.
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Well, I assume so because if I long press on the artists name and then press the "add to playlist" button, it will correctly add only the songs belonging to that artist to the play list. I'm just having a problem viewing songs under a particular category.
For example, as shown in the above pics, if I expand a particular genre or artist all that's displayed is under is "Music" (which upon clicking just takes me to a page which will display ALL my music) instead of displaying music belonging only to that particular sub category.
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Is it like this for all of you'll? If that's the case then I can conclude that Play Music is inherently like that.
w1ndhawk said:
Didn't quite get you. But, I should be able to assign any genre I want to any song I'd like and Play should sort them accordingly.
Well, I assume so because if I long press on the artists name and then press the "add to playlist" button, it will correctly add only the songs belonging to that artist to the play list. I'm just having a problem viewing songs under a particular category.
For example, as shown in the above pics, if I expand a particular genre or artist all that's displayed is under is "Music" (which upon clicking just takes me to a page which will display ALL my music) instead of displaying music belonging only to that particular sub category.
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What I mean is I don't think Google Play can categorize music in the way you want it to, its too rudimentary. Myself I have problems with it even putting all my songs into the playlists I have created on my pc, only about 1/3 of the songs show up in any playlist. I just have not had a good experience using Google Play and went back to storing music locally and using PlayerPro. Though I now have a lot less music stored than I did when I had 32 GB of sdcard storage.
Go to music.google.com and fix the tags there. Their is a tag field for "Artist" and "Album Artist" so the "Various Artists" albums can be grouped together. You can "Group Edit" depending the view you are in.
P.S. You can get most album art from Amazon.
kzoodroid said:
What I mean is I don't think Google Play can categorize music in the way you want it to, its too rudimentary. Myself I have problems with it even putting all my songs into the playlists I have created on my pc, only about 1/3 of the songs show up in any playlist. I just have not had a good experience using Google Play and went back to storing music locally and using PlayerPro. Though I now have a lot less music stored than I did when I had 32 GB of sdcard storage.
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Guess I'm going to use player pro.
SpookyTunes said:
Go to music.google.com and fix the tags there. Their is a tag field for "Artist" and "Album Artist" so the "Various Artists" albums can be grouped together. You can "Group Edit" depending the view you are in.
P.S. You can get most album art from Amazon.
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Lol play music not available in my country.