I haven't read about this problem anywhere, so right now I don't know whether the problem is caused by the Blur libs, or my files:
I've encoded a few CD's to HE-AAC (AAC+) with NeroAAC. This is because I want to store a lot of music and AAC+ seems to deliver the best quality at the smallest size.
The problem is that the Milestone 2 ignores Tracknumber information and the included cover art. This is quite annoying: the Connected Music Player downloads the wrong covers for my albums (Keri Hilson's No Boys Allowed get's a In A Perfect World cover and so on...)
That's not the biggest issue: the most annoying is the fact that an album isn't played in the right order. Most of the time it's something like this: start with #1, #10, #11, #12, #2, #3, #4 and so on... If an album has a tracknumber 21, it'll be played after track number 2...
It really annoys the hell out of me! I've tried my best to tag every song correct, yet the information is ignored...
My old Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 doesn't seem to have any problems with it. Even Windows Media Player is fine with the files.
Are there more people with this issue? Is there a solution? Are there people who can try te reproduce this problem?
We all know that I can ask Motorola for help, but their support via Facebook really, really sucks.
Seriously... There's no one who even has a reply to this?
Right now I figured out a few things:
1. When encoded with QuickTime, the tags aren't read correctly. Using NeroAAC tags are read correctly, but Album Art is still ignored.
2. DoubleTwist player seems to have a good influence. It reads the album art and updates the Android music library. Because of that the CMP get's to use the correct album art.
I also replaced the aac libs with those from the Droid X, but I actually don't know if that was a true fix.
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Can anyone confirm if the HTC music player app as part of sense can display the embedded art in MP3 files?
I have a very organised collection.. and all the MP3's have (one piece of) embedded art which works in Media Player, and on my iRiver MP3 players with Rockbox..
But on my Hero.. no art is shown.
I understand it should be.. can anyone shed any light on this?
(I'm on Modaco 3.1, but the same thing happened with the Stock ROM as well so I suspect it's somethign I've done wrong.)
All the tags are perfect and all the art was added with mp3tag which seems to be recommended for this job by a quick google..
I've run out of ideas!
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Can anyone confirm if the HTC music player app as part of sense can display the embedded art in MP3 files?
I have a very organised collection.. and all the MP3's have (one piece of) embedded art which works in Media Player, and on my iRiver MP3 players with Rockbox..
But on my Hero.. no art is shown.
I understand it should be.. can anyone shed any light on this?
(I'm on Modaco 3.1, but the same thing happened with the Stock ROM as well so I suspect it's somethign I've done wrong.)
All the tags are perfect and all the art was added with mp3tag which seems to be recommended for this job by a quick google..
I've run out of ideas!
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try this: download and install itunes, if you're not on mac.
then obviously, import all of your music
tell me if itunes shows your cover art so I can help you further
Works on Mine
My Missus is the Queen of MetaData and has an immaculate set of MP3s together with Album Art etc.
It's all displayed correctly on mine (Modaco 3.1)
Sorry it's not a solution but it may help in fault finding.
Brynn
Yes the art is all visible in iTunes.
It's weird.. I've actually found a few tracks where it does work.. but they are identical to other tracks where it doesnt.
It seems to prefer smaller artwork, in an exact square shape.. but even changing other tracks to that doesnt guarantee it will be shown.. which is more annoying!!
I can't help you with making it more automatic, but a program called Album Art Grabber is in the Market and it works wonders. Someone here on xda made it, although I can't recall who. They should be able to shed some light on how Android accesses album art.
Or, having AlbumArt.jpg in the same folder as the music should do the trick!
There are some free PC-based utilities to get these as a batch-job for you I think, but I use script in Amarok (CopyCover2) which stores the playing album's image there for me.
Download a tagger (Sorry I can't suggest anything I'm on linux) that allows you to view both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags (there is one, I used to use it but I don't remember the name).
If you're using ID3v1, copy them over to ID3v2 or viceversa.
This may solve your problem, chances are your music is tagged with ID3v1 and Hero only supports ID3v2.
Hi all,
I am still on original firmware JF3 but from what I've understood the problem persists even with latest firmware :
FLAC tags are not displayed on the stock audio player.
Some would suggest to switch to an alternative audio player but I like this one quite a lot, espacially the drawer function on the lock screen to control the player without having to unlock the screen.
Has anyone heard of a way to correct this? This is big trouble for me as all my music is on this format. On my former music player Samsung YP-Q1, it had also taken several formwares to display FLAC tags correctly but I expected Smsung to handle that from the start with such a top rated smartphone.
Anyone interested
Back on the subject, no news?
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agree this one of the (minor) critics I have, its annoying.
I have a lot of FLAC files as well and it's 50/50, some work perfectly with the tag, others don't. I'll have to take a look, i think it has to do with the tag version
Did you find a pattern? Is it ID3 tags vs. FLAC tags? If so, which version of ID3 works?
I've tried many different apps and tag types, but never got them working in FLACs on my stock (JF5) Galaxy S. I'm still hoping there is a way to get them working or that some new fw fixes this.
If someone knows how to get tags working for FLACs please share it with us...
Anyone looking into this at all? It's exremely annoying indeed!
I use Tag&Rename for my taggin. I have tried lots of music apps and a number of firmware updates... nothing has worked.
Did you try another software? try mediamonkey for instance. If it does not work maybe you can use mediamonkey for using folders instead of tags. (genre by genre or artist by artist or both? )
This is a workaround but tags allow alternative sorting by gender which is what I miss.
The stock firmware already uses the folders by default as it doesn't recognize the tags, not exactly the same thing you say of course because here it does it only with one folder depth.
I did have over 2000 tracks on my SE Arc, all showing the embedded cover-art, that is included in the mp3.
But all of a sudden, those cover-images are not visible any more. I'm using the standard media player of SE.
I saw in the forum that the same thing also happened with previous xepria-models, but i could not find a real solution: emptying the cache f.ex. etc. did not work.
So i might re-copy all of them: but the same thing may happen again ... :-(
Any idea what might have caused this, as there were visible for at least two/three weeks ?
Kind Regards,
Paul
Have the cover images been stripped from the files or is the media player simply not reading them?
Because the two are very different problems.
If it's the latter, then I'd personally say look for a different media player.
There are a number of them on the market that are superior to stock apps, such as WinAmp and and PowerAMP.
Well I ran into this same problem. It worked fine on my X10 using Sailing Media sync from my Mac (iTunes) to my X10. When I synced to the Arc about 20% of the album covers came across. I then deleted all the music and installed "iSyncr for Mac" (paid version but very cheap) on my Arc. I then synced the music and about 75% of the album art came across. App was way easier to use than Sailing Media sync (which was installed on my Mac)
I then installed "cover art downloader" (free app) . It found most of the rest with the general overall scan. Any remaining ones I could search for the album or artist and it would show a bunch of selections and I found them all.
Actually this worked pretty well overall.
Thanks.
The cover is still present in the mp3: SE did not remove it.
Using another program (Player Pro trial), it works perfectly.
Disappointed nevertheless: SE creates a multimedia telephone, but their app is not even able to show embedded mop3 covers. So i have to reorganize all, with other android app's. What is the added value of SE in all that ?!
I also deleted all music and recopied the mp3-files top the phone, but it still does not show any mp3 cover: so something must have changed, because it worked before...
Well, methinks that it's the Android player issue actually. Sony Ericsson did not include their wonderful Mediascape this time =(
They only added an infinity button onto the Anndroid music player.
When I was owning Rachael, Mediascape was da bomb. Though not all my embedded album arts were shown, but at least it had a 80% rate of display, unlike the 20% rate now.
And worse, initially the player couldn't read my 2,000+ wma files, only displaying a few measley mp3 files (c'mon... I got myself a 32gb card cos I trust Sony to host a good media player, right?).
Did abit of googling, realized it's the android version that's affecting it.
Only solution was to installed PowerAmp, and it displayed 60% of my albumarts, and my wma files could be played. Though some were omitted from the listings under 'artists', 'albums' etc.
Seems after installing that, the droid player could read wma files as well (but albumart visibility is still 20% -_-)
I'm no IT expert, but my guess is a wma plugin was not included into the Arc?
I don't know what Sony Ericsson is doing, abandoning such a great software they created for Rachael, leaving this new, sexy model media-crippled.
Personally, I don't like to install another music player when I have 1 in my phone, for space reasons, but the droid music player is too disappointing.
If you do a google, the albumart issue exists in all droid phones.
I remember having the same issue, it was caused by loss of the sdcard/Android/com.android.providers.media directory, which stores the cache of album art, and which I accidentally deleted. At least I think it was this directory, because I deleted the whole sdcard/Android directory.
Media player refused to re-create the cache, for some reason. I fixed the issue by renaming the folder with my music from 'Music' to 'music', after this media player rebuilt the cache.
Hope this helps.
I took my PAYG Samsung Galaxy S II back to O2 (UK) for a refund today, after 2 days of use. Love the speed, thinness, screen quality and size. TouchWiz is dire - but can be replaced with Launcher Pro. I could not live with the fact that most of my music files came up with <unknown artist> and no cover art. I use DoubleTwist to synchronise (after a fashion!) iTunes playlists to my Android devices. The same music files that appear correctly on the Nexus S and the Xoom would not show the artist/cover art information on the SGS2. So I know the files are tagged correctly. I also tried a direct copy of music files from my iMac to the SGS2, but same issue. Tried the stock music app as well as DoubleTwist and the Samsung Music hub - the media details were missing whatever the player.
I have spent many hours getting my media files correctly tagged and cannot live with a device that ignores all my hard work. May seem a small point and I can't understand how this could happen.
Has anyone else experienced the same problem and is there a cure?
Did you try PowerAmp? That works perfectly fine...that scans all the tags and brings up the details. I never use the stock music player cos it's not that good imo.
Everything else sucks compared to PowerAmp.
I think Doubletwist was your problem, I've seen another user at Androidforums who had the same thing, his files were fine when he just sideloaded them.
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I think Doubletwist was your problem, I've seen another user at Androidforums who had the same thing, his files were fine when he just sideloaded them.
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I agree DoubleTwist is far from ideal, but it has worked OK to move music to the Nexus S and the Xoom - with all information complete. I also tried side-loading an album that showed with no artist information or cover art after the DoubleTwist sync and it made no difference. PowerAmp may be a good player on the device, but does it handle music transfer (from a Mac), as I need to move music in an iTunes playlist to my phones - too cumbersome to move files individually.
im using FLAC files with winamp and had no real issues, tho i did notice this morning that some tracks arent in the correct order but id have to check my tagging before i make assumtions
other than that not had one problem with them, you sure you didnt really want to take your phone back anyway seems a small matter to return such a nice phone for when it can probably be fixed
I'm not an iTunes user, so I don't know what the other softwares are, but I am aware there are several other options you could try to sync across from iTunes. Maybe give some others a try?
Found the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062137&highlight=media
Seems that the SGS2 does not recognise artists (and presumably cover art) tags if the file is in M4a format. That would explain why some of my files were OK and others not. Most of my iTunes library is in M4a format, purchased from iTunes. Way too much work to convert everything to MP3 and no reason why this popular format is not supported, as it is supported on every other Android phone (including my Samsung Nexus S).
It was me that started that thread and I still have not found a solution, which is annoying, hopefully someone smarter than me will find an answer!
Just seams an odd thing as no other phone I've ever had has had this problem! And I'm not going to convert all my music either! Maybe someone will get the stock music app working?
It is really strange as I tried the Samsung Music Hub, the stock music player and DoubleTwist and they all could not read the tags. So it must be something that Samsung has done to the file format on this particular phone. I doubt it is an application fault, so it is up to Samsung to acknowledge and fix this oddity. I returned mine and will now wait for the HTC Sensation.
I seem to be having a problem with the tagging on my FLAC files. i have tried using KIES to insure it was a problem with media monkey (which i have been using most of the time), basicly it isnt displaying the tags for FLAC properly if at all. most annoying thing for me is track order, it just puts them in any order it wants and it is really annoying
i transfered over an album in mp3 format and the tags work fine ;/
anyone have a fix or an idea about that
thanks
Crucio
I'll bne ripping one of my albums to Flac to try it out for my review, will let you know results. Have you tried another player, PowerAMP maybe?
I've always had trouble with FLAC on my Galaxy S; only PowerAMP could show the tags correctly. I'm insanely meticulous with my tagging as well.
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I've always had trouble with FLAC on my Galaxy S; only PowerAMP could show the tags correctly. I'm insanely meticulous with my tagging as well.
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Same i hate things that are tagged baddly, i dont understand it i think it takes more time to tag something badly than to do it right
I used power amp to play my files, it displays track information and coverart and the usual stuff.
The odd thing is if i long press a track and go to info i can see the track numbers listed there and they are correct, they just dont display in the correct order and i cant see a way to sort them in to the right sequence ;/
thanks for the replys also ^^
Crucio_