Hey all, new to the forum (a fantastic resource, and I'm learning tons about my magnificent HTC Wizard), so hopefully this is in the right place.
I'm running WM5 and the default version of WMP on my Wizard, and I'm having some trouble with WMP recognizing the artist and album information encoded in the ID3 tags in my MP3s.
The ID3 tags are done using iTunes 7-ish on my PC running XP Pro, and thus, they are filed on the storage card as follows: \Storage Card\iTunes Music\Artist\Album\Track# SongName.mp3 - an example being \Storage Card\iTunes Music\Primus\Tales From The Punchbowl\01 Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats.mp3 . This is the default way in which iTunes stores music on my PC's HD, and I'm simply copying over the folders that I wish to have on my PDA.
What's happening, however, is that when I import the music into the WMP library, it doesn't seem to find any artist or album information, which, of course, makes it exceptionally difficult to organize my music collection on there.
I appeal to you, XDA geniuses, to help me solve my problem. Thanks!
P.S. - It now occurs to me that iTunes may not be encoding the artist and album information in the ID3 tags, and, rather, relying on the directory tree to contain that information. Does anyone know if this is the case? If so, how can it be solved?
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Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is the best forum to post this, but here goes.
I use Windows media Player on my WM6 phone, well Duttys 6.1 actually, but i don't think that will change anything.
I know its not generally the preferred player, but I like it. Anyway, my question, is there a way to tell it to ONLY scan a specific folder to add media to the library, or does it have to always scan then entire memory card.
The thing is, I use my TyTN II as my portable MP3 player, so I have alot of music stored on my memory card, but I also have newsbreak download all my pod casts to my memory card too, and media player adds these podcasts to the library too.
So is there a way I can tell it to just scan my Music folder so these other audio files don't get mixed in with my music library.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
ps. if your solution is 'use a different player' please don't bother.
thanks...
Has nobody any idea's.
Even a 'No, give it up' would be better than nothing.
I will like to know too also a way to keep my radio streams easy to play
Bump, this is actually a good one. It's such a hassle when you add one or two songs or videos and then have to tell WMP to update and watch it re-read and re-add 500 files. I have a 4GB micro and that can take awhile!
Please, somebody, anybody.....
Make playlists that is what I do. I have oodles of audio books on my memory card and to avoid them get scrambled in when I shuffle I just load a playlist.
As for the using a 2nd media player I do that also when I don't want to load navigate to find the playlist and change settings from shuffle to consecutive playback. I just use HTC Home with HTC Audio manager for in a hurry playback of music. Hope this helps.
Edit: Just wanted to add I decided to play with WMP a little more after posting and fund that If you use the ID3v1/ID3v2 tags and sort that way it is really useful too. But to simplify a solution again I recommend a playlist. You can create and edit you playlists right on the phone. If your tags are accurate you can make a proper playlist in no time.
Playlists are the things I really wanted to avoid, I add and remove songs and albums pretty much everyday and having to recreate the playlist everytime seems silly.
Thanks for the contribution though.
Hi all, Im using a HP hw6900 series as my primary mobile device and I must confess that pimping Windows Mobile devices is fun. So far I've been using Pocket Player as my music application but I've just installed S2P which seems to have a nice album art Cover Flow features. However, most (90%) of my songs have no album art embedded. For those other songs which have album art, they were already 'there' when I transferred them over to my memory card.
How do I embed album art into my songs and using which software (presumably using Windows Media Player?)?
Thanks in advance for the help
Just make sure your Album Covers are updated, at least there, in WMP on your PC, and sync your music files through it, it's quite possibly the most simple thing on earth.
If you have an album on your WMP library you can just drag an image onto it and it will "merge" it automatically.
You can also just add a folder.jpg image with the cover to the directory of each album, s2p will read it
Thanks, I used the folder.jpg method and it works... yay I love my flowing covers now thanks again
to literally attach them into you're (mp3?) files youc could use mp3tag (free) on PC, after which they are in the files, no need for folder.jpg etc. so you can just copy files as files on a memory stick, rather than syncing slowly.
Hello, i have some kind of problem with my media player. I have all tags filled in my Mp3 files, and media pleyr sometimes dont read them. Like i put a song into my mobile phone, update library and i can find it in my library under its label. But when i turn off phone/update library again, i cant find it by artist, album or genre, only by name which is kinda irratating. Anyway, strange is, that with some songs, it works perfectly, and with others, it dont work at all. I have HP ipaq voice messenger.
Thanks in advance
I am looking for some clarification on how Android generates the Music DB and in particular how it displays track and album info and artwork. Right now I have some music in a "Music" folder on the root of my sdcard. There are several tracks directly in that folder, and some others organized into subfolders by artist or album. I'm having several problems getting the info to display properly.
My first issue is album artwork. Does Android display artwork that is embedded in the file? Some of them are showing up correctly and some are showing album covers from other tracks. Some of the things I've read suggested that everything be organized in folders by Album and to have an AlbumArt.jpg in each folder. While this is doable, I haven't gotten around to reorganizing my library and would rather the phone just read artwork from the file. I have checked the id3 tags of some of the problem tracks, both with an app on the phone, and from my pc, and everything (including artwork) looks fine. Both the stock music player and several 3rd party players are displaying the information incorrectly and identical so it seems to me like Android is caching the data incorrectly. I've tried to delete the albumthumbs folder on the sdcard as well as Settings->Manage Applications->Media Storage->Clear Data. It just gets regenerated incorrectly.
I think this is related to my next problem. It seems like the tracks that do not reside in their own album folders and sit directly in the Music folder are having the most problems. In particular the songs where there is no Album field in the id3 tags. The phone seems to think these all belong to the album "Music" - must be resorting to looking at the containing directory if no album is found in the tags. What's odd is that even though it thinks several tracks belong to this Music album, its now showing the same artwork for each of them.
What is the ideal way to organize music for playback on Android? Would sorting everything info folders by Album solve my problems? Do I need to make sure I don't have any blank Album tags?
On a side note, is anyone familiar with how iTunes stores its Album art? I'm looking for an easy way to maintain consistency between my iTunes library and what is on my phone. I'm thinking of developing a small application that can scan both libraries and detect differences to keep them synchronized. All of my music is on my old Macbook which I hardly use, but I listen to it pretty much exclusively on my Android phone. The problem is we also have an iPad that I'd like to keep the music on so I can't ditch iTunes entirely.
Thanks for any advice.
Learning Experience/Story Time:
I was editing an MP3 tag in the stock Music app by pressing "Song Info", I thought everything was fine for a while until I noticed one MP3 file grew from 4.6MB to 29MB. Later I wanted to burn the MP3(s) from my phone to a Compact Disc and so I put them on my computer first, but Windows was freezing up and wouldn't properly read the MP3's info. I booted into Ubuntu to use my MP3 Tag Editor tool (because the one on Windows wouldn't read correctly) and found all the MP3 file I had edited the "Song Info" on were all in CHINESE. After correcting them back to English, the file sizes shrunk back to 4.6MB where it was before and Windows read the Tags correctly again....
If anyone else has this problem, try using a Tag Editor on a Windows or Linux machine to see it that might fix it....
I always use Windows Media Player for editing ID3 tags, but Android handles ID3 tags in a different manner (and in fact it has its own ID3 tags) from PCs, and so i often find tracks with missing ID3 tags in my music library. Through MiXplorer, Music and other apps/players it's possible to modify some of them, but since that i have more than 2060 musical MP3s in my external SD, i don't am motivated enough to modify them all adding missing ID3 tags, so i've accepted this and i made habit to locate wanted music in other ways. But hell, it's a bore! I spend many time editing ID3 tags on my PC in way to have an ordered library by genre, year, artist, album, ecc. and on my phone my library is screwed up!!
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I always use Windows Media Player for editing ID3 tags, but Android handles ID3 tags in a different manner (and in fact it has its own ID3 tags) from PCs, and so i often find tracks with missing ID3 tags in my music library. Through MiXplorer, Music and other apps/players it's possible to modify some of them, but since that i have more than 2060 musical MP3s in my external SD, i don't am motivated enough to modify them all adding missing ID3 tags, so i've accepted this and i made habit to locate wanted music in other ways. But hell, it's a bore! I spend many time editing ID3 tags on my PC in way to have an ordered library by genre, year, artist, album, ecc. and on my phone my library is screwed up!!
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I have a quick question (and maybe I'm imagining things) but when you download music to the 6X, does the stock music app try and add ID3 tags on its own?
Absolutely not, dude. I don't even have a setting regarding this in my stock music app (I'm using Pulsar music player that owns that option, but i always keep settings of this kind deactivated)