AudioManager very slow and crashing music database - HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps

I have 1735 music files in 103 folders, totally 7,63 GB on a 16 GB storage card.
After reboot/data connection over USB/storage card insertion it takes almost 20 minutes until the music collection is up to date.
During the scanning, the phone is slow, almost non-responsive. Even after the scanning is finished there is 6-7 second delay from clicking on the music tab until it is ready to play/browse but all other actions are as fast and responsive as usual.
But, if I connect the phone to the computer again (for example to trasfer some additional files) during the scanning/database refresh it seems like it crashes (but without notification) and it is never finished scanning. I simply have to kill the process, delete the database (audiomanager_eng.vol) and restart the program for a full scanning.
This has occurred since I changed storage card from an 8 GB to 16 GB and added about 100 music files.
Before the new 16 GB card it took a minute or two to refresh and I never experienced any problems if I interrupted the scanning. Also never any delays when starting the music player.
Unfortunately I have sold the old card so I can't reproduced the problem but I have tried to delete the newly added music files with no effect, the problem remains.
Same phone, same ROM as before. No applications added. I have also tried to reset the phone, but the problem remain.
Any one else who have the same issues or a solution?

I noticed that the delay depends on the number of songs in a playlist..
if it plays a playlist about hundreds of songs it takes 10 seconds of delay after you click the tab, for a plylist of 50 songs the delay is about 2 seconds

i had this problem earlier. I had around 2200 songs (11 gigs). I discovered the problem that many singers I made their album known as "Collection" this caused the database to crash. believe me. try not to assign the same album name for different singers and also give album name for each one.
please tell me after you try.
I also use Dutty's roms. they are the most perfect specially in stability and battery drainage.

saziz77 said:
i had this problem earlier. I had around 2200 songs (11 gigs). I discovered the problem that many singers I made their album known as "Collection" this caused the database to crash. believe me. try not to assign the same album name for different singers and also give album name for each one.
please tell me after you try.
I also use Dutty's roms. they are the most perfect specially in stability and battery drainage.
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I have hundreds of songs in genre folders like "60's", "Rock" and so on. These songs are tagged as "# compilation" in Artist and Album artist, "60's" in Album and "Title - Artist" in the title tag.
So, I will definitely try to re-tag them, but the question is how..

Trial and error have had some effect, It seems to work really good now. I have all the songs I previously have, but now it takes 6-7 seconds to open Music after a restart/connection to PC and 1-2 seconds next time. Previously it crashed/hang and was totally unusable.
What I am not doing any more (not sure which solved my problem, or if it was a combination):
* Not using "# " in any tags. Previously I used "# Compilation" in some artist tags.
* All folder.jpg are maximum 500x500 px. Previously I used same as on my home PC, some of them hi-res, like 1500x1500 px and 1,5MB+
* No embedded art/jpg's. Previously some of the mp3's had embedded art.
New file/tag structure:
File naming, full albums:
\# Albums\Artist\Album\Track# - Title.mp3
(\#Albums\Depeche Mode\Music for the masses\02 - Never let me down again.mp3)
Tags:
Artist = Artist
Album artist = Artist
File naming, compilations:
\# Compilations\Compilation name\Artist - Title.mp3
(\# Compilations\60's\Aretha Franklin - Respect.mp3)
Tags:
Artist = Various Artists
Album Artist = Various Artists
Title = Artist - Title (Aretha Franklin - Respect)
May seem a strange way to tag, but this way you don't have to get every artist in the artist listing which saves time in listing.
Hopefully this helps someone.
BR,
S-A

found the true solution to solve slow opening
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5937822&postcount=31

jjollyroger said:
found the true solution to solve slow opening
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5937822&postcount=31
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Thanks! Works great!

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TF3D Music Library - Finding Tracks

It seems to be the music library in TF3D is missing a vital component - with 16gb cards now available it is possible to store a large number of tracks (I have > 2500). Scolling through all songs/ albums/ artists etc in the library just doesn't cut it when you have that many tracks.
What is required is something like the alphabet bar to the right of the screen in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly go to tracks starting with the right letter, and then scroll from there.
Is something like this possible? If not, it seems like a silly ommission by HTC as they have implemented the same kind of thing in other areas of the phone.
Any ideas?
Seriously - no-one else has a problem with this?
Mine won't even find the tracks on the memory card let alone require the need to search through hundreds of them!
All I have are the four HTC demo ones... even tho I've got loads of tracks on the memory card, the only way I can play them is by using WMP rather than the TF3D Library
Works fine for me here.
Have HTC spanish 1.90 official ROM, and an Sandisk SD 6Gb Class4 microSD card.
I have around 250-300 files in MP3/WMA format inside SD\MY Documents\Musica and have no problem using from TF3D.
I have some files in SD\Seleccion\Ringtones in MP3/WAV/WMA format and this files appear in TF3D Music too.
I'm waiting for my new 16Gb microSD card, so probably i put thousands music files into the SD and report back here what's going.
Cheers
do you have to have album art for the tunes to show in the TF3D music app or does it have a placeholder for mp3's without album art attached?
FrederickUK said:
do you have to have album art for the tunes to show in the TF3D music app or does it have a placeholder for mp3's without album art attached?
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both, some folders without picture, and other ones with picture, but all working.
argh, so why the hell isn't mine working!!!
FrederickUK said:
argh, so why the hell isn't mine working!!!
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I don't have a solution to this problem, but I got the problem as well...
Right, so this thread seems to have moved on to people who can't get the TF3D player to recognise their music. There are plently of other threads about that - please check them out.
I have no problems using the player whatsoever - all 2500+ tracks are showing in TF3D, and I even got all the album art sorted out. If I only had a couple of hundred tracks there would be no issue at all. The problem is that with so many tracks TF3D is a pain to navigate through - if you want to find a track that starts with the letter Z it takes forever to scroll to it in the library.
I was hoping some enterprising soul with a bit of programming knowledge could develop something similar to the alphabet bar in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly get close to where you want to be, and then scroll from there.
Does that make sense? Anyone know whether that might be possible?
FrederickUK said:
Mine won't even find the tracks on the memory card let alone require the need to search through hundreds of them!
All I have are the four HTC demo ones... even tho I've got loads of tracks on the memory card, the only way I can play them is by using WMP rather than the TF3D Library
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ey, i have no say this before, but MP3/WMA files needs to be labeled with ID3 information to be used by AudioManager...
Cheers
jcespi2005 said:
ey, i have no say this before, but MP3/WMA files needs to be labeled with ID3 information to be used by AudioManager...
Cheers
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Sorry, I think you're just not understanding what I'm saying. I have no problem at all with files and album art etc being recognised by the AudioManager. The problem I have is that when there are thousands of tracks, then navigating through them is a right pain, and I was hoping someone could come up with a better way of doing it.
Rabangus said:
Sorry, I think you're just not understanding what I'm saying. I have no problem at all with files and album art etc being recognised by the AudioManager. The problem I have is that when there are thousands of tracks, then navigating through them is a right pain, and I was hoping someone could come up with a better way of doing it.
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ops, sorry for my bad quote, i have corrected my post i was not talking about your problem finding traks...
Did you test Pocket Player 3.7?
Cheers
Rabangus said:
What is required is something like the alphabet bar to the right of the screen in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly go to tracks starting with the right letter, and then scroll from there....
.....Any ideas?
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I have been wondering this as well. I know that HTC produced the Random Access addon for Contacts. Does anyone know - or anyone able - to see if this could be made available for the audio manager?
Yes, I'm frustrated by this too. It would be nice to have the music in the tab, but it would be better to have a great little media player. Any reccomendations?
ya im frustrated by it too. i basically just use that tf3d player for random/shuffle playing.
if i want a specific song ill just navigate to it through file explorer.
kind of a PIA but oh well. maybe they will update it later on.
Audio manager long list issue
I am having same issue. With about 400 albums in my music audio manager there seems no way to scroll thru the list quickly. Hope someone tries and comes up with some kind of solution.

Problem with Androi Media Library (album tag)

Hi all, I've got a problem on my HTC HD2 (running NexusHD2-Gingerbread), however this doesn't seem to be a rom related problem as I flashed with a different rom (based on the Desire) and have the same issue.
Basically it seems the system wide media library (so not an app issue) is using the Artist Album tag rather than the album tag in applications such as Winamp, Power Amp, and the stock player. As a result when I select albums in these I get a long list of single track listings for each album for any compilation albums that I have on my SD card.... this is driving me insane because I cant then easily play a whole compilation album.
I have been using Android builds on my HD2 for months now and never had this problem before, it's only stated happening with the last two but different builds I have used.
Any idea's please?
Thanks
Seems to be a common problem.... http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5938

[4.0+][APP]Jams Music Player is out! Brings GMusic support and other unique features!

Hey there!
I posted about my new (paid/trialware) music player way back in August and asked for beta testers here on XDA. The response was tremendous and I was able to rake up a few hundred testers within a couple of days. Thanks to their bug reports and feedback, I'm happy to say that Jams Music Player is now available on the Play Store!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jams.music.player
Here's a quick imgur album that shows a few prominent screens from the app:
http://imgur.com/a/Bgk0b#0
Aaaand here's the main feature list:
Supports all the formats supported by Android (mp3, FLAC, AAC, ogg, etc.)
Unofficial GMusic support (thanks Simon Weber!). All Access isn't available, I'm pretty sure the big record companies won't take it too well if I put it in. If you have your personal music collection uploaded onto Google though, this app can handle it
Limit your music library down to specific folders on your SD card (you can pick as many folders as you want).
Organize your entire music collection into smaller sub-libraries. (Take a look at the imgur screenshot(s) to get a gist of what I mean).
Individual equalizer settings for each song. Say you set Song A to Pop and Song B to Rock. When you play Song A, Jams will automatically switch the equalizer to Pop. If you play Song B, Jams will switch to Rock. You can also batch apply equalizer settings to multiple songs by artist, album and genre.
The homscreen widget displays your current queue so you can easily browse through it without opening the app.
A-B Repeat mode. You can repeat a specific range of a song from point A to point B.
Displays embedded lyrics. I don't think I'll be adding lyrics from the Internet after what Sony did last summer to another music player.
Sort by album artist! This is for those of you who have large compilation albums.
Full blown file manager with copy, paste, move and delete functions.
Blacklist tracks, artists, and albums. This allows you to exclude individual tracks from your library without actually deleting the files.
Smart playlists (Top 25 Played Tracks, Top Rated, Recently Added, and Recently Played).
ID3 tag editor.
Crossfade.
Gapless playback.
Automatically fetches album art from the internet.
Customize the app with 4 different application themes and 9 different player colors.
Enqueue support with reorder, swipe to remove from queue, the basic stuff.
Scrobbling support.
Coming soon:
Tablet layout (ETA about a week).
Import/Export M3U playlists.
Any other feature requests you guys may have.
The app comes with a 7 day full-featured trial. After that, you'll be asked to upgrade to the full version for $2.99. I'm aiming to keep it priced that way so that it's cheaper than PowerAMP and other top players, while offering the same (or even more) number of features.
Got questions? Suggestions? Comments? Let me know below! Or you can email me at [email protected].
Looks good. I own PowerAmp but rarely use it, and I have stuff on Google Music, but despise the app. It's too busy. I'll give this a shot.
Cool, let me know how it goes! I'm open to suggestions, so feel free to throw whatever you've got, at me.
Holly crap, this is amazing!
Sadly it crashed as soon as i tried to connect my Google Music account, and also swipe gestures don't seem to work on Now Playing screen :\
Other than that, my favourite music app, will be glad to buy!
Using Moto G 8GB with Android 4.3. Using Xthemer via Xposed Modules and Meenova for external SD card reading (not sure if these facts can influence app behaviour)
BBOXPT said:
Holly crap, this is amazing!
Sadly it crashed as soon as i tried to connect my Google Music account, and also swipe gestures don't seem to work on Now Playing screen :\
Other than that, my favourite music app, will be glad to buy!
Using Moto G 8GB with Android 4.3. Using Xthemer via Xposed Modules and Meenova for external SD card reading (not sure if these facts can influence app behaviour)
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Could you send me a crash report? That'll help me fix the issue and I'll have an update rolled out by tonight. Glad you like it! Also, make sure that the queue/playlist you picked has more than one song. If it doesn't, then the swiping controls won't work.
FlightGear said:
Could you send me a crash report? That'll help me fix the issue and I'll have an update rolled out by tonight. Glad you like it! Also, make sure that the queue/playlist you picked has more than one song. If it doesn't, then the swiping controls won't work.
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Just cleaned App data and started over. And it works just fine
About the swiping controls, yeah, i was listening to one unique song, so it was not supposed to work
Just noticed that the notification on the notification drawer is cutted when it's size is only 1 row (when it's not the top notification). Luckily it always manages to be the top notification, so i suppose this was intended
Suggestion: add button to show a list with the next tracks in the queue (maybe replace the equalized button since it's not used that often?) List would appear as the menu on the main screen (in the left side) and maybe you could change track positions in the queue!
BBOXPT said:
Just cleaned App data and started over. And it works just fine
About the swiping controls, yeah, i was listening to one unique song, so it was not supposed to work
Just noticed that the notification on the notification drawer is cutted when it's size is only 1 row (when it's not the top notification). Luckily it always manages to be the top notification, so i suppose this was intended
Suggestion: add button to show a list with the next tracks in the queue (maybe replace the equalized button since it's not used that often?) List would appear as the menu on the main screen (in the left side) and maybe you could change track positions in the queue!
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Ooohh shoot, I forgot to add a helper overlay about the queue part... Just rotate your device to landscape mode. This will take you to your current queue. Will add a helper overlay for this in tonight's update.
This app has virtually i would want in a Music Player.
I'll keep on testing it through the 7day trial, but i'm probably going to buy it anyway.
I just hope this gets the deserved attention.
BBOXPT said:
This app has virtually i would want in a Music Player.
I'll keep on testing it through the 7day trial, but i'm probably going to buy it anyway.
I just hope this gets the deserved attention.
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Awesome. Really glad you like it. You can help the app get its deserved attention by leaving a rating on the Play Store. Thanks! Appreciate it.
Hey! I've been testing the app, and i get some FC's when changing track from time to time (doesnt seems a very consistent error to be.
Using Moto G 8GB with Android 4.3. Using Xthemer via Xposed Modules and Meenova for external SD card reading (not sure if these facts can influence app behaviour)
How can i send you a crash report?
awesome work man,thats the player for me,in my opinion the beautyfullest player i ever used,i think i buy it.keep it up!!!! :good:
BBOXPT said:
Hey! I've been testing the app, and i get some FC's when changing track from time to time (doesnt seems a very consistent error to be.
Using Moto G 8GB with Android 4.3. Using Xthemer via Xposed Modules and Meenova for external SD card reading (not sure if these facts can influence app behaviour)
How can i send you a crash report?
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Hi there! Which version of the app are you using? The current one is v1.4.2, but I'm on track to releasing v2.0 tonight with support for tablets and batch playlist creation. When the app crashes, you should get a message saying something like "Unfortunately, Jams has stopped working". There should be two buttons, "Report" and "Close". Tap on "Report" and that will send me the crash log. Thanks for your interest!
Version 1.4.2
Just sent the report!
Either way, buying the app today 4 sure!
BBOXPT said:
Version 1.4.2
Just sent the report!
Either way, buying the app today 4 sure!
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Great, thanks for the report! I'm looking into it.
Awesome app, more languages would be nice. Also editing Play Music tags. Sent you an email referring German translation.
Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk
FlightGear said:
Hey there!
I posted about my new (paid/trialware) music player way back in August and asked for beta testers here on XDA. The response was tremendous and I was able to rake up a few hundred testers within a couple of days. Thanks to their bug reports and feedback, I'm happy to say that Jams Music Player is now available on the Play Store!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jams.music.player
Here's a quick imgur album that shows a few prominent screens from the app:
http://imgur.com/a/Bgk0b#0
Aaaand here's the main feature list:
Supports all the formats supported by Android (mp3, FLAC, AAC, ogg, etc.)
Unofficial GMusic support (thanks Simon Weber!). All Access isn't available, I'm pretty sure the big record companies won't take it too well if I put it in. If you have your personal music collection uploaded onto Google though, this app can handle it
Limit your music library down to specific folders on your SD card (you can pick as many folders as you want).
Organize your entire music collection into smaller sub-libraries. (Take a look at the imgur screenshot(s) to get a gist of what I mean).
Individual equalizer settings for each song. Say you set Song A to Pop and Song B to Rock. When you play Song A, Jams will automatically switch the equalizer to Pop. If you play Song B, Jams will switch to Rock. You can also batch apply equalizer settings to multiple songs by artist, album and genre.
The homscreen widget displays your current queue so you can easily browse through it without opening the app.
A-B Repeat mode. You can repeat a specific range of a song from point A to point B.
Displays embedded lyrics. I don't think I'll be adding lyrics from the Internet after what Sony did last summer to another music player.
Sort by album artist! This is for those of you who have large compilation albums.
Full blown file manager with copy, paste, move and delete functions.
Blacklist tracks, artists, and albums. This allows you to exclude individual tracks from your library without actually deleting the files.
Smart playlists (Top 25 Played Tracks, Top Rated, Recently Added, and Recently Played).
ID3 tag editor.
Crossfade.
Gapless playback.
Automatically fetches album art from the internet.
Customize the app with 4 different application themes and 9 different player colors.
Enqueue support with reorder, swipe to remove from queue, the basic stuff.
Scrobbling support.
Coming soon:
Tablet layout (ETA about a week).
Import/Export M3U playlists.
Any other feature requests you guys may have.
The app comes with a 7 day full-featured trial. After that, you'll be asked to upgrade to the full version for $2.99. I'm aiming to keep it priced that way so that it's cheaper than PowerAMP and other top players, while offering the same (or even more) number of features.
Got questions? Suggestions? Comments? Let me know below! Or you can email me at [email protected].
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looks promising gonna try soon :good::fingers-crossed:
UPDATE I did install the trial version as of now and i am totaly in love with this great ui just like i wanted
although i dunno if its a bug or not everytime i edit album tags the player crashed on me also some random lags
Apart from that i totally love it its a perfectly organised player easy and nice UI , Highly recommended app to all
thanks for your efforts
nitinchamp said:
looks promising gonna try soon :good::fingers-crossed:
UPDATE I did install the trial version as of now and i am totaly in love with this great ui just like i wanted
although i dunno if its a bug or not everytime i edit album tags the player crashed on me also some random lags
Apart from that i totally love it its a perfectly organised player easy and nice UI , Highly recommended app to all
thanks for your efforts
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That's definitely a bug. I think you sent me a crash report right? I looked into the issue and fixed it already. You'll get the update tonight with other new features like widget customization, batch playlist creation and play next. Thanks for your interest and let me know if you run into any more issues/have any more suggestions!
FlightGear said:
That's definitely a bug. I think you sent me a crash report right? I looked into the issue and fixed it already. You'll get the update tonight with other new features like widget customization, batch playlist creation and play next. Thanks for your interest and let me know if you run into any more issues/have any more suggestions!
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Yea it was me will update asap :good::good::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
This app looks promising but there are some issues that prevent me from using it as my primary media player.
It does not recognize the tags on any of the MP3 files in my library, my AAC and FLAC files are recognized properly, but not my MP3s.
Scrolling is slow and jittery because it appears to be reloading the album art each time you scroll by each album or artist. Caching should fix this.
There is no ReplayGain support. Not a bug per-say, but I can't go without it.
Also, it would nice if there was a third album art display mode where it displayed the album art as large as possible without any cropping but that is hardly necessary.
Do as you wish with these suggestions. There is some very good work so far and I am glad there is proper album artist support. I'm interested to see how this app progresses.
Seconding the laggy scrolling but in sure you're already aware of it. Caching like like the best fix. Possibly a low memory view with no album/artist art also? It's up to you. So far that's my only initial big report.
Looks awesome mate!
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[Q] Music disappearing from Google Music

Hi all!
I noticed a few times these years (or whatever the time I've using Google Play Music All Access) that from time to time music disappears from the catalogue, or just change the name of the album…etc, so it doesn't appear in My Library anymore.
I noticed yesterday that the album “OneRupublic – Native” was no longer in my library and in Google Play, however today appeared a new “version”, with the cover in a different color and a few more bonus songs.
As a consequence, I lost songs from my library that I had to add again, lost “favorite” tracks without notice and also play counts.
I think it should be a work around for this. I noticed this a few times, when I initially thought “Oh, I thought I had added that album to my library…” when I actually had added it but it had disappeared because of this. Also I wasn't notified.
Have you ever noticed this too?
Yes, definitely.
I live in Italy, and sometimes an album just disappears: it occurred just the other day with "Feast" by Annihilator.
Or, a couple of months ago, with "Albatross" by Big Wreck. At first it's just two or three songs, and then the whole album is gone.
That's annoying :/
I suppose it's just the record labels re-arranging their catalouge, or international music copyright... I don't know actually, but what can we do?

Walkman

I had to clear data from my media apps to resolve a problem I was having with Sony Album. Once I did that, I removed and reinserted my SD card so Walkman could find all my music again – all worked fine. However, since doing so, my Recently Played, Most Played & Newly Added playlists seemed to have changed and now only seem to hold 50 songs each. I could be mistaken but I’m almost 100% convinced that before I cleared media data they would hold a lot more songs than that – for instance I’m pretty sure Newly Added had all my songs on it (I only added them about 4 days ago) and that Recently Played had every song I’d played in the last few days but now they’ll only hold 50. I use these playlists a lot, especially Recently Played, but I can’t find any way to edit them.
Is there any way I can up the limit for what they hold or assuming I’m right and they held more songs before my clear data, is there any way I can fix this?
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I had to clear data from my media apps to resolve a problem I was having with Sony Album. Once I did that, I removed and reinserted my SD card so Walkman could find all my music again – all worked fine. However, since doing so, my Recently Played, Most Played & Newly Added playlists seemed to have changed and now only seem to hold 50 songs each. I could be mistaken but I’m almost 100% convinced that before I cleared media data they would hold a lot more songs than that – for instance I’m pretty sure Newly Added had all my songs on it (I only added them about 4 days ago) and that Recently Played had every song I’d played in the last few days but now they’ll only hold 50. I use these playlists a lot, especially Recently Played, but I can’t find any way to edit them.
Is there any way I can up the limit for what they hold or assuming I’m right and they held more songs before my clear data, is there any way I can fix this?
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