hey.. i'd like to set my album cover image.. how should i do it? thx for any help! =)
Google a program called media monkey. I am not sure if there is a way to do it on the xoom.
Kcarpenter said:
Google a program called media monkey. I am not sure if there is a way to do it on the xoom.
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here's a link to MediaMonkey. I have been using it since 2006 and never needed anything else (except itunes of course). There are many apps out there that will allow you to get the cover art automatically on the Xoom. Many are listed here.
no luck for that. any elase suggestion? thx =)
omnia1994 said:
no luck for that. any elase suggestion? thx =)
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Maybe you can specify more clearly what exactly you want to do? Cubed from the market lets you fetch album art from the internet on the Xoom.
Out of interest does it rely on album art being embedded in mp3's or is there a naming convention for a jpeg image in the same folder?
Ta
MrGinger said:
Out of interest does it rely on album art being embedded in mp3's or is there a naming convention for a jpeg image in the same folder?
Ta
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I was curious how it set the album art myself. I have a lot of random tracks that were just assigned a random album art image from one of my other albums. It has nothing to do with the other tracks and they are named in no way similarly.
personally i put tracks ina folder by album and put the pic in the folder. works for me, so yes that means if i have a single it goes in its own folder
Very often programs will use the picture from "cover.jpg" or "folder.jpg" (substitute jpg with gif if necessary) when placed in the appropriate folder with the music files. I haven't tried it though since my files have the covers in the tags...
Try MP3tag.
Browse to your music folder > Select all the files by pressing Crtla + A > Right click on the the empty white box on the left panel and select add cover > Select the .jpg cover and click save on the top left hand corner.
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I'm using the HD Video converter v1.21 to convert video files to play on an HD2... I realize these are MP4 files and need the hardware acceleration of the built in HTC Album player....
Thing is when the album finds them it just gives a shot of the opening frame of the movie as a picture... is there anyway to make it display the name too or instead off?
Its a pain going through every clip to find the one you want...
Geeba said:
Its a pain going through every clip to find the one you want...
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I absolutely second that, but as far as I know it is not possible to modify the album so that it shows embedded Information or the filename. Sorry mate. Maybe you better use RescoExplorer or something to select your Videos. MP4s should then be opened with the build-in Player out of the box (of course only if you havent associated mp4-files with any other videoplayer).
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Thanks for the pointer - I will try Resco. thanks again
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Thanks for the pointer - I will try Resco. thanks again
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One more tip:
- Open RescoExplorer
- tap and hold your videofolder
- Choose "send to" --> "startmenu as shortcut"
- Now you are able to put your videofolder directly on a quicklink on your homescreen
- Furthermore you can enable the preview-/thumbnail-option in RescoExplorer so you can see a thumbnnail and VideoInformation
Cheers
Now i have searched and searched about this problem, and the only answer i get is "Clear the data", which fixes the problem the first time i open it, but everytime after that i still have the flicker problem. It won't let me pick music because its like it just keeps reloading all my music over and over again and won't stop. Does anyone have a solution that sticks? I love the stock music player and i use Google Music Beta so i don't want to switch players, Thanks!
Hi, the app seems to do this when you add more music to your collection.
It's the application re-checking the contents of the folders, is all your music on the MicroSD card?
If so, safely remove it (tap the icon next to the clock) and remove the card from the slot.
Then remove the app data (application settings), then re-insert your card and re-start the music app, it will take a little while to re-read the MicroSD card, they are not the fastest things around.
I have 117 folders with 1578 files which amounts to 10.96G it takes just under a minute to rescan all the folders and rebuild my library.
The only issues I had with the stock player is the extreme way it manages the albums based on the mp3 tag info, it will give you a separate folder / album if the album artist is missing from some tracks.
I fixed mine on the tab with an app called iTag, it worked rather well.
Hope this helps in some way.
Thanks for the reply! all my music is actually on the internal sd of the transformer because I just got my micro sd card a week ago and have had my tablet for a while, so i already had music loaded on.
Mine does the flickering too in 3.2 stock, the version of the app is 3.0.2, were can I download the 3.0.1 apk to downgrade the app?
Solaris_irc said:
Mine does the flickering too in 3.2 stock, the version of the app is 3.0.2, were can I download the 3.0.1 apk to downgrade the app?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14330359&postcount=2
r_nt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14330359&postcount=2
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thankyou! already replaced the app and for now everiting is fine.
Solaris_irc said:
thankyou! already replaced the app and for now everiting is fine.
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The reloading keeps coming even on 3.0.1
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The reloading keeps coming even on 3.0.1
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Sorry, man. Someone mentioned using an app called iTag to fix their issue, but I'm not sure exactly how it helped. Believe he said it had something to do with artist's names not matching up.
I've found that listing by song has no flickering involved, so gonna keep it that way until I (or someone else) either figures it out. Not much of a fan of some of the other players, so.
You should make sure all your ID3 tags are clean. For example, if you have a song artist that is Metallica and some of the files the artist name is Metallica and some are names MetallicA, where a simple case adjustment can help alleviate the issue. You need to also make sure that if one artist album has 15 songs and only 14 of them have cover art it will freak the player listing out like it's doing. Make sure all your ID3 tags are clean and precise and they all have the same cover art for each of the albums.
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You should make sure all your ID3 tags are clean. For example, if you have a song artist that is Metallica and some of the files the artist name is Metallica and some are names MetallicA, where a simple case adjustment can help alleviate the issue. You need to also make sure that if one artist album has 15 songs and only 14 of them have cover art it will freak the player listing out like it's doing. Make sure all your ID3 tags are clean and precise and they all have the same cover art for each of the albums.
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I´m back to 3.0.2 and will check all my tags tonight...
I had the same problem. Do you have album art grabber installed? I uninstalled that app and everything went back to normal.
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hi guys
I'm using an ics rom (nexusbeam 4.1) and that's my little problem:
in music players some albums are not displayed but i've copied them inside the phone memory like the others that are displayed??
with root explorer I see in the same folder all the albums but when I open music apps some albums are not present :-o
Thanks for helping!!
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Are the albums you don't see inside their own folder or with songs from other albums? They might be under the album named after the folder. Do a search for the filename/song, too.
Edit: Also note, this is probably the case if there is no ID3 tags on these particular songs/albums.
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Are the albums you don't see inside their own folder or with songs from other albums? They might be under the album named after the folder. Do a search for the filename/song, too.
Edit: Also note, this is probably the case if there is no ID3 tags on these particular songs/albums.
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thanks friend but i'm having a look at my albums
they are all ordered rightly 'cause I've always used to listen to them before even using music apps in my nexus...
as you can see in the pics they are all in folders but in my music apps they are not all displayed...
Odd. Have you tried clearing the cache for the music app?
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Odd. Have you tried clearing the cache for the music app?
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yes i've tried too
Sorry I couldn't help. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can sort this out.
Grab a full logcat and post it on the forum as attachment or on pastebin. , so we can undestand better what happens..
here's a zipped logat
thanks a lot for helping me; i've had some tries but with no luck
Search the market for "Cover Art Downloader" (sorry I can't post links yet )
I had a similar problem and I was able to use this app to "force" music player apps to recognise cover art, either by downloading what it thought was the correct artwork or in my case picking images off the SD card. Worth a try!
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Search the market for "Cover Art Downloader" (sorry I can't post links yet )
I had a similar problem and I was able to use this app to "force" music player apps to recognise cover art, either by downloading what it thought was the correct artwork or in my case picking images off the SD card. Worth a try!
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thanks
will give a try right now
I just used the free version - my issue was slightly different to yours in that Winamp was using the wrong album art for albums and no amount of cache clearing or messing with IDv3 tags would fix it, this app fixed it for me. Hope it works!
All my whatsapp media is currently showing in my Sony Album and I can't seem to hide it. I used Quickpic to add .nomedia and it seems to have partially worked as the whatsapp stuff doesn't show up in Google Photos any more and when I click on folders in Sony Album they are there but there is nothing to display. However, the actual Home bit of the Album itself still shows them. I selected them and pressed "Hide" but this didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas?
Add a file called .nomedia to the folders that you do not want the mediascanner to scan.
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Add a file called .nomedia to the folders that you do not want the mediascanner to scan.
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I have but it's still showing up
have you put the fullstop in front of the file name
.nomedia
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have you put the fullstop in front of the file name
.nomedia
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Yeah apologies if I didn't make that clear. I did it and I must have done it right as it works for some apps
Quickpic hide works with the album app as long as its pictures on the internal memory. Rebooting might help.
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Quickpic hide works with the album app as long as its pictures on the internal memory. Rebooting might help.
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All the Whatsapp pics are in internal memory, it's strange because in the Folders section of Album it has the Whatsapp Images and Whatsapp Video folders but when you click on them it says "there are no items in your collection", so the Quickpic thing did work. But then in the Home section, they still all show up. I tried a reboot and this didn't help
After you add the .nomedia, you have to go under Apps (in Settings) and clear the data for the Media Store and reboot.
.nomedia only works for "new" media. If you add it after the scanner has already found the media you have to "refresh" the Media Store.
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After you add the .nomedia, you have to go under Apps (in Settings) and clear the data for the Media Store and reboot.
.nomedia only works for "new" media. If you add it after the scanner has already found the media you have to "refresh" the Media Store.
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Thanks for the advice, it worked any Album no longer pics up the photos. However, Walkman now won't pick up any of my songs (they're still on my SD card though) any idea how to solve this?
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Thanks for the advice, it worked any Album no longer pics up the photos. However, Walkman now won't pick up any of my songs (they're still on my SD card though) any idea how to solve this?
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Figured it out. Thanks for your help with the Album
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After you add the .nomedia, you have to go under Apps (in Settings) and clear the data for the Media Store and reboot.
.nomedia only works for "new" media. If you add it after the scanner has already found the media you have to "refresh" the Media Store.
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When you see "Media Store", does that refer to Sony Album (ie, Settings > Apps > Album)?
Have put ".nomedia" files in the WhatsApp image folders and seems like new WhatsApp images are no longer showing in the Album.
But the old ones are still there. Trying clearing both cache and data for Sony Album, then restarting but no effect.
Please advise, thanks.
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When you see "Media Store", does that refer to Sony Album (ie, Settings > Apps > Album)?
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Nevermind, I discovered "Media Storage" under Apps, which I gather that is what you were referring to.
Hadn't seen it before, as had to change tab from "Downloaded" to "All" (so found it under Settings > Apps > All > Media Storage).
Anyway, once I cleared the Data there and restarted phone (not sure if necessary), it repopulated itself* and WhatsApp photos gone from Sony Album.
(*After a scary moments where my Album showing as empty and seemed like it was lost! Just wait for it to repopulate and a photo to show up in preview window.)
As an aside, I also put .nomedia files under Pictures and Movies, so that the stock photos/videos Sony preloads don't show up either. Now Album is really just my album.
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1) How do you make the play/pause buttons and time bar not dissappear? ... (or rather: show all the time)
(all I have found is show for : 2sec-10sec)
I want to always know how far in video I am.
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2) Also... anyone happen to know any good file explorers(with folders)/video player(that decodes&plays multiple types), and IMG previews? (to play multiple folders worth of video, organized by folder, with image preview)
I like folder player, but can't organize folders (hierarchy) or play many types videos
Gplayer won't show folder hierarchy, or expand floating videoscreen)
Searching for: video player that shows folder structure/hierarchy, and possibly a preview IMG of each video. .... help...
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Wow, cant really understand why dont you want buttons interface to not dissapear but yes this always show should be avaliable.
You can have shown folder structure on this player and also view an img of each video.
Did you try new VIEW option in menu?
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Wow, cant really understand why dont you want buttons interface to not dissapear but yes this always show should be avaliable.
You can have shown folder structure on this player and also view an img of each video.
Did you try new VIEW option in menu?
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Thank you much for responding
( i've had few to no responses so far on this forum)
I can not find what you are talking about.
In the folders/files section, The menu includes 'view', but I don't see anything about play/pause/timebar.
In the video player section, there is no 'view', but 'tools' then 'settings' and i think have been through most of it.
yes I found the thumbnails for the vids, (thank-you,) they're just not so in you face like gplayer and folder video, lol,
and folder structure, I guess this is the only player so far to have that.. (or do you know others... )
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Thank you much for responding
( i've had few to no responses so far on this forum)
I can not find what you are talking about.
In the folders/files section, The menu includes 'view', but I don't see anything about play/pause/timebar.
In the video player section, there is no 'view', but 'tools' then 'settings' and i think have been through most of it.
yes I found the thumbnails for the vids, (thank-you,) they're just not so in you face like gplayer and folder video, lol,
and folder structure, I guess this is the only player so far to have that.. (or do you know others... )
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If you look at the first three options under view menu
1. All folders - it will show the exact folder which has videos
2. Folders - hierarchical view (folders without videos won't be shown)
3. List all videos regardless of location
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If you look at the first three options under view menu
1. All folders - it will show the exact folder which has videos
2. Folders - hierarchical view (folders without videos won't be shown)
3. List all videos regardless of location
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Thank you, I have folder hierarchy already,
(my question about play/pause/timebar)
(I was, overlooking thumbnails too bc small compared to gplayer, folder video, etc)
I would like the time/play/pause thing to not dissapear,
(maybe even modify shape, I like the one in 'folder video', is less awkward, for lots of skipping around..)
(also, in search of perfect player: one that you can view folder/file hierarchy at same time as videos, (to always know which one you're on/how far through folder, constantly see file names for other vids, titles etc, ideal for lots of shorter vids, not movies so much)