Android splitting up albums - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hiya.. I've dropped about 8gigs worth of albums I've ripped from my cd collection onto the usb storage.
Most populate and are sorted fine by album, but some for unexplainable reasons it will split up 1 album into 2, sometimes 3 different albums but all under the same album name.
Windows Media Player and Winamp don't do this on the PC and organize everything as they should be.. Any idea whats different with Android it has trouble with this basic function?
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Try the new music beta app. Fixed this for me
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Nope, that does the same exact thing.

Mismatching data in mp3 tags is the reason. MP3 tags should have the exact same information for artist and album, look for inconsistencies in those fragmented albums.

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Mismatching data in mp3 tags is the reason. MP3 tags should have the exact same information for artist and album, look for inconsistencies in those fragmented albums.
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Yup, what this guy said, for example some of the songs in an album name might have a _ in stead of a space etc.

There is also a bug in Android, where it fails to use the Album Artist tag. It always only uses Artist tag. So different Album/Artist combos show up as different Albums even though the Album is the same.
For example a Soundtrack with different artists on each track might show up as 20 different albums with one track each. Whereas it should show up as one album by "various artists" if that is the Album Artist tag.
This bug has been in Android since 1.0. If you look on the open issues you can find and star the issue.
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matt2053 said:
There is also a bug in Android, where it fails to use the Album Artist tag. It always only uses Artist tag. So different Album/Artist combos show up as different Albums even though the Album is the same.
For example a Soundtrack with different artists on each track might show up as 20 different albums with one track each. Whereas it should show up as one album by "various artists" if that is the Album Artist tag.
This bug has been in Android since 1.0. If you look on the open issues you can find and star the issue.
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Is there a link to this confirming that it's a bug? My music was perfectly organized when sorted by 'Albums' in Froyo, but come Gingerbread, I've hit up this issue again..

I edit my id3 tags in winamp on pc for album artist, so that way I dont have collab songs with multiple artists showing up in separate albums on device. Its a few extra steps on the pc, but it keeps everything nice and organized on laptop and phone.

It indeed seems to be the problem that albums are shown seperate when artists are different. this means that the stupid android still groups as artist even when you tell it to sort on album.
What retard wrote this crap?
Who makes android? how do you come in contact so the bug can be reported? Its in every freaking version of android this way.
On my moto Xoom this error even crashes the music player completely when going back to albums.
This needs to be fixed!!! how the hell is it possible that a bug like that is still not fixed?
they wanna compete with iOS 4 and 5? well they better start fixing these stupid bugs! this makes the OS look n00b all the way!!
Not even able to make a freaking music player work descent.
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Even when changing both song names and artist names all the same keeps getting the music all shown seperately

this problem really irked me for a long time... so much that i wouldn't even bother listening to music on my phone. what i ended up doing was downloading the free trial of "smart mp3 renamer," which is fully usable for a 30-day trial period, wiped the tags for all my albums and then rewrote them using the program.
smart mp3 renamer has a database of tags from which you must select, and for cases when they don't have it i haven't figured out how to manually input your own tags. there is another program called "tag & rename" which allows you to customize your own tags. i found using these a lot less tedious than using winamp or whatever else.
just be sure you clear whatever tags are already there before writing the new ones. i thought they would just be overwritten but ran into the same problems, so i had to do it all over again. good luck!

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[APP] 3 (Cubed) Music Player. Amazing UI and Amazing Widgets!!

I did not create this application so please do not ask me to add or fix anything
I haven't seen anything about this music player and I found it by accident when I was browsing through the market. I have always hated the ugly Android Music player UI and I've always wanted a UI much like this one. Anyway, check it out!
I have attached some screenshots but there are some full videos on youtube.
Use this QR code to check it out.
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I used ADW to make the 4x4 widget into a 4x2 widget and it looks awesome. Here's my current widget first then the rest are underneath it.
These are the different view modes you can use. I personally love the flip one called "Morph Flow" in the app.
This is my favorite music player! Downloads album art automatically, great way to traverse your music, Lets you Queue songs to Playlist and then save playlists. Just excellent.
All I'm waiting for is twitter/fbook #nowplaying integration.
Does cube player still have that ****ty bug where it can't list Artistes with unicode characters? Like Japanese and other East Asian characters?
The concept was great but the cube went on a spinning loop whenever I tried scrolling to a singer with unicode characters. Think it had something to do with the alphabet recognition.
musashiken said:
Does cube player still have that ****ty bug where it can't list Artistes with unicode characters? Like Japanese and other East Asian characters?
The concept was great but the cube went on a spinning loop whenever I tried scrolling to a singer with unicode characters. Think it had something to do with the alphabet recognition.
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I have no idea, have you emailed the developer? Every time I find a bug with an app I email the developer and almost every time they reply with something useful.
i loved this app while i had it installed, unfortunately most of my music listening is done with the phone in my pocket on random and i use the outside buttons to skip songs, which this app doesn't support, so i quit using it. stand up player though for sure, the automatic artwork download is really awesome.
Hey the headset buttons work for me. You may want to try again lol.
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i loved this app while i had it installed, unfortunately most of my music listening is done with the phone in my pocket on random and i use the outside buttons to skip songs, which this app doesn't support, so i quit using it. stand up player though for sure, the automatic artwork download is really awesome.
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I'm talking about using the volume buttons to skip tracks, a feature implemented in the stock player on cyanogen roms.
Oh, I don't use a wired headset unless I'm at work sitting at my desk. I normally use my Bluetooth headset that has skip forward and back, volume and play/pause.
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I'm talking about using the volume buttons to skip tracks, a feature implemented in the stock player on cyanogen roms.
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This is one of my favor music player.
It still rock, wish for more function coming, but it seems the developer stop on it at the moment, it has been a long time no updates on it.
this dev has been around here for ages- he originally made rockon back in the day and from there made this one- this is also my fave music app- and the lockscreen music controls for CM6 also work for this app!!
i show it to all my mates to freak them out as to what android can do
This is my only music player at the moment~
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I'm talking about using the volume buttons to skip tracks, a feature implemented in the stock player on cyanogen roms.
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Indeed, I find it a useful feature as well. Wish it could be implemented in the future .
Scirwode
How long does it take for the player to load the album arts that are imbedded in idtag?
It never loads the album art on the first start for me, and sometimes only some albums are shown.
The stock music player loads all album arts straightaway but not cubed player..
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How long does it take for the player to load the album arts that are imbedded in idtag?
It never loads the album art on the first start for me, and sometimes only some albums are shown.
The stock music player loads all album arts straightaway but not cubed player..
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If not appear, then just press and hold the blank cover, it will appear your original use for choose, or you can choose new one from internet.
I have a big problem with it.
Yesterday, it showed me wrong album arts for most of the albums. Today, it doesnt show the album covers, even tho I have them embedded in the ID3 tags of the mp3s. At the same time, all other players show the album arts properly.
I have also placed AlbumArt.jpg in each of the folders, so I removed them to see if there is some kinda conflict between the jpg in the folder and the ID3 embedded art, but its the same.
I tired uninstalling n reinstalling. I also searched for some kinda data/database on the SD card related to the cubed player, but cudnt find.
Plz help me.
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I have a big problem with it.
Yesterday, it showed me wrong album arts for most of the albums. Today, it doesnt show the album covers, even tho I have them embedded in the ID3 tags of the mp3s. At the same time, all other players show the album arts properly.
I have also placed AlbumArt.jpg in each of the folders, so I removed them to see if there is some kinda conflict between the jpg in the folder and the ID3 embedded art, but its the same.
I tired uninstalling n reinstalling. I also searched for some kinda data/database on the SD card related to the cubed player, but cudnt find.
Plz help me.
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Delete /sdcard/albumthumb/rockOnNg
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Ohh I see...its actually the RockOn - New Generation, since its created by the same guy. This makes me realize that the album arts completely disappeared after I deleted the RockOnNG folder just an hour ago, since I thot it was for the RockOn app that I'd installed recently, since before I deleted the folder, wrong album arts were assigned to wrong albums !
That is, the RockOnNG folder had already been deleted by me, unknowingly. What the hell is the solution now?
P.S. uninstalling and reinstalling n then reassigning is not working.
I solved the issue by deleting the whole albumthumbs folder itself and then uninstalling, reinstalling and reassigning. Now, all the embedded art is perfectly displayed, only the AlbumArt.jpg doesnt work, which isnt a prob as I can embed the art in those albums.
You guys should try PowerAmp.
Its the first time I felt a music player took a huge step and included most/all wanted features.
The EQ/swiping/widget/folder picking etc are fantastic.
I can´t find sleeping in this music player

PowerAMP is looking amazing!

Probably already mentioned here??? But I've just tried PowerAMP, check it out:
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Support:
-MP3, MP4/M4A,loseless ALAC,FLAC, OGG, WAV, TTA, WMA
-Has own codecs
-Widget
-Choose music from SD card
-Tegs, lyrics
-Skins, 2 in beta version
-Fast scan of files ( in 1 second 1000files, depends on phone speed)
-EQ
Looking forward to future updates, this is the best music experience you can get on android atm (at least according to myself )...
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Here's a great video demonstration made by rollercoastervj
Does it work on Android 1.6?
No sorry, only 2.0+ versions...
is this app in the market?
cant seem to find it
For some reason it seems it only can be downloaded from warez sites atm but since it's a beta I don't know if it would be against the rules to post it here???
I'm absolutely loving this app. Thanks OP!
I've been using it for a while and its great!! If this is beta I cant imagine how good the final will be. I bet you browse the same site as me
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I've been using it for a while and its great!! If this is beta I cant imagine how good the final will be. I bet you browse the same site as me
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Me? No, I wanted to check this app out and it took me <5 secs in Google to find it.
Looks good but still missing a few basic features. App also force closes a lot on my Droid X.
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Looks good but still missing a few basic features. App also force closes a lot on my Droid X.
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Care to expand on the first part of your comment?
Also, I'm used to looking at just the Evo forums, so there you have it - working great for me.
Omg im jalous.. cant have it :-(
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pwnst*r said:
Care to expand on the first part of your comment?
Also, I'm used to looking at just the Evo forums, so there you have it - working great for me.
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These are a few gripes I have with the app, the first one being the most important:
When going through the library of artists, once you pick an artist you are taken to all songs by the artist and not to a list of the albums by the artist. Sometimes when pressing the back button, the app closes to the homescreen instead of showing the previous screen. If you're playing a song and are browsing your playlist, album list, etc. there's no quick way to return to the player screen that shows the current song that's playing.
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Me? No, I wanted to check this app out and it took me <5 secs in Google to find it.
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No, was referring to the OP
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When going through the library of artists, once you pick an artist you are taken to all songs by the artist and not to a list of the albums by the artist.
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I agree, that's a biggie.
I just upload a video of the app to youtube. It is my first video so dont expect pro stuff Just a video of fingering around with PowerAmp
Thanks for the great video, I learnt a few new things from it
This is definitely the best audio player I've seen on any mobile device, PERIOD!
this is really nice! TFS!
Although the widget could be better..and the home screen of the app could be made simpler but overall this is nice...
definitely nice to have SD folder view!
I winder how it would par with MixZing
Trying it out right now so far loving it good looking out great media player
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I picked this up and I really like it so far. The ui is great even though there are a few oddities still. When selecting an mp3 from Astro it goes to the player but it doesn't play the file I just selected...the player comes up with the last song that was being played. Still messing with it though and it looks great so far.
i think one feature that would make this a killer music player... that if its possible to restrict musics off one folder (eg. "Music") in the root of SD... this way i dont have to listen to machine gun and other android game sound fx on my media player... veryyy annoying..!!!!

[PROJ] Music Player For Android

Ok so I have tried every music player on the Market and I am just not satisfied, there are ones i like, for example MIUI Music or Poweramp. However each one is missing a key component.
So What i want to do is start a project to make the Best Music Player For Android combining the Best Features and then making them better. I am not a Dev but a great idea thinker when it comes to projects. So what i really need is some devs that want to join into this project. PM Me if you are interested!
Features to Be Included(Hopefully)
Slick UI
Equalizer(like in poweramp)
Lyrics (Like in MIUI music)
Ability to Stream Music
5.1 Dolby Support
Ipod Touch and Honeycomb Like landscape view (http://www.coolgadgetconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/coolest-ipod-touch-2.jpg)
Voice Search
Any other Ideas PM
If you want to develop "the best music player", you would have to add quite a few more features than that. You should check out the features of Rockbox, and add the interface features you want to that. To mention a few:
gapless playback
wide codec support (lossless as well as lossy formats)
crossfeed
crossfade
album artist support
advanced database search
Check the Rockbox features at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/FeatureComparison
Rockbox for Android is being developed, and the features above, except the database, is already working. But especially the UI still needs some work. But the music playback features should be more important than nice looks, anyway.
i really would like to be able to edit song info from my phone (EX. Artist, Album, Song Name) and be able to use pics from my gallery to use as album covers
cali4nia831 said:
i really would like to be able to edit song info from my phone (EX. Artist, Album, Song Name) and be able to use pics from my gallery to use as album covers
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I second this.
Use player pro it has all of that
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Some ideas:
Database: Browse music by artist/album/song (the tags supported by all music players) and by genre (only a few android players support the genre tag) and by composer (for classical music and DJ collections, none of the android players currently support the composer tag). Of course by folder too. Not everyone needs all the ID3 tags, so let us toggle them on/off in the settings menu.
Play Queue/on the fly playlist like in WinAmp and PlayerPro.
Swipe screen to move from "now playing" to "play queue" to "music collection," or use a WinAmp-like "now playing" rollup screen.
Optional lyrics/last.fm/shoutcast/etc. plugins, so everyone can add their favorite features without bloating the app. Same for codecs: don't bloat the app with dozens of codecs, but let everyone add the codecs they want and leave out the codecs they don't care about.
A build-your-own widget feature (or widgets as optional plugins so you have a wide choice without overcrowding Android's widget list). Some people want a big 4x5 widget with a large album cover picture, others (like me) want to cram artist/title info and play/back/forward buttons in a small 2x1 widget, some may want to put their entire play queue in a scrolling widget, etc.
And of course an equalizer, with presets as optional plugins.
To cut a long story short: it's impossible to make a perfect one-size-fits-all player. The only way to make the best player possible is to make a minimalist "base app" and then let the user add plugins and customize the app to his/her own taste as much as possible.
crossfade, oh my, crossfade, i actually use some DJ dual player app to get crossfade cus non of the regular ones have it.
Can you include a feature to play a song once and stop after that? Every music player I've seen on the marketplace feels the need to keep going and going through every album unless I turn on repeat or something.
This is what has stopped me from replacing my MP3 player with my Android phone. I love how on my MP3 player, I can play a song and it will stop after the song finishes, or if I select another song to play instead.
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Use player pro it has all of that
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I agree, Player Pro is amazing, I installed it a couple weeks ago and it's much better than the stock Player, It is the first music player I have found and liked that finds music on the device storage and sd card. The only thing I kinda wish it had, although it's a cosmetic thing, is that I wish it had a coverflow type landscape.
Another killer feature for a new music app:
Split screen layout of music library, play queue, and player control buttons. This way you can insert songs into the right place of the playqueue by a simple drag'n'drop action, and you have the most important parts of any music app combined in a single screen.
A rough outline of what it could look like (yes, it's a messy cut'n'paste job):
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Any progress?
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Getting Music Tags (ID3) and Cover Art to Work Correctly

As odd as it may sound for some, I do like to have the instantly playability of my music collection on my phone but the Cover Art is never right and no matter how many times I updated it the Music Tags (ID3), they seem to be either applied to the wrong song or not at all. Yet, on my computer they are all correct. After doing some research I discovered the problem. For one Android has a known bug in which it has a hard time reading m4a files especially ones from iTunes. And second, most software does not properly write cover art to mp3 files in a format Android can read. Since my small collection of 1200 audio files is about a 50/50 mix of m4a and mp3 it going to take some time.
You are going to need two software to get this done. Mp3Tag and MediaMonkey. Technically you could do this all via Mp3Tag but in terms of speed MediaMonkey has got it beat in the area of updating the ID3 tags.
First take all of your music from your phone and copy it to your computer. Trying to make updates over a slow USB connection is simply a waste of time. Take the files that are now on your computer and open them in MediaMonkey. Go through and use the “Auto Tag from Web” to make all of your ID3 aka Music tags are updated with the correct information. It’s best to do one Album at a time and if you just have one song of a Album, then to process those next, one by one. This will likely take you a few hours and I’m sure I will lose a couple of you reader when you think “f**k that” after you realize how long it takes to do this.
For those of you that are pushing on to the next step, select all of the music files within MediaMonkey and click on Tools > Advanced Management > Clean ID3v1 and v2 Tags. I know you likely thinking why am I doing this when I just updated them. The problem is that the tags can have differences between ID3v1 and v2 so you need to make sure they are on the same page. When they have conflicting information Android just ignores the tags and displays nothing. So in the task bar in the bottom it will process them. Will take a few mins depending on how nice or crappy of a computer you are running. Next we go back to Tools > Advanced Management > Synchronize Tags. Since MediaMonkey save all of your tags it will apply the correct tags to all of your audio files with no conflicting v1 vs v2 tags.
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Once that is completed you are done with MediaMonkey so open up Mp3Tag. Drag and drop only your m4a files. While your tags are as good as MediaMonkey can get them it can add a few tags that can unknowingly cause the Artist to display as “unknown”. In Mp3Tag select all of your files and go to View > Extended Tags. You want to remove the metadata of “TOTALDISCS” and “DISCNUMBER”. Don’t know why Android has an issue with reading this, but it does and that is that.
Next select all of the files again right click on one of files and select “Optimize MP4”. This removes other unwanted tags and compacts the media data which in turn makes it more compatible with Android devices. Make sure to click on the “save” button a few times to make sure all of these changes have been applied to the m4a files.
Next, remove the m4a files from Mp3Tag and drag and drop in your mp3 files. Once loaded you likely noticed the all of your Cover Art is not showing for most if not all of your Mp3 files. So what was the point of MediaMonkey? MediaMonkey, simply has a better interface to get the music tags aka ID3 tags updated with the correct information and at a much faster pace then Mp3Tag software does. So what we need to do next is get that Cover Art updated. For me I really just cared about getting all of my albums updated so I select the mp3’s in the album and click on the down arrow icon next to the blue world icon with the yellow left and right arrow. Then selected “Cover Art > Amazon.com”. Screen shot of the location of that icon below:
Unlike MediaMonkey you will have options to pick from so different options which can make things slower, so make the Artist and Album field appear correct in the search results. Follow the prompt and it will only updated the Cover Art. Repeat the process for all of your music but use the icon to the left which should display “Cover Art#Amazon.com (quick)”. That will help speed up the process.
If you are like me you likely have been working on this for much of day so updating all the single songs can take some time. If you leave any mp3’s without artwork chances are Android is going to assign it some artwork from some other songs. Very annoying in my opinion. So I figured I would just add a white or black Cover Art image to the files I’m now too lazy to find the real cover art. If you are good with Windows Explorer you should be able to find the mp3 based of the “last modified” times that you have not added any cover art to. You can drag and drop those into Mp3Tag and select all of the mp3’s and right click on where the cover art image would normally show a preview. Select the “Add Cover” and add either the White or Black 500x500px sample images I’ve attached below in this thred. Of course you can add your own if needed. It may take a few mins to process. Once completed click on the “Save” button just to make sure all tags and cover art was saved.
At this point its time to transfer all of your music back into your Android Device. Word of warning, if you transfer it back to the folder with the same folder name Android may never notice the changes no matter how many times you restart it. Another bug in the system. For example my music folder was normally called “Music” so I went the windows theme of “My Music”. Rename the folder and replace your music with your now properly tagged music. Go have dinner, have a beer, or watch a movie, and let the transfer do its thing. When completed restart your phone and then open up your Music app or Google Music and the correct art and music tags should be showing. If not, clear the data for those apps and restart your phone again.
this should go in xda>android>general not captivate>general
Good post
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no mp4a files created after cleaning id3v1 and iv2
I was following the instructions as posted but there were no mp4a files created so i continued the process. I removed the tag for disc number but there was no total discs tag either. Now there is no optimise option whatsoever. What now??

Play Music Artist Pictures

Is there any way to add artist pictures to artists without one? The songs downloaded from the store has them, but the songs added from a computer doesn't. Are there any news regarding artist pictures and user customization?
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You just need to make sure your music is properly tagged. There are many media tagging applications that will let you add pictures, lyrics and other info. I run Linux, so I don't know how useful any specific application advice will be, but if you google music tagging you should find tons of applications (many free).
As for the source of the pictures, google image search for album art, or check graphics heavy shopping sites like amazon.
You obviously don't know what I'm talking about. Artist pictures and album covers are different. Artist pictures are solely on Google Play Music app. What I'm asking is if there a way to add or edit that.
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ladygagadisco said:
You obviously don't know what I'm talking about. Artist pictures and album covers are different. Artist pictures are solely on Google Play Music app. What I'm asking is if there a way to add or edit that.
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You obviously don't need to be quite so rude
Your initial post wasn't particularly clear and he was trying to help you. XDA is a Mobile Development forum with a very simple rule number 1
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It took me about ten seconds on Google to find this Is it or will it be possible to edit the ARTIST IMAGES show in Google Play Music so I would suggest you start there, have a read, a nose and then ask Google themselves as this is 100% down to them to resolve.
ladygagadisco said:
Is there any way to add artist pictures to artists without one? The songs downloaded from the store has them, but the songs added from a computer doesn't. Are there any news regarding artist pictures and user customization?
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cyangenmods apollo comes with the album covers i think for most music.
Trozzul said:
cyangenmods apollo comes with the album covers i think for most music.
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This is a specific problem to Google Music, it automatically tags the track with an artist (often wrong) but won't do this if you upload your own music.
ladygagadisco said:
The songs downloaded from the store has them, but the songs added from a computer doesn't.
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you're "half-correct". the songs that you upload the your computer that google play music DOES NOT MATCH will not have artist pictures.
but the ones that does match will have artist pictures.
(see more about google play music matching feature here https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2920799?hl=en)
source: i tried this before
ladygagadisco said:
Is there any way to add artist pictures to artists without one?
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ladygagadisco said:
Are there any news regarding artist pictures and user customization?
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No, currently google doesn't allow you to add or change artist pictures.
SimonTS said:
This is a specific problem to Google Music, it automatically tags the track with an artist (often wrong) but won't do this if you upload your own music.
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i've been using google play music for a long time and haven't seen it "automatically tags the track with an artist". if the file does not have artist information, it will be leave blank or unknown artist, it never automatically tags the song (artist, title,album), but it does (sometimes) add an album cover to the song if the song does not already have album art though.
had this issue too. wish they would give better support for it
Since this is now that top hit on Google, the answer to this year old question seems to still be "you can't" :crying:
For Artists wanting to update their own image:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/artists/answer/1703323?hl=en
Locked Google product forum on the issue:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/apps/m_9ZLPPmE_I/VIJnQ1I4zmcJ
The original thread that the above is a "duplicate" of seems to have been deleted, so it just re-directs back to the "duplicate."
I may have found it
I know this is an old thread but I found a solution... Sorta. If you go into the apps cache you can find the images. I'll give a rundown on how to do this below.
Go to root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/artwork2
Copy these images to a non root location to be able to view them
Find which one you want to replace
Find an image to replace it with with the correct dimensions
Copy new image to first folder
Now when you go to google music you'll see the new image... Until you click on it.
Anyone know of any solution. I'm going to keep looking.
(Look at IIRIS)
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CaiKroll said:
I know this is an old thread but I found a solution... Sorta. If you go into the apps cache you can find the images. I'll give a rundown on how to do this below.
Go to root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/artwork2
Copy these images to a non root location to be able to view them
Find which one you want to replace
Find an image to replace it with with the correct dimensions
Copy new image to first folder
Now when you go to google music you'll see the new image... Until you click on it.
Anyone know of any solution. I'm going to keep looking.
(Look at IIRIS)
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Great find! But any way to insert pictures for artists that don't have one at all?

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