I have lots of albuns in my computer and I did the ''Find Album Info'' in Zune and got the covers and all that.. Them I synced some albuns with my Omnia 7 and now when I play the music there is no album art in the background of Zune and no art in the Lockscreen.. Any ideas..?
did you enable lockscreen album art in the settings? it's in the lock/wallpaper settings.
It doesn't actually display album art, it displays artist art which is only available from the zune marketplace. So if you are in a region where you don't have access to it, you won't get any artwork in the background. It would be nice to be able to set local custom artist art, but I don't think there is any way to do that currently.
I'm in a country with Zune marketplace. I only get artwork for tracks I play off the zune marketplace. None of my own seem to work. That goes for the lock screen and even when just playing the tracks in the player. I've also done the same with Find Info etc... in Zune but no joy.
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I'm in a country with Zune marketplace. I only get artwork for tracks I play off the zune marketplace. None of my own seem to work. That goes for the lock screen and even when just playing the tracks in the player. I've also done the same with Find Info etc... in Zune but no joy.
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Do you still can't see album art on lockscreen?
Play a song that you don't see artist art on your phone on Zune on your PC. If Zune displays artist art when you are playing it on your PC, then that means Zune properly recognizes the song you are playing and has properly linked it with an artist that has information and art available off the Zune database.
This is highly dependent on your tags being correct, and on there being an entry for your artist in the Zune Marketplace.
If your artist does not have any information in the Zune Database, you won't get artist information, biographies, lock-screen artist photos, and all the fancy Zune features normally tied to a linked artist.
It's actually hit n miss as to whether the Zune software on PC will show artist background either - and that's for albums that have been downloaded off Zune Marketplace, and those ones DO show artwork on the phone.
Not sure what I need to enter in the tag info then to get it to recognise them. I have albums that match the Zune versions identically, and I've used the get album info to ensure they match.
Am at a bit of a loss
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It's actually hit n miss as to whether the Zune software on PC will show artist background either - and that's for albums that have been downloaded off Zune Marketplace, and those ones DO show artwork on the phone.
Not sure what I need to enter in the tag info then to get it to recognise them. I have albums that match the Zune versions identically, and I've used the get album info to ensure they match.
Am at a bit of a loss
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You can also right-click songs in your collection, and if it matches something in the Zune database, you should be able to see an option named "More about this album" which would bring you to the artist's page on the Zune Marketplace. This is an easy way to check if a specific song has been properly linked to something in the Zune library.
Any song that plays with artist photos on my PC has also displayed properly on my phone/lock-screen, so I'm not having any issues there.
Is there any way to enable displaying album art from the id3 tags in Mango, while zune is playing and phone is locked? There was an option on Green Mango for HD2 with "display album art on lockscreen", but in Mango RTM it disappeared. It wasn't working in Green Mango.
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So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?
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So I'm kind of an exception case for music, where I hunt for all my music via music blogs. The problem with this is that most of the songs I download aren't part of an album, and most of the time are pre releases, or bootlegs.
In these situations how do I organize my music through zune?!
Editing tag information in Zune REQUIRES an album name. Adding albums that don't have an album name are tagged "Unknown Album {Date Added}".
Is there any way to just have the songs without album names hidden? I've even tried using a space, but then it started grouping all of those together as an unknown album .
Other than that do you guys have a particular way in how you organize music?
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Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...
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Uhm. I would just make a bogus album name (aka song name). There's no way to just have album so just do it that way. You can always just look at different ways to look at ur music, by artist, song, etc...
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That's what I do for any artist where I have b-sides or demos in addition to the regular albums. I create an album called 'singles' and group all the non-album tracks under those. You could create different albums like this; demos, singles, bootlegs, etc.
Anyone know if there is some setting in registry or otherwise to change this? I don't know why this isn't the defualt anyways.
It sounds to me like whatever song or songs you are playing do not have album art associated with them. For me, album art is always displayed unless I downloaded a song that has no picture. In that case then yes, they just display a name.
I'm not talking about within the Zune Player on the phone, I'm talking about when you are at the home screen and the Zune Tile shows the artist you are listening to or listened to last, I want it to show the album inplace of the artist.
hi i've the same issue within zune it shows the artworks but the tile and the lockscreen don't :S
anyone has a practical solution for this problem?
Hello,
I know there are threads about this but non of them answered my question.
Here's my situation:
I have a collection of music and only one of those songs was bought from the zune marketplace. This song is "Drop the World" by lil wayne.
When I play this track there is no artist image or so showing up. I don't know why, but when I search the marketplace for lil wayne and play any of these songs (30 seconds preview), I don't have any art there either so I suppose there is simply is no art for this artist.
However, I have a lot of other music in my collection that was not bought from Zune, one example is Rihanna. When I search the marketplace and play a Rihanna song, it shows me art work but when I play my own full songs, it does not.
I have a German WLID and phone settings if that matters.
I have tried using Zune Social Tagger (version 2.4.1.0) and it showed me that the lil wayne song is linked. Now when I try to link any other song it finds the correct info etc and I click on "next", I have the option to select a song. I can do so but I always leave the box "Update album information (artist, title, etc)" unchecked because I don't want zune social tagger to mess with my mp3 tags.
However, when I click "Link" it did not actually work. The Zune Social Tagger still says "Unlinked" and there is no art on the phone.
I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
having the same problem. some says because other countries are not supported by the zune market.. thats the reason why this problem occur
For me this somehow worked.
I don't really know what I did. I just used Zune Social Tagger and afterwards synced my phone with zune. If the artist background was missing in Zune, I started Zune Social Tagger again and tagged it again. Some files had to be tagged many times but in the end it all worked, although I'm now having a problem with Mango.
I am living in Germany also but have not had any problem finding info, now sometimes you will have to find album art yourself which I think was the case with the album Rebirth(which the song you are talking about comes from)since it kept having delays being released then being pulled, but I did just look and all versions are there so it should work for you also. Now sometimes it happens that you have to re-sync manually especially if you already synced the song and you are trying update it it does happen sometimes. If should correct itself if not fix it through zune delete it from your phone and re-sync again should work then. Hope this helps you.
Well like I said it worked with NoDo, I just had to try it several times.
I also did not let zune social tagger or zune edit the MP3 tags, I did that on my own before.
I had cover artwork in the mp3 tags before.
While it worked for most songs on NoDo (I'm having some issues with Mango though), but not for the song mentioned because there is no artwork for Lil Wayne in the German marketplace (at least from what I can tell).
Now I understand your problem is really a GEMA issue not so much a market issue, with the Mango change more information relating to music is out and GEMA is trying to extort everybody. Well my settings are Germany I had changed over to the US when I found out all the problems people was having not just in WP7, Apple had the same issue they just did the dirty deed and mostly paid them. Now spoke with a few friends of mine with WP7 and they have the same issue can load the art themselves but not recognized the background due to issues alot of new Albums have this problem even in NoDo Kanye and Jay-Z did not want to pay GEMA so they have really no background either. Don't think this issue will change soon but you can still try the way I said.
The weird thing is that there appears to be artist backgrounds for most songs.
For example the song "Roman's Revenge" by Nicki Minaj.
I had artist background for this song in NoDo but not in Mango.
And what's really weird is that when I open the music + videos app, select music and then tap on Nicki Minaj (from the lists of artists), I actually have a background and only this song in my library. But when I play the song there is no artist background.
Hello,
about a week ago I updated most of my media on my phone with zune social tagger so that most songs had artist backgrounds. These backgrounds showed up on the phone during playback (back then on 7392) and when I played the song in Zune on the PC.
Sometimes I only have single song from an album. If I then searched for the album on the marketplace and found it, it would offer me 30 second snippets of all the songs but the one I have on my phone. Instead, this song would be played from my library without problems and with artist background.
However, since Mango these backgrounds are missing on some songs.
One example is the song "Renegade" from the Jay-Z album "The Blueprint".
I have only this song from the album.
The weird thing is that when I search for album in the marketplace, find it and start to play the tracks, it shows me the artist background.
However, when the track I have on my phone (Renegade) comes up, the artist background disappears.
On the PC the background is still there.
Any ideas?
OK I got a little further.
Apparently with Mango the way the artist backgrounds work has been changed at least a little bit.
The thing that was wrong in the song mentioned above (Renegade) was this:
The song is from a Jay-Z album and is by Jay-Z and Eminem. I had set the artist to this:
Jay-Z; Eminem
However, it was recognized as one artist by Zune and as such the artist of the song would show up as "Jay-Z; Eminem" which is not what I intended.
So I changed the artist tag using Windows Explorer. I first removed all the artist, then wrote in "Jay-Z" and saved, and then wrote in "Eminem" (after the auto generated semicolon) and saved again. I don't really know what's different in the artist tag now but somehow Zune seems to regocnize that there are two artist and only displays the first artist (as it should).
This fixed the missing background for this song.
Additonally, I noticed that songs which are not linked to Zune Marketplace songs now also have artist backgrounds as long as the artist tag is correct and I have an album by that artist on my phone.
For example the album "The Marshall Mathers LP" by Eminem is not in the German Zune Marketplace but I have it on my phone (not linked using zune social tagger).
When I play a song from that album I do have an artist background as long as the artist mp3 tag is set to Eminem (or set to "Eminem; xxx", as long as it is done using Windows Explorer (or probably also WMP etc.)).
However there are still artist backgrounds missing for some music from the device while they show up in the Zune software on the pc and the artist tag is correct.
For these artists I also don't have any backgrounds in when I tap on their names.
Another thing that doesn't work (probably a missing feature) is that when I play all songs by Eminem, Zune does not add songs to the list where Eminem is only the secondary artist (such as Renegade as noted above).
Hey,
I've seen a few threads on this but nothing has solved my issue, so I resort back to you guys.
When I play music on my recently-updated-to-mango device (music in my collection, not from Zune store. Too many gaps in its library for me to buy a pass), it's not showing the artwork on the livetile or the lockscreen.
I've gotten the album info, where available, from Zune on my PC and re-synced the items onto my phone.
I've ticked the option in Zune to get metadata and replace missing info.
The tracks all have artwork.
On my phone, under settings -> Lock screen & wallpaper, I've enabled "Show artist when playing music".
However, All that happens is the music tile stays on the last Zune Store browsed artist, and the lock screen fades my wallpaper out to show the coloured blurry dots background. I have the playback controls available.
Like I said, I've seen a few topics about this, but the solutions all revolve around the above options, and they're all set as they should be.
Any ideas?
Have you tried browsing the artists in the Music+Videos application? To the point where it shows the Bios and the Related Artists tabs?
I've found until the WP7 device itself downloads the info, it won't show up on the lockscreen (I figured this may be true after one artists lockscreen/background image showed up for just about every other artist on my device, until I browsed around in all of them).
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Have you tried browsing the artists in the Music+Videos application? To the point where it shows the Bios and the Related Artists tabs?
I've found until the WP7 device itself downloads the info, it won't show up on the lockscreen (I figured this may be true after one artists lockscreen/background image showed up for just about every other artist on my device, until I browsed around in all of them).
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I'm using Protest The Hero - Scurrilious as a test, and though the artist background is downloaded in the music tile in the background, and the marketplace link for the artist shows a number of results (including this album), but no luck