I've got all my music tagged with multiple genres, separated by semi colons. Media Monkey and Windows Media Player both understand that if a track's genre contains "rock; metal" then it should appear under both "rock", and "metal" genres.
I was disappointed to find that Android's built in player does not make this distinction. Instead, it reads it all as one long genre called "rock; metal" which isn't very helpful.
After trawling through about 20 different media players looking for one that would read the tags properly, I read that the tag database is maintained exclusively by the OS so all media players are likely to behave the same way.
So, does anyone know if any of the custom ROMs available out there have corrected this?
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Hello!
I am looking for a good music player but... I have a small requirement. At the moment I use the pocket player but it lacks a few functions.
The most important thing I am looking for is the possibility of using directories as playlists - a function very simple and available in all the mp3 players -> it allows you to navigate through the directories and it plays songs one by one in the given directory (with function such as repeat directory etc.). It would be great also to have the possibility of changing the order of files in each directory (I mean, the way the player sorts them).
If the before-mentioned function is not available in any popular players I would like to substitute it with the playlists browser known from the "foobar2000". I mean - to have the possibility of loading e.g. 10 different playlists (I mean, to some list of playlists, not all the songs into one list) and browsing through them smoothly (without interrupting playing).
Thank you for information if any of these two functions is available anywhere...
Best regards,
Theriel
Search the Dev/Hack forum for S2P (Slide 2 Play). It's a member developed application that uses directories as its primary way of handling playlists.
I'm looking for a media player that will allow me to select music by Album Artist, I have spend hours tagging my music and most music players I try use the Artist, which contains multiple entries for the same album.
The only software I have found on WM is Pocket Player, but not entirely convinced by it. I have also recently got a HTC Tattoo, but can't find any decent media player that supports the resolution, let alone one which handles Album Artist.
Any recommendations welcome
I know this is a very old thread but... same question. I am kind of in disbelief that all the music players for Android are so poor, but it seems they are… can anyone recommend a player that correctly handles music with various artists in a single album (which is very common)?
Ideally one which also supports the ability to search the music collection, and replaygain.
How is it that with the numerous apps available, there are still none with as many features as Windows Mobile had several years ago? *shakes head*
I'm in the middle of uploading my music collection to the Google Music cloud.
I've noticed though that it's not getting the music information correct.
I put a heap of effort into correctly tagging my music collection (because I know Google Music relies solely on tags). But now it seems to be ignoring it?!
I've updated many of the artist's names so they appear together (A.F.I. / AFI, etc.) and updated the genre tag also. But the changes don't all seem to have worked in the Google Music Beta.
The major problem seems to be the genre field. My songs upload with completely different genres to what they are in my collection.
I've even checked the tags in multiple programs (Mp3Tag, MediaMonkey, Tag & Rename, etc.) and they all show the same info, which is different to Google Music!!
Anyone have any info?
Which tags do Google read? (ID3v1/2 ... ???)
Thanks.
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Jams Music Player is a beautiful, yet insanely powerful music player. Featuring a stunning Holo Cards theme (regular Holo theme also available), Jams has everything you could ever want or need in a music player!
Support for both phones and tablets.
Supports all the formats supported by Android (mp3, FLAC, AAC, ogg, etc.)
Unofficial GMusic support. 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).
Ability to save positions in individual tracks and resume from them later (useful for Audiobooks/Podcasts).
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.
Questions? Comments? Issues? Feel free to email me at [email protected] and I'll get back to you within 24 hours. If you're a Reddit user, you can also post in /r/JamsMusicPlayer.
Note: If you're having issues, please email me first before leaving a negative review on the Play Store. Negative reviews are hard to spot amongst the hundreds of other reviews, so the chances of your issue being resolved are slim to none.
Hi guys!
I currently have a problem with my android music player (I'm using Shuttle+) in terms of correctly organizing artists. You know that most apps have an option to only listen music from a certain artist, given that, if I have the artist tags organized by the following schema, they are detected as different artists for each of these, example...
Track 1 -- Artist: Axwell
Track 2 -- Artist: Axwell feat. Errol Reid
Track 3 -- Artist: Axwell & Ingrosso
Shuttle detects these artists as ALL different. So if I want to listen to Axwell's music, I'll only be able to find Track 1 on that playlist. I've tried using different artists tag (like Axwell, Ingrosso or even Axwell; Ingrosso) but none worked for Shuttle. As you can see here: http://imgur.com/6sbOnbY
Do you guys have this problem with other apps? Or should I change my ID3 identification? I've no idea what to do.
Best regards