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[RESOLVED] Adding CD Cover Images for MP3's w/o one

To add custom CD covers for music in TF3D, you need to first create the image in 256x256 w/ 82 DPI. Title the file ~hTC_<Album Name Goes Here>.jpg and move it into your My Music folder on your Fuze. Once it's there, go in and set the properties to hidden on the album cover.
Now, to get the image to show up on music that's already loaded onto your Fuze, just load each song individually. As of now, that's the only solution I've found for making the images show up. Any other hints or tips will be added to this first post as I see them. Feel free to post your own.
Apparently you can also embed the album art on your PC and it will tag along wherever the MP3 is moved to. (Thanks Kerensky97)
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For instance when I add some Shinedown songs from the new Us and Them album, the cover is there but when I put James Blunt on, I get the standard empty one. Anyway you can assign images to all your music?

KevinACrider said:
For instance when I add some Shinedown songs from the new Us and Them album, the cover is there but when I put James Blunt on, I get the standard empty one. Anyway you can assign images to all your music?
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I have noticed that most music players require that you place an album cover photo in .jpg format and name the cover either "folder" or "cover". Place the ablum cover in a folder with your music. Some players will show some of the embedded album art but not all of the embedded album art. Using the method I mentioned above works for most players.
Separate your music into seperate folders (I separate by album, artist and sometimes by type of music, then place an album cover in .jpg format into the folder and name the album art "folder". All the songs in that folder witht that album art should display that particular album art when playing.
If you put all you mixed songs into one folder and put one album art using the method mentioned above you will always see the same album cover for every song - this is why you will want to separate your music.
This works for me using Windows media player, TCPMP, S2P, and Mort Player.

I'm using the standard music player in TF3D. I have my music sorted into folders by the first letter of the artist but I don't see the same album art for all artists starting with S. I did see the art, I'll try to figure out the format and see if I can finagle it.

I dont have TF3D So I really can't say how it would work for that since I havn't tried it. you can try to embedd the art manually into each song. use something like Media Monkey (which you can download for free) to try embedding album art to you songs. I usually get my album art from this web site
http://www.albumart.org/

All my album art(jpg) is embedded in the MP3 metadata using Mp3tag and it all shows up fine in TF3D. It obviously checks that tag to see if you have it so no need for additional files in your folders (although I wonder which it will prefer if you have both?).
Do it to all your music on your computer and you can copy/paste/cut/rearrange your songs however you want and the art will always follow.

[Q] Newcomer with stupid questions :)

Hello, guys. I was reading this forum, but didn't find answers on my questions.
1) When I copied music from my PC to XOOM, some album arts were missing, I used Album Art Grabber to download arts, but Music player doesn't see new album arts (Winamp and other sees).
2) I've read a lot of forums, but didn't find out how I can copy .avi files to xoom to watch them.
Thanks.

zorrik said:
Hello, guys. I was reading this forum, but didn't find answers on my questions.
1) When I copied music from my PC to XOOM, some album arts were missing, I used Album Art Grabber to download arts, but Music player doesn't see new album arts (Winamp and other sees).
2) I've read a lot of forums, but didn't find out how I can copy .avi files to xoom to watch them.
Thanks.
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The album art thing is tricky...I have some issues with it too as I have a lot of alternative and obscure music.
Mobo Player and a number of other apps play AVIs just fine.

Yes, when using alternative players everything is ok, but I want to use system players.
I can't understand why system music player doesn't see changes in music library.

I have seen this problem with the system music player before. I've tried rebooting and renaming the jpg's and this is what I have found works everytime.
1) I use "Cover Art Grabber" to get all missing artwork. This is just my preference. I also try to both include the artwork as "albumart.jpg" and have the artwork part of the tag information.
2) I reset the music player data. Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, Click All and then scroll down to "Music" and click "Clear data".
Don't worry this does not delete any of your music and it forces the application to reload all of the album art. The only downside is that if you are using Music Beta with the cloud storage you will need to reselect your Google account. Not a big deal.

HuckFinn said:
I have seen this problem with the system music player before. I've tried rebooting and renaming the jpg's and this is what I have found works everytime.
1) I use "Cover Art Grabber" to get all missing artwork. This is just my preference. I also try to both include the artwork as "albumart.jpg" and have the artwork part of the tag information.
2) I reset the music player data. Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, Click All and then scroll down to "Music" and click "Clear data".
Don't worry this does not delete any of your music and it forces the application to reload all of the album art. The only downside is that if you are using Music Beta with the cloud storage you will need to reselect your Google account. Not a big deal.
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Thanks, it was really helpfull. Second step helped. So one problem left, how to copy .avi files to XOOM and watch them using system player?

zorrik said:
Thanks, it was really helpfull. Second step helped. So one problem left, how to copy .avi files to XOOM and watch them using system player?
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Convert them to mp4 or use another player.

If you are looking for a simple, easy to use converter for the Xoom I would HIGHLY recommend DVD Catalyst. It has profiles specifically for the Xoom so it could not be easier. It will convert files you already have or rip from DVD.
http://www.tools4movies.com/
I know there are cheaper, even free, solutions out there but for me the simple interface and high quality conversions was worth the $10.

[Q] Music: Location, Directory and File Structure

Am I putting the music and artwork in the right place? I cant get any music player to display my artist/song art while the song is playing. Song plays fine just without artwork showing.
I have put it in the external_sd directory and the directory above that one... can't seem to get it to work with any music players.
I have my artwork in a folder labeled as "Album Art". Files inside that folder are named as "artist - song.jpg"
I have another folder labeled as "Music". Files inside that folder are named as "artist - song.m4a"
I have tried having all the files (jpg and m4a) in 1 folder called "Music" .. nothing works... I don't want to embed the pictures ... would take forever .. and I don't want to have separate folders/sub-folders for each artist and album by that artist... as I have lots of one-hit-wonders.
Any ideas from anyone would be appreciated.

Which music player are you using? I tag artwork to the actual metadata of the songs which works flawlessly
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I've tried winamp, mixzing, poweramp, android music player, doubletwist... etc.
None of my music has tags.. I have media monkey and Mp3Tag.. what do I do to associate the two files?
ok.. made tags that include artist and title from the filename of the song using mp3tag

dsjacks said:
I've tried winamp, mixzing, poweramp, android music player, doubletwist... etc.
None of my music has tags.. I have media monkey and Mp3Tag.. what do I do to associate the two files?
ok.. made tags that include artist and title from the filename of the song using mp3tag
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If you're using media monkey the best thing is to highlight a album or songs, press shift+enter, then go to artwork and save the photo to the file and not folder. It should work after that

Seems to be working a little better having tags on the music... but when I play songs it shows the first albumart it reads for all songs of the band no matter if the song is from different album... I'm just trying to get it to show the correct albumart for the song playing.. at least it is showing the correct artist for the song now

dsjacks said:
Seems to be working a little better having tags on the music... but when I play songs it shows the first albumart it reads for all songs of the band no matter if the song is from different album... I'm just trying to get it to show the correct albumart for the song playing.. at least it is showing the correct artist for the song now
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With media monkey clean out the artwork, go to the artwork tab and delete the ones you don't need and set the correct art to front cover. Make sure if you are doing the shift+enter I mentioned that you are only doing it for albums and not artists or it will put the same xd cover for all songs by artist instead of just the album

I have ALL of my music in just one folder titled "music"... will that still work? .. I'll try it out and report back
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Any free music player what can properly sort files?

Hello.
Is there a music player that know how to properly sort files, so after file1 it would play file2 and not file10 ?
Thank you.

You have to turn shuffle off.

Yes, Captain Obvious, it IS off.
For some reason all players I've tried so far sort files as:
file1
file10
file11
file12
...
file2
file20
file21
This goes to sorting by filename or data in ID3 tags
In PHP/MySQL it's called "natural" sorting, I believe

Sorry. But that was the first thing that came to me. What phone do you have?

Google Music Player
That's the best music player anywhere online or offline

winamp ?

Uber Music by Federico Carnales has an advanced media scan and he claims it uses "true shuffling" so you can try that..
I had this same problem (while using CM9 music player) and I found that by hitting party shuffle it fixed it?

first try to rename file1 to file01 and file2 to file02 eccetera eccetera... After that i used doubleTwist Player, freeware from Google Play, you can create playlists with that.

I like TTPod

Any free music player what can properly sort files?Arrow
try to rename the files and then use the doubletwist player

TTPOD is the best music player...

SofiaBrown said:
try to rename the files and then use the doubletwist player
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If I have to rename files any player would do just fine. It defeats the point of this topic - finding a player that sorts files properly.

They are being sorted properly, all operating systems recognize 10 as coming before 2. Use a program like Mp3tag to automatically rename all of your music files to the correct convention; 01, 02.......10,11, etc.
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And what the "all operating systems" are you referring to? Windows sort them just fine without prepending with zeros.
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Nexus 5 - Music Cover IMG.

Hello, i downloaded music from youtube and transfer it from my pc to mine Nexus 5
So no after i'm open the play app that shows me all song with one cover img..
How to remove the cover img, i try to use "Mp3tag" program and that did not help..
there are the img from my play app:

natan.p said:
Hello, i downloaded music from youtube and transfer it from my pc to mine Nexus 5
So no after i'm open the play app that shows me all song with one cover img..
How to remove the cover img, i try to use "Mp3tag" program and that did not help..
there are the img from my play app:
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If you plan on using Google Play Music as your main music app you can upload your songs to Google and from there you can change the cover art and tags.

natan.p said:
Hello, i downloaded music from youtube and transfer it from my pc to mine Nexus 5
So no after i'm open the play app that shows me all song with one cover img..
How to remove the cover img, i try to use "Mp3tag" program and that did not help..
there are the img from my play app:
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It looks to me like this is because they all have the same artist and album in the tags ("unknown artist" and "unknown album" at a guess based on your screenshot). Play Music, along with most MP3 players, will assume that all tracks in the same "album" have the same cover art (because one CD has one cover!). By the looks of things, the website you used to download the youtube audio track also took a frame for the video as the album art and Play Music is taking the art of the first track and applying for all of them.
The solution is to tag the artist and album title correctly in the ID3 tags. That way Play Music won't think they're from the same album and assign the same art.
To a certain extent, the album art is not the problem, it's the artist and album tags.

That image could be stored in the same directory where your music is causing this to happen
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Buy the music from a legit source and it will have tags and cover art already