Hi folks, I come today with a bug that has been plaguing me for the past few months. I've tried my hand at troubleshooting this myself, but it's just leaving me scratching my head.
Basically I'm experiencing a very strange issue with transferring mp3's to my Nexus 5. It's persistent, too. It happens to about maybe 7% of my library. I have everything tagged as I desire in iTunes (I know, I know... still a holdout from my iPhone days). All the file names correct, song orders good, album artwork displayed, all as I want them to be. I use doubleTwist's Windows app to help me sync my music to my phone - it's integration with iTunes has been very helpful in getting my music over.
The problem is that, while everything on my own computer looks good, when transferred, about 7% of my music ends up with strange, incorrect metadata. That means the artist is often ending up as ??????, songs with Japanese characters are losing their titles sometimes to ???'s and sometimes to random keyboard mashings. The error is not consistent. Sometimes the albums are transferred with everything but their album artwork. Sometimes they're missing their artwork and artist. Sometimes the songs lose their names.
Often (though not always), when the error occurs the songs end up on my Nexus with *old* metadata. In other words, it ends up being transferred with metadata it previously had (usually artist and album name) and sometimes it takes what I currently have it tagged as. Always the songs affected end up without album artwork.
It's happened on every ROM tested, and no matter how many times I try deleting and resyncing my library via different methods, it doesn't work. I won't list out every troubleshooting method I've tried (there have been a lot), but I've tried transferring my music manually to witness it in action. Here's an example of that:
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This is the same mp3 transferred by a simple drag-and-drop operation. The transfer stripped it of its artist name, album title, song title, and album artwork.
I thought it might be a bug with unicode transferring, but even renaming the file, title, etc. to use exclusively ASCII did not work. I've tried retagging them in different programs and while it transferred with different information, it still failed to transfer these songs with the proper metadata.
TL;DR... Transferring mp3s onto my Nexus 5 leads to about a 7% chance of it being stripped of its correct metadata and replaced with either old or incorrect metadata. Have tried numerous tests to try to determine cause, but cannot find any consistencies. At my wits end for the problem.
EDIT: I also just tested it on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 that I got yesterday and, to make matters more confusing, the problem does not exist there. So the problem is exclusive to the Nexus 5...
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Hello!
I want to know if somebody know good program to download the good image for the singer/album for the music´s i have im my HD2.
for exemple now few music its like this :
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its good if it always like this:
and i want (if its possible) program put automaticaly good image in music i have, without image.
thanks in advance
Dont know about doing it automatically but if you download the cover art off the internet and then rename and/or edit it to "folder.jpg", then place this image in the album's folder then the sense music player will use it as the cover art for all tracks in that album folder.
there is an update album art in the menu when looking at the music player. tends to work best when connected to wi-fi. has worked for all my albums.
Mike
my problem its i have lot of music alone, its not from album, its just one music from singer, and already try update in menu , even with wi-fi and dont work good!
it does give you the option to update song now playing - have you tried that?
Mike
trepa said:
my problem its i have lot of music alone, its not from album, its just one music from singer, and already try update in menu , even with wi-fi and dont work good!
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You have to edit the tag of the song first..the artist, album..
Chastiser said:
it does give you the option to update song now playing - have you tried that?
Mike
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yes, already try, and dont work. with you work?
negawolf said:
You have to edit the tag of the song first..the artist, album..
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how i do this?
trepa said:
how i do this?
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U can do it on pc or instal this app on hd2 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687830&highlight=Mp3+tag+editor
Use Media Monkey 3 or Tidy Songs. There not free, but they have a trial for both products. I used Media Monkey cuz its cheap, $15 for Gold. You load your file of MP3, to the right click search Web for Info.. sure enough it finds all the albums to that artist. select right one if the label mp3 was unclear. now it fills in all the details and replaces mistyped. Sometime you even get a choice what quality art work you want to attach inside the tag. I had completed 1,500 songs. It cleaned up my album so an artist wasn't misspelled and in 4 separate folders in my sense player.
I use Mp3 tag, you can set all the album art and embedd it into the mp3 file, you can do albums at a time, but it does take a while. Once youve done it though, you will never have the problem again
MP3 tag its good option, but give little work to do. but already start!
thanks ★
aoakes With Media Monkey 3 and Tidy Songs update the music i have, or just its possible download from there with good info?
tidy songs i already try one time, but in few songs put wrong image and info.
thanks for help too!
negawolf mp3 tag editor surch automatically info and images for music?
THANKS to everybody!!!
if somebody have more solutions i apreciate!
Real annoying. I try different custom roms to see if it is fixed but i think clearly it is ANOTHER BUG with 2.3.3? and the list goes on lol.
can you please elaborate on the music bug?
what do you mean by breaking the music into 4 chunks?
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can you please elaborate on the music bug?
what do you mean by breaking the music into 4 chunks?
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I thought I was clear enough. There are some albums that are in one folder than you have some that are in 3 or 4 folders instead of one
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edit your MP3 tags
that will put them all into the same folder
Yeah you need to make sure both Album Artist and Artist are the same in your MP3 tag.. I had the same problem when updated to 2.3.3
I noted this as well. Seems to be a bug with media server. (N1 with CM7)
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edit your MP3 tags
that will put them all into the same folder
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Ill get to that when I get home
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This is what he meant:
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It splits my albums in two. The ID3Tags are all consistent and it only happens with a couple of albums, not all of them. I spent some considerable time analyzing my ID3Tags but I could not find anything wrong with them.
I have the same problem after updating to 2.3.3. I couldn't find anything wrong with the ID3 tags of the files. Things I've tried:
Cleared the music application data.
Copied the album name and artist name from one of the songs in that album to all the ID3 tags of the songs in that album.
Replaced all album art in the ID3 tags to a fresh image to all songs in that album.
Included CD numbers and track numbers on ID3 tags.
Removed composer credits on ID3 tags.
The albums are still split.
Same happened to me.
I tried importing to ipod via itunes but got the same problem.
So it seems the problem is indeed with the ID3 tags.
I tried checking the tags, fixing 1 by 1.
Nothing helped really.
Finally I just rewrote all the common ID3 tags with mp3tag (besides track name and number), and it was fixed.
Well, just found how to fix the bug.
I tried checking all the tags with iTag for android but everything was ok, so i downloaded mp3 tag for windows and noticed something interesting.
In one of those duplicated albums(Alesha Dixon - The Alesha Show) i noticed that everything whas the same except Album Artist, which was empty in the separated one and didn't appeared in iTag, i put the same artist and 1,2,3,.. for the tracks and got it fixed:
The thing is, in 2.3.2 it only reads Artist and Album but in 2.3.3 it also reads Album Artist, if it is empty or all the songs have the same artist everything is ok, but if there is something different then it will split that album
For those people on Android V2.3.3, does the Album Artist tag correctly, i.e. it won't take the album artist as being the artist of every track on the CD?
This happened on the X10 and the Galaxy S on Android V2.1 and it's quite frustrating for me.
For example.
A compilation mixed by "Artist A" (this is who I tag as the Album Artist) will cause a song made by "Artist B" to appear as "Artist A"'s song.
This issue looks like it could cause a world of hurt for my tagging method...or perhaps it will make the Album Artist appear correctly on the album when going through the library and the Artist itself appear correctly when going through the player which is something I've always wanted.
Last month I bought a dilapidated motor home from a tow auction and found this mp3 player made by SanDisk. I liked it for its size and weight, and thought it would work well in my beesuit while I was at work in my bee yards.
When I tried to put the music and TED talks from my laptop, however, things got complicated. After a too-long call to SanDisk, I learned that this particular unit is only sold in prisons; based on papers found in the motor home, it makes sense.
So I got a playlist creator for my phone and managed to get the music and TED talks put on the mp3 player's sd card via a m3u and associated content. I've been able to make it play twice but have been enable to duplicate the outcome ever since.
I'm looking for a way to get my content put on the device or its sd card so I can benefit from it. Suggestions would be helpful.
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Rivera Family Honey Last month I bought a dilapidated motor home from a tow auction and found this mp3 player made by SanDisk. I liked it for its size and weight, and thought it would work well in my beesuit while I was at work in my bee yards.
When I tried to put the music and TED talks from my laptop, however, things got complicated. After a too-long call to SanDisk, I learned that this particular unit is only sold in prisons; based on papers found in the motor home, it makes sense.
So I got a playlist creator for my phone and managed to get the music and TED talks put on the mp3 player's sd card via a m3u and associated content. I've been able to make it play twice but have been enable to duplicate the outcome ever since.
I'm looking for a way to get my content put on the device or its sd card so I can benefit from it. Suggestions would be helpful.
Skip
Rivera Family Honey
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Hey skip. Look up rockbox. It is a free firmware that should work on this device. I have not been able to try it on mine as I do not have access to a computer and won't for some years to come. Good luck.
As the title suggests, I randomly get songs stopping a few seconds from the end when I play them in my file manager (Solid Explorer).
The issue does not occur in dedicated music apps.
I've set Solid to unrestricted battery, but it doesn't show in the list of sleeping apps and I can't exclude it either because it isn't in the list.
Out of curiously I tried it in another file explorer and I get the same issue, so it seems to be the phone rather than the app.
Also the issue happens randomly. I play a track and it can play fine the first time, or many times, but then it will randomly cut off the last second and from then on it won't play again.
Anyone have any idea what would cause this?
Darn, that signature is dark (it's my mother-in-law, I cherish her most ). We all know MiXplorer is the way to go though.. right? Or was that the other file explorer you tried?
Spoiler: Oh and I'll just leave this here for no apparent reason ^_^
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Darn, that signature is dark (it's my mother-in-law, I cherish her most ). We all know MiXplorer is the way to go though.. right? Or was that the other file explorer you tried?
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No I used fx explorer (I know that's old but it still has the same problem)
I'll get a logcat when I get home
EDIT: Tried MiXplorer. Same issue.
SeraphSephiroth said:
No I used fx explorer (I know that's old but it still has the same problem)
I'll get a logcat when I get home
EDIT: Tried MiXplorer. Same issue.
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For good measure I have tested this, albeit on another device (you never know when all file explorers suddenly fail on us) and it plays smoothly to the end as expected. That is of course not normal behaviour. Just to clarify, when you say "stopping a few seconds from the end", you mean the slider stops moving entirely or the audio mutes? Also unclear: is the screen still on when this happens? And would it be a specific amount of seconds?
Timmmmaaahh! said:
For good measure I have tested this, albeit on another device (you never know when all file explorers suddenly fail on us) and it plays smoothly to the end as expected. That is of course not normal behaviour. Just to clarify, when you say "stopping a few seconds from the end", you mean the slider stops moving entirely or the audio mutes? Also unclear: is the screen still on when this happens? And would it be a specific amount of seconds?
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When I say it stops, I mean the a few seconds before the end of a track the slider will stop, and the audio will cut off. Hitting the play/pause button will cause the track to be replayed from the beginning. This does not occur in dedicated music apps (I.e the track will cut out in the file manager bit play to the end in VLC or Poweramp)
The exact cut time I can't say but it seems to be the same time roughly cut off every time.
Hope that helps
Apologies for how relatively tech-illiterate this'll probably sound, I am not generally a tech person, I just have this very specific problem I've been trying to fix for years and this seems like a place that might be able to give me an answer if there is one
Backstory for where my troubles began: a long time ago, the standard music app on apple phones (aka what is used to play apple music) had albums, songs, artists, etc laid out in columns, with album art listed vertically on the left side of the screen and titles listed in the same row. This worked well for me. For visual reference:
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Currently, songs, playlists, and artists are still arranged in this manner. However, at some point the album tab adopted a different layout entirely; rows and columns of album art, titles listed under the art, with no more than 6 albums onscreen at any given time, though with how big the albums are and how they get partially obscured while scrolling its often closer to 4. Again, for visual reference:
I really can't stand this. I have never been able to stand it and in all the years of using this stupid app I have never been able to get used to it. I like to browse my libraries; whether it's music, movies, books, whatever I like having collections that I can scan through, it's an integral part of how I consume media. The app being arranged this way makes this near impossible for me- there's so little onscreen at a time, it's like if any time I wanted to scan my bookshelf I had to put up an empty picture frame in front of my face and only look at the five books visible through that frame at a time. It makes finding music to listen to a big pain every time and I know it's not really THAT big a deal all things considered but I'm fed up with it at this point, it's like a splinter that won't go away. The rows system let me actually scan across titles effectively. I just want THAT back. That is the only thing I want back in regards to this app.
I might switch to another music streaming app, but there would be a lot of complications with that for various reasons; for the sake of this thread pretend that's not an option. Is there any way to jailbreak/hack into/use add ons for the music app on android in a way that could change the way the album tab layout looks on the app? Or, are there third party apple music apps on android that solve this issue? If this isn't the place to ask this or there's something more specific I ought to be asking let me know; I'm just looking for any fix anywhere I can find it at this point.