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TF3D Music Library - Finding Tracks

It seems to be the music library in TF3D is missing a vital component - with 16gb cards now available it is possible to store a large number of tracks (I have > 2500). Scolling through all songs/ albums/ artists etc in the library just doesn't cut it when you have that many tracks.
What is required is something like the alphabet bar to the right of the screen in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly go to tracks starting with the right letter, and then scroll from there.
Is something like this possible? If not, it seems like a silly ommission by HTC as they have implemented the same kind of thing in other areas of the phone.
Any ideas?

Seriously - no-one else has a problem with this?

Mine won't even find the tracks on the memory card let alone require the need to search through hundreds of them!
All I have are the four HTC demo ones... even tho I've got loads of tracks on the memory card, the only way I can play them is by using WMP rather than the TF3D Library

Works fine for me here.
Have HTC spanish 1.90 official ROM, and an Sandisk SD 6Gb Class4 microSD card.
I have around 250-300 files in MP3/WMA format inside SD\MY Documents\Musica and have no problem using from TF3D.
I have some files in SD\Seleccion\Ringtones in MP3/WAV/WMA format and this files appear in TF3D Music too.
I'm waiting for my new 16Gb microSD card, so probably i put thousands music files into the SD and report back here what's going.
Cheers

do you have to have album art for the tunes to show in the TF3D music app or does it have a placeholder for mp3's without album art attached?

FrederickUK said:
do you have to have album art for the tunes to show in the TF3D music app or does it have a placeholder for mp3's without album art attached?
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both, some folders without picture, and other ones with picture, but all working.

argh, so why the hell isn't mine working!!!

FrederickUK said:
argh, so why the hell isn't mine working!!!
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I don't have a solution to this problem, but I got the problem as well...

Right, so this thread seems to have moved on to people who can't get the TF3D player to recognise their music. There are plently of other threads about that - please check them out.
I have no problems using the player whatsoever - all 2500+ tracks are showing in TF3D, and I even got all the album art sorted out. If I only had a couple of hundred tracks there would be no issue at all. The problem is that with so many tracks TF3D is a pain to navigate through - if you want to find a track that starts with the letter Z it takes forever to scroll to it in the library.
I was hoping some enterprising soul with a bit of programming knowledge could develop something similar to the alphabet bar in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly get close to where you want to be, and then scroll from there.
Does that make sense? Anyone know whether that might be possible?

FrederickUK said:
Mine won't even find the tracks on the memory card let alone require the need to search through hundreds of them!
All I have are the four HTC demo ones... even tho I've got loads of tracks on the memory card, the only way I can play them is by using WMP rather than the TF3D Library
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ey, i have no say this before, but MP3/WMA files needs to be labeled with ID3 information to be used by AudioManager...
Cheers

jcespi2005 said:
ey, i have no say this before, but MP3/WMA files needs to be labeled with ID3 information to be used by AudioManager...
Cheers
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Sorry, I think you're just not understanding what I'm saying. I have no problem at all with files and album art etc being recognised by the AudioManager. The problem I have is that when there are thousands of tracks, then navigating through them is a right pain, and I was hoping someone could come up with a better way of doing it.

Rabangus said:
Sorry, I think you're just not understanding what I'm saying. I have no problem at all with files and album art etc being recognised by the AudioManager. The problem I have is that when there are thousands of tracks, then navigating through them is a right pain, and I was hoping someone could come up with a better way of doing it.
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ops, sorry for my bad quote, i have corrected my post i was not talking about your problem finding traks...
Did you test Pocket Player 3.7?
Cheers

Rabangus said:
What is required is something like the alphabet bar to the right of the screen in Contacts (and where you add cities in the Weather tab), so you can quickly go to tracks starting with the right letter, and then scroll from there....
.....Any ideas?
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I have been wondering this as well. I know that HTC produced the Random Access addon for Contacts. Does anyone know - or anyone able - to see if this could be made available for the audio manager?

Yes, I'm frustrated by this too. It would be nice to have the music in the tab, but it would be better to have a great little media player. Any reccomendations?

ya im frustrated by it too. i basically just use that tf3d player for random/shuffle playing.
if i want a specific song ill just navigate to it through file explorer.
kind of a PIA but oh well. maybe they will update it later on.

Audio manager long list issue
I am having same issue. With about 400 albums in my music audio manager there seems no way to scroll thru the list quickly. Hope someone tries and comes up with some kind of solution.

[Q] Zune Jumplist problems and other issues

Hi,
I have been using my optimus 7 for a couple of days now and I recently transferred bunches of music onto my phone. The music ist properly tagged in Zune and on the phone (correct artist, album, title, picture etc.) but for some reason the alphabetical jumplist buttons don't work. When I look at albums in the zune player I see all albums correctly under the corresponding letters, but if I click on any letter all letters are greyed out except for # .
If I press on # i always get transported to the bottom of the list.
I've already deleted all my music and resync'd everything, but no dice.
Also, I am not sure if this is related, but when I browse through my music and I click on genre and pick a genre, I don't get a list of artists and albums in that genre, but only a complete listing of all songs (sorted alphabetically, but this time without jumplists). Is that normal and by design?
Does anyone have any solutions to either problem?
Thanks a lot!

I'd guess that you have a not US-locale set.
I don't know why, but unless you set your locale to EN-US you won't be able to use jumplists in zune. And yes, this sucks!

Thanks for the tip. That actually worked. I had to set the display language to English (US), just setting the locale to US and keeping the german display language didn't work.
What kind of stupid bug is that? I'm gonna post it on answers.microsoft.com ...
Thanks again though.
But there is still no way to get an album or artist sorting in the genre category or? That's also kinda annoying.

[Q] Google Music player (Stock) Flickering

Now i have searched and searched about this problem, and the only answer i get is "Clear the data", which fixes the problem the first time i open it, but everytime after that i still have the flicker problem. It won't let me pick music because its like it just keeps reloading all my music over and over again and won't stop. Does anyone have a solution that sticks? I love the stock music player and i use Google Music Beta so i don't want to switch players, Thanks!

Hi, the app seems to do this when you add more music to your collection.
It's the application re-checking the contents of the folders, is all your music on the MicroSD card?
If so, safely remove it (tap the icon next to the clock) and remove the card from the slot.
Then remove the app data (application settings), then re-insert your card and re-start the music app, it will take a little while to re-read the MicroSD card, they are not the fastest things around.
I have 117 folders with 1578 files which amounts to 10.96G it takes just under a minute to rescan all the folders and rebuild my library.
The only issues I had with the stock player is the extreme way it manages the albums based on the mp3 tag info, it will give you a separate folder / album if the album artist is missing from some tracks.
I fixed mine on the tab with an app called iTag, it worked rather well.
Hope this helps in some way.

Thanks for the reply! all my music is actually on the internal sd of the transformer because I just got my micro sd card a week ago and have had my tablet for a while, so i already had music loaded on.

Mine does the flickering too in 3.2 stock, the version of the app is 3.0.2, were can I download the 3.0.1 apk to downgrade the app?

Solaris_irc said:
Mine does the flickering too in 3.2 stock, the version of the app is 3.0.2, were can I download the 3.0.1 apk to downgrade the app?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14330359&postcount=2

r_nt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14330359&postcount=2
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thankyou! already replaced the app and for now everiting is fine.

Solaris_irc said:
thankyou! already replaced the app and for now everiting is fine.
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The reloading keeps coming even on 3.0.1

Solaris_irc said:
The reloading keeps coming even on 3.0.1
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Sorry, man. Someone mentioned using an app called iTag to fix their issue, but I'm not sure exactly how it helped. Believe he said it had something to do with artist's names not matching up.
I've found that listing by song has no flickering involved, so gonna keep it that way until I (or someone else) either figures it out. Not much of a fan of some of the other players, so.

You should make sure all your ID3 tags are clean. For example, if you have a song artist that is Metallica and some of the files the artist name is Metallica and some are names MetallicA, where a simple case adjustment can help alleviate the issue. You need to also make sure that if one artist album has 15 songs and only 14 of them have cover art it will freak the player listing out like it's doing. Make sure all your ID3 tags are clean and precise and they all have the same cover art for each of the albums.

AcIdC0R3 said:
You should make sure all your ID3 tags are clean. For example, if you have a song artist that is Metallica and some of the files the artist name is Metallica and some are names MetallicA, where a simple case adjustment can help alleviate the issue. You need to also make sure that if one artist album has 15 songs and only 14 of them have cover art it will freak the player listing out like it's doing. Make sure all your ID3 tags are clean and precise and they all have the same cover art for each of the albums.
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I´m back to 3.0.2 and will check all my tags tonight...

I had the same problem. Do you have album art grabber installed? I uninstalled that app and everything went back to normal.
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album art embedder

Good day guys, Ive been searching for a program for android to automatically embed album art to the mp3 , because its very anoying to use album art grabber each time I change rom considering I got 500+ songs on my phone and Im lazy to search them over and over again.
Any sugestions are apreciated thanks in advance.

i think miui music is gud in that case it downloads the album art automatically if option is ticked !!! and others are all is like u need to search individually and save !! its hectic !!
hope it helps plz thank if it did!!

acerulz said:
i think miui music is gud in that case it downloads the album art automatically if option is ticked !!! and others are all is like u need to search individually and save !! its hectic !!
hope it helps plz thank if it did!!
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thanks Ill give it a try, does it embed the art ? cause I use album art grabber and it also searchs automatically for all the music but the problem is with the music files it doesnt find, i got to search manually for those

MediaMonkey an connect your phone too your Usb/Pc
It sounds like your mp3 tags are corrupted if you get MediaMonkey an connect your phone too your Usb/Pc an use MediaMonkey to fix the tags the problem should be fixed for ever An that app you use can fined your art from then on. I would fix all the tags too to be sure while your at it.
Itunes may work to but the fruit is fickle it can get confused

hve u ever tried uber music..????

Patricks_book said:
It sounds like your mp3 tags are corrupted if you get MediaMonkey an connect your phone too your Usb/Pc an use MediaMonkey to fix the tags the problem should be fixed for ever An that app you use can fined your art from then on. I would fix all the tags too to be sure while your at it.
Itunes may work to but the fruit is fickle it can get confused
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He is asking for automatic .... if he uses mediamonkey he needs to do manually ....
He mentioned that he is lazy to do that........
you can use Cover Art Downloader
Hit thanks if it makes you happy

Many thanks for all your replies guys,I have used covver art downloader too, gives me the same problem :s

Valholy said:
Many thanks for all your replies guys,I have used covver art downloader too, gives me the same problem :s
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Remember ..... if you have already album art..... when you going to flash another rom , don't forget to delete media folder from sd card,,,,,.......
because of that even you had album art music cannot show your mp3 album art
Don't lazy to delete media folder

If your tags are messed up it doesn't matter what apps you use
Ewaret said:
He is asking for automatic .... if he uses mediamonkey he needs to do manually ....
He mentioned that he is lazy to do that........
you can use Cover Art Downloader
Hit thanks if it makes you happy
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Ya i no but if your tags are messed up it doesn't matter what apps you use they need the right tags too work right. So if you use MediaMonkey only when you have to or when you download your music (too your Pc or Phone) you can tag them once and forget. If you download your music too your phone you only have to do it when the tags are messed up once and forget an then any app will work. Also MediaMonkey will remember all your tags for Winamp/Itunes and a few other music programs. So if your SDcard gets messed up all your music is saved an tagged/Art (if you save them on your harddrive in the MM File). So even if you are the ultimate procrastinator (like me) or Lazy you still have to fix your tags once in awhile for any Art app/programs to work right.
Cover Art Downloader is not a Mp3id tagger and that is what you/he needs.
I'm not promoting any one app/program this is just the program i use an like an there are more out there that work and are free.

thanks for all your replys, I will try everything mentioned here .
Ill report back once Im done and check wich method was the best

I'll suggest you to use miui roms, with miui music... first download all the album arts manually and then do a muiu backup for music(data) that would save your album art but it will only work if your changing only between miui roms
Send from my X10 running Miui 1.10.8 using the XDA App.... *****es!!! x)

Patricks_book said:
I'm not promoting any one app/program this is just the program i use an like an there are more out there that work and are free.
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I'm not app/program proomotor..... I just say to use him that what I'm using now,
and it's absolutely free apk........ and work perfect for me....

Problem with music albums

hi guys
I'm using an ics rom (nexusbeam 4.1) and that's my little problem:
in music players some albums are not displayed but i've copied them inside the phone memory like the others that are displayed??
with root explorer I see in the same folder all the albums but when I open music apps some albums are not present :-o
Thanks for helping!!
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Are the albums you don't see inside their own folder or with songs from other albums? They might be under the album named after the folder. Do a search for the filename/song, too.
Edit: Also note, this is probably the case if there is no ID3 tags on these particular songs/albums.

Harbb said:
Are the albums you don't see inside their own folder or with songs from other albums? They might be under the album named after the folder. Do a search for the filename/song, too.
Edit: Also note, this is probably the case if there is no ID3 tags on these particular songs/albums.
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thanks friend but i'm having a look at my albums
they are all ordered rightly 'cause I've always used to listen to them before even using music apps in my nexus...
as you can see in the pics they are all in folders but in my music apps they are not all displayed...

Odd. Have you tried clearing the cache for the music app?

Harbb said:
Odd. Have you tried clearing the cache for the music app?
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yes i've tried too

Sorry I couldn't help. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can sort this out.

Grab a full logcat and post it on the forum as attachment or on pastebin. , so we can undestand better what happens..

here's a zipped logat
thanks a lot for helping me; i've had some tries but with no luck

Search the market for "Cover Art Downloader" (sorry I can't post links yet )
I had a similar problem and I was able to use this app to "force" music player apps to recognise cover art, either by downloading what it thought was the correct artwork or in my case picking images off the SD card. Worth a try!

TheManicGibbon said:
Search the market for "Cover Art Downloader" (sorry I can't post links yet )
I had a similar problem and I was able to use this app to "force" music player apps to recognise cover art, either by downloading what it thought was the correct artwork or in my case picking images off the SD card. Worth a try!
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thanks
will give a try right now

I just used the free version - my issue was slightly different to yours in that Winamp was using the wrong album art for albums and no amount of cache clearing or messing with IDv3 tags would fix it, this app fixed it for me. Hope it works!