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Android Music - Issue with albums with multiple artists

Hi all,
Albums with multiple artists are showing in the music player (both HTC and default android) as multiple albums rather than one album.
I have tagged these correctly in iTunes with an album artist of 'Various Artists' and leaving the correct artist as the song artist.
Is this just the way android works or is it a problem with my phone? How do other people deal with this?
Cheers,
Michael

I believe it has something to do with the albumartist field and the artist field.
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This is going to sound stupid/obvious, but are the files in the same folder?
I had edited my tags from the original ones to match the same album (instead of like deluxe, normal, bonus track, or whatever) and they kept showing up different. If you put them in the same folder it fixes that.
If they are, then its probably the album artist field as the other person said

All in the same folder and all have the album artist field correctly filled in. Any other suggestions?

I am using Hyperdroid on the HD2 (Android 2.3.4) and I get the same issue. The difference with me is that it used to be fine and suddenly one day, it decided all the tracks belonged in their own album...
I wonder if it's because I did an in place upgrade from the previous version of Hyperdroid, based on 2.3.3?
Anyway, will wipe my card and put it all back on, see if that cures it.

I have this issue too when I copied a music album folder into the storage card. It shows two of the same album with the 1st track showing in one album and the rest in the other.
Any solutions? Thanks!

doubleTwist player fixes it.

Tag Album artist for all the tracks with "Various artists" (or what you want) and let each artist name in Artist tag only.
This way no more multiple albums.

I had the same problem too, but after editing the ID3 information it worked fine. One tip is to set the songs in the right order like this:
Original setup:
- Song Title
- Song Title
- Song Title
- Song Title
- Song Title
- Song Title
- Song Title
"Correct" setup:
- 1.Song Title
- 2.Song Title
- 3.Song Title
- 4.Song Title
- 5.Song Title
- 6.Song Title
- 7.Song Title
The numbers won't (shouldn't at least) show up in the music player. You also want (as everyone here says) to edit the artist info using a ID3 editor.
- Artist Name: Various Artists
- Album Title: CyberKids' Awesome Mix
- Album Artist: CyberKids' Awesome Mix
- Track Title: *Don't touch this if you're editing all the songs together*
- Track(s): 7
- Track Number(s): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, (Now it knows there's 7 songs in the album)
- Disc#: 1
- Composer: CyberKids' Awesome Mix
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Salsa

worked for me
Hi everyone!
I write down what I have found. It worked for me.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 7.2 on a Motorla Defy.
The key thing IS the 'Album Artist' filed. BUT you have to force the music player to rescan the song files after changing the tags. An easy way could be is to rename the album's containing folder (even changing one charater is enough). This makes the music player to scan your song files again and rearrange them by the new tags.
Try this!
(It also could be useful to find out where does the player stores the meta tags of the songs and delete that.)
Here is a useful thread i found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630705&page=2

This worked for me!!! Thanks!!
:good:
This worked!!! Thanks a lot!!
pfm68000 said:
Tag Album artist for all the tracks with "Various artists" (or what you want) and let each artist name in Artist tag only.
This way no more multiple albums.
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Stock Music Player Wallpaper

All the songs That I have on my phone has the same background cover for every songs, how do I remove it ALL? I have sense 3.5 on my phone. RcMix v3.1

Most likely you have a picture saved in your music folder. And since your songs do not have an embedded album art for each song it is using that pic for everything. I myself do not use a hidden jpeg pic for album art. I embed each song's tag with an album art when I rip it. If I have to add an album art for each song after being ripped I use dBpoweramp(not free) or MP3Tag(free).

I use droID3Tagger. It's free in the market and will search for and embed album art into the song.
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I will have to check that out fernandezhjr. That may come in real handy.
Edit: DroID3Tagger works well, but only works if the music files are MP3. I also gave another app called Audio Tagger a try and it works well also. Plus it does other formats besides MP3s. Both apps are top notch and will fix up your music library in no time.

[Request]SE Music Player

Hey is there any music player which can detect its lyrics in the song itself....
no need of internet...like iphone.....
The current Music player in the Wolf Rom...can comeup with one more facility of lyrics on the player itself....
even one of Nokia's 5800 symbian has such kind of facility.....
like if there is a lyrics with the song itself...
the player will display that....
but, if there is no lyrics with the song...
it will search internet.....
Plez look forward for it...
Place of lyrics is below...
N eg. for nokia n iphone is also below....

I hope sone one can post it soon !

MIUI music player has lyrics.
MIUI Music or SE Themed MIUI Music

The way the iPhone gets the lyrics is by the MP3 file itself. You add it to the Lyrics tab under the "get info" option when you right click the song. Hope this helps

chrismorgann said:
MIUI music player has lyrics.
MIUI Music or SE Themed MIUI Music
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MIUI Music player get its lyrics from the internet.....
I request for a player that can read lyrics from the song itself...

EffectX said:
The way the iPhone gets the lyrics is by the MP3 file itself. You add it to the Lyrics tab under the "get info" option when you right click the song. Hope this helps
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i know how to put in lyrics...
My request is for a android music player(Specificly current music player on wolf v6)that can read the lyrics from the song itself...

Android does not natively support the ID3v2 USLT necessary to display lyrics. I added a new feature request that would give Android support for reading USLT in the ID3 tag. This will enable the native and 3rd party music players to display lyrics. If you want this feature, please star the request below, and post your comments.
code.google.com issue#32547

[APP][4.0+] Little bit Music Player

Hello everyone, I present my first app, a music player.
Little bit Music Player is a clean and extremely easy to use music player.
Little bit Music Player is 100% Ad free
Little bit Music Player does not use (private or public) user data in any case.
Features:
- Direct Link to Chromecast (cast your local music)
- Little bit Music Player is SIMPLE
- Drag your folders full of music to your phone or sdcard and start enjoying your entire collection.
- Create your PlayList in few seconds and make it always visible in the navigation panel.
- Control the player from the notification panel or from the lock screen.
- Share your songs by WhatsApp, Gmail, Dropbox and many other applications.
- You can use Little bit Music 100% offline, like your old .mp3 player.
- Customize separate each PlayList, Album, Artist .... with pictures, colors and wallpapers creating a fully customized player based on Material Design.
- Change your phone ringtone any time from your music collection.
- Blur effects
- Android 5.0 Lollipop Material Design Toolbar
- 1x1 and 4x1 home-screen widgets
Uses-permission for Little bit Music Player:
**** "android.permission.INTERNET" -> Download covers
**** "android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" -> 2º hand playback
**** "android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" -> Manage calls during playback (no phone id)
**** "android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS" -> Managing the volume of other apps
**** "android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" -> Read sdCard files
**** "android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" -> Set Ringtone
**** "android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" -> Set Ringtone
Compatible with .mp3, .flac and .wav files
PlayStore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pfg.inicios
Please read de info section of the app for more information about the project.
THANKS and ENJOY!! Do not be cruel with criticism haha

Play store link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pfg.inicios

ronnie-steelheart said:
Play store link:
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Thanks ronnie!

1. more screen shots
2. sleep timer

Item not found in Play Store.
erauskin said:
Hello everyone, I present my first app, a music player.
Little bit Music Player is a clean and extremely easy to use music player.
Little bit Music Player is 100% Ad free
Little bit Music Player does not use (private or public) user data in any case.
Features:
- Little bit Music Player is SIMPLE
- Drag your folders full of music to your phone or sdcard and start enjoying your entire collection.
- Create your PlayList in few seconds and make it always visible in the navigation panel.
- Control the player from the notification panel or from the lock screen.
- Share your songs by WhatsApp, Gmail, Dropbox and many other applications.
- You can use Little bit Music 100% offline, like your old .mp3 player.
- Customize separate each PlayList, Album, Artist .... with pictures, colors and wallpapers creating a fully customized player based on Material Design.
- Change your phone ringtone any time from your music collection.
- Blur effects
- Android 5.0 Lollipop Material Design Toolbar
- 1x1 and 4x1 home-screen widgets
Uses-permission for Little bit Music Player:
**** "android.permission.INTERNET" -> Download covers
**** "android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" -> 2º hand playback
**** "android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" -> Manage calls during playback (no phone id)
**** "android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS" -> Managing the volume of other apps
**** "android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" -> Read sdCard files
Compatible with .mp3, .flac and .wav files
PlayStore link: (I'm new here, you can view attachments for preview and search onPlayStore...)
Please read de info section of the ap for more information about the project.
THANKS and ENJOY!! Do not be cruel with criticism haha
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Can you please attach the file here? I wanna check it.

How do I download?
The link Ronnie provided doesn't seem to work.

Is this app not available in the UK?

av007 said:
Can you please attach the file here? I wanna check it.
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TheArc said:
How do I download?
The link Ronnie provided doesn't seem to work.
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Drhedphuk said:
Is this app not available in the UK?
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Very sorry guys, i was very busy last months... I uped a new release yesterday, with full material redesign, and some transitions. Hope that you enjoy it.
(The link posted at the first answer is availble now)

Very good app
Hi. First of all, great work! :good: It's a nice app (visually and conceptually). Anyway, I have some opinions and suggestions.
The app don't synchronize the album covers very well. I have a folder with 906 songs and it only downloaded the cover of a Franz Ferdinand's song.
i.imgur.com/HEnkMSw.png
The memory consumption is a little high, almost the double that other player (GoneMAD is a music player full of unused options).
i.imgur.com/MSl5xto.png
i.imgur.com/35bYCqa.png
I miss some options like Ticker notifications, Inactivity timer, lyrics viewer, sort songs by artist and delete songs directly from the app.
P.D: Sorry for my bad english

llamero said:
Hi. First of all, great work! :good: It's a nice app (visually and conceptually). Anyway, I have some opinions and suggestions.
The app don't synchronize the album covers very well. I have a folder with 906 songs and it only downloaded the cover of a Franz Ferdinand's song.
i.imgur.com/HEnkMSw.png
The memory consumption is a little high, almost the double that other player (GoneMAD is a music player full of unused options).
i.imgur.com/MSl5xto.png
i.imgur.com/35bYCqa.png
I miss some options like Ticker notifications, Inactivity timer, lyrics viewer, sort songs by artist and delete songs directly from the app.
P.D: Sorry for my bad english
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Hi Llamero. Thanks for your report! I 'll try to get working all these suggestion..(maybe the next thing will be a playing song screen). App syncronizes de cover of first song that has metada in the album. It costs lots of resources/time each ask for last.fm API. And yes, i have to clean the code in order to consume less memory

Hi guys, I have updated the app adding a playing song screen, so, i think the app (remember that is a simple music player) is more complete now.
You can see it at last atached file, Give me your opinion please!

Hi @erauskin!
I was looking for a simple music player and this is a really good option.
I'm using since last 2 weeks and can tell....
1- Didn't found a way to delete a playlist not a track inside it (Opened a folder and later deleted some tracks, they are still there... No way to remove them.)
2- Sometimes player pauses itself when passing to next song, then I have to press "pause" button in order to continue, it's pretty annoying (can be something with my phone?).
3- A timer function could be nice.
I'm using Lollipop 5.1.1, CM 12.1 in a Galaxy S3.
Keep the good work!

Last update allows to Cast directly local music files to Cromecast.
Try and comment please!

Nice player but how to add cover albums? I store on sd card cover (folder.jpg format). Please help me
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[Q] google music app

Hello,
I have a nexus 5 with android 5.01 and google Music version 5.7.1788Q.1634597
i found Music app cannot show the album art of all albums which all has a cover.jpg in the same folder of the music files (flac).
however, i have a xperia sp which has CM11 and same Music version, it can display the all cover art with the same set of folders i put into nexus 5.
anyone has any idea of this problem?
thanks!
Joseph

You can try to change album cover in Windows Media Player and then sync your music.

does anyone else have the problem that some (seemingly) random songs are shown one specific album art image instead of their own?
i dont work with folder, i have every music file tagged with the album art. usually 500x500 pixel. however for some songs android decides to just pick a random album art from another song and show it with them.

murfi said:
does anyone else have the problem that some (seemingly) random songs are shown one specific album art image instead of their own?
i dont work with folder, i have every music file tagged with the album art. usually 500x500 pixel. however for some songs android decides to just pick a random album art from another song and show it with them.
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Yep.Dont know if its the app or album fault.

Hi i just delete all the Music app data and cache ... kind of force it to re load my library then it can show the album art correctly....
you can try in your case.