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.
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Hey all, new to the forum (a fantastic resource, and I'm learning tons about my magnificent HTC Wizard), so hopefully this is in the right place.
I'm running WM5 and the default version of WMP on my Wizard, and I'm having some trouble with WMP recognizing the artist and album information encoded in the ID3 tags in my MP3s.
The ID3 tags are done using iTunes 7-ish on my PC running XP Pro, and thus, they are filed on the storage card as follows: \Storage Card\iTunes Music\Artist\Album\Track# SongName.mp3 - an example being \Storage Card\iTunes Music\Primus\Tales From The Punchbowl\01 Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats.mp3 . This is the default way in which iTunes stores music on my PC's HD, and I'm simply copying over the folders that I wish to have on my PDA.
What's happening, however, is that when I import the music into the WMP library, it doesn't seem to find any artist or album information, which, of course, makes it exceptionally difficult to organize my music collection on there.
I appeal to you, XDA geniuses, to help me solve my problem. Thanks!
P.S. - It now occurs to me that iTunes may not be encoding the artist and album information in the ID3 tags, and, rather, relying on the directory tree to contain that information. Does anyone know if this is the case? If so, how can it be solved?
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'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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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.
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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.
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Learning Experience/Story Time:
I was editing an MP3 tag in the stock Music app by pressing "Song Info", I thought everything was fine for a while until I noticed one MP3 file grew from 4.6MB to 29MB. Later I wanted to burn the MP3(s) from my phone to a Compact Disc and so I put them on my computer first, but Windows was freezing up and wouldn't properly read the MP3's info. I booted into Ubuntu to use my MP3 Tag Editor tool (because the one on Windows wouldn't read correctly) and found all the MP3 file I had edited the "Song Info" on were all in CHINESE. After correcting them back to English, the file sizes shrunk back to 4.6MB where it was before and Windows read the Tags correctly again....
If anyone else has this problem, try using a Tag Editor on a Windows or Linux machine to see it that might fix it....
I always use Windows Media Player for editing ID3 tags, but Android handles ID3 tags in a different manner (and in fact it has its own ID3 tags) from PCs, and so i often find tracks with missing ID3 tags in my music library. Through MiXplorer, Music and other apps/players it's possible to modify some of them, but since that i have more than 2060 musical MP3s in my external SD, i don't am motivated enough to modify them all adding missing ID3 tags, so i've accepted this and i made habit to locate wanted music in other ways. But hell, it's a bore! I spend many time editing ID3 tags on my PC in way to have an ordered library by genre, year, artist, album, ecc. and on my phone my library is screwed up!!
RedSkull23 said:
I always use Windows Media Player for editing ID3 tags, but Android handles ID3 tags in a different manner (and in fact it has its own ID3 tags) from PCs, and so i often find tracks with missing ID3 tags in my music library. Through MiXplorer, Music and other apps/players it's possible to modify some of them, but since that i have more than 2060 musical MP3s in my external SD, i don't am motivated enough to modify them all adding missing ID3 tags, so i've accepted this and i made habit to locate wanted music in other ways. But hell, it's a bore! I spend many time editing ID3 tags on my PC in way to have an ordered library by genre, year, artist, album, ecc. and on my phone my library is screwed up!!
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I have a quick question (and maybe I'm imagining things) but when you download music to the 6X, does the stock music app try and add ID3 tags on its own?
Absolutely not, dude. I don't even have a setting regarding this in my stock music app (I'm using Pulsar music player that owns that option, but i always keep settings of this kind deactivated)