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[REQ] MP3 Tagger

I thought I had made a thread for this a while ago, but can not find it. Sorry if its a repost.
What I was wondering is whether or not someone who had an app, or the skilz to make an app, that can take a sample of an mp3/wma/ogg/flac/etc file, match it on say shazam or something then update the ID3 tag with the pulled info. With the option for it just to rename them automatically, or ask for your approval of changes. Much like how Album Art Grabber gets your artwork for you on mass, with little or no manual intervention. This would be great for a few reasons.
I have been finding myself using mp3 download apps on my phone a lot now, more so than my comp and these files are usually incomplete at best. a way to get these, then run this app to fix discrepancies would be awesome!
Its not that I'm lazy, I just have 10+ years of tunes on my external and a lot of them didn't get tags back in the day. Plus after that long, uploads, downloads, 4 computers, iTunes (ARGH!!! I HATE ITUNES!!!!!!) renaming and reorganizing have some in a mess. So when I transfer them, they usually all show up unknown, null, or DGOI.mp3. And renaming & tagging 1000s of songs one by one is not how I want to spend a week.
Hope this sparks an idea, or someone can point me in the direction of one that already exists. I'm sure one does for a PC, but I don't use mine for media other than movies. My phone is my music machine. If a PC solution is the only way so be it.

I don't know of an app that can do this but maybe someone could take the method that the app ,"MP3 Download", uses. First you search for a song and can preview then you can choose to download it. Once you have downloaded it you can goto edit tags and it has a download button... I don't know what database it uses or how it is configured but it will give you album art and is usually correct. I think it has to have the album name though.

Thanks! I'll try that on there, and my old iMusic Tao apk I still have.

Mixzing pro can do this
JD

How do I change the default ringtone to a custom one?

So I have an mp3 ringtone that is in the download folder on the internal memory. Where does it need to be placed so the device sees it and I can use it as a ringtone?

1. Open MyFiles
2. Browse to /sdcard/media/audio/. Create a folder in that folder called ringtones.
3. Move your MP3 to it. I think there may be a limit of 300kb for ringtones. I remember getting a warning when I was transferring the full song from my PC directly to that folder.
4. From the home screen press menu and go to Settings > Sound and display > Voice call ringtone. Your mp3 will show up as one of the choices on the menu.

Install the Astro file manager
Browse to the .mp3
Touch and hold on the .mp3
Select Music
Select Set as Ringtone
Tried the first method, and didn't see em showing up and stumbled into the one I posted fiddling around with trying to move the files around with Astro.

Better yet, put your ringtones, alarms, notifications into the following folders that way, only these certain sounds appear in those certain lists, so it doesn't clutter up the list:
\notifications\
\alarms\
\ringtones\
The above was actually written in the manual of the very first Android, the T-Mobile G1, and works on all Androids...

I used the ringdroid app to set a custom ringtone and text/email alert. I'll have to give the folder method a shot; it seems much simpler than opening an app and trimming the files from the phone every time you want a custom ringtone!

If you use the ringdroid/rings extended method, it will chop the song and copy it and make its own file, thus taking up space.

nxt said:
Better yet, put your ringtones, alarms, notifications into the following folders that way, only these certain sounds appear in those certain lists, so it doesn't clutter up the list:
\notifications\
\alarms\
\ringtones\
The above was actually written in the manual of the very first Android, the T-Mobile G1, and works on all Androids...
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So, just create these folders at the root level of the sdcard and they'll automatically show up in the correct lists of sounds?

[Q] How do I backup android media playlist?

Whenever I install new rom, I have to lose all my precious playlists. What's the location of playlist files?

Export Android Created Playlists To PC
hi i have managed to find a way to extract phone made playlist to pc but i am not a programmer and I was wondering if anyone here can automate it
url are not permitted here so my blog is kundaistreet at blogspot

diddy47 said:
hi i have managed to find a way to extract phone made playlist to pc but i am not a programmer and I was wondering if anyone here can automate it
url are not permitted here so my blog is kundaistreet at blogspot
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So this PlayQ can you import and export (backup/restore) playlists? If so, that's probably what the OP is looking for. Not a way to use his Android playlists on his PC. Although I doubt he wants to buy this Merdian Player in order to export playlists. I suspect it's just data somewhere, but where would be the question.

Has anyone worked out where these are stored?
I have been googling forever and all I read is people
a) Saying where music is stored
b) Saying where m3u files etc... are stored.
It's obvious that the playlists are stored in a database somewhere I just want to know where it is so I can look at it and see what sort of information is stored for songs and playlists.

Android Playlist/s Backup Tutorial
Hi everyone,while playing around with the instructions given by diddy47 on the blog site kundaistreet,I discovered how to backup your playlist on your sd card using a combination of 3 apps from the android market and part of the instructions given by diddy47. Apps required are Androzip,Meridian Player and SDMount,they are all free apps and no purchase required to download.This process seems long but its unreal simple,(1)Dowload all apps as stated above,(2)Go to your android stock player and create a playlist of your liking, if you already have a playlist made then on to the next step,(3)As diddy47 described in first part of post, "desregard the part about export to pc",
"In Meridian Player
•Long press on the playlists you want to export to PC, a pop up menu appears
•Select export to playQ
•choose the appropriate name
•choose audio type
•Export as many playlists as you like using procedure above.Navigate to folder PlayQueues using Androzip,it would be stored on your sd card.
Inside will be all your playlist that you exported to playQ in .mpq format not .m3u" Select any of the created playlist/s created and change the file extention name to "m3u", please note all that is being changed are the words and or numbers after the (dot.) (4)Exit Androzip, proceed by making SDMount a widget on your home screen,select, it would refresh saying in the notification bar "Your SD card has been scanned and remounted, SD Media Remounted" 'please note if you unmount your SD through the settings menu you will have to remove your SD card and put it back into device'.(5)Revert to stock media player,go to playlist and there you should find the name of your playlist/s made.You may see 2 of the same named playlist/s but that proves that it was backed up on the sd card.
Thank you for this opportunity, all credit goes out to kundaistreet for the blog site and diddy47 for his tutorial.

any alternative ?
thx for the solution but , its sad but true , this is a basic function i think it should be here already instead of making us looking for this for hours thru the web.
but isnt there any easier method ? dont want that much of apps just for a simple task (exporing playlist)

Here is what I had to do
I have a Samsung Epic 4g backed up with ClockworkMod, and lost the playlist after installing new ROM. Here is what I had to do to get my playlist back.
Extracted my data.img backup to my PC with unyaffs found here:
Code:
jiggawatt.org/badc0de/android/index.html
I knew my playlist name, so I scanned the extracted files and found it here:
C:\Temp\extraced data.img\data\com.android.providers.media\databases\external-99773e78.db
I then used SQLiteStudio to open external-99773e78.db.
Code:
sqlitestudio.one.pl
Ran the below SQL to generate my playlist.
Code:
select
_data
from
(
select name, _data, play_order
from
(
select
am._data
,ap.name
,apm.play_order
from audio_playlists ap
join audio_playlists_map apm on
ap._id = apm.playlist_id
join audio_meta am on
apm.audio_id = am._id
where ap._data is null
)
union
select name, '#EXTM3U ' || name as _data, -1 as play_order
from
(
select ap.name
from audio_playlists ap
where ap._data is null
)
order by 1,3
)
Exported the result set to a text editor (used PSPad), and created m3u's by copy/paste method. Then moved the m3u files to my SD card. When Android did its media scan it pick up the playlist, but for some reason I can't maintain the play list order. Playlist order was not a priority for me, so I stopped here.
If anyone tries something similar and maintains their playlist order, please post a reply
Thanks

You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.

alostpacket said:
You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.
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That's the proper way to do it. I just ran into a user who decided to pimp his app in a competing app's very first post.
What you did, in my opinion, is just fine; honest and transparent.

Bluemuze is perfect!
1) backup the playlist.
2) open with notepad++
3) replace /sdcard/ with C:\*path to copy of MP3 folder *
4) rename file to .m3u
Done! Very very simple to do.

s0larus said:
Bluemuze is perfect!
1) backup the playlist.
2) open with notepad++
3) replace /sdcard/ with C:\*path to copy of MP3 folder *
4) rename file to .m3u
Done! Very very simple to do.
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Or use Meridian Player (best media player I've come across) to create a "playQ" playlist. this is an independent file as opposed to a database. there are a few steps involved but you can copy the "play Q" file (which has a .mpq extension) to your computer. this file can then be converted to a .m3u file fairly simply. Use Notepad++ to open the .mpq file.
01. Delete all characters before the first instance of "localAudio id"
02. Replace all (" /><) with (\r\n) without the parenthesis. \r\n moves the text to the next line, make sure to select extended mode
03. replace all (LocalAudio id="/mnt/sdcard/Music/) with (D:\Music\) or wherever the music is
04. replace (&) with (&) - there seems to be an error with the & symbol
05. delete "\Items><\PlayQ>" at the end
Here is a link to the original post from where I got the information. I did have a different experience then what is shown here, but very useful:
http://kundaistreet.blogspot.com/2010/12/export-android-created-playlists-to-pc.html

+1 to alostpacket!

alostpacket said:
You can backup playlists to .m3u8 files via BlueMuze
Full disclosure: it's my app, but the playlist backup feature is in the free unlimited trial.
Hopefully that's not too promotional -- not trying to run afoul of forum rules here, but I think it's what you're looking for.
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Hey alostpacket! Your app seems perfect for me, only I'm running ICS on my G2 and using the default app Apollo for my music and BlueMuze isn't picking up the playlists I've created. Also BlueMuze crashes whenever I try to view my music from within it. Any advice?

I've found a playlist backup app on the play store
here's link : bit . ly/O9wb8q (can't post links)
Press thanks if I helped you!

import playlist m3u
So let me understand this correcty. There is no way to import playlists from my pc (m3u) and then play them? I have to create on android and back it up????

philipjacobs said:
So let me understand this correcty. There is no way to import playlists from my pc (m3u) and then play them? I have to create on android and back it up????
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You can find the answer in this thread. Read it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38841993#post38841993
Or if you want to share your list of songs from your favorite playlists, you can use this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sendmyplaylist

I actually figured out another way. It's a pain but it works fine for me. Thanks!

Default apps

When I want to change my ring tones, the list of apps that pop up to handle the ringtones is the "android system", "handcent" and "zedge". Neither shows me a list of all audio files, which include my ringtones. The option of media player or something to that effect, did populate the list and did allow me to browse media files. What I am looking for is a way to modify that pop up list to add media player to it, as it is right now, I'm limited to the os's option of media files.
The xda search app doesn't seem to handle search queries very well, or perhaps I do not know how to use the search function. But my results were not even close to being relevant.
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Anyone?
Sent from the past using crayons to write on my commodore monitor.

Not really looked much but i think some people had to put the custom ringtones in the system folder were the default ones are, don't know were that is, but that was right after the phone came out.
You could always try a market app like ringdroid or something should work

I dont know if this is what you are looking for, but if you use an external sd card, the best way to do custom ringtones is to create two folders on the ext sd card - one called ringtones, and one called notifications. any mp3 or sound files that go into those folders will show up in the list of files when you try to change ringtones and notification tones. and the file sizr doesn't matter. I use full mp3 files for my ringtones.

Dedicated MP3 / GPS HTC Incredible

I bought an HTC Incredible from a friend for 40 bucks with the express purpose of converting it to a dedicated GPS and MP3 player for the car.
While this seems a simple enough task, there were a few hurdles to jump through to make it happen.
Process steps:
1. Root the phone and install CyanogenMod 7.2 (instructions easily available elsewhere on XDA - unlock the bootloader at HTCDev first to make things easy)
2. Download CoPilot Live from the market - this gives you GPS capability without the need for a data connection, then download the US Map
3. Download PlayerPro from market - configure it the way you want.
4. Put the phone in Airplane Mode and enable GPS. Turn on Wi-Fi when required. If anyone knows of a good way to completely remove the phone without breaking it, I'm all ears - I tried renaming telephone_provider.apk and phone.apk, but that just caused an error loop that required a battery pull and reflash of the ROM to correct.
If you run into static or distortion in the playback (I did, and almost ditched the idea altogether because of it) try these steps:
1. Download and install CDex
2. Download and install MP3Gain
3. Copy contents of music folder to a desktop folder
4. Open MP3Gain and drag all of the music from the SDcard to your desktop folder. Delete music files from SDcard. (best to make another copy of folder so you can keep originals in case something goes wrong)
5. Delete all files from the PlayerPro folder except "Stats", ".nomedia" and "playerpro.pro"
6. Turn off USB connection and ON THE PHONE go to PlayerPro>menu button>Music Library>Refresh mediastore
7. Select All and pull all of the music from the folder into the MP3Gain window.
8. Select all in the window and choose analysis>track analysis from the menu bar.
9. You'll see that some of the files are highlighted red, these are clipped files. Leave the gain at default (89.0) and select all again (may not be required, but I did it anyway) then hit Modify Gain>apply track gain from the menu bar. You'll see that the "Y's" in the clipping column disappear, and the volume and track gain values drop to @89.0 and 0, respectively.
10. Close MP3Gain
Now...
1. Open CDex and go to Options>Settings:
a. General>Directories & Files:Set to somewhere easy to find.
b. Encoding>Encoders: Under Encoder options set Bitrate Min and Max to 128kbps
c. Encoding>Tags: if you're doing one album from the same artist, go ahead and fill all this in and set a picture. if not, skip it.
2. Drag all modified files into the window.
3. Choose "Encode" from the popup window
3. Reconnect phone re-enable USB connection
4. When files are finished, go to the output folder and copy over the MP3 Files to your music folder on device.
5. Disconnect USB and refresh playerpro mediastore again.
NOTE: If you have multiple artists and want to tag it all so it looks better, use MP3Tag to get all the information in quickly and easily. Good source for album art is Wikipedia... Just be sure to go to playerpro>menu>Look and Feel> and check "Prefer ID3 artwork" to use your own pictures.
You may have a quicker solution, but this went pretty fast and it got rid of all the static and hissing noises during playback in the car through the headphone port to stereo connection.
As mentioned before - if anyone has a tip for safely removing the phone functions, I'd appreciate it.

Putting the phone in airplane mode should be good enough, its not worth risking OS stability by trying to remove system apps unless you really need the space.
MP3Gain is great, I've been using it for years. I find 89 a little lower than average for newer music, (95-98 seems more average) but this could be because they are releasing music too loud these days, see "loudness war" on wikipedia.
If you are listening to music using headphones on Gingerbread or newer, I'd recommend Equalizer, a system wide EQ:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartandroidapps.equalizer
If you are listening in the car its not worth using as car stereos have their own equalizers and powerful enough amplifiers.

I don't really need the space, it's just a "can it be done?" thing.
Ideally, I'd like remove everything related to the telephone with the exception of the contact list...

a guide you might like
mdwbeex said:
I don't really need the space, it's just a "can it be done?" thing.
Ideally, I'd like remove everything related to the telephone with the exception of the contact list...
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I have a guide to do exactly what you are looking to do.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2644588