Music - album art and the library

[bakman]

I had issues getting album art to work (read it here before as well)

I have tested some different methods, but now finally got it:

- connect as usual with activesync, then explore to the location you want to have you files and copy the stuff.
- when you want to have album art to show up with your albums/songs, you need to make sure that you have a cover (folder.jpg or whatever name) in the same folder when copying: thus not after the fact, as it will never work.
- in the library go to "all songs", you will actually see the files appearing during copying, together with the album art.

an additional _htc<name>.jpg will be created as well, I suppose this one is actually being used by the library. Creating this file manually does not work - in my experience anyway.

Give it a try if you have similar troubles. For me, this is the only way for it to work properly.

[crash74]

I had issues getting album art to work (read it here before as well)


Why not just use wmp to sync? work flawless for me...

You can drap and drop any picture to album to create album art...

create playlist, then drag and drop the mp3(or drop the whole album), then sync.

[PianoSam]

I am almost sorry to ask this question but please forgive my stupidity:

Can someone bullet the tasks necessary to add an album with art to my Diamond. I have had a go with Windows Media PLayer but have never synched music to my PDA before. I ended up with an album synched but it didn't appear in the Diamond player when I went to library all my Media Player library seemed to be listed but nothing would play.

Sorry for being so stupid...
Sam.

[andres_lol]

Why not just use wmp to sync? work flawless for me...

You can drap and drop any picture to album to create album art...

create playlist, then drag and drop the mp3(or drop the whole album), then sync.

i have the same problem, wmp syncs ok the music but dont the music art

[batista70]

I've create a folder for each MP3 and inserted a bmp 200x200

[ceevee369]

i have the same problem, wmp syncs ok the music but dont the music art

I must confirm having kind of the same issue.

Step proces which seems to fail:

1. Update Artwork directly on desktop through WMP
2. Drag and drop "album" to WMP Sync
3. Sync and check all files in WMP Mobile4
4. Confirm : All music and Artwork visible.
5. TouchFlo Music screen: All music there, though missing Artwork.

Question - assumption (not found in Manual)
Artwork Jpeg's limited in size? Should not be as these files are not bigger than 50Kb --> Bug?

Hope someone finds the workaround.

[horstborsch]

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- when you want to have album art to show up with your albums/songs, you need to make sure that you have a cover (folder.jpg or whatever name) in the same folder when copying: thus not after the fact, as it will never work.


does it mean I have to copy all mp3´s together with the associated .jpg from a folder on my PC to a folder of my mobile device, OR do I have to copy the .jpf first and the insert the .mp3 from my PC?
I don´t get the exact order!

[crash74]

what i do in the wmp...

- I select "album" in the wmp
- Drag and drop the folder which contain mp3
- Drag and drop the picture which i want to have it as album art, on top of the album which i had just drop
- WMP should should show ur album with the picture which you selected. (pic 1)
- Drag the whole album into the syn list and sync away....

In the diamond music folder, you should have what it show in the pic 2...

[bakman]

Mediaplayer syncing doesnt work for me.

@horstborsch; your first statement is correct. you must have a .jpg in your album in your pc-folder before copying, then when you copy the folder to your diamond, the album art will show up (choose "all songs" in the player)

[ceevee369]

Mediaplayer syncing doesnt work for me.

@horstborsch; your first statement is correct. you must have a .jpg in your album in your pc-folder before copying, then when you copy the folder to your diamond, the album art will show up (choose "all songs" in the player)

Another possibility why it does not work is the length of the "artwork" naming - file transfered to the Diamond.
As I can see , I only have visibility on jpgs if it starts with ~HTC - xxxx.jpg

Am looking now hosw to fix, but it should be flawless when synchronizing directly with WMP. All other "manual" implications are simply not fitting the expectations as I never hand any issue with my Tytn II

[bakman]

Another possibility why it does not work is the length of the "artwork" naming - file transfered to the Diamond.
As I can see , I only have visibility on jpgs if it starts with ~HTC - xxxx.jpg

This htc<xxx>.jpg file is created automatically when you copy the files (or when you open the music library). I see the files+art appearing in realtime when I go to "all songs" and copy the folder.

[fillippe]

I have same problem.
WMP sync carrying artwork into WMP Mobile fine.
But no artwork in Touch Flo 3D music app.
I want WMP sync to work not have to copy folders onto device.
Its well sad.
We have to beat this one.
I'm going to google!

[ceevee369]

Give the 30 days trial a chance to show you how well integrated it is with the Diamond and forget about WMP and the Manila missing albums and art files.
It is just rubbish in my humble opinion

Only thing I can not figure out anymore how to set-up Pocket Player as main player disabeling the on-board Touchflo/ WMP player

Main issue is when using a bluetooth headphone with A2DP, this only controls the WMP- touchflo UI and not Pocket player. Changing volume works, but skip FF RW and pause-play interacts with WMP & touchflo only

Any advice is helpfull - googled it but no workaround identified :(

[jammerlappen]

dunno if thisis the right thread, but it took me already to to page 200000 of the forum. I was just wondering if there is a problem with album art and *.wma files. drm-something
has anyone solved this problem or am i just a stupid fool using *.wma?

[embryonic]

Hey there!
I am using Tag&Rename for all my mp3 to edit via IDtags and embedding the cover art.
So all my mp3 on the XDA Diamond show the cover in the player.

But I do have an other problem or I didn't figured it out (Just have my Diamond for 2 days).
I transfered new songs via Winamp on my Diamond (used as USB device) - How can I now update the library that I will find the new ones?

Thanks Sebastian

[darthbane2k]

All I want is for the touchflo 3D music player to display the folder.jpg just like windows media player. Can it do this?

[fillippe]

The reason for this behaviour has been posted elsewhere, but I can't find it now. A clever bloke on PocketNow explains things here...link. (http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481)

Apparently, when WMP syncs it copies over a copy of the mp3 file without album art embedded and a separate jpg of the album art. You can't stop it doing this!

HTC Audio Manager in Touch Flo 3D is programmed to find the album art in its embedded form in mp3 files. You can't do anything about that either!

So he very clearly walks us through a work round. It works very well and doesn't take very long. But you would want to get fairly organised about what music you want on your device as you wouldn't want to have to do this frequently. Essentially he suggests using an app called "Flash Renamer" to rename all the jpg files on your device because they start with complex numerical filenames. Then you use an app called "Mp3Tag" to embed the artwork into the mp3 files on your device.

Also when you want to change your music you have to start all over again by deleting the music on your device. Otherwise WMP will sync additional copies of the same mp3's, as the file on your device is different to the one it wants to sync (that is, the device file has been changed by the workround to one with artwork embedded).

The workround is good and also keeps WMP Mobile functional if you prefer to use that.

Again the workround is here...link. (http://discuss.pocketnow.com/showthread.php?p=74481#post74481)

[darthbane2k]

Once again I have to ask - why isnt folder.jpg sufficient. I cannot be bothered will all of this embedding art in files nonsense

[wardy]

Ok can anyone advise how to show more than one album at a time . I can get the album to show but only one

[wardy]

Anyone any ideas?

[fillippe]

Go to the "Music" Touch Flo Tab.
Hit "Library" soft key (bottom left)
Move to "All Songs".
Hit one of your songs on list.
That will start playing and the screen will return to Touch Flo tab.
All songs artwork available will be displayed.

Another way is to make playlists which work in a similar way.

Hope that helps.
Phil

[shiftexpects]

Try this - for me it works perfect!
Copy, fix album art and they are working on creating playlists.

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=131632

[feridoun]

I use Winamp as my desktop media player. It copies albums/tracks etc. to mobile devices flawlessly along with album art.

[ruffruff]

Try this - for me it works perfect!
Copy, fix album art and they are working on creating playlists.

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=131632

ermmm... any english translation for this site?
dun really understand how does the app work...

[ruffruff]

I use Winamp as my desktop media player. It copies albums/tracks etc. to mobile devices flawlessly along with album art.

is winamp able to work via on activesync or do i have to switch to mass storage mode?

[banesi]

for album art embbeding in mp3 files and complete manipulation of tags I can highly recommend mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) it is free software and you can use online database to update tags automaticly, once this is done tf3d will recognize every mp3 as it should.

[deadlyproductions]

Okay here's my system. Use MP3 tagger from www.mp3tag.de to encode, tag and add cover art to each MP3 single. The software is free and helps you locate various options for cover art using Amazon and various other sources. If you can't find it, search for the relevant image on the net and save it and then use MP3tag to select it. Then use Windows Media Player to syn the files drag and drop style and all the little pics appear in the Touch Diamond player screen. very cool iphoney style

[pacman321]

Try this - for me it works perfect!
Copy, fix album art and they are working on creating playlists.

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=131632

It works very fine! very easy to use

Ca marche nikel :p pas a 100%, dommage mais il est tres facile a utiliser

[Sjengie]

Seems you do not really need this app.
for me it works if i sync MP3 and Diamond in USB mode.
all works fine through WMP 11
WMP updates album art nicely
doesnt work with WMA though, so no compression and you're stuck with ca 1000 songs max
but suits me ok

cheers

[marcelekke]

I had issues getting album art to work (read it here before as well)

I have tested some different methods, but now finally got it:

- connect as usual with activesync, then explore to the location you want to have you files and copy the stuff.
- when you want to have album art to show up with your albums/songs, you need to make sure that you have a cover (folder.jpg or whatever name) in the same folder when copying: thus not after the fact, as it will never work.
- in the library go to "all songs", you will actually see the files appearing during copying, together with the album art.

an additional _htc<name>.jpg will be created as well, I suppose this one is actually being used by the library. Creating this file manually does not work - in my experience anyway.

Give it a try if you have similar troubles. For me, this is the only way for it to work properly.


i found another way,its the simplest.
cyn al your music with windows media player.
he wil put the music automatic in your internal storech file,/music
you don`t need to coppy covers and maps,but you must have the cover is wmplayer(when you cyn)
after that disconect and browser ,no covvers are there.
simple give the htc an soft reset ,and vwala,al covers are there.
works for me,

[neonlite]

Is there anyway to show asian characters in song titles? I got lots of Japanese/Korean songs which dont even show a single character in the Touchflo Music Player. :confused: