Hi guys,
Since a few weeks I own an HTC Touch Pro 2 running Win ME 6.1. It's a company phone, bought separately (so not combined with an operator contract). I'm running it almost freshly "out of the box" with just one additional application (TomTom) installed to it.
I bought an 8 gb uSDHC flash card, and put 1g of TomTom maps and about 3g of MP3 music on it. The most mp3's are 320 kbit cbr. Please do not start a discussion whether this is useless on a phone or not; the music comes from my central library from where I feed a lot of different media devices like an iPhone, some software mediaplayers, an old iPod, a Windows (Vista) Media Center and a Logitech Squeezebox. None of these devices give problems, only the HTC Touch Pro 2 phone is giving me a headache.
To these mp3's I have attached artwork, using MediaMonkey. I thought that would give a nice look to the music app., as it allows to browse through the music library showing this art.
But! The music players goes berzerk. It leaves me waiting for hours and hours ("searching"). But even one NIGHT (10 hours or so) of searching won't give me the complete library. The artwork does not match the music, sometimes all songs have the same artwork and the player won't browse through the music (not with the up/down software buttons on the left and not with the 'sweep' move). Sometimes it starts to browse by itself, giving me a minutelong show of coverart (but without music). If I succeed to start a song to play, playback sometimes gets interrupted at random times (and sometimes not, playing the song perfectly).
What a mess.
When I play the same music from the same source using the Windows Media app. on the phone, I have no problem at all. Within 20 seconds the library is updated, coverart is shown and the music plays and can be browsed without any delay or interuption.
Things I've tried:
1) Resetting the phone;
2) Renaming the file Audiomanager_Eng which is in Application data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng, then resetting the phone, then deleting the renamed file and start a new library search (by starting the music app);
3) Formatting the uSDHC card and rewriting the content to it, followed by step 2);
4) Formatting the uSDHC card with a different blocksize (I tried 1k, 4k, 16k and 64k, doesn't seem to make a lot of difference) and rewriting the content to it, followed by step 2);
5) Testing the content of the uSDHC card in the different states while working on step 4), by playing the music directly from the uSDHC card in Windows Vista on a host computer. No problem at all: Coverart was shown and music played flawless;
6) Copying part of the the content of the uSDHC card to an iPhone and playing the music on it. No problem at all: Coverart was shown and music played flawless;
7) Removing the largest coverart and replacing it with smaller images. The largest remaining coverart is approx. 500 kb (5 jpg's of 100 kb each). Again, this is no problem with any of my other music devices.
Who recognises these problems and even more important, who has the solution?
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I got the same albumart for almost all my music, the problem is its a picture that copied to all songs by itself!
On my 8GB SDHC SanDisk I got about 2GB of music - I can flip through the songs with the softkeys and with the 'sweep' move but they all have the same (anoying) picture...
Edit: What I forgot: On my SDHC there is always a hidden file named 'hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg' showing this specific Albumart that is shown for all songs - even if the songs have different Albumarts on my Desktop (just copied them from the SD to proof the Arts are still there)
Additionally, I have removed all coverart except the front cover. So each mp3 now only has 1 jpg attached. Result: The problem that all songs have the same cover has become much worse. Almost every song has the same cover now.
This thing drives me mad;-(
I can't believe no one else has this problem. Anyone?
Mad Marc said:
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I got the same albumart for almost all my music, the problem is its a picture that copied to all songs by itself!
On my 8GB SDHC SanDisk I got about 2GB of music - I can flip through the songs with the softkeys and with the 'sweep' move but they all have the same (anoying) picture...
Edit: What I forgot: On my SDHC there is always a hidden file named 'hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg' showing this specific Albumart that is shown for all songs - even if the songs have different Albumarts on my Desktop (just copied them from the SD to proof the Arts are still there)
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Hi there, try to delete that file, activate the music player, take out the SDHC card, wait until the mp says "no music" and insert the card again. This gave me approx 98% of the covers. Still some tracks don't swow their own covers, I'm clueless on the reason for that.
Does this work for you?
I might have found something.
It seems like coverart is linked to the album tag and not to the title or artist (or a combination of those) tag.
The hidden file you're referring to seems like a default image which is shown when there's no image found with the same name as the album.
Would you please check your library and tell me if you have missing album tags?
Hi:
I have all my music stored on SD card. I sync it with Windows Media Player. All songs appear normally in Windows Media Player and when I use Files Explorer on Tilt 2 to view the songs on SD card.
My problem is, when I use the music player in TF3D, and look at library/songs, many songs appear twice. The really odd part is that a song may appear once with album art (which all my songs have), and a second instance with no album art.
When I play songs on the music tab in TF3D both instances of the song play. What I mean is, sometimes a song will show with album art, and sometimes the one without album art shows. The same is true if I edit a song title etc through Windows Media Player (I believe it is version 11). A song will show as the pre-edited version sometimes, other times it shows the edited version.
Any ideas? This is really driving me nuts.
Thanks!
I have a similar problem - but possibly the opposite to yours.
I have approx. 15Gb of music on the MicroSD on my TP2, and regularly use Windows Media Player to sync new music to the phone. However, Windows Media Player appears to sync ALL the music BACK to the PC as well - meaning I have each song duplicated on the PC (sometimes many times), which is rapidly filling up my hard drive unless I periodically manually delete all duplicates (which is painful).
I'm sure there must be a setting within Windows Media Player to stop this happening - but I still want to be able to sync music TO the phone (just not back).
Has anyone else encountered this issue or know a solution?
Just rooted my phone and flashed it with NeoPhyTe ROM, restored all my data with MyBackupPro
However ALL my music played via the "Music" app, appears twice and the album artwork is displayed in the wrong order
When I looked at the SD Card, it definetly only has ONE copy of each track in the Music folder
Any ideas how to remove the duplicates without having to sync the music from scratch?
dear all....i have a question about a mp3 folder inside an usb key connected via otg. Basically when i start playing the music, at the end of every single track I have to restart again the second one...and so on....I thought that when the audio player started it found the folder in the usb storage..but it find only the music folder inside the sd and inside the hard disk. Itì' s abig problem for me because evry time ( to be able to listen the playlist as usual ) I have to copy the folder from the usb to the note. Does anyone experience this matter and have a soluton??...thanks a lot for your precious help...Marco
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