Google Music - how can I fix all the messed up album art?

**sniffs** · 11-01-2012, 11:59 AM

Ever since I uploaded all my music, it seems Google has completely ruined my album art. Lots of my music have the same cover even tho it's completely different bands and genre's.

I'll be listening to ACDC and it'll show an Eminem album art.. wth? Is there a way to fix this?

**seanlongoria** · 11-06-2012, 10:12 AM

You'll have to do it manually by going to music.google.com. From there, and find the individual albums with incorrect art and click on "edit album info." hover over the album art and you'll see an option to change it.
Make sure you have the art saved to your computer first. The change option will prompt you to select a file from your computer.

It's a pain and very time consuming. I've also read on the interwebs that Google play music is getting a match feature sometime in the near future that will scan your music collection and auto add the songs to your account. I'm not sure if or when that might launch.

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**Evoken** · 11-06-2012, 04:43 PM

Best way to go about it is to have all your music properly tagged and with their album art before uploading to Google Play Music. I have about 5,000 songs in my Google Play Library and I've only experienced a couple of small inconsistencies with some album art. Nothing mayor.

Ry · 11-06-2012, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by sniffs

Ever since I uploaded all my music, it seems Google has completely ruined my album art. Lots of my music have the same cover even tho it's completely different bands and genre's.

I'll be listening to ACDC and it'll show an Eminem album art.. wth? Is there a way to fix this?

Were your tags correct? Was the correct song info and album art embedded to each and every music file?

**sniffs** · 11-06-2012, 05:48 PM

The tag's were correct. Some albums didnt have art and I'm finding that google replaced the blank tags with random images from my other music..it's really messed up.

**right to carry** · 11-28-2012, 09:12 AM

Yes any music player other than the stock Android player (N7, music match, etc) seem to screw up the album art. I had 1,000 songs painstakingly tagged and it still wanted to "fix" them so I let it. It got about 50% wrong, ridiculous. I deleted the players and went back to the stock player and all is well. It did not change my correctly tagged songs permanently, thank god...

**sniffs** · 11-28-2012, 10:33 AM

Here's an example of what i'm talking about, as you can see, the entire top row are various artists, but Google Music decided to put Yung Joc as the album art???

**loop6719** · 01-24-2013, 12:43 PM

even with the google match i still am getting errors...this is so freakin annoying.
I have albums I purchased from Amazon as MP3 so they were tagged correctly and Google is splitting them in to 2-3 albums and no cover art..
where as in my amazon player all is cool. For example: I have The essential Jimi hendrix cd vol 1& 2 (1979) and google puts it in as a 2010 release 'Valley of Neptune'. I think they see the song find when it was released and just throw it up there. and no I am not going through my 5000 songs to make it right isn't that why we have this service to begin with..make our life easier..stupid internet

**mr.seth.price** · 01-25-2013, 05:21 AM

I'm having a different kind of issue. I'm not concerned so much with album art but instead it's splitting albums into two. It duplicates albums but is then separating it so that half the tracks are in one album and the other tracks are in the duplicate. I can't seem to get them to merge back.

**knightfall** · 03-10-2013, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by seanlongoria

You'll have to do it manually by going to music.google.com.

This website isn't available to Canadians. Anyone know of an on-phone solution to changing album art?

**whitespace** · 04-06-2013, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by mrsethprice

...instead it's splitting albums into two. It duplicates albums but is then separating it so that half the tracks are in one album and the other tracks are in the duplicate. I can't seem to get them to merge back.

I've had the same issue. However, I've been able to fix it by correcting the "Album Artist" tag that seemed to get altered during upload. (I guess Google was pulling the track from its library?!) Having two songs, from the same album, but with different "Album Artist"s resulted in the songs appearing in two different albums (but otherwise with the same name, album art, etc.)

This was particularly noticeable on compilation ("Various" or "Various Artists") albums. On my original mp3 file the "Album Artist" tag had the value "Various Artists" (as created when the track was ripped). However, during upload some tracks resulted in the "Album Artist" field being deleted - these tracks then got moved to an album that simply had the artist "Various" (as opposed to "Various Artists"). Adding "Various Artists" to the tracks where the "Album Artist" was empty resolved this (which you can do quite quickly by selected all tracks in the erroneous album). Or, in this case, you could do it the other way and remove the "Album Artist" from those tracks where it was still present.

**randomrat** · 05-10-2013, 06:17 PM

Did you find an elegant solution for this? I have the EXACT same problem and it's driving me nuts! >.< I have over a 1000 tracks that are like this, so correcting each one manually is a bit silly.

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Did you find an elegant solution for this? I have the EXACT same problem and it's driving me nuts! >.< I have over a 1000 tracks that are like this, so correcting each one manually is a bit silly.