Any body lose album covers, or artists names in music player after update ?

[redriverd]

ill have to look, i did notice that it lost my artist info so now the artists shows as unkown even though on my PC is shows corectly.

Yes, on top of losing all album art save one (every song shows the same album art) all of my songs show unknown artist. All the songs are there, and like you they all show correctly on pc, but they are all unknown artist on phone stock music player. One other thing, tried a hard reset, did not resolve.

 

[pwnst_r]

Yes, on top of losing all album art save one (every song shows the same album art) all of my songs show unknown artist. All the songs are there, and like you they all show correctly on pc, but they are all unknown artist on phone stock music player. One other thing, tried a hard reset, did not resolve.

Which again supports my suspicion:

Maybe Froyo enabled/disabled certain ID3v1/2 tags which is why some people are experiencing missing data and some aren't? I'll have to experiment this weekend.

 

[redriverd]

Which again supports my suspicion:

Thanks, anything you can find out would be appreciated.

 

[ttkk1]

did some playing around last night and found that all of the .wma files were the only ones affected (lost artist titles and album art) all of the .mp3 files were ok, so deleted all music and reloaded still not working on the .wma files. So deleted again, converted all of them to .mp3 files (used freeware program switch), reloaded and now they all show artist/album art. I am not the greatest tech but I think something changed the way the player reads the tags on the .wma files and perhaps explains why some are seeing it and others are not, if you have all .mp3 files you would not have lost anything?

 

[pwnst_r]

That's.. odd, especially it being .wma. I didn't think people even used .wma anymore. FYI, if you have the source that you got the .wma files from, re-rip them to .mp3. Transcoding from one lossy format to another makes the audio quality worse.

 

[ttkk1]

well I am a little old and have had music on my system for a long time and just have kept moving them to new systems over the years. Most of the new music is ripped as mp3 thus the reason I had both. thanks though for the tip, now to try to find all those old cds.

 

[dfine1966]

I just thought you should know that there is a new album art grabber that is free. It is called Album Art Grabber Free. It works really well and save to the SD card and did I say, this version is FREE!!

Here is the link at Appbrain:


Album Art Grabber Free - Android app on AppBrain

 

[pwnst_r]

well I am a little old and have had music on my system for a long time and just have kept moving them to new systems over the years. Most of the new music is ripped as mp3 thus the reason I had both. thanks though for the tip, now to try to find all those old cds.

If you do find your CD's, best thing to do is to re-rip them to FLAC (lossless) for archiving purposes and a perfect digital copy. From there you can rip to whatever lossy format you like.

I highly recommend EAC for ripping.

How to guide

 

[redriverd]

Re-ripped my cd's last night to mp3... put them on the phone, shows correct artists and albums, but did not get album art (might be due to ripper/encoder I was using, FreeRIP), but used the above mentioned album art grabber free, it found about 75% of the album art. My music was .wma before this.

 

[pwnst_r]

Re-ripped my cd's last night to mp3... put them on the phone, shows correct artists and albums, but did not get album art (might be due to ripper/encoder I was using, FreeRIP), but used the above mentioned album art grabber free, it found about 75% of the album art. My music was .wma before this.

mp3tag is superb and utilizes amazon and freedb for album art and idtags.

 

[ninjastar28]

I have 2 apps..... album art and album art grabber so my album covers r good but its the artist names that i cant get back ....... i put more songs on my SD card and those artist names r missing 2 ....... so im positive its the update that is causing the problem.

 

[ninjastar28]

Yes, on top of losing all album art save one (every song shows the same album art) all of my songs show unknown artist. All the songs are there, and like you they all show correctly on pc, but they are all unknown artist on phone stock music player. One other thing, tried a hard reset, did not resolve.

every thing u said is right so at this point im positive its the froyo 2.2 thats doing that so i guess we s.o.l !!