[oldAGE]

OK... years into and I am still having funky issues with artwork or album cover using the native Music Player. I don't mind the function of the music player and I don't feel like changing. One thing that is truly annoying is the randomness of the album cover artwork. Sometimes it shows up and sometimes, it's replaced by the silly generic covers provided on the native app.

Here is what I am doing.... I am an old man so before iTunes was even a glimmer in Apples eye, I was ripping my music one way or another. Along comes my first iPod and eventually iTunes. The mess that PC environments and iTunes originally had changes over time. Along that time, I slowly fix my files, rebuild my iTunes music folders, and synch my artwork. Finally, over the past few years, I rip exclusively using iTunes application on my PC and most of the old issues go away.

Cut to past and current Android products. Love that I simply plug in my S3 (and it's predecessors) and simply drag my music - be it song, album folder, or artist folder (and all subsequent albums and songs) - and drop it into my Music Folder on my SD card. Can't be simpler and controllable (vs. "synching"). My problem is simply that sometimes I have accurate album covers displayed on my phone for some music and "not" for others. No rhyme or reason.

[mesocyclonic]

Have you tried some of the apps for album art in Google Play? Several are suggested in this thread: Stock music player album art?

[archer23]

I was having the same issues syncing from Windows Media Player to Google Play Music. I was ripping high quality to my PC, then syncing, and for some reason some of the stuff wouldn't show up. I found this video and that pretty much solved all my problems.



I would try the clearing the chache part (watch the whole video first) first and see if it will read the file and find the artwork. Then if that doesn't work, follow all the steps in the video.

[oldAGE]

thanks guys... this was mostly helpful. Album Art Grabber also has a manual function where you can download cover art that is not in their database and put on your SD card in your Gallery... then use the SDCard find function to load it into the local Grabber DB. Nice feature. Archer - for what it's worth, clearing the DATA as per the video actually fixed about 50% of my problems. I had the magic "disappearing Art work" issue from days gone by and clearing the data did help and then adding Grabber brought me to missing about 10 covers. Thanks again guys. I would have liked to have fixed this permanently rather than using apps but, hey... that's how it goes.

[DjBeddy]

Hi did everything in the video but am still missing some covers

[tonybyatt]

I inserted just my microSD into my computer, then transferred the music to the card and all the album art was where it was suppose to be when I opened Play Music. The album art would for some reason not transfer correctly when syncing the phone with the computer.