Google Play Music Web Client Album Art Issues

[whymista]

Its been working fine for me recently as in last night and all of today. But earlier this week it wouldn't stream, kept cutting out etc. However I have noticed its been stuttering a lot more recently.

 

[Sausageinabun]

Cprosie, thank for the info.

I have had no problems whatsoever with playing the music I have already uploaded, 854 Albums, 11,646 Songs so far, however the album art problem still persists.

I simply can not believe that a company the size and with the resources at their fingertips that Google have, that this is not at the very tip of the tree as far as problems are concerned.

This should have been fixed as a matter of urgency, very swiftly indeed.

This is not a good advertisement for a service that has only very recently launched on my side of the pond.

 

[Dronak]

Yes. They said they are continuing to work on it and hope to have a fix sometime next week.

I certainly hope so!

Well, "next week" is here and more than half over, but I still can't seem to change album art. This isn't a massive problem, like being unable to upload or play music, but it is annoying when I can't fix incorrect album art. By the first post here, the problem has existed for close to 2 weeks now. I hope Google fixes it soon.

 

[Sausageinabun]

Well it still hasn't been fixed this morning.

I can't help but feel that it isn't a simple software fix, but something much more fundamental.

I thought I'd finally found my cloud solution, but the Google experience has fallen somewhat flat in the face of this small but very significant problem.

I still have over 300 albums to upload, and have had to stop until this has been sorted.

 

[whymista]

While it is annoying I don't see why people would stop uploading music because of album art. Thats rather asinine as its a free service and other than that one issue its pretty smooth.

 

[cpandafeng]

While its annoying and petty to some people, some of us (myself included) just need to have our music collection just right, (Tags, play counts, info, album art, etc.). While we could upload stuff still and it would function fine, it still bothers some users (again, myself included).

 

[androider69]

Still having trouble (unable) to change the album art....

 

[Sausageinabun]

I guess it's all down to personal preferences. Do you want to upload a whole lot, in my case 300+ albums, all with the wrong/no album art, and then have to fix them later, or not.
I choose not, senseless or otherwise, I choose to have it correct in the first instance, or not at all.
The fact that it is "free" is immaterial. This is a sprat to catch a Mackerel.
We'll allow you to upload 20,000 songs in the hope that you will then spend your hard earned cash buying even more music, which incidentally I fully intend to do, and indeed have already done.
If only to save me from uploading them.
I was told as a very young man, anything worth doing is worth doing well, and I stand by my previous statement, that this is indeed a bad advertisement for the service, and make no mistake, that is what it is, a service.
I have already stated that I have had no problems whatsoever streaming my music, you have complained that it was less than smooth in an earlier posting, so forgive me if I am a little confused by your assertion that it is "pretty smooth".

 

[farfisa]

I know this problem is annoying but i found a good SOLUTION. Rename "Folder.jpg" the album cover and put it into the album folder BEFORE the upload. Google play will automatically upload also the picture! It's not bad, just a compromise

 

[abalsiger]

Glad I found this thread. This has been happening to me all day! I had no problem with it a month the ago. I thought I was going crazy! I hope the fix it soon...

 

[Sonic Alpha]

It seems to be working again.

 

[cpandafeng]

Just tried it, works fine for me right now!

 

[Sausageinabun]

Excellent, now I can get back to uploading.

P.S. Nice work around farfisa!!

 

[epete111]

I would really like to see someone come up with an app that will enable you to update mp3 tags and album art that has already been uploaded to Music.