MAJOR issue with Droid X Gingerbread update - MUSIC

[mgurmgur]

Hey everybody,

Loving the official Gingerbread update for the unrooted Droid X (VZW) so far, however one major issue: my mp3 tags are now all over the place. For example, I used to have one Album A with 12 songs in it, now I have 5 Album A entities - one Album A with 5 songs, one Album A with 1 song, one with 2 songs and so on (they add up to 5 Album As with a total of 12 original songs). This applies to my all music-playback apps, including RealPlayer and AmazonMP3.

Went to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Media Storage>Clear Data, restarted the phone - no luck.

Also, new Google Music app (to be used with Google Music service) annoyingly pulls ALL sound files into the fold, including podcasts - I want to be able to designate a folder on my SD card for it to pull the offline music. Moreover, it crashes. A lot.

Finally, my Gmail / Google Calendar and other Applications apps stopped syncing - found a solution for that. Go to Android Widgets, find Power Widget, put it on the screen and make sure that SYNC symbol is turned on. How confusing and obscure.

Otherwise, very happy with Gingerbread (is that because of Gingerbread itself, or because clean new install, so by default everything runs better?). No more random screen freezes, WiFi works much better, battery is doing ok, AppDrawers, customized Deck, improved Calendar / Gmail - great job, Google. T

 

[alcor34]

sounds like a data wipe.... at least thats what i did.... only issue i've seen with google music beta is on my tablet.

 

[Cyrilmak]

NO DO NOT wipe the device. The new player now CORRECTLY reads the ID tags of the audio files. WMP 12 does the same thing if you view by albums only. What you need to do is make sure BOTH Album Artist and Contributing Artists are the same for each song in the album. If you have some of your songs in one album missing one or the other the album gets split up. I'm a audiophile freak and I had about 650,000 songs to go through to fix that issue with various players.

Also once you get them fixed I suggest using WMP 12 to sync the music. Much easier than the drag and drop method as you can keep organized and WMP 12 will make sure all the album art is correct regardless if it's embedded into the tag or not. WMP 12 adds a Playlist/Music/Album folders also a WMP XML file on the sd card - DO NOT delete them if you plan to use WMP. The Album folder will show as empty in the File browser on the phone, but if you look at the folder in MTP mode on the computer you will see the hidden album art files. WMP 12 does it this way to keep all the pictures out of the picture library.

 

[mgurmgur]

Thank you mrspock2002 - will try. Which mp3 tag editor would you recommend?

Didn't realize WMP 12 could sync with Droid X - any tips on how to do that?


Best,
mgurmgur

 

[Cyrilmak]

Thank you mrspock2002 - will try. Which mp3 tag editor would you recommend?

Didn't realize WMP 12 could sync with Droid X - any tips on how to do that?


Best,
mgurmgur

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...) - is the absolute best. You can also embed album art with this editor. You really won't find better.

To Sync with WMP be sure to remove all your music (I suggest formatting the card) then plug the X in via USB and select Windows Media Sync - open up WMP 12 and you can sync from there I use WMP both to syc and remove songs/albums. Works flawless.