Music Cache / Refreshing Artwork

[Krzr93]

Yep, that's how I have mine. Again, I would recommend doubleTwist as it creates those folders for you and organizes accordingly all from the tag info, saved me a whole lot of time. Only downside, for me at least since I store on the phone itself, is that you can't tell it whether you want to store on the phone or SD card, it's just whichever pops up first (most of the time it's the SD card). Either way, glad you got it working. Good luck with the rest!

Yeah the organizing the folders did the trick. Thanks for everything! You probably saved me a couple of days of frustration and then quitting. So here's basically the steps I followed:

1. Download mp3tag. (Link on first page).
2. Click on a song you want to add artwork to in mp3tag.
3. Go to google images and put it sized requirement EXACTLY 300x300.
4. Click on picture, click again to get the full sized view of it.
5. Right click and push save as.
6. Place somewhere easy to access. (all artwork should go into similar folder for easy organization.
7. In mp3tag, right click box on the bottom left and click "add cover".
8. Find the artwork you downloaded and it should load it up.
9. Click save up on top (or else you the artwork won't show up)
10. Once you have added all the artwork you wanted, organize the files this way: Music/Artist/Album
11. After done organizing transfer the whole music folder to the SD card.

Basically in case someone else is wondering how to do this.

 

[XideXL]

I found the artwork album finder program I mentioned in the first page to be a useful aid in this process, as it auto searches for you and displays multiple images from different sources, including google images. Saved me the time of typing in each album name, clicking the link, clicking the pic, saving the image and opening it up, etc. Just copy-paste from the artwork finder to mp3tag and move on to the next one. Though I guess if you specifically want 300x300 you might have an easier time with your method, but I used all different sizes and they all show. To each his own though I guess

 

[x5dubious]

So the fix for the album artwork problem where music apps show old album artwork even after you've updated it and replaced the music files is to clear the media storage.

Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All (tab) -> Media Storage -> Clear data

Then either restart your phone or plug and unplug your usb connection to your computer. Either one forces a re-scan of your media folders. This re-scan will take a little longer than a typical scan. Wait until it's done and then when you go into your music apps the newly updated artwork should appear correctly.

 

[iBowToAndroid]

Or even easier:

Google Music.

Bam.

 

[Wanda]

I'm not sure about embedding the artwork but I use an app called Cover Art Downloader. Free version on the market and its not just a trial...its free free. Very useful to me because every time you jump from one ROM to another your album art gets all screwy.

There are some albums that it says it can't find but it usually happens when an album has an title, for example Led Zepplin's album BBC sessions is just titled "BBC Sessions (CD1)". It always says it can't find it but if you do a manual search and edit the title to just "BBC Sessions" it will pull up a bunch of options and *poof* there it is.

Give it a try...it may not be perfect but its free.

Edit: HA! Just realized this thread it ancient...disregard advice to a year and a half old problem