MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART HOW TO
MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART WINDOWS 7
MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART WINDOWS

MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART WINDOWS

It’s a Windows application, but runs perfectly under WINE in Linux, and there is also help available for OSX users. While there are plenty of alternatives, I have found this to be the most versatile MP3 tag editor available.

This step is important because we need to be sure that Music has wiped its current metadata records. In Symbian Belle you’ll find this option in the “Library” sub-menu. Go back into Music player and open the menu and select the “Refresh library” option. This can either be done via File manager or by connecting to your computer in mass storage mode and deleting from the desktop.

MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART HOW TO

How to fix your MP3 music collectionĮnsuring you have a copy on your PC, delete all the music from your device. Note that my music collection has album art images embedded in every file, rather than having a single “Folder.jpg” file. After correcting this, both albums displayed properly. Therefore, I concluded that for album art to display properly, every file in a given album must have exactly the same image embedded in its ID3 tag. Upon closer examination I found that some MP3s within both of those albums had different, or missing, album art to the majority of the files. Going back to the N8, I took a closer look and found that only two out of two hundred albums were not displaying album art - despite having the images embedded in their files. Upon refreshing the music library on the 700 again, album art was displayed on every album.Īlbum art before and after on the Nokia 700. On my laptop, I converted all of those albums back to ID3 2.3, and copied back to the memory card. Again, I wiped the card and refreshed the music library. After refreshing its music library, no album art was shown at all. Making sure that all files were set to ID3 version 2.4, I installed the memory card into the 700. I copied a set of albums to a memory card, ensuring to get a mixture of album art behaviour. To double check my findings with Symbian Belle, I performed a similar process with our Nokia 700. To my amazement, almost all of my album art was displayed. Once the lengthy transfer was done, I put the card back into the N8 and refreshed the Music library again. I then copied my MP3 collection, with newly updated version 2.3 tags, back onto the microSDHC card. I then forced Music player to refresh its library - this made sure that Music player knew there was no music on the device.

Therefore I took my N8 and wiped the microSDHC card which hosts a copy of my entire music collection. Having successfully addressed the problem in Windows, I wondered if the same issue might apply to the Symbian Music player application.Īs anyone who has wrestled with the Symbian music library will know, you have to be very careful that Music doesn’t read from old metadata on newly updated files. Details on how to do the conversion are given later in this article. Sure enough - after converting all my tags to version 2.3, Windows detected all my music correctly. Upon investigating, I found a reference that reported on Windows Media Player’s inability to read version 2.4 ID3 tags. To my surprise, I found that Windows Media Player and Zune desktop were failing to detect a significant portion of my music collection. The album art discovery was a byproduct of this research.

MEDIAHUMAN AUDIO CONVERTER MISSING ALBUM ART WINDOWS 7

Since we’re also now writing for All About Windows Phone, I’ve been spending more time in Windows 7 and familiarising myself with its quirks. As regular readers may know, I’m a Linux user.

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