Droid Incredible Music Player problems

[domnumber1]

I'm not sure if this has already been resolved here, but my patience has worn very thin trying to fix this darn problem.

So ever since I upgraded to Froyo months ago, my default music player started listing several of my music artists as "Unknown Artist", and some songs it doesn't even display in the music library, despite acknowledging that the songs are sync'd to the device.

A few things to note:

- All my music files are mp3's, and my computer's media player is Windows Media Player.

- Several of the music files that I have are legitimately purchased songs off of CDs that I ripped into WMP.

- However, even more several of these music files I have downloaded from Frostwire, but they all are still mp3's.

- I am not looking to install a different music player on my Incredible. I tried doubleTwist at someone's request before and it did little to nothing in terms of fixing my problem.

- I do not have any music sync'd on my mini-SD card on my phone.

- Sometimes when I sync my music onto the phone, the music player insists on displaying the song/album title/album art/artist info incorrectly despite me already editing all of that info in WMP to be absolutely correct.

- I have tried removing every song off of my Incredible and re-sync'ing it, yet the problem still persists.

- Before I upgraded to Froyo, the only problem my music playe presented was not displaying album art occasionally. Artist info and everything else displayed just fine.

- As I mentioned before with some songs not being displayed at all on the phone even though in WMP they still show up in the list of songs sync'd to the device, the only songs that I have noticed so far that this problem is with are every track off of Metallica's "...And Justice For All" (which I purchased and ripped from via CD) and DMX's "Party Up" (downloaded from Frostwire).

If anyone could give me some help or suggest some solutions to fixing this problem, I would deeply appreciate that. Since I am a very organized person, it irritates me to see my music library in such a mess like this and me not being able to fix it. Also, if speaking about programs like Frostwire is prohibited on these forums then I apologize, but I feel the need to mention that in case that may be part of the problem.

[AZSALUKI]

sorry. i've had some of the same issues, but i can't offer any help if you don't want to load a different music player. if you ever do become ready to throw in the towel, then an app called poweramp is what i did. there's a free trial version, and then there is the full paid version ($4.99). i hate paying for an app to do what this phone should do on it's own, but i can't stand the stock music player. it's awful. i now have my music much more organized, and the tracks are in order of the actual album (not alphabetically). i have a limited music collection, so i can't speak to how well it will handle EVERYTHING for you. check the reviews though...they are great and the comments are too.

[loonatik]

In my opinion the media music apps for android blow 6 ways to sunday. As far as i know android reads the meta-tags in the files and orders them accordingly. The only solutions ive found that give me the features i want are off the beaten path. 

[random64]

I just went through this with my TB upgrade.  With regard to album art, WMP sync is simply not copying the jpegs (^Note1).  The good news is that WMP properly organizes your music to enable "syncing" to your device.  Here's what to do:

1. Mount your phone as a USB mass storage and open the $removable_drive/Music folder (where $Removable_drive is the drive letter assigned to your phone's USB storage).  (^Note 2).

2. Select/Copy folders under "My Music" directory and Paste into "$Removable_drive/Music/" (^Note 3).

  ^Note 1: The jpegs are stored as hidden system files in a given My Music/$Artist/$Album/ folder but are not getting copied during a WMP sync.

  ^Note 2: Under "$removable_drive/Music/" you'll notice the same folder hierarchy as in your WMP libraries, e.g. "My Music".

  ^Note 3: Since the folder hierarchies are the same, you can just drag/drop the file folders into your $removable_drive/Music folder -- this is the way music is intended to be "sync'd" in Android.  This copies the hidden system files as well.  In my case, I first deleted the folders on my phone, so I didn't have to worry about over-writing files during the paste.

[domnumber92]

(This is still the topic creator. For some reason this forum made me register with a new name when all I was trying to do was sign in with the profile that was used to make this topic. Ugh, but that's not the issue here).


Anyways, sorry for replying so late but thanks for the advice on copying the music manually. As you said, the hidden files now appear on my phone, and the album art displays without any problems either. However the problem with everything that I rip from CDs appearing as "Unknown Artist" still persists, even when I do it manually. For example, my Metallica CD that was a hidden file doesn't seem to display the correct album title.

In the meantime, I'm just glad I know how to make sure all of my music actually appears in my library when I sync it either manually or through WMP. If someone could provide more insight as to how to make it display ALL the information correctly that'd be much appreciated. I'm still not keen to downloading a 3rd party music player app because I'd rather not bother with learning how to work with an entirely new interface. The default one should just work fine without any problems to begin with >:/

[Torgo]

The Unknown Artist problem has been around for a while, and as far as I know, Google's not really working on fixing it.  There are several threads about this on Google's Android support site, but no one ever gives an official-sounding reply.  I thought it was limited to WMA files, but I think people have also reported problems with MP3 as well.

I find that another annoying shortcoming of the stock Android player is that it typically orders album tracks in alphabetical order instead of track order, which is really stupid, especially if you're listening to something that is supposed to be in a particular order (like a symphony or mass).

Best suggestion I can give you is to try MortPlayer, a free music player on the Android Market.  It's simple to use, takes up little memory, and can sort your music library by folder rather than metadata tag.  That means that artists will show up, since the underlying folder hierarchy for your music should include artist.