SlayGuy138
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Hi there. This is my first post here, so please excuse me if it's in the wrong section or shouldn't be on this board in the first place.
About three months ago I got the LG G3. I had no idea that the G4 was about to come out a few weeks after I bought its predecessor, I guess that shows how out-of-the-loop I am. But regardless, my G3 is a great phone and sure beats my previous one leaps and bounds, so I'm not complaining. (Well, I am, but not about the model / version at least.)
The whole point of my thread is that I use my phone to listen to music, and I find that the on-board music app is... subpar. To put it nicely. It has nothing to do with the audio quality but rather the retention of metadata.
I have an almost OCD-like obsession with ensuring that all the information in my entire music library's ID3 tags is immaculate. This includes things like properly capitalized song titles, album titles with special release edition (if applicable) following the title in brackets, proper music sub-genre, high-res album art scan, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum. It's kind of a big deal for me.
Sometimes I find that once I drag-and-drop music over onto my phone using the USB cable that came with it, I find little errors in the metadata information. Obviously a bit of a drag, but I can handle it because I can just go through the whole ordeal of deleting the music off my phone, changing the ID3 tags accordingly for the music on my computer (I use a wonderful program called MP3tag to do this), save my changes and then put it back on the phone.
This should work seamlessly, but more often than not it doesn't. What happens a lot of the time is that the music shows up in the music app just as it did before I updated the tags, making all my work useless. What's the point of going to all the trouble if it's not going to show up...?
I don't have any idea how this problem happens. I don't have a particularly extensive knowledge of the ins-and-outs of technology in the first place; the stuff that happens "under the hood", if you will. If someone could tell me how to fix this, preferably in a way that's detailed and easy for me to understand, I would be in your debt. Thanks for reading this and putting up with my perfectionism.
As an added bonus, I'm also wondering how I can fix my music app's annoying tendency to display all the artists in my library (and not just the album artists, as I would prefer). If I have to download an alternate music app to have this luxury then I'd be willing to do so; I'd value any recommendations you have.
I mean, seriously, who wants to look at this when scrolling through their music?
About three months ago I got the LG G3. I had no idea that the G4 was about to come out a few weeks after I bought its predecessor, I guess that shows how out-of-the-loop I am. But regardless, my G3 is a great phone and sure beats my previous one leaps and bounds, so I'm not complaining. (Well, I am, but not about the model / version at least.)
The whole point of my thread is that I use my phone to listen to music, and I find that the on-board music app is... subpar. To put it nicely. It has nothing to do with the audio quality but rather the retention of metadata.
I have an almost OCD-like obsession with ensuring that all the information in my entire music library's ID3 tags is immaculate. This includes things like properly capitalized song titles, album titles with special release edition (if applicable) following the title in brackets, proper music sub-genre, high-res album art scan, et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum. It's kind of a big deal for me.
Sometimes I find that once I drag-and-drop music over onto my phone using the USB cable that came with it, I find little errors in the metadata information. Obviously a bit of a drag, but I can handle it because I can just go through the whole ordeal of deleting the music off my phone, changing the ID3 tags accordingly for the music on my computer (I use a wonderful program called MP3tag to do this), save my changes and then put it back on the phone.
This should work seamlessly, but more often than not it doesn't. What happens a lot of the time is that the music shows up in the music app just as it did before I updated the tags, making all my work useless. What's the point of going to all the trouble if it's not going to show up...?
I don't have any idea how this problem happens. I don't have a particularly extensive knowledge of the ins-and-outs of technology in the first place; the stuff that happens "under the hood", if you will. If someone could tell me how to fix this, preferably in a way that's detailed and easy for me to understand, I would be in your debt. Thanks for reading this and putting up with my perfectionism.
As an added bonus, I'm also wondering how I can fix my music app's annoying tendency to display all the artists in my library (and not just the album artists, as I would prefer). If I have to download an alternate music app to have this luxury then I'd be willing to do so; I'd value any recommendations you have.
I mean, seriously, who wants to look at this when scrolling through their music?
