So I decided to put all my music onto a 32 gig sd card in my S4. That in itself was the easy bit however some albums are being split into two sometimes three separate files of the same album name and splitting up the tracks between them. Does anyone know how I stop this annoying thing from happening??
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Music files getting split up
- Thread starter Dodgy1
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It's usually because you've got mismatching data in the "Album Artist" tag. I always ignore this one and leave it blank, and use the "Artist" tag instead. For some reason the default Android music player always thinks that because some albums have different artists, e.g. compilation albums, they're different albums. There's some information about this feature/issue/bug here...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2397
i.e. It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!
You can still have different artists in the "Artist" tags, as long as the "Album" tag matches, it won't separate them out. Also might be worth trying different music player app.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2397
i.e. It's not a bug; it's an undocumented feature!
You can still have different artists in the "Artist" tags, as long as the "Album" tag matches, it won't separate them out. Also might be worth trying different music player app.
I plugged my device into my computer with the usb cord and found my sd card and then dragged and dropped. I also have an app called Easy Phone Tunes Pro that was fantastic for transferring my music from ITunes to my device but I tried that also with the same result
Thanks for this. However when I right click on some of my files and go to properties I can't change the Album Artist or the Artist tags
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The TechnoFrog
You may have to check the tags on a computer and change them accordingly. There are some id3 tag editors in Google play you may want to try out as well.