Music management problem...

[Member457790]

So I transfered 4 albums of "The Bloodhound Gang" into my HTC Desire (SD Card) but when I checked my phone it says that I have 7 albums...

The amount of songs is the same (66) so, NO DUPLICATED songs... instead I got 3 albums named "Use your fingers" exactly identical.

Now this has happened to me before using Winamp on my computer but I used to see the problem in Winamp (rename albums etc..) but now
it shows up just like it should: 4 albums 66 songs as it should...

I've tried everything... even when I delete all data from ID3 except Artist - Album - Track - I still have the same problem...

There are 16 songs in one of the albums, 3 in the other and 1 in the third

I have tried the stock music player / Winamp beta and PowerAMP on my HTC Desire but they all tell me that I have 7 albums
I've even deleted the whole SD card and copied all music files over from my computer again nothing seems to work out for me...

I need your advices on how I could fix this VERY annoying problem

-- Winamp Version 5.6
-- HTC Desire

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad English (its my third language)

 

[olbriar]

I highly suspect the problem is with your files and not your phone. Being as you have Winamp... open Winamp and go to the files you are transferring to your phone. Do a right click on each file and chose "view file info" This is not reading your file name but the metadata for that file. The metadata is what your phone and all players reflect when they play your songs. You can also edit that with a right click and choosing "edit metadata for selection". Hilite all the files that belong to a particular album... right click.. chose the edit option.. click the album and enter the correct album name for those particular songs. After you have all of your 66 songs with their correct album names.. you should be ready to transfer them to your phone. They will now show up as they should in your player.

 

[FulciLives]

MP3TAG is the best and easiest program I've found for tagging music files. It can do just about any format such as MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, APE, etc. and best of all it is free.

Please note this is a Windows program but I've also used it under Linux using Wine.

Here is a link: Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)

Things to pay attention to:

1.) Make sure the artist name and album name are the same for all tracks. In other words if we are talking about Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon then make sure every track in the album says "Pink Floyd" (for Artist) and not some mixture of something (for instance some tracks saying "Pink Floyd" and others saying "The Pink Floyd" etc.) and the same goes for the album name. Each track must have the exact same thing.

2.) If the album is one of "Various Artists" then each track is going to have a different name for Artist. To make sure it stays together as a single album then be sure to put "Various Artists" for "Album Artist". Now if it is all one artist then you can leave "Album Artist" blank but I usually put it in anyway (using the example above even though each track would have "Pink Floyd" for artist I would still put "Pink Floyd" for "Album Artist").

3.) This should NOT be necessary but it doesn't hurt to do it. While in MP3TAG you can go into EXTENDED TAG information. It's on the MENU at the top (under VIEW if I recall). Once there you can add extended tags. One is called COMPILATION. You can add that and for the value enter a "1" (the number 1 without the quote marks). Do that for every song in an album.

Please note that using MP3TAG it is very easy to make these changes all at once for every song in a folder. So you can easily change all 8 tracks (or however many there are) at once and not have to do each file separately.

 

[lnmcd0312]

Why are half of the songs in my albums missing when playing through PowerAMP? They show up in the standard HTC Desire music player but i hate the damn thing so much!

Please help!