New to Android - questions about audio tags

[gers1978]

I'm new to Android, switching from iOS recently. I love it so far, but I have 2 problems with music that are minor but very annoying. Please note all my music was tagged perfectly in iTunes with correct artwork, etc, when I was on iOS and I simply copied my iTunes Music folder to my SD card on my Galaxy S3. Music Player/PlayerPro/PowerAmp/etc all find and play the music perfectly, except for these 2 issues:

1) All the albums that had Album Artist "Various Artists" in iTunes show on my S3 as being by whichever is the artist of track 1, so all my compilations show like that instead of "Various Artists".

2) Since my S3 plays FLAC files, I download some of my very favourite songs from certain albums in FLAC and replaced the mp3 on the SD card with the FLAC. I tried using iTag Pro and Audio Tagger Pro, etc, on the S3 to make the tags of the new mixed mp3/FLAC album exactly the same, but no matter what I do, Music Player/PlayerPro/PowerAmp/etc all display the album as 2 different albums.

For example, I now have 2 x Snow Patrol "Up To Now" albums showing - one mp3 with all tracks except Chasing Cars, and one with a single FLAC file (Chasing Cars). As I said, I've made all the tags for Album, Artist, Album Artist, Genre, Year, etc, the same, but the phone always sees them as 2 albums - how do I merge?

Many thanks

 

[Stuntman]

Are you using a PC or Mac? I'm not from the Apple world, so I have a PC. My music on my PC is organised using Windows Media Player. Most of my music is converted from my LP's, cassette tapes and CD's and I use Windows Media Player to add the song/album details. The song info from WMP is retained when I copy them to my phone via a straight file copy.

Perhaps you should try to use WMP if you have a PC to ensure the song and album info is correct, then copy to your phone. This may be quite a bit of work for you, but you might want to try it if nothing else works.