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Guide for album art on W850i |
jack77777
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On 2006-11-20 18:53:14, nanu*1 wrote:
Have your updated the music files on your phone afterwards?
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yes i created a folder on my w850i and placed a song and a pic of the album about 300x300 pixels and not bad qaulity and it didnt show lol |
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maccad
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i just have it that windows media player sorts my music for me, to get track information updated if it hasn't done it already you just right click on the album and find album info. This will find all track names and album art etc.
If this has already been done you just drag the folder to your phone and it will display the album art. Alternatively if you want a picture to show up for that album put a picture in the folder and rename it folder.jpg and it should show up |
jack77777
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ive set it to retreive info from internet but still it doesent add album art lol 
how do i right click on the album to retrieve info , it shows the option but its grey and i cant click on it
also just messed around with the internet settings and it connects to the guide etc but i still cant retreive album art and info
[ This Message was edited by: jack77777 on 2006-11-21 15:39 ] |
jack77777
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i thought i had it working but it seems not , now i have to rename my entire music collection , delete it all then put it back on my phone !
SONY ERICSSON PLZ SORT OUT A PROGRAM FOR ALBUM ART INSTEAD OF BEING LAZY ! |
Nanu
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@jack77777
Apologies My friend, whilst the method i described to you works perfectly with my W950i it is not the case with my P990i, for the p990i and presumably the w850i, for the p990i i had to rename the files (any name will do!) as the ones saved by wmp are system files which the phone wont recognise! so simply rename the file and save it as a jpeg and all should be fine!
to set wmp for automatic updates click on tools>>options>>Library and select
"retrieve additional information from the internet"
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jack77777
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ive set it to retrive info , i had it working at one point today but now it just shows the grey text where the options is |
jack77777
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omg its destroyed my whole music collection MEDIA PLAYER IS SH*T its messed up all my song so im having to find and download them , all you Buggers lol anyway im never ever trying this method again id rather not have album art thanks very much lol
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mobse
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OK, here's the deal with WMP (10) and album art.
- Find the album covers you need anywhere on the Internet
- Copy / find the folder with the album you want to add album art to on the hard disk
- Copy the album cover picture into the album folder (so now you have the image file and the mp3s in the same location)
- Open Windows Media Player
- Click on the Library tab
- Click on File / Add to Library/ Add Folder
- Locate your folder
- All the songs on the album are added to the library
- Press Ctrl+A on the keybord to select all items (if you want the same album art to be shown for all items in the folder)
- Right-click on your selection and choose the Advanced Tag Editor option
- Click on the Pictures tab
- Add the image file you want
- Click on Apply /OK
- Copy the album folder with mp3s and album art on Memory Stick
Album art should be shown in Walkman, as this successfully updates the tags, specifying the path / linking the image(s) to the songs.
This method, already described in this thread, works for me. Hopefully, it will work for everyone else wishing to add album art.
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jack77777
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mobse: ill try again tonight but only with one song as im not risking my songs being destryoyed again , wmp renmaed them so their all the same even after renmaing them they still showed up the same artist and album , lol isnt their just a program to add album art to a song but just does it ., if you get me ?
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mobse
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I've tried one freeware and one shareware album art adding solution, and they basically apply the same method as WMP.
For what I described above you don't need to rename the songs or update the tags via the Internet. This is, essentially an offline path specifying process that can work with any mp3 files and images and does not require an Internet connection.
The only thing that I don't like is that album art can be added to mp3 files only. I wish it could work with other formats, AAC+ in particular. |
scottt
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I see your all having fun with trying to add album art 
Just got my P990i and had a bit of trouble but its really quite simple, just takes ages as you have to make a folder for each album, put all the songs from that album into the folder and put the album artwork in with it, takes a long time when you have like 100 albums you wanna put on.....
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A-w850i
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What did you name the file and what format did you use?
this was not posted from a w850i as I only get 1mb of free WAP/mo |
mobse
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You can name any image file anything you want, as long as it gets associated with the folder and the mp3 files in it.
As for the resolution, it has to be small 300x300, 300x400 JPEG definitely works. I presume all other image formats supported by the phone would be OK.
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jack77777
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just want to say ive now got album art on every song  i used itunes and it was easy ! |
A-w850i
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What firmware are you running?
Use Right * Left Left * Left * to display your firmware version
this was not posted from a w850i as I only get 1mb of free WAP/mo |
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Posted: 2006-11-21 00:15
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