google play music upload id3 tags missing

April 17, 2022 Post a Comment

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My phone can find all my music, but a lot of the album tags show equally <unknown> even though I know these tags are filled in. Also, almost all of the 'year' ID3 tags are filled in equally '0' when I know every file has the correct year filled in.
I don't know why my phone read the files this way. I take a 128gb SD card, formatted FAT32, and this is where I continue my music. What can I exercise to get my ID3 metadata reading properly?

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Not to hijack your thread, just I take a similar problem that I take been trying to fix for a few days now. I figure I would share everything I take tried so far and maybe bounce a few new ideas around.
My situation is like this. I accept a Motorola Moto G4 running Nougat vii.0. I night, I happened to be looking for a particular song by a item creative person, only the whole album was missing from their listing.

It turns out information technology was categorized under unknown creative person. Not only that, but there were about 20 other albums there as well. Upon closer inspection, there wasn't any data associated with the files. For some reason, the media player wasn't reading the ID3 tags. Information technology was pulling the folder proper name and the file name, just that was it.

Outset thing I tried was wiping the cache of the dissimilar music players I have been using. I have been trying out a few to see what I like. They are Google Play Music, Shuttle, Pulsar, and Phonograph. No luck there.

Afterward a quick Google search, information technology seems like this is a mutual problem with no directly forward answer. Thr next suggestion I found was to wipe the Media Storage data and cache, then I tried that and later waiting for the library to rebuild, the files were still unknown. There were actually even more than random files there now.

So since all of my music is on a 64GB Sandisk SD menu, I decide to bank check if it is corrupted. I plug it into my PC and run chkdsk on it and it is fine. Looking at the MP3 on the computer, I can run into all of the tag info in that location. I use Tagscanner to tag all of my music, add cover art, and sometimes lyrics and stuff.

And so next I decide to check my backup MP3s on my PC for abuse using MP3diag. Some of the files come with errors like truncated data stream or null frames and things, simply a bulk come back fine. I used MP3diag to repair any problem files and decided to employ i album to come across if the telephone could read information technology.

And so afterward another cache wipe, I copy the files to the SDcard, insert it into the phone, and power information technology backup. I waited for the media library to rebuild, and when I checked back later, still no luck.

Adjacent thing I try is moving the folder yo internal storage. Cache wipe, reboot, library rebuilds. Nonetheless zippo.

Now I'thou getting desperate. I tried renaming the folders. Nothing. Renaming the files. Nope. And then now I download and app chosen ID3fixer. It claims to prepare the tags of the MP3s. When I run it on these files, I noticed something strange. Information technology tin can actually read the ID3 information off of my files. I know it's my tags because I had lyrics on the songs and it showed them.

So the app gives 2 options for repair. The recommended option is to repair the file straight, and then that is what I try showtime. Repair, wipe cache, reboot, rebuild, and nil. Damn. So I try the 2nd option which is to repair the Android database and what do you know, that works... sort of. The tags for artist and album show upwards, and so information technology is in the right spot in the media actor now, merely it is still missing some data similar track duration, which comes upwardly 0:00, and rail number.

Adjacent, I put the SDcard back in my PC. I make new copies of my PC backups, and remove the ID3 tags completely from the files using MP3tag. Put them dorsum on the SDcard and that dorsum in the phone. At present it can read the files and track duration, just since in that location is no ID3 data, it pulls the album info from the folder name and rails name from the file name.

And then I take the SDcard, put information technology back in the PC and tag these new files using MP3tag to car fill the info from the web, but when I put the carte du jour back in the phone, they still come up unknown and the track duration is missing once again.

Now there is something curious. The Phonograph app is the just media actor I have out of the group that allows tag editing. When I use it to edit these problem files, information technology can read the current ID3 info that'southward already on the file. Another thing is if I use the same app to pull up the song info for a file, it shows all of the correct info, fifty-fifty track elapsing, even though it prove 0:00 <unknown artist> while it's playing.

Once again, before anyone asks, I unmount the SDcard when removing information technology from the phone and PC. I take washed multiple wipes of the Media Storage information/cache, as well as wiping the app data and cache.

tl;dr

I have tried to wipe the enshroud and many other things with no results. My conclusion is that at that place's something about the files that Android is storing that doesn't get wiped, or possibly I'm non wiping everything that matters. I did find a system app called External Storage, but I'm hesitant to wipe it considering I couldn't find any info on what it does. I still won't rule out the files being corrupted, just I don't think that's it.
Thread Starter

It sounds like nosotros're having the aforementioned problem. I'm too running nougat. My SD card is a Samsung 128GB. It's also formatted at Fat32, for what it's worth. I wonder how yours is formatted. I doubtfulness it matters if they are wrong in the internal memory.
And like y'all said, my yr tags are clearly there when I apply a desktop application to audit them. The mp3s were tagged in linux, for what it's worth. I don't remember that makes a difference.

I have tried id3 logroller, to repair some mp3s, and just repair their entry into the music database. But this doesn't ready the problem.

The only other matter I can think is that it's a permissions issue. However, when I view files over ssh, my mp3s are owned by user '1' and accept 777 permissions -- which is the same every bit my photos, which were taken by the device. So I don't think it'southward a permissions issue.
Sounds like a general issue with the stock Moto music player, Advise trying another player, like Rocket Player.
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I'g using BlackPlayer, and the other poster hither mentioned Phonograph and another players. Then neither of us are using the stock Moto player, which is only Google Play Music.
Notwithstanding, Android seems to use a fundamental music and playlists database that other apps read from, and this seems to be where the problem is. BlackPlayer has a debugging characteristic where you tin read tags from an mp3 direct, and when I do this, I tin can come across that all the tags are in place. But if I utilize the normal browsing characteristic, tags are missing, and the same tags are missing no matter what other app I use: Google Play Music, GoneMad player, or whatever other.
Here is postal service back in April from another user having the aforementioned issue. Don't know if you've seen it already. They also accept a Moto G4 running Nougat, and they come up to pretty much the aforementioned decision.
They do mention something interesting. They split one anthology in two and gave one anthology a new name, and the new album was recognized. I'm not sure if they were talking about renaming the folder structure or the bodily tags, but that's something I am going to mess effectually with side by side.

Equally for how my carte du jour is formatted, I tin can't remember off hand. I recall information technology said some version of Fat when I ran chkdsk on it. I'll have to check after when I go a gamble.
My problem is solved! It turned out to be that the embedded artwork was too big. Not the actual dimensions, some of my artwork is over 2000x2000 pixels, but the file size of the artwork is what caused information technology. Virtually of the problem artwork was over 1MB. I couldn't find what an exact max size should be, but it seems fifty-fifty over 700kB might exist too much.
Now, I don't know why information technology'south an issue for Android's media scanner, simply it shouldn't be. Information technology doesn't even give an error lawmaking.

I ended up using GIMP to reduce the quality of the jpegs plenty to get the file size down. If you need a program to run across how big the file size of the artwork is, I used Tagscan.

Simply replacing the artwork was enough to get the artist sorted correct, but at that place were yet issues with rails number and anthology date for me. Fixing that required a wipe of the Media Storage apps information, and then a reboot of the phone.

Hopefully this volition fix your problem, too.
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Interesting. Every broken MP3 had huge cover art. I replaced them all with smaller covers so nosotros'll run into if the tags get picked upwards properly.
I don't call back this is going to fix the result with years not getting read, because that's most files for me, even ones with small cover art files. But this definitely fixed the almost cleaved files.
Hey guys, I'one thousand a little late to this party merely I accept a little more insight to this idiotic problem. I think the problem is Nougat. I apply an HTC M9 running Nougat as my telephone and I have an M8 running an older version of Android as my bathroom/gaming telephone. My M8 has no problems with ID3 tags but my M9 has the same issue you guys are describing. I've renamed all the files and inverse the artwork and still the same crap. Has anyone found a solution?
It could definitely exist a Nougat problem. This never happened on my Galaxy S3 running Kit Kat, and most of these mp3s came from that telephone.
As for your problem, are you positive that the artwork y'all used had a file size nether 1MB? Changing that fixed my issues. After that, the simply suggestion I have is to clear the Media Storage app cache and reboot.
Did anybody mention an ID3 Tag editor?
Yup. Me. I tried multiple different ones. Some on the computer, and others on my phone. Nil worked for me also irresolute the artwork file size.
I'd beloved to know how you tweaked the artwork. I've got some tracks and albums with ridiculously erroneous artwork.
I apply an app called "ID3 Tag Editor" if i download a random track or podcast.

I rip my own music collection from CDs.
There are probably easier means of doing this, just here's what I did. One quick slice of info though. I keep all of my artwork embedded in each private mp3 every bit opposed to 1 artwork file in the album folder. Non certain if that volition brand a deviation. It'due south also a little hazy because information technology was a while ago, but this should give you an thought.
Kickoff, I opened the artwork file in GIMP. Any graphics program that allows you to compress the file should work, but GIMP is free, and I like gratis. If y'all demand to pull the artwork from the mp3 kickoff, Tagscan is the program I used for that.

Okay. And so then, under File, I chose 'Consign as...' and chose jpg as the file type, and the side by side or save or another button. When information technology comes up with options for how to salve information technology, I ticked the box for preview prototype. That volition show the size of the new file information technology's exporting.

Next, I lowered the slider at the superlative until it came to a practiced size. I compared the size to file that were working, and turned out to be effectually 700kB or smaller.

So, I used Tagscan to embed the new artwork, put the mp3s dorsum on the phone, wiped the media storage cache, rebooted, and let the cache rebuild.

Whew. Hope that is clear for you and that it can assist.
Hi, Thanks, been looking for a solution to this trouble for a while, Moto G5, android 8.one.0 one binder of music kept becoming <unknown> for artist and genre after a while, tried everything, the artwork was only 16kb so non large, I removed all the embedded and loose artwork from files and this folder and it stock-still information technology insantly, didn't even have to restart phone
I nevertheless can't discover a solution to this on any of my phones for the last 5 years or then. I've had LG phones until at present...I now have a OnePlus eight. Whatsoever music player I used does the aforementioned thing. Many artists are listed equally "unknown" and sometimes the song name is off also. In that location just doesn't seem to be a good mode to prepare this. I've tried some tag editors and the music histrion I'm currently using has a built in tag editor, and each time the tags read correctly. When I connect the phone to Media Monkey on my laptop, the tags are fine. I fifty-fifty tried transferring straight from Media Monkey since tags are perfect there. All the same an issue. FRUSTRATING!!!
Did yous attempt any of the solutions discussed in this thread, like the well-nigh mutual issue seems to be anthology artwork is too large. Which has really been a problem for some mobile and portable MP3 players, even before Android. If the album artwork embedded in an MP3 is too large, like higher up 1MB, some players just choke in it.
Yup. Virtually of my files take the anthology artwork removed, at to the lowest degree many of the ones with metadata issues.
Just there is an app for that.
I used ID3 Tag Editor.