Hero by HTC

If you're using iTunes to get artwork, it doesn't actually embed it in the tag like it is supposed to.

I'm not entirely sure if this script requires a mac or not but here it is:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=embedart

Other methods for artwork:

http://lifehacker.com/231476/alpha-geek-whip-your-mp3-library-into-shape-part-ii-+-album-art

I managed to get quite a bit of my album artwork using a free program discussed on the lifehacker website. For some reason, some of the files show artwork on the computer but the phone isn't reading them the same. I noticed that all my songs which do not have artwork displayed also state "unknown" in the album year. On the computer, the year is a part of the description. I cannot for the life of me figure out why only certain songs are doing this while others are perfect.

Message was edited by: mlblack16

Some mobile devices let you put a single album art image in an album folder and all songs in the folder will display the same image, but it looks like Android devices don't work that way. The alternative, as some have already mentioned, is to imbed the image in each song file's meta tag. I don't like doing that because it increases the size of each song file which wastes a lot more storage space than a single image in the folder.

But it looks like that's the only option if you want album artwork with the Hero. With that in mind, an excellent program to do that with is Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/). The program name is actually a bit deceiving because it's about as universal as this kind of program comes. Most of my library is AAC (.m4a), but I also have .mp3, .wma, and .ogg files and Mp3tag works equally well with them all. Not only can it add album art, but it can also edit all the information fields in the meta tags, auto-tag, and all kinds of wonderful things. It will even do mass edits to every song in an album.

And it's freeware (although they accept donations) and completely devoid of nagware!

'Nuff outta me lest I sound like an ad for 'em.

Pete

I can't really help you with the Android music player because I haven't even tried to use it. I should add that I probably won't because my phone is a tool rather than an entertainment device. But I do have portable entertainment devices which work far better than any phone, and I've experienced the very problem you are.

And each and every time it's been a glitch or corruption in the meta tag data. Some music services (and music tagging software) don't play by conventional or recognized rules and this can give music players which do play by the rules fits. As often as not, these problems can be corrected or "cleaned" by editing the tag data but not always. Sometimes there's data or corruption in the meta tags which the tagging software can't see or clean. Sometimes the structure of the meta tags gets corrupted and on a few rare instances it's been a forbidden word or character which causes the player to stop reading the meta tag at that point.

The bottom line is there are lots of reasons why one player might read meta tag data correctly while another won't and some of them can be hard (if not impossible) to find.

Pete

Yea MP3Tag works great with the Hero. The music app only recognizes metadata in MP3s only. I have some AAC music and only the filename shows up.