Cover art Media player bug
 

Hey guys,

I'm uploading my mp3s to my N900. Each song has its cover art attached. I noticed that when an album by different artists has the same name, the media player merges the album covers and then puts a "various artists" below. Is there a way to fix this? Two different artists, two different covers, but the album title (by chance) is the same.

Hope you can help... :)

Cheers.

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

what are you using to tag/id your music?
i normally use "media monkey" to tag and add album art and then transfer to my device...
this problem doesnt occur...

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

I use Mp3tag v2.54a

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

try using media monkey....ive found it to be very useful....and its free as well.....any questions just PM me....

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

There are two bugs open about this:

#6911 - Albums with the same name but by different artists are mixed together
#7263 - Media player uses space as artist when looking up artwork

I think these are the same bug, so please vote on them.

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

Ok, I just tried MediaMonkey. Same issue. Here's an example:

Ricky Martin, Life, I don't care.
Andy Hunter, Life, Come on.
Any artist, Life, any song.

I always get the cover art from Andy Hunter album, even if I choose to play the song from the artist or song list.

Any idea? I know I could change the album name to "Life (2)" or something like that, but I guess that's not the way it should be, right?

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

thats odd....
never encountered that..and i totally agree..you shouldnt have to rename just to make it work...
ill give it a try.....
can you send me both songs? ill pm you....

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

It's not strictly related to those very mp3s. Try with two mp3s you already have: just tag them with the same album name, but associate two different cover arts. See what happens...

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

It's nothing to do with the tagger, either. It ignores the artist name when storing/looking-up albums.

Comment #4 even points to the line of code in question: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7263#c4

Re: Cover art Media player bug
 

ahhhh....still send me the songs let me give it a go....
@marcello sent u an email as im unable to pm you