[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coolvibes:
I recently got my first android phone Samsung Galaxy Note

And played around with the stock music player frustated me because it did not display multiple cover art in one album

I am a bit old-fashioned in that i dont like playlist since it take time to first move a single song to device then add it to a playlist and then search and remove all the singles song that was in playlist later when i not use

So instead I love to create a folder on My pc put all the songs of the week inside it then fire up my favorite ID3 program and tag and number each song in the order i want with each song having the original single cover art

then call the album for my cool music and album for updated on + date..example

I been used to this method for years and learned how to do this quickly so for me this is quicker than transfer single songs and playlist them

I dont want to leave this metod ever

Had not had any problem on phones or mp3 player before with this

but now on Android mobile the stock mp3 player wont show multiple cover art in my compilation album

instead it pick the first cover art that is tagged inside the multiple coverart album

and use that

While that is useful for most of the albums i have is certainly not for compilation album i created with multiple cover art inside the same album

So at first i was frustated not to find only the Stock mp3 player does this

but many other mp3 player apps does the same (pro player and cube player included)

I have tested about 10 music players and the only 2 that work with multiple cover art is TTpod and Poweramp

But none of them are totaly perfect

TTPOD

good: Huge album art, skinnable, many other options

Bad: not many skins for the android version, no Swipe for change cover

have to shake it or click some tiny buttons

Poweramp

Good: Good design , many options, swipe to change cover

Bad: No shake function to change songs

acidently clicking the album art twice overides multiple cover art with one cover art for all song inside that album, album art not as big as TTPOD

While i am sticking at the moment with Poweramp because of the swipe

I have been digging a bit why multiple album art is omitted by my phone

I am not sure if this is a Android or 3rd party app issue

but when testing poweramp i found this.....

When tapping the album art in poweramp bring up a selection screen one is to change album art for the one on your ID3 tag....

if that is pressed all multiple album arts are overidden to just one and same album art inside that album....

However i found that the Id3 tags in the files realy has not been erased moving the files back from phone to pc showed this...but somehow many Mp3 applications on Android phones pick one of the album art in that album and hide the rest like saying....You only allowed to use one album art for each album....

But theres more once the album art in poweramp has been tapped and selected to change ID3 tag that way... there is no way back......

It is so memory resistant that even uninstalling Poweramp, cleaning program catche etc.... wont fix it...

only fix is delete that album folder that was tampered with and move over a new one with the same files but..... not even that work because something is saved so deep in memory so once the same files are moved over to android phone again

Phone says "Hey....thats the same files again....i already told you what cover art i want you to use and no more than one cover art for that album.....

Fortunaly this can be fixed by go to PC and Re-ID3 tags the Album tittle

as long as it not completely the same just a character more or less.

and what i mean is not changing each song for that compilation album with a different album tittle....cause then it would be no compilation album but....

changing all the names at once inside that album by one or two character so phone deep memory not discover it....

Moving the newly tagged files over to the android phone and Voila it works...multiple cover art again.....

What is realy weird is that If you need to re-tag the album again

you need to keep comming up with new album names changes

cause the phone memory go so deep it remember forever the album tittle

So guys can you recomend any other musc player that suport Multiple cover art inside same album

And why does stock mp3 player and many other 3rd party apps not suport multiple cover art in same album....

i mean not everyone want to use playlist...but instead tag our own compilation album the old fashioned way much better in my opinion