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[Windows Phone 7 General] spvc500:
background & live tile

The background and live tile only updates when you stream songs from Zune.

I don't have Zune pass but when previewed a track it updated the background and tile and hasn't changed since.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
Not having Zune Pass is not the cause of it. The background images can appear regardless of whether you have Zune Pass or not.

In order for the photos/info to be downloaded, your music needs to be tagged properly and correctly. You can see if this is done by playing the music on your computer. If you can see photos and additional artist information on the computer, your music is tagged properly.

You won't get background images/info if your music is not tagged correctly, or if the artist does not have additional photos or information available in the Zune Marketplace. Try searching for your artist in the Zune Marketplace to make sure there is information to be displayed.

The syncing of the artist info/photos is done automatically. There is nothing you can do to force it to sync this information. With the Zune HD, you would have to leave the device plugged in, and the Zune software will eventually sync the information after it's done syncing all your other information.

Try leaving your phone plugged into your computer (with the Zune software open) for about 10 minutes and see if that helps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
What you say is how I understand it to work but its not working like that.

On the phone all my music has album art, but I couldnt get the band background picture to appear unless it was streamed from zune, even if it displayed on the PC.

However its also definetly not down to the fact it needs to be streamed from zune, but I have been playing alot of music on my phone today and I did find one artist that got the background image, and those songs were not purchased on zune.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Found the problem, not sure how to fix it though.

But I have just looked on my Zune on the PC and it isnt doing the background image on those tracks anymore either! However if I change my PC region to US and log in with the US account I had set up before Zune was in the UK it works fine again.

So it seems to be a UK only issue :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Mine has slowly started working. It's weird but the phone has over the past day slowly started downloading background images for some artists, it seems once it has found one from one track it updates all tracks from the artist.

It doesn't seem to work very well in the actual zune player when showing now playing though :confused:
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
You could try using the Zune Social Tagger to force some some albums to link correctly, that's what I did for some things and it seems to work. Anything downloaded though the marketplace is linked anyway so that will display an image if there is one. The selection of albums and artists with background images is smaller in the UK than the US so it might not always work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Just using the social tagger, interestingly one of the songs I bought on the marketplace on my phone has come up as unlinked on the social tagger!

I will see if this fixes it, hopefully it will.

Why does the UK have a different ammount of background pictures, that just seems silly, the bands are the same bands across the world.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jedix:
cant imagine why it would be country dependant so can't see that, i'm in the UK without a zune premium pass and its all working fine for me. If in doubt wipe your phone and resync, maybe there is something from an old file stopping something or a bug. Whether its automatic or picture picked from the manual method can't say I've seen a problem (windows 7, zune, mozart 7).
[Windows Phone 7 General] jtjagan:
I believe I have found the reason why you and I are having the same issue. The location our Live, Zune and computer is Singapore. The Zune software (Singapore location) shows a stripped down version of what you get if you set US location. I have another live and Zune tag ID located in US and when I logged into that account I am able to see the artist background picture in the Zune mini-player on the PC. I guess since Singapore does not have Zune pass, we will be missing out on all the extras (mix-view, etc)

Haven't tested trying to sync with the phone using the US based account.

Anyone know whether the phone supports 2 separate Live ID accounts?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tom Servo:
At least in your country, you get results when searching the Zune Marketplace for music.

In Belgium, any query results 0 results. I assume that the client searching on its own for stuff doesn't get anything returned either, due to the country limitation. We get video rentals, that's about it. For me, apps don't even show, altho it works fine with the same account on the phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
I can confirm how to get it working (at least in the UK) this works for songs on the phone only I haven't tested it in zune player yet.

Once you've listened to one piece of music by that artist which contains the data for the background image, the device seems to remember this and display it if you play the same artist, regardless of the song.

So you have 2 options:

1) If you have zune pass, stream a song by the same artist for a few seconds, now all music in your collection by that artist will show the bg image.

2) Find a song by the artist in your collection that does carry the bg image (I think it has something to do with tagging) and the rest will update.

Update: You don't even need to play a song, press on the artist name when your own song is playing, it'll load the artist page with a background image. Press back and it's updated.

Edit (sorry about this): You need to click on the button to show the marketplace songs, rather than just showing your collection.
[Windows Phone 7 General] darkmurder:
Having the Zune pass is imperative to getting this, I'm in Australia and get no search results if I search for music and also get no bio or pictures. I feel this fully relates to having Zune Pass available in your country.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Right, I have been playing around and as said above, clicking on the artist and then clicking the marketplace does work. But for some reason sometimes it doesnt find anything in the marketplace, yet if I search then it does. sometimes this brings the artist pic to mine, other times it doesnt.

Always works perfectly on the computer if I use my US account though, so I am going to assume that its just a problem with the begining stages of porting Zune to other countrys.

The wierd thing is with the US zune account on the PC, I can click (i) and it goes to the artist, on the UK account I click that and it says Error, this is no longer available on the marketplace, but if I search for it, it is there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] xtrememanix:
yeah . its probably due to our country not supporting the proper and actual zune experience .

and its the same for BING maps on my LG optimus 7 . they currently dun support location searches and local results for singapore addresses .

hope it gets solved quickly ! .
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
I got that issue when I first used the UK Marketplace. It seems that the artist info links are country specific so if the link was created when using the US marketplace when it won't work through the UK one. I reset my library to force the Zune Client the recreate the links.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
I have this strange issue :

No background image. If I click on the artist name then on Marketplace, it finds me the background image with the artist.

But if I revert back to the 'currently playing' page, I can see the Album Art of the record, but the background image disappeared again. It's only visible when I click on the Artist name....
[Windows Phone 7 General] spvc500:
zune album art localised

I believe the problem is....

I'm in the UK.

The marketplace is localised to UK

When Zune tries to get album info or you try and find the album info yourself it searches the album info that is from the USA.

I have 1 album that is Lady GaGa the Fame Monster.

When I search the marketplace for this album I get

the fame monster (uk deluxe) and no other fame monster album.

When I right click and find the album info I can not find the UK deluxe version at all - so no matter how hard I try to get this to work it just won't.

Now music like "P!nk" and Leona Lewis have worked without a hitch.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
So, apparently, for many people the Zune background does not work properly.

The background will not display if your tags do not match at 100% with the Zune ones, or if you are from one country and not another, etc.

I think MS should just make the whole system

more tolerant

.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
All the people who had problems with the background images, did you use Zune before when it was US only?

I did, and as someone above said, it seems it tags it to the US information. I will try redoing my libary today.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tom Servo:
The system's tolerant enough. Since ever I set it to auto-fetch album art, it's been completing my stuff with mostly hits.
[Windows Phone 7 General] weepatc:
I signed up for the 14 day trial Zune Pass & my background always changes as I change the artists when streaming from the Marketplace, works on the handset too when streaming music from Zune Marketplace. Guess this is the only foolproof way to do it..........get a Zune Pass as it does not seem to work without this. Funnily enough the 1st time I used Zune it downloaded a background but then would not change whenever I played my own music. Don't know if theres maybe something written to the ID3 tag that makes this happen.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
The Zune pass is not mandatory.

Actually on my device Zune finds the background image for half of my music library.

All my music library is well tagged and in the same way (with mp3tag). All players recognise my music as tagged. Only Zune has this issue.

So I just would like to know what could be the reasons Zune sometimes finds the background image and sometimes not.

There must be a specific reason, and therefore a way to solve it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] darkmurder:
It relates to your email account I'm fairly sure (the first one you use to link to the phone), try hard reset the phone and use an American account which you created and have used in Zune and it should work I'm fairly sure I plan to do it sometime this week when I have time to redo everything on the phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I already tried it. I'm using an American account (live.com) but it still works for only 1/2 of my library.

I think it's related to the tags of a specific album:

For instance, for the same artist Zune sometimes shows me the background image, sometimes not.

So there's something (but what?) preventing him to display the picture.
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
I think I have found the culprit. First of all I have disabled my account. So I am using the Vanilla Zune software with my OS location in the US.

I was having the same issue with a specific album. ( Sting & the police, uk edition of sorts) What I have found is that the the "artist art/bio" is dependant on the Name you have in the tags i.e "artist name" within the songs of the album. I found that changing it from Sting to Sting & The police for certain songs made it impossible for Zune to pick up "Stings pic/bio profile".

So I fiddled around with the names and viola!

TBH it seems like MS really didn't plan through the International Zune launch at all.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
I created a thread about this exact same problem so im surprised the moderators have not pointed you in that direction. i cant remember what i called the thread though, something like zune artist background but anyway. a lot of people helped and eventually we discovered that 1) it dosnt matter if you have bought, anything from zune or not. i have plenty of file which i dont have from zune. and still get artist background images. 2) use Zune Social Tagger, this help me immensely and so far is the best solution to obtain artist background images. just google it and download. you maystill find that one or two things need changing minute little details but this is easily the best solution. good luck!
[Windows Phone 7 General] knave:
Just a thought, but perhaps we can all come together and pool our information.

Some immediate ideas are:

1. Which artists has the background images?

2. Those with the zune images, are you able to check within Windows Explorer, under the folder that you stored your music, whether there are any hidden images (that matches the zune background on your phone)? Cos if this exists, then we might just be able to hack them in ourselves.
[Windows Phone 7 General] BIG-Stan:
1. The thing is that there are some artists which have the background images only on certain albums. It's really weird...

I was trying for days to figure that stuff out and came to thinking that the music genre has something to do with the tagging also. For example I had few enigma albums and 2 of them had the pictures while the last one didnt. I selected all and chose the same genre for all. After that all the albums had the background.

This doesnt always seem to work though... Other artist that I have dont have the pictures for all albums. Microsoft should really patch/fix/whatever this issue as it's quiet annoying and inconsistent.

Also it's stupid to cut out the bio for the artists in other countries. They should just leave it in english if they are too lazy to translate the stuff.

2. I also checked all (?) folders on my computer to see where the backrounds are stored at and couldnt find anything except for the album art. They are probably decoded or in a different format...

Maybe somebody else will there more...
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
It works as follows in the Zune Software.

If Zune detects album information or if you make it search, it will create a hidden file in your album directory.

IF you paste a new album art picture through the Zune software it will embedded that into each album file overriding the hidden file in the folder that was originally created.

To your first point. I had issues with Sting and the Police album. I realised that the Zune marketplace only managed to grab art for Sting and bio for The Police .. (wtf). It didn't want to display the art for The Police even though it does if you access the album on the Zune webpage.

I don't think going by artists would be the most sensible option ;D.

Lets just hope MS brings our a major revision.
[Windows Phone 7 General] BIG-Stan:
But how can the picture/file be so hidden that we cant see with the "unhide all files" option in windows? Because I looked almost everywhere and couldnt find anything... :(

Maybe this is stored somewhere else?
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
That is certainly strange. I just stumbled upon a different issue. This is a different album. (It was recognized by Zune without much effort but I still wanted a higher res picture for the album)

I keep my files (win 7) in my Music library. It has 2 hidden files. One named AlbumArt_{xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx}_Large [Windows Media Player picture I assume ... or the low res pic that Zune found] and the other ZuneArt_{xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx} [Zune picture (being the picture I gave Zune (Folder.jpg)]

The Zune Art picture is the picture I choose independently of what Zune thinks the picture should be. ( I did this by right clicking on an album picture in Zune> Update Picture).

I wonder if this somehow helps. The AlbumArt file seems to be an anomaly since non of my other albums have them but they still have the ZuneArt file.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davidebanks:
it dosnt seem like anybody bother to read my last message to help. trust me, i have already created a thread about this but if your still unsure Download and use ZUNE SOCIAL TAGGER. this will sort out the artist background issues. please try it before anything else. and for further proof http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/full-visual-experience-on-windows-phone-7-music-playback
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
The trouble is that it isn't able to fix all the albums (even if there is supposed to be art there).

But besides that it is a very good tool to use!
[Windows Phone 7 General] jaraya13:
Hi. I installed the Zune Social Tagger 2.2 correctly in the Zune folder (Program files). But the app doesn't seem to work for me, when I press LINK even on an album that already has correct album art on my Focus and laptop, it just shows NO RESULTS.

I also click on SCAN ALL and the results were:

0 green icon with the check

181 red icon with the X

0 yellow icon with the warning sign

The weird thing is that almost 140 songs do show correct album art on my Samsung Focus... I am thinking that maybe the REGIONAL SETTINGS of my laptop are causing this app not to work correctly. I live in Costa Rica, so maybe if I change everything in my laptop to US it will work. What you guys think?

Note: My hotmail account was set to US settings.

tHANKS!
[Windows Phone 7 General] zerobalance:
Ok i think i got it now, it worked on my phone and now i got all of the artist background except for those artist that zune doesnt have on their database specially indie bands.

follow these steps :

1. Open Mp3Tagger - if you dont have one download it.

2. Drag an album to mp3 tagger

3. then select all songs(CTRL +A)

4. Click on tag sources(you will see 3 or 4 options) or just select amazon, type in the artist name wait for mp3tagger to gather info > select correct album name . that way you can find the most accurate tag for the album.

5. open zune software - go to collection - click on that album - click on more about this artist and wait for the artist background to appear and bwallaahh.

6. resync the album/artist on your phone using zune software.

7. play a song and check if the artist background will appear(if not proceed to step 8)

8. (on the phone) go to music and highlight that specific album/artist tap on marketplace button below the album cover(then the info about that band will appear and also the background picture and thats it)

10. ENJOY!

on step 8 make sure your phone is connected to your network.

tag each album 1 by 1 using mp3tagger, do the same steps from 1 - 4 until your done with all of your music files.

tell me if it woks or not.
[Windows Phone 7 General] SixHouse:
i dont know anyone that actually has one of these

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[Windows Phone 7 General] Nevermore.V:
In India the marketplace ain't enabled and I use it through wp marketplace enabler.

Anyway there is only apps in marketplace for me. There is no way to download music or anything. I can't find any option to look for more info on artist after clicking on the album...

Any other way?
[Windows Phone 7 General] cool8man:
Do any of you having this problem have automatic metadata tagging on in the Zune PC settings?

Settings > Software > Metadata and Ratings > Media Info

I've never had this issue happen to me, but I'm wondering if setting the Zune PC software to replace the metadata of your songs automatically would fix the problem without you having to resort to 3rd party tagging solutions.
[HD2 General] ed1380:
broke digitizer. ordered new digitizer but broke the lcd taking it off. ordered lcd. mine clips on, ordered solder on version.

That was 5 months ago. It's been sitting here ever since. Worked fine with cracked screen before I opened it up. I've rebuilt phones before, but I dont feel like puting anymore money into it. So if you need any part, including brand new digitizer and solder lcd let me know. battery, and battery door gone

I know I'm new here, but I have 150+ on ebay

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=aleks1380&ftab=AllFeedback
[Android Apps and Games] pedbor:
Looking for an app where I can watch MP4/H264 being streamed from a flash media server using RTMP-protocol.

Any now of an app that supports that?
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] matrox02:
I dnt know whats wrong with my phone but ever since i updated from 1.6 to eclair my phone has randomly hung then reset, id assume this is a firmware problem since this phone is fairly new, so is there any way to Fully reflash rather than reflashing with these Baltic and other rom partial flashes?? the firmwares i have tried are Baltics ( was stable but not what i wanted), Uk Open( stabilish but not what i wanted) and then Australia( sorta what i wandted, but very unstable) in that order, australia's rom really started the problems, it was very unstable for my phone and i have not been able to reverse the instability by flashing back to baltics, iv tried everything, factory resetting did little to no differance with these problems, so any advice or solutions would be helpful and welcome! thanks!
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] m4nu4l:
Well all the roms are stable for me. You are using someking of app that ****s up ure ROM or just doing something wrong while flashing the ROM. :)
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] fjsferreira:
Don't forget to hard reset the phone. Before and after flash to be sure. I have Baltic and the phone is very stable
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] matrox02:
As far as im aware the flashing process is not the problem, and im definatly not using any random apps, for instance i may have just done a hard reset on the ausy rom, then typed in all my settings added all my accounts, nothing out of the abnormal and then sometimes it will either blink the screen then hang then reset, or will show up with a " unexpected stop error com.android. blah blah" and will drop my cell coverage and then get the reception back then come up with the same error.. this will continue till i force a hard reset again.. its damn annoying
[GT540 Optimus Android Development] MegaBubbletea:
I'm using the Australian ROM...is very stable. Haven't experienced any random freezes or crashes. Try reflashing your phone.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] r.lepecha:
trying to run android on top of windows mobile 6.1 on a o2 xda stellar. but the instructions on http://www.androidonhtc.com/ says put androidinstall.tar on the memory card, but none of the builds come with androidinstall.tar, they come with androidinstall.tgz

I re-named it but when installing on the phone using haret it says unable to open androidinstal.tar. so then when trying to boot it has no system files as it hasn't installed them. so i get error no:2 when trying to boot.

any help?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aceoyame:
try opening the .tgz see if there is an androidinstall.tar inside of it. If not then place it in the install directory instead.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] r.lepecha:
no there isnt an androidinstall.tar inside of it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] thoughtlesskyle:
then rename it androidinstall.tgz and install it like you would a .tar file
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] r.lepecha:
tried it, it still says unreadable file because it makes it into a .tar file with the the .tgz as another file inside
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] aceoyame:
Why not try just not renaming it and keeping the .tgz extension? If all else fails the build i have, my bare bones one inside the rar file sits an androidinstall.tar
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] r.lepecha:
i extracted it, and i have re-compressed to .tar, going to try that
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] r.lepecha:
failed to extract. can some one give me a printscreen of what is in each folder because im confused now.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] vellowax:
I think it would be nice if all the releaser make the same compression for the rom rls, if it would be .tar inside zip or just .tgz :)

It would make you guys not have to answer this question too many times.

Edit : If you can't extract it, does that mean your file corrupted?