Two hours was wasted this morning trying to figure out why the hell the album art of my mp3 was messed up when playing on my HTC Android Desire phone. At the end, I got Winamp working as I expected, while Amazon MP3 Player is still showing strange behavior.
The whole mess started yesterday when I realized that some of the songs had wrong album art when I used my Android phone to play them. I checked the mp3 files and found that the embedded album image on some of the files were wrong. So I used a Windows application MP3Tag to fix them. Once I checked that the album looked correct on both MacOSX and Windows 7 desktop, I copied those files back to my Android phone.
But then strange things happened. Both the mp3 player application on my Android phone, WinAmp and Amazon MP3, still showed the incorrect album that I saw before! I tried removing all the image files in song folders, and found that at least in WinAmp, the album art simply gone. That's when I realized that for WinAmp, it doesn't care about the embeded album art in the file. Instead it only sees the image file in the mp3 file folder. So I copied the album art image to each corresponding folder, and even clearly the application cache, and now the album shows up properly on WinAmp.
The only mystery left is the Amazon mp3 player application. Even after I spent all these time to fix left and right, and even clear the application cache, the album art still NOT show up properly. And that's when I realized that I already wasted 2 hours on this mess, and finally decided to call a quit.
The moral of this story is: I better make sure all album settings are correct before I even load the files in the Android phone.
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