Epicdemic Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Got a new phone recently and installed the full version on it. Tried scanning around 3000 songs and around 200 of them turned out to empty tags and are put under "Unknown Artist". The 200ish songs have no discernible difference from the rest of the 3000 and I'm quite stumped on why their tags aren't being read at all. Even funnier is that on my old phone, the same songs have their artist/album tags read just fine. Please help! UPDATE: Found out why (or at least partially why). I transferred the music files through Airdroid app and for some reason, this breaks the tag recognition in Poweramp. When I do it through good ol USB transfer, the tags show up perfectly. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Very strange! If you compare one of the Airdroid-copied files to a traditionally USB-copied version of the same file, does there seem to be any differences in the resulting file? Or the containing folder? (What happens if you USB-copy a file into a folder that Airdroid created?) Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6b6561 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 I had roughly 20 out of 6500 tracks "corrupted" when I took my new phone into use and I don't believe PA caused it. My method of data transfer is to launch the built in ftp server on the Mi Max, and then ftp the files to the device. I assume the data copy to the device did something silly to the files as all meta data where gone for the 20 files. What I did to resolve the problem was that I did go into the unknown folder, deleted all the files in there and re-synchronized the deleted files back to the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicdemic Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 15 hours ago, andrewilley said: Very strange! If you compare one of the Airdroid-copied files to a traditionally USB-copied version of the same file, does there seem to be any differences in the resulting file? Or the containing folder? (What happens if you USB-copy a file into a folder that Airdroid created?) Andre The only difference is that one of them has all the metadata intact and the Airdroid transferred file doesn't, as far as I can tell. No size difference whatsoever. USB copy into Airdroid app doesn't really make sense since I only use Airdroid to send files over WiFi between my PC and the new phone. The song file could be located on a harddrive or USB stick or SSD and it wouldn't make a difference. I also tried using Airdroid to copy the song into either my phone's internal storage or the microSD card, same thing, no tags showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Have you checked a resulting Airdroid-generated file in a tag editor (by copying the new file back over to your PC via USB, and running it through something like TagScanner)? Or even doing a binary file comparison to see if it's mangling the file in any way? Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6b6561 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Tag data doesn't necessarily affect file size as there is a reserved space for tag data in the files. Could you check the md5 sum on the original file and the file on your phone, that will show if the files are identical. What format are the problematic files in? You could also try to install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediaarea.mediainfo on your device, and see if MediaInfo is able to read the tags from your files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicdemic Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 17 hours ago, 6b6561 said: Tag data doesn't necessarily affect file size as there is a reserved space for tag data in the files. Could you check the md5 sum on the original file and the file on your phone, that will show if the files are identical. What format are the problematic files in? You could also try to install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediaarea.mediainfo on your device, and see if MediaInfo is able to read the tags from your files. So I tried this app out and to my surprise, the app DOES detect the tag data perfectly on the song that I'm trying to transfer over. But when Poweramp scans it in, all tag data is lost. Oh and all the songs are in MP3 format. Also I have tried to copy the Airdroid-copied file back into my PC and the tag data are all still intact. Looks like Airdroid isn't even the issue here though, since MediaInfo still reads it just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6b6561 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Did Poweramp read the tags properly on your old device? Did you have the same version of PA on the old device? Could you share one of the problematic files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 It's not folder/directory related is it? Are there other files in the same location as the problem ones which scan correctly? Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davor Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 So I have the same problem. I recently updated to Android Pie and did a factory reset, after reinstalling Poweramp (I previously also used the newest version), part of my library shows as Unknown artist - Unknown title - Unknown album. Funny thing is, the tags themselves are fine - when I go "Check Info/Tags", everything displays properly. My phone is Xiaomi Mi A1, playing music from SD card. Also on some songs only the Artist is missing and the rest of the info is displayed ok - but again, checking the tags, the Artist tag itself is correct. Songs affected are .flac (none of the data showing) and mp3 (missing artist). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicdemic Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Sorry about the late reply, here are some updates: 1. I used the latest version of PA on the old device and the same songs were read no problem. 2. The files with missing metadata are mixed in the same folder with files that are properly read. The folder is not the issue here. I also tried separating the problem files in its own folder, same issue. 3. Here's the weird part: after using MediaInfo app to check the metadata on one of the songs, the rest of the songs in PA that had problems were all magically fixed. It's as if their metadata needed to be read by another app for them to be "activated" in PA. That's just my crazy conjecture though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmp Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Please share one or two of such tracks via PM - I'll try to test them and investigate what's wrong (usually some broken tags, huge album art). Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicdemic Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 On 1/14/2019 at 4:39 PM, maxmp said: Please share one or two of such tracks via PM - I'll try to test them and investigate what's wrong (usually some broken tags, huge album art). Thanks! PM'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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