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Super informative. The way I understand this and for an easy fix, basically we need to rename all of our genres if they fall into this pre-defined list (http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-129376727ebe5309c1de1888987d070288d7c7e7 ). In other words, make up your own name like "hiphop" or "hip hop" because the pre-defined list has it as "hip-hop". If you do this, then iTunes will be forced to saved your genre name in text and not in an "Apple friendly" binary-encoded format that the Android player cannot understand.
I am going to try opening up my music in MediaMonkey and renaming the genres to some random name then back to the original name and see if MediaMonkey writes it in a Android friendly tag. If that doesn't work, I will rename a genre using iTunes, let's say Country, to something like Cuntry and see if that name change will do the trick. I am hoping the first choice works with MediaMonkey but if I have to slightly rename them, then so be it. I will report back with my findings.
I am going to try opening up my music in MediaMonkey and renaming the genres to some random name then back to the original name and see if MediaMonkey writes it in a Android friendly tag. If that doesn't work, I will rename a genre using iTunes, let's say Country, to something like Cuntry and see if that name change will do the trick. I am hoping the first choice works with MediaMonkey but if I have to slightly rename them, then so be it. I will report back with my findings.
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Using MediaMonkey made no difference so I went in iTunes and renamed my Country genre to Cuntry and it made things better but not fixed. Now I end up with a Cuntry genre section where all the mp3 were correctly stored and an "unknown" genre section where all the m4a files are stored. Now it's not reading anything for a genre on the m4a files. That's better then having them thrown in the genre section by album title. Back to the drawing board to see if I can FIX the problem completely.
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So here is my clean genre list. I have just under 8 gigs of music loaded and not one song gave me a problem.
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Here is my solution to the messy genre section in the Android music player. I renamed all my genres with a hyphen at the end so that they would all be unique from the pre-defined list. I downloaded the free program Mp3tag located herehttp://mp3tag.de to rename my genres with the hyphen. Happy Happy, Joy Joy :)
Here is my solution to the messy genre section in the Android music player. I renamed all my genres with a hyphen at the end so that they would all be unique from the pre-defined list. I downloaded the free program Mp3tag located here
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As noted at the top, this was fixed in Froyo.
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Actually, if it was fixed in Android 2.2 it is not fixed in 2.3.
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This worked for me on 2.2 but doesn't on 2.3
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I'm very surprised. I have a Droid Inc2 on 2.3.4 and everything is working fine for me.
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I have a Galaxy S2 running 2.3.5 and suffer from the same problem.
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Running the offical I9100XXLPQ firmware on the Samsung Galaxy S2. I've found that the most genres are displaying correctly but a few are showing up as 'ta' rather than 'Rock' for example.
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Bumping this thread. Still finding this issue on Galaxy S2 running Jelly Bean.
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Still get this problem with a Samsung S3 Mini running 4.2. All my .m4a files have come across as genre "ta".
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Samsung S3 4.1.2 stock, may 24. Same issue. amazing how it's still open from 2010
There are other issues, not getting some Artist or artwork from some of the files too. but that might be another story
There are other issues, not getting some Artist or artwork from some of the files too. but that might be another story
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I think I read somewhere that it is actually a problem with iTunes which does not implement the aac standard for genre coding properly, whereas android follows the rules more strictly. Anyway, if you recode all your genres to non-standard names, e.g. Jazz->Jazz. and R&B->R&B., then the problem goes away (but you end up with silly-looking genres).
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** THIS IS FIXED IN FROYO 2.2. **
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I started to report this against Froyo 2.2 but before submitting it, I used a tool that rebuilds the genre "database" on my Droid. Sure enough, after running the tool, everything was correct. I am still submitting this to the web site because I couldn't find this problem described anywhere. Hopefully, it will help those running older versions of Android.
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On my Motorola Droid, I've been using Meridian as my media player. It has the feature to play music by genre. All of my songs have correct genre information, except for my .m4a files. Those songs have the album title as their genre instead of the genre information displayed in iTunes or Mp3tag. I originally thought this was a problem with Meridian, but I recently installed the 3 (Cubed) media player. It has exactly the same problem. Since the 3 (Cubed) media player is open source, I went browsing through the source to see where the genre information comes from. Not being an Android developer myself, it appears that the genre information comes from MediaStore.Audio. That would explain why both players have the same incorrect information. Here is the body of the e-mail I sent to the Meridian developer that is my best guess as to why the genre information is incorrect for .m4a files.
Thanks, MikeP
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I have done some investigation about my problems with Genre handling in Meridian and it appears that Meridian does not handle the "gnre" tag in MP4 files the same way as most other apps in the world. This may be because iTunes does not follow the "official" standard and everyone has had to adapt their handling of the "gnre" tag to the way iTunes does it. For example, Mp3tag handles Genre's the same way as iTunes does for .m4a files. (According to the Atomic Parsley web site, the header of an MP4 file has some indicator of what "major file brand" the file conforms to. iTunes files have M4A in the header.)
If a song in iTunes has a Genre from the ID3v1 pre-defined list, see
it writes a "gnre" tag in a binary-encoded format where the binary value is one greater than the value listed on the web site. For example, the Genre "Rock" is written as a binary value of 18. (If the genre is outside that list, then iTunes uses the "gen" tag which contains the genre name in text.) Meridian's Genre handling expects that the "gnre" tag is followed by text and ends up using the title of the album as the Genre for the song for .m4a files ... because the album tag follows the Genre tag in most .m4a files in iTunes.
Two informative discussions on this topic can be found at:
and
I found these discussion threads by googling "gnre vs gen genre tags".
Hope this is information you may find useful,
MikeP