Tags are lost while Synch to Phone

[twildeboer]

Hello,

I have the music titels in musicbee with tags and cover. When I synch the playlist with my smartphone, on the phone is no interpreter, cover,... How can i get the data synched?

Thanks for answers in advance.

regards,
Thomas

[phred]

Is the music being sync'd but not the artwork?
Is the artwork embedded in the music file or is it a separate image file?

[twildeboer]

The music is synced to smartphone, but the music apps on phone dontshow interpreter and no cover. I tried both options, cover in file and cover in folder. The most used app on my android is phonograph, but i also tried the pre-installed music app.

[twildeboer]

I am usingthe latest 3. Music bee

[CritterMan]

Ah, yes. Android. I'm not sure what phone you have or what version of Android you're running, but it's a common complaint that the media storage can be easily corrupted on many Android phones that have been produced through the years. It could also be that your tags aren't compatible with your phone. In short, there are many possible causes. My suggestion to you would be to google the model of your phone followed by album art not showing and read the solutions that others have discovered.

[theta_wave]

If you can, transfer a few files directly from your phone to your PC and use either mediainfo or mp3tag 3rd party programs to see if they contain any tags.

[twildeboer]

I looked at the files from phone with mediainfo. The tags are filled, but there are also tags filled, which i can not see at musicbee e. g. regisseur and IAAR. These fields are filled not correct, they contain wrong characters. But I also have a file, where the both fields filled correct, but it will not be shown correct on smartphone. I enclosed hardcopies of the mediainfo, also from one file which i created direct on phone by peggo and that is diplayed correct.

Using android 5.1.1 on gigaset me

[theta_wave]

Your screenshots are obviously not showing up.  Here's a guide: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Posting_Screenshots

Alternatively, can copy and paste the mediainfo contents enclosed by {code}mediainfo stuff goes here{/code} (replace { } with [ ]).  Did you compare the mediainfo results from files from your phone and those on your PC?

[twildeboer]

hope the screenshots will yet been shown..
screenshot correct tags correct displayed
screenshot correct tags not displayed
screenshot wrong tag character 1
screenshot wrong tags character 2

the tags are on smartphione and pc identic. the wrong characters are also displayed in windows explorer

[theta_wave]

Ah I see,

Listen, historically wav files are just raw uncompressed audio with no standardized tag support unlike lossless audio formats like FLAC, APE and ALAC that feature audio compression without any loss in audio quality and standardized tagging specifications.  Still, there's some padding at the beginning and end of a wav file for data, which means potential metadata storage for tags.  MB and several other players have taken advantage of this to support some degree of tagging in wav files.  However, no standardized tagging specification for wav files leads to compatibility problems.  As a result, I am not surprised that your audio player of choice on your phone doesn't support tags in wav audio.  My advice to you is to convert your wav files to FLAC that will 1) lower the size of your file since wav files are uncompressed raw audio and 2) use a tagging specification supported by most (if not all) audio players for your phone.

[twildeboer]

thank you, that's it.

i configured EAC now to create flac files and in musicbee i let the files convert to mp3 for smartphone. then the cover and interpreter are correct shown.
the wrong characters in tags for regisseur and IAAR are still there, but make no problem. i checked and saw that the fields are filled when i start "auto-tag by album" in musicbee.