Android VLC album art issue ... how do we fix it?

[Ahearn Irving]

I've had my Android smartphone (Nexus 4) only a couple of weeks and I'm still very newb with it after being a BlackBerry user for many years. Fortunately, have tons of open source experience on PC to fall back on but it's a bit different on this phone; and I'm stuck on the album art problem that doesn't seem to have a working solution for me. I've spent days and days using my spare time googling for solutions but nothing has worked at all so far!

First off, have been a VLC user for many years but in a PC environment. I never saw the album art bug there because VLC is not my audio player, I use it for video only. So I only ran head-on into this problem when I dl Android VLC just after I got my new phone a couple weeks ago.

*** First off, I have to repeat what others have said, thank goodness for VLC! It's an awesome app, I've always loved it! And for the first time in my cell phone usage life, it's such a relief to know that I will never have to re-encode any darn single movie I have _ever_ again as it plays all format on the Android just like on the PC!!! Woohoo! ***

But ... the Android version gave problems displaying wrong and sometimes extremely inappropriate images right from the get-go. It's the single thing about my new cell that has been driving me insane in last couple weeks. I've replaced the songs multiple times now after different re-edits of the MP3 ID3 tags trying to see what would make VLC _stop_ displaying internet-picked art over the embedded cover art I so painstakingly added to all the MP3s I put on it - i.e., one solution called for ensuring that there is text in the "Album" field of the ID3. I did that, but no joy. Still not displaying the embedded images!!!

Also, unlike my Portable PC version of VLC, the Android VLC version doesn't seem to have a lot of preferences so I can't seem to find the settings that's defaulted to Android VLC superceding internet art over embedded art (which is just so _dumb_!). So what to do??

So is there a definitive fix for displayed album art on Android VLC, please, anyone know? Some of the posts are 1-3 years old, already. Surely this has been resolved by now for Android VLC????????







(I couldn't find any setting anywhere to fix on _Portable_ version of VLC I use on my PC, so don't know how to fix it there, either, since now that I see VLC displays art, unlike my small windows-title-sized MP3s player. I'm jazzed about using VLC for audio, too but only b/c of how neat the album art feature makes the audio experience! But I'll post that question in the PC forum rather than here, of course.)

[edwardw]

Internet art isn't enabled on VLC for Android as of April 2014.

Please send us the defective file.

[Ahearn Irving]

Internet art isn't enabled on VLC for Android as of April 2014.

Please send us the defective file.

Oh, that's great that this is finally off by default!!!

But rather than fix the issue, I'm thinking now that it's better to do a factory reset (?). Because I've been testing a lot of software searching to bring the type of functionality that I had on my BlackBerry to my new Nexus 4, a couple of things have stopped working properly (i.e., stock contacts app no longer accepting contact photos). So once I figure out how to back up what I have, I'm going to get help from my service provider to do a factory reset and then "re-install" everything.

So because of that, would it not be more beneficial to just dl the latest VLC Android version that has this feature fixed? I imagine I must have gotten the version at the cusp of the change in April 2014 and just happened to get a version that still put the wrong album art.

Which version should I be looking for after I do this "wipe/reinstall", please?

Thanks so much! Really glad they took that default off!!!


p.s., what sort of "defective file" would I have had to send??

p.p.s., Also, where are all the settings in VLC Android like on the PC?? We have an overabundance of settings for the PC version and virtually nothing on the Android _it_seems_ ... I can't believe there are so few settings so wondering if, perhaps, there's a way to access them that is not apparent ... (??)

[edwardw]

It's not so much that it's off by default, rather we haven't ported that module yet.

And you can try a nightly build - http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/arm ... 7-0110.apk