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**vvMINOvv** · 2 January 2011, 08:34

aaaaaany help?

ps. bump

**nibynoga** · 5 January 2011, 13:32

I had the same issue (Xperia X8). The problem was with broken images of album art. Once I deleted some invalid image files from the folders Winamp started working properly.

**vvMINOvv** · 5 January 2011, 13:35

seriously eh, that seems like an easy fix (only I have 100's of songs in there I wouldnt know where to start) but definitely thanks for that

**nibynoga** · 5 January 2011, 13:41

If it's any help, the images were also not displayed in the stock album app. There was only an icon looking like a broken frame or something... It was easier to figure out which files were invalid.

**sethdrummer** · 11 January 2011, 05:06

I have the same problem with it force closing. I have no album art at all on my phone. I what to love winamp but it is not reciprocating the love to me.

**sethdrummer** · 11 January 2011, 19:43

So i connected my phone to my usb on my computer and mounted my the sd card. then well it was mounted i started winamp on my phone. it started with no problem. So i know that the problem was on the sd card not my phone. i took the advice of nibynoga and took a look for album art.

I looked in my music folder. no art anywhere. then i went back to the root of the sd card and saw albumthums ... or something like that. and just deleted it. unmounted my phone. started winamp and it didnt force close on me.... and as for my phone crashing and restarting its self alll the time that seems like it has stopped to i hope this helped.

here was the problem

"12-17 10:47:18.404 E/AndroidRuntime(30683): at com.nullsoft.winamp.MusicUtils.getArtworkFromFile(MusicUtils.java:1235)
12-17 10:47:18.404 E/AndroidRuntime(30683): at com.nullsoft.winamp.MusicUtils.getArtwork(MusicUtils.java:1169)
12-17 10:47:18.404 E/AndroidRuntime(30683): at com.nullsoft.winamp.MusicUtils.getArtwork(MusicUtils.java:1154)
12-17 10:47:18.404 E/AndroidRuntime(30683): at com.nullsoft.winamp.NowplayingSupport$AlbumArtHandler.handleMessage(NowplayingSupport.java:1524)"

the E/ means error all those E/ through out your post are allll errors....

**Dahlbeck** · 12 January 2011, 20:19

I'm having the same problem on my X10 Mini. It seems Winamp for Android crashes at some times when it tries to display album art. Could it be that it tries to import album art based on ID3 tags, because I don't have any album art at all except for those that came stock with the phone yet still I recall seing appropriate art...?

And what's worse, when I try to reopen the program, it defaults back to the same screen that caused the crash. - Makes diagnostics a pain!

At first I didn't find any such thing as "albumthumbs" but it turned out to be a directory. Should the entire directory be deleted or just the contained files?

@sethdrummer: How did you retreive the crash log?

EDIT: Update - Deleting the "albumthumbs" directory didn't solve my problem...

**sethdrummer** · 13 January 2011, 14:17

this is the way you get your crash log:

Android Debug Bridge (adb) | Android Developers

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

Find out about the Android Debug Bridge, a versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with a device.

did you delete the contents of the directory or just the file inside?

albumthumbs is a directory on the sd card that android puts on there it seams from other stuff that i read online.

... im going to do some looking into this... going to mess with some settings.

BACK: ok sooo here is what i found it only comes up on some of the songs on my phone if i play a song that is screwed up it seems like it has a problem getting the the image and displaying it in winamp, then it crashes. then when i start it up again it keeps crashing because it is trying to play the last song that it was trying to play... then it crashes again.

sooo what you have to do is find the songs it crashes on, delete them from your phone, and replace them with one that have album art. if you are in your car or out some where that your dont have a computer near by you can use the app "es file explorer" to delete the file so you can reopen winamp with out it crashing once you open it.

if you what to see the file that is screwing up stuff open up the albumsthumbs folder and open the different files with paint or what ever, the one that cant open is the one that is messed up and to delete.

it is a pain in the ass, but that seems to be the problem...

i hoped that all helped... this is my first form that i have ever wrote in ... i hope i explained it well enuff

**Dahlbeck** · 13 January 2011, 16:30

That was a pretty good explanation, thanks! - Though it doesn't help since my problem seems to be the opposite.

It's kind of bizarre, in that at least one (probably more) of the songs that crashed did have embedded album art (files added by drag'n'drop to SD-card, not Winamp synch). The one that currently has Winamp Android "locked up" was bought from Spotify (and those are the only only ones in my posession that have). Freaky...

Guess I'll just have to bite the darned apple (hope that word isn't censored around here, lol) and do some testing...

**Dahlbeck** · 13 January 2011, 19:08

I have now indulged into the mess that ID3-tagging and image embedding is and I think I've got the problem figured out. It seems that it's simply a matter of the images being too large. I've managed to crash by playing two files with 800x800 (or similar size) jpegs embedded. On the other hand a 450x450 file seems to pose no problems, neither does a 466x475 embed).

My phone has a 320x240 LCD so obviously both those that work and those that don't work are being converted to lower res. Perhaps the app (or hardware/app combo) simply can't handle converting any larger files?

EDIT: Now this is funny - Even browsing the files in the music folder in the Windows program "Mp3tag" (which shows tags and any album art while doing so) crashes (reboots) the phone when I select a file with 800x800 art. Case closed. Now I just need to make sure to delete or shrink the album art before transfering it to the SD-card. Tedious but doable...

**nibynoga** · 14 January 2011, 23:00

Great, so I guess we have the culprit

I wonder if it's only Xperia issue... I can see we have here X10/X10 mini/X8 users.

**mtfreestyler** · 20 January 2011, 03:16

The Album art was the problem with my X10i.

The difference with mine was that winamp would always recreate the folder after I deleted it.
In the end to get it all right I had to edit each file individually which was corupt (It was easy to spot since they had 0 kb of data) and edit it in paint. The files also had no file extension on the end so I had to rename all of them to end in .jpg so I could edit and when I was finished I took the .jpg off and copied them to the directory on the phone.

All works good now except all my album art is now just a simple red cross due to my lack of creativity when editing.

Doesn't make any sense? Well ask a question and I'll reply to it in more detail.

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