still like the way how zune shown artis albums that has been sync to our devices, unlike Media player have to go through several step to check album status.

@Ktek, yup, Japanese name follow us chinese naming - last name (surname) then first name, so the right one is Nishino Kana.
You mean the chinese characters goes screwed up, i have this problem with Japanese and Korean, and it only happens to some of them, which is weird. For example, see these 6 pics below, all of them were in Japanese words but some would appear properly, some becomes messed up (bottom row). My guess is that, the words being typewritten with different keyboards (half width or full width katakana, hiragana, etc) has an effect on it. For chinese im not so sure. Note that i do have Chinese, Japanese and Korean language installed in my phone keyboard.

Agree, though i have neither Zune or iTunes installed in my computer... Im still old school, use file manager method to drag songs into the music folder instead of using Windows Phone app; last time i use Symbian also like that, installed Nokia suite but din go and use it, drag files from My Computer > phone instead...

happen to me too, all Chinese / Japanse kanji become messy so i used MP3Tag to rearrange all my album, no need to retype the title just drag drop all the songs to mp3tag save the whole ablums, my kanji words reappear. 
but your album will look messy, appear wrong characters..

MP3tag huh, i see, thx, will try it out.

You mean the chinese characters goes screwed up, i have this problem with Japanese and Korean, and it only happens to some of them, which is weird. For example, see these 6 pics below, all of them were in Japanese words but some would appear properly, some becomes messed up (bottom row). My guess is that, the words being typewritten with different keyboards (half width or full width katakana, hiragana, etc) has an effect on it. For chinese im not so sure. Note that i do have Chinese, Japanese and Korean language installed in my phone keyboard.

happen to me too, all Chinese / Japanse kanji become messy so i used MP3Tag to rearrange all my album, no need to retype the title just drag drop all the songs to mp3tag save the whole ablums, my kanji words reappear. 
but your album will look messy, appear wrong characters..

Lena

Is because the Album Art is missing for the music you are playing. You can change your lockscreen setting to turn off "Show artist when playing music".
Or, you can download MPAtools from Store to attach the Album Art to each song.

wow.. I only know uchida yuki , yellow monkey, smap, morning musume ( ) and other old singers..



quite good song lena -hikari

wonder why i never realized this all the while     

we are old timer ...
yuki uchida, smap, noriko sakai , shizuka kudo, chage & aska... old singer i still kept all their album collection!! 
with MPATools you can download your artist photos and it will also appear when you pin on start screen.


Background Artist Photo can be download using MPATools while each Album photo can be asign using MP3Tag

we are old timer ...
yuki uchida, smap, noriko sakai , shizuka kudo, chage & aska... old singer i still kept all their album collection!! 
with MPATools you can download your artist photos and it will also appear when you pin on start screen.


Background Artist Photo can be download using MPATools while each Album photo can be asign using MP3Tag

mp3tag available in marketplace??

mp3tag is a desktop apps. using PC to asign rearrange your mp3 tags & photos.

oh...so where to download??

oh...so where to download??

Background Artist Photo can be download using MPATools while each Album photo can be asign using MP3Tag