Hello,
I searched around a bit and am seriously confused about the differences between the internal and external sd cards on my new captivate.
I have music on both the internal and my 8gb sd card.
When I put the sd card in the phone it mounts the external card and scans for media. At this point I can only see music on the external card. If I unmount the external sd card i can see the music on the internal sd card.
To test this with video as well (and to see if I was nuts) I placed a single video file (different files) on both the 8gb sd card and the internal sd card. I put the sd card in the device. At this point the video player could only see the video file on the external 8gb card and not the one on the internal sd card. I then unmounted the external sd card and the video player could only see the file on the internal sd card and not the file on the external 8gb card.
The same thing seems to be happening with the Astro sd card browser. With the external card mounted the /sd folder shows the folders on my external sd card. With the external sd card unmounted, the /sd folder shows folders I have created on the internal sd card.
Am I doing something wrong or can the device only see one card at a time?
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give as much detail as possible.
Thanks for any insight anyone might provide as this is driving me nuts.
this is a really good question, i dont believe its been answered yet. Do other droids integrate their dual micro sd cards so they interact seamlessly? Do other droid devices even have more than one micro sd card?
i dont think droid's have more then one and its probably just a software problem
by droids i mean general android devices, just to clear that up.
Mine is showing music in the music player from both my internal memory card and my external 16gb card that I got today.
*edit* Just in case it matters, I'm using doubletwist to put the music on my phone.
oh general android phones i thought you meant the droids (like eris and incredible) well then it should works on my friends g1
Well, looks like I spoke too soon. Yesterday when I tested this I had just received my SD card in the mail and popped it in to test it out for this thread. I had around 6gb of music on my internal sd card and put a few cds on my external sd card and everything worked fine. However, now that I have attempted to put all of my music on the phone (a little over 18gb) it won't read all of it. When I try to sort by artist in the music player it tells me there isn't room in the music database. Does anybody know how to get that much music on there? Help please.
*update*
After some research, it is apparent that this is a problem with the Samsung music player. I am now using tunewiki, which I like. It is a bit of a shame though, since I really liked the interface of the samsung music player. Oh well, perhaps they will fix the flaw in an update in the future. If not, tunewiki works fine for me.
Music problem
ive had and 4gb an 8bg and now a 32gb sd card and have always had problems getting either the stock music player or winamp to recognize all of my music ...its an on going pain in the ass. i also read somewhere the android does not support m4a ??? i can access ALL of my music from root explorer in almost any format...but no music player will read all of it.....only if selected thru root explorer..its def a software issue..
32gb sd card. Music found, not after update
AT&T pushed an update and since then (or since some other incidental app install) my rooted Captivate no longer shows music (about 12gb worth) on the external SD card with *any* music player. The files show in Root Explorer.
When I use Meridian Media Player and manually navigate to a file and play it, that file will then list in other media players.
This hints at a database problem. The media scanner is not scanning the external SD card. I did not edit any tags on any files, but there is certainly a random assortment of crap accumulated over a long period. Still, ZERO files are found on the external SD card.
I have about 16GB of music split between my internal and external SD card. The stock music player recognizes all of it fine, though I do experience the notorious "Not enough space in music database" issue when sorting by Artist. Luckily, there's the Winamp app for that.
PowerAmp seems to deal just fine with my music split between the builtin SD and my 32gb SD. Not a single issue has cropped up. It all just appears as one big library.
So i have a droid 2 global and everytime i try to save music on the sd card it disappears. I tried copy and pasting, doubletwist app, and now easy phone tunes. and it still does not show anything on the sd card. whats wrong?
Make sure there is no .nomedia flags in the folder you are saving your music.
Clarification: .nomedia is an empty file you put in a folder that you want to be ignored for scanning for media content. If such file is present, player will skip this location
Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL
there is no such file in my folder. it just wont save music on my sd card. it says its saved and when i unplug the usb and try to play it on the phone there is no files present
onelazyballa said:
there is no such file in my folder. it just wont save music on my sd card. it says its saved and when i unplug the usb and try to play it on the phone there is no files present
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the filetype might not be able to play in the media player (depending on media player) have you considered this? I know I use mostly mp3 but if you have AAC(apple conversion) or another it might not play.
fake sd cards
Are you using the original sd card?
Does anyone know if there is any way to save songs from the Amazon Cloud Player to the external SD Card. I have a 32gb sd card and want to use it to store my music.
I know I can just put the music on the external sd and play it with the Amazon MP3 app, but I want to be able to download songs from the Cloud Player and put them on the external card instead of using the internal sd storage.
How do I play music stored on SD card with Play Music?
The card was empty when I first inserted it in my phone. Android then put it's files in the SD card normally. I plugged my phone into my PC; I can see Android's folders in the Windows file explorer. I made a new folder labeled "Music" and copied my music into it. Google Play Music does not recognize anything on the SD card, only internally stored music. But my system music player sees the SD card just fine. The card is FAT32 formatted, if that does anything.
Anyone help?
Huawei Ascend Y300-0151
Same issue here. Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD. 64gb FAT32 microSD. Android 4.1.2. Google Play Music v5.2.1301L.891271. Android sees music... Other apps do too. But not Play. Any ideas?
For all users of DoubleTwist that have your music on an external SD Micro card, you're going to have a problem.
DoubleTwist writes the database to the external card, as well as syncs music to the SD card. Because Kitkat limits where a program can write to an External SD card, DoubleTwist can no longer write database information to the EXTERNAL SD card. This results in a frowning SD card Icon and a SD card error. Doubletwist is working on a cure for the issue. A temporary workaround is to keep your music on the EXTERNAL SD, go in to the settings of doubletwist, and set you storage to internal. The program will scan the EXTERNAL card, and include it on the player. Haven't tried to "sync" yet. New songs will probably go to internal storage. Again, DoubleTwist IS working on this now. Here is a link Doubletwist sent to explain the issue in more detail
https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
Otherwise I'm pretty happy with the update