I have a Nexus S 2.3.3 (Build GRI54)
I've uploaded some mp3s to the phone under /mnt/sdcard/media/audio/
Anything listed here appears only under "recently added"
I've also tried but with no luck:
/mnt/sdcard/media/music
/mnt/sdcard/media/audio/music
/mnt/sdcard/music
I also downloaded "Rescan Media Root" from the Market but after loading it, in red, it said there was an error.
Where am I suppose to place my music on the Nexus S so it appears correctly in "Artists", "Albums", and "Songs"?
Figured it out. I used "Rescan Media" (not the one with Root in its name) and it worked.
Music also has to be in /mnt/sdcard/music/
Just have to get use to rescanning music I add. Odd that it doesn't do it itself when you load up the Music app.
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Pardon me if this has been addressed elsewhere. I have searched the internet as well as these forums and have found "similar" posts but nothing EXACT.
I have a Samsung Captivate just upgraded to the official Froyo - everything works great EXCEPT FOR THIS:
Playlists synchronized from my PC to the phone do not show up in ANY media player EXCEPT for "Music Player" (OEM/stock) - I have used Media Monkey, doubleTwist and WinAmp on the computer side and on the phone side I have used Mixzing, WinAmp and doubleTwist to play - ALL the music shows up (with correct tags) but the playlists do NOT in any player except for Music Player - I suspect this is either a known issue with no known work-around, or the workaround is simple and I'm about to get yelled at for not knowing what exact word string combination to search for to pull it up.
I've never been able to transfer my playlists either so I'd like to know if there is a solution too. If not there's always the longer way by adding the songs you want to an sd card, save them as playlist then move the music from there & repeat as needed.
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mremer said:
Pardon me if this has been addressed elsewhere. I have searched the internet as well as these forums and have found "similar" posts but nothing EXACT.
I have a Samsung Captivate just upgraded to the official Froyo - everything works great EXCEPT FOR THIS:
Playlists synchronized from my PC to the phone do not show up in ANY media player EXCEPT for "Music Player" (OEM/stock) - I have used Media Monkey, doubleTwist and WinAmp on the computer side and on the phone side I have used Mixzing, WinAmp and doubleTwist to play - ALL the music shows up (with correct tags) but the playlists do NOT in any player except for Music Player - I suspect this is either a known issue with no known work-around, or the workaround is simple and I'm about to get yelled at for not knowing what exact word string combination to search for to pull it up.
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Don't know if this will help you, so here goes. I noticed that when I downloaded some mp3's that a few of the tags were WAY off (band name, song title, etc). So I downloaded, from the Market, MP3 Tagger to rename those tags. What I'm getting at is that MP3 Tagger automatically finds where your mp3's are stored on your phone, then allows you to make changes, then the newly-changed file shows up in your media players automatically. I hope this helps.
What are you using to sync the music and create the playlist? Are you connecting the Captivate as a Mass Storage device or a Media Player? If connecting as a Media Player, then the playlists will be created as WPL files which I believe only the stock player will play. I connect the captivate as a Mass Storage Device and then sync it that way, which creates an M3U playlist which can be played by everything
only WMP makes WPL lists and it can be changed in settings. he mentioned he used winamp and others. so probably not the issue.
also i find mounting as media player, sucks, i did that and half my music disapeared. might have been a bad phone though. been replaced but ever since i connect as mass storage.
I've tried mass storage and media player. When I use mass storage the music loses its organization (folders, etc) but that might have been a MediaMonkey thing. I will try the experiment again using mass storage and doubletwist and winamp- I have the highest faith in those two...
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The playlists ARE showing up on the phone but ONLY in the stock music player. Its almost like they are being intercepted. I am going to try mass storage and doubletwist tonight.
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I had the same problem then started using doubletwist on y phone and desktop to sync. It works perfect now.
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I just tried using doubletwist to doubletwist using "storage mode" not MTP and I'm having the same problem. The playlists do not show up in ANY application on the device except for "My Music" (OEM player). All the tracks, albums, artists show up in the other player just not the playlists.
I have a lot of music on my SD card and normally use Google Music (4.1.511) to play it. However, I noticed that a couple of albums I've added this week are not showing up in Music and no matter what I do, I can't make them show. Here's it what I've done so far:
Cleared cache and data in Google Music
Booted into recovery and cleared cache & dalvik
Checked file properties and permissions in Root Explorer
Played the tracks in Google Music by going into Root Explorer, long tapping and hitting Open (plays fine )
Confirmed the music doesn't show in stock ICS Music
Removed stock ICS Music
Uninstalled Google Music (also went into /system/app and deleted the APK)
Re-installed from APK
Fixed permissions and checked SD card in recovery
Checked that the files are correctly tagged and re-copied them from the computer
Probably other stuff I've lost track of
After all that, these new albums are still not showing up in Music. The rest of my collection is there, just not anything added recently, even though I can see these files in Root Explorer and play them in Music by long tapping --> Open. WTF???
Can anybody give me any ideas before I go insane? And please don't suggest other music players, I like Google Music and it has always worked well for me across different ROMs. There must be some fix to this.
Try an app that forces Android to rescan for media files.
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Tried Rescan Media and still no dice. I backed up my ROM and flashed a different one and it showed them up within a couple of minutes of booting. Very, very odd.
wmoore said:
Tried Rescan Media and still no dice. I backed up my ROM and flashed a different one and it showed them up within a couple of minutes of booting. Very, very odd.
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Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but a lot of people seem to still have this issue. Here's what worked for me:
Some apps rely on the Media Storage service to list media files on the device, instead of enumerating files every time they are launched. In other words, Media Storage indexes the files on your device, then apps like Play Music query Media Storage to know which files to display.
For some reason, on my phone, it only indexed files if they were copied through USB. If I copied MP3s from a network share using ES Explorer, or from Team Viewer, they wouldn't show up in Play Music.
The solution was to clear Media Storage's data (Settings => Apps => All => Media Storage => Clear Data) then reboot the phone. This forces the service to reindex all content. Play Music will act as if there's no music at all on the device for a few minutes, then everything should show up.
I hope this can help someone
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The solution was to clear Media Storage's data (Settings => Apps => All => Media Storage => Clear Data) then reboot the phone. This forces the service to reindex all content. Play Music will act as if there's no music at all on the device for a few minutes, then everything should show up.
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this was the same solution I stumbled upon.
The Solution to clear the media storage data and reboot works! Thank you so much.......
Hello,
I recently upgraded to ICS and am having trouble using Google's Music Player to play my music. Note that I'm trying to play music from my SD card; I have no music uploaded to Google's Music Player. It worked fine in Gingerbread.
For some reason any time I click on a song an error pops up saying "Music Playback Error - unable to play song" or something similar. Not to mention I have duplicate playlists (3 of the same playlist) in my Playlist list.
Anyone know of a fix for this? I like the layout of the default Music Player but should I just switch to another player? Any suggestions?
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Hello,
I recently upgraded to ICS and am having trouble using Google's Music Player to play my music. Note that I'm trying to play music from my SD card; I have no music uploaded to Google's Music Player. It worked fine in Gingerbread.
For some reason any time I click on a song an error pops up saying "Music Playback Error - unable to play song" or something similar. Not to mention I have duplicate playlists (3 of the same playlist) in my Playlist list.
Anyone know of a fix for this? I like the layout of the default Music Player but should I just switch to another player? Any suggestions?
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i just experienced this error also just few hours ago & until now i cant play my favorite music . shall we transfer all music files in SD?
Im having the same problem. i tried formatting both sd cards but everytime i go back into google play the music is still there and is unplayable. in my other music player the same problem. im on the stock ics build unrooted. i also cleared cache in settings and in stock recovery as well. im about to root and flash a custom rom but would rather not have to do all that. any suggestions?
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also i have not set up cloud storage so it should not be related to that either
Work around google play music
I found a work around- not a solution to the issue with the app...but I'm playing my music!
Open a web browser on your phone to music.google.com
When I do that all my music is right there. It plays fine. I guess its what the ipad/ipod/iphone peeps use to creep onto the Google music cloud. Ironic...
-Running a Droid X
I was told to move music to internal. Its running fine so far, but time will tell
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For a one stop shop are Vincom's threads
Everything Root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
Returning to Stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
Found a solution to my problem
Just wanted to chime in on how I found my fix, although it was for issues playing off the cloud, when I originally copied songs to SD then deleted off.
My Google Music would play music and gave me a playback error message. But I figured it was due to songs that I had originally copied to the external SD, and recently deleted. Playing those songs from the cloud gave me the error, while songs I never copied to SD played just fine.
So my thoughts were that the phone probably still thinks its playing those songs from the SD when it shouldn't because I deleted them.
My solution: turn off data and wifi, set google music to show only what was on device (because it still thinks songs were still stored in the phone), and deleted every single song one-by-one, a tedious process.
Then go manage apps and cleared app cache, uninstalled the app, reboot, reinstall, turn on wifi+data... and voila, those songs are playing off the cloud again.
If that didn't work then I would've factory reset.
I would think that this would work too for songs that were on SD card, but when I had problems with external SD music, I just cleared app cache, unmount SD and reboot.
Hope this helps for anyone else that runs into this problem.
Have u tried using another music app vincom jb mod has no music player I prefer player pro its very nice and has many options compared to stock
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Never had problems from gingerbread to ics ran it from SD music check ur settings or run it thru kies
divadkha said:
Just wanted to chime in on how I found my fix, although it was for issues playing off the cloud, when I originally copied songs to SD then deleted off.
My Google Music would play music and gave me a playback error message. But I figured it was due to songs that I had originally copied to the external SD, and recently deleted. Playing those songs from the cloud gave me the error, while songs I never copied to SD played just fine.
So my thoughts were that the phone probably still thinks its playing those songs from the SD when it shouldn't because I deleted them.
My solution: turn off data and wifi, set google music to show only what was on device (because it still thinks songs were still stored in the phone), and deleted every single song one-by-one, a tedious process.
Then go manage apps and cleared app cache, uninstalled the app, reboot, reinstall, turn on wifi+data... and voila, those songs are playing off the cloud again.
If that didn't work then I would've factory reset.
I would think that this would work too for songs that were on SD card, but when I had problems with external SD music, I just cleared app cache, unmount SD and reboot.
Hope this helps for anyone else that runs into this problem.
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Clearing Google Play Music Cache and wiping Data would have been enough.
Solved my problem this way!
Google play error
I have a rooted Asus Nexus 7
I had a problem with Google play music
It would stop playing part way through songs
But I found a solution to the problem
Uninstall the factory installed app with titanium backup
Then go to Google app store and search for google play and reinstall the app
It now works fine for me it has been functioning for 3 days with out problems
As much as google support wanted me to unroot my device or they wouldn't help me with my issue I hope this helps everyone out
A small solution that worked for me.
I just received a error meesgae when I trued to listen to my music on android tablet. I found a solution that worked for me. I removed my SD card and then placed it back into my tablet. Then I went to setting>storage and set storage to SD card. I went back to Google music player to make sure my device was looking for music from the sd card. My music is saved on my device so of course there was no music to be found. Then I went back to storage settings and selected device for storage. Went back to music player there was all music and they all played fine.
Sorry if this was maybe supposed to be posted in another forum or thread.
Flashed with ZEUS 6, I went to listen to some songs of mine, and all the songs were blank: the song and album titles weren't there. When I pressed one of the blank songs, I got: "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file," but the player showed the name of the song. I scrolled down and saw only three playable songs with the titles and album art listed. I went to My Files and was able to play the .mp3's there, though, for some reason. Recorded video just said, "Unsupported file type." I Google'd around as much as I could, but all of the solutions didn't go pass deleting a Twitter app, something I never downloaded or had. I think it might've had something to do with uninstalling BetterBatteryStats, but I'm unsure. I'm not sure if it's something I did or the ROM, which has been pretty buggy ever since I flashed it. I rebooted the phone already, a bunch of times, and it seems like the only option I have is to flash back to stock, unless there's another solution. This started happening today.
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All the songs are on an external SD card.
iTag and Google music also only listed those 3 songs, but PowerAmp was able to list and play them fine (I downloaded it to see if it wouldn't play those songs).
Unable to record or play recorded videos.
EDIT: I fixed the music problem. As it turns out there was something called a .nomedia file on my SD card. I deleted it, but I still can't record or play recorded videos.
It installed and works but when I select an audio file in various apps (like file explorer or my podcast app) it never shows up as an option to play it. I used to be able to but not anymore. There will be 2 or 3 options to play the file using a few other apps (but not all of the apps capable of playing audio files on my phone). MX Player is never there. I had an earlier post but thought it had something to do with the podcast app but now I see it's more than that. Any clues? Thanks