Anyone have issues with the pre-installed "Music" app failing to recognize files on the external SD card? (in the Dock)
I have an SDXC 64g card in the dock, and I can navigate files within it fine, using the file explorer.
But the built-in music app only shows the sample tracks, never any on the SD card.
Restarted several times. Unmount-remounted the SD card within android too (several times).
Several other posts suggested "rescan for music" but I cannot locate such a thing in any of the music player's built-in menus.
I've also tried several 3rd party music players, such as WinAmp, Powerplayer, etc (in fact, I've tried all the ones with good ratings from the market) but these apparently are just layered over the built-in player's information.
I can play one song at a time, by using the file explorer, so it's not an access issue or formatting issue-- and while playing, the tags appear fine.
It appears to be a problem with the music database? I have no idea where that may be found.
Stock TF101, not rooted, 16gb, with keyboard dock.
Try Meridian Media player,
working for me
I have found a couple that permitted folder-browsing, and awkward playing via folders.
What I would prefer is fixing the basic issue: the built-in media library does not scan either external card for music content.
If there is a hidden way to refresh this engine, I'd love to learn about it.
In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.
I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.
dburckh said:
I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.
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Thanks for clearing it up-- I will now take it up with Asus, by entering a trouble-ticket.
At the very least, if enough people complain, maybe they will fix their kludge (to the Android OS).
Marct77 said:
In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.
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I have not tried the microSD, just the SD card.
I have only 32gig on my micro-- not enough room.
My SD card is a 64gig one (SDXC), and has all of my music files on it.
I verified I can access the card and it's content via File Explorer, and I can play songs on the SD one at a time that way...
I haven't tried to play any mp3s via the dock but i use playerpro and there is a folder play option where you can just navigate to folders. I'm not sure if it can go high enough to hit /removable/ for you to get to the SD slot but i'm gonna guess if you can get to microsd you can get to sd.
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I would like to use SD Card2 as a place to dump my mp3s and videos, but can't get any of the media players to recognize it. Astro sees it fine though. Is this a problem with Vegan or is this just not supported by the media players I've tried thus far?
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I would like to use SD Card2 as a place to dump my mp3s and videos, but can't get any of the media players to recognize it. Astro sees it fine though. Is this a problem with Vegan or is this just not supported by the media players I've tried thus far?
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Yes to both, perhaps:
1. Previous Vegan builds could not see the sdcard2, but I think newer builds do.
2. Most media apps only see the microsd, which in the Gtablet's case is the internal storage. Not many treat all storage as one database. Some allow picking what directory in what storage.
Have to tried to navigate to the file through a file explorer and choosing the appropriate app at that point...seems to work for me in most cases.
VEGAn 1.0.0 beta 4 should work with the microSD - however, keep in mind that there is also a known issues with image and video files that have gone missing it (which we think it the new TnT kernel).
try rockplayer, it has built-in file browser that can browse the external microsd card as well (atucally the whole file system).
I am running Vegan beta 4 right now and sdcard2 works fine for music and stuff.
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I have been working on trying to understand how to use the different SD cards, but seem to be having some trouble. The other day i plugged my phone to my laptop to put a movie on my phone. Put it in mass media storage mode, opened the drive on the computer, went to media, added a folder "video" and that seemed to work just fine. This time i wanted to put a bunch of music on the phone. So i connected it with mass media mode again, selceted the drive and selected the external card. When i transferred the music it seemed to be fine, but then on my phone i could not find it on the external sd card, nor anywhere else for that matter. I didn't want to plug it in with the kies option as i dont really plan to be using kies.
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks for all the continued support.
I've transferred some music to my phone (to the main SD card). After I did, it scanned for media files like it always does once you disconnect from the mass media mode, and it was there. I've also transferred a video (to the external one), and it scanned for media files (like always) and it worked fine. Try rebooting your phone if the files ARE on there. Or just try transferring them again?
Where are you getting the music from. Did you purchase it off of itunes. That would cause it to not do it. Just a thought.
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The album i tried to transfer was not from itunes. It's weird because on my computer it showed it on there, but not when i searched on the phone. lugged it back into the computer and it still showed it... How would i need to transfer the music so that it will show on the external sd as well as when I go to music player? The only time i saw music is when i put it on my internal card as mentioned above. When i did it this way it also made a file for each song when i opened the gallery which is annoying.
Thanks again for the help!
Did you format the external SD card on the phone? Try that first, then transfer some files over.
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No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick!
Do you have any apps to hide media?
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(((New User of Andriod Infuse)) - MUSIC * Video - works nicely
QUOTE: Heuser1 No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick! /QUOTE
Heu*;
here are some steps for your "music" issues ( try these ) before you move to phone via USB cable
a) CD that you ripped = in MP3 format ATLEAST - maybe you can rip that CD again using Windows Media [FONT="Century Gothic[/SIZE]"](and makes sure its setup for MP with 128kpbs as min)[/FONT]
b) Than connect to PC/laptop via USB cable , and first thing to do = FORMAT SD card ( after mounting it etc etc
c) Move the files ( i nornmally create a folder etc jsut like the Itunes does in windows etcetc)
Works nicely!!!
However there are some files ( MP3 and few VIDEO formats) that wont play on andriod , eg RMVB and LOSLESS are the files i COULD NOT PLAY on my infuse
note:: SD cardhas to be seen by Andriod ( if its not comptable than you wont see it in the phone )
My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
when you stream music, the songs are stored in the sd card memory in a format that i cant remember off the top of my head. If you delete them, they will just be redownloaded if you stream again. Other than that idk whats taking up so much space.
Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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Thank you ever so much for that tip. That app found my problem in literally - seconds - after I installed it. My problem was my .trashes folder. There was 18 GB worth of trash in it. Computers were not able to see the contents. Now I have 24 GB on my sd card. THANK YOU!!!!!
Do you use boot manager? I know on mine it takes up alot of space on the sd card.
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My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
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I know someone else suggested a solution, but here is another one if you use Astro. There is an option in tools that sorts folders and files by size.
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This is a pretty involved question for here, but I need my 10 posts.
On the GT 7 plus (unrooted), I am having all kinds of issues trying to use the External SD card for mp3s. Music players, stock and aftermarket, all look in the /sdcard/Samsung/Music folder (not sdcard/music). So I used the Blackmoon File Browser to make a jump point from that folder to /sdcard/extstorages/sdcard and it worked (music fed into database, sorted, played in music player, and album art retrieved) Two days later, it lost the link and I only have a few of the Samsung music samples that came with the tab. All attempts to re-link have failed, including reinstalls of file browser, reformatting SD and reloading mp3s etc.
In Blackmoon and ES file browsers I am able to read and write to the external SD and even play the mp3s, but they will not feed into any music player. I think the trouble started when I installed Sky FM and noticed a DRM app running in Services. I uninstalled Sky FM and the DRM is gone, but still no music player linking to external SD.
I guess I could reset to factory defaults and lose all my GPS maps, and maybe still not fix it. Why does Samsung/Android make functions that should work right out of the box for the average, non-technical consumer SO problematic?
One thing Blackmoon shows me that may be a hint- all folders (system files) have a lock symbol except sdcard (internal sd) BUT within this, the extstorages folder (external SD card) is also locked.
I understand the 10 post rule, but I think this post needs to be escalated by the moderator out of this simple questions thread. And I'll bet there are plenty of other people having the same problem with the 7 plus and 7.7.
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the best place for this to be posted would be in the General Section of the Galaxy Tab Forums( http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1427&order=desc)
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Replying to my own post with a fix for anyone with the same problem of music files on an external sd not being visible to music player(s).
I was about to restore factory defaults anyway, so I went into Settings/Applications/All/Media Storage and DELETED its data. After rebooting, the media scanner started right up and the music was visible in the music player(s) after about a 10 minute media scan (of 24 albums).
It seems that once the music player somehow lost its link to these files, the media scanner did not start up because it already had what it thought was legitimate data. Why it would not re-run after unmounting and remounting the sd card is beyond me. Maybe it did run but did not send a new pointer to the music player. But once I deleted the data the Media Storage section of Applications and rebooted the tablet with an sd card that obviously had media files on it, it must have triggered the media scanner to run again, and all was well.
The lock on the external sd card is another issue- it means you cannot write to the external sd card on this tablet with any application or market file browser, only with the Samsung supplied MyFiles file browser. There is a long thread on this issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021 , but it leaves people with un-rooted machine with factory recovery (rather than CWM recovery) hanging.
Hi guys
I'm going out of my mind trying to transfer my music collection on to the Xperia Z3.
I have a collection of roughly 15GB and have been attempting to transfer to a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card via both Sony Bridge for Mac and Android File Manager. The file transfers look to complete successfully and on the phone all songs look to be present too.
The issue comes when trying to play songs with both Walkman and Poweramp, a lot of the songs just skip through without playing at all and 50% of the songs that do play, all I hear is a portion of one specific song that sounds chopped up.
Does anyone have any idea what's happening and how I can get the whole music collection playing correctly on the Z3 as I did on my previous Z2?
Many thanks!
Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.
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Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.
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Thanks for the reply.
I have tried reformatting the card several times, using the 2 pieces of software I mentioned, Copying manually through a card reader into Macbook slot and none of those worked. I never had an issue with the Z2. Half of the songs skip as if they are corrupted, while the other half weirdly play the same chopped 20 seconds from the same 2 random songs before skipping.
I have managed to get somewhere finally by using the Sony Bridge software to transfer the songs over in blocks of up to 50 songs (there seems to be a limit before it all goes wrong again!) at a time and this looks to have worked, though will take a few sessions to get all the songs copied.
All very odd...
Is the card formatted as fat32? If it is the max it can write is 4gb probably that's why it gets corrupted. Gotta transfer in increments to avoid the 4 GB limit
The 4GB limit is per file not overall.