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[APP] Rescan Media (by Aditya Talpade)

This app is able to disable the mediascanner at boot. which would probably make the bootlag a bit less annoying for some people.
you can find it at market, just search for "aditya"
remember to download the root version, as the regular one can't stop the service.
also, usb-debugging must be enabled.
i have no idea how this will impact the folios performance, but it's worth a shot.
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Edit: i'm really sorry... this was meant to go in the folio 100 subforum. i guess i'm extremely tired :\ please delete as i will repost it in the correct forum.

Wonder why this media scan toggle app is disabling my ability to view pictures in gallery as well as the music player not showing any songs at all, even my mp3 ringtone in the music player is no longer playing and no longer an option under settings>sounds>ringtones ?
In other words, I thought that this app only stopped scanning/rescanning of media which would be GREAT but it not only stops the scanning, it also disables me from viewing any pictures in gallery and disables me from playing songs in Music Player and to top it off it also disables my mp3 ringtones when the phone is sopposed to ring.
(so with this app enabled my phone does not ring unless I select a built-in ringtone)
Perhaps I am doing something wrong or I just don't understand what this app is really intended for?
HELP! (I do want the media scanner not to scan unless I turn it on)
BUT I do want to be able to use mp3 song ringtones and want music player to play my mp3 songs and I do want to view all my pictures in the Gallery.
If I NEVER restart the phone this "rescan Media" media scanner app works as advertised
but after rebooting the phone it not only disables the media scanner but it also prevents me from viewing any pictures or videos in the gallery plus in Music Player no songs show up at all........
My phone is a Samsung Captivate using Froyo 2.2 firmware.
Thanks!

I don't have any problems with it.
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help with playing music

I really don't *get* android.
I put a bunch of mp3 files in a folder called "music" on sdcard2 (my
external micro sdcard - the one that goes in the slot on the side, OK).
I start either the music app or winamp and it says "no songs found" (or
the equivalent in winamp).
If I use a file manager to look at these files I can start them playing
in either winamp or music .... EXCEPT half the time some of the songs
don't play and I get a "this filetype not supported ..." (or something
to that effect).
I need some android clue about how this all works
TIA

Try either a capital M in the word Music (it's not Windows ) or try putting it on your internal memory...some apps don't like running from SDCard for whatever reason and some apps don't mind it, so it's worth a try...
I use DoubleTwist to do everything media related on my tablet and phone and it works great...transfers/organizes just like iTunes but better, imo...good luck.

The media scanner scans the entire filesystem for music, movies, etc. so it doesn't matter what the folder is named. The first scan (or scanning after a reboot) can take some time depending on a number of conditions (number of files...) so if you've just loaded the files they may not show up in your media players right away. You also might have a file called ".nomedia" in the root of your SD Card which prevents the media scanner from scanning the card which would prevent your media players from listing the files.
As for them not functioning when selected from a file manager... could be the files are corrupted. Perhaps they have an MP3 extension but are not really MP3's (other operating systems are more forgiving of this particular problem). Could be problems with the file system itself, which could also be causing the media scanner to fail.

Is there a media app that let you play music directly from your computer?

is there a media player app that can play music directly from your computer over network?

gMote 2.0 has this feature though it is very buggy and a pain to use sometimes.

audiogalaxy
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audiogalaxy

Depending on your device and what software is already installed on your computer, "UPnPlay" will add universal plug and play to your phone if not present, allowing you to connect to many different UPNP devices over wi-fi. This allows my Droid to connect to Windows Media player to play just about anything (audio/video) in my library. Should have been included in all 2.2 builds in my opinion.

kantbstopped519 said:
audiogalaxy
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audiogalaxy
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Audiogalaxy for sure. Its amazing.

thanks, audio galaxy is just what i needed.

Plex is pretty good for video streaming
Audiogalaxy does audio well but is less perfect from the video streaming point of view

DLNA
I'm using J. River Media Center with the Android Gizmo app to stream media (it's free on the Market). So I can use my Desire HD as the server or client and send media anywhere in my home over wifi. Solid app but takes a bit of setting up to start.. and the Windows client is not free.

Winamp has such a feature as long as you install winamp on your system and setup it's network player it should be really easy.

hieubui25 said:
is there a media player app that can play music directly from your computer over network?
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I've tried them all. I gave up my zune since I didn't want to update it or delete music for new stuff. I'd rather have access to my music anywhere.
Audiogalaxy- first thing I tried. It didn't pick up all my music regardless of how many times I redid the library. The audio quality was ok but it was a really basic app and website.
Homepipe- useless since it only streams if the app is active. Hit home and you're sitting in silence.
Subsonic- didn't try it too long. Another basic app.
Jukefly- still using this. Love it. It installed on my htpc no problem and the app is nice outside of having to manually force close the service. Quality is adjustable by network type. It picks up my music, and adds new stuff without having to refresh the library. The Internet app is great foo. If your server is off it will still display your library but stream the audio from youtube. I highly recommend it.
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I usually just mount my music network share with cifs manager, then any app can access the files on the share.

I see that the thread is relatively old, but maybe some of the people still have their setups working.
Did you do something special to the setup on Windows, because I would like to do more or less the same, but neither my computer sees my phone nor the other way around.
I have another UPNP-server in my Wifi which can be used by my phone as well as my computer, but what I would love to do is tell my computer to play what's on the server using my phone as remote. It worked nicely with mpd and mpDroid, but I would love to have this setup also work with Win7...
Any hints?

[Q] Offline songs in Google Play Music?

Hello, I just want to know how the Google Play Music app know where and how to select the songs on my device's local storage in order to play them in the app? In fact, on the external SD card of my phone, I made a folder with all my songs in it and when I open the app, all songs will automatically loads up in the app. But the question is that the setting of the app is dead simple; it does not even have the "music folder' selection in which I can tell what songs the app have to scan. Why and how everything comes out automatically and what happens if I have more than one "music folder"? How to app will scan? Thanks.

I want to know this as well cause Google Music isn't bad but just being able to play music when your online is just crap when you have music stored on your phone.

Android has something called a media scanner, it usually runs after boot has completed (it may also update here and then while the device is running).
So this media scanner scans all your data for music/videos/pictures so that these files can easily be accessed by any app. So it does not matter where your files are, it just finds them.
If you add music through any non standard app to your storage this may not trigger the media scanner, thats why recently added music may not show in those apps using the media scanners results.

Dan Law 001 said:
Hello, I just want to know how the Google Play Music app know where and how to select the songs on my device's local storage in order to play them in the app? In fact, on the external SD card of my phone, I made a folder with all my songs in it and when I open the app, all songs will automatically loads up in the app. But the question is that the setting of the app is dead simple; it does not even have the "music folder' selection in which I can tell what songs the app have to scan. Why and how everything comes out automatically and what happens if I have more than one "music folder"? How to app will scan? Thanks.
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You should see a tack icon above the song or go to the menu and clickkeep song or download.
Remember to click thanks ifi helped.
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Thanks for your suggestion but now I'm using Player Pro and it's much more better.
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Any music player app that doesn't use media server?

Anyone know of a music player app that doesn't use the Android media server app to scan? I want to disable media storage because it destroys my battery.
I've found that everything but my music player works fine without it...

Sadly, no.
A better option is to place a .nomedia file in every folder that you don't need Mediaserver to index. That excludes the folder from the scanner. You can find one to copy in the Android folder. It also applies to subfolders. DON'T put one in the home directory.
Mediaserver is also required for ringtones, notifications, alarms and such. If you disable it, you're stuck with the stock ringtones.