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Play music from USB

I am trying to do what I thought was the most basic task but I am failing. I have some albums on a USB stick stuck into the dock that I would like to play. I have tried stock, PowerAMP, WinAMP but nothing works. The best I can do is to browse via File Manager and select a track but this will only play 1 track. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

try ubermusic?
Also maybe bind mount your flash drive to the sdcard (Google it)

jcarrz1 said:
try ubermusic?
Also maybe bind mount your flash drive to the sdcard (Google it)
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Yeah, easiest is to double-mount the drive to a folder on the sd, but you'll need the Android Media Scanner to reindex before it will show up.
There must be a music player that lets you set the home folder...

Instead of a usb stick use a sd card and card reader? Some of those are freaking small. I got a really tiny sdhc card reader that I carry around in my bag just in case someone elses laptop doesn't have a sdhc reader.
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And besides that, sd cards are cheaper then usb flash drives I think
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All of my USB drives are now tiny USB card readers with MicroSD cards. Before I had that, I had a USB SD card reader that was slightly larger than a normal thumb drive. Maximum flexibility is my motto.
But it is a ridiculous shortcoming that you can't just plug a USB stick in and have it work the way it does on any PC. I dunno if it's Android, developers like Winamp or the Transformer, but its an absurd shortcoming.

msticninja said:
Yeah, easiest is to double-mount the drive to a folder on the sd, but you'll need the Android Media Scanner to reindex before it will show up.
There must be a music player that lets you set the home folder...
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Thanks for your help guys but I just cant seem to find any information on the net regarding bind mounting the usb to a folder on the SD card Could you point me in the direction of an explanation or site? I can find some useul apps in the Market but they all require Root which I am a bit apprehensive about doing. If I can avoid rooting for what should be a fairy simple task I would much prefer it. Any further help uch appreciated.

Wahooo! MortPlayer will allow you to set the library folder as \mnt\usbdisk1! Hope this helps someone. I am amazed I seem to be the only one needing this functionality. Thanks for your help guys.

When I had my Acer Iconia PowerAmp was able to see the files on my thumb drive. I had to tell it where the fioles were about four or five times before it took but it finally worked. I finally had to point it to the directory exit the app and restart it to get it to work.

No PowerAmp will only see files on SD card but not for some reason any mounted USB. As far as I know MortPlayer is the only player to allow you to index files from USB. Happy to be corrected though because whist Mortplayer is functionaly awesoe it is woefully lacking aesthetically!

Do you guys mean that I could by a USB sdcard reader and my nexus 7 would think it has a built in SD card slot? Or does it still treat it like any old USB stick?

vilbs said:
No PowerAmp will only see files on SD card but not for some reason any mounted USB. As far as I know MortPlayer is the only player to allow you to index files from USB. Happy to be corrected though because whist Mortplayer is functionaly awesoe it is woefully lacking aesthetically!
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My poweramp sees the usb drive in the dock fine.

Check the Poweramp settings for what folders it'll scan!

[Q] re-use your old android device as a tv-box?

Hi all,
I have a question, therefore here is my idea:
The idea is simple - i would like to use my old device (Desire S) as a media box - being able to have internet on my older television, put movies on the SD card and watch that over a micro-usb -> HDMI cable and have my current phone working as a remote controller.
Is this possible and if so does this exist already?
Thanks for you input.

nickdiel said:
Hi all,
I have a question, therefore here is my idea:
The idea is simple - i would like to use my old device (Desire S) as a media box - being able to have internet on my older television, put movies on the SD card and watch that over a micro-usb -> HDMI cable and have my current phone working as a remote controller.
Is this possible and if so does this exist already?
Thanks for you input.
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Possible but U need to have a suitable ROM that supports TV out through the micro USB. I Dun have a desire s so I can't advise U whether such ROM exist for your device.
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[Q] Saving HD video directly to a thumb drive or hard drive using USB OTG

I'm having a similar problem to one I noticed in a different post, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1987102 . I need to save HD video to an external storage device directly, as this guy wanted to do. However, every camera app I've tried, and ursafe media director doesn't recognize my usb otg hard drive as a location. the only way I can browse it is through file manager. Any suggestions? I have a Lenovo S-3000, takes 1080p video, and I want to be able to record directly to a thumb drive with it. Thanks in advance!

[Q] Copying DVD Movies to Note 10.1 N8013

I collect movies and have about 750 at the present time. I would like to download a few at a time to my SD card and watch on trips, etc. When finished watching, would delete and download others.
Is there a way to do this? Preferably free or at least not expensive. I have searched this forum in addition to this whole site, other Galaxy Note forums and Google with no definitive answer. Everyone has a different solution. There is one thread over two years old here but still not sure what is best way.
Expected this to be a simple task but seems it may not be possible. If it is not, is there a tablet that will let you do this? One of the reasons I purchased a tablet was to watch my movies....

m-cman said:
I collect movies and have about 750 at the present time. I would like to download a few at a time to my SD card and watch on trips, etc. When finished watching, would delete and download others.
Is there a way to do this? Preferably free or at least not expensive. I have searched this forum in addition to this whole site, other Galaxy Note forums and Google with no definitive answer. Everyone has a different solution. There is one thread over two years old here but still not sure what is best way.
Expected this to be a simple task but seems it may not be possible. If it is not, is there a tablet that will let you do this? One of the reasons I purchased a tablet was to watch my movies....
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The easiest way to do it would be using a ripping program, such as Handbrake, to convert the DVD to a video file that you can then transfer then to your tablet by connecting it to the computer. You could transfer some movies to your SD card and when you're done with them you can just delete them and put some more. Here is a video tutorial from the site Lifehacker for Handbreak:
youtu . be/F_dw0NTVZiQ (Remove the space)
Hope I helped!

Why you don't use a Player that can play you original DVD File?
Ripping is sucks. ☺
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buell47 said:
Why you don't use a Player that can play you original DVD File?
Ripping is sucks. ☺
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Because that would be a 4gb file or even 8. An avi though would be 1gb if you didn't have that great quality. We are working with an SD card that has very limited space. So size is a big problem. Don't forget that there is also probably more stuff that uses the space of the SD card such as pictures and music. And also the stock samsung video player app doesn't support vob files which are the DVD files.
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chrismin13 said:
The easiest way to do it would be using a ripping program, such as Handbrake, to convert the DVD to a video file that you can then transfer then to your tablet by connecting it to the computer. You could transfer some movies to your SD card and when you're done with them you can just delete them and put some more. Here is a video tutorial from the site Lifehacker for Handbreak:
youtu . be/F_dw0NTVZiQ (Remove the space)
Hope I helped!
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Thanks for the info. Did exactly what you recommended. Downloaded Handbreak and added the livedvdcss.dll pgm. Loaded a DVD into my pc and followed the instructions to the letter, even using their Help function. After a bunch of attempts, I gave up and will probably just get a cheap portable dvd player and leave this tablet home. Also tried the AVC program recommended on another forum with the similar results. After spending several hours on this, it is just not worth it. Wish I had never bought this tablet. Should have bought one with Windows 8. Surely could watch dvds on those........

m-cman said:
Thanks for the info. Did exactly what you recommended. Downloaded Handbreak and added the livedvdcss.dll pgm. Loaded a DVD into my pc and followed the instructions to the letter, even using their Help function. After a bunch of attempts, I gave up and will probably just get a cheap portable dvd player and leave this tablet home. Also tried the AVC program recommended on another forum with the similar results. After spending several hours on this, it is just not worth it. Wish I had never bought this tablet. Should have bought one with Windows 8. Surely could watch dvds on those........
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Why You do not use Showbox, can download movies and can also watch them on line
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chrismin13 said:
Because that would be a 4gb file or even 8. An avi though would be 1gb if you didn't have that great quality. We are working with an SD card that has very limited space.
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Yes I know about the size, but I play my video files in full HD. Not converted! Size between 8 GB and 20 GB.
I use a 64 GB micro SDXC Card.
How many Videos you want copy a the same time [emoji54]
Of course, you can't play it with the original Samsung player, but you can install a other.
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m-cman said:
Thanks for the info. Did exactly what you recommended. Downloaded Handbreak and added the livedvdcss.dll pgm. Loaded a DVD into my pc and followed the instructions to the letter, even using their Help function. After a bunch of attempts, I gave up and will probably just get a cheap portable dvd player and leave this tablet home. Also tried the AVC program recommended on another forum with the similar results. After spending several hours on this, it is just not worth it. Wish I had never bought this tablet. Should have bought one with Windows 8. Surely could watch dvds on those........
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OK. Then you could try Freemake Video Converter. It's the program that I use. It's really easy. But the actual problem is that if you don't have an nvidia GPU it's sloooooow and if you leave the default settings it will make big files. I actually use it with an AMD gpu on my desktop it's not that bad. If you have a very slow computer don't try it. But for me this is the best for my needs, mostly because it works with Greek subtitles too. If you have some time check it out. After you install it you just have to select a DVD folder. You can either select the actual DVD drive or use a program such as DVD decryptor - which I also use - to copy quickly all the DVDs you'd like and then select the folders. Or if you don't want to convert the files just do what buell47 says. Copy the files that DVD Decryptor made and use a player that that can play those files, such as MXPlayer. I hope that these methods will work!

Don't know if this makes a difference but my PC is a Lenovo G500S touch laptop with Windows 8.1, Intel i5 processor, 1tb drive and 6gb RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000. The DVD player does not read Blu-Ray, only standard DVD's.
There are so many video converters available, surely one will do what I need.
All I want to do is download my own DVD movies so I can place on my SGN 10.1 GT-N8013 SD card to watch on trips, etc. Hopefully I can download several and delete and add others as I watch them. They probably have some sort of copyguard so need something that will allow them to be downloaded properly.

m-cman said:
Don't know if this makes a difference but my PC is a Lenovo G500S touch laptop with Windows 8.1, Intel i5 processor, 1tb drive and 6gb RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000. The DVD player does not read Blu-Ray, only standard DVD's.
There are so many video converters available, surely one will do what I need.
All I want to do is download my own DVD movies so I can place on my SGN 10.1 GT-N8013 SD card to watch on trips, etc. Hopefully I can download several and delete and add others as I watch them. They probably have some sort of copyguard so need something that will allow them to be downloaded properly.
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Since you have an Intel GPU I would not recomend using Freemake Video Converter. Instead use DVD Decryptor which will bypass the copyguard to rip the movie, transfer the file to the tablet and use MXPlayer to play it. DVD Shrink is another program that does the same as DVD Decryptor. Both work fine for me. Do you have a big Micro SD to put all the movies? If yes, then the solution above is the best. If you don't, then that would gain a lot of space, so I would recommend finding a USB stick that you could put the movies on and then use a USB-OTG adapter that would convert your tablet's charging port to a usb port so you could plug the usb stick and play the movie of it. Be careful tough. A hard drive wouldn't work because it's too power hungry for the tablet. So try using DVD Decryptor and MXPlayer and tell me if it works.
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External CD/DVD drive via OTG cable?

Has anybody attempted to use an external CD/DVD drive via an OTG cable with their OnePlus One for reading CD content such as pics? I have a need for viewing a CD but can't carry a laptop with me. A $20 external CD/DVD drive would be the perfect solution if I can see pictures on a disc though my One. Testing an external 250gb hard drive using an OTG cable works very well, even offering thumbnails of pics on the external drive.

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Has anybody attempted to use an external CD/DVD drive via an OTG cable with their OnePlus One for reading CD content such as pics? I have a need for viewing a CD but can't carry a laptop with me. A $20 external CD/DVD drive would be the perfect solution if I can see pictures on a disc though my One. Testing an external 250gb hard drive using an OTG cable works very well, even offering thumbnails of pics on the external drive.
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I had tested this on my Nexus 7
Try out this paid app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
I'm sure this will work!

Mr hOaX said:
I had tested this on my Nexus 7
Try out this paid app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
I'm sure this will work!
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Yeah, I think I had to install something similar on my wife's Nexus for it to access the portable hard drive I mentioned. Although it seems to work connected my my ONE without any extra software other than ES File Explorer.