OK I am a bit confused on how Pro handles Media data for its internal apps.
I don't want to use the internal 512MB storage for photos/videos and audio files, but my nice 8GB microSDHC.
I removed all demo photos (and demo video) from internal and moved them to \Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures (and My Videos) and the TF3D Photos and Videos doesn't see a thing.
Can it be that stupid?
I am afraid same thing will happen if I move folder "Music" from root (from root, why not in My Documents\My Music!!!), to the storage card.
So please, let me know, how (if possible) will I be able to use my storage card for my media files FOR the TF3D media apps? (because ok I know I can use third party but that is not what I'm asking)
And since we are at it, what's with the "Content" folder?
Please help me.
NOBODY can help?
Mine currently does that. Camera/Videos shoots and saves to \Storage Card\My Documents\, and touchflo pulls them off of there. Not sure what the exact settings are, but check these:
Camera > Config > Advanced > (2/5) Storage > Storage Card
Also try Advanced Config 3.1:
Camera > Save Location > My Pictures
Locations > Default storage location for (images/audio/videos) > \Storage Card\My Documents
Also, I don't think the music panel cares about the location of music files. Half of the sample songs were under \Content\Music, another half under \My Documents\My Music. I threw a bunch of songs into \Storage card\Music and it found them just fine. Separate songs into Artist\Album\Song.mp3 with a folder.jpg for album art (the rest of the info gets pulled from ID3).
will try that (and get back to you)
thanks
One thing at a time...
- I already had Storage Card in Camera settings.
- I have \Storage Card\My Documents\Mu Pictures (etc. respectively) in AC3.1, should I use \Storage Card\My Documents without further subfolders?
- Aaaargh! Things are even worse now that I have checked. Camera doesn't seem to store the photos anywhere!!! (cannot find them in both the card and the device) *** EDIT: Seems the photos are in \Storage Card\My Documents, so my settings above (to use My Pictures) are ignored and more importantly Album ignores them!
Let's clean this up and then I'll check out MP3.
To be honest I don't know which specific setting tells Tflo pictures panel to look under \Storage Card. And yes some of the configs are counter-intuitive or just plain backwards (which also confuses me).
My best guess is:
1) AC3.1 Camera > Save to My Pictures (instead of DCIM) will save pictures \My Documents\My Pictures and,
2) Camer app > Save to Storage Card "prefixes" that save location with \Storage Card.
Still, not really sure how I managed to get Tflo to look in the storage card. All I can do is provide what (relevent) settings I have.
If it helps (read: it doesn't), I have AC3.1 Locations > pointing to \Storage Card\Photos (not even \My Documents). I think we need a second opinion.
also I have noticed a bunch of entries in Camera registry that ends in _409, so could my problems be related to that my MUI is set to _408?
NLS said:
also I have noticed a bunch of entries in Camera registry that ends in _409, so could my problems be related to that my MUI is set to _408?
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Don't know about that. I have 411 IME installed, but my MUI is still 409.
My hunch is that it shouldn't matter. Probably another setting somewhere else that managed to get lost in the mess of things.
well it does
I entered the same keys but with _408, soft reset and seems ok with pics - now will check with videos
then will check out what happens with MP3
thanks I'll report back
ok newer news
videos fine
BUT
now I moved all Music folder in storage card (not \Storage Card\My Documents or \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music) andtf3d player cannot find anything (after soft reset)
also registry doesn't have any _409 entry related to music
finally, content seems to just hold some cache files in my case
any further ideas?
...so anybody knows anything?
I found two keys in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config about scan path that was set to \My Documents (not \Music) and changed those but nothing changes.
TF3D audio player seems to "search" for audio but very soon mentions that there isn't any...
Heeelp?
this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2535708&postcount=2
must be the solution
OK I am having a hard time figuring this out. I wonder if all you people don't have any problems with it (or just don't share)...
I am being pretty analytical to help people help me.
Briefing:
- I have moved all music away from \Content and from \Music
- I have a folder \Storage Card\Music where I have one MP3 in the form \Artist\Album\Song and two songs thrown in the Music folder as they are
- I have searched the WHOLE registry for folder references to Music and Content and if I found any (I think just two in audio manager config keys), I changed them appropriately to \Storage Card\Music
- I am not using WMP at all (because if I do and force it to scan library it starts scanning EVERYTHING plus the FULL microSD (with hundreds of audio files inside program folders)
- I am also not using Windows-side WMP to sync music (I might do it if instructed to, plus if it really puts my music in Storage Card somewhere and of course if it works with TF3D player) ...for now have just "dropped" the three files mentioned above by hand
So...
TF3D music player DOES NOT find ANY music.
WHAT should I do to make THAT player find and use MP3 in my Storage Card (a folder in my card in fact)?
How do you people do it? Have you played around with registry? Do you put MP3 in a specific path I cannot think of? Do you follow some specific procedure?
PLEASE help because it is driving me crazy.
I know it works because I have my music stored in \Storage Card\Music and TF3d picks it up just fine. But I didn't do anything special to my config (no reg edits, etc). Before I deleted the sample music, the Library picked up both the sample mp3s and the mp3s I loaded on to my microSD card, although it took a couple soft-resets to scan in the album art. Also, every time I soft-reset, the first time I go into the Music tab, it pauses with a throbber just under the Start menu as it scans for new files.
One thing I did notice is that the TF3d "music tab" doesn't load all mp3s by default. I have to open up the Library and find them there. Then after I select a song to play, the active folder or playlist is loaded into the TF3d music tab and begins playing.
IE:
- From Library, I select the playlist icon, choose a playlist, then choose a song; that specific playlist is loaded into TF3d music tab.
- From Library, I select an Artist, then hit the songs icon (thus showing all songs by the artist regardless of album); all of those songs are loaded into TF3d music tab.
ok thanks for the info I'll check it out
...in the meantime a question for TF3D audio library. Can I delete something from in there, without deleting it physicaly?
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...in the meantime a question for TF3D audio library. Can I delete something from in there, without deleting it physicaly?
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The library has many ways to filter in/out different songs. From what I can tell you can't remove a song from the library (so that the file is still on your device/card, but doesn't show up in the library). But you can add/remove it from playlists -- which of course doesn't modify the music files themselves. In that way (as with many other mp3 players) you can choose which songs you want the TF3d player to play at any given time.
I solved the MAIN problem (now I can see songs) but...
The (newer) problem is that not all of those are real songs (just media files within programs folder) and some are physicaly deleted and still show.
I solved the second problem by deleting audiomanager_eng.vol and it recreated itself "almost correctly".
"Almost" goes to that it STILL gets some extra songs I have in the card in completely irrelevant folders (like \Storage Card\Program Files\xapplication\yfolderinapplication)!!!
Can I prevent this from happening?
The two path registry entries for audio manager are set correctly (I've set them to \Storage Card\Music and \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music respectively).
Weird?
Hi, I just finished setting up my device so it works the way I want it to work music wise.
What I did is the following
1. Copy everything under "My documents" to "Storage Card"
2. Go to HKLM\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory
I used CeRegEditor.
3. Change the value of “Folder” to “My documents”
4. Remove "My Documents"
5. (Hard)Reset the device (Touch Pro)
The "Storage Card" has changed into "My Documents". You see that the "Storage Card" doesn't excist anymore.
Now you will notice that the audiomanager has 2 entries for every mp3. This is because instead of searching "My Documents" and "Storage Card" it is searching "My Documents" twice. So you should change one of the "My Documents" to another directory
Go with a registry editor in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager\Config\
And edit : "device_scan_path_path" and or "device_scan_path_path_0"
These solutions I found by searching the internet and I just put them together.
Regards,
AJ
thanks I'll check the (first part) out too
I don't want to eliminate the whole internal "My documents"
Hello everybody!
I ask for your help, because I tried all possible solutions, but unsuccessfully.
I can't make TF3D music player to play my MP3s on the SD card.
When I had HTC Universal, I had MP3s on the SD in the "MUSICA" folder.
I copied all the folder to the new MicroSD for the Touch Pro.
Inside there are other sub-directories, as MIX, ARTISTS, etc...
The first time I open TF3D music player, it searches for music in the internal memory and in storage card.
They are a lot of files, about 3Gb, so it takes a long time to finish.
When it finishes catalogation, I find the list of all MP3s, someone with the album art.
But when I try to play one, it doesn't start.
Someone starts playing after 10s I pressed the play icon, it plays for 7-8s, then playing stops.
I can't change MP3 file with the up and down arrows near the play icon.
If I open the catalog to select another MP3 on the list, it doesn't select it and it returns to the music player showing still the previous MP3.
I read in some threads to try to stop TF3D and delete the catalog file (AudioManager_Eng.vol).
I did it, the catalog regenerated, but still the same problem.
I tried to rename the folder "MUSICA" in a more stardard "Music" or "My Music" and relaunched a new catalogation, nothing changed.
I tried also to move all files from the sub-folders to the "main" folder "My Music", nothing changed.
I had this problem with the shipped WWE ROM, but also with my actual ROM, a reconstructed ITA ROM.
I noticed that after a hard-reset, without the SD inserted, TF3DMP plays correctly the sample MP3s inside "My Music" in internal storage.
I will try to move some files to "My Music" on the internal storage to see what it happens, but it's not the solution.
I can't copy 3Gb of MP3s in the internal storage!
I saw that people can play MP3s on SD card with no problems with the TF3DMP.
So what's wrong?
I don't know what other tries I can do to try to find where's the problem.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi, that means you have something wrong - for htc's music player - with some of the mp3s on your sd card, and that the ones you chose to put in the device's memory are OK.
I have run into the same kind of problem, with a much smaller amount of music, because some of my files didn't have correct meta data (artist / album).
The best way is to try putting the albums one by one and test - or to use another music player. Personally I'm wondering if I'm not goint to switch to pocket music player, less eye candy, no album covers, but no bugs, instead of a library sorting you can chose to play a directory - I didn't find a way in HTC's player to just take the songs of a directory instead of scanning everything, in order to prevent this kind of bug...
Ok so I've spent over 4 hours trying to find a way to move my music from iTunes to my HTC HD2 with album covers and all...no luck... why in the hell is it so difficult just to put music on your phone...All my songs are mp3's and they still won't go on properly...I tried just dragging them to the music folder through My Computer. I tried using double twists software I downloaded from the phone and I tried the one from the official website.
This is ridiculous considering that my old ass samsung flip phone can sync all my music in just 35 minutes with everything i expect. So much for the Entertainment phone...I would really appreciate if someone can help me out with this before I go on this road trip...
I also tried the music from My Music instead f iTunes and same problem...I have all the songs on the phone but they won't play. Does anyone also know why when your in the Windows Media Player all of your GAME sounds and videos and just random sounds appear if its suppose to be a music player... i am disappointed in this damn phone everything is great except the music players...
Personally, I keep all my music very organised on an external hard drive at home. On there, they are all stored in the folder structure X:\Music\Artist\Album\nn Song Title.mp3. I also have album art for each of them as folder.jpg in the album folder. I'm a bit of a pedant, but keeping it tidy has proved to be a godsend no end of times!
When I want to copy something to my phone, I usually make a temp folder on my desktop so that I can keep the folder structure intact inside that, and copy the albums I want, into their respective artist folders - Desktop\Temp Music Folder\Artist\Album.
Once I've copied everything there, I connect my phone to my PC with the USB cable, and I select "Disk Drive" as the connection type.
Then I simply open my phone's storage card in windows explorer, open the music folder on there (that's obviously already there as I've got loads of music on there already), and I copy the contents of the temp folder on my desktop into that folder.
It's really simple, and it works 100% of the time.
I've seen no end of threads where people are using different software for synching & tagging mp3s, or trying to put mp3s in weird folder structures (or even all of them in 1 folder!!!) and I just don't see why you'd bother.
This method has worked flawlessly for me on a Nokia N95, Touch Diamond, Touch HD and HD2.
Hope this helps mate
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.
Ok
I copied a bunch of drawings, learning sheets to my sd card however, when I goto gallery is there an option where I can just view that folder and not show everything as it does already like mu mp3 album art to videos. Its really annoying gripe but is there an alternative if not?.
Yep, if you don't want the files in a folder to show up in gallery you just create a file and name it .nomedia inside that folder... This means that the gallery will ignore anything in this folder, whether it's images, mp3's or movie files...