I found this article today:
http://www.teamradicus.com/post/Surface-and-SD-Card.aspx
Almost obvious when you think about it - one of the advantages of having command line and it still being Windows core underneath the metro
Yeah i also faced this issue and found above mentioned website thorugh google. Works really good. Bad thing is that folders inside those folders on sd card are not shown e.g. ipicutre hub. Only pictures diretly placed in thos folders. I think because indexing is not working with those subfolders for sym linked folders.
xbox music pass
does anybody also got the Problem when having 2 users on surface the mxbox Music pass Music downloaded by one user on the surface is not playable on the second user account? maybe ist a drm Thing. but why i have to buy two times Music for my Family???? :cyclops:
Wow library don't work oops Ms big oops junctions are flaky though
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My music library is filled by mp3's from navigation software and other stuff.
how can I make the device only scan /Storage card/music and /storage card/movies , and ignore the rest ?
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Did anyone ever figure this out? I've got a HTC desire and have this same problem
At least I did not find any solution.
it's the microsoft way "spy on everything".
I've also moved to Ubuntu a year ago, and I assume I'll move to Android soon, windows mobile 7 is just another apple-wannabe-limitations-and-censorship-tool.
At least I did not find any solution.
it's the microsoft way "spy on everything".
I've also moved to Ubuntu a year ago, and I assume I'll move to Android soon, windows mobile 7 is just another apple-wannabe-limitations-and-censorship-tool.
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Why blame Microsoft? you do realise Android has the exact same problem, right? Except on Android you dont even have a file explorer out of the box to delete unwanted soundfiles on the device.
I cant wait to get back to Windows Mobile.
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ok, well maybe I'm unfair, but I don't like the way windowsmobile 7 locks, and deelopment tools down.
Also, I miss them to support flashing from Linux. - knowing the'll never support such decent OS.
there is a way to hide folders from HTC's album, and i remember hiding folders so they don't show up in media player. It was a reg edit but can't remember the keys/values. A good thorough search will probably reveal them
Easily done mate....just save the music you want visable into one of the following locations
Device/my documents/my music
Storage card/ my documents/my music
for videos, just do the same but rename folder 'my videos'
Should work
I thought I had made a thread for this a while ago, but can not find it. Sorry if its a repost.
What I was wondering is whether or not someone who had an app, or the skilz to make an app, that can take a sample of an mp3/wma/ogg/flac/etc file, match it on say shazam or something then update the ID3 tag with the pulled info. With the option for it just to rename them automatically, or ask for your approval of changes. Much like how Album Art Grabber gets your artwork for you on mass, with little or no manual intervention. This would be great for a few reasons.
I have been finding myself using mp3 download apps on my phone a lot now, more so than my comp and these files are usually incomplete at best. a way to get these, then run this app to fix discrepancies would be awesome!
Its not that I'm lazy, I just have 10+ years of tunes on my external and a lot of them didn't get tags back in the day. Plus after that long, uploads, downloads, 4 computers, iTunes (ARGH!!! I HATE ITUNES!!!!!!) renaming and reorganizing have some in a mess. So when I transfer them, they usually all show up unknown, null, or DGOI.mp3. And renaming & tagging 1000s of songs one by one is not how I want to spend a week.
Hope this sparks an idea, or someone can point me in the direction of one that already exists. I'm sure one does for a PC, but I don't use mine for media other than movies. My phone is my music machine. If a PC solution is the only way so be it.
I don't know of an app that can do this but maybe someone could take the method that the app ,"MP3 Download", uses. First you search for a song and can preview then you can choose to download it. Once you have downloaded it you can goto edit tags and it has a download button... I don't know what database it uses or how it is configured but it will give you album art and is usually correct. I think it has to have the album name though.
Thanks! I'll try that on there, and my old iMusic Tao apk I still have.
Mixzing pro can do this
JD
My problems started today when the music and video apps stopped showing anything from sd card.
Then I got 176 songs from a total of over 1000....
I already gave up on pictures but I at least thought videos and music would always work.
And I took this tablet with me to Korea so stuck with it for the foreseeable future.
I am confused, what is your question -.,-?
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Anyone else having this problem?
What happens if you double-click one of the missing songs using Windows Explorer? It should play then.
It's possible that the app's library database got messed up somehow (perhaps the card lost connection while the app was running?) and needs to rebuild, which takes some time.
Hi, you might want to try this: http://www.teamradicus.com/post/Surface-and-SD-Card.aspx I had similar problems when I had my SD card mounted to a C:\SD folder (I was seeing files that do not exist and not seeing new files and applications crashed when I clicked at those non-existing files) and this helped me to resolve that issue.
Yeah, I started going song by song and got some more back that way.
Playlists never recovered.
Jimm98y said:
Hi, you might want to try this: http://www.teamradicus.com/post/Surface-and-SD-Card.aspx I had similar problems when I had my SD card mounted to a C:\SD folder (I was seeing files that do not exist and not seeing new files and applications crashed when I clicked at those non-existing files) and this helped me to resolve that issue.
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This site does not seem to exist anymore.
EDIT NVM got the site to work.
Hello,
This is my first post on xda, been reading it for a while though. I read many suggestions about syncing music around multiple platforms, but none of them seem to be effective or to be tailored to my specific needs. First of all, I'm Canadian, so Google Play Music is sort of unavailable to me for the moment. Next up, I just received a bunch of new devices that I'd like to keep in sync (I'll list them soon). I was wondering what would be your suggestions, apps, websites or cloud services that YOU use, and if they would apply to my situation or not. I'm not looking for a "perfect" solution, but I'm certainly interested in a discussion about the best method.
Here's the "situation" I have to solve. I have a Desktop PC at home (Windows 7), where I download and rip all of my music.There is around 8gb of carefully tagged and sorted out music on that computer. I use iTunes as a player while on it, and keep all the .mp3 files in a folder. Since it is a desktop PC, it has no wireless connection whatsoever and is connected through an ethernet cable (from a WiFi router). Now I just purchased a Laptop (Windows 7 as well) and a Nexus 7 (16gb + Android 4.2). I also have a Galaxy Nexus (16gb + Android 4.2, no data plan). I'm basically looking for a way to "share" that library across these four devices. This means that if I was to be adding a song to the desktop PC, I would be able to listen to it in the next few seconds on my Nexus 7 or Galaxy Nexus and vice-versa. Same if I was to be adding a song on my laptop, I would be able to listen to it on my computer and across my devices.
I'm not really interested in a "streaming" solution (rdio and the likes), as I do not have a data plan on my phone. I'm also looking for a solution as wireless as possible (so something over WiFi or cloud service.) I'm ready to shell out a couple bucks provided that a service would require additional storage solutions. Most of the time I will listen to these songs while being "offline", so in the subway or while working out, so these songs need to be accessible at any time (basically stored on the devices). Also if somehow I could "share" other stuff like contacts or documents that would be a plus, but not really a requirement at all.
I hope my "situation" is clear, and I hope you guys have some sort of "answers", Hopefully that technology is available nowadays (we're in 2013!).
Thanks for your time!
You could always use Spotify...
Spotify allows adding of local files and automatically syncs these files when discovering two clients on the same Wi-Fi network.
(Granted you set the playlist those songs are located in as Available Offline, and there's a Local Files native playlist)
It's a $9.99 dollar sub to use it on mobile devices though, and I don't think two desktop clients sync local files, but that's as easy as doing a bulk-transfer from one comp to the other when you've added new songs and asking Windows to ignore existing files, alternatively Ubuntu One has a folder sync that's limitless space because the files aren't stored on their servers, iirc.
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between computers its easy - google drive/dropbox with selected folders to sync
and when you add this app to android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full&hl=en
i think that this is good solution to your problem
Hr Kristian said:
You could always use Spotify...
Spotify allows adding of local files and automatically syncs these files when discovering two clients on the same Wi-Fi network.
(Granted you set the playlist those songs are located in as Available Offline, and there's a Local Files native playlist)
It's a $9.99 dollar sub to use it on mobile devices though, and I don't think two desktop clients sync local files, but that's as easy as doing a bulk-transfer from one comp to the other when you've added new songs and asking Windows to ignore existing files, alternatively Ubuntu One has a folder sync that's limitless space because the files aren't stored on their servers, iirc.
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"Not yet available in your country." It sounded like a good option, but it looks like it's unavailable to Canadians. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
Zafael said:
between computers its easy - google drive/dropbox with selected folders to sync
and when you add this app to android
i think that this is good solution to your problem
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Would you care to explain a bit more? I'm not very familiar with Dropbox or Google Drive. I know you can create a folder on your computer and every time something is dropped into that folder it is shared across all computers, but how would I use FolderSync? Is it related to Dropbox or Drive? And why use both services? Is it because of the limited storage space? Would 8gb of music fit on those? Thanks, let me know!
Hi all,
I have a quite special issue. I hope someone here can help me or point me into the right direction.
Huawei P9 with Android 6.0, rooted.
For my purposes (*) I use a MicroSD card with 128MB capacity that contains a lot of small files (abt. 1.5 million files).
I wondered for weeks, why the phone becomes incredibly slow and hangs from time to time.
I learned that the Media Storage service could be responsible, because it tries to index all files and that can take a very long time if there are lots of files.
I deactivated Media Storage (using Titanium Backup) and BINGO! My phone is like new. Snappy, well usable.
Since I don't need MTP access to the phone, I thought it might be good now.
HOWEVER:
I just found out that ring tones don't work anymore, neither for phone ringing, nor for the alarm clock etc.
It seems that those apps also rely on the file index, that's gone now.
Without any ring or alarm tone, the phone is almost unusable again.
Do you know of any way to make the MTP / Mediastorage server ignore one directory when indexing? That would help, as I could simply let it ignore the directory on SD card that contains those 1.5 million files.
Or can you think of any other good solution for my problem?
Thank you so much!
Daniel
(*) to explain my usecase, why I need so many files on SD: I am a photographer, doing gigapixel panorama photography. For presenting my work to customers, I put my demo panoramic tours onto the SD card. These are HTML files with a data directory containing JPG tiles of the gigapixel panoramas. One panorama image consist of up to a few 100.000 files. A webserver running on the phone makes the panorama tours accessible to onboard browsers or, via WiFi hotspot, to other devices in the surrounding, e.g. a PC or tablet of the customer.
I considered solutions like an external storage (USB OTG) connected to the phone only when I present that stuff to the customer, or an entirely separate device (Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra or so) to host and serve the panorama tours, but I like to carry only one device, the small smart phone, to do it all. An extenal OSB OTG storage solution would almost fit my needs. But.. only almost, because a small storage is something that can get lost or stolen easily and that needs additional handling and provides additional points of failure, which I don't want to have in front of the customer.
Android is capable of doing it all, and my philosophy is, that a computer needs to adapt to my way of work than vice versa. This was the intention when Neumann and Zuse invented programmable computers. And I don't really want to eat humble pie here.
daniel908 said:
Hi all,
I have a quite special issue. I hope someone here can help me or point me into the right direction.
Huawei P9 with Android 6.0, rooted.
For my purposes (*) I use a MicroSD card with 128MB capacity that contains a lot of small files (abt. 1.5 million files).
I wondered for weeks, why the phone becomes incredibly slow and hangs from time to time.
I learned that the Media Storage service could be responsible, because it tries to index all files and that can take a very long time if there are lots of files.
I deactivated Media Storage (using Titanium Backup) and BINGO! My phone is like new. Snappy, well usable.
Since I don't need MTP access to the phone, I thought it might be good now.
HOWEVER:
I just found out that ring tones don't work anymore, neither for phone ringing, nor for the alarm clock etc.
It seems that those apps also rely on the file index, that's gone now.
Without any ring or alarm tone, the phone is almost unusable again.
Do you know of any way to make the MTP / Mediastorage server ignore one directory when indexing? That would help, as I could simply let it ignore the directory on SD card that contains those 1.5 million files.
Or can you think of any other good solution for my problem?
Thank you so much!
Daniel
(*) to explain my usecase, why I need so many files on SD: I am a photographer, doing gigapixel panorama photography. For presenting my work to customers, I put my demo panoramic tours onto the SD card. These are HTML files with a data directory containing JPG tiles of the gigapixel panoramas. One panorama image consist of up to a few 100.000 files. A webserver running on the phone makes the panorama tours accessible to onboard browsers or, via WiFi hotspot, to other devices in the surrounding, e.g. a PC or tablet of the customer.
I considered solutions like an external storage (USB OTG) connected to the phone only when I present that stuff to the customer, or an entirely separate device (Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra or so) to host and serve the panorama tours, but I like to carry only one device, the small smart phone, to do it all. An extenal OSB OTG storage solution would almost fit my needs. But.. only almost, because a small storage is something that can get lost or stolen easily and that needs additional handling and provides additional points of failure, which I don't want to have in front of the customer.
Android is capable of doing it all, and my philosophy is, that a computer needs to adapt to my way of work than vice versa. This was the intention when Neumann and Zuse invented programmable computers. And I don't really want to eat humble pie here.
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There's an Xposed module that can do exactly what you're asking. But I'm not sure how nicely the xposed framework will work with your Huawei device (assuming you're still stock). You can check it out if you feel its worth any hassle that might be involved. Here's the link to the forum and a screenshot of the app's description & capabilities
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-xposed-media-scanner-optimizer-t2942609
GREAT! THANKS!
I didn't know that an XPosed module existed that could solve that problem.
An attempt to install XPosed a few months ago has failed.
But I retried today with the Wanam build (official one failed back then) and it worked well. Downloaded this module now and will see how it works.
Thank you so much!
Quick question:
The manual for the Media Scanner Optimizer module says
"Directories: If checked the media scanner will only scan directories that have a .scanMedia file (i.e. an empty file with a dot as first part of the name similar to the .noMedia file). Use a file explorer app to create this file. This file can be placed in a directory that may contain subdirectories. The subdirectories will be scanned as well. If unchecked all directories will be scanned (except for the ones containing a .noMedia file - this default behavior of the media scanner is not altered by the Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer)."
(source: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thomashofmann.xposed.mediascanneroptimizer)
Does that mean, in my case I coud simply have placed a .noMedia file in the directory with the millions of files and my problem would have been solved, even without XPosed?
Somewhere I read that the media storage service does NOT care about the .noMedia files, so I refused experimenting with this quite early in my research phase.
Do you have experiences, if this really works or not?
daniel908 said:
Quick question:
The manual for the Media Scanner Optimizer module says
"Directories: If checked the media scanner will only scan directories that have a .scanMedia file (i.e. an empty file with a dot as first part of the name similar to the .noMedia file). Use a file explorer app to create this file. This file can be placed in a directory that may contain subdirectories. The subdirectories will be scanned as well. If unchecked all directories will be scanned (except for the ones containing a .noMedia file - this default behavior of the media scanner is not altered by the Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer)."
(source: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thomashofmann.xposed.mediascanneroptimizer)
Does that mean, in my case I coud simply have placed a .noMedia file in the directory with the millions of files and my problem would have been solved, even without XPosed?
Somewhere I read that the media storage service does NOT care about the .noMedia files, so I refused experimenting with this quite early in my research phase.
Do you have experiences, if this really works or not?
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I initially thought about the .nomedia alternative. But I wasn't clear on if the 1.5 million files you have were actually media files. If they are then creating a .nomedia file should do the trick. If not, then you have the Xposed module
I personally have a few .nomedia files here and there on my SD card. And it does what its supposed to, ie; stops any media file that's present in those folders from showing up in the Gallery/music player.
So I guess its safe to assume that they weren't indexed either
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I initially thought about the .nomedia alternative. But I wasn't clear on if the 1.5 million files you have were actually media files. If they are then creating a .nomedia file should do the trick. If not, then you have the Xposed module
I personally have a few .nomedia files here and there on my SD card. And it does what its supposed to, ie; stops any media file that's present in those folders from showing up in the Gallery/music player.
So I guess its safe to assume that they weren't indexed either
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I thought the .nomedia trick would only work, if the Xposed module was there?
Or does it work by default, even on a non-rooted stock ROM?
Thise mana files that I have are almost all JPG files. There are a few .js and .xml files, too, that control how the .jpgs are rendered on the client's browser, also some video files that are embedded into the virtual tours, but about 99.5% of the files are .jpg.
daniel908 said:
I thought the .nomedia trick would only work, if the Xposed module was there?
Or does it work by default, even on a non-rooted stock ROM?
Thise mana files that I have are almost all JPG files. There are a few .js and .xml files, too, that control how the .jpgs are rendered on the client's browser, also some video files that are embedded into the virtual tours, but about 99.5% of the files are .jpg.
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It doesn't matter what type of files you have. If the folder has a .nomedia file, it will not be scanned for anything.
This is standard android behavior, and does not require xposed to be installed.