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music not showing up

So its been like this since stock. Drag n drop music to several different directories trying to find the path that works. /music, /media/music, /media/mp3. Just doesn't show up. if I navigate to the music files manually they will play but only 1 at a time. I want to just hit shuffle and put phone off to the side. Any ideas?
Edit: solved, for whatever reason there was a .nomedia file on the root of my sd card and apparently it makes all sub folders invisible.

You know, this happened with me as well with this phone. But not any other android device I've had (This is the fourth). Is this something that the device is shipping with? It's kinda weird.

[Q] Need Alarm Sound

I, like an idiot, deleted an alarm sound off of my Droid Charge without first backing it up, and now I'd like it back. I did that because I copied an alarm sound file (snooze.mp3) from my defective Thunderbolt that I wanted to use on my Charge, but it still appears as a choice on the menu of alarm sounds when configuring the alarms, so I'd like to put it back on my phone. I should've made a copy of it before I deleted it, but I thought that it would just automatically no longer appear on the list of alarm sounds since it was gone. MY Droid Charge has been rooted and I am using a custom ROM, GummyCHARGED 1.8.5, and the alarm sound I deleted and want back is Toy_watch.ogg, I believe. Does anybody know where I can obtain a copy of this sound file? I was just deleting it because I copied and put on my Charge two mp3's from my Thunderbolt, beeps.mp3 and snooze.mp3, and I wanted those to be the only two choices when selecting alarm sounds. However, when I saw it still appeared in the list, even after rebooting, I didn't delete any others.
Alternatively, if someone can tell me how to remove it from the list, that would be great, too!
Thanks,
Dennis

Nevermind! I realized I still had the ZIP file of GummyCHARGED 1.8.5 on my PC, so I just went in there and extracted the alarm sound I needed, then pasted it onto my Charge.
Dennis

[Q] Sound Set Stability Issues

Please could somebody help me fix a problem I am currently having with my Desire HD which started before the most recent system update to Sense 3.0 and continues now the update is installed.
The problem is with the personalisation of the ringtone, notification and alarm sounds. I started with the basic sound set as the default one and then downloads various sound sets from HTC. I then picked the sounds I liked from a variety of the sound sets to personalise all sounds keeping the sound set itself as the default one. This was working perfectly for many months. However, for no apparent reason one day the phone lost all of the sounds and replaced them with quietly brilliant. I put them back to the ones I had previously selected but the phone lost the settings again at the next restart. The problem is not consistent because sometimes all of them get changed at the restart and sometimes on a selection of them. It also sometimes happens without a restart being performed.
I thought it might be to do with the fact that the downloaded sound sets are stored on the memory card and there might be a problem with the card because the problem doesn't seem to happen if I use sounds from the default selection installed on the phone. However I have connected the phone to my PC as an external drive and performed a scan disk and defragment with no problems found. I have also dismounted and remounted the card. There are no other indications to suggest the phone is having difficulty accessing the memory card.
I have also been into manage apps and deleted all data files for sound sets and media storage, deleted all of the downloaded sounds from the memory card, and started again from scratch but the problem persists.
The problem also keeps evolving and now if I select a different sounds starting from the default sound set it actually changes the sounds associated with the sound set. The sounds that the phone replaces the ones I have selected is also becoming more random and the sound sets themselves are becoming mixed up too even if I am not using that sound set.
Can anyone suggest a fix or do I just need to perform a factory reset? Would a factory reset help?
Thanks.

I was unable to find a cause for the issue so in the absence of any other suggestions I tried a factory reset which seems to have fixed the problem... so far anyway.

Phone wont see SD card/remember ringtone setting after reboot

This is a new problem... i originally deleted the settings for media storage after reading that that would get rid of the 3 times my ringtones were showing up in my selection list (when they only exist in one location.... i tried to make sure they werent duplicating themselves, the first 2 were silent and the 3rd was the real file.). so deleting that got rid of the 3 times thing, and i thought i had it licked. but every reboot, my phone forgets my ringtone setting... when i go to repick it, its not in the list, only the factory ones are.
Now, i *know* there is the work around of putting the one i want to use on the internal memory.... but thats kinda not the point... id like this to work properly. as it should. as it did before i reflashed. i reflashed the exact same rom and am using the exact same SD card.
upon googling and reading advice, i put a new folder on my sd card called media, and within there, ringtones, and notifications. (the site i read also recommended making one for alarms but i never use my phone as an alarm, ever. and the very rare time i will ill just pick a factory sound). As of right now, every reboot, i have to move the ringtone i want to use out from that folder, and then put it back in, causing media scanner to re-run, which then finally, once that is done, allows it to show up in the list along with the factory default choices.... but doing this every reboot just to have the sound i want is a ROYAL pain......... before i reflashed, it would forget what i had chosen on occasion, but at least then i could just go into the list and reselect it before... it didnt forget it existed, but only that i had chosen it. at the time that was a royal pain.... but now, id take that over whats been going on.
before reflashing i had a folder called "sounds" that it was able to see, all the time.... i had left it the same... but when my phone couldnt see that anymore, i looked for other ways of making it work.
Not sure if this is related but i have on occasion (2 or 3 times now) had my gallery forget about ALL of my pictures on external (whcih is where i keep all of them). deleting gallery data at least fixes that, and that doesnt happen every reboot either.
and before anyone asks, there is no ".nomedia" file in with my ringtones, or in with any of my pictures.
advice anyone??

anyone?? Ive already tried everything google-able

[solved] Ringtones and Notifications mysteriously missing

I have several custom "Ringtones" and "Notifications" files inside these folders and they would always be included on the list of available sounds whenever I wanted to select one as a default. Suddenly they are all mysteriously missing on any of the lists.
I thought perhaps I denied a permission somewhere that is preventing my Pixel from seeing them, but I combed through everything. I went into Settings - Apps - Reset app preferences, but that didn't fix it. Toggling on a few more permissions for storage didn't fix it either. I rebooted after everything​ and still no change. I also checked the permissions on both of these folders and they're correct. I even defrosted everything I previously froze in Titanium Backup.
Odd thing, they were all working just a few weeks ago and I can't for the life of me figure out what changed aside from the 7.1.2 update.
Does anyone have any idea what may have happened or where else I can look? It's not worth the bother of a factory reset, but I sure would like to have Pink Floyd back.
SOLVED: Well good grief, all I did was delete the files and then copy them back in. Now they're all showing up like they should.