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Transferring Music

I have been working on trying to understand how to use the different SD cards, but seem to be having some trouble. The other day i plugged my phone to my laptop to put a movie on my phone. Put it in mass media storage mode, opened the drive on the computer, went to media, added a folder "video" and that seemed to work just fine. This time i wanted to put a bunch of music on the phone. So i connected it with mass media mode again, selceted the drive and selected the external card. When i transferred the music it seemed to be fine, but then on my phone i could not find it on the external sd card, nor anywhere else for that matter. I didn't want to plug it in with the kies option as i dont really plan to be using kies.
What am i doing wrong here?
Thanks for all the continued support.

I've transferred some music to my phone (to the main SD card). After I did, it scanned for media files like it always does once you disconnect from the mass media mode, and it was there. I've also transferred a video (to the external one), and it scanned for media files (like always) and it worked fine. Try rebooting your phone if the files ARE on there. Or just try transferring them again?

Where are you getting the music from. Did you purchase it off of itunes. That would cause it to not do it. Just a thought.
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The album i tried to transfer was not from itunes. It's weird because on my computer it showed it on there, but not when i searched on the phone. lugged it back into the computer and it still showed it... How would i need to transfer the music so that it will show on the external sd as well as when I go to music player? The only time i saw music is when i put it on my internal card as mentioned above. When i did it this way it also made a file for each song when i opened the gallery which is annoying.
Thanks again for the help!

Did you format the external SD card on the phone? Try that first, then transfer some files over.
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No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick!

Do you have any apps to hide media?
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(((New User of Andriod Infuse)) - MUSIC * Video - works nicely
QUOTE: Heuser1 No I did not format it first. Should I just unmount it, then hit format? Then restart it? Thanks, hope that does the trick! /QUOTE
Heu*;
here are some steps for your "music" issues ( try these ) before you move to phone via USB cable
a) CD that you ripped = in MP3 format ATLEAST - maybe you can rip that CD again using Windows Media [FONT="Century Gothic[/SIZE]"](and makes sure its setup for MP with 128kpbs as min)[/FONT]
b) Than connect to PC/laptop via USB cable , and first thing to do = FORMAT SD card ( after mounting it etc etc
c) Move the files ( i nornmally create a folder etc jsut like the Itunes does in windows etcetc)
Works nicely!!!
However there are some files ( MP3 and few VIDEO formats) that wont play on andriod , eg RMVB and LOSLESS are the files i COULD NOT PLAY on my infuse
note:: SD cardhas to be seen by Andriod ( if its not comptable than you wont see it in the phone )

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] Music on SD card

Anyone have issues with the pre-installed "Music" app failing to recognize files on the external SD card? (in the Dock)
I have an SDXC 64g card in the dock, and I can navigate files within it fine, using the file explorer.
But the built-in music app only shows the sample tracks, never any on the SD card.
Restarted several times. Unmount-remounted the SD card within android too (several times).
Several other posts suggested "rescan for music" but I cannot locate such a thing in any of the music player's built-in menus.
I've also tried several 3rd party music players, such as WinAmp, Powerplayer, etc (in fact, I've tried all the ones with good ratings from the market) but these apparently are just layered over the built-in player's information.
I can play one song at a time, by using the file explorer, so it's not an access issue or formatting issue-- and while playing, the tags appear fine.
It appears to be a problem with the music database? I have no idea where that may be found.
Stock TF101, not rooted, 16gb, with keyboard dock.

Try Meridian Media player,
working for me

I have found a couple that permitted folder-browsing, and awkward playing via folders.
What I would prefer is fixing the basic issue: the built-in media library does not scan either external card for music content.
If there is a hidden way to refresh this engine, I'd love to learn about it.

In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.

I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.

dburckh said:
I have the same problem with pictures. I did a little research into it.
Android has a concept called the MediaStore. On boot-up or insertion the OS scans all the memory (cards) and puts media (MP3, Images, Video) records into the MediaStore. Honeycomb didn't support SD card pre-3.2, so Asus had added this into their kernel.
Enter honeycomb 3.2: There must have been a conflict so either Asus intentionally or unintentionally disabled everything, so now only apps that don't use the MediaStore work.
In short, apps are only going to half work until Asus can fix their kernel.
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Thanks for clearing it up-- I will now take it up with Asus, by entering a trouble-ticket.
At the very least, if enough people complain, maybe they will fix their kludge (to the Android OS).

Marct77 said:
In question to your answer...nope mine sees the micro sd card music files just fine in the stock Music app,haven't tried using the card reader slot for storing or reading music files.
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I have not tried the microSD, just the SD card.
I have only 32gig on my micro-- not enough room.
My SD card is a 64gig one (SDXC), and has all of my music files on it.
I verified I can access the card and it's content via File Explorer, and I can play songs on the SD one at a time that way...

I haven't tried to play any mp3s via the dock but i use playerpro and there is a folder play option where you can just navigate to folders. I'm not sure if it can go high enough to hit /removable/ for you to get to the SD slot but i'm gonna guess if you can get to microsd you can get to sd.

(Q) SD card uses?

I purchased the 8GB Tab 2 7.0 because of the expandable storage but now I'm questioning whether the 16GB on the Nexus 7 would suit my needs better.
I know that apps cannot be moved to the SD card but I was wondering about rented Playstore movies? I downloaded a Play movie and it went right to the internal storage and I couldn't find a way to move it. I mainly use my tablet for DroidTV (which will not download to the SD card - they say Samsung doesn't allow it) and rented movies when I travel. And with just a few tv shows and my apps downloaded I'm down to 2GB of the internal storage left which isn't enough to download one Playstore movie.
I've thought about rooting but I've never done that before and I'm a big chicken so if anyone has any other way for me to utilize the 32GB storage card I bought I would really appreciate it!

I think you could use app called directory bind, have not tried it personally, but i think it allows to bind directories of external sd card as if they are in the internal sd
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Thanks. I can't find it on Google Play but when I searched for it online I found a thread here on XDA that says ROOT is required.
Any other solutions out there? I love my Tab 2 but I definitely need more storage .

Playing music from an external source (USB drive)?

Hello,
I wish to play music from my USB drive (via an otg female USB to male microUSB adapter) on my N5. The problem is I can't find a (free) app which can browse the specific usb directory; they all just show the internal storage one. My friend's LG G4's default music player detects the songs and plays them just fine.
Any help is highly appreciated! Thanks!

dude, have you solved this? I want to ask the same thing

Es file explorer will do the job

Hey, I'm using StickMount for this. It mounts the USB Stick in the data partition so all apps can see and change its content. Its working perfectly for playing music with my music players (Shuttle, Poweramp) on my N5, give it a try

muhagl said:
Hey, I'm using StickMount for this. It mounts the USB Stick in the data partition so all apps can see and change its content. Its working perfectly for playing music with my music players (Shuttle, Poweramp) on my N5, give it a try
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Thank you. I was just looking for something like that. It works perfectly!

muhagl said:
Hey, I'm using StickMount for this. It mounts the USB Stick in the data partition so all apps can see and change its content. Its working perfectly for playing music with my music players (Shuttle, Poweramp) on my N5, give it a try
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hey, so I try to use StickMount. The tost notification said that my USB has been mounted to /sdcard/usbstorage. I checked the folder with Root Explorer, the folder is there, but it's empty. in fact my USB mounted to mnt/media_rw, jut like the normal mounting without StickMount. any idea to make this work?

Hey, maybe its the filesystem of the stick, I can remind myself that at the beginning I had problems with it but it should work with NTFS. Otherwise I think you can ask chainfire, he will know what to do