Hi guys
I'm going out of my mind trying to transfer my music collection on to the Xperia Z3.
I have a collection of roughly 15GB and have been attempting to transfer to a Sandisk 64GB micro SD card via both Sony Bridge for Mac and Android File Manager. The file transfers look to complete successfully and on the phone all songs look to be present too.
The issue comes when trying to play songs with both Walkman and Poweramp, a lot of the songs just skip through without playing at all and 50% of the songs that do play, all I hear is a portion of one specific song that sounds chopped up.
Does anyone have any idea what's happening and how I can get the whole music collection playing correctly on the Z3 as I did on my previous Z2?
Many thanks!
Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.
abhinav.tella said:
Can't you just copy and paste without the bridge software?
I copied music from my NAS to Z3 (to SDCard) using FileCommander and had no issues. Try wireless transfer if you can. I am also using a Sandisk 64GB card, the Extreme U3 version in my case.
If it's skipping without playing at all, it may be due to the files being corrupt/incomplete.
If all else fails try reformatting the card or maybe the card may have gone bad.
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Thanks for the reply.
I have tried reformatting the card several times, using the 2 pieces of software I mentioned, Copying manually through a card reader into Macbook slot and none of those worked. I never had an issue with the Z2. Half of the songs skip as if they are corrupted, while the other half weirdly play the same chopped 20 seconds from the same 2 random songs before skipping.
I have managed to get somewhere finally by using the Sony Bridge software to transfer the songs over in blocks of up to 50 songs (there seems to be a limit before it all goes wrong again!) at a time and this looks to have worked, though will take a few sessions to get all the songs copied.
All very odd...
Is the card formatted as fat32? If it is the max it can write is 4gb probably that's why it gets corrupted. Gotta transfer in increments to avoid the 4 GB limit
The 4GB limit is per file not overall.
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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.
My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
when you stream music, the songs are stored in the sd card memory in a format that i cant remember off the top of my head. If you delete them, they will just be redownloaded if you stream again. Other than that idk whats taking up so much space.
Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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Free app called disk usage might help see where the problem is.
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Thank you ever so much for that tip. That app found my problem in literally - seconds - after I installed it. My problem was my .trashes folder. There was 18 GB worth of trash in it. Computers were not able to see the contents. Now I have 24 GB on my sd card. THANK YOU!!!!!
Do you use boot manager? I know on mine it takes up alot of space on the sd card.
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djkeller3 said:
My sd card has progressively been losing more and more space. I flash ROMs, listen to streamed music via Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 Cloud Drive and back up my data. All of my apps are installed to internal phone memory.
I used to keep zip files on my sd card. I stopped doing that when things got cramped. Now, anything I flash comes off my sd card immediately.
I used to keep several ROM nandroids, now I keep only a couple.
I used to have music stored on my sd card. I just removed all mp3s and now use Amazon's Cloud Drive to stream my own music and stream other music through Rhapsody.
I used to have photos and videos on my sd card. Now I have removed everything and use my phone only as a means to transport the media I capture to Picasa, Facebook and Dropbox.
Despite taking these steps, I'm down to my last 5 GB of space on my sd card. I should have at least 20.
I have perused my sd card looking for *big* folders but cannot find any.
I'm wondering that since I've streamed so much Rhapsody, if there are major caches stored somewhere. I noticed that after I uploaded my music library to the Cloud Drive and played some music for several hours that my sd card went from over 7GB to 5GB. Nothing changed except for streaming music.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?!
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I know someone else suggested a solution, but here is another one if you use Astro. There is an option in tools that sorts folders and files by size.
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Guys,
I did a quick search on the forums and it seems the general idea is to copy all the files to your computer, copy the files back over to a new MicroSD card.
What if your 16GB MicroSD is 4+ years old and starting to get corrupted? The biggest issue is when playing my massive MP3 collection - everything will go fine, except a song might now have screeches or bleeps where the data is missing, or more often, the player will report "Cannot play this file" even though I played those exact same MP3 files previously with no issue in the same app.
Is there any sort of software that would copy only the non-corrupted data? What about cleansing the data prior to migrating? Is there a way to repair corruption? If it helps, both microSD cards are class10 16gb. Only difference is the manufacturer
Does anyone know if some OS or hardware incompatibility has cropped up recently between the S3 and itunes?
I have been using DoubleTwist to play itunes music for about four years, first on an HTC G2 and latterly on an S3. I transfer the music using DT's approved methods, either by using a USB stick or by putting the SD card back into the G2 to do the transfer. The next time I restart the device, android indexes the card, with the red vertical scan.
Recently I have noticed increasingly erratic indexing of the music. I play mostly classical and jazz CDs ripped into itunes. I now have about 34 GB of music on the SD card. When I transfer music I expect DT to rebuild its indices to reflect what is now on the SD card. When it doesn't, there is a procedure for fully rebuilding indices. But the indices have become increasingly buggy recently and now I suppose that of the 34 GB of music, only about 29GB makes it onto the card and only about 10-15% actually plays. In addition, re-indexing is supposed to iron out bugs but when I index or re-index, even more problems crop up, such as duplication of CDs, with one CD sometimes spanning up to three entries in DT and tracks on the CD being sprayed over the three entries. Occasionally a single CD set may have all tracks in one CD entry (usually entitled 'VARIOUS ARTISTS') which doesn't play, while another one which identifies the artists may have tracks 1,7 and 9 while the third has 2, 5 and 18-24.
As a cross-check DT's people had me install CloudPlay to see how it dealt with artwork. It did a much better job in one or two indexing passes than DT itself and now shows most artwork (and quickly too) but also wont play much more than 15% of what took about three days (??) to record onto the SD card. Interestingly the indexing for artwork is a CloudPlay indexing
I do get the impression that android isn't doing a particularly serious job of indexing the card, with total passes of the card sometimes lasting 20 seconds, sometimes up to five minutes but with the results equally unreliable. (Yes, I have discovered that you have to attend to index rebuilding on both the S3 as well as the SD card when you try to rebuild)
Does anyone who uses iTunes to rip CDs have any idea what is causing this please or is there some other acknowledged way of playing iTunes CD music on a Galaxy S3?
licensedtoquill said:
Does anyone know if some OS or hardware incompatibility has cropped up recently between the S3 and itunes?
I have been using DoubleTwist to play itunes music for about four years, first on an HTC G2 and latterly on an S3. I transfer the music using DT's approved methods, either by using a USB stick or by putting the SD card back into the G2 to do the transfer. The next time I restart the device, android indexes the card, with the red vertical scan.
Recently I have noticed increasingly erratic indexing of the music. I play mostly classical and jazz CDs ripped into itunes. I now have about 34 GB of music on the SD card. When I transfer music I expect DT to rebuild its indices to reflect what is now on the SD card. When it doesn't, there is a procedure for fully rebuilding indices. But the indices have become increasingly buggy recently and now I suppose that of the 34 GB of music, only about 29GB makes it onto the card and only about 10-15% actually plays. In addition, re-indexing is supposed to iron out bugs but when I index or re-index, even more problems crop up, such as duplication of CDs, with one CD sometimes spanning up to three entries in DT and tracks on the CD being sprayed over the three entries. Occasionally a single CD set may have all tracks in one CD entry (usually entitled 'VARIOUS ARTISTS') which doesn't play, while another one which identifies the artists may have tracks 1,7 and 9 while the third has 2, 5 and 18-24.
As a cross-check DT's people had me install CloudPlay to see how it dealt with artwork. It did a much better job in one or two indexing passes than DT itself and now shows most artwork (and quickly too) but also wont play much more than 15% of what took about three days (??) to record onto the SD card. Interestingly the indexing for artwork is a CloudPlay indexing
I do get the impression that android isn't doing a particularly serious job of indexing the card, with total passes of the card sometimes lasting 20 seconds, sometimes up to five minutes but with the results equally unreliable. (Yes, I have discovered that you have to attend to index rebuilding on both the S3 as well as the SD card when you try to rebuild)
Does anyone who uses iTunes to rip CDs have any idea what is causing this please or is there some other acknowledged way of playing iTunes CD music on a Galaxy S3?
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As far as I know doubletwist is the only option. Personally I've used iTunes but it's lacking basic features like drag and drop
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Personally I've used iTunes
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What I have is a library which occasionally increases in size: By a few CDs a month. All I need is something to either put this relatively static library onto the G111 or read the 29 or 34gb sd card and show me what is on it, along with artwork. Either dT can't do that or the android media scanner isnt reading properly? Or something is corrupting the files which transfer while they are transferring
How did you use iTunes on the G111 please?
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What I have is a library which occasionally increases in size: By a few CDs a month. All I need is something to either put this relatively static library onto the G111 or read the 29 or 34gb sd card and show me what is on it, along with artwork. Either dT can't do that or the android media scanner isnt reading properly? Or something is corrupting the files which transfer while they are transferring
How did you use iTunes on the G111 please?
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That's odd but not unusual with the corrupted files. It might be a dt issue and not android, I'm not 100% sure though
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I just bought a new SD card and have been transferring files from my old to the new one. It is mostly music, cca 30 gb from the old one and additional 10 to 15 from my pc. Anyway I transferred all of them and checked if they are there on my PC. IT said that i have some 20 gb fre of 64 gb. When I turned on the phone and went into Poweramp only a small amount of music was there. When I went to storage settings it said I only used 15 gb of my SD and going into file manager just showed folders but there were no files. I formatted the SD and copied all files again this time slowly copying 3-4 folders at a time and watching over the whole process and again the same thing. So I went over all those files and it turns out that those files are all my rips of cds that I did while I was still using iTunes and some of them with winamp. All torrented music was there. They are MPEG-4 audio files while torrents are mostly mp3. The thing all those same files still work on my old SD which is the same apart from capacity (class 10 32 gb). So it happens that files aren't transfered at all and not just that poweramp just doesn't recognize them and it worked fine for my old SD.
I'm using HTC One m8 on stock ROM android 5.0 with htc sense
thanks in advance for any insight you might have to fix this problem
I thought about that too but the thing is exactly the same files are missing twice while others are being copied.
Bump.
EDIT: just a small update, it's not about file type because some of the files that are mp3 are not copied while some mpeg-4 are. Anyway, all photos are transferred correctly but still audio files are sometimes copying and sometimes not
EDIT 2: so I just tried copying those songs that are missing once more for one album. they were copied and file manager said they are as big as they should be (around 10 mb) and poweramp recognize for their full running time. Bt only first few seconds of each song play and they are switched to the next one
Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here
[HELP THREAD] HTC One M8 - Ask any questions here!
Also please read carefully this guide about SD card issuess:
[GUIDE] The Generic SD Issue (READ FIRST)
Good luck