So I installed jelly bean when it came out. (Codename Android 3.6.0 at the time of writing, but the problem persists regardless of the specific rom I'm using). I noticed that none of the music players available in the play store can find my music on my sd card. They are all in a folder named mp3, but I even tried renaming it to music - no luck. Also, the only pictures I can see in my gallery are the ones that have been made since the installation of the current rom. Does anyone have an idea how to force the mediascanner to actually scan my media? Damn, I want my media so bad
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So I installed jelly bean when it came out. (Codename Android 3.6.0 at the time of writing, but the problem persists regardless of the specific rom I'm using). I noticed that none of the music players available in the play store can find my music on my sd card. They are all in a folder named mp3, but I tried renaming it to music - no luck. Also, the only pictures I can see in my gallery are the ones that have been made since the installation of the current rom. Does anyone have an idea how to force the mediascanner to actually scan my media? Damn, I want my media so bad
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I have no idea why your music isn't being picked up. That's usually never an issue. Maybe someone else can chime in.
As for the gallery pictures not showing up. Just download Quick Pic from the Play Store. The default Android Gallery has been crying to be put of out of its misery for awhile now. It's terrible and slow. Yes, you can transfer pictures to your device and the gallery will take 5 minutes to eventually display them. Quick Pic is superior and will instantly pick up any pictures you add. No waiting involved.
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I have no idea why your music isn't being picked up. That's usually never an issue. Maybe someone else can chime in.
As for the gallery pictures not showing up. Just download Quick Pic from the Play Store. The default Android Gallery has been crying to be put of out of its misery for awhile now. It's terrible and slow. Yes, you can transfer pictures to your device and the gallery will take 5 minutes to eventually display them. Quick Pic is superior and will instantly pick up any pictures you add. No waiting involved.
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Thank you for the tip, QuickPic actually solved my gallery issue, what still remains is the music list not showing up in any of the players I have tried... (Winamp, Google Play Music, Apollo, just to name a few)
check if one of the apps in use is the media scanner in a constant state of reboot.
media scanner problems often are caused by malformed jpeg file, the bug usually lies in the Exif information, you can use this tool (http://www.digitalconfidence.com/BatchPurifier.html) to remove Exif information from the file, 95% chance that everything returns to work including music and video because the media scanner is shared and if it hangs on jpeg images then can not catalog other multimedia files.
you will lose data such GPS position but the photo itself will remain intact, many have pointed at Camera360 as one of the sources of these corrupted files and I can confirm that.
I got a similar issue before and is solved by copy all media to a pc, delete the files in the phone, then move them back, see if it can help you
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That's an old issue that happened to some when they updated to JB back in July. So, welcome to July.
lostman.it said:
check if one of the apps in use is the media scanner in a constant state of reboot.
media scanner problems often are caused by malformed jpeg file, the bug usually lies in the Exif information, you can use this tool (http://www.digitalconfidence.com/BatchPurifier.html) to remove Exif information from the file, 95% chance that everything returns to work including music and video because the media scanner is shared and if it hangs on jpeg images then can not catalog other multimedia files.
you will lose data such GPS position but the photo itself will remain intact, many have pointed at Camera360 as one of the sources of these corrupted files and I can confirm that.
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Thank you for the suggestion, it helped me!
@madd0g you had better stay off the forums, you are completely useless...
If it's not fixed completely, run a search on your sdcard for files named ".nomedia" and delete them.
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If it's not fixed completely, run a search on your sdcard for files named ".nomedia" and delete them.
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actually, I do use .nomedia files for... hiding my stuff you know
lowert said:
actually, I do use .nomedia files for... hiding my stuff you know
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Alrighty. Just make sure there are none at the root of the SDcard or in folders where you want pictures to appear. Clockworkmod ROM Manager had a bug back a lil while ago where it put some .nomedia files in wrong folders, making people unable to find their music/picture.
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If it's not fixed completely, run a search on your sdcard for files named ".nomedia" and delete them.
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This tip helped me and my Note. Thanks a lot. There were a lot of useless .nomedia files in my SD card.
I already had similar question posted. Got no resolution....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882847
Anybody have the solution? I am able to see pictures in gallery and videos on my MX player but no music?
I deleted nomedia (found one) and got rid of rom manager but still my music files don't show up with all the players. I can go directly to media/music via root explorer and play it though.
Go to your apps, find Media Storage, and then clear data & cache.
Download Rescan Media from the play store and run it. Wait for a bit (5 minutes should be good) and if you check in your music player(s) you should be able to see your music.
database or cache that the media scan builds is gone
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Go to your apps, find Media Storage, and then clear data & cache.
Download Rescan Media from the play store and run it. Wait for a bit (5 minutes should be good) and if you check in your music player(s) you should be able to see your music.
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I have done that and everything works fine. BUT! after a battery change or charge (plug in USB cable) the database or cache that the media scan builds is gone. Deleted or corrupted by something. Its back to the same state, no music, video, added ringtones or pics show until a rescan. What could be deleting it?
While on 4.0.4 on my 8013 Note music files were organized under the album option alpabetically and all was great!
Now using any ROM above 4.0.4 the default music player no longer organizes it alpabetically, WHY!!!?!?!?! This is driving me nuts. I am not sure where to really begin to fix this. I have deleted all folders and then tried putting them on again but no go.
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While on 4.0.4 on my 8013 Note music files were organized under the album option alpabetically and all was great!
Now using any ROM above 4.0.4 the default music player no longer organizes it alpabetically, WHY!!!?!?!?! This is driving me nuts. I am not sure where to really begin to fix this. I have deleted all folders and then tried putting them on again but no go.
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The only fix that I could suggest is playerpro, as I see no option for resorting albums alphabetically in the stock app. I stopped using as it ignores folder structure on nearby devices and you end up with a huuugeee list of songs, rather than album folders.
Doesnt solve you issuse, but it might be your best option.
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The only fix that I could suggest is playerpro, as I see no option for resorting albums alphabetically. I stopped using as it ignores folder structure on nearby devices because you have a huuugeee list of songs, rather than album folders.
Doesnt solve you issuse, but it might be your best option.
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The only reason I like the stock player is the widget. I have not found a replacement player that has a widget that is as good.
Dont use the widgets myself, though these are the playerpro ones.
Goodluck with finding a fix though
What makes no sense is on my galaxy Note 2 running 4.1.1 everything is fine and normal.
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I've been using samsung touchwiz for a while and quite like some of the functionality. I find myself switching between TW and stock android, simply because of the functions Samsung have on offer. I've now installed 4.4 on my S4 and am missing the allshare/DLNA functions from the TW gallery app.
Now I know i can't get the stock TW gallery on my phone but is there another gallery app which has the ability to stream images to a DLNA TV?
I've tried various gallery apps, they have no such functionality. I have also tried apps like twonky and imediashare. The issue with these apps is that they are mainly DLNA server apps. I need to choose media then destination then start the server.
The way it works in TW gallery is I can browse through my photos, click on one, then click the allshare button and click the TV I wish to broadcast too. Then it does it instantly. No configuring. Is there any such app?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
EDIT: So sorry I posted this thread here. I didn't realise it needed to go into the Q&A section, can someone move it please?
Hi all,
I recently bought a Nexus and I tried transferring all of my music and photos from my S4 to this phone. It worked except I can't view the photos in gallery. Whenever I download new pictures or music to my phone, the gallery and music apps do not update their libraries. Is anyone else experiencing this and is this a known issue? Does anyone have recommendations?
Thanks!
EDIT: I feel like such a noob. Lol. I forgot all about the ".nomedia" folder I created and every time I copied my files, I always ended up overlooking that folder. Anyways, it's fixed now.
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As of yesterday I am having this issue. The gallery is showing no photos even though the files are there when using a file explorer.
Also the ringtones are no longer detected in the ringtone folder which meant I missed a few calls as the ringtone defaulted to "no ringtone"
I have tried downloading a few apps that force a media rescan but these all crash due to the way kitkat 4.4 now only allows system apps to call a full media scan.
So after realizing that the Good Lock APK would run on any samsung phone on MM, I downloaded the APK of the newest Samsung Music app. Initially I just tried installing it as an update for the marshmallow/lollipop stock version of the Music App which caused weird UI bugs. The tracks tab was just a repeat of the playlist tab and there was no side scroll bar. However, after uninstalling the old stock music app with Titanium back up and than installing the new music app APK there are no more bugs and it is running fine.
Nice to know. I don't use the Samsung Music app but it nice to see someone experimenting with the MM apps seeing what "just works" without actually having to mod the apk or the system.