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
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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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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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This is a pretty involved question for here, but I need my 10 posts.
On the GT 7 plus (unrooted), I am having all kinds of issues trying to use the External SD card for mp3s. Music players, stock and aftermarket, all look in the /sdcard/Samsung/Music folder (not sdcard/music). So I used the Blackmoon File Browser to make a jump point from that folder to /sdcard/extstorages/sdcard and it worked (music fed into database, sorted, played in music player, and album art retrieved) Two days later, it lost the link and I only have a few of the Samsung music samples that came with the tab. All attempts to re-link have failed, including reinstalls of file browser, reformatting SD and reloading mp3s etc.
In Blackmoon and ES file browsers I am able to read and write to the external SD and even play the mp3s, but they will not feed into any music player. I think the trouble started when I installed Sky FM and noticed a DRM app running in Services. I uninstalled Sky FM and the DRM is gone, but still no music player linking to external SD.
I guess I could reset to factory defaults and lose all my GPS maps, and maybe still not fix it. Why does Samsung/Android make functions that should work right out of the box for the average, non-technical consumer SO problematic?
One thing Blackmoon shows me that may be a hint- all folders (system files) have a lock symbol except sdcard (internal sd) BUT within this, the extstorages folder (external SD card) is also locked.
I understand the 10 post rule, but I think this post needs to be escalated by the moderator out of this simple questions thread. And I'll bet there are plenty of other people having the same problem with the 7 plus and 7.7.
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the best place for this to be posted would be in the General Section of the Galaxy Tab Forums( http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1427&order=desc)
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Replying to my own post with a fix for anyone with the same problem of music files on an external sd not being visible to music player(s).
I was about to restore factory defaults anyway, so I went into Settings/Applications/All/Media Storage and DELETED its data. After rebooting, the media scanner started right up and the music was visible in the music player(s) after about a 10 minute media scan (of 24 albums).
It seems that once the music player somehow lost its link to these files, the media scanner did not start up because it already had what it thought was legitimate data. Why it would not re-run after unmounting and remounting the sd card is beyond me. Maybe it did run but did not send a new pointer to the music player. But once I deleted the data the Media Storage section of Applications and rebooted the tablet with an sd card that obviously had media files on it, it must have triggered the media scanner to run again, and all was well.
The lock on the external sd card is another issue- it means you cannot write to the external sd card on this tablet with any application or market file browser, only with the Samsung supplied MyFiles file browser. There is a long thread on this issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021 , but it leaves people with un-rooted machine with factory recovery (rather than CWM recovery) hanging.
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
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.
Well, this phone is great.
But I was moving some music around from the sd card to internal memory; using windows 10 explorer and it deleted the 3 original (MP3 I think) songs on the phone instead of moving them?
Mind you, this is the win 10 insider edition and it always does feral things to devices but I never expected it to delete the music as I had selected Move to the target destination.
Does anyone have those songs from the mate 9 that I could download?
And is there a safe way to move things from external sd card to phone internal memory that won't delete things? I think Windows 10 explorer is scaring me now.