This is the second time this has happened. The Sprint Music app appears to be damaged. It doesn't recognize much of the music that is on my card. Is there any way to fix it without a hard reset? (not sure why I care! I mostly use Kinoma).
yeah sprint music sucks....my songs only plays the first 30-40 sec and then it will stop if i got 4gb or more...i just removed it from tf3d and i use s2p
I think I fixed it. For some unknown reason, my TP had a folder named Storage Card and was calling my card Storage Card2. There wasn't anything in the Storage Card folder so I deleted it and reanamed Storage Card 2 to Storage Card. Now it finds the music. I guess it only looks in a folder called Storage Card and ignored Storage Card2. Unfortunately you can't tell Sprint Music where the music files are. They should fix that. At any rate, I don't use it much, anyway. I just wanted it work right. Now if we could get the GPS right, the battery life better, etc., etc.
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Anyone else having an issue with their media (specifically music) not being found in media player immediately? It takes a good 10 minutes for me (or a reboot). :'(
It happened to me before. I just moved all the media to the internal memory and everything is always there.
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No... don't think so. I have mine in a folder on my external sd that I made called MUSIC and also have mp3s in another folder called LECTURES and it finds all of them.
Sometimes the widget says "no music available" or something and tells me to go to the library then when I go into the app it's all right there.
Nope and up until just recently I have always kept all my music on my external (SD card) storage. I moved my music to my internal storage and still don't have any problems.
Only time I recall ever having an issue was when there was an issue mounting the SDcard itself due to the ROM.
I have just yesterday purchased the Droid Razr 16GB on Verizon. I previously had an old samsung caliber with a 16GB micro SD. I wanted to use it for my music in my Razr so I installed the card and it claimed the SD was damaged. I then formatted the card with the phone and the error seemed to be resolved. I took out the card and copied music from my PC. When attempting to view the music in the stock player only a dozen artists showed out of about thirty. I have performed several routine actions to try to fix this including:
-Full FAT32 format in PC (not quick)
-Clearing Google Play Music App's data
-Clearing Media Storage data
-Powering off phone, removing/ reinstalling SD card, restarting phone
-Installing winamp, verizon's My Music app. (this always resulted in each app displaying the same dozen tracks the other apps)
-Unmount/ remount SD
-Change file types (though this seems to be unbiased. Mp3's or m4a's have both failed to play independently)
Some important info:
...The music in question was copied off of my stock, rooted wifi -only Xoom running 4.0.3 so it shouldn't be a problem. I also added music off of my external HDD which has not shown up.
...Each time the phone re-scanned the external SD for music only a dozen or so artists would show HOWEVER it was always different artists. (Ex. first scan: AWOL, Baroness, Led Zeppelin, etc. second scan: Cold War Kids, Kid Cudi, Passenger, etc.)
...Occasionally after unmounting the SD or rebooting the phone it would claim it was damaged again. A reboot would fix this.
...The Razr is a stock, non-rooted, fresh out of the box 2.3.6 Android phone.
I have run out of ideas short of cutting down the music and putting it on the internal. My only thought is that the SD card may be bad but it was working fine yesterday before I got the Razr. Any help would be appreciated.
New Symptom: It seems that the player is throwing the music into the LOST.DIR file on the SD card, so it reads them as corrupt and trashes them. Will investigate further.
SOLVED! Looks like there were two issues. The SD card had a bad sector which I fixed with the basic windows scanner. This fixed the songs moving to the LOST Directory. Also even though the tagging info was correct in windows, it wasn't correct on the razr. To fix this, I got the iTag app from the Play Store. It showed all unknown pieces of tagging info and allowed me to edit them. Now all music is on the SD card and there are no unknown artists!
You've tried Poweramp? With this you can manage your music by Folders. The Stock player uses the MP3 Tags. I have an huge DnB Collection, but not every Record has an Tag. So Stock Player doesn't order them right.
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I use Mp3tag to tag al my music folders
included with folder icons! love it!
The songs are all tagged. I'm a meticulous librarian when it comes to my music.
Update: Woke up this morning and had to reboot the phone due to a common sound issue. I then checked the music player and all of the artists where there! So I connected the phone via usb to my computer and, wouldn't you know it? Damaged SD card again (again fixed by reboot). It seems to me that this may be a separate issue.
Possible solutions? Bad SD card? Maybe it just takes a long time to scan the card? I'm going to buy a new card today. I'll let you know the results. In the mean time, music is going on the internal SD. We'll see if that works
Exactly what the title says. I have 1000 MP3's in a Directory called Music on my SD card. The Music app on LTE will not find the MP3's on the SD card. When I cut and paste the MP3's to the Directory called Music on the LTE's memory the Music App will find the songs. I don't want to store all of my music on my phones internal memory.
Worked fine with OG EVO 4G
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Exactly what the title says. I have 1000 MP3's in a Directory called Music on my SD card. The Music app on LTE will not find the MP3's on the SD card. When I cut and paste the MP3's to the Directory called Music on the LTE's memory the Music App will find the songs. I don't want to store all of my music on my phones internal memory.
Worked fine with OG EVO 4G
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That is strange, I have all my music in the Micro SD card (ext_sd directory) and both the stock music app and the Poweramp recognize not only my my music but also my playlist's.
Try Poweramp and see what results you may have.
Go into settings and delete the cache/data for the music app that isn't finding the songs. That's what I did and it fixed the same issue I was having with Google music.
I had a similar problem with my EVO View 4G. Try an app in the Play Store called "SDRescan." Let it run overnight while charging.
It could also be that you loaded too much media all at once. I found that when I erased all of Google Currents' data on my tablet, the scan for music completed quickly. What was happening, apparently, is that the tablet was spending so much time scanning the Currents data that it was taking forever to get to the music folder.
Also the most simple but often overlooked thing to do: take the card out and put it back in to force the os to rescan it.
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I learned you need to wipe the card using the Settings>Storage options.
Android creates its own folders on the card.
My Photos & Music weren't showing up right at 1st. See the thread I made via my profile for more info on what I did.
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Noiro said:
I learned you need to wipe the card using the Settings>Storage options.
Android creates its own folders on the card.
My Photos & Music weren't showing up right at 1st. See the thread I made via my profile for more info on what I did.
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This might be an important point, along with how the songs were transferred. If you just loaded a bunch of MP3s to a blank microSD card and put it in the phone, it may have some problems. I formatted the card, put it in the phone, and then used HTC Media Sync to get my MP3s on my phone. They all transferred just fine, and all 526 of my songs show up in the music app.
OP...let us know which of the offered solutions worked for you.
Just a tip, in poweramp there appears to be a shortcut in the internal sd for the external sd which I haven't seen in the other apps I've used but anyway I selected my music folder through the shortcut and it loaded all my music twice, I had to clear the app and scroll pas sd to exsd and select music from there and rescan so it would list the tracks only once
I just realized that my music player is not picking up on the music files I have on my external SD. I have them under the folder "Music" on the SD card's root. I copied songs over to the phone's internal memory - aka internal SD's "Music" folder, and the stock music player was able to see them. I'd like to keep the music on the SD card - is this not possible?
It is totally possible... I use WinAmp (primarily) and have about 500 sings on my SD Card in the Music folder and no music at all on the internal storage, it works fine, the stock player and Google Music see them as well.
Try going into Settings-Apps-<player your using> and Force Stop, then Clear Data, then launch the player again... remember if you have a lot of music it might take the app a while to load and index everything.
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It is totally possible... I use WinAmp (primarily) and have about 500 sings on my SD Card in the Music folder and no music at all on the internal storage, it works fine, the stock player and Google Music see them as well.
Try going into Settings-Apps-<player your using> and Force Stop, then Clear Data, then launch the player again... remember if you have a lot of music it might take the app a while to load and index everything.
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Well that's good to hear. But I just tried it and no luck. It's not even indexing or searching. I am using the default music player and it starts up like there's an empty card. I am actually now on newtoroot's one XxX rom, and the default player is doing the same as stock Google music also behaves the same.
I've tried unmount/remounting the sd card, no luck.
Not sure if this matters, but this SD card is a carryover from my Thunderbolt. So it has a lot of apk backups and other crap. Also, I noticed that I actually lost my video file collection on the SD card somewhere along the process. I am not exactly sure, but I think it's when I first moved it to the Rezound, because now that I think about it, I don't ever recall seeing the couple episodes of Futurama I keep on my SD card.
The original folder structure was on SD/media/video and SD/media/music. The video folder is now empty. I've since moved the music folder to the SD's root. There are no .nomedia files in the folders.
Hmmm... interesting, I didn't think the Rezound was that picky, is the music directory in the root of the sd card properly capitalized as "Music"? that is how it is on mine, and the files in it are just ordinary MP3 files...
How many MP3's do you have in there... I have around 500 and when I open Music after changing anything (even just adding one file) the little revolving circle in the My Library bar sits there for a solid 3-4 minutes before anything shows up. WinAmp takes just as long initially, but if you add or delete a file it sees the change in seconds.
I just tried adding a file to the /media/music directory on my SD Card and it showed up fine, but the stock Music player also took another 3-4 minutes to re-index everything before the list populated at all. WinAmp had it in the list before I could scroll down to that artist.
Are you sure the SD card is mounting correctly? Go to Settings -> Storage and scroll down to SD Card and make sure it shows "Unmount SD card" and it is not grayed out and it shows used and available space on the card.
FWIW, on this phone, I am on the stock 3.14.605.12 OTA ROM.
Yep it is. And I have only about 500MB worth of mp3s, so not that many. The thing is, the music player isn't even trying to search for it I read another post on droid forum with similar problem last night (lost the link). I think that poster mentioned maybe too many stray apk backups is causing the search to choke. The SD card is definitely mounted correctly - I just unmounted and remounted again to make sure.
Yep I was on that same stock OTA before this one XxX rom. Same result.
I am going to swap out sd card with the stock rezound 16gb, which should be completely fresh except for a nandroid backup.
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Yep it is. And I have only about 500MB worth of mp3s, so not that many. The thing is, the music player isn't even trying to search for it I read another post on droid forum with similar problem last night (lost the link). I think that poster mentioned maybe too many stray apk backups is causing the search to choke. The SD card is definitely mounted correctly - I just unmounted and remounted again to make sure.
Yep I was on that same stock OTA before this one XxX rom. Same result.
I am going to swap out sd card with the stock rezound 16gb, which should be completely fresh except for a nandroid backup.
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Hmmm... could be the issue with too much other "junk" on the card I guess, mine is fairly clean, 50 or so camera shots, a handful of backups and some some other stuff, less than 500MB in total besides the music.
Seems odd that the Music app isn't even trying though, have you tried another player like PowerAmp or WinAmp? WinAmp Pro with the Album Washer plug-in is the BOMB, sync music over WiFi to the phone if you have WinAmp on your PC too, pretty sweet.
Yep it's working now. That must have been it - the thunderbolt SD card was too cluttered. I suppose I'll just have to go in and clean it up a bit. Sheesh Rezound, what's next, gonna make me clean my apartment too?
I have an LG G Stylo from Cricket so its only got 8gb internal storage. I rooted it to try and figure out what was causing the system folder to grow outta control. I realized that every time I play music that I have stored on my sd card either with the stock music app or with Google music a "writeXX.pcm" file gets written in /data. The XX represents numbers that are presumably assigned to each "listening session". This doesn't seem to happen with other music apps downloaded from the play store so that's my current workaround (deleting the files seems to have no effects on the music or anything else). I do have a Google music subscription though and would like to just use one app for all my music. Does anyone here know why this happens?
Bump. Any clues?
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I have an LG G Stylo from Cricket so its only got 8gb internal storage. I rooted it to try and figure out what was causing the system folder to grow outta control. I realized that every time I play music that I have stored on my sd card either with the stock music app or with Google music a "writeXX.pcm" file gets written in /data. The XX represents numbers that are presumably assigned to each "listening session". This doesn't seem to happen with other music apps downloaded from the play store so that's my current workaround (deleting the files seems to have no effects on the music or anything else). I do have a Google music subscription though and would like to just use one app for all my music. Does anyone here know why this happens?
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I am in a very similar boat. I have the Stylo as well and have been running out of storage almost weekly. I reset the phone and dont really install anything, within a week its full again. I rooted my phone as well trying to find out where the space is going. I located hundreds of WRITE####. PCM files on the ROOT/DATA folder. So now i can delete them but i have no idea whats writing those audio files. I had hundreds of songs on my sd card, but this week after reset, i didnt listen to anything, not even pandora. So it's not making them while listening to music, it's something else. Any more info from your side?
MY initial thoughts could be some internal program on the stylo is "copying" songs off the SD card for some reason. To test this I have copied off all of my pcs and music from the SD card and wiped it. So there isnt anything to see. I also increased permissions to the DATA folder, my second thought is it can create these .PCM files but cannot delete them.
wild shots in the dark basically.
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I am in a very similar boat. I have the Stylo as well and have been running out of storage almost weekly. I reset the phone and dont really install anything, within a week its full again. I rooted my phone as well trying to find out where the space is going. I located hundreds of WRITE####. PCM files on the ROOT/DATA folder. So now i can delete them but i have no idea whats writing those audio files. I had hundreds of songs on my sd card, but this week after reset, i didnt listen to anything, not even pandora. So it's not making them while listening to music, it's something else. Any more info from your side?
MY initial thoughts could be some internal program on the stylo is "copying" songs off the SD card for some reason. To test this I have copied off all of my pcs and music from the SD card and wiped it. So there isnt anything to see. I also increased permissions to the DATA folder, my second thought is it can create these .PCM files but cannot delete them.
wild shots in the dark basically.
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I ended up just using power amp for my sd card music and Google play music for whatever music I don't currently have in my collection. I have found that even playing my collection through Google's music player it still writes those files.