Is there a way to force the media scanning? I know it runs when you connect your sdcard and when you boot the phone (when it is mounted), but I have an FTP server that I torrent on and download the files to my phone and the music won't get picked up until I run the media scanner.
So I need a way to force the media scanner other than unmounting and mounting the sdcard.
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App called rescan media on the market, that's what I use for my media scanning needs.
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Hola. I hate to sound like im asking for tech support, but I was trying to play some music today, and it said I had no songs. All of my music was in fact on the internal sd, playable in Astro, but it didn't show up in any apps. This is the same for pictures in the gallery. Weird. Also, the media scanner always takes a second, jumping from 0% to 100%. So does anyone have a clue what might be up? (Bionix-V 1.3.1).
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Make sure you don't have a file named .nomedia where your pictures and music are at. This will stop media scanner from looking for media files in the directory where the ".nomedia" file exists.
Also, check this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087006
Thanks! I never would of thought of that
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My Music folders is not getting picked in the stock Music player.
Because of which i couldnt search the songs using the search facility.
Though i use poweramp to listen to music, i search the songs using the search facility, but lately i found that the search was not working even though the Music files were one among the searchable files.
When i started checking the same i found that the stock player is not picking up any albums from my memory card.
1. i tried moving the files to internal storage
2. Unmounted and mounted the card back
3. Factory reset ( used appsave application though)
4. Manually removed the sd card and inserted it back.
Nothing is working.
Could anyone please help?
Happened with me....just restart the phone,,all ll be fine,,,and be sure to turn usb debugging off...
Hope that helps..
Godspeed...
Thanks.how to turn off usb debugging?
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Tried switching off and switching on after making sure that the usb debugging mode is in off state.
Its not working either :-(
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Try playing some songs directly from from the memory,,,,it is some random bug,, use search function in music app..
According to me ur video app and gallery should have this problem too...
I use iSyncr to sync my playlists. It works great and even solves the "unknown" artist bug.
I did factory reset and formatted my sd card too and then transfered the files..
And now its working fine atlast
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I have music in "Music" folder in mnt/emmc, the Google Music app and also the stock Music app are unable to scan the media, simply put the Media scanner is not scanning the emmc (internal memory). I can access this location using file managers and also scan the contents using PowerAmp.
External memoery (sdcard) is scanned absolutely fine.
What is the workaround to this?
Have you tried to just simply restart the phone?
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I did and it didn't work. But I just did something this morning and it did work. I deleted everything from the emmc and then copied my files and they were scanning. There was no .nomedia file but I don't have an idea what was blocking the media scan in the first place.
So, my phone has no mods on it, and its not rooted. I have alot of music on the internal storage (until I get an external card) and its annoying me because not all songs show up... when connected to a pc, it shows I have it but when i turn mass storage mode off, media scanner wont find anything. I used 'rescan media' from the market to see if that worked but no dice.
Where'd you get the music that's not showing up? And what format is it in?
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It was right out of my music folder I use on my computer . Some are also right our of the folder iTunes reads out of. (Copy and paste). They are all mp3. I also see that media scanner never says 'media scanning finished' anymore. It worked until today...
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Most times media scanning will only show up after a reboot or something is deleted. Not in day to day use. If the music you're having issues with is from iTunes, it may have drm protection on it, specifically for not allowing it to play on another device.
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That's what's weird. It did play before. Also, media scanner just pops up whenever it feels like it. Even during music playback
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Fixed. Had to do a factory reset
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Hi,
I need an help: I put SD card with Albums, Videos and Music on my ZU.
I can see albums and videos but I can't see music on Walkman or Google Play...
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
Restarting the device usually makes it rescan for media on internal and external sd, but if it doesn't, go to apps, Media app (I don't remember the right app as I don't have the device now), delete cache and after a few minutes you'll have all the music in your apps.
If this doesn't work try again with Walkman app and Google Music app, delete cache and open app.
If none of this work, maybe reformat the sd card...
Tapatalked from my mother in law's horribly small, painfully slow, still at ICS LG 2X...
I have all music on my SD card but if some files not showing up I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clypher.mediascanner
The phone does however rescan by it self most of the cases, It just need a few minutes to work
The phone should rescan by itself when you transfer files using an USB, but if you transfer wirelessly it won't do that. I transfered some songs with AirDroid yesterday, and I had to reboot so it would rescan. That's the unnecessary way of doing it, or you can trigger a rescan by installing an app that does this.
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