While granted I am new to Android, I'm amazed at the lazy programming from a VAST majority of apps. I'm assuming Google probably has a recommended location for all this in their development kits, as did Microsoft?? It seems every program is creating a randomly and irritatingly named folder everywhere on my phone memory and sdcard. I take a lot of time keeping my files neat and orderly, and I now have literally 100 extra folders named something arbitrary like /"program name" thumbnails, /"program name" data, etc. I've been a long time windows mobile user, and generally programs put their added folder in a mutually used program files or program data location, etc. Is there any way to fix this, from the user side such as hiding these folders from showing up in explorers. It's impossible to navigate after owning my Atrix for a few months.
Any other solution or ideas would be welcome, as I can't be the only one that is driven crazy by this.
thanks
This also drives me crazy. I don't know of any file explorers that can hide folders(though its a great IDEA) and I feel like moving them may cause unwanted effects in-app.
Some dev input would be nice
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marko! said:
This also drives me crazy. I don't know of any file explorers that can hide folders(though its a great IDEA) and I feel like moving them may cause unwanted effects in-app.
Some dev input would be nice
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I've successfully moved just a couple for programs that let you point to a different directory in their settings. But, that's few and far between, and a lot of Apps aren't yet updated to recognize the way the Atrix uses sdcard to name their 'phone memory' and sdcard-ext for 'sdcard'. If I only had the knowledge to do so I would develop a solution. Lacking that, definitely would donate to anyone creating a real working solution for this...or even for pointing me to an existing one.
If any developer here could confirm, does Google recommend a location for all these extra data folders, and it's just ignored. Possibly a limitation of the OS forces developers to create folders directly in root areas for access reasons?
So another issue I have on this topic. Again, I take great care in organizing all my files, especially my music. I have it pain-stakingly divided into folders for easily playing what I want, when I want. I can't seem to get any Android music player to recognize this though. They just want to scan everything, and in the middle of my workouts, my *&$%ing ringtones will start playing in the mix, or a news podcast. I'll have to stop what I'm doing, resist throwing my Atrix through the wall, and manually skip them. I just gave up playing music on it, and take my old Windows Mobile phone with me for this. There has to be a program that allows you to remove folders from being scanned, as I know nobody needs to hear a montage of ringtones for 20 minutes.
Yes, that happened to me, started playing music, and the second I got in the shower I had to listen to train whistles and notification beeps the whole time. WTF?
K...enough venting!
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So another issue I have on this topic. Again, I take great care in organizing all my files, especially my music. I have it pain-stakingly divided into folders for easily playing what I want, when I want. I can't seem to get any Android music player to recognize this though. They just want to scan everything, and in the middle of my workouts, my *&$%ing ringtones will start playing in the mix, or a news podcast. I'll have to stop what I'm doing, resist throwing my Atrix through the wall, and manually skip them. I just gave up playing music on it, and take my old Windows Mobile phone with me for this. There has to be a program that allows you to remove folders from being scanned, as I know nobody needs to hear a montage of ringtones for 20 minutes.
Yes, that happened to me, started playing music, and the second I got in the shower I had to listen to train whistles and notification beeps the whole time. WTF?
K...enough venting!
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You can create an empty file called .nomedia to exclude this folder from the media scanner. Also, you can use PowerAmp to play music, it allows to select folders and make playlist from them, without use the android media scanner.
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You can create an empty file called .nomedia to exclude this folder from the media scanner. Also, you can use PowerAmp to play music, it allows to select folders and make playlist from them, without use the android media scanner.
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I'll give PwerAmp a try, thanks.
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I currently have my ringtone mp3 file on the root folder of my SD card. It works fine with one really annoying problem.
When I am listening to my music, the shows up in the music player and plays.
Is there any way I can stop this without creating playlists every time I chance or add new songs? I like to just go into my music player and play all.
I have tried to look for the subdirectory where the stock ringtones are so I can just add it to that, but I have not had any luck.
Hopefully someone can help me solve this annoying issue. Thanks.
On your sd card there should be a folder called media open it add a folder called Ringtones put your Ringtones In it should help also you can another one called music for your music If you want instead of having all your music on the root of your sd card but it's up to you
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On your sd card there should be a folder called media open it add a folder called Ringtones put your Ringtones In it should help also you can another one called music for your music If you want instead of having all your music on the root of your sd card but it's up to you
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I kept opening that file and saw a file in there called notifications which only had a facebook notification tone. I put my ringtones there but it didn't work.
Since the forum was down yesterday, I googled my problem and found that you can just create a folder called "ringtones" (all lower case) and it worked.
But I am going to try to move that folder into the media folder so I can keep my sd card somewhat organized.
thanks for the help.
That's cool I was trying to tell you that but I guess I wasn't clear enough but at any rate you got it. So no big deal. Anyway no problem.
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I kept opening that file and saw a file in there called notifications which only had a facebook notification tone. I put my ringtones there but it didn't work.
Since the forum was down yesterday, I googled my problem and found that you can just create a folder called "ringtones" (all lower case) and it worked.
But I am going to try to move that folder into the media folder so I can keep my sd card somewhat organized.
thanks for the help.
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I tried just creating a folder named 'ringtones' and it didn't work for me. I then created a 'media' folder and put the 'ringtones' folder in it. It still didn't work. I turned the phone off and rebooted. Still can't find the ringtone.
BTW - the ringtone is a 'shortened' mp3 that I have used on several windows phones for years. I'm not hearing my phone ring cuz I don't recognize the ringtone!
Update:
I read somewhere else on this forum that someone had to remove and reinsert their battery to get the ringtones to work. I tried that. There was my ringtone -- however the phone had decided to give it the name 'track 30'. Have no idea where that would have come from...this was never downloaded as a track off an album and it did have it's own file name.
This is a new AT&T Aria (my first Android). So far I'm not sure I like it. it was much easier to browse the phone, load files, etc. with Windows Mobile/ActiveSync'. And I miss MyMobiler.
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I tried just creating a folder named 'ringtones' and it didn't work for me. I then created a 'media' folder and put the 'ringtones' folder in it. It still didn't work. I turned the phone off and rebooted. Still can't find the ringtone.
BTW - the ringtone is a 'shortened' mp3 that I have used on several windows phones for years. I'm not hearing my phone ring cuz I don't recognize the ringtone!
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I read somewhere else on this forum that someone had to remove and reinsert their battery to get the ringtones to work. I tried that. There was my ringtone -- however the phone had decided to give it the name 'track 30'. Have no idea where that would have come from...this was never downloaded as a track off an album and it did have it's own file name.
This is a new AT&T Aria (my first Android). So far I'm not sure I like it. it was much easier to browse the phone, load files, etc. with Windows Mobile/ActiveSync'. And I miss MyMobiler.
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IMO comparing your experience on android to a windows phone doesn't really suit the perquisites for a comparison. It'd be like comparing your experience on windows 7 to the latest version of Ubuntu or some other Linux distro. Oh wait, Linux (android) vs windows mobile (windows) that's wut you're doing isn't it? Android is awesome in my opinion once you get used to it. And I came from a blackberry. Totally incomparable, but in the long run I love android so much more than BB.
I saw a thread somewhere on this but there was no real conclusion at that point and I can't find it again via search.
This is my first Android device. Every phone I've had has installed software for my PC to transfer music over to use on their music app but that isn't the case here. I can only get into file browser. I'm not a fan of copying and pasting files via file browser as I like album images etc.
Any advice?
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I saw a thread somewhere on this but there was no real conclusion at that point and I can't find it again via search.
This is my first Android device. Every phone I've had has installed software for my PC to transfer music over to use on their music app but that isn't the case here. I can only get into file browser. I'm not a fan of copying and pasting files via file browser as I like album images etc.
Any advice?
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What's up with windows mediaplayer?
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i know this isn't the answer that you're looking for but if you embed album art in the music files themselves then you are no longer tied to using any particular piece of software to copy music. you can use copy and paste or any other software knowing that your music is always complete with album art.
the downside of course is that you have to tag all of your files properly complete with album art. if you want to do this i would take a look at mp3tag.de which is free. i think media monkey can do this automatically too ...
if you don't, have you tried using the provided kies software ? once you actually get it up and running it's not too bad ...
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if you don't, have you tried using the provided kies software ? once you actually get it up and running it's not too bad ...
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Im connecting it to the PC in the two modes the phone allows. Kies says neither are the right mode to connect. I probably look stupid right now but how the hell does this work?!
Just copy and paste a folder of music onto the phone with the album art in the same folder as the music, that seems to work for me !
if you want a nice easy interface try kies air, you will get the interface without having to load any software onto your computer, (it's really cool)
Kies Air doesn't work either. I wonder if this is because I rooted yesterday.
Im not sure if you're aware of this but most popular media player software would have embedded the album art in the mp3 itself when it was tagged. Album art is often also added to the folder outside of the mp3s just so that the folder icon will show the art. It isnt however needed with most modern players as they are capable of using the embedded artwork.
when using kies air, don't just type the ip into your computer browser eg 192.168.43.1 but also the port number so it looks like this
192.168.43.1:8080
and hit enter.
Make sure both devices are sharing the same wifi network, if you are away from home then let the SGS set you up a network by choosing Wifi HOT SPOT mode.
PS when out and about using hot spot mode you will also be able to browse the internet from your laptop, the data will come out of your allowance on your mobile phone contract
Me its always been cut and paste .
jje
Have you tried syncr from the market basically it allows you to transfer playlists in your itunes library, which for me came as an advantage cause been using iphone for the last couple of years so I just transfer new songs into my itunes and use syncr to transfer the playlists to my phone. U can also wirelessly transfer tracks using syncr which means you can be out and about in the house whilst syncr is doing its job.
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Have you tried syncr from the market basically it allows you to transfer playlists in your itunes library
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I don't use iTunes so I haven't tried it
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when using kies air, don't just type the ip into your computer browser eg 192.168.43.1 but also the port number so it looks like this
192.168.43.1:8080
and hit enter.
Make sure both devices are sharing the same wifi network, if you are away from home then let the SGS set you up a network by choosing Wifi HOT SPOT mode.
PS when out and about using hot spot mode you will also be able to browse the internet from your laptop, the data will come out of your allowance on your mobile phone contract
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Ah, Kies air is working today! Thanks for your help. Interface is kind of crappy but I came from a SE Satio so my expectations are low, I'm perfectly happy! I hope the Music app on the phone is good although I know WinAmp is good.
I came from an iPhone so everything was on iTunes. I still use iTunes as I find some things easier to manage e.g. automatic import & the remote controls you can buy work well with it. It is a terrible piece of resource hogging software however.
I moved to MediaMonkey and used that to sync both iPhone and Android. It's very easy, just identify which playlists, albums, artists you want to sync and plug in.
Recently I've been using Winamp to wirelessly sync. It's convenient but without as many features as MediaMonkey.
If you are lucky enough to get an invite into the google music beta (i was lucky enough to get one) you can have it upload everything into the cloud from your iTunes library (or a music folder if your choice) and have access to it over any of your android devices. But before this I just dragged and dropped all my music from my computer over to my phone which worked fine.
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If you are lucky enough to get an invite into the google music beta (i was lucky enough to get one) you can have it upload everything into the cloud from your iTunes library (or a music folder if your choice) and have access to it over any of your android devices. But before this I just dragged and dropped all my music from my computer over to my phone which worked fine.
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Isn't that USA only?
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Isn't that USA only?
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Oh my bad. Sorry I keep on forgetting the US restriction. :/
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Im connecting it to the PC in the two modes the phone allows. Kies says neither are the right mode to connect. I probably look stupid right now but how the hell does this work?!
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If you can't connect to kies via USB, go to you Settings > Applications > USB Debugging and switch it off.
You have to switch it back on if you want to usethe phone as USB mass storage.
I just end up dragging and dropping it into the sd card
I'm using Winamp via WiFi and it works greate, Winamp also can convert all files to a different codec like HE-AAC (MP4). But then my phone doesn't show the embedded album art - it just shows it at MP3-files. (does somebody has a workaround for this? Does it work to put a folder.jpg into the album-folder?).
You could enable usb debugging, doing so gives you access to the sd card when connected to a pc. At least, mine does.
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Mediamonkey
One word: Mediamonkey.
Mediamonkey organizes all your music easily and allows for easy tagging from amazon, embedding of cover art into the file tag etc. I've used it for years now and there is no way around this if you want to manage a lot of tracks and stay sane. And here's why it's good to use with your phone:
It's not a massive resource hog as iTunes.
It lets you specifiy which subdirectory you want your stuff to be placed on the device, and how files and folders are to be named based on tag info.
(Mine usually goes into "\Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Title>".)
It allows you to set up automatic sync of playlists or folders or whatever you set up. This can also be done automatically once the device is connected. I.e. my device will have all tracks in my auto-playlist "higher rating than 2.5 stars" automatically synced once connected. It will only transfer new files rated >2.5 stars to the device, not all the tracks again.
No need to copy only the tracks you want on the phone from your library to a "watched" folder that Kies or HTC Sync or whatever will automatically transfer. Simply pick the tracks you like and select Send To>Phone>Sync. Bam!
Of course, you can also sync individual files to your device from Mediamonkey.
It's simple and straightfoward. I am still wondering why there are so few people around knowing about this much better alternative to itunes in the Windows space...
Sorry if this sounds like a cheap ad... but it is the only one tool you need for organizing and playing music you need.
Hello All,
I wondered if one of you experts may be able to help me with an issue I'm having with my SIII please? I'm a long time browser of the site but haven't posted much until now.
This issue is coming between me and my sleep (and I mean that literally.)
I can't seem to master the art of getting music onto my S3. I thought it would be as simple as using iSyncr as I had with my S2. Alas, no.
Because of the changes to the mass storage mode (I am running a Mac), I have to download the Android File Transfer thing to connect my phone at all to my Mac.
When I use iSyncr now, it's slightly buggy. I put the phone into MTP mode, it starts copying music across and then after a certain number of tracks, it throws up an MTP issue where it says certain songs can't be copied. I then have to go around the houses and start clearing data from the media storage app in my settings and rebooting the phone. Then, I try again and get so far and the same thing happens again with different songs.
Also, when some songs transfer the albums appear split in the phone (though this is minor annoyance compared to the above).
I have left it on overnight and come back to my computer and it all looks finished, yet of my 6700 songs, only 3400 have transferred.
I've tried going the old fashioned way and spend last night dragging and dropping files onto the memory card using the Android File Transfer mode. I got one message saying a song couldn't be copied, yet when I actually got up and checked, again, only 3400 odd songs had transfered. There were no error messages and we're not talking DRM songs that hadn't gone across.. but some that I had ripped myself. It's all very odd.
Don't mention DoubleTwist - that's even worse.
This is really driving me mad as I am a big music player and I don't want to fork out for and have to carry an iPod too. I just sold my iPhone to use the S3 as I assumed it would be simple like the S2 but this is making me so upset with the phone. It's as though Google have deliberately locked out Mac functionality.
It's an unlocked unit, with a sandisk 64GB card inside. That was formatted by the phone and when I tried using a card reader instead, the computer said it couldn't be recognised.
I'm throwing myself at your knowledgeable feet here and hoping that somebody knows exactly what is happening here and what it is I could do to fix it. My entire weekend has been wasted sitting in front of this computer and I really want to fix it.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Can't help with your immediate issue I'm afraid (waiting for my S3 and I don't have a mac... ) but have you contracted the devs of iSyncr to let them know of the issue - at least that way they can start working on an update.
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I sure have!
Thanks for contacting me and pointing me to this thread.
First off, I've pre-ordered the international S3 so that I can test this out. We just do not have them in Texas yet.
Secondly, I've been unimpressed with Android's MTP's robustness on other devices. I filed several bug reports for different scenarios that corrupt the MTP database in March of 2011. Zero have been touched by Google. Given this, the first thing we should try is rebuilding the MTP database, which lives inside the "Media Storage" app. I've put these instructions in an easy to follow tutorial.
http://blog.jrtstudio.com/2011/08/how-to-refresh-android-media-database.html
Please let us know if that helps the issue.
Cheers!
Justin
Don't suppose anyvody has any solution for this? Really don't want to take my S3 back but will have to at this rate. I think it's shocking that the S3 is so crippled from a Mac's perspective since the changes to MTP. Android File Transfer app doesn't really fix anything.
I have the same problem. Even using AFT, it wil not see the phone until I put it into PTP mode. THen I can copy data to it. isyncr see the phone in MTP mode but keeps telling me device failed to load.
I'm going to mention
I know I shouldn't mention it but here you go Double twist!
Right I've had some problems and this is what actually worked.
First you have to use itunes. If your music is a mess then a app on the app store called 'dupin' will remove any duplicate songs you have (it worked well for me). if you have lots of dead file links in your library just remove all your library files and then click 'add to library' be careful that itunes does not copy the files you add to the itunes music folder - see preferences.
1. Make a 'new playlist' --> add all your songs to it (press command+a etc). If you have a large music library like me then you can make a 'smart playlist' and limit the size of the playlist, handy eh!!
2. Open doubletwist on your mac and immediately make sure in 'preferences' the 'automatic sync' option is switched off (I had an incident where my whole library syned with 2 of my external hardisks...oops...and the funny thing is that one of the hard disks was where the music stored). Make sure the 'import itunes playlists' option is also selected.
3. In the doubletwist andriod app Select the SD card as library storage and Enable the 'Airsync' function in doubletwist (you will have to pay for the app but in my opinion it's worth it - it also supports ACC files).
4. Enter the pair code into the mac application.
5. Select the option to sync your playlists only (don't try anything fancy!!). You should see the one you made in itunes here.
6. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT: you should by now see the 'airsync' icon at the top of the screen. PULL DOWN THE NOTIFICATION CENTER AND TOUCH THE 'DOUBLETWIST IS SYNCING'. You will see a funky swirly multicoloured wheel LEAVE THE PHONE ALONE UNTILL ALL YOUR MUSIC HAS SYNCED ACCROSS.
Dont lock your phone as this seems to mess it up...
Hope this helps. I understand your pain, I lost a weekend too!
Notes: Podcasts and DRM stuff does not sync.
Notes: If your playlist is not the full size of your music library then if the 'live updating' option is turned on in your smart playlist then when you click sync in doubletwist it will sync different songs each day (I think...)
If none of the above works, you always have a nice shiny 50gb of free dropbox storage as an interim solution
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I know I shouldn't mention it but here you go Double twist!
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If you are already an iSyncr user, as this person is, there is no reason to leave me for doubleTwist. We've got iSyncr WiFi, which we came out with before doubleTwist and is only a .99 cent upgrade. If you've got an issue with it, just email me, and we'll make sure it works on your S3.
-Justin
If its possible, try installing VMware fusion, and you can run windows inside your MAC in a virtual machine, you can try this if everything else fails...
You know where to download these softwares
You can try for free...and find the serial key easily using Google.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html
I purchased the isycr wifi option and it is working fine... I think they have a "lite" version that you can try, but it only syncs one playlist or something, but you can see if it works or not. But that is what I am using now.
Ken
Resolved
We have resolved any issues with iSyncr functioning on the Galaxy S3 in MTP mode. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any troubles.
Cheers!
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We have resolved any issues with iSyncr functioning on the Galaxy S3 in MTP mode. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any troubles.
Cheers!
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How about with the motorola defy ? Still waiting on that if you can have a look at fixing that one.
I've been having some playlist issues... I've got one that I made and one that keeps reappearing, that I started to make at some point but lost (or, thought I lost). I can delete it, but it will come back eventually. Also, is there an easier way to edit playlists than within the music apps? e.g. on the computer, in a text editor or something?
So I stumped over 125 of ya....does anybody know?
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My mp3 files get little encores tacked onto them for no apparent reason. Once dowloaded the song appears as it should (I had no reason to suspect any problem) Upon later listens, the song will end and then skip back to a random point during the song and play through to the ending again. At first I thought it was my mp3 player glitching So I didn`t think it was much of a problem. I changed mp3 players and it still happend. So I began checking the song lengths against the stated length of the songs I downloaded thinking the source was the problem. Sure enough many (but not all) of my song lengths would be anywhere between 10 seconds too long and double the song length. So I deleted and re-downloaded a bunch of my songs (After having went through the process of editing the tags so the songs would play in the right order and have added information I like to keep with my songs). While downloading this time I double checked the stated song length against the wikipedia information about the song. They would match to within a second or two at most. Then I would look in the music players listing for how long the song was. They would match to wikipedia as well. After re-editing the tags to how I want them sorted I checked the lengths again. Still matched. A few days later just for good measure I checked a few of my downloads... Too long again. I`d listen to the song and it would have an ending where there should be an ending and an added encore. Back where I started from.
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I've had scripted jpeg malware before. They can damage files in the folder they are in but can't damage the folders (or files in those folder) within the main infected folder. The folder acts as containment. If one of those get in a database folder with hundreds or more loose files it be hell to find. The solution is to delete the malware jpeg.
Never heard of that happen with audio files though. It's either a 3rd party app, system corruption or malware doing it. Files should not mutate by themselves. Load some known good mp3's and see what happens.
Clear system cache if you have that option.
Whatever the cause it needs to be tracked down.
Happy witch hunting...
In the future use mp4's, wav or flak for higher resolution...
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I've had scripted jpeg malware before. They can damage files in the folder they are in but can't damage the folders (or files in those folder) within the main infected folder. The folder acts as containment. If one of those get in a database folder with hundreds or more loose files it be hell to find. The solution is to delete the malware jpeg.
Never heard of that happen with audio files though. It's either a 3rd party app, system corruption or malware doing it. Files should not mutate by themselves. Load some known good mp3's and see what happens.
Clear system cache if you have that option.
Whatever the cause it needs to be tracked down.
Happy witch hunting...
In the future use mp4's, wav or flak for higher resolution...
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thanks for trying to help. sure they are all in the music folder but each artist and album has a sub folder all to itself. whatever this is it is equal opportunity.... but not all inclusive. the extra long songs are spread out over lots of different places but not all songs in any given location are affected.
I`ve sent emails to the app devs to see if they have any ideas.
I`ve also scanned for viruses and malware. no hits. also the rest of the phone is running fine except for a little laggy at times on my tag editor app.
well that is unexpected! I played an affected song with Files by Google and it is the proper song length and has no encore. Both my tag editor which can play songs and my mp3 player app show that the song is too long and they play the encore. different developers for both apps.
Take the tag editor out of the equation.
Any other 3rd party apps with permission to access the music folder?
Try using Poweramp as the player. It's rock solid stable.
If you have backup of the library on the PC, etc delete the one on the phone, then replace with the backup copy.
It could still be malware or software/firmware corruption. A factory reset may be needed if you can't find the root cause. Play with it.
What triggers it? Is it a specific file type?
Scan a effected file with online Virustotal.
Looking at running services and cache apps see what's running. If you can clear the system cache do so.
Do some Google searches too, it doesn't have to be that exact device. This is bizarre... until you track it down.
checked file with virus total online. a bunch say undetected. 15 say unable to process file.
only file type is mp3 I can`t figure out the cause. it seems so random.
last time I cleared cache I lost all of my attached lyrics (I also translate the lyrics to spanish so my wife can better understand the song lyrics) that is a lot of work to undo. I am loath to do so. I`ll do so as last resort.
now the only apps that have access are camera, files by google, gallery, mcAffe Security, and messages. I removed permission from 10 or so apps. none of them were suspicious. all well known brand name apps.
tag editor no longer has permission nor my mp3 player (muzio)
going to DL poweramp
going to restore music files from an external hard drive
System cache, not app cache. On Samsung's it's on the boot menu. If this applies to your device too.
.wav files effected?
can`t even find help online to locate how to clear system cache on my phone. it is a oneplus nord n10 5g
no wav files are affected that I am aware of. I don`t know how long they are supposed to be and I haven`t searched for and listened to them to find out.
I searched for cache cleaners in the play store and downloaded the highest rated antivirus app on the list. its by protectstar AI v1.1.4(1030). because of my search parameters I thought it would have a cache cleaner. nope.
I ran a regular scan which found no problems. running a deep scan now. 36% through and no problems.
It is saying it found a surprising number of apps. 363 of them at this point. If I added my last 5 phones apps together I might expect fewer apps.
it seems I have to go into recovery mode (don`t yet know how and it sounds like something I don`t really want to do) in order to clear system cache. It also seems that doing so will clear all the app caches. I already stated why I don`t want to do that.
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it seems I have to go into recovery mode (don`t yet know how and it sounds like something I don`t really want to do) in order to clear system cache. It also seems that doing so will clear all the app caches. I already stated why I don`t want to do that.
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The app caches are separate from the system cache at least on Samsung's. Verify that first.
Otherwise it's no big deal.
Some malware has no definition and will not show up on any scans. If it's a file(s) in your music database that's the cause it will need to be deleted. The trigger many times is when the file is opened. This may help you locate it if that's the cause.
no problems with the deep scan aand I just cleared system cache.
will see what happens now.
The backuo I had took me back WAY back. I swear I backed up more recently. I`ll be a long time straightening everything out.
Thanks again for the help! I`will come back and reply if the problem persists after I have caught back up.
If it's a file with malicious metadata or something in it, it will be tough to find.
Contain, isolate, remove. Protect the backup copies!
I like to keep time staggered redundant backups, a minimum of two. If you're backup copy fails?
My music database is over a half dozen backups deep on multiple sdds and hdds.
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If it's a file with malicious metadata or something in it, it will be tough to find.
Contain, isolate, remove. Protect the backup copies!
I like to keep time staggered redundant backups, a minimum of two. If you're backup copy fails?
My music database is over a half dozen backups deep on multiple sdds and hdds.
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I know sooner than expected. I was listening while I work and after about 15 songs or so I got an encore from one of the backup songs. I see there are three versions of that song in my back up. one 4 minutes 30 seconds one 3:49 and one 3:39. it`s supposed to be 3:50 according to wikipedia. of course I checked the 3:49 ends normally. but get this the 3:39 one ends at 2:00. go figure.
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I know sooner than expected. I was listening while I work and after about 15 songs or so I got an encore from one of the backup songs. I see there are three versions of that song in my back up. one 4 minutes 30 seconds one 3:49 and one 3:39. it`s supposed to be 3:50 according to wikipedia. of course I checked the 3:49 ends normally. but get this the 3:39 one ends at 2:00. go figure.
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So the backup is tainted too?
I am running another deep scan this time with the backup drive attached. 47% through no problems found but I am guessing it is. whe n the scan is complete I will play the tainted song directly from the backup to see if it has the three versions with three different lengths.
I have multiple versions of many songs. The fact that they are mutating is deeply concerning though. I've never seen that.
I intentionally have multiple versions of songs. not for this one. However there are three versions of different lengths on the backup drive the one with 4:36 has an encore and two with 3:49 one of the two ends at 1:56 the other ends normally. nothing detected with the deep scan.
hey black hawk. I am working on restoring my song collection. very few of the backed up songs were effected. doesn`t mean I don`t have to check them all!
I have two questions about power amp that you might be able to answer.
If I listen to half a song and then select a new song to listen to the next time the first song comes up to play it starts where It left off in the middle of the song. Is there a setting I have set up wrong or whats the deal? (figured this one out) it was the store/restore per track progress
also is there a way to reset play counts on the tracks? during this process I sometimes have to listen to a song a couple of times. When I get finished I would like to start with the track counts all back to 0 so that I can shuffle and not hear the same songs over again while neglecting some others.
Mine doesn't behave like that; if I skip forward then back, that song starts from the beginning.
It's in settings, somewhere. Make frequent settings backups especially during set up, just in case. Those backups are important with a complex app like this.
I don't understand your second question. I use playlists or play albums. I don't use suffle or random select as I have over 6000 tracks! I have music database backups that go back over 12 years. Time staggered backups are important if the database is somehow corrupted.
I'm very curious what caused your problem. Never heard of this before, but that doesn't mean it can't happen! Again it reminds me of those malware jpegs.
I vet all downloads before moving them out of the download folder. It may be as simple as playing the track, opening the jpeg or more in depth like scanning with online Virustotal. If there's any doubt, no matter how small, that file gets deleted. Nothing is worth the risk of potentially damaging a database or OS load.
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Mine doesn't behave like that; if I skip forward then back, that song starts from the beginning.
It's in settings, somewhere. Make frequent settings backups especially during set up, just in case. Those backups are important with a complex app like this.
I don't understand your second question. I use playlists or play albums. I don't use suffle or random select as I have over 6000 tracks! I have music database backups that go back over 12 years. Time staggered backups are important if the database is somehow corrupted.
I'm very curious what caused your problem. Never heard of this before, but that doesn't mean it can't happen! Again it reminds me of those malware jpegs.
I vet all downloads before moving them out of the download folder. It may be as simple as playing the track, opening the jpeg or more in depth like scanning with online Virustotal. If there's any doubt, no matter how small, that file gets deleted. Nothing is worth the risk of potentially damaging a database or OS
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shuffle has a slider with less random and full random. less random takes into account how many times a track has been played and prefers the least played tracks preventing randomly hearing the same track twice in a row, full random just randomizes the tracks and that being the case you might hear the same song twice in a row with the less random option you can play a twenty song playlist on shuffle and not hear the same song twice until all the songs in the playlist have been played at least once. With full random you might hear song 6 8 times before you hear song 1 once.
i heard back from power amp tech support. they tell me to do a full rescan in order to reset the play counts. if I do what they say which is go to settings/ library where there is an option to do a full rescan. I select this option and it warns me that all tag info will be erased from power amp database and library/folders will be rescanned also WARNING! track entries from ejected/unmounted storage/ SD cards will be removed from Library/Folders, buyt will stay in play lists.
i suspect the file manipulation had to do with the auto tagger I paid good money for and used to edit tags by album or artist and add lyrics to individual songs. I believe it was callaed autotagger - music tag editor by sergey churpin. I sent them an email quite a while ago. no response.