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Hello,
I bought my Galaxy S II a few days ago. One of the first things I did was rooting it. Then I proceeded to install some apps, and getting my music on the phone. I downloaded Winamp Pro, since I use Winamp on my computer. So I copied my music folder to an external SD card (I have 6,1 GB of music, and I don't want it on the internal memory). The folder structure is a Music folder with bands, and inside the folder I have another folder called Soundtrack, for, well, my soundtracks.
So I putted the folder on the SD (since Winamp wasn't syncing with my device), and it worked great. Then I installed some more apps, and for an unknown reason, my SD became corrupted, so I formated it, and put the musics on it again. But since them the music aren't being recognized. After the format, Winamp found the device, and I used it to transfer the musics. But halfway trough I realized that he as putting the artists and albums in different folders, so I stopped it, and deleted the folders. I put the musics manually, but every time I opened Winamp, or the stock music player, It was only seeing the musics that were on the folders before I deleted them, and also it was showing a Samsung album and a (I think it's was this name) sound album. I them installed CF-Root kernel trough Mobile ODIN, and flashed MIUI through CWM. The MIUI player was having the same problems.
Now, I searched a lot, here and on Google, but nothing worked. I tried:
Putting the musics on the internal Music folder
Searching for a .nomedia folder
Searching by folder (The musics are there, but when I select any of them they don't play)
Filter by Folder on MIUI player (There's no folders to thick, it just shows a pop-up asking to select folders, and an Ok and Cancel button)
Rescan, trough a Media Scanning App
Selecting another folder on MIUI player (Can't do that either. The first time I opened the folder view, there was a list of musics, but it disappeared after a second.)
Changing the folder name
Clearing the data and cache for both apps (Winamp and MIUI)
And I restarted the phone after every single procedure
I think I didn't forget anything.
But anyway, that's it. I have music in both folder (internal and external SD) now, and none of the Players are recognizing the music.
So what I have to do?
Thanks,
Hexagono.
Try with a single file first make sure it is a MP3 that actually plays .
Put it on the phone via cut and paste to internal sd card ..
Open My Files app navigate to that MP3 and open it ..
Check MIU actually has a working music player .
That fails i would wipe phone and flash stock firmware .
jje
JJEgan said:
Try with a single file first make sure it is a MP3 that actually plays .
Put it on the phone via cut and paste to internal sd card ..
Open My Files app navigate to that MP3 and open it ..
Check MIU actually has a working music player .
That fails i would wipe phone and flash stock firmware .
jje
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Ok.
I put a single music on the root of the internal Music folder.
Winamp, not recognized it. But it played the song when I chose it by Folder. (And didn1t display the album art (which happens every time I chose something by folder))
MIUI Player, didn't recognize it, an it didn't display on the folders view (Which, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't have an option to browse trough the folders.)
MIUI File Explorer crashes on opening.
So, flashing stock? Or I can re-flash MIUI?
Hexagono said:
Ok.
I put a single music on the root of the internal Music folder.
Winamp, not recognized it. But it played the song when I chose it by Folder. (And didn1t display the album art (which happens every time I chose something by folder))
MIUI Player, didn't recognize it, an it didn't display on the folders view (Which, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't have an option to browse trough the folders.)
MIUI File Explorer crashes on opening.
So, flashing stock? Or I can re-flash MIUI?
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This REALLY sounds like you either have a .nomedia file floating around, or need to format your internal memory (aka USB Storage), as it may have corrupt memory sectors. I'd copy everything from internal memory (/sdcard), format your USB storage, copy it back. If it's still doing this, scour your files for a .nomedia file more carefully.
ctomgee said:
This REALLY sounds like you either have a .nomedia file floating around, or need to format your internal memory (aka USB Storage), as it may have corrupt memory sectors. I'd copy everything from internal memory (/sdcard), format your USB storage, copy it back. If it's still doing this, scour your files for a .nomedia file more carefully.
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Thanks.
I search for .nomedia, and found some, but that didn't solved the problem.
So I copied everything and formates. This time I decided to try something else, and I putted the musics on /external_sd, which worked.
So that kinda solves my problem. The only thing is that I want the music on my SD, not on the internal (I putted two songs. One in external_sd and another on the I: drive (Which is my SD drive). Only the one on external_sd showed up).
But thanks anyway. At least I'm able to listen to music now.
Hexagono said:
Thanks.
I search for .nomedia, and found some, but that didn't solved the problem.
So I copied everything and formates. This time I decided to try something else, and I putted the musics on /external_sd, which worked.
So that kinda solves my problem. The only thing is that I want the music on my SD, not on the internal (I putted two songs. One in external_sd and another on the I: drive (Which is my SD drive). Only the one on external_sd showed up).
But thanks anyway. At least I'm able to listen to music now.
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Seems you're confused.
/sdcard/external_sd is the sd card you plug in.
/sdcard is the phone's "internal" memory. It is what is left of the included 16gb of the phone memory after System memory, App space, and the OS.
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Seems you're confused.
/sdcard/external_sd is the sd card you plug in.
/sdcard is the phone's "internal" memory. It is what is left of the included 16gb of the phone memory after System memory, App space, and the OS.
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But the files I put on /external_sd doesn't show up at the I: drive.
And also, I take my words back. With one song it recognized. but with the whole library not.
EDIT: More test, more strange.
So I've putted 3 songs. One I put in I:/Music and one I put in H:/external_sd/Music, and one on both.
The song I've putted on both get recognized, it plays, and show the album art. The one in external_sd, virtually exact like the one I but in both (the only notable difference is that the bit rate of this one is 3 less than to one on both) is recognized, but it don't play (MIUI says that the file type is not supported, and the file type is the same as the one i put in both) and doesn't show the album art. The one I've putted only on I:/Music, does not show up.
EDIT 2: This is creepy.
So now I put the song that wasn't working in I:/Music and it magically works. And the one I've putted only on I:/Music, still does not show up.
Hexagono said:
But the files I put on ?external_sd doesn't show up at the I: drive.
And also, I take my words back. With one song it recognized. but with the whole library not.
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The letter "I:" means nothing to me; on my current computer, my phone maps to "E:" and "G:". ("F:" is already taken by a network drive)
/sdcard and /sdcard/external_sd both map to drive letters. Is "I:" the first one, or second one mapped when you plug your phone in and turn on USB storage mode?
If it's the first one, then "I:" will be /sdcard. If it's the second one, then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
So if your drives map to "I:" and "J:", then "I:" will be /sdcard. But if they map to "H:" and "I:", then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
Make sense?
EDIT: I see what you're doing. You're putting stuff in H:/external_sd. Don't do that. I: is your external_sd
ctomgee said:
The letter "I:" means nothing to me; on my current computer, my phone maps to "E:" and "G:". ("F:" is already taken by a network drive)
/sdcard and /sdcard/external_sd both map to drive letters. Is "I:" the first one, or second one mapped when you plug your phone in and turn on USB storage mode?
If it's the first one, then "I:" will be /sdcard. If it's the second one, then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
So if your drives map to "I:" and "J:", then "I:" will be /sdcard. But if they map to "H:" and "I:", then "I:" will be /sdcard/external_sd.
Make sense?
EDIT: I see what you're doing. You're putting stuff in H:/external_sd. Don't do that. I: is your external_sd
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That is correct. H: is internal, and I: is SD card.
But as you can see, the music apparently only works if the file is both on the H:/external_sd/Music folder AND the I:/Music folder.
Hexagono said:
That is correct. H: is internal, and I: is SD card.
But as you can see, the music apparently only works if the file is both on the H:/external_sd/Music folder AND the I:/Music folder.
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No offense, but I can't see. This is happening on your phone. I have 8 gb of mp3 files on my external sd card, and they're only in one place. And I happily listen to them just fine, with album art and everything. So I'm not quite sure what is happening on your phone.
EDIT: for example; E: for me is internal memory, and G: is the external sd card.
E:/external_sd is COMPLETELY BLANK for me. It says there is nothing in there.
G:/music has all my mp3s.
So I'm not sure what is going on with your phone, but this is how it should work.
For you, H:/external_sd is intended to be a virtual mapping. You shouldn't be dropping files in there. Any files you want on the external sd card should be going into I:
ctomgee said:
No offense, but I can't see. This is happening on your phone. I have 8 gb of mp3 files on my external sd card, and they're only in one place. And I happily listen to them just fine, with album art and everything. So I'm not quite sure what is happening on your phone.
EDIT: for example; E: for me is internal memory, and G: is the external sd card.
E:/external_sd is COMPLETELY BLANK for me. It says there is nothing in there.
G:/music has all my mp3s.
So I'm not sure what is going on with your phone, but this is how it should work.
For you, H:/external_sd is intended to be a virtual mapping. You shouldn't be dropping files in there. Any files you want on the external sd card should be going into I:
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Yeah. Thanks anyway.
And I expected that it should be a virtual mapping. When I use Super Manager (Since Root Explorer crashes) to go trough the folders, when I go to external_sd it goes to the external SD and I can see the files there. It makes absolutely no sense that the music players aren't seeing the files.
EDIT:
So I downloaded PowerAmp, and it recognizes the music. The problem is with MIUI Player, and Winamp.
EDIT 2:
So I woke up this morning, after putting the rest of the music, and re-scanned with Power Amp. Them, everything worked. -.-
There's a problem with the ID tag (Some music from the same albums are showing as a different album) and the album art is really low quality. But I can listen to music now!
Thanks to ctomgee and JJEgan.
Okay so today i was using Play music , which has been running fine and then today i got a error saying ,"couldn't play the track you requested". So what i did was removed the sd card out (my songs are stored in the sd card) , put it back in , waited a bit , nothing happened , i rebooted with and without the sd card in. And nothing worked , the same problem occurred. So what i did was download a another music app, i went and download the n7 music app. It played the songs but one problem came , which was all the songs had a copy and the copies of the would not play. So what i did was just mount the sd card into my computer and then delete all of the songs and then put them back in, but it still showed the copies off the song , even when i took out the sd card , it still happened.
Then i just boot into recovery and then wiped data/ factory rest, wipe cache and dalvik cache, formatted system, cache and datadata and reflashed my rom. But now the problem is none of the songs even show up on any of the music apps have. I can play the song from the file explorer browser but thats it , it won;t show up on the music player. I even cleared data on the media storage and rebooted and nothing!
Sorry for the long as post but i just wanted to be in full detail on what i did. So can someone please help me, i have no idea what i did wrong. So i hope someone can help me.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Copied a couple of GB of photos to my External SDCard.Rebooted phone, nothing showed up,but all videos and music that were on the card were still showing in Video Player,Gallery and Music Player.So I unmounted the card via settings ,remounted .now nothing shows up at all.
If I browse through Root Explorer I can see all my media,and when I look in Settings/Storage the card shows up.
I thought perhaps it was the card(only bought last week) could be the problem, so I stuck my old MicroSD card in which has some media on it, same thing.Any ideas?
Should have said.When I take a photo it is stored on the micro SD card.That works OK
Is it just teh gallery that causes an issue?
If so try what this guy suggests here to do a rescan of the media:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27787690&postcount=3
No, nothing shows up.No videos, no music and no photos
I decided to reset the phone (from Settings) .Set it up again and all seems well again
Today I added some more albums to my external SDCard.Again, after doing so,none of the new mp3s showed up.Removed SDCard, and like before, NOTHING on the SDCard shows up.So I thought I would do what I did last time and wipe the phone.This time though it didn't do the trick,and nothing is showing up.Even reinstalled the original stock ROM,still nothing.
Have tried with a couple of different cards with the same outcome, nothing on SDCard appearing on phone(I can see the card in My Files and browse all the individual files OK).
Assuming there is something wrong with the phone , I guess all I can do is return to store, however I did unlock the phone using Voodoo Unlocker.Can this be reversed?
Can anybody help??
Either with the SDCard problem or know whether the Voodoo Unlock is reversible??
TIA
This problem has resurfaced.Installed Omega 8.1 Rom .Opened Music Player., nothing there.Same for Gallery and Video Player.
The thing is I downloaded PowerAmp,added the folder that has my music in and it works fine. Open QuickPic and all my pictures are shown, as are my videos which I can play in Video Player.
I can transfer a song to my internal memory, it shows up. Transfer it back to extSDCard, it disappears.
After flashing a stock ROM the problem is still happening.
The strange thing is ,the phone recognises there is an external card.When I open the camera app, I get the pop up asking me if I want to store my photos on the sdcard.I do, and it works fineand any picture I take on the phone shows in Gallery).It just seems to be a problem with any media.Its doing my head in.
Please save me from having to go buy an iPhone4s, because as boring as it may be, it does,as they say "just work"
This sounds software-related to me. Have you tried flashing a stock ROM and testing without installing any applications to the device? It's possible that one of the apps you have installed is causing some sort of problem.
It is still possible that the external SD card has a fault though. Have you tried a different one? Additionally, why are you using the external card rather than the internal memory?
All roms for me never find video or mp3 on external sd card .
Notable that Kies places Video in DCIM/Camera folder if you ask it to transfer filers to ext sd card and likewise music on ext card is media folder .
jje
yes, tried 3 sdcards.
Have 10GB of music. 2GB of photos. So I need to use the external SDCard ,as I would already be out of room.
This has worked fine.The last week or so there has been no problem.I have been flashing ROMS, adding media to SDCard with no issue.
How about apps? Have you tried doing this with no other applications installed?
I havent, but I am going to do a full wipe flash again without installing any apps.
saldawop said:
I havent, but I am going to do a full wipe flash again without installing any apps.
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If you do that and it works ok, just install one app at a time until you find the culprit. Then uninstall it and email the developer!
JJEgan said:
All roms for me never find video or mp3 on external sd card .
Notable that Kies places Video in DCIM/Camera folder if you ask it to transfer filers to ext sd card and likewise music on ext card is media folder .
jje
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Well that cant be right can it. There surely would be little point in having an external SDCard in that case.You cant put apps on it, you cant put music or video on it? (well not if you want to use stock apps)
Well, that didnt work.Fresh install of ROM, no apps installed. No music/Photos.
So thats stock ROM, Omega 7.1 (last known working with that ROM) and Omega 8.1 flashed probably half a dozen times over the last 24+ hours.
The only music and vid that appear are the Samsung installed demo ones.
saldawop said:
Well, that didnt work.Fresh install of ROM, no apps installed. No music/Photos.
So thats stock ROM, Omega 7.1 (last known working with that ROM) and Omega 8.1 flashed probably half a dozen times over the last 24+ hours.
The only music and vid that appear are the Samsung installed demo ones.
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Weird. I have music and media stored on my external SD card, and everything reads and functions fine (on Wanamlite using Ninphetamin3).
Have you tried changing kernels?
anthropolyte said:
Weird. I have music and media stored on my external SD card, and everything reads and functions fine (on Wanamlite using Ninphetamin3).
Have you tried changing kernels?
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No I havent.If it is something I should try I will have to have a read up. I have only rooted and flashed ROMs, never changed Kernels.
Edit:
I have used drag & drop when phone is connected to PC, I have used a card reader.Card has been formatted in the phone, in the card reader.
I have used Easy Phone Sync ,just tried Kies and that syncs fine to the external card.
It surely must be a software problem.
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No I havent.If it is something I should try I will have to have a read up. I have only rooted and flashed ROMs, never changed Kernels.
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I have used drag & drop when phone is connected to PC, I have used a card reader.Card has been formatted in the phone, in the card reader.
I have used Easy Phone Sync ,just tried Kies and that syncs fine to the external card.
It surely must be a software problem.
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Definitely try flashing a new kernel - have a look through the dev sections.
It's worth reformatting the sdcard in the phone as well, using the phone software to do it - that should eliminate any weird permissions-related problems.
Hi,
It's my first post in this section, I've been somewhat active in Nexus One and HTC Tytn forums in the past.
Now, my wife and I own a GS3 each, and we are very happy with it.
But, we have 2 problems with music playing on the S3 :
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard. I tried to re-tag the mp3 files, change the folder, clean caches (general cache, music apps cache and media scanning cache), reboot several times, etc. The phone seems to only find the mp3 on the internal memory (I tried to copy a music album on the internal memory, and it was found immediatly). It's true on the two phones, but it don't really bother me because I'm used to folder navigation. Only my wife uses tags system, and she noticed this first.
I could add that this behaviour started recently but we didn't notice it, because the cache has been populated before, and it was kept in memory. We saw this behaviour yesterday, when trying to add new music files. They weren't added to the music database.
Confirmed with : stock mp3 app, Meridian, and musicmatch. I didn't try other media players.
It's a big problem since we are huge music fans, and we own large sdcards for this purpose. Especially my wife... We don't want to put the music files on internal memory, it would be stupid.
- On my own S3, the "media players" notification, when you plug the headphones and see a list of media players, this function is not working, nothing shows up. It's not a real problem for me, but I just found this lost of fonctionnality a little strange. It's working on my wife's S3.
My wife's S3 is completely stock, only rooted and some small mods.
I'm rooted, stock modded rom, with Siyah kernel b6. Very happy with it.
We both are XXLFB. I suspect XXLFB introduced the first problem/bug.
mods :
- real brightness
- skip tracks on handsfree (me)
- bloatware removed (me)
- small fonts
- camera shutter sound menu
- cell standby fix (me)
Thank you for your help, or ideas...
(sorry if this is a double thread, I can't the the first I wrote)
double post, could be deleted
Stouf said:
Hi,
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard.
I installed a few music files via KIES to EXT Card Likewise a few videos .
Then just copy and paste the rest in to the folders Kies made Media = MP3 Video = Video .
jje
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Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
I really don't like to use softwares to make simple tasks I could do by hand.
Why, suddenly, my phone stops scanning the sd card ? I used to simply copy/paste files from the windows explorer, and it always worked :/
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
Stouf said:
Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
Its the official Samsung tool .
trojan = false positive
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
No the layout of sd card and ext card is changed for SGS3 .
You could try just making the two folders and copy and paste .
jje
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One thing I am sure is my S3 does scan music from my extFAT 64GB card. I am not sure about Android as awhole but you shouldn't have problem doing so. Both PowerAMP and Samsung Music Player works.
extFAT 64GB card
yes if its that format fat32 gives problems .
jje
So, I tried to rename the "music" folder on ExtSd to "media", on both phones and it didn't work. Even after a reboot + removal of battery and sd card.
It is not possible to use Kies, as it is constantly crashing while media scanning...
So you think it could be related to the format of the partition ? It's Fat32.
One thing for sure, on internal memory, scanning is working. And it worked with extsd, a few days/weeks ago. Could XXBLF break this fonctionality (one of the few things the 2 phones both have) ?
Edit :
OK, I managed to make it work.
I had to backup the content of my sd to the pc, re-format using exFAT, copy my backup back. After several reboots and a media scanning cache cleaning, it now works on my phone. I now have to make the same thing on my wife's phone...
Why it stopped working on both phones is still a mystery.
However, many thanks for your help !
Hi guys, I'm using Xperia Go with stock JB 4.1.2.
I don't remember doing anything that could make it happen, but some of my music files aren't showing in the player, only some of them, and yet when looking in a file manager, everything's in place. What I tried to far in order to solve this:
- Tried a few music players.
- Formatted the SD card and copied everything back.
- Formatted the phone itself.
- Created the folders media/audio as I read in some guide and moved the files there.
None of it worked. Plus, whenever I restart my phone, different songs seem to appear in the player.
Also, it only happens with the music files. All of my photos on the SD card are fine.
Any solutions?