Hello,
When I copy music to the Music folder on my sdcard, Winamp does not see the files. I have to reboot the tablet in order for Winamp to see the new music files. Is this normal?
If I copy video/movie files to my sdcard, rockplayer sees the video/movie files without rebooting.
Have you tried to rescan media? That is usually what helps. There is even an app in the Market for that, cannot remember the name.
I didn't see rescan media option in winamp. Found the app though. Thanks for the advice.
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Hi,
I find this unusual problem when transferring mp3 files to my phone. I use the Kies software on my PC to sync with my music folder. When it finish sync with the phone, it shows a complete transfer without problems, but when I open the music player my mp3s don't show up. After playing with the phone for a while, I found the mp3s to be in a folder called media. I have to transfer those mp3s to the music folder under Samsung in order for the mp3 to show up in the music player.
Why doesn't the transferred mp3 files go straight to that music folder under Samsung and instead I have to manually transfer it from the media folder on the phone? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you
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86b said:
Hi,
I find this unusual problem when transferring mp3 files to my phone. I use the Kies software on my PC to sync with my music folder. When it finish sync with the phone, it shows a complete transfer without problems, but when I open the music player my mp3s don't show up. After playing with the phone for a while, I found the mp3s to be in a folder called media. I have to transfer those mp3s to the music folder under Samsung in order for the mp3 to show up in the music player.
Why doesn't the transferred mp3 files go straight to that music folder under Samsung and instead I have to manually transfer it from the media folder on the phone? Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you
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Well my suggestion is use Mediamonkey for transferring or managing music. In Mediamonkey you can configure the path where the files have to be uploaded, the order of uploading (artist>album>title) , file formats supported by the device and much more ! I have uploaded my music(FLACs) with Mediamonkey on SGS2 and all the music shows up correctly(along with track order) in the stock music player. Try it
crazyadmit said:
Well my suggestion is use Mediamonkey for transferring or managing music. In Mediamonkey you can configure the path where the files have to be uploaded, the order of uploading (artist>album>title) , file formats supported by the device and much more ! I have uploaded my music(FLACs) with Mediamonkey on SGS2 and all the music shows up correctly(along with track order) in the stock music player. Try it
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Thank you for your help, I will give Mediamonkey a try.
It's so just weird using Samsung software on a Samsung phone doesn't work correctly.
I can't seem to get my phone to recognize some of my mp3 songs. I've placed the same file in about 100 different folders on ext_sd and on internal but it won't show up in music player or my alarm. I can see it and play it under es file explorer. Tried reboots and unmounting the card. I even use the extended controls update media widget. Any help?
Did you try clearing data for the music player? This might help your sd card get scanned for new music.
Just a thought
Check what folders you have the player scanning for music.
Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this:
I use doubletwist for listening to new music that is stored on my SD card. I use Google Music for streaming my favorite tracks that I have uploaded. The problem is Google Music automatically searches my SD card and displays all the music stored on my phone along with the artists/playlists/etc. that I have stored on the cloud, which makes it confusing when browsing the library. My question is: Can I prevent Google Music from searching and displaying what's on the SD card, but still allow doubletwist to see it? Thanks much!
I think that's not a problem with the Google Play Music app. The Media Storage app does the scanning. I don't think you can do what you asked.
bump. So is this a no-go? No way to disable media scanning for google music but still allow it for doubletwist?
I don't use either app but you could try the .nomedia trick. Just create an empty file and name it ".nomedia" and place it in whatever folder your music is in then force media scanner to do a rescan (or just reboot). Media scanner will skip any folder (including all subfolders) that contains a ".nomedia" file. This should hide your music from google music but they should still show up in doubletwist (I think). Note this will hide all media files which means they will not show up in any app that depends on media scanner (any photos in the folder will not show up in the stock gallery app, etc.). If you need to unhide the folder just delete the ".nomedia" file and force another media rescan.
Thanks for the response. I tried that, but it hides media from both google music and doubletwist. This is frustrating. Why can't these apps just have a menu to allow you to select the folders you want for a library? Why do they think they need to be able to scan the whole card?
I had this problem with my S2 as well; I connect my phone with usb debugging checked and copy paste all my music from the music folder on my PC to the music folder on my SD card.
I keep getting the error, " sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file"
Is there anyway to fix this or am I doing something wrong? The music is in mp3 format.
Can somebody please help me out? Thanks
Usb Debugging has nothing to do with normal file transfer.
What type of file extension are you trying to copy? Normal mp3 or some less common and/or proprietary format such as aac, flac, wma, ...
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they are all MP3 format
Try copying your files to the phone throug Airdroid or another file transfer app.
Alternatively if you're rooted, you can use the Easy UMS app to mount your external sdcard on the computer.
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I am rooted, where would I find the easy ums app? For now i will try using airdroid
So i copied and pasted my music to the sd card. Now when i try to play files, some work and some still give the same error message. Also when I click on a song, it automatically starts shuffling through the list but only stays on each song for a second. Im stumped!
I tried Isyncr and Isyncr wifi, both did not work. It shows that it has transferred 500 files but when I go to the music, theres only about 25 files there. The Isyncr process took about 25 minutes and it showed every song that was copied. But when i looked in the music and syncr folder, there were only about 25 songs, I dont understand why the rest were not copied????
It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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thank you, i will try that next
I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
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I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
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Yes, I have exactly the same problems for a few of my mp3 files.
I maybe due to some permission issue with the files? Strangely, I can play
all the problematic mp3s directly from the file explorer but not from the player
or any other media players including winamp, real, BS Player etc.
Anyone got a solution for this?
Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Music on internal sd card not ext sd card ???
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Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Well, no, they are all either 128k or 192k.
I also converted some flv files to mp3 with Real converter, the player also cannot play these converted mp3.
I've been on my S4 for about a month, and have encountered an annoying problem.
I have about 10 gb of music in a folder called Music on my external SD card. I can see and pltany song via my files, or ES file Explorer. But none of my music apps (Samsung Music Player, Winamp, or Google Play Music) can see any songs that are in the Music folder. They can see music in the download folder on the sd card, but not the folder that houses my music files.
I've tried changing the default location in My Files, but that had no effect. I've cleared defaults, and tried everything I can think of, but no luck.
Has anyone else encountered this? How can I get my apps to see my music folders?
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Try popping out and polling in your SD card. That forces the gallery to search for new files. Never know, that might be the problem.
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Check for files called .nomedia and delete if you find any. That's really all I can think of right now