[Q] Missing Songs from Music Library - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everbody.
I have Sensation with Android 2.3.5 right now. And there is a problem I couldn't solve and find any solution about it.
Some of my musics don't show up on library no matter which music player I use. These songs don't have any particular property that can cause it. Half of the songs of same album or different bitrates or same bitrates or same tags or different tags. It's just mixed at all.
I can see and play these songs using file explorers.
Different roms don't change anything either. Sense or CM.
Deleting and copying music files again or tagging again didn't solve.
Formatting SD card didn't solve.
Deleting cache of MediaProvider.apk didn't solve.
Changing file manes or folder didn't solve.
I use cover art downloader to refresh mediastore everytime but it doesn't stick.
I'm tired of it.
I'm open to the ideas...

What is the format of your songs that can't play normally?
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melvinchng said:
What is the format of your songs that can't play normally?
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MP3. To clear things up, they play normally but don't show up on libraries of music players. After I trig scanning they show up. After some hours they dissapears from libraries again.

umd said:
MP3. To clear things up, they play normally but don't show up on libraries of music players. After I trig scanning they show up. After some hours they dissapears from libraries again.
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I don't have this problem. I have up to 22mb mp3, 512kbps bitrate, mp3 or flac format.. btw, I use Google music.
If you try to search the music using search option in music app, will it work?
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I don't have this problem. I have up to 22mb mp3, 512kbps bitrate, mp3 or flac format.. btw, I use Google music.
If you try to search the music using search option in music app, will it work?
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Mines are V0 Mp3 and their size are up to 15 MB. Average is 8 MB. Totally 1567 songs.
Search can't find them either because they're not included in library.
Btw, there are people who have that problem on the net. Even on Google forums(I don't know exact name) after long conversations still no solution as far as I read.

So no one has any clue?

umd said:
So no one has any clue?
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Remount SD? Have you tried?
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Remount SD? Have you tried?
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Tried an hour ago, it added the missing songs to the library. Just came back to check if it's still ok but no luck. They dissapeared again.

unfortunatly I am kinda having same problem but I think mine is a bit more irritating. ever since I updated to gingerbread on my thunderbolt all and I mean all my music was misscatigorized, band names changed ,song names changed. it appears that the only ones that didnt change were one that had all info even album art. even newly downloaded songs are misscatagorized. im considering deleting the stock player all together . who the hell has the time to go threw and re name everything or re download .
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Music Player doesn't have all the songs

I have comm rom on my fascinate and tons of songs on my sd card, but when i use the music player it doesn't have all the songs in the library. why is that? is there anyway to fix it? or make it work?
Double check the formats of your music to make sure its .mp3 or similar. Good place to start.
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the formats are all .mp3
I can confirm this problem. The songs are there but the music player doesn't show them. A tiny bug...
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use root exploret or similar and go into your sd card and delete the android folder and reboot. This fixed it for me. I've also had a problem where sometimes it would show the same song multiple times and it would fix that too.
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How do i make google play recognize music on my sd card?

It doesnt recognize music on sd card but the htc music app does.
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afgomar said:
It doesnt recognize music on sd card but the htc music app does.
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It's not supposed to. Play Music is only for music you have uploaded to Play Music
Go the the phone browser, navigate to Google play music and then upload the tracks you have. You'll be advised to do this on a desktop if you have more than as few you want doing
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Go to Settings, App info, find the Google Play application. Click Clear data. When you relaunch the Google Play app it'll find your songs. It worked for me.
proxybox said:
Go to Settings, App info, find the Google Play application. Click Clear data. When you relaunch the Google Play app it'll find your songs. It worked for me.
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worked perfectly!
nicholaaaas said:
It's not supposed to. Play Music is only for music you have uploaded to Play Music
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Well, seeing as 3 days ago it let me move all the music to the SD card, and originally had no problem recognizing it at first, its strange that it is suddenly not supposed to.

Why doesn't the music work for these new ROMs coming out ??

So. Let's get this answered. Why doesn't the music work / play in cm10 ? Can someone specify suggestions ? Please and thanks
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trancemusic+1 said:
So. Let's get this answered. Why doesn't the music work / play in cm10 ? Can someone specify suggestions ? Please and thanks
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Music works fine over here...for the most part. The only issues in terms of music after flashing ROMs was that my songs doubled and if I played the doubled version I'd get an error message. I also noticed my music library contains notification sounds and audio from my videos I've taken, a little odd but im still able to listen to music with out any real issues. What are your issues?
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nash2000 said:
Music works fine over here...for the most part. The only issues in terms of music after flashing ROMs was that my songs doubled and if I played the doubled version I'd get an error message. I also noticed my music library contains notification sounds and audio from my videos I've taken, a little odd but im still able to listen to music with out any real issues. What are your issues?
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fix permissions in recovery to fix the doubled up songs *or so ive been told as i dont use my PHONE as an MP3 player
and if your using apollo.. dont its the worst music player for android hands down. *the reason i no longer include it in my roms*
BUT i have 1 cd on my phone for testing purpose's and i download winamp from market to test, no issues in playing, no doubled up songs ect..
The roms coming out yesterday have fixed audio
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JamieD81 said:
fix permissions in recovery to fix the doubled up songs *or so ive been told as i dont use my PHONE as an MP3 player
and if your using apollo.. dont its the worst music player for android hands down. *the reason i no longer include it in my roms*
BUT i have 1 cd on my phone for testing purpose's and i download winamp from market to test, no issues in playing, no doubled up songs ect..
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Can this also effect music playback ?
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trancemusic+1 said:
So. Let's get this answered. Why doesn't the music work / play in cm10 ? Can someone specify suggestions ? Please and thanks
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I had the same problems, so I would just go back and flash cm9
I founded out when you flash a new ROM and music seems to not play or find. You want to get a file explorer and go on your storage and look for a file that says "No music" and delete it. I did that and now my music play's perfectly
Hope that helped!

Weird error

Every time I try to play a certain artist on cm9, Apollo just force quits. It didn't happen when I was running sense, and I even tried using another music player to no avail. Should I just resync my music or what?
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kyuubi08 said:
Every time I try to play a certain artist on cm9, Apollo just force quits. It didn't happen when I was running sense, and I even tried using another music player to no avail. Should I just resync my music or what?
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The files that you are trying to play wouldn't happen to be WMA files would they? I had that problem with Apollo. If they're songs that you burned from cd (with Windows) that you never converted to mp3 then they won't play. Poweramp is a great app and will play all kinds of files. There's a free trial version, but I believe that when the trial is up (2 weeks) it costs $3.99.
kyuubi08 said:
Every time I try to play a certain artist on cm9, Apollo just force quits. It didn't happen when I was running sense, and I even tried using another music player to no avail. Should I just resync my music or what?
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just wondering, what artiest? it could be a .wma problem like post 2 said.
synisterwolf said:
just wondering, what artiest? it could be a .wma problem like post 2 said.
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all are mp3, and its hollywood undead.
kyuubi08 said:
all are mp3, and its hollywood undead.
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In the folder do you see a .nomedia file anywhere?
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I have noticed certain file types like wma sometimes cause hiccups i have also noticed certain bitrates have caused my apollo to stutter at ttimes
synisterwolf said:
In the folder do you see a .nomedia file anywhere?
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Didn't see it. I ended up resyncing my music using tune sync and now no errors.
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MP3 tags - hella annoying!

I've got some songs in an album. But my favourite music player doesn't seem to be detecting them as all coming from the same album. So i've got 2 albums now...
I used id3fixer app and it fixed great an album for me, but not this one.
How can i fix this?
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killbubble said:
I've got some songs in an album. But my favourite music player doesn't seem to be detecting them as all coming from the same album. So i've got 2 albums now...
I used id3fixer app and it fixed great an album for me, but not this one.
How can i fix this?
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Do you want to fix this directly from your phone or PC? (i'll tell you what i use for both anyway ) I always change my ID3 tags on my lappy with mp3tag, works like a charm.
when i have had wry music tags on my phone, i've used iTag - music tag editor from the play store.
R: MP3 tags - hella annoying!
squ89r97 said:
Do you want to fix this directly from your phone or PC? (i'll tell you what i use for both anyway ) I always change my ID3 tags on my lappy with mp3tag, works like a charm.
when i have had wry music tags on my phone, i've used iTag - music tag editor from the play store.
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Thanks but the problem is kinda weird. when looking at the single songs info, i see they have the exact same info (except for total tracks numeber and title of course) but when i browse the albums, a single song does not come from the album it's tag says, but another one. What the ????
I can't try with my pc cuz it's graphics card got wasted the otha day (far cry 3 killed it :sniff and im waiting for a new one.
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killbubble said:
Thanks but the problem is kinda weird. when looking at the single songs info, i see they have the exact same info (except for total tracks numeber and title of course) but when i browse the albums, a single song does not come from the album it's tag says, but another one. What the ????
I can't try with my pc cuz it's graphics card got wasted the otha day (far cry 3 killed it :sniff and im waiting for a new one.
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Is that the file name or the ID3 tag? Change both if you have to. For me i categorize my tunes with a bracket system, ie: (Albums) , (Dance) , (HipHop).
Also for me the actual file name is more important and most players will read that first if you tell it to.
R: MP3 tags - hella annoying!
I just discovered....all players using android libraries for playing music (double twist included) cant read that file not being associated with all others (vlc does read it thou)...')could that be why?
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