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i put a 32 gb micro card in the tab after loading about 2gb of music on it, it found the card then only recognized about ten files while either deleting or replacing the remaining files with numbered files that come up as unreadable format. i have placed a folder labeled no media but that seems not to work. even sent it back to viewsonic and they reset it to factory ( i did that also) sent it back and it stil does it . any suggestions would be appreciated. its a stock gtab no mods
This is a known issue on some mods, although I didn't know stock also suffered from this problem. You need to create a file named ".nomedia" and place it in either the root directory, or the directory where you store your media. Note that you cannot create this file in Windows. Mac or linux may be able to, but the easiest way is to use a file explorer like ES File explorer, which has the ability to create a file.
thanks for the tip
i will give it a try and let you know what happened,
nope not working
tried as you advised , made a .nomedia file reloaded the sd card put it in wanting the world and the same thing happened. all but a few files were left and then there were 20 to 30 numbered files where there used to be mp3 folders.plus if i select one of these files it says unable to open this file type
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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:
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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.
Hi,
I've had my Prime for a couple of weeks now - a great device, but one thing that is bugging me - I can't seem to copy music to the Music directory on the internal storage.
So far, the only mechanisms I've tried are copying music from the external SDHC card or the external Micro-SDHC card over to the internal memory - fail, or copy over the LAN using ES File Explorer directly - fail.
I have successfully copied movie files over to the internal storage, but the internal Music directory still has just the default files shipped with the tablet.
The one thing I haven't tried is copying directly from a PC over the USB cable, but I shouldn't really need to resort to this surely - it's not an Apple device after all!
Has anyone else had this experience? Am I missing something here? :-/
Regards,
Bruisah
[Replying to my own post - what poor etiquette! ]
Update: I can copy the default music out of the folder, and I can rename the folder, but I cannot write to the folder, nor delete it, nor delete the contents.
Workaround was to rename the folder ".music.orig" to make it 'hidden', create a new "Music" folder, copy the default music across (I haven't listened to it, so...), and copy my own music into the new Music folder...
Presumably, ASUS want to make sure the default music survives a hard reset...(?)
Still, irritating...
Regards,
Bruisah
if u use the asus file manager i can tell u itz bugged (not that badly), it corrupt my download and music folder before on separate occasions.
btw after factory reset the free music are gone.
I have my ATT version SGS3 loaded with a 64GB microSD card and used iSyncr to transfer my entire library of about 13,000 songs from iTunes to the card (about 55 GB) on an Win 7 PC, including playlists.
Problem - When I call up a music player, it seems that about 200 songs are missing. If I look in file manager on the phone itself, I can see a bunch of files with zero size and a 1969 last modified date. I assumed they just got corrupted in the transfer. But when I plug my phone into my PC as a media device and look at Windows Explorer, I can only see the just some of the first artists folders (the ones that start with A and B) and none of the rest of them, even though the rest ARE visable on the phone though file manager and the music player. To further confuse the issue, when I take out my microSD card and plug it directly into the comoputer WITHOUT my phone, I see everything, AND the same files that have zero size in the file manager on the phone are perfectly fine on the card!
I'm sure this is just some issue with the "Mediastore" corruption (.e. ICS references all "real" media files by creating a shortcut entry in it's "mediastore" and that's what it exposes to the PC and players), but when I try to clear our all the data in the mediastore (Settings->Application Manager->All->Media Storage->Clear Data) and then reboot the phone and wait an hour+ for the media store to rebuild, it did NOT solve any of the issues described.
I can reformat the card and try to start again, but I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas at all what might be going on here?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be?
If your 64GB sd card was formatted in your phone or has the out of box format which is exFat, that's your problem. Many users are finding corrupt files because of this. Format your card to Fat32 and you'll be fine.
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Having similar problem with MediaMonkey and Windows Media player..
Will try FAT32 tonight.
Related topic:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66514&start=15
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28671275#post28671275
However, data on the actual card is NOT corrupted if I read it directly in a microSD card reader. It only appears corrupted once I put it in the phone and look at it though the PC. I think it's because the Mediastore that ICS is creating is faulty, but I can't seem to clear the faulty media references.
So I don't think is a format thing. Anything else?
Still could be a exFat thing if the phone is being read through MTP.
This is a snip of what I posted in the other thread, but basically format your card to FAT32 and you can easily eliminate that problem.
Did some researching as to why Team Epic won't support exFAT. Found this page talking about how many OS's support only FAT32. Here's a link to that page: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm There is a Windows GUI to format it to FAT32 for drives larger than 32GB: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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No it's not a card format thing definately.
I did the following:
1) I formatting the card to FAT32 which wiped out all the data.
2) I refreshed the mediastore on the phone, and put the card back in and re-refreshed the mediastore
3) With the mediastore showing NO media on the sd card, I reloaded all 13,000+ songs from scratch using iScyncr
4) I looked at the SD card's content with the phone still plugged into my PC without Windows Explorer and everything was there and NOT corrupted at all.
5) I unplugged my phone, rebooted it and gave mediastore about an hour to refresh itself
6) I looked at the contents on my phone using a file manager on my phone and the SAME EXACT 200 or so files were corrupted and would not play. All had a 1969 file date and showed zero size,with strange double extensions like .mp4aS.mp4aa and similar
7) I plugged back in my phone to the PC and both Kies and Windows explorer could now only see the about 10% of the content cut off alphabetically (a's and most B statting artists)
8) I took the sd card OUT of the phone and plugged it into my PC directly using a card reader. Now I could see EVERYTHING and none of the files that were listed on my phone as corrupted were actually corrupted on the card, and the file extentions were all the normal .mp4 and would play correctly
9) I put the card back in my phone and tried various music players and all could see the same number of songs which EXCLUDED the 200 corrupted songs.
10)I tried copying one of the songs directly to the card from my PC and then transferring that copied song into the correct artist folder on the phone and THEN I could see the song in the phone's file manager.
So man - I'm now TOTALLY confused!! Any ideas from anyone?
EDIT: Seems like FAT32 might be working for me.. still testing.
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EDIT: Seems like FAT32 might be working for me.. still testing.
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Doubt it. Check your NUMBER of songs between source PC and your phone after the transfer.
I think the problem is with the mediastore on the S3, or maybe the syncronizer (iSyncr in my case). I'm gonna try to sync with Tunesync instead and see what happens. I still suspect it's the mediastore corrupting some of it's media referencing when things are copied, because the actal files themselves when referenced outside the phone are NOT corrupted, just the mediastore reference to them, which is the only thing the phone let's you view (in ICS at least).
The only way to find the number of files on the phone is by looking at the directory on windows. But the number of file match
5332 files
Hey guys,
I've tried he stock music player, mixzing and xplay and nothing can find the music on my SD Card. I've used nearly every current Rezound Rom and they all have this same behavior. I've tried reformatting the SD, clearing data from all music/media search related apps, remounting the SD, fixing permissions, different folders, upper/lower case folder names, etc.
I've searched and found similar threads for different devices but no answers that worked.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks!
Use double twist. It's like iTunes for every device but apple. It'll let you load your music library and make it easier to load music in the future.
Also for reference my music is in sdcard/extsd/music/artists/album/songs
All I did was connect to my phone via USB, open the drive letter right after HTC STORAGE (the next drive letter should be the ext SD card), then make a directory called Music (capitalized), and copy the MP3 files to it, moved 451 files and then disconnected... Everyone show up in the stock music player and WinAmp, although it did take a few minutes for the list to populate.
I am pretty sure when you copy music to the SD card, it has to be in a directory called "Music", you can't just copy them to the root of the card.
I too have always just put all my music in a "Music" folder on the root of my sd, however depending on the device I've had players find music directly at root.
Have you tried using a like manager like astro to navigate to the files and play them directly?
Sent from my NEOMax Rezound
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All I did was connect to my phone via USB, open the drive letter right after HTC STORAGE (the next drive letter should be the ext SD card), then make a directory called Music (capitalized), and copy the MP3 files to it, moved 451 files and then disconnected... Everyone show up in the stock music player and WinAmp, although it did take a few minutes for the list to populate.
I am pretty sure when you copy music to the SD card, it has to be in a directory called "Music", you can't just copy them to the root of the card.
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You should be able to copy them everywhere and the music player should find it. I have music in "AmazonMP3" on the root, "musicdownload" where I get my music from Box, "Music" and even a song or two at root and "My Documents\Music" as well as a few in the "Download" folder as I've downloaded through http.
I'd say clear data from the music app in app management and let it rescan the card for data. Also, the phone can read WMA, MP3, MP4, M4A and maybe OGG. If you're trying some other formats I don't know if it'll see it.
P.S. On a funny note, the captcha just had me type TWATUS ... LOL
ROM Manager Sucks
I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
EEngineer said:
I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
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I also face same problem and ur reply realy help me
Thanks for all your suggestions guys. I don't have a .nomedia file anywhere on the phone. I have all the music in a "Music" folder. I've tried everything in this thread as well as a dozen other things from other threads. It just doesn't work.
Weird thing is... the Gallery also can't see any photos/pics on the SD Card. It makes me think its a format problem or something? My SD is formatted FAT32? Should it be different?
How much extra "Junk" do you have on the SD Card... I just helped someone earlier today who had moved a microSD card from a Thunderbolt to the Rezound and it had a lot of extra stuff (old Nandroids, TiBu backups, and lots of other various files) and had the same issues. Copied everything off to a PC and formatted the card in the phone, then copied over the same music in the same folder and it was recognized like normal. Not saying this is the fix, but just did it this morning and it worked fine for someone else.
look in google play for a sd rescan app. Have that scan your card, that will help sometimes.
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How much extra "Junk" do you have on the SD Card... I just helped someone earlier today who had moved a microSD card from a Thunderbolt to the Rezound and it had a lot of extra stuff (old Nandroids, TiBu backups, and lots of other various files) and had the same issues. Copied everything off to a PC and formatted the card in the phone, then copied over the same music in the same folder and it was recognized like normal. Not saying this is the fix, but just did it this morning and it worked fine for someone else.
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OMG!!! This worked! I had moved everything off the SD and formatted with the phone like a dozen times but always put everything back all at once. When the only thing on the card was music it found it right off.
Thanks!!
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I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
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THIS THIS WTF WHY DID THIS HAPPEN
i did this and it worked. thank you!
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look in google play for a sd rescan app. Have that scan your card, that will help sometimes.
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Major thanks for your suggestion. I have an HTC One X+ with stock rom (it's new, I haven't got round to customising yet ) I copied Music folder on my old One X to the new One X+.
The stock music app could not find any of my music. Using the sd rescan app worked and made it find it. I was getting very annoyed with it, so thanks again.
playing songs on sd card in android 4.0
ktdt00 said:
Hey guys,
I've tried he stock music player, mixzing and xplay and nothing can find the music on my SD Card. I've used nearly every current Rezound Rom and they all have this same behavior. I've tried reformatting the SD, clearing data from all music/media search related apps, remounting the SD, fixing permissions, different folders, upper/lower case folder names, etc.
I've searched and found similar threads for different devices but no answers that worked.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks!
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I have an HTC one V with android 4.0 an tried to figure out how to get the apps to play mp3 files on the storage card.
the phone stores pic and video's in a directory called DCIM\100MEDIA\
I copied the song files (mp3) to that directory with the pics and videos
the default player , winamp , and doubletwist all found the songs.
hope this helps you or any one else trying to play songs on there storage card with android
tfish0
tfish0 said:
I have an HTC one V with android 4.0 an tried to figure out how to get the apps to play mp3 files on the storage card.
the phone stores pic and video's in a directory called DCIM\100MEDIA\
I copied the song files (mp3) to that directory with the pics and videos
the default player , winamp , and doubletwist all found the songs.
hope this helps you or any one else trying to play songs on there storage card with android
tfish0
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This worked for me, thanks! Songs in my SDCARD\Music folder were not showing up in any music player, but the second I put them into SDCARD\DCIM\100ANDRO, they showed up in Play music! Why is this?