It seems that every time the sdcard is unmounted for whatever reason (connected to USB as mass storage, disconnected sdcard, etc) the songs disappear from the playlist and when its mounted, they never come back, or only partially.
Is there any clean way of restarting the music app, or do I have to keep rebooting eveey time it happens?
You could try a task killer. Or, you could go the better route, which is getting a Google Music account.
Unfortunately, Android's music players have always been wonky. So your best bet is to turn to the cloud, all your music will deff be in the same place.
But if you can't do that, try to uninstall updates to the music app and re install them, and then putting all your music into the same "media" folder on your SD card.
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Hey guys I need some help. None of my music players (mediascape, stock android music player, or winamp) doesn't display the updated list of songs. After I've deleted some old songs and put in new ones, it still displays the old songs.
what method are you using to put music on your phone? usually after the sd card is remounted the phone will know to rescan for music. i could be wrong here but i think most players use the same service for record keeping on music. so thats why nothing updates. if you restart your phone it should rescan. alternatively you could look up "rescan media" on the market as there are a few apps there to force a rescan.
i did a search and several other people are facing the same issue and is mainly the android OS that has this bug. it seems that it is still a bug that hasn't been addressed yet by Google according to the software developer who made Meridian. it has something to do with MediaScannerService. under settings, applications, manage applications, MediaScannerService comes up as restarting. no matter what i do whether i take out the battery, mount/unmount the sd card, it still shows up as restarting. and it stays like that indefinitely.
you're right, i found out that all the apps share the same filesystem update function and that's why the apps don't have their own individual 'update library' function. apparently a full reflash and sd card format will fix it... ughh... (>_<)
Mine worst. My mediascape cant even scan any songs. I use other player, PowerAmp Player and it only can play songs from folders and can't load songs to library.
Today for what ever reason all my music apps cannot see my music stored on my SD card. If I use the file browser app, I can see and play the music there. I have reset the phone and still the music cannot be seen by the stock app nor by DoubleTwist. Help!!
How you tried using the Samsung Kies application? I don't have the device yet to test it, but I will test it when I do.
I'm good...Double Twist screwed up the music database on the SD card. Reformatted the SD card and all is well now. I was syncing with the DoubleTwist desktop software when it crashed. Samsung Kies does not work. Keeps crashing every time I try and scroll or search for music in my library. I'm using Google Music with the Google Music Importer app to sync my music from my Google music account to my phone. Works great!!
Go to Settings-Wireless and Network-USB Settings-Samsung Kies. Kies should not crash.
I also have this problem, and I have fixed this by USB Setting.
I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but I can’t seem to find any posts about it anywhere.
I can easily access my SD card through a file manager and play music files through that. However, whenever I try to open any of my songs (stored on my external SD) with Google music it simply cycles through each song in the list displaying the "cannot play the requested track" error over the album art in yellow.
This only occurs when the music in question is stored on the external SD card. Any music I try to play from the internal storage will play, and any music I attempt to stream will play. (Music that I have both streaming copies of and copies of on my external SD do not work).
I read somewhere that ICS handles file systems differently, but as I remember Google music worked when I first installed the rom. I have tried every combination of uninstalling and clearing the data in Google music, both with and without the SD card inserted. Any thoughts or recommendations?
(Afterthought: I also get the notification that "Music has stopped working" every time I reboot the phone)
(Afterthought II: I have been using these forums for nearly two years and have yet to be disappointed, thanks guys)
I had the same problem. Solved by uninstalling power amp - somehow it must have been conflicting. So try and uninstall any third party music players. Hopefully someone else has a better solution?
Clear your music cache/data again and change the file path. If your music is on external, it is now called emmc. I use PowerAmp and you can configure what files you want it to scan.
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
extravillager said:
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
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You are right, Google music doesn't provide an option to scan certain folders but in my case, clearing cache and data worked and I know this sounds crazy but I removed my SD card and re-inserted and that seemed to work.
Also, what I also did was install a third party app that does allow you to scan a particular folder and once it worked on that app, GM seemed to also work
You have probably tried these options but perhaps this will help
Will give that a try today
easy fix
settings, apps, music storage, clear cache / data.
been covered many times. someone ought to put it in the ics passion op.
I have a SGS2, with an internatl 16GB storage (sdcard) and aswell an external sdcard (emmc). I have all my music in the external sdcard, as mp3-files. Every now and then, I suddenly have everysong doubled in Winamp 1.3.2. It seems that android make a shortcut to the orginal files, but shows it as a musicfile. When I try to play a playlist, winamp crashes when it gets to the shortcutfiles...
I must say, I am using CyanogenMod 9 för my phone.
I really want to know why this is happening, and hove to solv it, because today I have to delete all music from withion winamp, and then copy all mp3-files back on the external sdcard.
well is a known AOKP/CM) issue. it can happen every time in a while, every 2 seconds or never again. it's pretty annoying but it has no permannent fix for now.
but, there is a quick way to fix it without deleteing ur files.
u have to go to app settings-->"all" tab-->delete data from your players (winamp and apollo) and delete data from media storage.
then reboot and let it settle for a few minutes (whatever it tooks media scan to re-scan all ur files.)
So I'm trying to load my phone up with music since my connection is not great in the virgin islands... Can't stream off google music with confidence... When I connect my phone to the computer I transfer the music.. I run out of space so then I go into root explorer and move the music to the other sd card that has more space.. (From sdcard2 to sdcard)
When I play a song through winamp or music or google music it says cannot playback file not recognized... Is there a specific directory the files have to be in? Also song titles show up 2 or 3 times in the programs... Ugh just want my tunes to play.. I bartend and play the music through my phone...
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EVO 4G LTE
Fresh 5.1.1
Since obviously no one can answer me why some apps detect where my mp3s see and some don't...I found my own crappy workaround...
The app Music Folder Player scans your storage when ya start it... But you can't create playlists, which I need for the bar.
Found an app Cloudskipper... Scans storage and I can create playlists... Yay problem solved for now...
I've deduced that if there's a way to scan storage in the main apps (google play, music) my problem would go away...
So... How to Rescan Storage In Google Play, Music?
Blacksantron for mayor
EVO 4G LTE
Fresh 5.1.1
are you rooted? Normally media refresh is triggered by taking the external card out and putting it back in, or a reboot. Seeing as how you've moved the music from the external card to the phone's own storage, you can do it by using an app like "rescan media". There is a root version that i've used and solved my N7 player not seeing my music issue, as well as a non root version that im not sure if it works or not. Either way what you're looking for is anything that triggers the media rescan.
If all else fails try clearing google play music's cache and data in your settings > manage apps and start from scratch.
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