Hello. Here is my situation:
Example: I add 30 new songs to my external MicroSD, or I add a few wallpapers to my external MicroSD. The gallery or media player will not show them until a reboot(or just takes too long).
Is there a way to manually trigger a gallery refresh and/or a music refresh so that they show up immediately? Anything, including a terminal command is welcome. I can do terminal either on the phone or with ADB.
I think that the gallery is supposed to refresh when I open it, same with the media player, however they do not.
I am running CM7 (latest from the thread) on my Droid X2. Just a simple command or app will suffice to trigger or force a media refresh. /mnt/emmc is my external MicroSD.
Thanks in advance.
In the dev tools app, there is a media scanner. Just select that and it should do a quick scan.
if that doesn't work then if u can unmount and remount sdcard real quick that should do the trick as well...
don't know much bout cm7 but I assume there would be an option for that if the media rescan/refresh doesn't do what ya need.
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y0himba said:
Hello. Here is my situation:
Example: I add 30 new songs to my external MicroSD, or I add a few wallpapers to my external MicroSD. The gallery or media player will not show them until a reboot(or just takes too long).
Is there a way to manually trigger a gallery refresh and/or a music refresh so that they show up immediately? Anything, including a terminal command is welcome. I can do terminal either on the phone or with ADB.
I think that the gallery is supposed to refresh when I open it, same with the media player, however they do not.
I am running CM7 (latest from the thread) on my Droid X2. Just a simple command or app will suffice to trigger or force a media refresh. /mnt/emmc is my external MicroSD.
Thanks in advance.
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or maybe give this a try
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.addz.mediascanner
I found a couple in market just by searching for "media rescan"
there was another that needs root....but the one I linked to needs no permissions at all and reviews look pretty good
hope this helps bro
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The Dev Tools media scanner only scans the internal SD. I went with Rescan Media Root since it stated it scans the external MicroSD as well. Hope it works.
Thanks for the advice folks!
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it's awful and can't handle it when you have an sd card as well as internal storage. every time i transfer new songs onto the phone my playlists show up as empty and i have to remount usb, remove the doubletwist folder and dismount one drive before the other, then wait ages. if i dismount in the wrong order it doesn't work
any music player that can handle playlists that you can make on the PC and not on the phone?
if you're able to create a playlist with relativ filepaths it should work.
But as i know most players use the absolute filepath and this wont work on your phone.
Try a app called MUSIC FOLDER PLAYER. I don't know.if it's available from google play but you'll find it in Samsung apps. It's got some nice features a decent equaliser and plays each folder from where you left off. PS it's got a different name tagging feature so It may sort out your problem.
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Exactly what the title says. I have 1000 MP3's in a Directory called Music on my SD card. The Music app on LTE will not find the MP3's on the SD card. When I cut and paste the MP3's to the Directory called Music on the LTE's memory the Music App will find the songs. I don't want to store all of my music on my phones internal memory.
Worked fine with OG EVO 4G
djscissorhands said:
Exactly what the title says. I have 1000 MP3's in a Directory called Music on my SD card. The Music app on LTE will not find the MP3's on the SD card. When I cut and paste the MP3's to the Directory called Music on the LTE's memory the Music App will find the songs. I don't want to store all of my music on my phones internal memory.
Worked fine with OG EVO 4G
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That is strange, I have all my music in the Micro SD card (ext_sd directory) and both the stock music app and the Poweramp recognize not only my my music but also my playlist's.
Try Poweramp and see what results you may have.
Go into settings and delete the cache/data for the music app that isn't finding the songs. That's what I did and it fixed the same issue I was having with Google music.
I had a similar problem with my EVO View 4G. Try an app in the Play Store called "SDRescan." Let it run overnight while charging.
It could also be that you loaded too much media all at once. I found that when I erased all of Google Currents' data on my tablet, the scan for music completed quickly. What was happening, apparently, is that the tablet was spending so much time scanning the Currents data that it was taking forever to get to the music folder.
Also the most simple but often overlooked thing to do: take the card out and put it back in to force the os to rescan it.
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I learned you need to wipe the card using the Settings>Storage options.
Android creates its own folders on the card.
My Photos & Music weren't showing up right at 1st. See the thread I made via my profile for more info on what I did.
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Noiro said:
I learned you need to wipe the card using the Settings>Storage options.
Android creates its own folders on the card.
My Photos & Music weren't showing up right at 1st. See the thread I made via my profile for more info on what I did.
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This might be an important point, along with how the songs were transferred. If you just loaded a bunch of MP3s to a blank microSD card and put it in the phone, it may have some problems. I formatted the card, put it in the phone, and then used HTC Media Sync to get my MP3s on my phone. They all transferred just fine, and all 526 of my songs show up in the music app.
OP...let us know which of the offered solutions worked for you.
Just a tip, in poweramp there appears to be a shortcut in the internal sd for the external sd which I haven't seen in the other apps I've used but anyway I selected my music folder through the shortcut and it loaded all my music twice, I had to clear the app and scroll pas sd to exsd and select music from there and rescan so it would list the tracks only once
I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
Try clearing data in "MediaScanner" in the applications manager, and then rebooting. Give it a little while as it can take a few minutes to scan the entire phone.
android.francis said:
I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
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Try putting the music somewhere else on your SD, before deleting caches and data... If that doesn't work, you can always just delete the cache of your music player, that usually works, but try not to delete the Media Scanner's Cache, that means it will take longer to boot and get to the launcher...
If you want, you could also just download Google Play Music, it's better than Samsung's Music player (Because Music Player leaves a second out of the music..) and Play Music is much smoother than Sammy's..
Try one of those and if it still doesn't work, do the Media Scanner Cache.
Anyways, hope I could help you!
You can also decrease the scanning times by using the SD watcher mod here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28795745&postcount=2
Thanks! I'll try all the options provided and will let everyone know the results.
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Hello,
on my Prime (4.1) I have an external micro SD-Card inserted. Now I copied some new and old mp3 files on this disc... and none of them are being seen by neither Google Music, Amazon MP3 nor n7 music player. The old files are displayed and played without problems.
On ef explorer, I can see, the files are there.
Before the 4.1 update, the new files are not being discovered by the music player after a reboot. Now, a reboot is of no help at all.
Thank you for hints.
Greetings
ToDroidOrNotTo said:
Hello,
on my Prime (4.1) I have an external micro SD-Card inserted. Now I copied some new and old mp3 files on this disc... and none of them are being seen by neither Google Music, Amazon MP3 nor n7 music player. The old files are displayed and played without problems.
On ef explorer, I can see, the files are there.
Before the 4.1 update, the new files are not being discovered by the music player after a reboot. Now, a reboot is of no help at all.
Thank you for hints.
Greetings
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It may be related to the Media Storage application that data is messy. I did go to setting - App - All - locate Media storage - force close - clear data. You can reboot afterward then plug sdcard to see a new file. It works in my case.
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It may be related to the Media Storage application that data is messy. I did go to setting - App - All - locate Media storage - force close - clear data. You can reboot afterward then plug sdcard to see a new file. It works in my case.
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That resolved it indeed! Thanks!
Hi,
I need an help: I put SD card with Albums, Videos and Music on my ZU.
I can see albums and videos but I can't see music on Walkman or Google Play...
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
Restarting the device usually makes it rescan for media on internal and external sd, but if it doesn't, go to apps, Media app (I don't remember the right app as I don't have the device now), delete cache and after a few minutes you'll have all the music in your apps.
If this doesn't work try again with Walkman app and Google Music app, delete cache and open app.
If none of this work, maybe reformat the sd card...
Tapatalked from my mother in law's horribly small, painfully slow, still at ICS LG 2X...
I have all music on my SD card but if some files not showing up I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clypher.mediascanner
The phone does however rescan by it self most of the cases, It just need a few minutes to work
The phone should rescan by itself when you transfer files using an USB, but if you transfer wirelessly it won't do that. I transfered some songs with AirDroid yesterday, and I had to reboot so it would rescan. That's the unnecessary way of doing it, or you can trigger a rescan by installing an app that does this.
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