Hi Guys,
since yesterday my Xperia S (FW .73) is no longer listing any music (stored at /mnt/sdcard/Music...)
I tried several things to fix this:
- reboot several times
- rename music foder
- copy music from /Album sub folder into /Music folder
- rescan via "rescan media" app
- testing with third party music player apps like standard android music player or Meridian
...but without success!
Music player still says that there is no music available on my device.
But I do have about 9 GB!
The only may important thing I did yesterday was to change the micro SIM card.
Bit this works without any trouble.
So do you guys have any idea?
Should i reinstall generic .73 FW?
If you go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All find the Media Storage App, clear Data, restart the phone and leave it ~5 minutes it should force it to rescan everything.
Hey sixdaysandy, thanks for you advice.
Unfortunately it has no impact!
I've done it several times and cleared almost every Music Media data I found. But after I made a reboot my device still thinks I do not have any music...
Therefore i am flashing the LT26i_6.0.A.3.73_SG_Generic.ftf FW without Wiping User Data right now!
And i really hope that this will fix the bug!
Edit:
Finally i was able to reproduce this strange behaviour.
I deleted every music and put it right back into the music folder. And there it was!
But it seems that every time i reboot - the device isn't any longer listing my music and it's gone again...
so there must be something wrong with the music library or the music player itself. Or maybe another app is going to kill the library?!
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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.
Hello guys
here it goes
I transfered two songs to my card through wireless and opened the music player to listen to them(music player called 3) but the player didn't see them (like always) so I went to the widget and pressed update media ,it gave the message reloading media ,but too shortly it said reload media complete ,so I opened the player again but it gave the message : the song you are looking for is not in the playlist reload media or reinstall app.
Then I went to player that came with the phone but the library was empty ,then I checked the albume and the video and they were empty too ,and all the media apps I installed couldn't see any media ,but the explorer I have does see all the files I have ,i tried unmounting the card and restarting the phone but still the same trouble.
My x10mini is not rooted or anything.
So please please help
Recently i changed my ROM and since then all music apps, including stock, says i only have a few songs on whereas Astro File manager shows i have all my albums and i can only listen to them through there, not a normal music app. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks ;D
What Rom you on?if miui go to music folder in settings but if still you have nothing You can try this app available on Google play
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=media+scanner+
Im on FeraVolt v16 but the problem occurred when I tried v13 I think
il download the app and see what is says
Thanks
Anyone be able to shed some light on how I can get my music back?
What media players have you tried?
Even have you checked permissins to the music folders if there are readable and writable for all?
Iv tried stock music player, DoubleTwist, Meridian, AMP? maybe some others? and none of them could 'see' most of the songs. I know they are on the card in the music folder, would i maybe need to move them to a new one? The music apps can see 7 songs, but i have alot more on my card :/
Try MortPlayer - It is folder based (I love it, because play randomly by files,to albums etc...). Run it and select you music folder to scan it and see it it will be seen.
Il try that once my phone has charged fully, i ordered a new one after mine started to fail :/ should i delete battery stats after the charge to 100% do you think?
I think that it is not necessary if you wont observe some kind of strange reportings of battery level.
Thanks for the recommendation, MortPlayer seems to be working well. Just trying to gte the correct ablum arts now
You should be fine by rebooting the phone, if not then try wiping cache data and dalvik
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Thanks for the recommendation, MortPlayer seems to be working well. Just trying to gte the correct ablum arts now
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Use TCM musicTag Editor - simple and usable
Mortplayer uses the covers inside the music files or in their directory for eg. album art. Similar like dekstop players.
But still cant understand why other players cant recognize other music, as mentioned before, try reboot and even the wipe data of "Media provider".
In the Google Music app my songs are showing up 3 times, same when I try to set an alarm with a song. Only the last of the 3 of any song will play. I'm unsure what I need to clear to fix this. I wiped my cache's in CWM and rebooted but it didn't change anything. They were coming up the same in PlayerPro but I did a refresh tracks in app and it fixed it. App that are giving me problems are Google Music, N7 & the stock Samsung player. So I'm assuming it's not an app issue as it does it on different ones. Any ideas what I should do here? I'm running the latest Perfection ICS rom.
Did you ever figure it out? I'm having the same problem on my skyrocket after upgrading to ics.
yeah, go into settings applications find the app media storage clear the data and reboot. I'm not sure exactly how to trigger the scanner to re-scan it back into your library. But I went into Astro file manager and clicked on a song and it started the process.
First of all I totally understand that it was my fault. I should never believe first hit in Google results. But still, since Google basically owns Android, it would make sense if they didn't link to an article that breaks it. But whatever.
So I had problems with last.fm scrobbling out of nowhere (I didn't change tags, didn't update scrobbler or music player (jetAudio)). And for some reason last.fm started to take file names as if they were tags. So I went to my PC, removed track numbers and then artists names from the files names. Still jetAudio didn't seem to notice so I Googled how to force rescan of media library. And I was dumb enough to rush and fallow the first guide in the search results. I wiped media storage data and restarted the phone.
Help: How do I Reset the Android Media Scan Database?
How do I Reset the Android Media Scan Database?
www.doubletwist.com
After that only one song is shown in the player. Tried reinstalling and still nothing. Just one song is shown.
Interestingly, Mixplorer and Poweramp both see all the songs. FX and jetAudio don't.
I tried cleaning cache in TWRP and even restoring media storage's data from my other phone (I own two devices and they are almost identical in apps and data). None of the apps that supposedly force refresh media storage work either.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
EDIT : I somehow fixed it. I renamed the folder to music2 and renamed it back, it solved the songs not showing but still couldn't search for artists/songs at all. Then I went to Oneplus stock file manager and turned on showing of hidden files and refreshed audio files section on the main screen and it worked. No idea if the hidden files section actually did anything since no audio files were actually hidden and I didn't have any .nomedia files
Poweramp can play them?
Clear the data or reinstall effected apps.
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Yeah both Poweramp and Mixplorer see all the files. But FX file explorer and jetAudio don't. Reinstalling and clearing their data does not work.
I'm trying to install system zip without wiping now, maybe that will help.
Never change your music database to fit the player. Group>album>track is my layout.
Poweramp is the only one I use in Android. If you screw around with it's database ie album names, track numbers or such Poweramp playlists will not be able to open those tracks.
I avoid using tags.
KISS, keep it simple stupid
Could scoped storage be blocking access?
I'm hipster and I still use last.fm in 2022 so I need tags ^^
I'm still on Oreo so it can't be scoped storage.
After trying to fix it for 100th time, I managed to somehow get the songs displayed in recently added. But only that. Still can't search for title/artist.
I like Poweramp butiI'm used to my old player it would take too much effort to change it lol ;P
Yeah no scoped storage there... yay!
Manually enter "tags" in the artist, album or song file name if you must. The player is irrelevant, only the music database matters. Mine is over 240gb. Recovery without full backups be impossible. I have multiple copies on hdds and flash memory.
One of the reasons I use Poweramp is it doesn't alter the database. I use a file manager to make any changes in the database, then do a library full rescan with Poweramp then backup Poweramp's settings. Only the music database is selected in Poweramp. Since all of Poweramp's settings can be fully backed up, as long as the database remains intact it's fully restorable/transferably no matter what. It takes me only minutes to recreate the whole setup on a new device once the database is copied on*.
Poweramp is a beast to configure but once set up it's rock solid and completely reproducible by exported settings.
Think it though and develop/implement a plan that covers your six no matter what happens.
Otherwise it's just random luck... and luck always runs out eventually.
*If the device has an SD card slot with the card used as the data drive, it's a simple and fast as slamming the card in.
Thanks for the tips, I localized the database in root/data folder and made a copy just in case. It seems that jetAudio and fx use the Android system wide media database while Poweramp and Mixplorer use their own. Or at least that's how it looks like.
I bought Poweramp long time ago but only kept it as secondary player. I definitely don't mind excess of configuration options, the more the better xD