Hello,
I have a little problem with my phone : when I add a .nomedia file, the gallery or the mp3 player still see my pictures or my song. Sometimes, it's the contrary : I delete the .nomedia file, but it doesnt see any of my pictures or my songs ...
How can I force system to re-scan both of my sd card (internal and external ) ?
Thank you.
Sorry for my english.
needhelp11 said:
Hello,
I have a little problem with my phone : when I add a .nomedia file, the gallery or the mp3 player still see my pictures or my song. Sometimes, it's the contrary : I delete the .nomedia file, but it doesnt see any of my pictures or my songs ...
How can I force system to re-scan both of my sd card (internal and external ) ?
Thank you.
Sorry for my english.
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You can always just restart the phone to do both.
Or rescan the external SD card by going into Settings>Storage>Unmount SD Card. Then Mount the SD card.
Even restarting doesn't hide/add the files :/
I've never tried the .nomedia thing. I just know that if your music files are formatted properly, they won't show up in your photo gallery to begin with. I have over 1000 song files and I've never had any album art show up in the gallery.
As for why you are having problems with media scanning. You got me. Mine always shows 'Scanning' when it reboots.
Mine doesn't show scanning at rebooting : the launcher appears directly and i can use it directly too...
Can u try with a .nomedia file please ?
I use an app from play store called rescan sd.
Works perfectly and it's free
Hey i try it but it doesn't do anything ... I also try same kind of applications but any of them work.
In the application manager 'Force stop' and 'Clear data' of Media Storage and Gallery. You might have to unmount/remount the card to make it visible.
Hey, thanks for reply. I doesn't work but it don't care anymore : i go on my PC and copy/paste again, then it shows up.
needhelp11 said:
Hey i try it but it doesn't do anything ... I also try same kind of applications but any of them work.
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Some of those rescan apps don't SEEM to do anything. Run them, they exit. BUT check your phone a few minutes later. They just trigger the rescan but it's not instant. I have to do it coz my kids use the WeeMee app to create avatars for all my contacts but when it saves them I can't find them until I do this and wait a while.
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So I have been having duplicate song issues. It seemed to happen when I moved around my files. My music player list will show like 2 or 3 albums, but only one will play. The other one or two entire albums will give an error saying 'This file does not exist.' I see that 'Media scanner running' info on the status bar but it never fixes this issue. Anyone else have this problem or a fix?
If it matters this has happened both on internal and external memory.
Thanks.
Nope, never had this problem. Try to remove all music files and see if the player shows anything. If not, then add the ones that were showing duplicates and see if it happens again.
I am having the same issue but i normally use double twist
Delete your cache in Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, Music.
Also, delete the /sdcard/albumthumbs folder.
Reboot and it should rebuild your song list.
I had tried deleting cache before but didn't see it. I didn't realize there were multiple sorting options on this phone, whoops. The 'delete cache' was dark and would not let me click it, but I tried deleting data and the albumthumbs but it still didn't work. I am just going to try erasing it all and re-adding the music and not moving it around again... Thanks for the help though!
Did you find your fix? I had to leave everything out of a folder on the sdcard to stop this annoyance.
I hope this helps
If you are rooted I would recomend purchasing the full version of the app "SD Maid" from the market.
I had an issue from doubletwist that was resulting in duplicate music files.
I'm pretty sure that the reason it happens is; when we are syncing music (possibly alot at once) most programs recognize the 16g internal storage as possibly a indipendent device. This could be because of the potential to swap out your sd card to share music but on second though probably not.
its probably just a random error.
If you are unrooted or otherwise unable to use sd maid (id recomend rooting and flashing a custom rom but if thats not what you want to do then get the free astro file manager from the market and you should see in your home directory a file called music or it could within another file titled media. Regardless where you want it to be is on your external sd card.
you can delete the directory titled music but first check the file titled external media.
You should see all of your music there as well.
I have played with the settings on doubletwist as well as spotify and this is the best solution.
(If you use sd maid then go into duplicates and very very very patiently select all of the boxes it lets you and then just hit the delete duplicates up top)
Anyone else having issues getting the media scanner to find videos and music? I have the files on the usbstorage but the media scanner is not picking them up.
Try rebooting, thats what I did and it worked.
Having the same problem, if I go into File Manager, I can see the music, but in the media player, they don't show!
No one have any ideas? I've gone as far as to format my sd card, reload all my files and still only showing a fraction of the total music! Gonna try to move the music to the internal memory and see if that helps!
Still didn't work, put the sd card back into my atrix , and everything loads fine! This is really weird! I even installed player pro, and it too only finds the same songs as the default player. I hope a genius comes in with the answer soon !
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Media scanner is working fine here...
May take a few delays but mines work
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My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
enzov said:
My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
Ok so for my issue, I moved everything off the card and backed up on my PC. Then Formatted the card again but this time I didn't do the quick format. It took about 10 mins but after, put the card in the phone, let the directories build. Then connected USB mass Storage mode, and moved all my files back. 15mins later, I have all my music and videos!
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Nope.
I guess I can try a format of the usbStorage.
Formatted usbStorage, nothing.
I then put a video file in the /sdcard folder and not the subfolders. Now the video application picks it up. Any idea what may be wrong with the subfolders?
Is there an update/fix to this issue? Are all AT&T units affected?
delettin .nomedia
gtg465x said:
Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Yes there sure was. It was hidden in the sd card. just deleted it now all media is found. No formatting or anything needed. Thanks!
I just installed Wolfs V7b4 but now my gallery is empty, no music in stock player, ringtones gone. I have tried clearing data in Media Storage, fixing permissions, installing SDrescan which just said "done" after starting :s
Wolf mentioned app StudioKUMA.nomedia which can exclude folders from scanning for faster boot so i installed it to check it anything is excluded but none of the folders are.
Has someone had that problem or does someone know how i can manually scan for media?
I had this too, but i fixed it by formatting my SD card and but the files back on it. So just copy everything from your SD card, then format SD card and than put everything back. I hope this helped for you
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Search on the market for an app that may rescan your media...try the rescan media app
I formated my sd twice now, nothing changed. Restored backup and installed every app I could find for media scanning yet the only thing that has changed is that I have my pics from facebook althou I didnt have them before. Poweramp finds my mp3s and plays them with no problem so I dont think its sd cards fault for this
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I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
seriouscorps said:
I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
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Thats from the stuido .nomedia app which places a very small file in any directory you want on your sd card which stops the media scanner scanning it, very useful if you have lots of folders with no media in them.....
But a bit of a schoolboy error there!!
Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
seriouscorps said:
Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
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If you want everything available dont use .nomedia....
delete all .nomedia files....
I find it easier to have all music in one folder with subdirectories and the same for pics and videos...
I havent used it in first place, I have no idea how it ended up on my phone.
Got only one 13gb folder with music and 150mb of pics in camera folder.
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I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
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I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
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Oops, somehow I thanked your post. Anyways, I think I had the same problem before. I want to say I just unchecked the primary sdcard folder, and it worked fine. I have to say though, Poweramp drives me nuts. I've had so many crashes and issues with every version I tried that I don't even use it anymore. One bug is that if I skip too many tracks ahead too quickly, then I have to force close even to get a song to play at all.
Also, when the EQ is active, sound quality takes a pretty big hit. I switched to Mortplayer with barely any regrets. Sometimes I use Poweramp, but until they fix it, Mortplayer is my go-to player.
I had this issue awhile ago also. To fix this you need to go into settings and locate the option to specify which folder the music is in.
The key is to uncheck ALL the boxes and then only selext the one folder on your sdcard with music. For example, uncheck all boxes and only check the box for sdcard/ext_sd/music.
For some reason Poweramp always checks and applies two folders for music on the sdcard because of the symlink of the sdcard to ext_sd.
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Thanks guys, I unchecked everything except for the "ext_sd" folder and that seems to have fixed it.
I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
crisagatie said:
I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
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Try to run Rescan Media app from Play store.
Maybe your media scanner service does not work properly and needs to refresh the list of media files on your sd card.
Good luck !
rescan is done automatically every reboot. doesn't help. thanx anyway.
investigated further and found out that the files are not corrupt, but the libraries of Music app and Gallery app created duplicated empty files (in fact 2 fake entries in library for every valid file on the card). Duplicate files don't exist physically on SD card, only in libraries of the two applications.
Already tried formatting cache and dalvik cache, but to no avail...
ICS 4.0.4 Orange Romania (BVLPH) stock ROM.
Later EDIT: This was an easy one. Unmounted SD Card and open Gallery app and Music app. Then re-mount SD Card, both apps will refresh libraries, wait a while for media scan in the background and voila: duplicate files disappear, everything is in god order.
I had a similar problem where both gallery and music files were duplicated, but the duplicates were unreadable.
My solution was Settings -> Applications -> All -> Media Storage -> Clear Data.
This forced a refresh and everything turned normal again.
Slightly annoying that the media scan data is stored under a separate application and not within the data of the gallery or music player applications, but once I discovered this it was an easy fix.