(Solved) My music from emmc (ext SD) won't play on Google music app, it says can not play selected. I know the music is there because I can go through root browser and play mp3 file.
The music will play on my stock player (Gummy ICS), but it shows multiples of every song (8). I deleted cache, data from apps and reboot, no change. I pulled my ext SD card out of phone and put it on my computer but it will not allow me to view the files?????
Any ideas??? Help
Running Gummy ICS
Devil kernel
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Delete data in media storage and reboot.
Deleting lost. Dir in ext sd may get rid of multiples.
Ics media storage very buggy
If you have more issues
If you don't stream from Google Music I would recommend using power amp (better faster scanning) instead and getting rid of media provider.
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Deleting media storage data got rid of multiples and fixed the Google music. I split my music half int half ext and it seems to only play music from internal SD which sucks!
Edit: I guess I didn't give it enough time, its reading and playing ext now. Thanks
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Yeah, media storage takes quite a bit of time.
But it is buggy for me. It will sometimes randomly clear itselft slowly and re index. drains battery.
Also For me it would not find music on external sd after reboot.
which is why i just use poweramp but hopefully you dont run into any of the above.
All the above, LOL, plus every audio file, and I mean every, is now loading to Google music. I am getting audio from emmc (ext SD)
It also loading every image on phone to gallery. Its all good though, I'll clean up later. At least for now I can listen to my music.
Thanks a lot!
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I am officially done with Google music!
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Yesterday I noticed that Google's new music app had been downloaded to my Amaze. However, none of the 13gb or so of songs from my SD card were showing up in the app. Refreshing the library didn't show anything either.
It turns out that Play Music won't find any music in /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd. As soon as I copied an album to /mnt/sdcard/Music from /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/Music it showed up in Play Music. Problem is, I don't have nearly enough space on my internal memory for my music. Anyone figure out how to get it to scan ext_sd?
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Well it works for me. Why do u say it goes from mnt/sdcard when u can just skip going to the /mnt and go straight to /sdard folder? But to help with you problem, the new Google Play Music only allows 20000 songs to be uploaded to it. Maybe u have more then that.
But I'm guessing in ur case it's just stupid. Try making a folder called download in ur sdcard2 or extcard (same thing ) if there isn't one, and put all ur music in that folder. That's how mine is setup up by default and Google Play recognized my music from there. Reinstall if that don't work. Good luck!
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I have been having the same issue with this. I kinda figured it out today. take the music out of your music folder and have it just be on the sd card. Yes i know its ugly and makes managing stuff more of a pain in the ass, but Play music will recognize your music.
I tried this with 15+ gigs of music and for some reason it will not recognize all my songs. I don't think I'll be using this method as a permanent fix, but let me know if you have more success with it.
Tried Chadworth66's suggestion and it did not work. improperburial's suggestion actually did work, but as he said it was very ugly. I don't know of a better fix, so I think I'll pass on Google Music for the time being.
Could it be that Play Music only goes but so many levels of subfolders deep? Any way, until Google fixes this I'll continue using the (HTC) Music app on the phone. Though I may go ahead and upload my music for backup purposes. I don't really want to pay T-mobile for the privilege of playing (ie, streaming) my own music.
I'm having this problem as well. It recognized my music for a while but when I plugged it into a computer (not mine, I don't have one) to transfer music to a friend, they all disappeared from my library. They're still on the SD card, but Play Music won't list them. They're not buried or anything, they're just in a folder on the SD card titled Music.
I keep having issues with music apps. I just cleared media storage 2 days ago and everything was cool....until I rebooted. Google music will not recognize music on ext SD. Stock music player will however every time I reboot it adds multiples of same song.
I really don't want to put my music on internal SD. Any suggestions that will allow music on emmc to play and not multiply on reboot.
Gummy ICS 6/30 nightly
Devil kernel
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It's an ics problem. I had same problem with Google music on different ics roms. I used to mount and unmount external card to make it work. Here is another possible solution..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1755082
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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...
Blacksantron for mayor
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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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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Looked around the thread for my issue and seen some things that come close, but not exact.....I cannot play music on my google play music app. I get the "cannot play track requested" error message when I try to play music. All the same songs worked fine before I loaded this ROM, and I love the Rom but this issue may end that love quickly. Im a runner, and require music. I have tried turning off various modules that would affect music or media, or storage in order to try and zero in why precisely google could play one album and not the other. (Currently only one "As I Lay Dying" album will play and no other music will play). I have tried everything from simply rebooting, to uninstalling/reinstalling the app, clearing the cache, clearing the data, etc....I have all my music stored on my ext SD card, and it plays fine through the stock rom(I have safestrap for galaxy s4 me7). but as soon as i switch to my ROM Slot 1(GPE) I can't get the music to play. I have tried moving one song from the ext SD card to the internal storage, and I get the same result. I doubt its due to the file type of the songs(wma, mp3) as both types play on google play music on my stock rom slot. I'm at a loss currently, and dont want to have to keep rebooting to switch to the stock rom slot just to listen to music. have I missed this issue earlier in the thread? I looked for a while, but there are 2 hundred and some odd pages, and search results came up with stuff that were about music, but were of a different nature. Have I missed something obvious that a newbie would miss? obviously by my profile, im a user and not a dev. but I would appreciate any help from anyone who may have run into this issue or could help resolve this problem, love the rom, best one by far, would be a shame to dump it for the music problem. Thanks again, Semper F***** Fi
Have you tried using a different music player to see if it's just that particular player? I'm not one to push people to buy apps, but if you're a music lover and you're not using Power Amp you're really missing out... might be worth a shot to try that to see if it'll play your music.