Sice a few days I have a very strange error on my Galaxy S III. On the external SD-Card I have serveral MP3 files but when I start the MP3 Player it says, that there are no MP3s. I have tried another SD-Card and copied the MP3s to the internal SD-Card, no effect. Also some notifications and pictures, which are on the internal SD-Card are missing in the selection menu respectively in the gallery. I have deleted the media storage a few times, so the S III has to reinitialize it, there is no success. Unfortunately then I get some force closes from the media manager.
I have an unbranded version of the S III without LTE and Android 4.0.4 original stock, which isn't rooted.
Try EXT SD MP3 in media folder .
jje
I can't select external SD-Card in media folder. Also it's not possible to update the database manually.
Try rescan media from the playstore
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
I had the same problem. Looks like media library is not updated. There is a way to update it manually, but it's funny. I have no idea why does it work that way only.
Open your MP3 folder with 'My Files' app and then just move it to any other location. That should solve your problem.
You can try any other file manager, but it won't work
If rescan media does not work, then press menu, manage apps. Scroll down to Media Storage and clear data on that. Re-run rescan media. This will clear the cache and force the phone to rescan all locations for media files again. Also make sure that the folder with the mp3s does not have a .nomedia file in it.
Thank you for your answers. After deleting the Media Storage the phone hasn't recognized all ringtones, notifications and pictures. So yesterday I did a hard reset and after some time I got an error message android.process.media force close. It also happens without external SD-Card and no other media on the internal SD-Card except the stock media. Now the media database ist complete, but when I restart my phone every time I will get the force close. I think, this happens after the last update for about 4 weeks so Samsung did something wrong. Unfortunately there is no official update to Android 4.1.1 yet. I hope, the error disappears with the new firmware.
Hi, I think I can help you. First you try download es file explorer and try play via es player. Then report to me of its working.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
With the update to Android 4.1.1 my problem is solved for now.
Related
Hey guys,
I've tried he stock music player, mixzing and xplay and nothing can find the music on my SD Card. I've used nearly every current Rezound Rom and they all have this same behavior. I've tried reformatting the SD, clearing data from all music/media search related apps, remounting the SD, fixing permissions, different folders, upper/lower case folder names, etc.
I've searched and found similar threads for different devices but no answers that worked.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks!
Use double twist. It's like iTunes for every device but apple. It'll let you load your music library and make it easier to load music in the future.
Also for reference my music is in sdcard/extsd/music/artists/album/songs
All I did was connect to my phone via USB, open the drive letter right after HTC STORAGE (the next drive letter should be the ext SD card), then make a directory called Music (capitalized), and copy the MP3 files to it, moved 451 files and then disconnected... Everyone show up in the stock music player and WinAmp, although it did take a few minutes for the list to populate.
I am pretty sure when you copy music to the SD card, it has to be in a directory called "Music", you can't just copy them to the root of the card.
I too have always just put all my music in a "Music" folder on the root of my sd, however depending on the device I've had players find music directly at root.
Have you tried using a like manager like astro to navigate to the files and play them directly?
Sent from my NEOMax Rezound
acejavelin said:
All I did was connect to my phone via USB, open the drive letter right after HTC STORAGE (the next drive letter should be the ext SD card), then make a directory called Music (capitalized), and copy the MP3 files to it, moved 451 files and then disconnected... Everyone show up in the stock music player and WinAmp, although it did take a few minutes for the list to populate.
I am pretty sure when you copy music to the SD card, it has to be in a directory called "Music", you can't just copy them to the root of the card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should be able to copy them everywhere and the music player should find it. I have music in "AmazonMP3" on the root, "musicdownload" where I get my music from Box, "Music" and even a song or two at root and "My Documents\Music" as well as a few in the "Download" folder as I've downloaded through http.
I'd say clear data from the music app in app management and let it rescan the card for data. Also, the phone can read WMA, MP3, MP4, M4A and maybe OGG. If you're trying some other formats I don't know if it'll see it.
P.S. On a funny note, the captcha just had me type TWATUS ... LOL
ROM Manager Sucks
I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
EEngineer said:
I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also face same problem and ur reply realy help me
Thanks for all your suggestions guys. I don't have a .nomedia file anywhere on the phone. I have all the music in a "Music" folder. I've tried everything in this thread as well as a dozen other things from other threads. It just doesn't work.
Weird thing is... the Gallery also can't see any photos/pics on the SD Card. It makes me think its a format problem or something? My SD is formatted FAT32? Should it be different?
How much extra "Junk" do you have on the SD Card... I just helped someone earlier today who had moved a microSD card from a Thunderbolt to the Rezound and it had a lot of extra stuff (old Nandroids, TiBu backups, and lots of other various files) and had the same issues. Copied everything off to a PC and formatted the card in the phone, then copied over the same music in the same folder and it was recognized like normal. Not saying this is the fix, but just did it this morning and it worked fine for someone else.
look in google play for a sd rescan app. Have that scan your card, that will help sometimes.
acejavelin said:
How much extra "Junk" do you have on the SD Card... I just helped someone earlier today who had moved a microSD card from a Thunderbolt to the Rezound and it had a lot of extra stuff (old Nandroids, TiBu backups, and lots of other various files) and had the same issues. Copied everything off to a PC and formatted the card in the phone, then copied over the same music in the same folder and it was recognized like normal. Not saying this is the fix, but just did it this morning and it worked fine for someone else.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OMG!!! This worked! I had moved everything off the SD and formatted with the phone like a dozen times but always put everything back all at once. When the only thing on the card was music it found it right off.
Thanks!!
EEngineer said:
I'll bet you have ROM Manager installed! The last two ROM Manager updates (including todays) for some dumb reason put a file called ".nomedia" in the root of the SD Card. This file prevents all media below it from being indexed.
Browse your SD Card and look for the file ".nomedia" in the root. Delete it and you will see all your media again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
THIS THIS WTF WHY DID THIS HAPPEN
i did this and it worked. thank you!
nrfitchett4 said:
look in google play for a sd rescan app. Have that scan your card, that will help sometimes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Major thanks for your suggestion. I have an HTC One X+ with stock rom (it's new, I haven't got round to customising yet ) I copied Music folder on my old One X to the new One X+.
The stock music app could not find any of my music. Using the sd rescan app worked and made it find it. I was getting very annoyed with it, so thanks again.
playing songs on sd card in android 4.0
ktdt00 said:
Hey guys,
I've tried he stock music player, mixzing and xplay and nothing can find the music on my SD Card. I've used nearly every current Rezound Rom and they all have this same behavior. I've tried reformatting the SD, clearing data from all music/media search related apps, remounting the SD, fixing permissions, different folders, upper/lower case folder names, etc.
I've searched and found similar threads for different devices but no answers that worked.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have an HTC one V with android 4.0 an tried to figure out how to get the apps to play mp3 files on the storage card.
the phone stores pic and video's in a directory called DCIM\100MEDIA\
I copied the song files (mp3) to that directory with the pics and videos
the default player , winamp , and doubletwist all found the songs.
hope this helps you or any one else trying to play songs on there storage card with android
tfish0
tfish0 said:
I have an HTC one V with android 4.0 an tried to figure out how to get the apps to play mp3 files on the storage card.
the phone stores pic and video's in a directory called DCIM\100MEDIA\
I copied the song files (mp3) to that directory with the pics and videos
the default player , winamp , and doubletwist all found the songs.
hope this helps you or any one else trying to play songs on there storage card with android
tfish0
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This worked for me, thanks! Songs in my SDCARD\Music folder were not showing up in any music player, but the second I put them into SDCARD\DCIM\100ANDRO, they showed up in Play music! Why is this?
Hi,
It's my first post in this section, I've been somewhat active in Nexus One and HTC Tytn forums in the past.
Now, my wife and I own a GS3 each, and we are very happy with it.
But, we have 2 problems with music playing on the S3 :
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard. I tried to re-tag the mp3 files, change the folder, clean caches (general cache, music apps cache and media scanning cache), reboot several times, etc. The phone seems to only find the mp3 on the internal memory (I tried to copy a music album on the internal memory, and it was found immediatly). It's true on the two phones, but it don't really bother me because I'm used to folder navigation. Only my wife uses tags system, and she noticed this first.
I could add that this behaviour started recently but we didn't notice it, because the cache has been populated before, and it was kept in memory. We saw this behaviour yesterday, when trying to add new music files. They weren't added to the music database.
Confirmed with : stock mp3 app, Meridian, and musicmatch. I didn't try other media players.
It's a big problem since we are huge music fans, and we own large sdcards for this purpose. Especially my wife... We don't want to put the music files on internal memory, it would be stupid.
- On my own S3, the "media players" notification, when you plug the headphones and see a list of media players, this function is not working, nothing shows up. It's not a real problem for me, but I just found this lost of fonctionnality a little strange. It's working on my wife's S3.
My wife's S3 is completely stock, only rooted and some small mods.
I'm rooted, stock modded rom, with Siyah kernel b6. Very happy with it.
We both are XXLFB. I suspect XXLFB introduced the first problem/bug.
mods :
- real brightness
- skip tracks on handsfree (me)
- bloatware removed (me)
- small fonts
- camera shutter sound menu
- cell standby fix (me)
Thank you for your help, or ideas...
(sorry if this is a double thread, I can't the the first I wrote)
double post, could be deleted
Stouf said:
Hi,
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard.
I installed a few music files via KIES to EXT Card Likewise a few videos .
Then just copy and paste the rest in to the folders Kies made Media = MP3 Video = Video .
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
I really don't like to use softwares to make simple tasks I could do by hand.
Why, suddenly, my phone stops scanning the sd card ? I used to simply copy/paste files from the windows explorer, and it always worked :/
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
Stouf said:
Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
Its the official Samsung tool .
trojan = false positive
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
No the layout of sd card and ext card is changed for SGS3 .
You could try just making the two folders and copy and paste .
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
One thing I am sure is my S3 does scan music from my extFAT 64GB card. I am not sure about Android as awhole but you shouldn't have problem doing so. Both PowerAMP and Samsung Music Player works.
extFAT 64GB card
yes if its that format fat32 gives problems .
jje
So, I tried to rename the "music" folder on ExtSd to "media", on both phones and it didn't work. Even after a reboot + removal of battery and sd card.
It is not possible to use Kies, as it is constantly crashing while media scanning...
So you think it could be related to the format of the partition ? It's Fat32.
One thing for sure, on internal memory, scanning is working. And it worked with extsd, a few days/weeks ago. Could XXBLF break this fonctionality (one of the few things the 2 phones both have) ?
Edit :
OK, I managed to make it work.
I had to backup the content of my sd to the pc, re-format using exFAT, copy my backup back. After several reboots and a media scanning cache cleaning, it now works on my phone. I now have to make the same thing on my wife's phone...
Why it stopped working on both phones is still a mystery.
However, many thanks for your help !
Hi guys,
I've been frustrated with this issue for a while. By using any kind of file manager, I can see my sd card (under /storage/sdcard1). Can copy file to and from. The same goes when I connect the phone to my PC. But when I try to read music from the sd card, it seems that non of the music apps can see the SD. The same goes with the gallery, can't see any pics from the SD. Tried to clear data from media service but still no luck.
I am using RR Rom, before when I used GB, didn't have any problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!!!
zvikam said:
Hi guys,
I've been frustrated with this issue for a while. By using any kind of file manager, I can see my sd card (under /storage/sdcard1). Can copy file to and from. The same goes when I connect the phone to my PC. But when I try to read music from the sd card, it seems that non of the music apps can see the SD. The same goes with the gallery, can't see any pics from the SD. Tried to clear data from media service but still no luck.
I am using RR Rom, before when I used GB, didn't have any problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
use 'Rescan media' app from store's to rescan ur media
also delete Data/cache of Music,gallery apps then reboot and see
So I have been using google play music app for like two month now, being a huge fan of downloading songs from my own online collection to the device storage (for offline use).
Recently I switched ROM from PA (CM10) 2.54 to a heavily themed and altered samsung based ROM (I'm using a i9300), did not restore much, most apps were downloaded and set up manually again (including play music)... after downloading an album I noticed that I'm running low on free space.
Well I thought this couldn't be since there really isn't much saved on the card, so I checked: the files I can see using ES file explorer, root explorer or solid explorer are about 1 - 1.5GB ... no problem here but where did all my space go? I noticed more reduction in free space on that card while downloading more songs... but where are those songs stored? I googled /sdcard/android/data/android.music.com/cache/music this folder nor any similar folder does exist. at least I can't see any such folder!
Is it somehow hidden? I really think I need to manually delete the old MP3s from prior ROM switching but I just can't locate that stupid folder.
I know that folders starting with "." are usually treaded as hidden but root explorer displays them and I still can't find the correct folder. How to free that space?
Connect your phone to pc...enable hidden file display and search for .mp3 files in sd card...you will get the list.
Hit thanks on help
Using xda premium through A5
It's com.google.android.music not android.music.com
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
@coolprateek.kumar: Connecting phone to computer using MTP seems to fail detecting hidden files, even if selected so in my windows OS.
@sashank: there is no data folder on that card (not visible)
Connect as usb storage...or put sd card in non android phone or sd card reader and search via pc
Using xda premium through A5
I'm not sure if it shows up in MTP. Either mount as USB storage in the ROM if possible or in recovery, then you should see the folder.
/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music
This one has me stumped, today I transferred 5 songs to my phone's internal memory (I don't use a SD card) after that not one single song would play, I tried deleting the songs I transferred, that didn't work, tried deleting the whole music folder then copying 3 songs I had on my phone before back into my phone, I tried clearing data on app media storage, cleared cache, formatted internal storage, did a factory reset and I finally I re-flashed the Rom (padawan JB 2) after all that I transferred a single song and still won't play. it freezes for a few seconds then it gives me this cannot play track error.
The only weird thing about this is that I can use ES explorer browse to my music on my PC and it will just play fine on the regular music player.:silly:
Anyone heard of this or have this happened to them, I tried searching Google but I didn't have much luck, I tried searching here but it says that search is not working right now...