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Hi all,
I tried a search for this and couldn't find it. No matter what I do or try, I cannot get my mogul to play *.mp3 files. I have tried all of the registry settings to MP3File, have tried associating *.mp3 to media player, and have even tried 3 different media players...no luck
What is wrong with my Mogul? Every time I open one, it gives me:
"Cannot play the file. The file is either corrupted or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play."
All I did was transfer a few *mp3 files to my SD card in "My Music," and tried to play them. I just now noticed that the file size is around 160kb. What happened to the ~4mb files size?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I had the same problem, heres what you have to do.
1. Open up Windows Media Player, click Menu, Update Library
2. When it's all finish, click "My Music" then "All Music" and you don't see anything, right?
3. Click Back and click "Artist", now you see something, now click back again and click "All Music"
I'm not too sure why it does that, but it does.
Hopefully that helps.
I also download TCMP media player. I believe it works for Mp3's as well. It might be a better alternative to WMplayer.
TwistedWaffle said:
I had the same problem, heres what you have to do.
1. Open up Windows Media Player, click Menu, Update Library
2. When it's all finish, click "My Music" then "All Music" and you don't see anything, right?
3. Click Back and click "Artist", now you see something, now click back again and click "All Music"
I'm not too sure why it does that, but it does.
Hopefully that helps.
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I tried this and it found 4 files which is weird because I only have 3 in my music folder. Tried clicking back after artist, then all music and still nothing.
dalvarez7...I tried TCMP and it wouldn't work.
This is really weird. Thanks for your suggestions. Any more?
are you sure the files aren't corrupted?
jerason said:
are you sure the files aren't corrupted?
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They shouldn't be corrupt. All I am doing is transferring them to the Mogul either by ActiveSync or via card reader to the microSD. The problem is I believe during the transfer. For instance, a 5mb mp3 ends up being 160kb once on the card.
I don't understand this.
EDIT: ^^^ Yep, they are corrupt. I just downloaded an mp3 file directly to my phone using its web browser from my server. Guess what? It works... I really don't want to download all of my songs from my server. There has to be a better way.
I've recently installed the official OTA HC Update on my BB 16G WiFi Flyer and noticed that the stock Music App (and any other Music App for that matter) doesn't find any of my music off of the MicroSD Card. Is anyone else having this issue and if so, has anyone found a fix?
tsg2513 said:
I've recently installed the official OTA HC Update on my BB 16G WiFi Flyer and noticed that the stock Music App (and any other Music App for that matter) doesn't find any of my music off of the MicroSD Card. Is anyone else having this issue and if so, has anyone found a fix?
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Reboot and wait … sometimes it takes a few min to find it
Kudzus said:
Reboot and wait … sometimes it takes a few min to find it
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Thanks. I did reboot and wait to no avail. In addition, I removed and re-inserted the card. I also copied my music files to the internal storage but still nothing. When the stock music app searches for files, I get a forced close message: "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly".
I also found the the Gallary App doesn't see any photos stored on the card but when I take new photos with the camera, they do show up. This is strange. Maybe I will format the microSD card and copy the files over again via a USB connection to the Flyer.
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Thanks. I did reboot and wait to no avail. In addition, I removed and re-inserted the card. I also copied my music files to the internal storage but still nothing. When the stock music app searches for files, I get a forced close message: "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly".
I also found the the Gallary App doesn't see any photos stored on the card but when I take new photos with the camera, they do show up. This is strange. Maybe I will format the microSD card and copy the files over again via a USB connection to the Flyer.
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If you’re getting forced close message you have another problem.
Did you restore anything after the update?
Kudzus said:
If you’re getting forced close message you have another problem.
Did you restore anything after the update?
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No. I re-installed some apps from the market but nothing new that didn't work before.
tsg2513 said:
No. I re-installed some apps from the market but nothing new that didn't work before.
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I have tried reformating the card, rebooting and turning off fastboot. I am out of ideas. I think it is time to try a factory reset. If that doesn't work, I guess it is back to GB.
Did an install of a new Rom last night. Had this problem. Rebooted, still not working. Installed power amp. Could see my music with that app. About an hour later, my stock music found my music. Don't think this is a real fix but sharing my recent experience
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mcord11758 said:
Did an install of a new Rom last night. Had this problem. Rebooted, still not working. Installed power amp. Could see my music with that app. About an hour later, my stock music found my music. Don't think this is a real fix but sharing my recent experience
Sent from my HTC Flyer P510e using xda premium
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I am out of town without my Flyer (didn't make much sense without access to my music and videos) but I will try this tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.
Not really a suggestion. Honestly I have no idea why it all of a sudden worked
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i had this problem with the HTC gallery app not showing certain photos. I just sideloaded the stock HC gallery.
rickykemp said:
i had this problem with the HTC gallery app not showing certain photos. I just sideloaded the stock HC gallery.
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I've tried that, but no luck. A get a message that "the existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed".
I am at my wits end. I think it is time to roll back to GB.
tsg2513 said:
I've tried that, but no luck. A get a message that "the existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed".
I am at my wits end. I think it is time to roll back to GB.
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Well, I am relatively sure the problem is with HTC's Wifi OTA HC Upgrade. I rolled back to GB and low-and-behold, my sd card music is there as are my photos and videos. I decided to try one more time and ran the OTA Update again...same story, Music and Gallery doesn't find any of my files.
So, one more time...back to GB and that is where I'll stay for now.
try installing a different player ... or leave ur music app running in backgroung for some time hope this might work.... if ur sd is class 4 or less it takes time to find music
nikhiltanwar said:
try installing a different player ... or leave ur music app running in backgroung for some time hope this might work.... if ur sd is class 4 or less it takes time to find music
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PowerAmp does work but there is still the photo and video issue. I let the stock Music app run overnight and it still doesn't work. I also tried 3 different SD cards (class 4, 6 and 10)...no luck. Already back to GB where everything works as it should.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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I rolled back to GB...
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Sorry for the noob question, but the Flyer is my first Android device. Is a roll back only accomplished with a full on ROM flash and subsequent reinstall of apps, etc? Or are you somehow doing an in place roll back similar to the OTA in place upgrades?
sonus said:
Sorry for the noob question, but the Flyer is my first Android device. Is a roll back only accomplished with a full on ROM flash and subsequent reinstall of apps, etc? Or are you somehow doing an in place roll back similar to the OTA in place upgrades?
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It is a full ROM flash returning to GB with S-on.
Official HC on Flyer does't find music on SD Card
Hi,
Try to clear the cache of the Music App. and the Gallery. At least this worked for me, within no time all my files showed up again
Another option you might try is to use ES File Explorer or a similar program. Go to the folders where your pictures and the music are, and create into this folder a new one. Don't put any files in this folder! Just rename the created folder in .nomedia and reboot with fastbootmode ( in the energy settings) disabled.
I had similar problems once with an Archos 70 Internettablet, and this was the solution that worked for me.....
Manudroid said:
Another option you might try is to use ES File Explorer or a similar program. Go to the folders where your pictures and the music are, and create into this folder a new one. Don't put any files in this folder! Just rename the created folder in .nomedia and reboot with fastbootmode ( in the energy settings) disabled.
I had similar problems once with an Archos 70 Internettablet, and this was the solution that worked for me.....
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I really appreciate the last two suggestions. I just don't think I want to go through getting all my apps and data back if I need to roll back again. Maybe someone else that has gone through with the OTA update and has the same problem can try these out.
There is need to roll back or anything like that to use the last 2 options. Just create an empty folder, named .nomedia in the folders where the files are that don't show up in your mediaplayers.You can do this using ES File Explorer ( for free in the Market) or you can hook up your Flyer to your PC, and create the .nomedia files there. Then just reboot...
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
Yarman2000 said:
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
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This maybe isn't useful to you, but I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm running CM10 FXP133 on my Xperia Ray. Wrote a post a bout it here.
So I guess we're both equally desperate. Anybody please help!
/Daniel
Not sure if this is any good (I don't have time to try it out right now), but I found this.
/Daniel
edit: Nope. Sorry. Didn't work. Crap.
Looks like its a problem with the latest nightly.. it was working fine last release...
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I partially solved my problem. Something had put a .nomedia file in /sdcard, which quite naturally led to problems. I removed the file and did a new scan and now I got photos in the gallery again. Apollo is still empty though, so I'm kinda pulling my hair here. Done the obvious stuff (reboots, clearing cache, purging app data).
/Daniel
Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
/Daniel
I reflashed rom again,and now in gallery and apollo,media is showing.
Maybe it's a problem with Rom Manager,because that pushed .nomedia files in wrong folders.
DanielMalmgren said:
Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
/Daniel
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on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
Similar thing happened to me on CM9, Xperia mini. I deleted the .nomedia file and cleared the app data on music players and things are fine now.
My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
/Daniel
Maybe you could try another music app like winamp. Because there you can do a manually media scan and as far as I know you can choose the folder where it should scan manually, too. Maybe give it a shot
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My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
/Daniel
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at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
jimmypader said:
at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
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Ok. I also ended up putting my ringtones in /system/media/audio//ringtones which solves my problems. The media scanner still doesn't want to have anything with the ones in /sdcard/ringtones to do. Guess the media service will need some polishing before CM10 is released
/Daniel
jimmypader said:
on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
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the method helped me resolved the music files issue but still Im having problem with the gallery pictures...tried to reboot coz that made the music problem solved but it doest worked on the pics...got any other idea?
but all in all THANKS really :laugh:
info: after restarting my phone music is not again detected by the phone. THis is a head exploding problem.
I just installed an audio app and it screwed up my media scan, so now, it appears as though the files aren't there (I am pretty sure that they are still there) and no media application can see them. It seems as though the media scanner is trying to run. How long should it take to complete for a couple of gigs of audio files?
So annoying.
Any help would be appreciated. Is there a way to prevent this from happening again? I don't change media much on my external SD card, so I turned off media scanner entirely, but it seems that when I installed PowerAmp, it decided to scan again.
donalgodon said:
I just installed an audio app and it screwed up my media scan, so now, it appears as though the files aren't there (I am pretty sure that they are still there) and no media application can see them. It seems as though the media scanner is trying to run. How long should it take to complete for a couple of gigs of audio files?
So annoying.
Any help would be appreciated. Is there a way to prevent this from happening again? I don't change media much on my external SD card, so I turned off media scanner entirely, but it seems that when I installed PowerAmp, it decided to scan again.
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What is did as : download startup manager from Play and disabedled media storage in system, i also downloaded rescan media, opened it after installation and from then it scans automaticly and not at boot also,
gee2012 said:
What is did as : download startup manager from Play and disabedled media storage in system, i also downloaded rescan media, opened it after installation and from then it scans automaticly and not at boot also,
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I'll do that after I can finally get the files to show up again. Any tips on that aspect?
This has got to be the Achilles heel of Android as a media platform. No way that media scanning for some audio files on a Class 10 card should take so friggin' long.
donalgodon said:
I'll do that after I can finally get the files to show up again. Any tips on that aspect?
This has got to be the Achilles heel of Android as a media platform. No way that media scanning for some audio files on a Class 10 card should take so friggin' long.
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Make sure you install the rooted version of rescan media, it will add new media to the galery almost instantly
I have the rooted version installed, but I'm confused a bit. Do I want to enable it or disable it?
I just want the scanner to finish building the library or whatever got screwed up, so I can play the files again.
Crap.
donalgodon said:
I have the rooted version installed, but I'm confused a bit. Do I want to enable it or disable it?
I just want the scanner to finish building the library or whatever got screwed up, so I can play the files again.
Crap.
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Enable it,
donalgodon said:
I have the rooted version installed, but I'm confused a bit. Do I want to enable it or disable it?
I just want the scanner to finish building the library or whatever got screwed up, so I can play the files again.
Crap.
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Don't do either. Just launch the app and it'll automatically start the rescan.
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Don't do either. Just launch the app and it'll automatically start the rescan.
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Well, realistically how long should that take?
I'm still looking at nothing and I've been at it over an hour.
Okay, so I installed the app and launched it, but still my files don't show up in the apps, like Music Player or Play Music or PowerAMP. They are there, because I can go to the external SD and open them one by one, but the playlists don't show anything.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Would reinstalling the firmware and a full-wipe deal with this issue, or would it be a waste of time?
None of the music apps installed on my phone(play music and the default app) can detect most of my music. Only one album shows up even though I have much more than that saved in the exact same place. I can find the files through the MyFiles app and when I select them they play, but they remain gone from my library. I'm currently running 4.4.2
What file type are the songs may I ask? Is it possible they are from ITunes or some other place that may be an unreadable format by those players?
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What file type are the songs may I ask? Is it possible they are from ITunes or some other place that may be an unreadable format by those players?
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The songs are in mp3 format torrented using the utorrent app. The problem is that when I first downloaded them they showed up in my library but after a few days they went away leaving only one artist in the collection. This has happened multiple times as I redownload my music to try and get it to stick.
rhamflam said:
The songs are in mp3 format torrented using the utorrent app. The problem is that when I first downloaded them they showed up in my library but after a few days they went away leaving only one artist in the collection. This has happened multiple times as I redownload my music to try and get it to stick.
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Are you rooted? On a custom ROM?
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Are you rooted? On a custom ROM?
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I am on 4.4.2 nk4 unrooted, however when I try to update it fails, but that's another issue.
rhamflam said:
I am on 4.4.2 nk4 unrooted, however when I try to update it fails, but that's another issue.
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Are they stored on internal memory or external SD card?
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Are they stored on internal memory or external SD card?
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External SD card
I suspected that, it could be caused by the SD card restrictions that all OS post-jelly bean came with. Normally it does not allow 3rd party apps to write to SD. But can also cause some saved files to not read on 3rd party apps..... I bet if u moved the files to internal storage it would work.
Only other way to fix that I am aware if is rooting and then running the "SD Fix" app you can download in the play store.
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I suspected that, it could be caused by the SD card restrictions that all OS post-jelly bean came with. Normally it does not allow 3rd party apps to write to SD. But can also cause some saved files to not read on 3rd party apps..... I bet if u moved the files to internal storage it would work.
Only other way to fix that I am aware if is rooting and then running the "SD Fix" app you can download in the play store.
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I store all my music on the external SD and don't have any issues with Play Music not "seeing" my music. Try removing everything to your PC, restarting your phone, and then copying back to your phone.
Annoying to say the least.