What happened to the option to ONLY show music available on your intern SD or external SD. We used to have that option, I only want to see music that I actually have stored OFF the servers. How do I do that now?
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Hi,
When I first had my phone, there was no SD card in it. Any music I uploaded using kies, went directly to the built in 16 gb hard drive (12 gb ahem ahem) and this was picked up by the Samsung music player. Later when I added an SD card, the music player fails to pick up any of the music on the hard drive. However if I move it to the SD card, it DOES pick it up. Now I could just use another music player app, but i would really like to use the Samsung player.
Any suggestions on why this happens and how to stop this?
Thank you very much,
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Just go to samsung music player and press "all" option in the left upper part, it will show you every possible sound/song in the phone's memory or external sd card.
Sp1tfire said:
Just go to samsung music player and press "all" option in the left upper part, it will show you every possible sound/song in the phone's memory or external sd card.
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It doesnt.
I have PowerAmp and this created a "MusicFolder" in the built in storage. Upon deleting this folder, the music reappeared.....
weird.
Thanks anyway.
I'm not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but I can’t seem to find any posts about it anywhere.
I can easily access my SD card through a file manager and play music files through that. However, whenever I try to open any of my songs (stored on my external SD) with Google music it simply cycles through each song in the list displaying the "cannot play the requested track" error over the album art in yellow.
This only occurs when the music in question is stored on the external SD card. Any music I try to play from the internal storage will play, and any music I attempt to stream will play. (Music that I have both streaming copies of and copies of on my external SD do not work).
I read somewhere that ICS handles file systems differently, but as I remember Google music worked when I first installed the rom. I have tried every combination of uninstalling and clearing the data in Google music, both with and without the SD card inserted. Any thoughts or recommendations?
(Afterthought: I also get the notification that "Music has stopped working" every time I reboot the phone)
(Afterthought II: I have been using these forums for nearly two years and have yet to be disappointed, thanks guys)
I had the same problem. Solved by uninstalling power amp - somehow it must have been conflicting. So try and uninstall any third party music players. Hopefully someone else has a better solution?
Clear your music cache/data again and change the file path. If your music is on external, it is now called emmc. I use PowerAmp and you can configure what files you want it to scan.
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
extravillager said:
I don't have any other third party music players installed. And Google music does not give the option to scan certain paths :/
My external sd is 32 gigs, but that's not all of my music, so I like the option to stream.
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You are right, Google music doesn't provide an option to scan certain folders but in my case, clearing cache and data worked and I know this sounds crazy but I removed my SD card and re-inserted and that seemed to work.
Also, what I also did was install a third party app that does allow you to scan a particular folder and once it worked on that app, GM seemed to also work
You have probably tried these options but perhaps this will help
Will give that a try today
easy fix
settings, apps, music storage, clear cache / data.
been covered many times. someone ought to put it in the ics passion op.
google music player is not listing the songs present in the sd card.
if i copy the file to sd card it shows. however, if connect the phone to computer and access sd card again the songs are no longer displayed in the google music player app(i think some scanning bug).
no problem with htc music player app.
any suggestion
wow thought it was just me with this issue
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I'll have a look see in a minute,
koottanal said:
google music player is not listing the songs present in the sd card.
if i copy the file to sd card it shows. however, if connect the phone to computer and access sd card again the songs are no longer displayed in the google music player app(i think some scanning bug).
no problem with htc music player app.
any suggestion
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ya F google music and use poweramp also google music only plays music you buy from them ONLY as i found out then i said F google music
the app for some reason only recognizes music files stored in the root of the sd card and won't recognize them if they're in any folder.
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?
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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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It's 2015, Lollipop is out, bigger and bigger phones are sold and it looks like nobody still needs those little plastic thingies from the past. How do you call them? S.. S-D.. S-D-something... SDcard! Yep that one!
More specifically, I'm writing for my poor old SGS, which needs quite hard an SDcard. I'm running KK (and the killing blow on ExtSD was pretty hard, but solutions were found). I'm having a lot of trouble with Play Music (5.7, the lastest one). I recently got a chromecast. WOW, so beautiful! It really was worth the price. So I tried to stream a song on my device. It couldn't, songs have to be the ones on my online library. Not a big deal I thought : "time to upload everything to GMusic and download it back with Play Music for Android. Let's just pick a Sunday and give my phone some time." But my music was on sdcard1 (external one), and Play Music refuses to accept it, willing to store everything on sdcard0 (internal one). I don't have space on my internal memory due to the fact that most of the Android System just does not like sdcard1. So I was keeping application data, DCIM and downloads in sdcard0 and Music, Documents and Pictures on sdcard1. I cannot move the stuff from sdcard0 to sdcard1, so I need my music to be on sdcard1.
I was sure Google introduced the option to save songs on the external memory (Or maybe I googled it wrong), so where is this option? I can't find it anymore.
I also tried with some "walkthroughts" which were hinting to remove the "files" folder from /data/data/com.google.android.music/ and replace it with a link to a "files" folder on ext sd. Didn't work, guess because it was made for phones where Google Play Music saved files INSIDE data/data/com.google.android.music/files. On my phone, music is saved on sdcard0, in .../android/data/com.google.android.music/files , and sdcard's filesystem does not allow links.
tl,dr
How can I save my Google Music offline library on Android to ext SD without links and keeping it recognizable by the Play Music server?
Thanks for reading.
Edit 1 : after really deleting my whole music library the free space detected by Google Play Music grew. I was quite happy, and even believed for a second that it was going to use both storage locations and split media among them. I was wrong. I have the message "6gb of free space" still there, and by the same time the error "can't download music for offline play : not enough space". Gogol pls
anyone can help with this?
Can't download music as it says I have now space. Have over 18gb on internal, over 60 on external card.
Anyone else have this issue?