I'm on a Stock sense ROM and I just added some new music to my phone, and I downloaded it from my phone. I used ES file Explorer to move the folder to my music folder (on my sd card), but my music player won't recognize the files. Any ideas?
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krobinso2295 said:
I'm on a Stock sense ROM and I just added some new music to my phone, and I downloaded it from my phone. I used ES file Explorer to move the folder to my music folder (on my sd card), but my music player won't recognize the files. Any ideas?
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Sometimes the phone can take a while scanning memory for media files. To speed this up, you can try opening an mp3 directly from ES File Explorer (tell it to open with your music app, of course), or you can try an app called "SDRescan." If those don't do it, my advice would be to delete the mp3s and re-sync them. I use Media Monkey, and as a heads up, I found that older versions of Media Monkey wouldn't sync everything properly, so I had to update to the newest version to remedy all problems.
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Hi guys,
I dont know if already mentioned,i put some songs in my sd card(internal and external) I played few songs with sammy music player and then I deleted one cd (one folder).i opened again the music player and I still can see the deleted songs.If I try to play them it says "file does not exist".The only way to remove them is by deleting inside the music player or after rebooting phone.I initially deleted songs from root explorer.Whats going wrong?also tried the poweramp with same results.Is it the deleting or adding real time?
Same issue with video player.I played an avi file,deleted and its still in videos list.Any idea what am I doing wrong?
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I've deleted an album with the stock file manager and there was no problem. Hope you can solve yours.
LesserCure said:
I've deleted an album with the stock file manager and there was no problem. Hope you can solve yours.
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thank you.you are right.something goes wrong with root explorer
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Im guessing that when you delete something with root explorer the phone wont re-scan the media but with the stock file manager it does. I dont know if theres an option in the setting to rescan media but I know that there are apps in the market that can be used to do that. I use Extented Controls and with it you can have a media scan button in a widget.
Someone said the default music player can't play music from SD card directly. Is that true? I am considering which model (32GB or 16GB) should I buy.
hkltchun said:
Someone said the default music player can't play music from SD card directly. Is that true? I am considering which model (32GB or 16GB) should I buy.
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I just tested this. You can play pretty much anything off of the ext sd card that your heart desires, without transferring anything. What I do is use 'es file explorer'. Open that up, and change your default "home" directory to "/" (without quotes) via the settings. This is the root directory of the system. There will be a folder called 'sdcard2'. Which is your external sd. Now you can browse for any file, and play any file you want. Of course, this folder will not be accessible if you just open the music/video player; unless you use the file transfer app. But just use a file explorer. Its the same thing!
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But using a file explorer will not let you play all the songs at once. You can only play each song one by one...
3vilhomer said:
But using a file explorer will not let you play all the songs at once. You can only play each song one by one...
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This is true. So, you'd have to use the file transfer app for that. We need root!!! And all of these tedious issues would go away. I need to start running some adb commands. Lol!
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Thanks both of you. Is that a android 3.X problem? or the app just search the specific music folder on internal storage, so it can play music from other directory.
What happens if you have an .m3u playlist file together with your mp3 list in the card, and open that one with an m3u app, for example?
wickwire said:
What happens if you have an .m3u playlist file together with your mp3 list in the card, and open that one with an m3u app, for example?
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I bet that would work?! I may try that when I get time!
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hkltchun said:
Thanks both of you. Is that a android 3.X problem? or the app just search the specific music folder on internal storage, so it can play music from other directory.
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Actually its a Sony issue. All of the other tablets that I've had (gtab, xoom, transformer) did not suffer from this issue. I believe that Sony did this to prevent users from "expanding" their storage. Its lame, but after root it would be an easy fix!
EDIT: Im pretty sure that third-party apps don't suffer from locating the ext sd card via their interfaces. I think its just the built-in Sony apps? Definitely not an android 3.x issue.
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Hi,
Just tried this on my sony tablet, m3u opening is tricky but there's another, simpler way:
Install Astro Player Nova, for example
Then navigate to /mnt/sdcard2 and just select all mp3 files and let 'em rip!
wickwire said:
Hi,
Just tried this on my sony tablet, m3u opening is tricky but there's another, simpler way:
Install Astro Player Nova, for example
Then navigate to /mnt/sdcard2 and just select all mp3 files and let 'em rip!
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Sweet! Nice find.
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Ok, guys you can play music or videos from the SD card but using a third party app like for music I use PowerAmp and for video Video MX and it works flawlessly.
still no good news about playing music SD card using the default music player??
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With the Poweramp player you can select in the settings wich folders you want to be in your library included the one from your ext sd card. So you can play every album you have on it, shuffle it, make playlists etc...
haenraets said:
Even more simple
With the Poweramp player you can select in the settings wich folders you want to be in your library included the one from your ext sd card. So you can play every album you have on it, shuffle it, make playlists etc...
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I did the same! Is better to use power amp, is also nicer and sounds better!
samsky said:
Ok, guys you can play music or videos from the SD card but using a third party app like for music I use PowerAmp and for video Video MX and it works flawlessly.
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Sorry, didn't see this post. But that's the way to go!
I had this problem with my S2 as well; I connect my phone with usb debugging checked and copy paste all my music from the music folder on my PC to the music folder on my SD card.
I keep getting the error, " sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file"
Is there anyway to fix this or am I doing something wrong? The music is in mp3 format.
Can somebody please help me out? Thanks
Usb Debugging has nothing to do with normal file transfer.
What type of file extension are you trying to copy? Normal mp3 or some less common and/or proprietary format such as aac, flac, wma, ...
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they are all MP3 format
Try copying your files to the phone throug Airdroid or another file transfer app.
Alternatively if you're rooted, you can use the Easy UMS app to mount your external sdcard on the computer.
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I am rooted, where would I find the easy ums app? For now i will try using airdroid
So i copied and pasted my music to the sd card. Now when i try to play files, some work and some still give the same error message. Also when I click on a song, it automatically starts shuffling through the list but only stays on each song for a second. Im stumped!
I tried Isyncr and Isyncr wifi, both did not work. It shows that it has transferred 500 files but when I go to the music, theres only about 25 files there. The Isyncr process took about 25 minutes and it showed every song that was copied. But when i looked in the music and syncr folder, there were only about 25 songs, I dont understand why the rest were not copied????
It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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It's to do with the media scanner not running. Download rescan media from market and run it and then give it a minute and try going back to music again and they should work. I don't know if there is a bug in the firmware but it's annoying.
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thank you, i will try that next
I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
dankantar said:
I have that same problem...i can listen music drom my files explorer but not all songs in stock music player...i tried media scanner but that doesnt work. its rooted phone, base samsung 4.04.. latest siyah.
solution?
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Yes, I have exactly the same problems for a few of my mp3 files.
I maybe due to some permission issue with the files? Strangely, I can play
all the problematic mp3s directly from the file explorer but not from the player
or any other media players including winamp, real, BS Player etc.
Anyone got a solution for this?
Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Music on internal sd card not ext sd card ???
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klemenSLO said:
Do the mp3 files have the same properties regarding bitrate...maybe it cannot play files with 320kbps or more or files vith VBR(varibile bit rate)
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Well, no, they are all either 128k or 192k.
I also converted some flv files to mp3 with Real converter, the player also cannot play these converted mp3.
Hey guys,
I just downloaded a free music file and it does not show up in the beats or stock music player. I can play/view the file in es file explorer only. I have tried moving the file between my music folders with no luck. Renaming the file has not worked either. I'm at work so, downloading it from the computer and transferring the file right now is not possible. Any ideas?? TIA.
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Im also having this problem, anybody find a fix. Seemed to happen after I transferred my files using HTC transfer tool. I like to use the stock apps that show up on the lock screen, Mort player works with the widgets on the home screen, but it doesnt work on the lock screen
I've been on my S4 for about a month, and have encountered an annoying problem.
I have about 10 gb of music in a folder called Music on my external SD card. I can see and pltany song via my files, or ES file Explorer. But none of my music apps (Samsung Music Player, Winamp, or Google Play Music) can see any songs that are in the Music folder. They can see music in the download folder on the sd card, but not the folder that houses my music files.
I've tried changing the default location in My Files, but that had no effect. I've cleared defaults, and tried everything I can think of, but no luck.
Has anyone else encountered this? How can I get my apps to see my music folders?
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Try popping out and polling in your SD card. That forces the gallery to search for new files. Never know, that might be the problem.
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Check for files called .nomedia and delete if you find any. That's really all I can think of right now