The media (pictures, video, music) on my external sd card are not being picked up by the stock and google apps like google photos and music. I have pictures taken with my camera that just not being found by the google photos app, but they are there when i navigate with a file explorer.
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Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this:
I use doubletwist for listening to new music that is stored on my SD card. I use Google Music for streaming my favorite tracks that I have uploaded. The problem is Google Music automatically searches my SD card and displays all the music stored on my phone along with the artists/playlists/etc. that I have stored on the cloud, which makes it confusing when browsing the library. My question is: Can I prevent Google Music from searching and displaying what's on the SD card, but still allow doubletwist to see it? Thanks much!
I think that's not a problem with the Google Play Music app. The Media Storage app does the scanning. I don't think you can do what you asked.
bump. So is this a no-go? No way to disable media scanning for google music but still allow it for doubletwist?
I don't use either app but you could try the .nomedia trick. Just create an empty file and name it ".nomedia" and place it in whatever folder your music is in then force media scanner to do a rescan (or just reboot). Media scanner will skip any folder (including all subfolders) that contains a ".nomedia" file. This should hide your music from google music but they should still show up in doubletwist (I think). Note this will hide all media files which means they will not show up in any app that depends on media scanner (any photos in the folder will not show up in the stock gallery app, etc.). If you need to unhide the folder just delete the ".nomedia" file and force another media rescan.
Thanks for the response. I tried that, but it hides media from both google music and doubletwist. This is frustrating. Why can't these apps just have a menu to allow you to select the folders you want for a library? Why do they think they need to be able to scan the whole card?
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?
I've downloaded music from googly play music to my external sd card. When using file explorer or another music app I can't locate any of my music I've bought.
Is it possible to find the music mp3's somehow?
Anyone help please?
If you're talking about all access music, it is only playable with Google app. Btw, you have to look in hidden android folder, in google play music. Can't remember exact path, but it's there.
If you're talking about your purchased music, might be much better to sync/download your music to your pc, then transfer on SD card. That way filenames will be preserved, rather than numbered, as is the case with play music app downloads.
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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?
My wife has a Z2, but after the latest update, the music app doesn't recognize the music on the SD card, same goes for photos and the album app. Anybody knows a fix for this? It's not rooted.
does Google Play Music read the sd card? Have you tried reinserting the sd card?
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I did once have an issue with the music. the music app said no search results when i searched for music, to fix this, i had to copy the music off the SD card then copy it back on so the system re indexed them. I could then search and the music app could find the songs