Hello to all !
I tried searching for a solution, but cant seem to find a an answer for my issue.
After upgrading to ics my music player cant detect the music files that are on my sdcard, the same with photos. For now i just have to navigate to my music folder with root explorer and open mp3s from there. I would appreciate if anyone can help me fix this !
you could try wiping your cache and see if that helps
If its not too much of a hassle, you should reformat your sd external through settings and reload all your stuff. Sometimes files get corrupted and thats the only way out. Its most likely your card and not your phone.
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i tried everything that i can think of, but nothing seems to help. i can open the files i need using a file manager
Haven't gotten around to playing with music, however, did have a problem choosing wallpaper (was on external SD) through Settings > Display > Home Screen Wallpaper. Could not access that way, but could through Folders or Gallery.
What I found the problem to be was a setting in Developer Options. See if you have this checked:
Settings > Developer Options > Do Not Keep Activities (untick it). It may require a Restart, but I did not have to.
I don't know if anyone is having a problem with wallpapers, but I cannot have that setting ticked and see my wallpaper using the normal Settings > Display method.
AFA as music, I was having a problem with ICS seeing a ringtone on the external SD and had to create a nested folder (media/audio/ringtones) for ICS to see it. Perhaps music is the same way? Like I said, I haven't gotten around to playing with music yet. I tried reformatting my card to fix the ringtone and wallpaper issue but haven't put the music back on.
i found a way to fix it.
thanks people !
Dimitar G K said:
i found a way to fix it.
thanks people !
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when i removed the bloat from system/app i removed the mediaprovider app and that caused my device to stop loading music and photos. it was my fault, but now i fixed it and everything works fine.
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Hey I just bought this phone yesterday (had the galaxy before)
and today i opened up the music player and loaded the songs from my sd card, but for some reason everything is (about 90%) of my songs are under the album "audio" with unknown as the artist/album. but then the rest of the 10% song are under albums...how can i fix this? its quite annoying now to find songs by certain artist since everything is UNKNOWN.
i also tried using another music player (pro player or something like that) and same thing
either your files lost the mp3 tags for some unknown reason, or something else is wrong there.
either case try out this great app
JukeFox free from Market
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so is there any way to diagnose the problem to see what it REALLY is?
also is there an easy way to put the tags back onto the files?
OKAY SO I FIGURED THIS ONE OUT LOL
go to settings, applications, all, find 'media storage' click on it. clear data.
then go to settings and sd storage, unmount sd card. then once available, hit mount sd card. let it scan fully
then go to music player and all songs should be grouped into albums, etc etc etc..
someone can close this thread now and keep it for reference for newbies like myself who run into this issue
I'm having a problem with the Google Play Music app.
I've been using it fine for at least a month, but all of a sudden tonight, when trying to play some music I get the error: "Couldn't play the song your requested."
I can go to the files and play them myself with the file manager, and with the samsung music player... I even downloaded Power Amp to check and it works fine. But I can't seem to use the Play music app. I've cleared data, uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm a Canadian user. Would this have anything to do with Play music not being available in Canada? And if so why was I able to use it all this time without?
can you go to google's music page and play that way?
I don't think its nothing to do with you in Canada, Google opened the music publicly/ international several months ago.
Thanks for the response!
I can't play music that way because I don't actually have any music in the cloud... All locally on my SD Card.
Also I had to install the apk manually instead of through the store. It says play music is unavailable for my phone.... which I assumed meant Canada....
we have the same problem.. any tips how to make it work?
I think I remember someone saying to clear cache/data for the play music app.
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They updated the app recently and its giving a lot of people issues on aokp and cm9. The prior version did too, but was hit or miss. Some had issues some didn't. If you have an older version try it
Play music is problematic at best. I loved it too. I tried to use it and I'm also a Canadian user.
I did a lot of reading and its a problem with Play music itself. Sometimes the program loses track of where exactly the music is. Its database gets out of sync. So you have to go to Manage apps and clear the data. Then download "Re-scan Media" from the app store. Let it do its work, then it will work again. But you'll have to do this constantly. Its totally not worth it. Especially when you're out... ready to play music and you have to do all that drama.
Hey guys stupid update here. Play music works again for me. Tried tons of stuff, so don't know which thing fixed it when it dies again I will try to narrow it down. Found out the mp3 codec lib is a bit flimsy. Found out play music has issues with sd card reading. Found out it also is programmed to search for atom moov contents for streaming purposes before playing. And oddly it loads/pushes bluetooth ad2p every time it plays a song. And it's database of adding song registration duplicates entries often, but it has a built in verification method. Each of these were determined through a logcat of the issue.
I had the same issue and fixed it with just a simple copy to a folder on my desktop, delete from Internal SD, then adding it back on. Now it works again.
Copy whole "music" folder or sd card contents?
Can you confirm internal or external card?
Rom?
At this point, my assumption would be your issue fell into the internal (emmc) rescan fix category.
Turns out the rescan app pulls the GetExternalStorage api which isn't able to pull external sd. It only will have the system rescan emmc. Unfortunately, Google didn't have the foresight that phones would have two cards originally. So if you have music there, clearing cache and rescanning works well for many.
Found out one other issue/fix. Someone asked me about the media app loading draining battery issue some of us have had. I had them pull the mp3s and run them through an mp3 validator and reload. It fixed both the media hang up and play music.
Here's what I tried:
My music is in my external SD card. Go to your app drawer, press menu, Manage Apps.
Scroll the top bar to the right and choose All. Find Media Storage and clear its data.
Reboot into recovery, fix permissions. Open the gallery and let the list populate (it takes a bit).
Download the app SDrescan. Run it. Reboot.
At this point PM should recognize all your music.
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You got sd rescan to scan your external? On aokp/cm9?
Anyway, looks like you have also confirmed another relationship to media scanner. Though quick question, why gallery open?
Yes.
Regarding the gallery open, I figured it would get the OS jogging. But its also because there were double or triple false entries of every picture on my SD card.
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i've had two root causes related to this i'll share with you guys here. i'm using an lg g pro 2. two problems:
i uninstalled two programs and the issue went away: greenify and v4a.
first, apparently *GREENIFY* was causing issues. i don't know wtf i put into auto hibernation, but something was causing this issue. at first i suspected n7player, so i degreenified it. nothing. anyways, i DID have ES File Explorer and MX Player still greenified, maybe they were the culprits?
second, i had uninstalled v4a before uninstalling greenify, but that still didn't fix the issue. anyways, after i got my music back, i reinstalled v4a and the thing stopped working all of a sudden (used 4.4 install). shifted to 2.3.4.0 and v4a did NOTHING. music worked again but it wasn't functional.
end result: i flashed the lolliviper zip from the nexus 5 forums and it works again, w00t! i'll link if you're itnerested
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i've had two root causes related to this i'll share with you guys here. i'm using an lg g pro 2. two problems:
i uninstalled two programs and the issue went away: greenify and v4a.
first, apparently *GREENIFY* was causing issues. i don't know wtf i put into auto hibernation, but something was causing this issue. at first i suspected n7player, so i degreenified it. nothing. anyways, i DID have ES File Explorer and MX Player still greenified, maybe they were the culprits?
second, i had uninstalled v4a before uninstalling greenify, but that still didn't fix the issue. anyways, after i got my music back, i reinstalled v4a and the thing stopped working all of a sudden (used 4.4 install). shifted to 2.3.4.0 and v4a did NOTHING. music worked again but it wasn't functional.
end result: i flashed the lolliviper zip from the nexus 5 forums and it works again, w00t! i'll link if you're itnerested
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I did not get you. Please explain in clearer words..
So unfortunately I lost everything on my SD card and my Music app still displays the music and folders I have previously had. Now I have re-added new music but it doesn't look like it appears on my playlist.
Anyone know of a way to 'refresh' or 'rescan' music besides a full wipe?
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So unfortunately I lost everything on my SD card and my Music app still displays the music and folders I have previously had. Now I have re-added new music but it doesn't look like it appears on my playlist.
Anyone know of a way to 'refresh' or 'rescan' music besides a full wipe?
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Try going to: Settings-> Apps-> All (tab)-> Select Media Storage-> and Clean Data...
Then either reboot your handset and wait a while for the library to be rebuilt, or download SDrescan from Play Store and run that
Hope that sorts it for you.
Yep, that did the trick. Thanks!
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So I was having troubles with Mediaserver eating up battery life, so I put a .nomedia file in my general directory and in the Music folder of my Nexus 7. I want to add more music now, so I deleted these files, but I can't get the scanner to find any media on the device now. What can I do to fix this?
Thanks
Did you try rebooting? If so, you could try rebooting again after going into Settings, Apps, All, Media Storage, and deleting Data and Cache.
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So I was having troubles with Mediaserver eating up battery life, so I put a .nomedia file in my general directory and in the Music folder of my Nexus 7. I want to add more music now, so I deleted these files, but I can't get the scanner to find any media on the device now. What can I do to fix this?
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I had the exact same problem few days ago, i tried googled about this issue , and it says it is Google Play Music sync that is causing this problem.
The solution given was to disable the sync for Google Play Music, but my country doesn't have Google Play Music support yet, so the option wasn't in there. So what i did was disable the app totally , and my problem was solved.
Solution
Go to Apps and try to disable enable storage app then make restart to device , it should works
So I have my saved to phone file (music) and I have them attached to a play list. Then I set in the wear app to allow store on watch, pulled up the list and clicked the playlist I wanted to send to watch. Then on the watch I hit play Music and on wear, and the list shows, I then pick what I want and see a orange check on the bottom of the watch screen. What ever I do with that check, swipe or click it just goes back to the watch face?
Has anyone got the Music to transfer to the watch?
Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.
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Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.
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Thanks for the info, I actually found that same page & tried several times. I even get the watch to show the list and pick albums, playlists, songs, and then try that orange check and nothing.
Cleared cashe on music app, reset connections, and rebooted both devices. It all reads just like the web page except for the actual file transfer. I get error phone disconnected on the watch, yet when I go to wear app it is connected. Or I just see the watch go back to the watch face, no notification what so ever. Sigh.
looks like many are having issues, depending on the version of google play music. It also seems it has been broke, fixed, broke again. These things do happen when working on updates and such, I'll keep checking for an update. https://productforums.google.com/fo.../DGr1WPiy9Po;context-place=forum/android-wear
We found the issue, and I have music transferring now!
It is related to sd card, two ways to get past googles sd card failure.
1. put a .nomedia file on your sd card root folder, this will work if you have a third party music app that will allow you to choose an sd card folder so it still reads files.
2. put music files you want on internal memory and remove sd card until music is transferred. keep that music on internal when replacing sd card.
I believe this is an issue with googles sd card security, and you probably won't see this if you have marshmallow and have formatted the sd card the new way making it your secure memory. If you choose to keep your sd card as removable and usable elsewhere you will need to try some type of work around. It frustrates me but the way they are doing it is more secure in the long run. I just never put files that need securing on my sd card in the first place, just music, games, videos.
I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.
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I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.
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Thanks! I'm super Happy with the results. I used the .nomedia on sd card. I have 1.4 GB now on the watch and I'm able to do my walking with bluetooth sound, without carrying the phone.