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Anyone know of a way to speed up the sync of music to dash? Sure, if I take card out and put it directly into computer -then that works - but that screws up the playlist i.e. "storage card" is not put on playlist directory path. So, transferring 2.5 gigs (4gigs SDHC) takes about 4 hours using the phone and about 3 minutes directly in computer.
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Anyone know of a way to speed up the sync of music to dash? Sure, if I take card out and put it directly into computer -then that works - but that screws up the playlist i.e. "storage card" is not put on playlist directory path. So, transferring 2.5 gigs (4gigs SDHC) takes about 4 hours using the phone and about 3 minutes directly in computer.
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Copy files over with the card in the PC, then just update the library to 'import' all the music and make available. easy.
jes, tis a good way to do it....whenever you have to transfer data through a cable rather than through a direct bus connection, its ALWAYS slow as hell. Plus the Excalibur is only USB 1.1 which doesnt help out alot either.
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Thanks for the help.
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jes, tis a good way to do it....whenever you have to transfer data through a cable rather than through a direct bus connection, its ALWAYS slow as hell. Plus the Excalibur is only USB 1.1 which doesnt help out alot either.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 Canadian 747 Version and 64GB microSD cards.
New Information: It seems that the S3 on 4.1.1 has issues with both 32 and 64GB cards when you allow "mediaserver" to catalog a complex library. Any card you use for music with the S3 has to be formatted FAT32 and has to have a .nomedia file to prevent Mediaserver form cataloging it. This information comes from 2 independent Galaxy S3s on 2 networks. I currently have a Sandisk 64GB card in my S3 and have been using it for a month without the slightest issue since I formatted FAT32 and prevented cataloging with a .nomedia file.
Summary 1: 64GB cards are currently a bag of hurt ......IMO on Jelly Bean 4.1.1 the Samsung Galaxy S3 does not properly support many 64GB cards. Don't buy them unless you can return and don't waste your time trying to get them to work if they generate any errors(they will only get worse). There seems to be more than 1 problem also .... one is that hard use seems to corrupt some cards and mediaserver also corrupts the card.
Summary 2: Tried Kingston 64GB Class 10 card (SDCX10/64GB) card in may hands it was unstable in this phone either because I got a bad one or due to incompatibility. Wasn't about to try another one.
Summary 3: I tested a 64GB SanDisk microSD card formatted FAT32 and it passed all the stress tests and gave no errors even with the card full of music and repeated switching/manipulations of files on both the phone and the PC. No dismounts,no scandisk errors, no Android mount checking messages.
Hello All ...... Here is how I got a 64GB card to work in the Samsung Galaxy S3 747. It worked for me but may or may not work for you so make sure you can return any card you buy because it is common to have issues.
NOTE1: The S3 does not support exFAT, the format that both Windows 7 and the S3 defaults to when formatting. The exFAT format may appear to work but sooner or later your card won't mount properly on your phone. The card must be formatted FAT32 for Android 4.1.1 (Check other posts on how to do this)
NOTE2: The Samsung default player and the Mediaserver App are buggy pieces of crap for large libraries ... Use PowerAmp media player instead from the play store.
NOTE 3:If you have messed about with exFAT and syncing using a Media Player Program you need to format your card FAT32 on your computer AND remove the offending software and shut down your computer and restart it.
1) First you need to have a look at what you are using to read your microSD card on your PC and if it is more than a year old you should probably throw it out or remember to never put your 64GB card in it. With the right SD card reader you can also take the card out of the phone and transfer directly using the reader but it may not work.
2) If you have programs intercepting your USB mass storage connections on your PC, you need to disable them .... The program I use for music is Media Monkey 4 and if you have the MM4 mass storage sync addins active, not only will you not be able to sync with MM4, you will not be able to transfer files to your phone by any method until all the Mass Storage Hooks are removed. Other program like ITunes may or may not have similar issues. This is important because these programs and hooks can actually render the card inoperable. Media Monkey for example will try to sync the tag track name instead of the actual name to microSD and this can result in improper characters and path lengths in created files that can destroy the card.
3) It is best to just take the card out of the phone and copy all your tracks direct to the card using Windows 7. Make sure you have a current reader that supports 64GB. The sad take home message is that you won't be able to sync using a media file manager but with 64GB of storage you probably don't need to anyway, Just copy your whole library over and forget about it until you get new tracks.
4) Create a directory called Music on your SD card and create or copy a file called .nomedia to that directory. This is required because the Android program Mediaserver will try to catalog this directory if you don't and mediaserver is buggy with music files. This means the Samsung Music Player App won't see your tracks and you will have to use PowerAmp to play tracks (Samsung player is actually pretty good but PowerAmp is better anyway)
5) Copy all your tracks using Windows 7 and a card reader. It is way faster than MTP anyway. Check that the files are there then "Safely remove hardware" the card, remove, and re-insert. If you get errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste your time (unless you aren't sure about your reader) Run chkdsk (without fix option). If you have errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste any more time. "Safely remove hardware" and remove the card.
4) Put the card in the phone and carefully watch the status bar. If your card wont mount, or gives you a "checking the card" message the card will never work in your phone so just take it back to the store.. Dismount your card and remove it from the phone.
5) Reinsert the card into your card reader on your PC . If you get errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste your time Run chkdsk (without fix option). If you have errors just take the card back to the store.... don't waste any more time. "Safely remove hardware" and remove the card and put it back into your phone..
7) If your phone gets laggy when you put the card in it means that you didn't correctly put a .nomedia file into the music directory on your microSD. The buggy mediaserver program is trying to catalog your music and it may corrupt or destroy your card if you have a big collection.
8) Open PowerAMP and do a full rescan. If your card and music are intact a full rescan of 10,000 tracks shouldn't take more than 5 min. If it does your card is struggling or you still have mediaserver trying to catalog the tracks. After catloging is finished test your media library using the PowerAmp specifically looking for albums with unknown artists or album art that doesn't load. If you know that every track has uncorrupted tags and uncorrupted album art on your computer then missing art and unknown artists mean you have a problem with FAT32, the card or your phone. Back to the store with your card, but it is really easy to have corrupt tracks in your library so check that if you like.
9) Note that with a full 64 GB card of music the PowerAmp will take up to 5 minutes to catalog your tracks and your PowerAmp will not work properly during this time AND your battery will be sucked down at an incredible rate due to 100% CPU usage. If you make the mistake of cataloging tracks with PowerAMP with mediaserver active at the same time your phone will grind to a halt and neither PowerAmp or Stock may ever finish cataloging and your battery will be sucked dry for days on end.
10) Remember to never ever stick your microSD card into any reader older than 6 months to a year .... Actually I wouldn't stick it in any reader at all for a year or 2. Writing a single file with a unsupported reader can cause corruption or wipe the entire drive.
11) Enjoy your music collection on your phone and be glad you don't have to use any of the crappy on-line music storage solutions which are SLOW, UN-CATALOGED and WiFi/Carrier DEPENDENT, and which can take weeks to upload your tracks.
I simply formatted my 64GB card on my MacBook Pro and had no problems since.
Put in the card into phone, and format from within phone. Been using a 64 GB card formatted from within phone for the last couple months with no issues, recording huge videos in full HD with no issues.
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recording huge videos in full HD with no issues.
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Lies. The SGS3 will format it as FAT32 with a 4GB file size limit.
Did you do this on a stock ROM?
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Lies. The SGS3 will format it as FAT32 with a 4GB file size limit.
Did you do this on a stock ROM?
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I said huge, didn't say over 4GB. That's the limitation of FAT32
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I had a ton of issues getting my 64gb card to work. It would error out when trying to format from the phone. I ended up have to do a deep format that took forever and then it finally showed up as working on my phone.
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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Thanks for this, I will give it a go tonight!
Jack
jivin_hipcat said:
I had a ton of trouble with random corrupt and missing files with my 64Gb card. Then I used guiformat on my windows PC and formatted it from exfat to fat32. Not one single problem from then on (about 6 months of heavy use). 2 cents aimed at you to hit or miss good luck.
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Tried this last night. I put 8.16gb of music on the SD card, put it in my phone and not all of the songs were there. I have put the SD card back in my PC and there is now only 3.94gb of music on there?!
not good
Reformatting to fat32 defeats one of the great features of xfat on the cards, namely you can put movies on over 4gig. I have used sandisk 64gb cards and they worked out of the box on 3 s3's. As a side note it sounds like media scanner is stopping on your phone and not finding all your music. If you move it back to pc are all files there.. If so check for some weird files that are breaking media scanner. If not you may have a bad or counterfit card. Did you get it from a reputable place. Also, you are not trying to put over 4g in one directory are you? You should have subdirectories under music in the normal format that windows media player writes... ie artist/album/songs. I have over 11gb of music on my daughters phone and 13.7gb on mine. How many songs does it show when you play a song under the "all songs" tab of music player? See below I have 1913 songs.
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jackbatey said:
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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Hey all, I'm also having this issue. I have formatted my card to Fat32, and was using it last night in poweramp with no issues, then suddenly it couldn't read files and was rescanning my library, this morning it worked but about half my music was gone. I put the sccard in the computer (I'm running mac) and I've attached the picture of what shows up, note the strange coded files...
I've tried creating a .nomedia however mac won't let me do that in house, and I've also run into problems renaming it on the phone..
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jackbatey said:
Tried this last night. I put 8.16gb of music on the SD card, put it in my phone and not all of the songs were there. I have put the SD card back in my PC and there is now only 3.94gb of music on there?!
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Hello: Did you ever figure your problem out? The exact same thing is happening to me. DWS
Read the first post
I am very sorry to say that there is no way to get this to work on Android 4.1.1 except formatting FAT32 AND putting a .nonmedia file in your top level music directory and using PowerAmp. Nothing else is stable in the long term.
I haven't had one issue in almost 8 months where previously they were almost daily.
Mediaserver is a very badly written Android sys app that can't handle complex music libraries .... it is that simple.
This may be fixed in Android 4.1.2 but Google has become so sloppy these days and there are no release notes .... I am simply to scared to even try upgrading a phone that works perfectly (with tweaks)
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Hello: Did you ever figure your problem out? The exact same thing is happening to me. DWS
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Ok, so I've followed all the steps, but now it seems like I'm going to have to find another workaround, or a better alarm clock app that doesn' reference the stock music player when looking for music to use as the alarm tone. So what is the workaround? Or is it safe for me to allow the stock music player to catalog the music? Kind pisses me off, because it took me half a day to fumble phuck around just getting all 9743 tunes onto this card, and to get gonemad music player to at least see the files(I still need to figure out how to get it to scan the folder with the .nomedia file in it)...
If the device is advertised as supporting a 64gb card from the factory why on earth does it take so much mental masturbation to make it work
jackbatey said:
Hi Guys, I'm having a slightly different problem with my 64gb micro SD in my Galaxy S3. I have tried formatting the SD card in various ways, fat32 exfat and formating it on the S3. It seems to format fine and I can create a folder on it called music. I can then copy as many songs as I like on there. It all seems to be fine until I put it back in my S3. When I then go to play the songs, it has deleted a bunch of my songs. No matter how many songs I put on the card, it seems to reduce it down to about 4gb of music.
If I then plug it back into the memory card reader, the music folder is still there as well as all of the artists folders, but the ones that have had the songs deleted have no tracks in the folders. They have just vanished?! I do not get any error messages at any point in the process.
Can anyone offer any explanation?
Cheers.
Jack
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I'm Having the same issues with my samsung 64gb card. My Sandisk 32gb held up like a champ but this new card keeps deleting my music. I can't figure out what I'm doing differently.
I will load up about 9gb's of songs and they go on ok, but when I go to play them on my NOTE 3 , some will play and others start showing up errors saying cant play that type of file . I will take the card out and look at those songs in that folder in DETAILS and notice about 100 songs now have 0's under the duration of the song but still show the size of the mp3 , however it wont even play now on the computer . Anyone know why this is happening? Is it because of the 4.4.2 KitKat update. Is there a work around ?
Also in the first part if this thread , he talks about making a .nomedia file . So how do you do that ? Is that a note file ? a renamed mp3 file ? How do I create this file and put in it my music folder?
Another suggestion was not to put over 4gb of music into one subfolder . Guess I will try that next .
I am on a Note 3 4.4.2 with a 64gb Samsung MicroSDXC UHS-I card .
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Also in the first part if this thread , he talks about making a .nomedia file . So how do you do that ? Is that a note file ? a renamed mp3 file ? How do I create this file and put in it my music folder?
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One way to do that is open a Windows folder and right click in the white-space of the folder to create a TXT file and name it something like test.txt. Don't add anything to the file, just save it. Then go up one directory (folder) level and on the folder where the TXT file is, right click on this subfolder while holding down the SHIFT key. Select "Open command Window here". Then key in at the Windows command prompt "rename test.txt .nomedia" (without the quotes). Now close the command prompt and open the same folder with Windows explorer and you'll see you now have the .nomedia file.
P.S. I am here because I just purchased a Blu Studio 5.5s which seems (as advertized) to support a 64GB card. I was having the same problems with long named MP3 files but my problem showed up while adding a large music directory to the card while it was plugged into a cardreader in Windows 7. Toward the end of an 11GB copy I started seeing the blank folders and zero byte music files while copying to the card outside of the Android device, so I may have a flakey card. While this card is in the phone, files are copied to the SD card as expected from the Android OS and I can successfully move applications to it through the Android interface, but I can't add very much of my music collection to it before the zero byte size files and blank folders start appearing. It starts showing problems when I copy much more than 8G to the Music directory. I removed the card, backed up the Android files, then ran chkdsk /F which some say don't run and that found some bad files and supposedly fixed the disk but the last group of MP3 folders at that point turned to ghosted icons. Knowing that wouldn't do, I then reformatted the 64G as exFAT, copied all the files this time without any problem, but unfortunately the Blu would not read the card at all then, apparently not supporting exFAT. I then removed the card again and used EasUS Partition Manager on Windows 7 to format to its original Fat32, copied all the Android system files to it from a backup and still had the issues once I started again trying toy copy files when the Music directory got a bit over 8G. I am going to try it again after I order a new memory card. Ironically the card I have in it now is a Samsung.
Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
Have you played with Samsung link yet? It will allow you to link your (her) phone to your computer (provided it's turned on and connected to the internet) so any new music loaded on to the computer will be available to the phone.
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Here's the situation...
My wife wants to listen to music at work without using the data plan. She would like to have all of her music on the phone at all times. When she rips CDs (yes she still buys CDs) or buys new music on Amazon she'd like it to just show up on her phone. The CD rips and Amazon purchases go to a folder on a PC which automatically gets uploaded to Google. She has 9500 songs and a 128gb card so there's no space issue. I have tried two plans but am not happy with either one. If you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
Plan 1:
Use Google Play Music. The only way I could figure out how to get all of her music to her phone was to create a playlist that had every song in it and then click on the download icon. That works but it's static. Any new songs aren't downloaded and she must manually go in and download any new songs. That doesn't make her happy. (Happy wife, happy life.)
Plan 2:
Use any other MP3 music player. Lots of good choices out there. However, maintaining the music is a pain in the buttocks. To get the files there initially I just put the 128g chip in my computer and drag all of the files to the chip. That works. But I can't find out a way to get new songs onto the chip without manual intervention. I thought I could use a folder sync application but none of them have the authority to write to the external SD card (thank you Google) and new files won't get to the SD card without a lot of manual hand holding. That's a no go. I guess I could root and then use a folder sync application but this is her phone, not mine, and I'm not going there.
So, if any of you have any brainiac solutions, I'd love to hear them.
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I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
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I use iTunes and isyncr. Haven't tried it with an external SD but does what you want. Syncs just new tracks. Only had iTunes cause I came from iPhone but to me is the best for managing playlists.
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I went with plan 1. Turns out that to download music a playlist can only have 1,000 songs. I created 10 playlist to get all of the filed to her phone. Sending new music is relatively easy as there's a "recently added" playlist to use to download new music.
Plan 2 doesn't work well as KitKat and external SD cards are not user friendly.
I use SyncMe Wireless to transfer all files to my phone anymore. You can set a schedule to automatically sync any file from a shared folder on your PC to any directory on your device (not sure about an external sd card, i just use the internal storage). It's worked seamlessly for me. I just drop files in my "Send to Android" folder I made on my computer and in the middle of every night it will check to see if files need to be sent over. It can work in reverse too and send files from your phone to your PC.
Here's the link to the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bv.wifisync&hl=en
It's nothing too flashy but it works very well. :good:
Usually I transfer my music from iTunes to my phone by dragging the selected tracks from iTunes to a folder on the desktop, then dragging the tracks from the desktop to my phone that is connected to the PC via microUSB cable with the connection type selected as MTP on my phone. I never had any problems with it until this past February. Any tracks I've purchased on iTunes since February, once they have been transferred to my phone, only have track names. For example: 01 Faithfully. The artist, album, and album art are not there, but if I download a tag editor on my phone, it can see all the track info.
When I transfer the files from the dektop to my phone, it asks me if I want to convert the files before they are transferred. I always said no because it wasn't necessary. Now I say yes and once they have been converted and transferred to my phone, all the info is there.
However, since my phone has updated to Lollipop 5.0.1, when I try and transfer a single track to my phone, it takes a couple minutes before it even asks me if I want to convert the file first. I say yes and the progress gets up to about 95% in about 5-10 seconds, then gets stuck there saying that it has about 5 seconds remaining for about 5-10 minutes before telling me the file couldn't be transferred because either the phone has stopped responding or the phone doesn't support the file type and I'll need to convert it first.
I'm trying to put the music on my microSD card, so I put it in an older Android device (T-Mobile myTouch 4G) that supports USB storage connection type and transferred the files. It was much faster (I know USB storage is faster than MTP), but it didn't give me the option to convert before the transfer, and when I put the microSD card back in my phone, they tracks still only had track names.
PC is running Windows 8.1 and my Verizon Note 4 (SM-N910V) is running Lollipop 5.0.1 with a Samsung Pro 32GB microSD HC Class 10
Is there a way to fix or this or is there another way to transfer my music that would be less of a hassle?
Checkout "iSyncr: iTunes to Android" app. Works great for me.
I hope it's not too late ;P I'm not a dev or anything like that but allow me to explain what i understand, iTunes being the pioneer of technology (or that is what apple thinks) writes the META-DATA of its songs in UTF-32 bit (at least in MP4/M4A), an universal code that supports a s**t ton of characters and words, if you convert music using itunes this will happen, BUT! Android lollipop doesn't support this, only UTF-8 bit which is simpler but not as complete.
So Android will put the file name as the title and everything else empty
So what can you do?
#1 You can use a 3rd party music app that reads the tags and not the interpretation of android (i use PowerAMP, it's amazing)
#2 You can download something like ID3Fixer, select the folder, select all media, select UTF-8 Unicode, reselect everything, press fix it! and it will give you 2 options: a) replace songs tags (overwrites audio files) OR b) only Android database (and your files are intact) (RECOMMENDED) (It will take a while)
that's it, spreed the word to lollipop users!
I can no longer transfer mp3 files from my Windows computer to my P6P. I have moved plenty of music to internal storage, but now can no longer get anything over. Only the album folder shows up, but no contents. I believe I am doing everything correct with the USB cable, connecting and then selecting file transfer. This is a new development. Any suggestions? Very frustrated.
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I can no longer transfer mp3 files from my Windows computer to my P6P. I have moved plenty of music to internal storage, but now can no longer get anything over. Only the album folder shows up, but no contents. I believe I am doing everything correct with the USB cable, connecting and then selecting file transfer. This is a new development. Any suggestions? Very frustrated.
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Is it showing up under my my computer? Like as a drive "C, D, etc"
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Is it showing up under my my computer? Like as a drive "C, D, etc"
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Yes, I see the Pixel internal storage in file manager, and all the music folders already there. Now when I try to transfer an album the new folder shows up but none of the mp3 files. Even when I then try to transfer the files individually
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Yes, I see the Pixel internal storage in file manager, and all the music folders already there. Now when I try to transfer an album the new folder shows up but none of the mp3 files. Even when I then try to transfer the files individually
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Question, are you transferring then unplugging to check if they transferred? Sometimes windows and android have a hard time communicating...this is jokingly called the "middle school dance" where both see each other but both don't make the first move to update what has been done.
Sometimes I transfer stuff but windows explorer never updates what has actually transferred.
Absolutely what @Gytole said. And it's not just Windows' built-in File Explorer. Other programs like GPSoftware's Directory Opus also have the same problem with views of the phone's storage across MTP.
@gmfeld Have you checked on the phone itself if you can see the files that you think you copied recently?
Try rebooting - both the phone and the computer?
Yes I checked my phone after unplugging. Weird, the last time I tried 4 files transferred out of 20. I rebooted my phone I will try rebooting my computer
I've rebooted my phone and computer and have tried every way I can think of. Four out of 20 files were transferred to my phone internal storage and I cannot get the rest of the mp3 files of the same album to copy over. This must be new to me with the latest update.
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I've rebooted my phone and computer and have tried every way I can think of. Four out of 20 files were transferred to my phone internal storage and I cannot get the rest of the mp3 files of the same album to copy over. This must be new to me with the latest update.
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I'll set a reminder for myself tomorrow to do some tests on my own Pixel 6 Pro. I've previously copied several hundred gigabytes of FLAC and MP3 files to my P6P, but that was many months ago.
roirraW edor ehT said:
I'll set a reminder for myself tomorrow to do some tests on my own Pixel 6 Pro. I've previously copied several hundred gigabytes of FLAC and MP3 files to my P6P, but that was many months ago.
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Thanks. I also already have a lot on there, this is something new for me.
I've loaded mp3s on mine (through musicbee sync) on mays firmware so i don't think it's tied to that. Are you on May or one of the betas (june's or 13)
I also transfered boot to downloads via explorer but that was on april
I'm almost willing to bet it's a driver issue. Windows is NOTORIOUS for "Hey! I see you're working but let's go ahead and install a different driver cause I want to piss you off."
Legit happened to me after I updated Evo to version 3 yesterday. I went into the bootloader, updated the rom, and when I went to copy over the boot.img there was no "Picel 6 pro" in explorer...I had to open device manager and choose the middle MTP driver from the "choose from list" to get it to see my P6P again makes me wanna freakin hit a baby sometimes.
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Thanks. I also already have a lot on there, this is something new for me.
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I was about to do the test, but was having some problems with MTP seeing the contents of a very deep folder structure of some of my FLAC files (which already exist on my P6P's internal storage), and then I remembered that actually, when I copy large amounts of and/or large sizes of files, I do so through an intermediary - usually a MicroSD card through a simple non-powered USB-C hub (using X-Plore File Manager).
Now that I've reminded myself of that, I don't even want to attempt to do the same kind of thing through MTP. It's painful and actually takes longer than copying to a MicroSD card first. Figures, eh?
Maybe ADB pull command works better.
Edit. adb push
I just was about to test Xender - Share Music Transfer, but connecting wirelessly to a PC requires enabling a hotspot on the phone and connecting the PC to the hotspot. Still worth testing, but I'll have to do that from a PC that my constant internet connection isn't critical on - so sometime later when I have time to do that.
This seems to be more common when the stock USB C to USB C cable that was included with the phone is not used. Granted, very few people have a USB C port on their computer right now, haha.
Anyway, I would have issues making 60GB video file transfers onto my phone - not because the phone wasn't showing up - but because the file transfer process would just randomly close explorer.exe on Windows after transferring a few files. Once I started using the stock USB C to C cable, this issue stopped occuring (and the transfers were much faster).
But, of course, if Windows isn't even detecting your phone you may have to install the Google Pixel USB driver (and also be sure to enable file transfer on your phone when you connect it to the computer).
So it's not an issue with my phone, as I'm able to transfer mp3 files from my work Windows computer to my P6P using a stock (non-Google) cable. Could it be some setting on my home Windows computer?
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So it's not an issue with my phone, as I'm able to transfer mp3 files from my work Windows computer to my P6P using a stock (non-Google) cable. Could it be some setting on my home Windows computer?
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I wish I knew what to suggest. There are just too many variables to know.
gmfeld said:
So it's not an issue with my phone, as I'm able to transfer mp3 files from my work Windows computer to my P6P using a stock (non-Google) cable. Could it be some setting on my home Windows computer?
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It's a driver issue on your computer. Remove the driver (uninstall it from device manager), restart computer and let it reinstall.
Don't install Google USB drivers since that's for USB debugging/fastboot. Let windows install the driver by itself.
If that doesn't work, there was a post someone made recently that shows how to reinstall the default windows driver, here.
Use Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, last FM, Pandora, YouTube music, apple music, etc etc
Mp3 files usually are ilegal
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Use Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, last FM, Pandora, YouTube music, apple music, etc etc
Mp3 files usually are ilegal
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I think you mean usually illegal, which is of course nonsense. I only use local file and get them from amazon (and formerly emusic). I hate streaming because the ads (though youtube music inserts those in local file too) and data required