I have about 10 gigs of music on my external 32gb memory card. every single music app i have tried only recognizes some of the music files. I can view the rest of the music using a file manager. I can even play single songs that dont come up in the music player. I used the same memory card in my old mytouch 4g and all the music was recognized.
Is there a way to play whole folders of songs from a file manager?
Could the problem be that the music files are in too many subfolders?
disdizz said:
I have about 10 gigs of music on my external 32gb memory card. every single music app i have tried only recognizes some of the music files. I can view the rest of the music using a file manager. I can even play single songs that dont come up in the music player. I used the same memory card in my old mytouch 4g and all the music was recognized.
Is there a way to play whole folders of songs from a file manager?
Could the problem be that the music files are in too many subfolders?
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Try Poweramp from the market and you will see everything. It gives you the option to select which folders you want to view and it is a great player.
If you do not like this option, try installing Kies in your pc and use it to move files off the pc to the external card. According to the manual, this should let the Samsung music player see the files. I have not tried this yet, so no promises. You can dl the pdf manual from the Samsung site under the support for the N2.
Upload music to Google play if you wish, therefore playable via google music manager app.
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disdizz said:
I have about 10 gigs of music on my external 32gb memory card. every single music app i have tried only recognizes some of the music files. I can view the rest of the music using a file manager. I can even play single songs that dont come up in the music player. I used the same memory card in my old mytouch 4g and all the music was recognized.
Is there a way to play whole folders of songs from a file manager?
Could the problem be that the music files are in too many subfolders?
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I've had this problem b4 when flashing different ROMs on my Sensation. Backup ur music n which ever files u want 2 keep 2 a desktop, then format the SD card. Restore the files u wanted 2keep and everything should b fine again. Prolly some old files(still stored on ur SD card) from ur old phone that's causing this hiccup.
My Note2 should b home 2day..
CAN'T WAIT!!
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Is it from iTunes? Is it drm restricted?
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Sorry for being such a noob but I have transferred music to my GNex from my windows 7 computer and I not only can't play it but I can't even find it on the GNex. Came from Samsung Fascinate w/ sd card and am having trouble with the learning curve. Please advise. Do I need a music player that isn't on the device out of the box?
Music is normally stored in the sdcard\music folder on the phone's internal storage. Obviously it is hard to tell if you accidentally placed it in another location without looking at the phone. You can install es file manger or astro file manager for free from the market and browse your phone's internal storage and look for music files that way.
I would also suggest install the poweramp (free trial) music player from the market as that automatically searches your phone's storage for music files.
Hope this helps.
Okay as the title states...
I would like to play my music that is stored my my 64gb MSD card through my PC using Windows Media Player (12.0.7601.17514).
When I plug my phone into the PC and open WMP, it sees both my phone and card. It even sorts my music and I can see it all. The problem though is when I try to play any of my music it won't play.
How can I get it to play through my computer?
Download BubbleUPnP from the play store.
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rosedog said:
Okay as the title states...
I would like to play my music that is stored my my 64gb MSD card through my PC using Windows Media Player (12.0.7601.17514).
When I plug my phone into the PC and open WMP, it sees both my phone and card. It even sorts my music and I can see it all. The problem though is when I try to play any of my music it won't play.
How can I get it to play through my computer?
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Can you send the files from Kies to windows Media Player?
IT guy but Android noob here and although I love the ATT s3, I hate to say I miss the iPhone when it comes to managing music. As much as I am against computers and pones as appliances, it just works in apple world. I am struggling with managing and loading music. Currently on rc9 of liquidsmooth rom based on 4.1.2.
Music monkey will not transfer to the sd card on windows 7 64bit and kies will simply not see the phone. Does not matter if I am in USB debug or not. Media monkey acts odd in that it sometimes sees the internal storage as external and vice versa. Mostly though it just fails to copy music over to the sd as if it does not have permission to write. Checked permissions in the platform.xml file and all is well and correct. I simply want to transfer music with playlists built and I am struggling. Am I dealing with a jelly bean issue or is it due to custom rom?
Any advice is greatly appreciated or an alternative procedure.
Thanks
Aeronaut
aeronaut964 said:
IT guy but Android noob here and although I love the ATT s3, I hate to say I miss the iPhone when it comes to managing music. As much as I am against computers and pones as appliances, it just works in apple world. I am struggling with managing and loading music. Currently on rc9 of liquidsmooth rom based on 4.1.2.
Music monkey will not transfer to the sd card on windows 7 64bit and kies will simply not see the phone. Does not matter if I am in USB debug or not. Media monkey acts odd in that it sometimes sees the internal storage as external and vice versa. Mostly though it just fails to copy music over to the sd as if it does not have permission to write. Checked permissions in the platform.xml file and all is well and correct. I simply want to transfer music with playlists built and I am struggling. Am I dealing with a jelly bean issue or is it due to custom rom?
Any advice is greatly appreciated or an alternative procedure.
Thanks
Aeronaut
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Get Astro or root explorer. To transfer within the phone.
If you are having connectivity issues with your pc...get a free drop box account...or two. Upload your music and download with your phone. Easy.
Am I the only one in the world that just does drag-and-drop in windows explorer to manage my music? Never had a problem with it and I have 70+GB of music. iTunes is so overrated.
I have always just copied music into a "Music" folder on SD card. Like manske90 said above me just drag and drop with windows explorer. If you have your music organized in itunes and want to stick with itunes there are a couple options I have found helpful. You can make a music folder on the desktop and drag the songs you want from itunes itself into there (which will just make copies of the files) and clean out the folder afterwards. Or you can figure out what music you want in itunes right click the song and choose "open in explorer" and copy/paste to the SD card. There also seems to be a few stand alone applications if you google around, but I personally have never used any of them. Best of luck!
Have you tried Easy Phone Sync? It uses your itunes library to sync music onto android devices. You can sync the whole library or just certain playlists. It also lets you choose where you want the songs to be copied to ie internal memory or sd card.
http://easyphonesync.com/en/itunes/index.html
This is the link to the desktop application and then you just need to download easy phone sync from the play store in order for the desktop application to make contact with your phone. Also it's absolutely free.
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napkun said:
Have you tried Easy Phone Sync? It uses your itunes library to sync music onto android devices. You can sync the whole library or just certain playlists. It also lets you choose where you want the songs to be copied to ie internal memory or sd card.
This is the link to the desktop application and then you just need to download easy phone sync from the play store in order for the desktop application to make contact with your phone. Also it's absolutely free.
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Thanks for the replies folks...I really don't want this to be a two step process (copy to phone and use a file manager on the phone to move the music again) and honestly it should not be this hard to move music.
This is intensely frustrating....just connected a non rooted, Tmobile S3 with stock 4.1.1 ROM and it will allow me to write to the SD card on that device with no trouble, from Media Monkey....makes no sense whatsoever especially since the permissions appear to be correct for the Rooted problem phone. it very much appears to be a permissions issue....
aeronaut964 said:
Thanks for the replies folks...I really don't want this to be a two step process (copy to phone and use a file manager on the phone to move the music again) and honestly it should not be this hard to move music.
This is intensely frustrating....just connected a non rooted, Tmobile S3 with stock 4.1.1 ROM and it will allow me to write to the SD card on that device with no trouble, from Media Monkey....makes no sense whatsoever especially since the permissions appear to be correct for the Rooted problem phone. it very much appears to be a permissions issue....
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Isyncr. It uses iTunes and tranfers music, playlists...etc. it is flawless. You won't be sorry.
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For about a year and a half, I used a Sandisk 64 GB SDXC card on my phone and it worked great. I recently bought a Tablet, so I decided to use the 64 GB card on it and replace that card with a HC 32 GB Class 10 Micro SD Card. Initially, everything went by smoothly, I would be able to listen to music and even play various formats like .WAV & .FLAC with PowerAMP, and some with the standard android player.
Now, any and every song file I play, whether it be MP3, WAV, FLAC, or M4A doesn't even load up - It just outright tells me that file format is invalid, and when I check for the file folders within the music apps, I get a "0 Files Found" message, though I can see the files whenever I use a file manager app or root explorer app.
I've tried everything, even uninstalling & reinstalling poweramp, wiping dalvik & cache, rebooting the system & accessing the files via an internal media player(Root Explorer), using different music apps - nothing works.
The funny thing is, when I access the files while the S3 is connected to my computer, they play just fine.
Has this ever happened to anyone? What could I have done wrong?
Weird!
Try clearing data on media storage. Then reboot and wait 15-30 mins for it to rebuild its database (depends on how much you have). Then try again.
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That could possibly work...how do I do that?
On app manager, find media storage, clear data, reboot.
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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.
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.
TabGuy said:
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.
stevenj05 said:
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: