Cant get google music to save all my songs locally, have tried to create a link to the external sd which shows up with my 24gb free, but it always fails and says "cannot download music at this time, will try again later"
Any suggestions?
Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.
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Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.
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I was hoping to just have my music download from play music. I know i could download it to computer and put it on my phone. But i was hoping to have it all come from google music so i can have my new stuff upload without having to manually ad d it to my phone.
Have you tried Directory Bind?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...MB9y6XhJx7BmrBYmw&sig2=Y_W6AiYe_XOT79a1FpNa3w
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Thanks, just tried it, but it cant see anything in the data folder so I cannot get it to the correct folder.
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You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.
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You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.
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Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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Gotcha..mine were pretty much all the same phone, just would add as a new device everytime I flashed a new ROM.
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Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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This worked perfectly for me. Let me know if you have any questions or help getting it working. Basically it uses root explorer to create a symlink. Note that the directions will actually delete you google music cache and offline music. So you'll have to recache/download everything. If you don't want to do that you can always copy the files folder to the sd card, then do the clear data, and then create the symlink. Let me know if you need more precise help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34615796&postcount=84
Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.
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How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.
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Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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As it turns out, I was right. You need to symlink the entire com.google.android.music fold for it to survive rom flashes. Just symlinking the files folder does save the music files to your external sd card but other needed files like database and what not are still on the internal card and therefore flashing a new rom deletes those essential files. So try symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder. It worked for me and if you flash a new rom remember to remake the symlink before opening Google Music.
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It appears symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder only worked temporarily. After a while I noticed my Play Music app just disspeared from my drawer. I had to delete the symlink and copy the folder back over to my internal storage and reboot to get it to come back. Hmm. I think the only thing you can really do is symlink the files folder only so that way the large music files do get saved to your external storage. And anytime you decide you want to reflash your phone, make sure you backup the com.google.android.music folder before you do so. Then flash your rom. Copy that folder back to your internal storage and recreate the symlink for your files folder. That should do the trick.
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without restarting the phone. Is it possible? If not I need another music player app because it's lame to restart the phone each time I add a new title.
Im not sure, but I do have a workaround.
Just play the song using a file manager, and the music app will pick it up for indexing.
Fon22
Fon22 said:
Im not sure, but I do have a workaround.
Just play the song using a file manager, and the music app will pick it up for indexing.
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what if I add 100 new titles? No really, they only need one additional button to reindex! Functionality exists only the user interface lacks one button! So htc why such suffering?
How are you adding the files? Do you just drag and drop onto the SD card? If so the card gets rescanned as soon as you switch back from Disk Drive mode. If it's not then there's a problem.
For example if you connect via USB you have the options to charge only, sync, see it as a disk drive or use the device as a modem. If you see it as a disk drive the SD card is unmounted from the phone until you've finished. Then it's mounted and rescanned.
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Then it's mounted and rescanned.
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no it's not. You can put some files into a mp3/some_subfolder and restart the phone. Then start the music app and then rename this some_subfolder. The app is f-ed up. OK maybe unmounting the sdcard and remounting it is a workaround but it's dirty one.
ps I mount sdcard in a unix environment and do copy files. Then I switch back to inet sharing.
I rooted my evo and its been working fine, but I now have a problemo..
The SD card is mounted because I can see everything through astro, I can connect it to the computer and browse the sd card and see pix and music
The music player says "No music found" and the gallery wont display my photos.
Any suggestions? I dont want to format the sd card if possible. More info by request.
Thanks
Also when I take pictures theyll stay for a while, I dont know exactly when they disapear, but maybe when the phone is rebooted. They do although get saved to the sd card in the proper 100MEDIA folder
Would you happen to be on the sense 2.1 ports? That happens to me when I'm on them.
what do you mean by the port? I am using 2.1 tho. its been working fine for about 4 months
Take SD card out..copy contents, format SD card, copy contents back, insert SD card back..your problem should be fixed..if not, get a better SD card.
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If you don't want to format it, try unmounting & remounting the SD card. You can also try manually running the media scanner. There are multiple toggle widgets that do this - Widgetsoid is my personal preference, but there are others. The dev tools app on CM7 also has an option to run the media scanner.
I think this is a rom issue & not an sd card issue. Backup your current rom, then restore from a backup of a different rom or try a clean install of a new one. If you choose to do a fresh flash, I suggest going with the stock rooted rom. If you still have the problem, then copy all of the files to your computer, format the card, then copy what you need back to the SD.
If it works fine on a different rom, you know the problem is rom related. You can try a completely clean install of whatever rom you're running right now, but it may just be a bug pertaining to the rom.
What rom are you on at the moment? Just curious...
honestly I cant remember. how to I find out?
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honestly I cant remember. how to I find out?
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You don't remember what rom you're on? Really?
Umm, okay. Go to settings, then about phone down at the bottom. If you don't know which piece of info is the rom - you should recognize the name - just post everything in that menu.
iknowthefuture said:
I rooted my evo and its been working fine, but I now have a problemo..
The SD card is mounted because I can see everything through astro, I can connect it to the computer and browse the sd card and see pix and music
The music player says "No music found" and the gallery wont display my photos.
Any suggestions? I dont want to format the sd card if possible. More info by request.
Thanks
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You want to make sure that you don't have a ".nomedia" file in with your pictures or music. Certain apps can automatically create a .nomedia file and place it in with your music files or pictures, etc. When a .nomedia file is present, that folder won't get scanned for media of any kind, therefore your stuff wont show up. I'm not saying that's definitely your problem, by any means. However, simply suggesting that you check your folders, to make sure that the .nomedia file isn't there. I forget which apps can create that file, but I know it can happen.
i used unrevoked.. which one is the rom in software info?
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i used unrevoked.. which one is the rom in software info?
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It may be named Rom Version, Mod Version, build number... I've seen multiple different wordings for it. Mine says "Build Number", but I'm on MIUI. It isn't baseband, kernel, model version, or Android version. It won't be only numbers, and it isn't PC36100.
Let me ask you this... have you flashed any roms through recovery or Rom Manager? If not, you're on stock.
3.70.651.1 cl294884 release-keys is build number
I just tried to install fresh evo 3.5 rom and when it rebooted it stuck at the white "htc evo 4g" screen
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You want to make sure that you don't have a ".nomedia" file in with your pictures or music. Certain apps can automatically create a .nomedia file and place it in with your music files or pictures, etc. When a .nomedia file is present, that folder won't get scanned for media of any kind, therefore your stuff wont show up. I'm not saying that's definitely your problem, by any means. However, simply suggesting that you check your folders, to make sure that the .nomedia file isn't there. I forget which apps can create that file, but I know it can happen.
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found the .nomedia file. deleted it and pix and music are back. It was at the root of the sd card. Thanks
iknowthefuture said:
found the .nomedia file. deleted it and pix and music are back. It was at the root of the sd card. Thanks
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Glad to have helped. And I just gave you your first thanks (it was an accident, I meant to hit the quote button, lol). But either way, you got your first thanks! Take it easy.
I recently flashed cm10.1 on my GS3 and now I've got all my internal storage stuck in the storage/emulated/0/android/obb or storage/emulated/legacy/android/obb locations. Under settings it shows total space 12.05gb, available is 668mb but less than 1/4 of the visual bar is full and accounted for. Sd maid is showing the obb folder is holding 11.39gb but no matter what explorers I use it always appears empty. Anyone know how to free up this spae? I can't find anything anywhere about this. Thank you ion advance.
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Restoring it doesn't free the space up at all. Even tried restoring my backups and the space remains full.
The obb folder is what holds all of your game data. If you have a lot of games installed, especially ones such as Need for speed, grand theft auto, etc. Go into it and clear out the data for all the games you don't play.
I have zero games installed at all. It shows absolutely no files in the folder both regular and hidden and I cannot do anything to the folder whatsoever. Even a clean wipe won't help
This is all in the CM10.1 thread. It's all user data for different profiles. Format your sd card if you dont like it. Just make sure it's empty.
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I have not seen it anywhere. This is all on the internal memory, not the sd card. Everything has stated it's empty but the system storage option in the settings . isn't there some way to force delete this folder?
Page three using the app. I meant internal sd. You can always format it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35056166
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That I have never heard of. I will look into it, thank you.
Tablet terminology, my bad. After switching from CM 10.1 to another ROM and copying its contents to the external sd, I formatted my internal sd in recovery.
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Wow it worked! Thank you so much for the help.
My pleasure.
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It holds all internal data not just games every app has its own folder.
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I recently flashed cm10.1 on my GS3 and now I've got all my internal storage stuck in the storage/emulated/0/android/obb or storage/emulated/legacy/android/obb locations. Under settings it shows total space 12.05gb, available is 668mb but less than 1/4 of the visual bar is full and accounted for. Sd maid is showing the obb folder is holding 11.39gb but no matter what explorers I use it always appears empty. Anyone know how to free up this spae? I can't find anything anywhere about this. Thank you ion advance.
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Restoring it doesn't free the space up at all. Even tried restoring my backups and the space remains full.
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there is an xposed module that can fix this problem ..found this in google news app on my tablet,very helpfull for gamers.its called OBB to SD...install xposed framework on device as long as you running dalvic on your phone and not ART,cause xposed is not compatiable with ART,my gues is your running dalvic ...google xposed and read ..i see you have allready solved the problem..just adding to the answer,this is if you wanted to keep the files,for games..it moves all the files to the external storage,just make sure you get a large sd card..i like games,so i really find this mod helpful,also store my games on my 64 gig external storage
workaround and I thought it would be a nice idea to write it here.
I came to the counclusion that if I did a fresh new reset factory and installing a large mount of files in the internal storage's obb folder it ended up being deleted after rebotting my tablet.
So I decided to do a few steps the next time I reseted my tablet. First, I copied my files using my pc into the SD Card. Then, I installed a random game from Google Play so the tablet could "adapt itself" and install its own obb folder. After that, I installed my apps but not all at once but one at the time and rebooting after every installation for making sure it was all ok.
It concluded not having the error again and after having deleted the random game from the begining my tablet had finally worked.
Hope this idea helps someone having the same problem as I did. Just don't copy all obb files at once, don't copying it directly from the computer but copying them from the SD Card and install some random game for making sure it can at least hold those obb files.
Good luck!
Try Root Explorer and Delete the File from Root Folder
Source: http://www.tricks7.in/2017/12/fix-for-obb-game-file-not-deleting.html
what the heck is taking up all my internal space ??? I look at every folder and it sums up to maybe 100MB but still shows using 12BG phone:SPH-L710
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what the heck is taking up all my internal space ??? I look at every folder and it sums up to maybe 100MB but still shows using 12BG phone:SPH-L710
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How is anyone else supposed to know what's on your device? Use a root file explorer, not the garbage Samsung one.
Look in Android/data and check all app folders
I need help please,
I have purchased JetAudio Plus but it wont scan my external SD drive and all my Audio files are there,
I have also tried "PlayerPro" same problem. except the "PowerAmp" which is scanning and detecting my Audio file. none is working.
i like to keep the Playerpro or the JetAudio. please can someone show me how to fix this.
Thank you
hyewiz said:
I need help please,
I have purchased JetAudio Plus but it wont scan my external SD drive and all my Audio files are there,
I have also tried "PlayerPro" same problem. except the "PowerAmp" which is scanning and detecting my Audio file. none is working.
i like to keep the Playerpro or the JetAudio. please can someone show me how to fix this.
Thank you
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That would be something to take with the Dev of those apps.
hyewiz said:
I need help please,
I have purchased JetAudio Plus but it wont scan my external SD drive and all my Audio files are there,
I have also tried "PlayerPro" same problem. except the "PowerAmp" which is scanning and detecting my Audio file. none is working.
i like to keep the Playerpro or the JetAudio. please can someone show me how to fix this.
Thank you
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A lot of apps for some reason can't detect the sd card on s3 such as titanium backup. Probably cuz smasung decided to name the internal memory /sdcard so apps automatically detect that as the sd card.
All I can suggest is maybe move your songs to your internal memory or try some other apps.
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hyewiz said:
I need help please,
I have purchased JetAudio Plus but it wont scan my external SD drive and all my Audio files are there,
I have also tried "PlayerPro" same problem. except the "PowerAmp" which is scanning and detecting my Audio file. none is working.
i like to keep the Playerpro or the JetAudio. please can someone show me how to fix this.
Thank you
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I got PlayerPro and have no problem with playing music from my external card. I will check JetAudio and post results. Do stock player reading audio from external card? What rom are you running and what kernel? This could be a problem.
Edit: No problem with JetAudio Basic.
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I got PlayerPro and have no problem with playing music from my external card. I
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Same here.
I don't have the app anymore (since last week), but if I remember right, you go into the app settings and point it to the folders you want it to scan. Did you do that yet?
norbarb said:
I got PlayerPro and have no problem with playing music from my external card. I will check JetAudio and post results. Do stock player reading audio from external card? What rom are you running and what kernel? This could be a problem.
Edit: No problem with JetAudio Basic.
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thank you all for helping out
i'm on "[ROM][DEVIANT][d2att][4.2.2] Deviant Xone - 4|9|13"
re-installed both JetAudio and The ProAmp no go
hyewiz said:
thank you all for helping out
i'm on "[ROM][DEVIANT][d2att][4.2.2] Deviant Xone - 4|9|13"
re-installed both JetAudio and The ProAmp no go
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Problem maybe with rom you have installed. Did you try running on TW rom? Check if you have .nomedia file in folder with your music. If you do just remove. Let us know.. Can you see external card in any file explorer "root explorer" etc.. Can you see external card if you connect phone to your PC/Mac ?
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Problem maybe with rom you have installed. Did you try running on TW rom? Check if you have .nomedia file in folder with your music. If you do just remove. Let us know.. Can you see external card in any file explorer "root explorer" etc.. Can you see external card if you connect phone to your PC/Mac ?
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I don't have .nomedia file in folder, Then I have tested "PowerAmp" and it did detect all my drives, but I like to use the others.
hyewiz said:
I don't have .nomedia file in folder, Then I have tested "PowerAmp" and it did detect all my drives, but I like to use the others.
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I think other players may have compatibility problem with rom 4.2.2 There is no other explanation if you can see all drives in other player, explorer or in computer
Deviant 4.2.2 didn't give me any problems with accessing music on my external SD.
Again I'll ask. Did you open the freakin settings and point the app to the MUSIC folder on your external SD card?!
If you did, then let us know what model SD card you have and what your folder hierarchy is.
CZ Eddie said:
Deviant 4.2.2 didn't give me any problems with accessing music on my external SD.
Again I'll ask. Did you open the freakin settings and point the app to the MUSIC folder on your external SD card?!
If you did, then let us know what model SD card you have and what your folder hierarchy is.
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I took a screenshot of the setting this max I can get there are no other options
Just tested myself and it worked fine
How about you read the posts in your own thread and tell us about your SD card and folder hierarchy?
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Maybe like you guys said its a ROM compatibility issue, just for testing I have installed "Neutron Music Player" and it right away detected all my drive without any problem. So don know, and for the what kind of SD card I have at this point I don't think its the SD card issue.
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I took a screenshot of the setting this max I can get there are no other options
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Uncheck this restriction click refresh mediastore and then try. Looks like you player is restricted to only storage folder not external card
norbarb said:
Uncheck this restriction click refresh mediastore and then try. Looks like you player is restricted to only storage folder not external card
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Thank you for all your efford to help me on but no good its funny how the other 2 ("Neutron Music Player" & "PowerAmp") are working great.
I have email "jetaudio" last night and this is what I got replied
"That is bug. we already know that.
We will patch that for next release.
Thank you again for your report."
So its been addressed and hopefully will be fixed on coming release.
I give up on this thread.
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I give up on this thread.
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I got also nothing else.. ... O! maybe just good luck..
Thank you all..
What's up ya'll? Alright, I've been having a little issue lately with AOSP/AOKP ROMS seeing all of my music. I have 832 songs.
I'm going to be using Poweramp full version and running the newest Pacman build. In my opinion Poweramp is one the better music players out there and more importantly here Poweramp gives you the option of choosing exactly which folders are chosen to be scanned. Now know matter which folders I chose, Poweramp would only find 326 songs. I've chosen all folders and also a full rescan but only 326 songs would be found.
So what I did from here is backed up the Pacman ROM and then restored my backup of the Touchwiz AXIS ROM which sees all of my 832 songs. Using WIFI Transfer Pro I pulled up all my folders onto my laptop. For those that don't know WIFI Transfer Pro is a pretty sweet app. I use it all the time to download ROMS onto my PC and transfer to my phone.
Ok from here I navigated to my folder labeled music and clicked on zip to create a Music.zip. Do not try to flash this, it will just abort. After the Music.zip is created I transferred it to my phone. The total size of my zip is 3.26 gigs. Make sure you have sufficient space on either your internal storage or external storage. I transferred the zip to my external SD.
From here I restored my backup of Pacman. Then went to the Play Store and put in a search ''unzip files to sd''. Found an app called ZArchiver. Using this app I navigated to my music.zip. Hit the zip and then hit Extract. The 832 songs took about 15 minutes to extract. Again here make sure you have sufficient storage for the songs to be extracted. Now go to Poweramp>Settings>Folders and Libraries and check the music folder. All my songs now show.
Now in closing I know there are A LOT of much smarter people here then I at XDA. There probably is a much easier and or faster way of accomplishing this. This is just something I worked on last night and worked for me. I have an idea as to why my internal/external storage isn't being read properly with AOSP ROMS but that's a whole other thread. By the way, I'm using CWM touch not TWRP.
I've noticed a few guys here and there in some threads recently that have inquired about this issue with media storage and AOSP ROMS so hopefully this helps a couple of ya'll out.
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What's up ya'll? Alright, I've been having a little issue lately with AOSP/AOKP ROMS seeing all of my music. I have 832 songs.
I'm going to be using Poweramp full version and running the newest Pacman build. In my opinion Poweramp is one the better music players out there and more importantly here Poweramp gives you the option of choosing exactly which folders are chosen to be scanned. Now know matter which folders I chose, Poweramp would only find 326 songs. I've chosen all folders and also a full rescan but only 326 songs would be found.
So what I did from here is backed up the Pacman ROM and then restored my backup of the Touchwiz AXIS ROM which sees all of my 832 songs. Using WIFI Transfer Pro I pulled up all my folders onto my laptop. For those that don't know WIFI Transfer Pro is a pretty sweet app. I use it all the time to download ROMS onto my PC and transfer to my phone.
Ok from here I navigated to my folder labeled music and clicked on zip to create a Music.zip. Do not try to flash this, it will just abort. After the Music.zip is created I transferred it to my phone. The total size of my zip is 3.26 gigs. Make sure you have sufficient space on either your internal storage or external storage. I transferred the zip to my external SD.
From here I restored my backup of Pacman. Then went to the Play Store and put in a search ''unzip files to sd''. Found an app called ZArchiver. Using this app I navigated to my music.zip. Hit the zip and then hit Extract. The 832 songs took about 15 minutes to extract. Again here make sure you have sufficient storage for the songs to be extracted. Now go to Poweramp>Settings>Folders and Libraries and check the music folder. All my songs now show.
Now in closing I know there are A LOT of much smarter people here then I at XDA. There probably is a much easier and or faster way of accomplishing this. This is just something I worked on last night and worked for me. I have an idea as to why my internal/external storage isn't being read properly with AOSP ROMS but that's a whole other thread. By the way, I'm using CWM touch not TWRP.
I've noticed a few guys here and there in some threads recently that have inquired about this issue with media storage and AOSP ROMS so hopefully this helps a couple of ya'll out.
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Clear data of music player and media storage. Reboot and wait 10-15mins.
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