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[Q] MP3's/files vanishing from SD card

Hi all,
First of all, sorry if this isn't in the right sub-forum.
My step-mum's recently got herself a Wildfire and wanted some music putting on it. My younger brother tried copying some music over from his PC but when he opened the default music player, no music whatsoever was there (including the rubbish that comes pre-loaded on there).
I connected the phone to my PC and the music my younger brother copied over was not on the SD card at all. I assumed he messed something up so tried transfering the music over myself but when I unmount the SD card from my PC and open the default music player it says it can't find any music. And when I reconnected the SD card to my PC, the music is no longer there
I've installed doubletwist but it can't find any music on the phone and I've tried repeatedly unmounting and mounting the SD card to force it to rescan. I really have no idea what's up.
Any ideas would be much appreciated guys.

Sorry for asking but I need to first off, try loading the music unmount from PC then mount to PC see if music there.
If not, problem is SD.
If yes, problem is wildfire + SD.
If its wildfire + SD try putting card in seperate reader and format with HP format program (will try to link at later date). If this can't be done use windows to format, file system should be fat32. Then put it back in phone load music app, demount from wildfire and load music into a folder named music.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks. It turned out to be the SD card. I had a spare 1 which I put in her phone and it's working fine.

Glad I could help.

[Q] Where's my music?

I have my music on my SD card location: /sdcard/external_sd/Music but when I open a music player (I have tried the pre-installed program and Winamp) I cannot find them at all. I have to go through Astro File Manager to find the music and indiviually click on the one song I want to listen to at that moment. Once the song is over, I have do repeat the process all over again. The file plays just fine in both players, but the player cannot find the files on their own. I pulled all the info from my sd card, reformatted it and placed the files back in there and it still did not help.
Any of you have any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance, Peter!

It took me awhile to figure out on my phone. When I mount it I get a drive for the internal memory and one for the sd card. When I put the music folder on the root level of the sd card it worked fine. Hope this helps.

Apps not able to find external sd

I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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are none of the folders hidden?
folders in linux(and android) are hidden when their name starts with a period (ex: ".foldername") and in android folders (and any file/folder within that folder) are hidden from stock applications if they contain a file called .nomedia
and do the files show up over USB(MTP)?

The internal SD card is now merged with the internal memory, that's why App 2 SD is not possible on the SGN2.
I don't know if someone has found a fix around this.
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amit14 said:
I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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Rebooting the phone should cause a media scan which will then pick up all the songs, provided you don't have a .nomedia file in any of the directories, which causes the scanner to stop.
You can also download apps to force a media rescan, but that shouldn't be necessary.
- Frank
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Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?

amit14 said:
Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?
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Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
- Frank

If you're rooted, then you can use a tool like Directory Bind to map folders between your phone and card storage. I use it on my S3 and my Note 2 to keep apps like Amazon MP3 from filling up my phone storage.
Directory Bind
Directory Bind tutorial

ChodTheWacko said:
Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
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Formatting the card worked. "Silly Me". Sometimes simple of steps just throws you off. Thanks again everyone.

SOLVED!!!!!!
FINALLY, THE SOLUTION!
I scoured all over internet trying to solve the issue of any media player finding music from neither SD Card (internal nor external), even though file explorers did, so I will be posting this on every relevant thread I find.
This method worked for me, so results may vary:
1- Download Rescan Media (I used the root version):
2- Download Media scanner:
3- Go to Settings / Applications / All / Media Storage and clear data
4- Reboot
5- Open Rescan media and disable the media scanner
6- Now re-enable it
7- Now, open Media scanner and tap Start scanning
8- Voilá, now every player will recognize the music stored on both SD Cards.
*As I said, this method worked for me, so maybe just some of the steps above were necessary, but... anyway.
Good luck!

[Q] Media Scan Issue

Dear all,
I do have a problem of media scan of GSN2 and I wonder if any friends here are facing the same problem as mine.
The issue is that, in order to restore my existing photos and music from my old phone to SGN2, I used my PC to transfer the photos and music to my 32GB sdcard ("Extsdcard" which was working fine with my SGS2 and SGS3 under ICS OS) and then I insert my SD card into my SGN2. I find that pre-existing media files (pictures,music and videos) in the Extsdcard were not added to the stock gallery/music/video player app. I tried to reboot my SGN2 and/or install the Rescan Media Root app to trigger the media scanner to work. However, no pre-existing photos/music/videos in Extsdcard showed up in my stock gallery/music/video player.
Also, I have tried some kind of suggested solution such as hard reset, full wipe, delete .nomedia, reformat the Extsdcard from FAT32 to exFAT etc and the issue could not be solved.
The only way which is worked for me is, firstly copy my photos/music/videos from my Extsdcard to my internal storage, then, delete the files in my Extsdcard, then, re-copy the files from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Then the photos/music/videos were properly showed up in the stock gallery/music/videos player again.
Any friends in this forum is facing the same issue with your SGN2 as me? Do you know if there is any way to make my media scanner to scan my Extsdcard properly and find all the photos, videos and music?
Thank you very much!

Did you try clearing cache and data for gallery app in settings. Not sure how to on jellybean, but try unmounting and then remounting the sd card. Didn't se where you had tried this or not
from a galaxy far far away....

Dear Max,
Thanks a lot for your response. Both of your suggested methods had been tried but the gallery app won't see my existing photos in my Extsdcard after cleaning the data / cache. I could only get to see my pre-existing photos in the stock gallery until copying the photos from Extsdcard to internal storage, and then re copy the photos from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Thanks again for your suggestions.
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try to use quickpic app from play store or rescan media app

jackalkwok said:
Dear all,
I do have a problem of media scan of GSN2 and I wonder if any friends here are facing the same problem as mine.
The issue is that, in order to restore my existing photos and music from my old phone to SGN2, I used my PC to transfer the photos and music to my 32GB sdcard ("Extsdcard" which was working fine with my SGS2 and SGS3 under ICS OS) and then I insert my SD card into my SGN2. I find that pre-existing media files (pictures,music and videos) in the Extsdcard were not added to the stock gallery/music/video player app. I tried to reboot my SGN2 and/or install the Rescan Media Root app to trigger the media scanner to work. However, no pre-existing photos/music/videos in Extsdcard showed up in my stock gallery/music/video player.
Also, I have tried some kind of suggested solution such as hard reset, full wipe, delete .nomedia, reformat the Extsdcard from FAT32 to exFAT etc and the issue could not be solved.
The only way which is worked for me is, firstly copy my photos/music/videos from my Extsdcard to my internal storage, then, delete the files in my Extsdcard, then, re-copy the files from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Then the photos/music/videos were properly showed up in the stock gallery/music/videos player again.
Any friends in this forum is facing the same issue with your SGN2 as me? Do you know if there is any way to make my media scanner to scan my Extsdcard properly and find all the photos, videos and music?
Thank you very much!
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Had that on the S3, just download Startupmanager from Play and rescan media. Open Startupmanager and go to system and disable Mediastorage. Open en and close Mediascan and you`re done. Choose Rescan Media for root or it will not work.

Dear all
I think I have figure out what happen in my Extsdcard. I guess there were some photos from other non stock camera apps had been corrupted which led to the media scan hanged at some point and not able to scan my whole Extsdcard.
Thx so much for advising me.
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[Q] SD card issues.

I know with the introduction of kitkat or its recent iterations of 4.4.2 and so on, that there were some preventative measures taken to stop them from being written to. The question i pose is i have tried adding music to my sdcard i from my computer. The odd thing is that the sdcard will read as if it has something written to it but, in ES explorer my music folders are empty. I have looked around and nothing has been found. Other than the sdcard write fix which ARHD supposedly has according to the app i tried. The music app is use it Poweramp it will read the files but cant play them while HTC's music player will play them but only the first few seconds.
So am i stuck mainly using my sdcard mainly for pictures or is there away to get it to work pre kitkat. Also note i have tried putting the music on the onboard storage than move it to the sdcard and that was also a no-go

saintlikesniper said:
I know with the introduction of kitkat or its recent iterations of 4.4.2 and so on, that there were some preventative measures taken to stop them from being written to. The question i pose is i have tried adding music to my sdcard i from my computer. The odd thing is that the sdcard will read as if it has something written to it but, in ES explorer my music folders are empty. I have looked around and nothing has been found. Other than the sdcard write fix which ARHD supposedly has according to the app i tried. The music app is use it Poweramp it will read the files but cant play them while HTC's music player will play them but only the first few seconds.
So am i stuck mainly using my sdcard mainly for pictures or is there away to get it to work pre kitkat. Also note i have tried putting the music on the onboard storage than move it to the sdcard and that was also a no-go
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I'm unrooted stock rom and have copied music from pc to sd card with no problems. What folder is it you're moving the music to? I have a folder called music that I created and move any downloaded music into it. I can play it through the stock music without any problem. Possibly a corrupt folder or sd card? Have you tried removing files you want to keep, formatting then copying back your files?

gsmyth said:
I'm unrooted stock rom and have copied music from pc to sd card with no problems. What folder is it you're moving the music to? I have a folder called music that I created and move any downloaded music into it. I can play it through the stock music without any problem. Possibly a corrupt folder or sd card? Have you tried removing files you want to keep, formatting then copying back your files?
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I created a folder called Music same as the one on the onboard storage. It may be the sdcard not being recognized properly and files not being transferred correctly as well. The music on my desktop plays fine no skipping whatsoever. Its just once it hits the sdcard does it seem to go astray. Maybe a new rom is in order and staying away from ART.

gsmyth said:
I'm unrooted stock rom and have copied music from pc to sd card with no problems. What folder is it you're moving the music to? I have a folder called music that I created and move any downloaded music into it. I can play it through the stock music without any problem. Possibly a corrupt folder or sd card? Have you tried removing files you want to keep, formatting then copying back your files?
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Hi,
regarding what you said about being able to copy your music files onto the sd - are you also able to write into a file (let's say word doc)on your sd from your (presumably) windows-pc?
Thanks
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If you have a USB card reader, try re-formatting the card on your computer.
I've seen several folks with various quirky and random read issues, and a simple re-format cleared it up, when the phone's own format feature didn't help. Also a common symptom, the SD card works fine on other devices.
Folks keep accusing the KitKat SD permission changes. But those changes only apply to write permissions, not read permissions. My gut feeling, its some quirk with the phone itself and something to do with SD formatting.

redpoint73 said:
If you have a USB card reader, try re-formatting the card on your computer.
I've seen several folks with various quirky and random read issues, and a simple re-format cleared it up, when the phone's own format feature didn't help. Also a common symptom, the SD card works fine on other devices.
Folks keep accusing the KitKat SD permission changes. But those changes only apply to write permissions, not read permissions. My gut feeling, its some quirk with the phone itself and something to do with SD formatting.
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Reformatted from the phone. can not do it from my laptop because it says it is write protected. have not got a program to get around that yet. as for creating word doc, have not tried it. going to put it in wife's S5 and see if it likes it better and see if her card likes my phone any better . as for the card itself it is a Sandisk ultra class 10 32gig.