I have a nand backup of my setup and all seems fine until I decide to add more music to my /mnt/extSdCard/Music/ folder.
New music doesn't show up using the standard Samsung Music Player app. If I eject the ext card through settings and then remount it again, it then no longer shows all my music...only a few music mp3 files. if I look in the Folders tab, it shows /extSdCard/Music/ but does not list all my sub folders with all the albums I have added.
The only way I can get back to a working Music Player that lists my music, is by restoring the and backup.
I have done a search on the internet and XDA for:
SPH-L710extSdCard Music Player missing songs (and other derivatives of that)
but so far have had no luck in getting my albums/artists/genres to come back.
On other Android phones, I used to eject the external card and remount it and all my pics/songs would update. This no longer happens. Any tips/suggestions on how to get this quirky error to come right...or am I missing something obvious? It's frustrating.
Try making a backup of your sdcard in your computer and reformat it.
Also check for the .nomedia file in the music directory. You most check in your computer or in a file explorer which let you see hidden files.
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Hello, guys.
Today I decided to delete all my music from my mobile and move it back again from my computer because I fixed a lot of the mp3 tags etc. What can I say? I'm a perfectionist. The problem is that the Music player -- even though it appears to be reindexing -- updates nothing other than the album pictures that I had embedded in the mp3s. The genres etc are still wrong which led me to believe that it does not really reindex.
I tried all the usual stuff and also tried this weird idea: unmounted the memory card, used Advanced Task Killer to complete shut the music player, went to Settings->Applications and cleared the music player's data (size was only 8kb though), remounted the SD card, but the Music Player still indexed the files with the old tags.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thanks in advance,
Louis.
That's an odd problem. Have you tried testing it on an alternative music player application?
Lukehluke said:
That's an odd problem. Have you tried testing it on an alternative music player application?
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Actually, after a quick search I've found that many people have the same problem. From what I had read, changing a Media Player wouldn't fix it for them either (even Media Players with the built-in option to actually reindex the music). I tried something that at the very least sounded like a stupid idea and it was fixed though. Haha! Moving the files to a different directory than the one that the previous files were in causes the Media Player to completely reindex the files (mp3 tags, album covers etc).
I guess the logic behind it is: The music index file keeps a path to the mp3 together with something like comma separated values for the mp3 tags. Since the updated files I had moved from the PC to the memory card had the exact same filename and only altered mp3 tags, the phone completely ignored the mp3 tags assuming that it was the same file. By moving the music to a different directory you cause the index file to be updated (or even recreated) because the path to the new mp3s is not listed in the index file.
Hey, I have had a problem with no matter what android phone I have. This has been doing it for quite some time but I dealt with it but last night I lost 12 GB of music so here it is:
Whenever I move music in these situations, it will erase all ID3 Tag information (Artist, Album, etc) and all it has is the file name. I had 2000 songs with artist names and all, but when moved it all became unknown artist. Here are the situations:
Galaxy S3: Moving Music from one folder to another (Like from a Download folder to my music folder on external SD). Or from moving music from internal to external or vice versa.
Optimus G: Moving music from one folder to another on the internal storage (Again, like from a download to music folder).
Evo 4G: Just moving from folder to folder.
All this is done with ES. File explorer. I tried other but they do it too. It can not be device specific because it happens on almost any android. All songs are in MP4/MP3 format and maybe some .wma.
Any help would GREATLY be appreciated. Please don't comment saying "Just use google play cloud" or anything, because I do not like cloud storage's. Thanks in advance. Really need help.
If you a file explorer that doesn't do that, what is it?
I always use Root Explorer, I've never lost anything, even when I transfer from internal to external and vice versa. I'm not a big fan of streaming from the cloud either so I can understand your frustration. Try Root Explorer.
metalfan78 said:
I always use Root Explorer, I've never lost anything, even when I transfer from internal to external and vice versa. I'm not a big fan of streaming from the cloud either so I can understand your frustration. Try Root Explorer.
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Will try. Thank you
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Let us know if it works better for you.
Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Not good...using cracked/edited app is illegal and with my small knowledge of this great forum XDA moderators/admins will not tolerate/entertain these activities...You can be barred from this forum for uploading or spreading cracked apps...
Peace....
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It's not that serious bro.... the guy just had a simple question. You take things too serious. Maybe you should mind your business. Because he simply asked a question about how you can change the storage location. He didn't ask u if it's ok and legal to use a cracked app.
Obv it's illegal but they got modified everything. Remember when rooting was taboo? Smh. If you ain't gonna answer a question... keep ya 2 cents buddy.
No need to reply to this. Your response is not wanted.
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spicy_puerto_rican said:
Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Hey buddy. I know this an old post. I'm wondering the same thing. Did u ever find a solution??
Viviana
Nah, no one has helped since my original post was made back then. To this day, I still use the "modified" Pandora (One) and I still have not found a way to change the storage location route it automatically takes by default to save music files.
To anyone interested in taking a crack at it with the app, PM me for further "discussions."
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This issue has bugged me for ages. Poweramp and Neutron both scan and find my whole collection with NO issues, why do most music apps, and Android, fail this simple task?
I just tried re-naming and moving some albums from a parent directory to the main Music directory. BAM! They show up in a simple music app now. So, you have your Music folder and only store individual albums within. Don't use artist folders with album sub directories. So simple a solution but nobody ever told me that when it's been mentioned on forums
This is probably a silly question, but does anyone know a good way to transfer playlists from S5 to S7 Active? When I got my new phone everything seemed to transfer ok EXCEPT the playlists. The music moved over (on the SD card), contacts, etc., but not the playlists that took me so long to build. Thanks in advance for any info.
Laz
*Listens to the crickets chirp*
Your music playlist? depends on the music app youre using. Some apps save the playlist in a .M3U file, like your mp3 playlist on your PC, so use a good file browser like solid browser, es browser, etc. and search for *.m3u and copy that to your SD card or otg pen drive.
Your music app, might have a save-as menu item, should allow to save the current playlist to SD card.