It appears our great Sammy S2's have a issue that I don't seem to see a lot of people talking about. When media storage scans for our media files and runs into a "corrupt" audio file tag. It goes haywire(at least on my phone and another s2 I tested), deleting files, causing music files to not play, causing them to disappear and reappear. Me being an avid music lover, I cannot stand for this after paying so much for what's supposed to be a good phone. It looks as though the problem is caused by the Android/Samsung media scanner constantly scanning for files after it runs into a "corrupt" iD3 tag in a music file. So far I haven't had much problems with it until I have to reboot my phone then media scanner takes it's good ole time trying to scan my files which I have over 3,000 of and when it's done it reduces down to showing me under 1,000 of them. Now I was told by Samsung and T-Mobile to delete them files. But since I love all of my music, I just cannot do that. So after I reboot my phone I try to get to the media storage to FS it so it doesn't delete or "ghost" my files on me. Of course this happens with little luck and by the time I FS it, it has erased or "ghosted" some of my media files. I'm using PowerAmp as a media player which has it's scanner built into it. If I don't disable the Android Scanner then the files that do remain end up in an unknown folder on PowerAmp. So instead of having to deal with renaming and copying my files back onto the SD card I was wondering if there is some kind of app or script or something that will disable the Android scanner totally. It's not needed since PowerAmp has one built in.
Would it be safe to totally remove media storage from the System folder?
Is anybody by any chance working on a fix for this as I would believe this is a major problem with a phone that's supposed to be awesome?
Is there anybody else dealing with these same issues?
As being a NOOB when it comes to development I would be crazy to try and start to work on some kind of fix as I know I would mess something up if it came to programming.
Somebody told me yesterday to copy my music files from under the storage files and into the external_sd folder but that folder is under my internal sd file system and well to me that doesn't sound right because I have over 20gb of music and only 4.5gb of space left on the internal.
Has anybody tried anything that worked yet?
Would copying the files into the external_sd folder put them on that external sd card even though the folder is on the internal card?
I know I may seem annoying but I love my music and must have it on the go because I travel long distances and cannot stand the radio at all. I would be willing to fund a fix if there isn't already one in place. Somebody please get back to me please as I do get frustrated which leads to flying phones without superpowers. LOL
Hmmmmmmmm would it be at all possible to port media storage from a non-Samsung JB ROM?
Ok now if you are having this same problem it probably means you are running a music/media player with it's own internal scanner. What you need to do then is to disable the internal scanner in the media player. If you try to freeze the ROM's media scanner you'll lose all your custom ringtones and stuff until you re-enable it.
What is happening is if you use a media player with it's own scanner then both of them are trying to run at the same time and when they do you can end up with lost files or them "ghost" files as I like to call them. Also if that doesn't help it may help to freeze the system scanner before opening your media player. This so far is the longest I have run my media player without files failing to play or disappear. Hope this helps for anybody having the same problem. If I find a better fix I'll post it in here.
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Ok, I just got a 4gig Sandisk MicroSD (SDHC) placed about 2.5 gigs of music on it last night and everything was working great. I used WMP11 to sync files onto my storage card.
This morning things worked out for awhile, then, Media Player Mobile stopped seeing the storage card. The storage card still shows up in File Explorer and I can play files individually using the Windows Media Player Mobile, but since it's not seeing the card I can't play songs by Album, Genre, Artist, etc. I tried Updating Library and it runs ok, but when it says it's done the Storage Card still doesn't show up.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running vp3G 3.61
Thanks
Dwight2001
my honest answer to this......is that WMP sucks a$$......dont use it man....what you want to use is htc audio manager....its an incredible, stable and versatile program for music, you can try it and keep it if you like it and if u dont just delete it....its free and best of all is that you can still turn off your screen while the device plays music to save battery.....windows media player is very unstable, messes up a lot, and its just plain aggravating....i had the same problem you are havin a few weeks ago....
you can find the link to htc audio manager here in this cab library
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319468
hope this helps....PM me if you have questions bout it
I had this problem the other day - first time since November last year when running WM5. I was in a flashing mood so tried various different WM6 Roms and the problem remained - I could see the card in all ways except for when WMP tried to update my music files (It found them but wouldn't add them).
I re-formatted my micro-SD cards (1GB and 2GB) from FAT16 to FAT32 and all is now well again. I seem to remember this was also one of the tricks for the old 'SD card disappears' problem.
You can format through any compatible card reader, or direct on your phone using pocket mechanic from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300353
WMP does SUCK! and yes HTC audio manager is 100* better...
however the problem i htink you're having is a common problem with WMP, i dont know the reason it happens but IIRC the WMP media DB gets currepted.
this is a hidden file on your SD card called somthing like METADATA or somthing along those lines.
I foudn mine got currupted regularly.
a format of the card will resolve the issue but with that much media to copy off and on its tedious. another solution is to (while WMP is NOT running) rename this file.
next time WMP loads it will re-search your card for media and re-build its DB resolving the issue.
you may be able to delete the file but i found i couldn't due to some file locks or currption im not sure.
OH!!! importantly the built in file explorer wont be able to see the hidden file. i would sugest rename it on a PC, or install GSFiner+ which is a MUCH better file browser anyway. you can use GSFinder to show hidden and system files you otherwise can't see in the built in explorer.
hope that helps... (or switch to a decent media player p
Msmetadata
This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
8thcivic said:
my honest answer to this......is that WMP sucks a$$......dont use it man....what you want to use is htc audio manager....its an incredible, stable and versatile program for music, you can try it and keep it if you like it and if u dont just delete it....its free and best of all is that you can still turn off your screen while the device plays music to save battery.....windows media player is very unstable, messes up a lot, and its just plain aggravating....i had the same problem you are havin a few weeks ago....
you can find the link to htc audio manager here in this cab library
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319468
hope this helps....PM me if you have questions bout it
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Well I tried out HTC Audio Mangager and you were 100% right, this is a much better and UI Friendly Player. I already had it, but never really messed with it much. I was so impressed I went ahead and downloaded the HTC Home Customizer so I could make it the Default Player on the 'Music Tab'.
Thanks for the tip,
Dwight2001
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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That's right.. Though you will need to set the file explorere to show hidden files before you can delete the folder.
What I found out though is that it will somehow mysteriously return... Like when the phone is powered off and some other such.
So what I did was delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and rebuild the library on the storage card... Once it was rebuilt and loaded then I built a PLAYLIST and saved it...
Now when I want to play from the storage card I just go to open FILE and then go to mydevice->storagecard->playlist->myplaylist
No more problems with the lost library stuff (only need to do it again when adding new songs)...
This works fine and solve the problem with my 8525 thanks
Thanks this worked
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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YOU ARE THE BEST! this annoyed me for a while now. I thought it will be something simple
Thank you
We need to make this into a sticky
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That's right.. Though you will need to set the file explorere to show hidden files before you can delete the folder.
What I found out though is that it will somehow mysteriously return... Like when the phone is powered off and some other such.
So what I did was delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and rebuild the library on the storage card... Once it was rebuilt and loaded then I built a PLAYLIST and saved it...
Now when I want to play from the storage card I just go to open FILE and then go to mydevice->storagecard->playlist->myplaylist
No more problems with the lost library stuff (only need to do it again when adding new songs)...
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Thank you for pointing this out.
wfg
starbase64
After syncing windows media player 11 with my windows mobile device (to the storage card) when I open up the libary and select any song it plays for 2 seconds and then moves on to the next song with the previous song having the red exclamation point next to it, I particularly encounter this problem within a created playlist,how do I resolve this?
Music Library
All you have to do in that situation is update the player library if you have alot of music it may take awile but it takes care of the Storage card problem everytime
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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I was having the same problem, but this fixed it Thanks a lot!!
So I just started getting this problem when i uploaded some songs from my PC to the SD card. It shows "Unknown error 0X8007000E" Which i googgled and it say it means out of memory yet i have 16-18Mb free and 20sum free of Storage(on the phone)
I deleted everything off PIE and all the songs i uploaded but im still getting the error.
Any ideas or will i need to re-flash?
I haven't ever gotten this error, since i use TCPMP, but since you said the google results said it meant out of memory i would be inclined to think that maybe the music files that you are playing require to much memory at a time for buffering. It may be helpful if you could post the bit-rates and other data from the music files where this occurs. (I am not all too knowledgeable at this, I'm just taking a guess).
Its at random points in songs.
The last one was a 32 Second ringtone from My tiny phone(where i get all mine)
Bit rate is 32kbps
The others include SOME Owl city songs
at 320kbps and they will not even load in the library
But my other stuff like
This is a recent issue.
But my old stuff i had loaded
varied from 128-320kbps
And they all worked fine
Only thing i have done is....well erased some stuff from my SD to put movies on it(which were to big to watch) and thats when the issues started.
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone has troubles with there mp3s not playing. For a couple of days my music player would play music then all of a sudden it would say file not supported or something along the lines of that. Where it would no longer play my music. At first thought it was the player so I downloaded another player and it said file didn't exist. The files are obviously there as I just played it a day ago.
After rebooting my phone it would play again. Then same thing would happen a couple of days later. So then I tried unmounting my sd card and remounting. That works as well for a day. The same thing it wouldn't read or play the mp3s. Is it my sd card (stock sd btw) or just a buggy phone? Thanks in advance? I'm rooted using syndicate rom, was happening b4 I rooted as well. Thought it would help it doesn't.
I have this same issue
I can still access the SD Card... add / remove files via ASTRO or Drop Box...
Just any attempts to play media fail (even ringtones / notification sounds)
At one point someone said to clean the SD Card contacts... I tried that, no improvements.
Nothing short of an unmount-remount fixes it. Whether mounting the card to a computer or just a reboot (quick or hard works)
No one's been able to figure it out so far :/
ACS 1.1.1
Been doing it since 1.0.2
Ah. See I thought it was my phone but damn glad its a known issue. I was thinking maybe a better sd card instead of a class 2. But may need to do some digging, what r ur thoughts about having just the music files on root of sd card. Instead of folders so that the phone doesn't have to dig so far?
Unfreeze or restore the drm content thingy. This solved it for me a couple months ago
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Its an issue with mp3s. How would I unfreeze the drm?
Delete the drm app from system/app.
Well I will update you in a day with no rebooting or unmount/remount. If this works I will give you my first child...
I deleted the drm app a while ago when k0nane suggested it... It didn't change anything for me.
It has been working for me. Nothing has gone wrong since the deletion of the drm. Also I might add that I deleted twitter as well. I saw a huge number of posts that suggested doing it. So I did that too. And no hiccups. I got a different client for that.
I do have Twitter installed... I will axe that and see what happens.
I can confirm... After uninstalling Twitter I haven't had to reboot to fix a music file issue...
Thanks for that info kwilbur3... Hopefully anyone else who runs into this will find this post
I owned a Galaxy S on AT&T for two years, and now have the E4Gt on Sprint. Through both devices, I've used a 16GB external SD card for holding music. From android v2.1-4.0, I've had issues on EVERY music player I've tried (See: Stock, Google Music, Ubermusic, Winamp, Apollo, and more) with playlists randomly clearing out. I listen to music all day at work, and my second job is playing music at clubs as a DJ. This bug is really killing me. I'll plan out a setlist, and get home to see it emptied out.
From searching XDA, it seems to be a common issue. Playlists are stored in a database and not on a physical file and are somehow easily cleared out. I'm basicly looking for a solution here. Any search I've done comes up with no answers, or workarounds such as using back-up apps or cloud storage.
Does anybody know of a solution to playlists being deleted/emptied??
I think your SD card might be bad
My playlist have never been cleared out
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How could it be bad? I've attempted storing music on the external. I've tried swapping it after a flash so that music is on the internal instead. The issue comes up after a reboot typically after any files are changed or moved on the phone. I'm guessing it may have to do with the media scan.
rmikulus said:
How could it be bad? I've attempted storing music on the external. I've tried swapping it after a flash so that music is on the internal instead. The issue comes up after a reboot typically after any files are changed or moved on the phone. I'm guessing it may have to do with the media scan.
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I am having the same issue on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Did you ever figure it out?
I found a solution
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I am having the same issue on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Did you ever figure it out?
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I FOUND A SOLUTION
i have the exact same problem with my samsung galaxy 3s, with the software 4.1.2. the playlists content disapears all the time.
what helped on my phone was to make a backup on your pc, from the phones and SD-cards memory, then format your phone (both phone card) PROBLEM FIXED. I know it takes some time to restore everything, i recommend that you install "backup and restore" and "playlist backup" on your phone and make a backup on your apps and playlist. good luck
PS. install only the apps that you need (it could be an app that did made the bug)
PPS. if you can use another music player than the default one, that could also prevent the bug, i am using "Now Playing"
tablet has worked flawless until this happened, the music will only play the first second and then skip to the next track. if its in a play list, it will play every track like that until the playlist is done. i already tried a third party app to play music, and updated. wanted to see if theres a fix
Is your music on your internal storage or external, or are you streaming? If local, I would guess external due to most of these devices having limited internal storage. Could be you need to reformat the MicroSD card from the tablet to get it formatted correctly - maybe the files are corrupted due to a format problem. Lots of people have issues when they format from a PC, or don't reformat the card after they buy it.
its funny you mention that because thats what i was thinking of doing last night before going to bed (they should have a reddit called bed thoughts) anyway, yes i will try that
Edit:Just an update, i noticed all the music had a file size of like 32 kb, so somehow all the music go corrupted. im going to copy the original music back on and see if it corrupts again. not sure if it was the rom or the actual sd card.