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Windows Media Player won’t add my tracks

Hi all,
I’ve googled my problem but cant find a solution sadly.
I am using PDAViet.net’s DVH_V25_NoBS and when I try to add my music to Windows Media Player, it finds all the tracks but then freezes at the ‘Adding files..’ part.
I’ve resetting and so on but it will never get pass that stage. Right now I always have to listen to my music via Menu > Open File.
All help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Jason

i had this also. i dont know were it comes, any special mark or something but i format my card new and now it works.

Use HTC Audio manager. For me its much better. I dont use WMP for music.

delete the hidden folder on your sd card msmetadata, i think you can only do it from the phone itself
then update your library again, you may want to plug it into power and walk away for like 10mins.
i agree with using audio manager but media player can save your playlists on the card rather than the phone

thanks for the replies.
which HTC audio player are you guys using which is hassle free.
mind posting the .cab?
many thanks in advance
(BTW, where should one go to look for files like this on the forum? is it in a sticky?)

knightcapain said:
delete the hidden folder on your sd card msmetadata, i think you can only do it from the phone itself
then update your library again, you may want to plug it into power and walk away for like 10mins.
i agree with using audio manager but media player can save your playlists on the card rather than the phone
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how do you show hidden files? i am not at home now so i cant plug it in to the pc.

HTC Audio Manager v1.02

jasonchiu said:
how do you show hidden files? i am not at home now so i cant plug it in to the pc.
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File Explorer->View Options->View All Files (or View Hidden Files).
Then delete the Storage Card->MSMETADATA directory (yes, the entire thing).
Then you can Update Library from WMP and all songs should add.

Albumthumbs

I have to ask a potentially stupid question but what is the albumthumbs folder for in my android/data folder. It is huge in size and if I don't need it id rather get rid of it. Next to the folder that had my mp3s in it and my domain backup it is the largest file on my sdcard at over 600mb!
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Album art.
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I deleted it and it came back, how do I prevent that? Is there a setting i am missing somewherem
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May be a setting in music player to choose whether to cache and/or collect album art thumbnails. Same story on Pandora or other similar streaming player.
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I've tried nearly all top music apps and they all do the same and none of them have options for a disable toggle. I'm curious to figure this out too. my only alternative is to permanently disable media scanner but the downside is to reenable it if you've added new photos,audio or video

idk, short of changing the permissions for the folder so nothing can write to it, after deleting the existing, and that's a guess, may not work.
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no go cause sd card doesn't allow permission changes

Stumped here...
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it's clearly a missing or dysfunctional option since I noticed poweramp,tunewiki and winamp all do it.tried getting responses from the devs on those apps but no response as well as no info on the web

Are the files in the album art folder hidden? I only have Astro at my disposal right now as I'm at work, but I show nothing in there. One thing to note, ALL my MP3s have their album art embedded in the ID3 tag, so it has no need to cache anything.. maybe that's key?

7he Messiah said:
Are the files in the album art folder hidden? I only have Astro at my disposal right now as I'm at work, but I show nothing in there. One thing to note, ALL my MP3s have their album art embedded in the ID3 tag, so it has no need to cache anything.. maybe that's key?
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they aren't hidden since I have astro to show everything.most files in here are 3.97mb each and when you got 10GB of music.that's a lot of cache that's wasting space and embedding over 1700 songs would take to long

dyetheskin said:
they aren't hidden since I have astro to show everything.most files in here are 3.97mb each and when you got 10GB of music.that's a lot of cache that's wasting space and embedding over 1700 songs would take to long
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I see. Something you might look into if you have a Windows machine available is the free program MediaMonkey, which will automatically tag entire directories of files with album art (among other tags, if you wish) from the internet. It's not perfect, but it beats the hell out of doing it manually.
Please note this is operating on the assumption that I'm right about why my folder is empty. One could prove that one way or the other by clearing that cache directory and moving all music off the SD card and then put a couple of ID3 tagged files on and see if their cache remained empty. I would think the time invested in such an endeavor would be minimal compared to the gain in disk space if my theory is correct.

maybe I'll experiment with a few songs once I transfer songs where they can't be detected and go from there

I just had a thought that using a ".nomedia" file might be constructive in this case so you don't actually need to remove your current library.

what should I try doing with it? adding it to where the cache is stored?

A .nomdedia file tells the Android Media Service to disregard the directory it resides in when scanning for media, so I was thinking you could drop it into your music folder and then make a new music folder ("Temp" or "Music2" or whatever) and put the tagged songs in there.

krichmond0306 said:
Next to the folder that had my mp3s in it and my domain backup it is the largest file on my sdcard at over 600mb!
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The problem is not the folder itself, album art should be tiny pictures, so on a 10G card, max 4k songs, it should be less than 20Mb. I'm having the same problem, my sd card is getting filled with a single mp3 file being repeatedly copied to the albumthumbs folder. That's a bug, and a pretty serious one. Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

I switched to playerpro which doesn't do it

Google Music and podcast files

Is there any way to separate podcast mp3s from Google music? My podcasts are infiltrating my artist list and recently played view.

I don't think so without changing the genre to podcast or something, though it won't get rid of it from the recently played list
Google does have it's own podcast app called Listen which is pretty old but works. You can dump also your already downloaded episodes to /sdcard/com.google.android.apps.listen/
Just an alternative

Is there a location I can store my podcasts where music spent search?

thereddog said:
Is there any way to separate podcast mp3s from Google music? My podcasts are infiltrating my artist list and recently played view.
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Put a .nomedia file in the folder where the podcasts are. You might meet to reboot afterwords.
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also, if you use beyondpod there's an option to "share media miles" that's enabled by default. Unchecked it then clear user data for the media storage app and reboot/rebuild your library. Can't remember if there's an option like that on dogcatcher but ever since switching to beyondpod its the best podcast player in my opinion.
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aarongzmn said:
Put a .nomedia file in the folder where the podcasts are. You might meet to reboot afterwords.
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I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.

thereddog said:
I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.
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I use doggcatcher too, and what I did was create a folder in the sd and named it .nomedia
I then moved all my podcast stuff there.
Make sure you go to doggcatcher settings and change the location of your podcasts to that location.
Next you need to go to app settings and delete all google music app data so it can rebuild it's cache and scan the sd card again.

celticpride34 said:
also, if you use beyondpod there's an option to "share media miles" that's enabled by default. Unchecked it then clear user data for the media storage app and reboot/rebuild your library.
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I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?

landstander said:
I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?
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I know this is a really extreme solution but have you tried Pocket Casts? I used to be a huge fan of beyond pod also until I tried Pocket Casts. Its way more pretty and easy to use.
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thereddog said:
I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.
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The thing with .nomedia files on ICS seem to work only after you clear the cache in manage apps-> all-> media storage

I switched to BeyondPod, which doesn't have this issue.
Thanks!

aarongzmn said:
I know this is a really extreme solution but have you tried Pocket Casts? I used to be a huge fan of beyond pod also until I tried Pocket Casts. Its way more pretty and easy to use.
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I second pocketcasts in terms of ease of use and appearance.

.nomedia file doesn't work with pocket casts, but creating .nomedia folder and moving podcasts there worked.

landstander said:
I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?
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It's in 'Playlist and Widget Settings' these days.

I tried .nomedia and it didn't work for me. I use BeyondPod and PlayerPro now. It has a feature to only scan music from a certain folder.

+1 dog catcher
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how to Run Google Podcast without Google App?
i have disable Google App, when i try to open Google Podcast it says it requires Google App.
Please tell how to Run Google Podcast without google App.

[Q] .mp3s in Music folder aren't showing up in Music app?

I don't understand why. I've put other songs in there that have worked just fine, but I've added the new QOTSA songs on my phone and they won't show up in the Sense Music app. Not sure what the problem is.

mp3 tags, check that
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Re scan your media files.
noodlesfordaddy said:
I don't understand why. I've put other songs in there that have worked just fine, but I've added the new QOTSA songs on my phone and they won't show up in the Sense Music app. Not sure what the problem is.
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Just use any media scanning app from the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clypher.mediascanner&hl=en
or use the media scanning feature in "Trickster MOD" if you have root access..

Happened to me a couple of days ago. Noticed that the music not showing in the library was copied over the Wi-Fi and not using USB cable. Deleted the files and copied them with USB and voalla .hope that helps.
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omar.adel said:
Just use any media scanning app from the playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clypher.mediascanner&hl=en
or use the media scanning feature in "Trickster MOD" if you have root access..
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Searched this forum and found this. Helped me and thanked.

[Q] Capture all internal audio before it hits speakers

I've been searching for awhile using many different key words, and don't know exactly how to word what I'm trying to say, but is there an app or any method of capturing the audio signal of anything being played directly by the device?
For example, I listen to a news podcast every day on TuneIn, and sometimes there's a snippet of a news story that I want to share with my friends. The built in TuneIn recorder outputs a proprietary format which is impossible to convert without a PC, and I don't want to spend the time doing that for a 2 minute clip. I'd just like to record it on the fly using my phone, so I can send it via MMS or email (preferably mp3).
Is there a way to record the audio directly from internal soundcard before it hits the speakers? The only way I can do it right now is to record the speaker output with the microphone via voice recorder, and obviously the quality is poor at best.
Thanks

Ok. This might seem really weird, and certainly not what the app is intended for. But..I think this might work for you. I use beyond pod as a player, whether that matters or not, idk. I also have an app called Ringdroid. This app allows you to take any audio file on your phone and edit it/slice it, and turn it into a ringtone. When I open ringdroid, all my podcast audio files are also there as options to slice and dice. I can slide the slider to where I want the cut to begin, and another slider to where I want it to end. Then hit save, and it's saved in my sd. Might work?
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You can capture live program with Tunein Radio Pro.

mingkee said:
You can capture live program with Tunein Radio Pro.
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Dude, really? Did you read my post? I have TuneIn Pro and it outputs a proprietary format, not a format I can share unless my friend has TuneIn Pro also .

Poi25 said:
Dude, really? Did you read my post? I have TuneIn Pro and it outputs a proprietary format, not a format I can share unless my friend has TuneIn Pro also .
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You can try File Converter from play store. That application converts audio files, video files, text files, and many more to the format that you want. Then you can share with whoever you want via email or text.
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Poi25 said:
Dude, really? Did you read my post? I have TuneIn Pro and it outputs a proprietary format, not a format I can share unless my friend has TuneIn Pro also .
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Are you sure?
I captured some stations in mp3 format and it works fine.

mingkee said:
Are you sure?
I captured some stations in mp3 format and it works fine.
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No, I'm just lying and made everything up to play a joke on XDA members. Just recorded 4 different clips on 4 different stations, and it places files corresponding only to the TuneIn application in the TuneIn Radio folder along with a .nomedia file. Adding a .mp3 to the files doesn't help, all the audio applications say "Cannot open file type."
Search Google and you'll find plenty of other discussions about this, so let me ask you, are you sure it records in mp3? Because your case is not the common one.
Oh, and don't litter in my thread and insult my intelligence with nothing useful to add to the topic. Now **** off.

Poi25 said:
No, I'm just lying and made everything up to play a joke on XDA members. Just recorded 4 different clips on 4 different stations, and it places files corresponding only to the TuneIn application in the TuneIn Radio folder along with a .nomedia file. Adding a .mp3 to the files doesn't help, all the audio applications say "Cannot open file type."
Search Google and you'll find plenty of other discussions about this, so let me ask you, are you sure it records in mp3? Because your case is not the common one.
Oh, and don't litter in my thread and insult my intelligence with nothing useful to add to the topic. Now **** off.
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Ease up a bit, maybe someone will be able to give you a useful answer. That guy didn't have what yougave him coming, it sounded like he was trying to help.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement