Whenever I try viewing files that are on my memory card, the note 2 won't show the files on the gallery or anything.
But if I open up ES file explorer, the files show up perfectly and play fine. I reformatted my card and tried it again, but no file shows up on the gallery.
I seriously doubt it's corrupt because only the gallery and native apps won't show the files. But my computer and third party file management apps show up files and folders. It's a lexicon sd card that I bought at best buy so I don't think it's a Chinese knock off.
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Is the media scanner disabled ? If yes, try re-scanning the media using rescan media application.
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Running CM9 Beta 1, it defaults all storage to the external_sd, but I have access to the sdcard (internal storage), obviously.
Just moved all my music to the internal storage, seeing as how my 14.1GB external sdcard is almost full. x.x
Google music, N7 player, and many other apps WILL NOT recognize that my internal sdcard has about 8.1GBs of music on it.
Which is dumb, because my Quickpic app knows there's pictures on there. Album art.
Does ANYONE know what gives?!
Makeshift solution.
So.. I found a handy little app called Directory Bind. And I just ended up binding the internal SDcard's music folder to the music folder in my external, and BAM. As long as my SD card (external) is in my phone, it works.
Kind of a pain in the ass..
Turn on viewing hidden files and look in the internal music folder for files called .nomedia and delete them.
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with my other androids, (MyTouch 4g, One S, One X)
I open iTunes and my Phone/Internal/SDcard
and would just highlight the songs in iTunes and drag over to Phone Storage.
Here with the GS3 I get a (\) Not Available sign and it wont go through.
What am I missing here?
I don't know about iTunes (I stopped using it), but I was able to just open the SD card folder and the folder with the music and was able to copy and paste that way.
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I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.
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I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.
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You can also flag artists, playlists, tracks, etc etc to be downloaded and kept local through google music as well
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I'm assuming you have a google account, if you do you can upload your entire itunes library to google music using your desktop computer and then you have access to your library with your phone. If you don't want to use cloud-based, just find your itunes folder on your computer and transfer those songs to your sd card. IMO the google music is the easiest way to do it and it doesn't take up storage space on your phone.
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Agree.
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thanks I forgot i can save the songs from there, but ya my library is just chaos.
I have 6K songs, can I delete them all then reupload? would the 6K count towards the 20K?
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You don't iTunes to do the job of transfering your music to your phone. The galaxy s3 storage type is a different kind of type than previous devices, its mpti or something similar to that i believe so it doesn't mount like an sd card it mounts like some device which windows recognizes.
Why don't you just browse to your music directory and just open up your my computer Sg3 device then select either internal or external storage and drag your music files from your local music folder to your galaxy s3 sd card or internal storage.
To get your music into itunes in the first place you must have dragged your music into itunes or imported your music from your local pc music folder so therefore you can do the same thing for the gs3, drag your music from your local folder to your gs3 device. itunes is for iphones its crappy.
Make a new folder on your desktop, drag the files from iTunes to that folder, then from that folder to your gs3. Just gotta add that extra step.
Osman, iTunes organizes the music into folders by artist then by album so doing it that way would take A LOT of time.
Good question, I've always sort of wanted to grab some of my older music from iTunes. You're right though, Apple does suck a hard one!
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Get doubletwist. And download one for PC too. Whatever is in your itunes will show up in doubletwist. Then you can air sync your music (paid addon) or usb
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You could always use the official software Samsung Kies which fully supports importing music from iTunes and transfering music to the device as well as backing the device up.
You could use a script.
I found one that syncs a playlist to a folder. I just have all the songs i want on my phone in a playlist and it syncs right to my music folder when connected.
Although i store my music on my external SD card..
I have a bunch of MKV files that when I try to copy them to my Note, it crashes Windows Explorer. I typically get the dialog that says "Do you want to convert this file?" with all of my MP4/AVI files (and I always say "no"), but I don't even get that option with these MKVs. According to MediaInfo, the MKV is using Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC and the MP4 is using "avc1".
I can, however, zip up the MKV file, copy it over to my Note, unzip and it plays fine...but that's a huge pain, IMO. I also don't want to have to re-encode any of my MKVs (all under 720p), since they actually do play on my phone via MX Video Player.
Is there any way to get my phone to just connect as a mass storage device, like with my SII, instead of as an "MTP device"?
Anyone? This is the same for the TF300 tablet as well.
Do you have all the right drivers? As well you could adb push and it should copy successfully.....I have done this before with a video but not an mkv before.
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You have kies running
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You have kies running
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Yes, I have "Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones 1.5.14.0" installed.
I'll try and adb push a .mkv here tomorrow and let you know how it works
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What I've always found the fastest method is to pop out my sd card, plug it into my computer, and transfer it that way.
I prefer to keep my media on my sd anyway.
swyped all these spelling errors fro card m my galaxy note 2
There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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There is an app on xda called GS3 ums mount or something like that. Google it. It will let you access the sd card in your phone as a external drive when you plug it into your computer. You can then drag and drop files as you wish.
Format your sd card to exfat to copy files larger than 4GB. The built in player from Samsung plays mkv or you can try mx player.
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Unfortunately, you need to be rooted to use that app...sounds like it's what I'm looking for though.
I have made a reset for my Nexus and then when I have opened the gallery I see that it didn't recognize my photos in the DCIM folder and also 3rd apps like flayvur don't recognize the photos too.
Not only with the photos also with the play Music when I opened it didn't recognize any music it just show up "add music, copy music to your phone with a USB cable"
Don't know why is this fool, when I open the ES File Explorer my photos my mp3 are there and they are working well so what's this!
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Try clearing the data of media storage
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I have made a reset for my Nexus and then when I have opened the gallery I see that it didn't recognize my photos in the DCIM folder and also 3rd apps like flayvur don't recognize the photos too.
Not only with the photos also with the play Music when I opened it didn't recognize any music it just show up "add music, copy music to your phone with a USB cable"
Don't know why is this fool, when I open the ES File Explorer my photos my mp3 are there and they are working well so what's this!
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If you are rooted, use RESCAN MEDIA ROOT from Play store, it should do the job
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Try clearing the data of media storage
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That make sense , Thank you
There was a problem! Had to change to a new
help
I have the same problem but clearing media storage's data does not solve it..is it hardware error?: