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Music Files issue

Hey I just bought this phone yesterday (had the galaxy before)
and today i opened up the music player and loaded the songs from my sd card, but for some reason everything is (about 90%) of my songs are under the album "audio" with unknown as the artist/album. but then the rest of the 10% song are under albums...how can i fix this? its quite annoying now to find songs by certain artist since everything is UNKNOWN.
i also tried using another music player (pro player or something like that) and same thing

either your files lost the mp3 tags for some unknown reason, or something else is wrong there.
either case try out this great app
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so is there any way to diagnose the problem to see what it REALLY is?

also is there an easy way to put the tags back onto the files?

OKAY SO I FIGURED THIS ONE OUT LOL
go to settings, applications, all, find 'media storage' click on it. clear data.
then go to settings and sd storage, unmount sd card. then once available, hit mount sd card. let it scan fully
then go to music player and all songs should be grouped into albums, etc etc etc..
someone can close this thread now and keep it for reference for newbies like myself who run into this issue

[Q] How to prevent Google Music from detecting music on SD card?

Hi all,
I asked this in the Android General Apps Q&A but didn't get much of a response, so I'm hoping some fellow Epic users can help me out:
I use doubletwist for listening to new music that is stored on my SD card. I use Google Music for streaming my favorite tracks that I have uploaded. The problem is Google Music automatically searches my SD card and displays all the music stored on my phone along with the artists/playlists/etc. that I have stored on the cloud, which makes it confusing when browsing the library. My question is: Can I prevent Google Music from searching and displaying what's on the SD card, but still allow doubletwist to see it? Thanks much!

I can't remember but isn't there like a file size limiter on google music options?
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There's an option to show only offline music (i.e. what's stored on your phone), which is the opposite of what I want. I tried putting a .nomedia file in the SD card's music folder, but then doubletwist can't see it.
As I'm typing this, I thought of the solution. Don't even use the app, just play it straight through the web browser. I've done that for a while now to to play my library on my friends' phones, not sure why I didn't think of it before. Whole damn web is becoming so filtered through the lens of apps it was narrowing my thinking.

What if you placed a period in front of your music folder? Hiding it.

Seriously aggravated...

This is going to be my 4th time re-syncing my entire music library, which has almost 800 songs. I have been using DoubleTwist AirSync since I got my phone almost a month ago.
First time, the music from my old phone wasn't being recognized in my music players, so I had to manually put in all of my songs(I don't put all of the music from my computer on because it has my brother's music as well.)
Second time, a lot of my album artwork was missing. For some reason, not all of the songs from an album would be grouped together either.
Third time, happened this morning when my music suddenly wasn't being recognized. By lunch time, I noticed that all of my music was deleted from my phone.
I manually had to put all 800 songs onto my phone each time which took 3 hours last time I checked. That's because syncing through Wi-Fi is slow sometimes, and whenever I sync through DoubleTwist, my internet stops working for any other device or computer. I really wish I could put in music through USB. I'm putting all of my music onto my 32gb Sandisk microSD card by the way. I am using an iMac to sync all of my music also.
What should I do? Are there any other applications I can use, and does anyone know why this is happening? This is my only regret for not buying an iPhone 5. I am seriously pissed off because it's wasting so much of my time!

Why not just use Google Music Manager? It will upload all of your music to Google Play, then back down to your phone if you choose. You can either stream as you go, or flag the music you want to store locally. Manage your library from within iTunes and the Music Manager takes care of the rest. Access your music from the Play Music app.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229970

I've flashed a ton of ROMs and never lost my music.... put it in extsdcard and use power amp to use the folder with your music for your library....

se1000 said:
Why not just use Google Music Manager? It will upload all of your music to Google Play, then back down to your phone if you choose. You can either stream as you go, or flag the music you want to store locally. Manage your library from within iTunes and the Music Manager takes care of the rest. Access your music from the Play Music app.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229970
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This!
I have over 3,000 songs on Google Music that I stream regularly. Art work gets wonky sometimes on new uploads but once I got it all situated, its good.
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I use isync it works great it will copy all your playlist exactly as it is itunes
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I have a 64gb card filled with FLACs of stuff I gotta hear 1:1 reproductions of, and have close to 200 albums on google music. Double flip sync twist whatever is junk.

I just put a bunch of music on my phone with Kies Air. I am having some issue with the USB driver not working any more.
It worked fine though. I moved all the music files to the folder that had the rest of the music in it. Are you sure they're going to the right folder?
What file formats are you using?
Why can't you use USB? (could be same issue I had, but with a Mac, but I can't know). Can you use a USB card reader or otherwise to access the external sd separately?
I moved the music with ES File Explorer after Kies put them on internal storage. They didn't show up at fist, but restarting the app fixed it.
It might be good to organise your music on your computer, too - make separate folders for you and your brother.
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Use Google music. Yes, the app itself is not as featured as others, but if you use a good sound mod like awesome beats or Sony its worth it
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Kies doesn't work on my iMac.
Regarding Google Music, does anyone know where the music is actually stored when you save it to your device from the Play Music app? I can't find the folder for it, and I need to fix a few albums.

Google Music is good if you can stream, but I've had issues with it and went back to the stock music player app and playing from sd card.
Kies Air is browser-based, it just needs java - I don't see why it wouldn't work on OSX.
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I was using the application version before. But the browser-based Kies requires Java 7 to upload multiple files at once, and I'm on OSX 10.6.8, which only has support for Java 6 apparently.
So does anyone know where music is stored if you are getting it from Google Play? Music from Google only shows up in the Play Music app, which is very buggy for me currently, and I hate being locked down to one app. It isn't in any default music folder, so if anyone has any info, please feel free to chime in.

I don't think it's stored on the phone (aside from what's cached), just streamed, unless you've specifically made it available offline.
Check these out for information on that and how to : http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1250232 , http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1248950

Yeah, I meant when I've specifically made songs available offline. I think it's stored in the app itself though. I looked at the Play Music app under the App Manager, and it had like 8gb of data.

Easiest and fastest app I've ever used. Put your music in a playlist on itunes and just sync that particular playlist. Syncs my 5 gigs in 10 minutes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.easyphonetunes.android.app&hl=en

[Q] Is there any way to play all the music files in a folder on my sd card?

I have a folder with a bunch of music mp3 files in a folder located on my ext sd card in the DCIM and Music folder.
Is there a way to play all the songs in the folder either sequentially or random?

Yes, copy the mp3s from the sd card and then paste them in the phone's memory.
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Can someone explain this better. Paste into the phones memory? How? If they are on the SD card they are part of the phones memory already?

Files on the sd card are not in the phone's memory. Open the file where the music is on the card, select them sll, right click and choose copy. The phone's memeory will now come up on the screen. Right click anywhere on the screen and select paste here. Your player will load them into a playlist on your player.
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Thanks I will try but then how do I remove the songs from memory so I don't keep filling up memory?

The songs you copied or on the sd card? I always back up my phone once a week via KIES then I delete any extra files on my phone and card. I also back up my memory card on my pc atleast once a month.
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I have over 1600 songs in a file on my external sd card and they play just fine with either Poweramp or the stock music player. @outcasted2003, I think you're calling the internal storage the phone memory.

How do you put 1600 songs into a file? I have a external sd card with 50 songs in a folder and I would like to play all the songs with one instruction to the player. How did you get 1600 songs into a single file?

pego99 said:
How do you put 1600 songs into a file? I have a external sd card with 50 songs in a folder and I would like to play all the songs with one instruction to the player. How did you get 1600 songs into a single file?
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I have a 64Gb sd card. Is yours extremely small? I don't know why you think this is something out of the ordinary. Any music player app should be able to search the external storage find the music and play it.

1. I have plenty of room on the 128 GB SD card. I have 200 songs in a folder. The music app can only play one song at a time. I want to find a way to play all the songs automatically one after the other.
2. The guy who says he combined all 1600 songs into one file how did he do that?

pego99 said:
1. I have plenty of room on the 128 GB SD card. I have 200 songs in a folder. The music app can only play one song at a time. I want to find a way to play all the songs automatically one after the other.
2. The guy who says he combined all 1600 songs into one file how did he do that?
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What music app are you using? The stock player just plays one song after another for me. Every music player I've ever used did the same. Are you selecting them out of the file manager or something? I don't understand why it would play only one song then stop. That's bizarre.
And about putting 1630 songs in one file. That's normal too. The my_music file has 12.79 Gb of music in it. I've been accumulating songs for years and I just keep putting them in there. Every time I switched to a bigger card I copied the whole contents of the card into my computer then copied that into the new card. I have a lot of other stuff stashed on the card too and I have over 28 Gb space left. I probably should have bought the 128 Gb card too instead of being cheap.
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How are you getting your music?

1. I assumed that the player would stop after the first song and notg o on. I will try it.
2. About combining multiple songs into one file how is this done? What PC app will do this?

pego99 said:
1. I assumed that the player would stop after the first song and notg o on. I will try it.
2. About combining multiple songs into one file how is this done? What PC app will do this?
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If you have the Samsung USB drivers installed in your computer then hook your phone to your computer with a USB cord and Windows can access the files in your phone. It shows as another drive in "My Computer". You can copy and paste songs, pictures, videos or just about anything that your phone can deal with in there.
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After you plug the USB cord in pull down the notification pulldown and it will ask what kind of connection you want. Tap that then select "Media device". Then you can access your phones files. Then the absolute most important step comes when you want to unplug it. In the System Tray there will be an icon with a check mark on it that says "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" when you hover over it. Click it then wait for it to come back with "Eject Samsung-SM-N910V". Click that and it will tell you your Samsung device can be safely removed. Only after that can you unplug your phone. This is the most important thing you can do when you unplug anything from a USB port on your computer. If you just yank the cord out without doing it your device might end up corrupted requiring a re-format. Believe me I know. I've corrupted my sd card and my external hard drive before and lost every bit of data on them when I had to re-format.

Use the search function to only use that file and it will play all the songs in that file/folder. I have 16000 songs in one folder and set the player to only play from that folder

try this...
Open the Music app
Select Create playlist
Select the +
Select the FOLDER tab at the top and then navigate and select the folder.
Press the checkbox at the top and it should select everything.
Click DONE
Play the playlist

Google Play Music / On the Huawei? ...has anyone got it to work?

So I have my saved to phone file (music) and I have them attached to a play list. Then I set in the wear app to allow store on watch, pulled up the list and clicked the playlist I wanted to send to watch. Then on the watch I hit play Music and on wear, and the list shows, I then pick what I want and see a orange check on the bottom of the watch screen. What ever I do with that check, swipe or click it just goes back to the watch face?
Has anyone got the Music to transfer to the watch?

Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.

tiagobt said:
Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.
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Thanks for the info, I actually found that same page & tried several times. I even get the watch to show the list and pick albums, playlists, songs, and then try that orange check and nothing.
Cleared cashe on music app, reset connections, and rebooted both devices. It all reads just like the web page except for the actual file transfer. I get error phone disconnected on the watch, yet when I go to wear app it is connected. Or I just see the watch go back to the watch face, no notification what so ever. Sigh.
looks like many are having issues, depending on the version of google play music. It also seems it has been broke, fixed, broke again. These things do happen when working on updates and such, I'll keep checking for an update. https://productforums.google.com/fo.../DGr1WPiy9Po;context-place=forum/android-wear

We found the issue, and I have music transferring now!
It is related to sd card, two ways to get past googles sd card failure.
1. put a .nomedia file on your sd card root folder, this will work if you have a third party music app that will allow you to choose an sd card folder so it still reads files.
2. put music files you want on internal memory and remove sd card until music is transferred. keep that music on internal when replacing sd card.
I believe this is an issue with googles sd card security, and you probably won't see this if you have marshmallow and have formatted the sd card the new way making it your secure memory. If you choose to keep your sd card as removable and usable elsewhere you will need to try some type of work around. It frustrates me but the way they are doing it is more secure in the long run. I just never put files that need securing on my sd card in the first place, just music, games, videos.

I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.

tiagobt said:
I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.
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Thanks! I'm super Happy with the results. I used the .nomedia on sd card. I have 1.4 GB now on the watch and I'm able to do my walking with bluetooth sound, without carrying the phone.