Does anyone know why playlists empty after a ROM flash? How to prevent it?
So here is the story:
- I have playlists with songs in them
- I flash a new version of a ROM (wipe cache & dalvik).
- playlists are still there but are empty
- MP3s at still there as well
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I have somehow similar problem, so maybe instead creating another thread I will hook up on this one.
So I use latest (5.04?) version of 4.4.2 AOSP by slv96 and Google Play Music. I've discovered that everyday my Music Libary is resetting, so I have my playlists but they're empty, and 'Liked' playlist is gone aswell. I'm wondering what's causing this to happen.
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Whenever I flash a new rom, I notice my playlists that were on my sd card are deleted.
I know I sometime add a song to the playlist using either Mixzhing or the android music app included with the custom roms, so I am speculating that when this is done the player generates its own playlist, storing it on my phones internal memory in some db file and deletes my old one.
This is a very...VERY...good question. I put a few m3u playlists on my sd card and when I flashed a new rom, gone. I think it has something to do with "Media Storage" because if you delete that in Titanium, your playlists are gone.
ugothakd said:
This is a very...VERY...good question. I put a few m3u playlists on my sd card and when I flashed a new rom, gone. I think it has something to do with "Media Storage" because if you delete that in Titanium, your playlists are gone.
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I actually tried to restore media storage using titanium, but it did not help.
I wonder about changing the permissions on it as a workaround but a pain in the a$$ to not be able to add songs using the music app to your playlist on the fly,
When I flash a new ROM and tell Google Music to download some music for offline, is it overwriting the old music I had told the previous ROM to download for offline? Does that make sense? I just don't want 10 copies of each song because I update ROMs fairly frequently.
Thanks.
That's a good question.. I guess the only way to know would be to download some, find the directory they are saved in, then switch ROMs and check the directory for duplicates.
I would imagine google music keeps a record of what it has downloaded and doesn't scan the directory. When you change ROMs this list gets wiped too and thus it redownloads the songs. Of course I could be wrong but I would imagine backing up google music data with TiBu and restoring it might fix the issue?
Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.
deaffob said:
Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.
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Yeah, I'm currently redownloading my 15GB of music with google music. I might just find the directory with all the files and move it, then use a different player or something. I can't deal with redownloading this every time I flash a new CM10 nightly.
/android/com.music or something similar.
After full wipe I flashed latest beta and pics aren't shown in gallery and also I'm unable to pick mp3 as a ringtone.
I've done the trick with mix player and it doesn't help.
Can someone help me with this?
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mmalyy said:
After full wipe I flashed latest beta and pics aren't shown in gallery and also I'm unable to pick mp3 as a ringtone.
I've done the trick with mix player and it doesn't help.
Can someone help me with this?
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Check for the file named “.nomedia” (without quotes) in the root folder of your SD card. This file tells media scanner not to search for media in this folder and its subfolders. If you find this file in the root directory then simply delete it. The issue is caused probably by newest ROM manager. Some users report that this file is recreated after reboot. In this case I would temporary downgrade the ROM Manager to older version. Hit the THANKS button if I helped you
I also have the same issue. There's no stray ".nomedia" that I can find in my SD card. Logcat entries contain no related error message.
If you use MXPlayer, in settings there is an option about .nomedia. Diasble it. Sometimes that cause this kind of problems.
Try Wiping Dalvik and fix permissions
Clearing cache, dalvik cache and fixing permissions don't work. Strange thing is that newly captured screenshots and photos appear in the Gallery app right away. The disappearance apply just to the existing images and music files in built-in Gallery and Music app. Third-party image browsing apps like QuickPic are behaving correctly (showing all images, respecting .nomedia on selected folders appropriately.) Third-party music players (Google Play Music, Winamp, etc.) however can't find any music tracks, behaving exactly like the original Music app. Bumping so that yozgatg might take a look.
Alternatively you can use QuickPic and set up included folders manually.
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Clearing cache, dalvik cache and fixing permissions don't work. Strange thing is that newly captured screenshots and photos appear in the Gallery app right away. The disappearance apply just to the existing images and music files in built-in Gallery and Music app. Third-party image browsing apps like QuickPic are behaving correctly (showing all images, respecting .nomedia on selected folders appropriately.) Third-party music players (Google Play Music, Winamp, etc.) however can't find any music tracks, behaving exactly like the original Music app. Bumping so that yozgatg might take a look.
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If u can specificly fix permission on an app,that would be media storage,try rom toolbox..
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I downloaded quickpic, and then everything showed up.
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If u can specificly fix permission on an app,that would be media storage,try rom toolbox..
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Didn't work. I've tried both fixing permissions from CWM and from ROM Toolbox Lite. I don't think this is a temporary problem that can be resolved by clearing cache and fixing permissions. For images there are plenty of alternative apps that can be used, but it's currently a dead end trying to list music tracks
COPY ALL SDCARD FILES TO A PC FORMAT THE SD CARD AND COPY BACK ONLY THE IMPOTANT FOLDERS LIKE ANDROID AND THOSE CONTAINING THE PICTURES AND MUSIC FILE LEAVE THE REST
HIT THANKS IF IT HELPED:good::laugh:
I have this problem too. On over ROM (jelly bean) .
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Guys, I found the solution posted here (from the Galaxy Note sub-forum) works for me today. All music tracks and pictures are back :good: Give it a try! Credit goes to matius44 on that thread.
Edit: AFAIK, the steps listed in this fix apply to ICS only. I haven't tried it in a JB build yet.
No. Not workng for me. CM10 JB HTC DESIRE Z.
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Tried to use a new program (NotPod) to Sync my PC based iTunes playlist songs with my HTC Incredible. It did not work. Normally I drag and drop songs from the PC to the INC. This time I did a Sync, using NotPod, which initially erased all files from the MUSIC folder on the SDcard. Then, I sync'd a couple songs to test. Ouch. NotPod copied folders and files. I never had any sub folders inside the root MUSIC folder. From that point on, the stock rom based music player does not work. I have WinAmp and that recognizes the SDcard and plays the songs, but not the stock app. I tried a Nandroid restore. No luck. All other apps seem to work. I wiped Davlik. That did nothing.
Even the stock songs that came with the HTC (which I never erased) do not display. I can read them with Root Explorer and play them with WinAmp, but the stock music player does not pick them up. I did try to erase the Music folder and then restore it, with no luck.
Not sure why the nandroid restore did not cure the problem. I also used a program called SDRescan. That helps sometimes when some SDcard files are not recognized. I have run out of ideas.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
So I just noticed today when I select artist in samsung music, the app crashes. i have wiped data, wiped cache and rebooted but it still does the same thing. All the other tabs work just fine, just not artist. Anyone else seeing this or have a suggested fix for it?
Anyone have this problem?
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Anyone have this problem?
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Originally, I didnt have any music locally stored on my device. After seeing your post, I found a few mixtapes(full albums), downloaded them, extracted the zips and they all work without any problems including using all of the tabs in the music app. So i'm not sure where the problem for you may be...
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Are you running in ART mode?
Ok, here's the deal. So last night i pulled the SD card, wiped all custom files that are written from the phone (android folder etc. ), wiped the internal device storage and factory reset. The problem is now gone. I don't know what caused it but now it's fixed. Chalk one up to dumb luck.