So after being disappointed in the iPhone 6 and especially the Apple Watch, I just ordered an M8, 64GB SD card and a Moto 360.
I'm a little confused about SD card support though. I had an Xperia Tab Z and put a ton of music on it and it worked perfectly. Synced wirelessly to the SD card with iSyncr all fine. Showed up in Play Music just fine. But I've just read that SD card support is weird in 4.4.
I'd just like to know if iSyncr would work with the SD card and with Play Music on 4.4 and obviously L with the new phone. I'm a little lost with how SD cards work in 4.4 now, I know about the sandboxing kind of thing, but I just can't figure out if what I plan to do is still possible.
Also, I'm not too interested in custom ROMs and rooting this time around (I want to flash the GPe RUU and ROM when L arrives, keep the OTAs coming and spend less time fiddling with the OS).
Cheers in advance guys.
iisshaun said:
So after being disappointed in the iPhone 6 and especially the Apple Watch, I just ordered an M8, 64GB SD card and a Moto 360.
I'm a little confused about SD card support though. I had an Xperia Tab Z and put a ton of music on it and it worked perfectly. Synced wirelessly to the SD card with iSyncr all fine. Showed up in Play Music just fine. But I've just read that SD card support is weird in 4.4.
I'd just like to know if iSyncr would work with the SD card and with Play Music on 4.4 and obviously L with the new phone. I'm a little lost with how SD cards work in 4.4 now, I know about the sandboxing kind of thing, but I just can't figure out if what I plan to do is still possible.
Also, I'm not too interested in custom ROMs and rooting this time around (I want to flash the GPe RUU and ROM when L arrives, keep the OTAs coming and spend less time fiddling with the OS).
Cheers in advance guys.
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iSyncr will sync to your SD card and you can play music with Google Play Music on Android 4.4. The only difference in Android 4.4 with regards to iSyncr is that if you sync over WiFi to the SD card, you're ONLY able to sync to the apps package folder or (Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/)
If you have problems with iSyncr, we're happy to help you!
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iSyncr will sync to your SD card and you can play music with Google Play Music on Android 4.4. The only difference in Android 4.4 with regards to iSyncr is that if you sync over WiFi to the SD card, you're ONLY able to sync to the apps package folder or (Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/)
If you have problems with iSyncr, we're happy to help you!
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Awesome, and so Google Play Music will recognise the music in "Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/" ?
iisshaun said:
Awesome, and so Google Play Music will recognise the music in "Android/data/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr/" ?
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Yes! Google Music as well as many/most/all 3rd party applications will identify the iSyncr package folder. We recommend using our music player, Rocket Player with iSyncr, as it was specifically designed to be used with iSyncr - but one of the beauties of iSyncr is that you're not locked into a specific player.
This article sums up the SD permissions changes on KitKat really well: http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
An app is free to write to any folder it creates on the SD. Its just writing to other folders (that the app didn't create) that is now restricted. So just let iSynchr save to the default folder (as the dev stated) and it will work fine.
SD read permissions are not affected by the KitKat permissions changes. So any music app should pick up the folder, just as you were used to on your other Android device.
I also think its pretty awesome the iSyncr developer is on XDA, and responded themselves. Great app, as I use it, too.
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I'm hoping someone can figure out where I'm screwing up here. I'm going a little banaynay. Music on my extsd will not appear in any music player.
Galaxy S3, new CM-based ROM installed (Synergy-S3_19Apr13_1622_r484_s). Everything is stock image at the moment, aside from inserting an SD card. To note: I saw this problem on the 5/1 CM 10.1 nightly, as well as on CM 10.1 M3.
The system mounts the SD card (formatted) as /mnt/extsd/ with no errors. I have a few directories on there, one with my Carbon Helium backup data, a /DCIM with photos, and /Music. Album app finds photos and indexes them with no issue. Carbon Helium found the back up data, ESFile Explorer reads/writes to the card with no issue.
So why won't any frigging music apps index the mp3s on this drive? It couldn't be more annoying. I've ensured I don't have any .nomedia files on there, I've killed the Media Storage service, cleared its data, and rebooted the phone to initiate a re-indexing. But it simply isn't reading that directory. Hell, the gallery apps are indexing the album art, but the music apps are blowing it.
The music apps read from the SD just fine on previous ROMS before I tried CM 10.1 M3. For some reason, after that ROM, any subsequent ROMs are evidencing this problem. Did something change with the way music data is cached?
Additionally, I thought the Media Storage service was used for all media, not just music. So why would it properly index the photos and not the music? Do have to symlink this bastard? Can you even do a symlink on a fat32 filesystem (I didn't think you could)...
Any help would be awesome.
Poweramp?
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Poweramp?
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Poweramp works. I just installed it, and it nicely asked for me to specify the directories I wanted it to scan. How thoughtful, considering these other apps simply don't . Thanks for that Aerowinder.
I still don't have an explanation for the other apps not seeing the mp3s, which makes this fix a little bittersweet, frankly. But at least I have tunes for the drive later today. Thanks my man.
I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP THE FIGHT heh
Hi all.....i have an optimus G Pro....i have a 32 GB card (not fake)...and want to be able to load it with movies and then watch them. The movies are all mp4's....but have two questions
1)is there an android app that will show my movies on internal memory AND my SD card
2)if not whats the best app to find my movies on my SD card? (one that doesnt look like a bunch of folders preferably)
Thanks
MX Player in the Play store is one option.
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MX Player in the Play store is one option.
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Awesome....thanks for your help
is there a music app that works? Everything i've tried either sends my SD card into a bltchfit and/or cannot play some files, or will play other song audio over the song i selected. poweramp, play music, isense, even winamp are all crap.
Is it the type of mp3's i'm using? Like something converted from flv or youtube to mp3? Could it be my 32gb microSD card is junky?
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is there a music app that works? Everything i've tried either sends my SD card into a bltchfit and/or cannot play some files, or will play other song audio over the song i selected. poweramp, play music, isense, even winamp are all crap.
Is it the type of mp3's i'm using? Like something converted from flv or youtube to mp3? Could it be my 32gb microSD card is junky?
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i really like google play music. does everything i need
superkang said:
i really like google play music. does everything i need
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play music fails to read all of my music that I place on my sd card. e.g. I put 700-800 songs on it and it says I'll have 5xx songs on device.
Ok so it looks like the mSd card is corrupt. the 32gb i got doesn't like to play nice with the evo. I tried an old sandisk 2gb i had from years ago and it read every file on it (hard to slim down music choices to just 1.89GB)
drfrisker said:
play music fails to read all of my music that I place on my sd card. e.g. I put 700-800 songs on it and it says I'll have 5xx songs on device.
Ok so it looks like the mSd card is corrupt. the 32gb i got doesn't like to play nice with the evo. I tried an old sandisk 2gb i had from years ago and it read every file on it (hard to slim down music choices to just 1.89GB)
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dang thats a lot of songs lol
32GB Cards have never worked well on the Evo. A good music app is the one form MIUI
I think is your phone cause I use poweramp and also a 32gb card and dont have a problem. Try using a different card.
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manuel lpz said:
I think is your phone cause I use poweramp and also a 32gb card and dont have a problem. Try using a different card.
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card confirmed at fault. ebay seller sold me 32 when it tested to only have 2
Has anyone used the Poweramp "for Intel only" app on their ZF2?
I was pretty disappointed to discover that Android 5.0 hasn't actually fully resolved the external SD edit permissions that was promissed after the fuss around KitKat.
I transfered a load of albums onto my phone last night, storing them on the ext SD card, only to find that no album art was shown and that iTag cannot edit the tags
According to Poweramp, the app does give edit permissions to enable Mp3 tags to be edited on the ext SD card on Lollipop, but only if the sd card has a volume label.
I'm currently formatting the sd card with a volume label to see if this will work, but I was wondering if I should go for the "standard" Poweramp or the Intel version.
Any advice?
Update:
The "Intel" version of the app runs well, not sure if any better than the "standard", but Poweramp claim that it is beneficial for battery consumption and performance to use the specific app.
But the edit permission of sd card stored files is not solved. Poweramp are working on the problem. Some people have been able to get the required access permission through the app's facility, but for many, it is not working. Including me....
This issue has already been resolved by poweramp...
Go to poweramp settings.--> folder and librery -->
go to Music folder and and check the folders you want poweramp to scan...
its done!!!! enjoy...
Overandout said:
Update:
The "Intel" version of the app runs well, not sure if any better than the "standard", but Poweramp claim that it is beneficial for battery consumption and performance to use the specific app.
But the edit permission of sd card stored files is not solved. Poweramp are working on the problem. Some people have been able to get the required access permission through the app's facility, but for many, it is not working. Including me....
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OK here's the problem
As you all know Google went the IDIOT route and chose to give us a 32gb and 128gb option
128gb sold out QUICK so of course some of us are stuck with a 32gb phone
So naturally I bought a type c flash drive to store my music
The problem is I can only play it through a file manager like "Solid Explorer"
Yes this works but it isn't intuitive AT ALL
You can't browse other songs while one is playing among other essential needs
I used the "USB Media Explorer" app and yea that worked but it is hideous
I wanted to know if there was a way we can get "Google play music" or another DECENT music app to be able to read the flash drive when plugged in
Anybody recognize this problem and have any luck so far?
Dude, Poweramp. Why would anyone use any other music player on Android? I've tried them all and it definately reigns supreme imo
yea power amp should work u can select the music folders.
prot- said:
Dude, Poweramp. Why would anyone use any other music player on Android? I've tried them all and it definately reigns supreme imo
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RocketPlayer - because it integrates directly with iSyncr and allows me to rate songs directly on my phone, which are then passed back to iTunes on my Mac.
Why Poweramp other than because it 'reigns'?
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Dude, Poweramp. Why would anyone use any other music player on Android? I've tried them all and it definately reigns supreme imo
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I personally prefer Google Play Music since I have thousands of songs on there and don't store any songs on my device.
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I personally prefer Google Play Music since I have thousands of songs on there and don't store any songs on my device.
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The entire point of this is to have files stored locally so you don't have to use a data connection to play them.
xocomaox said:
The entire point of this is to have files stored locally so you don't have to use a data connection to play them.
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The author didn't state that.
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The author didn't state that.
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Well the way it reads.. he wants to play local music files.
Maybe he doesn't know Google play let's you store 10k songs on their servers... That's the reason the pixel is 32 gigs with no external storage... Google has cloud solutions for all media. And if streaming is a issue because your not on a unlimited plan then the 128 gig is the way to go or another phone.
Google really F'd up the ability to play music files from external storage.
I've been pissed about it for a couple years now.
There is some usb_stick_mount app that someone like Chainfire or someone else developed.
It helps a little but was designed for older images.
Dammit, I'm all pissed again now just thinking about how badly Google F'd up on this external storage (USB drive or USB stick) access.
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Dude, Poweramp. Why would anyone use any other music player on Android? I've tried them all and it definately reigns supreme imo
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+1 for poweramp
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Maybe he doesn't know Google play let's you store 10k songs on their servers... That's the reason the pixel is 32 gigs with no external storage... Google has cloud solutions for all media. And if streaming is a issue because your not on a unlimited plan then the 128 gig is the way to go or another phone.
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Cloud storage is fine great and dandy, except it uses my data
True, but for the record Play Music has an option to play music stores locally too. It does work fine
xocomaox said:
The entire point of this is to have files stored locally so you don't have to use a data connection to play them.
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I know Google Music has the option to download songs to external sd card. I wonder if the flash drive would allow that too.
Yeah, I hear the OP. I ended up giving in about a year ago and went all streaming instead of local files. I have Verizon and yeah I pay a bit more but I have a hefty shared data plan and my fiance uses very little of it, so I never get into trouble with data limits.
chrisnk204 said:
OK here's the problem
As you all know Google went the IDIOT route and chose to give us a 32gb and 128gb option
128gb sold out QUICK so of course some of us are stuck with a 32gb phone
So naturally I bought a type c flash drive to store my music
The problem is I can only play it through a file manager like "Solid Explorer"
Yes this works but it isn't intuitive AT ALL
You can't browse other songs while one is playing among other essential needs
I used the "USB Media Explorer" app and yea that worked but it is hideous
I wanted to know if there was a way we can get "Google play music" or another DECENT music app to be able to read the flash drive when plugged in
Anybody recognize this problem and have any luck so far?
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Why couldn't you wait until the 128 was in stock? That's what I did.
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Dude, Poweramp. Why would anyone use any other music player on Android? I've tried them all and it definately reigns supreme imo
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Poweramp doesnt let you choose the correct path
The music from a flashdrive is in mnt/media_rw and thats not an option
I tried poweramp and musixmatch
And for everybody bringing up streaming or cloud storage which also needs to stream
Im from NYC and im on the subway VERY OFTEN i cannot stream underground and i dont want to download my music from google play for obvious reasons
I bought the flashdrive in order to free up storage
I just want to be able to have a decent good looking music app play music from my flashdrive
I seriously dont understand how this isnt natively supported
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Why couldn't you wait until the 128 was in stock? That's what I did.
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Idk how u got yours because that **** is sold out to this day lol
Pixel xl is sold out in 128gb in both colors and has been since launch it seems like
Oh and one more thing poweramp is ugly as hell lol
Reminds me of android in 2009 lol
I tried it anyway tho because i was desperate but no luck
I ordered mine through Project Fi. And got it within 4 days. I ordered it towards the end of November close to black Friday.