So I've been trying to transfer music from both iTunes (using Wondershare and iExplorer) and regular drag and drop in Windows Explorer. I'm not sure as to why this keeps happening so I'm reaching out to y'all.
My phone won't recognize a lot of the music that's transferred both internally to the phone's storage or externally to the memory card. Then sometimes when I do transfer, some files work, some files don't. I've tried reformatting the SD card, but I'm not so sure if that's the only issue. I never had a problem transferring music with the Galaxy S3 (phone connected via USB, and then drag and drop to external SD card). Can anyone please help!
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My computer recognizes both the internal storage and external sd card when plugged in. Windows media player, does not. It'll only find the internal storage device on the SIII, but not the external storage. I was able to sync to External sd card whenever I formatted it. Ultimately I can keep doing that, but it seems like a hassle to drop important files onto desktop, format, sync, and re-drag those files back on. Any of you willing to lend ideas of how to avoid that?
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
If recommend formatting the sd card and copying it over again.
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grentuu said:
A weird one. I have looked around and can't see anything similar.
I have 10gb music on external sd. If I use FX file manager it reports them (Samsung 32gb class 10)
10gb
71 folders
1139 files.
PowerAmp sees them all and plays them all - no problem. There is a mixture of MP3 and FLAC.
Then I plug the phone into the laptop.
If I look at the properties of the music folder (Ext SD) where they are all stored windows reports
1.52gb
25 folders
68 files.
If I then click on one of the albums - the folder is completely empty.
So I immediately think SD corruption. Bit of a bummer as it is a brand new card.
But then I take the sd card out, pop it into an sd adaptor and plug into card slot on the same laptop
Windows now decides to completely agree with FX file manager??????
If I try to copy one of the folders from the phone to the desktop it just copies an 'empty' folder.
Yet if I delete it on the phone (through windows) it removes the album and amends the storage available.
Anyone?
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Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
Brava27 said:
Best idea to avoid any issues is to insert SD card to phone, format, then transfer files. Let the phone decide what format it likes. FAT, FAT32, etc....
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I always do. The card was delivered and went straight into the phone.
In the end I had to format and recopy and for the moment all seems good.
I’m trying out my new Sony Xperia Z1C.
And there are some things I have questions about
Before I had a HTC One and I could connect it by cable to my audio equipment in my car (BMW 3 F series). This worked because the BMW can read MTP devices.
Connecting the Sony the first time it took ages before it was ready and then only the contents of the internal memory were shown.
When starting mirrorlink on the phone made it unusable in the car.
With a task manager I could remove the mirrorlink background task, is there no other way to stop that background task?
But the problem remained, it could connect but nothing of the SD card was shown.
So I switched to Mass storage and tried to connect again.
This was a lot faster but only four directories were shown.
I copied files on the sd card directly from my pc and not through the phone connection,
so I reformatted the card
and copied files to it through the phone connected to the pc. Copying then failed on .m3u files (why , the phone cannot do anything with them so why not copying?),
so I skipped all those files and
mounted the sd card once more as mass storage,
and now the car audio can see all of the directories. Now I know how to copy mp3 files but it is still a strange way of working, copying to the SD card directly works so much faster.
Mounting the SD card as MTP has almost the same result as before, it reads the card a lot faster now but it still does not show content of the sd.
Can anybody explain me what the correct way of working is,
is MTP only for internal memory (when connecting to the pc on MTP I can see both sdcard0 (internal memory) as sdcard1 (sd card )?
What about killing background tasks such as mirrorlink, how to proceed?
What about copying files to the SDCard, from the pc to the card or from the pc through the phone and then to the card?
Are not all filetypes supported on the card?, I think my initial problem was related to the M3U files.
no time to get into details but i know 2 things
MTP mounts the phones internal memory plus the external sd card
mass storage mounts only the sd card like any other mass storage device
and yes, MTP is slower compared to the mass storage.
Hello all,
Hoping someone can help me with an issue I am having regarding loading music onto my SD card in my unrooted HTC incredible s.
I have recently been trying to put my music collection onto a 64gb SD (recognized by my device), I use in my incredible. I load the collection on (around 40 Gb) through windows drag and drop and then place into the phone. However the phone will only seem to pick up around 6.80Gb of music when i start it up. Additionally i find when i put the card back into the computer most of the music has been deleted and ends up in the LOST.DIR on the sd card.
I have tried only putting on around 10gb with the same results, i have also tried loading it through HTC sync with no result.
I have also tried th with a 16bg card and the same thing occurs.
Is there a way around this or will the device only recognize a certain amount of music? Is there to much there for the device, or is it some issue with the capabilities of the SD card?
The SD card is exFAT formatted.
Cheers,
Felix
After the upgrade, my audio & video files on the phone or sd card can't be seen from my PC. any clues? Thanks!