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[Q] Google Music, ExtSD, and Media Storage Service issue

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?

Aerowinder said:
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

Operating without and SD card?

I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!

hellfroze said:
I'm running a couple of hand-me-down One Vs for lightweight duty (one is a music streamer, one is a 2nd phone line just for kicks) and neither have much installed, so there is plenty of room on "Internal Storage" (184MB used/747MB available). But without an SD card, it refuses to let me take a picture, save a playlist, download an APK, add a new ringtone, etc.
Is there anyway I can get it to just use the Internal Storage for that sort of thing? Can I "repartition" that internal gigabyte somehow? Maybe some creative symlinks? I really don't want to get SD cards just to add a ringtone!
The both run SlimBean (4.1) if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
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That depends, with root access you can copy ringtones from an sdcard to the root storage, and then move them to the default ringtone folder in the system. They may need to be the same file type which is probably .ogg but its worth a try as far a music is concerned you could make a folder in the root storage called music and place them all on there without issue, only trouble will be finding a music player that will look for them there. The default android player probably won't so it will need to be 3rd party if you need help change the ringtones to .ogg just ask
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Music/iSyncr on SD Card?

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.

Please help me with this hacked version of Pandora

Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.

spicy_puerto_rican said:
Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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Not good...using cracked/edited app is illegal and with my small knowledge of this great forum XDA moderators/admins will not tolerate/entertain these activities...You can be barred from this forum for uploading or spreading cracked apps...
Peace....
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It's not that serious bro.... the guy just had a simple question. You take things too serious. Maybe you should mind your business. Because he simply asked a question about how you can change the storage location. He didn't ask u if it's ok and legal to use a cracked app.
Obv it's illegal but they got modified everything. Remember when rooting was taboo? Smh. If you ain't gonna answer a question... keep ya 2 cents buddy.
No need to reply to this. Your response is not wanted.
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spicy_puerto_rican said:
Hey there folks. I'm in need of some assistance with trying to crack into Pandora further than it already has been hacked. You see, I have this newest version of the Pandora One music app that I got from a friend and it's great. This hacked version allows you to sign in and run Pandora like you bought Pandora One and updates like the OEM version does without any issues. This version also allows you to stream the audio quality in 320 kbps, do unlimited skips, it has no ads, and DOES allow you to use it more like Spotify... via favoriting songs as a Playlist and downloading the songs directly to your phone. When you click on the "like" button, it also gives you an option to download the currently playing song to your phone (which downloads in about 10 seconds or less at full 320 kbps quality).
*Here's the tricky part*
When the songs download, they get automatically downloaded to your phone's internal SD card memory and stored into a folder named for the style of genre/station you were listening to. So if you were listening to your self-created station based on a particular artist such as "Thievery Corporation Radio" or you were listening to any of the automatically-provided stations such as "Dubstep Radio"... songs would be stored in the approriately-named folder in your internal SD card "Music" folder via the following path below.
..... /storage/emulated/0/Music/Dubstep Radio
So now that it is known that songs are stored in your phone's internal SD card's "Music" folder location, does anyone know if there's a way to change this and force Pandora's downloads to be stored in a particular folder you created within your external SD card instead... exactly like in the "Save To" directory settings on the hacked "OG YouTube" app??
I have uploaded the hacked Pandora .apk to this thread, so if anyone can figure this out... have at it and please repost to this thread with the edited .apk to install. I have no idea how to hack/crack apps and add options that the original app would never give you/have access to. My main purpose with this is to take out the step of moving songs from my internal to external SD card.
Thank you.
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ANYWAYYYSS...
Hey buddy. I know this an old post. I'm wondering the same thing. Did u ever find a solution??
Viviana

Nah, no one has helped since my original post was made back then. To this day, I still use the "modified" Pandora (One) and I still have not found a way to change the storage location route it automatically takes by default to save music files.
To anyone interested in taking a crack at it with the app, PM me for further "discussions."

Thread closed.
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Photos save to SD card but videos won't save to SD card

Hi, all. I'm having a weird problem.
While images are saved to the SD card using the stock camera app, videos will not. I checked both internal and external SD cards using ES explorer in the DCIM folder and the videos doesn't exist. The camera app will show that the video is being recorded but after hitting stop, the video isn't there. I switched the option to save to internal storage and it works, switch back to external SD card and no go. I repeat, photos will save to SD, but not videos, so it doesn't look like a permissions problem.
I have a HTC One M8 with Lineage OS version 14.1-20170928-NIGHTLY, but this problem existed also in previous versions (can't tell since when exactly). This happens also to this guy, so it's not a device-specific problem.
Thank you for your answers.

adrax said:
Hi, all. I'm having a weird problem. While images are saved to the SD card using the stock camera app, videos will not. I checked both internal and external SD cards using ES explorer in the DCIM folder and the videos doesn't exist. The camera app will show that the video is being recorded but after hitting stop, the video isn't there. I switched the option to save to internal storage and it works, switch back to external SD card and no go. I repeat, photos will save to SD, but not videos, so it doesn't look like a permissions problem. I have a HTC One M8 with Lineage OS version 14.1-20170928-NIGHTLY, but this problem existed also in previous versions (can't tell since when exactly). This happens also to this guy, so it's not a device-specific problem. Thank you for your answers.
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Your best bet is to post this question within the following Official LineageOS thread for your device.
Since you didn't specify if you had the Single or Dual SIM device, i provided both the thread links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3632018
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3507192
Good Luck!
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Sounds like you guys have quite high end devices. Can it be, the data rate is to high for your SD cards? My low end moto e has may be lower video resolution. No problem in recording to SD.