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Hi
I understand there are some difficulties with the music function in Touchflo 3d
I have a problem that it will only play a track for so long then it stops and freezes !
I have adjusted cache settings to no avail
Just does not seem to be stable
Any ideas ?
Cheers
chvcky said:
Hi
I understand there are some difficulties with the music function in Touchflo 3d
I have a problem that it will only play a track for so long then it stops and freezes !
I have adjusted cache settings to no avail
Just does not seem to be stable
Any ideas ?
Cheers
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Is this from Main Memory or the SD Card?
Beards
In my case it's everything alright (plays bundled songs) until I put memory card with mp3's. Then it stops playing anything and hangs every time I go to music tab.
From SD card
Hi
it's the mp3 albums I have put on my sd card
I have a folder for each album with one .jpg file for the album art
Thanks in advance
Solution
Its the SD card slowing the music tab down. You need to go through your sd card and organize it better and delete unwanted material. The Touchflo3d music tab is basically having to search through your entire sd card everytime you restart the device and open the music tab. Or you haven't opened the music tab for several hours. It's basically checking to see if you've added new music to your storage card.
I wish there was a way to manually search for new music and not have it automatically do it. maybe when some cooked roms come out they can disable the auto search function.
The thing that speed up my music tab dramatically was removing GPS map data off my storage card. Or if you have something like googlemaps or windows live search maps cacheing to your storage card turn that off and delete all those folders off your storage card.
I know this solution kind of sucks if you have something like TomTom or IGO on your storage card, but its the only way i've seen to fix it right now with no cooked roms available.
I would also like to note that the Tytn II had such an issue that was related to opening the ZIP file program. When it auto searched for zip files on your storage card it would nearly slow down to a halt if you had GPS map data or cache on your storage card, because it was searching through every map/cache file on there.
In conclusion this isn't just a Touch HD problem its a SD card processing problem that I've seen on multiple devices inclusing the the trusty Tytn II. The only solution will be is if a cooked ROM or cab file will edit the registry or software and turn off autosearch for the music tab and allow us to manually search for new songs when we need to.
utvol06 is quite correct and is the very reason why I asked earlier which area you use to store music data.
I bet you also have several applications installed that again as utvol06 mentions is using the cards processing time.
If you want total proof, copy a few songs to the Blackstone, take out the SD card and try to play those music files again...... I bet you have no problem.
Beards
Beards said:
utvol06 is quite correct and is the very reason why I asked earlier which area you use to store music data.
I bet you also have several applications installed that again as utvol06 mentions is using the cards processing time.
If you want total proof, copy a few songs to the Blackstone, take out the SD card and try to play those music files again...... I bet you have no problem.
Beards
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Could this be avoided by using a SD card with a higher class rating? I had an 8GB class 2 card supplied with my HD but I swapped it for a class 4 which I'd been using in my Omnia. I have 3GB of music on it at the moment (about 70 albums) and have never experienced any type of freezing or slow down. In fact no problems at all.
Try installing SD TuneUp, you can get it on the following link :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446366
solved a bunch of my slowing problems
chvcky said:
Hi
I understand there are some difficulties with the music function in Touchflo 3d
I have a problem that it will only play a track for so long then it stops and freezes !
I have adjusted cache settings to no avail
Just does not seem to be stable
Any ideas ?
Cheers
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Had similar problem where the Music tab would just hang searching and then find only a few files and would not want to play them. I'm running a 16gb class 2 card mostly full of music with about 4gb space left. After an unplanned hard reset the Music tab is now working like a dream. I don't think it will be the card especially if you have used it on a previous device without problem.
I did hard reset this morning and no help at all. I've got 8GB class 2 but also another 8GB class 4 and is the same. I wonder if tomtom maps and other software on card causes that Sad becuse maps takes lot of space and you can't put them to internal memory.
lipa47 said:
I did hard reset this morning and no help at all. I've got 8GB class 2 but also another 8GB class 4 and is the same. I wonder if tomtom maps and other software on card causes that Sad becuse maps takes lot of space and you can't put them to internal memory.
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I've also got TomTom maps on my storage card. Have you tried a third party music player? Will that work with the SD card/s? I had Pocket Player which worked fine even though HTC Music Audio Manager didn't so in my case it was definitely Touch Flo Music that was the problem. After my hard reset I installed and used Pocket Player before attempting to try the Touch Flo music tab. May be a coincidence but every little bit may help!
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custardo01 said:
Had similar problem where the Music tab would just hang searching and then find only a few files and would not want to play them. I'm running a 16gb class 2 card mostly full of music with about 4gb space left. After an unplanned hard reset the Music tab is now working like a dream. I don't think it will be the card especially if you have used it on a previous device without problem.
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Hi there
I have tried a hard reset several times ?
Have you any other ideas on what made a difference for you to get it working well ?
Many thanks
chvcky said:
Hi there
I have tried a hard reset several times ?
Have you any other ideas on what made a difference for you to get it working well ?
Many thanks
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I'll keep thinking about what I did but one thing I remember is hard resetting without the sd card in the phone - I expect you've already tried that.
In a slightly similar vein... how do I get it to keep playing when the HD goes into sleep mode? (ie the screen goes off)
I want to use my HD instead of my iPod shuffle, but it's not good if it stops playing after 2 minutes when the screen goes off...
Thanks.
I have this problem too, and the SD TuneUp didn't work Unless I need to reinstall it for a new storage card?
I don't want to use any other media player because I want it to be in TouchFlo3D!
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I've also got TomTom maps on my storage card. Have you tried a third party music player? Will that work with the SD card/s? I had Pocket Player which worked fine even though HTC Music Audio Manager didn't so in my case it was definitely Touch Flo Music that was the problem. After my hard reset I installed and used Pocket Player before attempting to try the Touch Flo music tab. May be a coincidence but every little bit may help!
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Windows media player work fine, but I just wanted to play it straight from today plugin
lipa47 said:
Windows media player work fine, but I just wanted to play it straight from today plugin
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I know what you mean it is better from TouchFlo and these problems seem to be affecting many people. I am posting how my registry files look in case it helps someone - at your risk of course nothing to do with me
HKLM/Software/HTC/AudioManager_Eng/Config
HKLM/Software/HTC/AudioManager_Eng/Information
lipa47 said:
I did hard reset this morning and no help at all. I've got 8GB class 2 but also another 8GB class 4 and is the same. I wonder if tomtom maps and other software on card causes that Sad becuse maps takes lot of space and you can't put them to internal memory.
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I too have Tomtom installed on the SD card but as I mentioned earlier I don't have a problem.
The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?
peejayw said:
The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?
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I use PowerAmp and really like it.
peejayw said:
The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?
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I second the other - PowerAmp is great, however Google's "Music" app will definitely find and use music on the external SD Card. I had a problem for a bit and had to reformat my card in my desktop - after that it worked perfectly.
OK, I will try reformatting, whats best,FAT or FAT32?
I'd like to second the Google Music app. I use it and have all my tunes on my SD card. No issues.
I don't recall formatting it. iirc, I plugged it into the tab, rebooted, accessed it and it seemed to see it fine - removed it, moved some music to it from the desktop - plugged it back into the tab, rebooted and everything was fine.
Re-booting did the trick.
Either that or download SCRESCAN from the market and run it. It will refresh the SDcard. quicker than restarting if you tend to remove your SD card frequently.
Winamp works great for me.
google music is good, I just can't figure out how to trigger a refresh. It seems to eventually. Also, I plugged in an ipod with rockbox (looks like a hard drive) and eventually after several minutes it found that too.
willyampz said:
google music is good, I just can't figure out how to trigger a refresh. It seems to eventually. Also, I plugged in an ipod with rockbox (looks like a hard drive) and eventually after several minutes it found that too.
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Thing about it is that it uses the MediaScanner service - like most apps do - to locate files. For some reason the MediaScanner wouldn't scan my particular card until I reformatted it, but as others mentioned a reboot, a media rescan app from the market or sometimes simply insert / remove your card again will trigger the scanner to work.
i use lithium, not free, but hey if you play games i like the fact that you can set lithium up to play from 1 directory so you can skip the annoying game sounds
Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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SlyTuk said:
Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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Just move all the songs from the Music directory (or whatever directory Goggle puts them in) on the internal memory to the Music directory on the SD card. Create the Music directory on the root of the SD card if it does not exist. Then delete them on the internal storage. That's what we do for our Amazon purchased/downloaded music. The music app will automatically find them.
From having a look about it seems the files arent visible without root.
My question therefore still really exists. Unless rooted, what is the point of an sd card in an s4?
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SlyTuk said:
Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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I currently link the Google Music uploader on my PC to my iTunes library so I can use the Google Music app with the cloud. I've come to really dislike the Google Music app so I'm happy this is forcing me to break free of it. I figured I would just use Samsung Kies and point it to my iTunes music folder and let it sync to the SD card (I ordered the 64GB SDXC one from Sandisk for $25 via Amazon Warehouse Deals). It can sync wirelessly via WiFi so that's a nice plus.
So with this setup I can use whatever music player I want, sync it with iTunes wirelessly, and not have to worry about what is in the cloud or on the device since it's all going on the SD card. I was initially worried about only having the 16GB model of the S4 until I thought through this process.
I read the title wrong.
SlyTuk said:
From having a look about it seems the files arent visible without root.
My question therefore still really exists. Unless rooted, what is the point of an sd card in an s4?
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Even if Google hides its files, you can still load ripped CD's and other downloaded music to the SD card like I mentioned above.
Plug your S4 into your computer and do some searching of the internal memory for the songs Google downloaded. I'm surprised they would be hidden from the user like that. Could be, though.
SlyTuk said:
can someone help me with these niggles about my s4?
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Sounds racist. :silly:
Just bought a 64gb Samsung evo Micro Sd card for my Stock unrooted 32gb Pure on MM.Just wondering are most of you guys running your Sd cards as internal or external????If I'm correctI heard Google play music has trouble reading music that's on the external. I currently have about 10gb available of my 32gb after using it for a month.
I'm using a 128GB card as external storage because I need to move large files between multiple apps. Internal storage is probably better if you're running multi-gigabyte games.
If this is your first microSD card: Google hates microSD cards because they compete with their online apps that provide continuous marketing data. Google crippled microSD cards in KitKat 4.4, forcing users to root or return their new phones. Lollipop introduced an ugly-as hell file browser that can, in a very obscure and unreliable way, grant an application permission to access the microSD card. Marshmallow allows you to semi-merge a microSD card, with warnings that you're slowing down your phone, or stay with the Lollipop permission method. Also in Marshmallow, microSD storage has a new file path that changes whenever the card is reformatted or replaced.
Yeah, I've replaced the ****ty Google apps with offline apps. Thank you Moto!
"If I'm correct I heard Google play music has trouble reading music that's on the external."
If this is the case I'm curious if this also is the same with Rhapsody, Spotify, etc., . . .?
opti1 said:
"If I'm correct I heard Google play music has trouble reading music that's on the external."
If this is the case I'm curious if this also is the same with Rhapsody, Spotify, etc., . . .?
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Google play music will at random delete your downloaded play music on an external card. Happened a few times to me.
Thanks just trying to figure out if I should use card as internal or just keep it external, since my phone is 32gb and I don't use to many large apps
Do not convert to Adaptive Storage. That feature is so full of bugs. Just look at the threads on this forum.
rob1216 said:
Just bought a 64gb Samsung evo Micro Sd card for my Stock unrooted 32gb Pure on MM.Just wondering are most of you guys running your Sd cards as internal or external????If I'm correctI heard Google play music has trouble reading music that's on the external. I currently have about 10gb available of my 32gb after using it for a month.
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opti1 said:
"If I'm correct I heard Google play music has trouble reading music that's on the external."
If this is the case I'm curious if this also is the same with Rhapsody, Spotify, etc., . . .?
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Answering my own question . . . on my phone, with the SD card set to external, under Advanced Settings \ 'Choose music download location' , Rhapsody gives me two recommended options. The first option, /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.rhapsody.files didn't work. The second option, /storage/0000-0000/Android/data/com.rhapsody.files does work. The downloaded music files show up there and play in Rhapsody on the phone without issues. If this continues as I add more and more music I'll be a really happy camper . . . up to 128GB of downloaded music at 320kbps . . .
Simple I know!
I have all my music stored on a micro SD card. This used to play fine on my old HTC M8.
However, now I cannlt seem to find an app or similar to enable me to get to my music on the SD card. I like to be independant of 'The Cloud' or third party storage. Consequently, can anybody help me out whereby I can just listen to MY music?
Take it simple, 'cause you may lose me!!!
Use google play music, it is in the all application list.
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Sheythan... said:
Use google play music, it is in the all application list.
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Thanks, but it doesn't pick up my music from the SD card. Hence why I'm asking.
Hııım, weird. On the left menu settings- click on music library and all songs appears in the list. Mine shows all the mp3s. Maybe you need to reformat sd card
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Sheythan... said:
Hııım, weird. On the left menu settings- click on music library and all songs appears in the list. Mine shows all the mp3s. Maybe you need to reformat sd card
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Ah, now that may be something. Checked some of the extensions on music files and they are showing .wma, not .mp3. Does that mean I have to edit all my files so they read as .mp3 or is there a magic way of updating them all?
Skidlid29 said:
Simple I know!
I have all my music stored on a micro SD card. This used to play fine on my old HTC M8.
However, now I cannlt seem to find an app or similar to enable me to get to my music on the SD card. I like to be independant of 'The Cloud' or third party storage. Consequently, can anybody help me out whereby I can just listen to MY music?
Take it simple, 'cause you may lose me!!!
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Try Htc music, you can download it in apkmirror or search in this forum.
Skidlid29 said:
Ah, now that may be something. Checked some of the extensions on music files and they are showing .wma, not .mp3. Does that mean I have to edit all my files so they read as .mp3 or is there a magic way of updating them all?
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You have to try
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