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media player won't recognise storage card

Hi
I have just bought a san disk 2gb mini sd card for my mini s and after a few teething problems I can put items onto it.
I thought brilliant so i loaded on 300 of my fav songs. For some reason windows media player when updating the library notices the files although it doesn't add them to the library so I can't play a list of songs I can play one and then what ever is in the library.
The library only adds from "my deivce" and not from the storage card.
Can someone help me as I really like my music and can't listen to it properly because of a fault.
If not can anyone suggest a music player that works on the mini s/wizard.

Yes people are having a problem with 2gb cards on the wizard - there seems to be a bug.
Some people find it works ok if over half full - is yours?
Second people reporting success after reformatting the card on the device (backup everything on the card before you do this) use storage tools or my fav sktools
Hope it works - i love my music too!

Microsft needs to pay for all the high blood pressure that Windows Mobile devices cause.
1)Don't format your 2GB card to FAT32. Use FAT. It appears the PPC is still living in the 80's. If you use FAT32 it might appear to work fine but everynow and then you'll get currupted files.
2) Get Windows Media Player 11. You can then happily disable the aweful media sync feature in activestink 4.x. WMP11 will recognize your card as long as your PPC is synced.
3) I don't have this problem in WMP11 but in WMP10 if your WMP in your PPC is open, it might not sync your new playlist even though it appears to be doing so.
It appears Bill and the boys at MS are taking mobile media seriously even though they are a decade late. But I'm optimistic :wink:

Does not really solve your problem as such, but Media Player is a real dog and a waste of time IMO. Get TCPMP for video (the best and free) and a good music player like Mort, GSplayer or Pocket Player.

I'm having the same problem. I'm using WMP11 and it does not see my 2 gig SD card. I used this set up before with WMP10 and it would always see my SDcard. Ant help on this would be great. It I just plug my sdcard directly into the computer then WMP11 sees it.
Thanks
Garth

Anyone success with 2G Card in FAT32 sync with MediaPlayer 11?

Same Problem
I have a 1GB miniSD card in my Cingular 8525, and windows mobile Media player fails to load any of the songs that are on the storage card into the media library. I CAN play any of the songs one at a time. It's just that the library won't load or recognize the files.
I've tried everything. I've selected "update libary" , I've sync with activesynk...
I don't think this is a size issue. I've tried a few files, I've tried many files.
I don't think this is a storage size issue, as you guys are having the problem with 2GB SD cards, and I'm having the problem with 1GB miniSD cards.
I think this is probably a Media player bug. Do any of the other media players support a library like function?

i have a 512mb card and i don't have WMP11 working either. i am starting to think that it is a activesyc 4.5 beta problem but now sure. also i noticed that my new contacts are not in outlook either. it says it has synced them but when i open outlook on my pc they are not there. oddly enough back to music i can sync music through yahoo music engine perfectly. it shows my storage card and my device.

I have the same problem. I'm using a Cingular 8525 with a 2GB micro sd card, WMM, and WM11. This worked for me: create a playlist in WM11 and sync to 8525. Then, using WMM, use the open file command under menu to find the file you created (mine is located in: file system/storage card/playlist) and open it as a playlist.
It didn't solve the real problem, but at least you can play more than one song at a time.
I hope this helps .
P.S.
I see little red asterisk on the storage card folders in WMM, what do they mean?

garthed said:
I'm having the same problem. I'm using WMP11 and it does not see my 2 gig SD card. I used this set up before with WMP10 and it would always see my SDcard. Ant help on this would be great. It I just plug my sdcard directly into the computer then WMP11 sees it.
Thanks
Garth
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Please refer to this link: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28840468/wmp11-and-windows-mobile.aspx
It worked for me on an Universal
Eric

It works for me too!!!!! Thanks for posting!
leblan said:
Please refer to this link: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28840468/wmp11-and-windows-mobile.aspx
It worked for me on an Universal
Eric
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okay this is what I have tried with no success in both the test 3.3 rom and the cingular 3.3 rom.
i have deleted all those folders /music /msmdata /wdrm.
I have even formated(slow and fast) the SD card from sk tools, and I have gone into the windows registry(pc) and deleted all sync devices.
no matter what I do I cannot see my storage card in wmp11 in windows vista. on either my hermes or my wizard.
if anyone can help me out i would really appreciate it.

I'm the same, can't find my storage card anywhere! Help!

I had the same problem with my 2 gig corsair... What i did for mine to work for me is I deleted everything on the card than instead of just puting files on the card i made folders(my music, my videos, programs)... Sounds crazy but i haven't had problems ever since.

go http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28840468/wmp11-and-windows-mobile.aspx and you'll be satisfied.
It works for me and I am quite sure it will work for all of you.
THT, Alexey

leblan said:
Please refer to this link: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28840468/wmp11-and-windows-mobile.aspx
It worked for me on an Universal
Eric
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OMG! Thank you so very much Leblan. This worked for me too. I had to delete my music folder, so I lost all my sync music. But who cares, now wmp is reading my storage card again!
thank you

I have an 8525 that did the same thing. Here is what worked for me.
Remove the Micro-SD card. Open Media player and click on menu. Then click on Library. Click on menu again and select the "update Library". Let it run and find the updates. After it completes close Media Player and insert the SD card in the slot. Now open Media player again and click on Menu. Click on Library, click on menu again, click on "Update Library" and let it run. It should see the card files and add them to the library. After it completes open the menu again open the library and look for the Storage card. It should now show up with all of your songs. (mine has 346 songs and it found them all).

how to fix this problem.
On the storage card, delete the following file Storage Card\MSMETADATA\XMEMediaLibrary.mlb You may have to tap & hold in the File Manager window on a blank area and choose "Show All Files" in order to see this folder. If this XMEMedialibrary.mlb isnt in that folder, just delete the whole folder, that worked for me. Also delete the file: Mobile Device\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\XMEMediaLibrary.mlb

Touchflo music function

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!

Any Ideas
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!

custardo01 said:
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.

Problem with Manila Audio Manager

Hi,
Lately i have been facing problem with audio manager in manila.
When i play a song in manila, the music is played for few seconds and then it stops. If i hit the play button again, it plays from the start and again stops in few seconds. But this problem is not happening in Windows media player.
I tried multiple memory cards and changed different ROMs. Also I have formatted the memory card withd efault allocation size and also checked the card for errors. Used the SD tune up as well. There seems to be no issue with the memory card.
Currently running Xanny's 2.0 Rom. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Amuthan

I'm getting the same thing. Tried playing some music earlier (think I have Maryone 23051) and the music stops playing after about 1.5 minutes. Pressing pause the first time does nothing then again and it starts laying from the beginning.

Can some one throw some light on this problem please?

It plays fine in Media Player so must be a problem with the new manilla or the newer 6.5 builds. I'll try another to see if there is any difference.

Also:
Tried searching but didn't find anything useful. One person said to format the card due to fragmentation but tracks that used to play fine when I first had the phone (and will be no more fragmented than they were then) now pause trying to play them

Same problem here. It started since I am using WM 6.5 (and at the same time Manilla 2.5).
I have not found any fix since.

Same problem. Checked and freshly formatted SanDisk 8gb SD card in my TD2. Mediaplayer works fine, manila player stopps playing after few seconds. In fact, it seems to be an manila problem...
It seems whenever an energy saving event occurs, the player stopps responding. if you - while playing a song - tapping the screen, checking mails, running the browser etc. the songs will play until you stop working. Perhaps it is a feature ;-)
Any usefull idea would be helpfull...
Greets!

I wouldn't say for definate that its a manila issue, as plenty of users, myself included use wm6.5 manila 2.5 roms and have not got this issue.
Leaving in the sd card in during flashing process has been known to currupt or damage the card which may be the reason for your failure.
Only solution I've heard of so far is to format your card. If you can, try backing up your card first

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I wouldn't say for definate that its a manila issue, as plenty of users, myself included use wm6.5 manila 2.5 roms and have not got this issue.
Leaving in the sd card in during flashing process has been known to currupt or damage the card which may be the reason for your failure.
Only solution I've heard of so far is to format your card. If you can, try backing up your card first
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OK, if i remove the SD card, the player works fine using only internal memory.
BUT: the storage card is definitly not damaged (freshly formatted) and hasn't been in the device while flashing. Still works fine in a lot of other devices.
AND: as i tryed any other SD-Card here i got the same issue
AND!!! : why does the player plays every song from SD card without breaks while tapping the screen?
Any further idea? --- greetings

solution
Quite simple:
I found a folder in my music database with write protection enabled. I changed the folder and disabled write prtection and the manila audio player is working without any problems now!
Manila player needs wirite permissions to the audio folders, because manila puts a hidden coverart file in each audio folder: hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg
I think, in fact - this is a (small) bug in the latest 6.5 ROM build. Can't remember to this behavior in 6.1 build...
Hope it helps... Regards

Just been doing a bit of fiddling and realised TF3D doesn't like playing certain albums I have on my SD card. Tried formatting the card with different setttings copying across a couple of albums each time and had no luck. One time I only copied one album across and it played perfectly.
All the Lame encoded files seem to work fine but have some others which stop the music playing even if they are not being played themselves, but are just on the card.

The other thing I noticed when the music kept stopping was the updating spinny arrows kept appearing while the music started playing. Not doing it now I've copied over just lame encoded files and all is playing well.

Track order on HTC sense player off SD card

Hi. I'm new to this so apologies if this problem has already been answered. I've bought and installed a 16GB sd card in my HD2 and have transferred a fair bit of music to listen to. However media player (HTC sense) is playing albums in an incorrect order (seemingly random, not alphabetical). When I transfer an album from the sd card to the 'my music' folder on the device, it plays in the right order! I've tried neptune which plays in the correct order but that won't respond to my bluetooth headset (when I press play, it automatically uses media player). Now when I copied and pasted an album onto my device which was also on the sd card, media player displayed the tracks twice in the correct order 1-15 consecutively (1-15, then 1-15 again). I deleted the device version and the sd card version went back to the seemingly random order. Can anyone solve this irritating problem?

HTC sense player wont find my music

Used to work fine but over the weekend my phone started crashing whenever i went to music tab. have scince done several har resets and tryed different rom flashes. no longer crashes but wont find the music.
currently useing miri-dinik (anastacia) rom, and and sandisk 32gb class 4 card.
Sense player origonaly found the music when rom first flashed last night but after a couple of hours stoped working. Windows media player still finds it all and plays it no problem.
can anybody help.
Correction!
have just realised sense player done find them in all songs tab but will not display anything under the artist album or genres tab
Please help i have a lot of music so browsing all 25gb by song title only is hell.

I found this on the HD2 and HD Mini when moving from a 16Gb to 32Gb MicroSD card; I suspect it's a problem with not being able to read data from the card quickly enough, and will required a ROM patch/update.

Same thing here, music stops after a few seconds and music player in landscape will give me a 'no music found' error.
I can see my music in the all songs tab, but in the albums tab I see none.
I tried 3 different ROMs Artemis, energy and for now Cleanex, all with the same error.
I tried formatting the SD-card (16GB) and sync all my songs with WMP, this did the trick for about 5 minutes
Really frustrating because music player is the app I use the most.

where are y'all finding 32gb micro sd's??? (legit ones)

I'm having this exact same problem. Normaly the musicplayer would always load the songs but now it just can't organise it anymore. I can view all my songs on the all songs tab though, but I like to listen to albums, so this is not an option for me, neither a different player, because I actually liked this one till it gave me this problem.
What I found out:
- The player will work again when you perform an hard-reset, but when you're doing your first soft-reset, the musicplayer stops working and is unable to organise the songs.
- After a hard-reset, your also not supposed to take out your SD-card, because you will get the same problem again.
- The player also starts working again if you delete \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Audiomanger_Eng.vol, but after one single soft-reset it will stop working.
Does anybody have a solution to this problem? I also tried to format my SD-card, but it gave me the same problem. The music player always worked for me, till now. I would really appreciate help.
P.S. Sorry for any grammar or spell faults, I'm dutch.

I had the same problem and solved it by formating my SD card and copy all contens back to the SD card. After a soft reset of the Phone it could find the music and play without stopping again.

Unfortunately it didn't work for me. Any other solutions?

The only original SanDisk 32 GB mSD is CLASS 2 ! There is no CLASS 4
Maybe You got faked mSDs ?

No mine is from Kingston and it is Class 2 and it's 16 GB. Like I said it always worked till now.

Sorry for the double post, but I just really want my musicplayer working again, it's one of the main reasons I bought this phone. Does anyone have the solution for this problem?

Daan0 said:
Sorry for the double post, but I just really want my musicplayer working again, it's one of the main reasons I bought this phone. Does anyone have the solution for this problem?
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How did you your music on the card? when I first got my hd2, I just basically copied my music folder from my pc by the typical "drag n drop" method which rendered the sense music player pretty much useless. What I did was have Itunes on my pc organize, (File/Library/Organize Library), the library and then locate this folder in the music folder, (Music/Itunes/Itunes Music/Music). Open that music folder and you will see that Itunes has filed the music by artist alphabetically. I then selected all these folders and copied them over (except for ringtones and podcasts folder) and have had no problems since.
Basically I think that since we are dealing with a phone that is a Windows based system, the more you can organize folders in a directory oriented manner, the better. Wether this will solve your problem or not, I really don't know. I read another post where a hd2 owner made a directory of alphabetical folders, A,B,C, etc, and put the artists in each folder accordingly and had similar results. Again, don't know if it will help or not.
Also, I don't use the WMP. Don't like it, never have liked it even on my pc. On the hd2 it seems shaky at best so I stay away from it. Just my personal experience.