I've searched, and cen't seem to find the answer anywhere. In other tablets, manually updating the media library is a simple selection in settings, but I can't for the life of me find it in the Iconia.
Where (if anywhere) can one manually update the media library?
The settings item isn't there, there are some apps on the market that trigger the update, though.
haag498 said:
The settings item isn't there, there are some apps on the market that trigger the update, though.
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Yeah, I'm sure there are; I sideloaded a widget that triggers a media update.
But the updater is clearly on the tablet, and there should be somewhere on the thing where it can be manually triggered - after all, if the widgets can do it, there should be a way for "mortals" to get it to update its media.
(Anyone know why acer would make it so unnecessarily difficult?)
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Yeah, I'm sure there are; I sideloaded a widget that triggers a media update.
But the updater is clearly on the tablet, and there should be somewhere on the thing where it can be manually triggered - after all, if the widgets can do it, there should be a way for "mortals" to get it to update its media.
(Anyone know why acer would make it so unnecessarily difficult?)
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Android scan for new media at boot, the widget do just that. There is probably a command line for that, but between you and me, what's faster, toggle a widget or enter a line in terminal? Personnaly I use FX file manager, in tools there is a rescam media toggle.
I'm running one of the leaked ICS releases. Will one of these widgets help the stock music player or google music find my music that is stored on the external sdcard?? For the life of me I can't find an option to select a folder to search in any of these programs.
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I'm running one of the leaked ICS releases. Will one of these widgets help the stock music player or google music find my music that is stored on the external sdcard?? For the life of me I can't find an option to select a folder to search in any of these programs.
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You can try to create a symbolic link of ext-sd to your internal sdcard, look on the market there's an app for that. But if remember right, symbolic link cannot be used on fat32 partition, ext2-ext3 can work. Beware I once screwed a sd-card formating it ext2.
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So people,
Is there allready a solution for the library problem ?
Cause every single time! I exit media player i need to
- Delete MSMETADATA
- Update the library
Then I can play my songs, after exit and reopen and yeah all gone.
Is there a good freeware program i can use instead of this crappy ms player?
btw; i have a 2gb storage card and never have problems with the windows explorer.
Yep..I know all about it..
for as far as I know there is no direct solution, there is a thread, where you can edit your register for disappearing SD-Cards..but thats doesnt fix the problem for WMP..
Dont update your library, and all is fine, you can maually create playlists, or just play mp3's right from explorer, or select open file, and go through the whole dirctory....sounds like ppl are overcomplicating this.
ChaoticDruid said:
Dont update your library, and all is fine, you can maually create playlists, or just play mp3's right from explorer, or select open file, and go through the whole dirctory....sounds like ppl are overcomplicating this.
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that doesnt make any sens...
i just want to update and have it saved for more than one *** day..
every time I sync with the pc its all gone ;s
yeah... pain isn't it. what I do is backup the MSMETADATA-folder. Then, when my playlist disappears i delete the old one and copy the backup back (you have to delete the old one, you can't just overwrite it!).
It's also a nuisance, but it doesn't take as long as updating the library again.
If you back up your msmetadata folder to the same place every time, maybe you could set up a couple of macros with VJKeyPress - one for "delete msmetadata" then once that's finished one for "replace with backup"... If you have to do it often I'd certainly make a macro for it.
I downloaded an app called RingsExtender which allows you to choose sounds other than the default sounds ("Look At Me", "Captain's Log", etc) for your notification sounds for GMail, SMS, Google Talk, etc. However, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website or anywhere where I can find notification sounds as .mp3s or .wavs?
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I downloaded an app called RingsExtender which allows you to choose sounds other than the default sounds ("Look At Me", "Captain's Log", etc) for your notification sounds for GMail, SMS, Google Talk, etc. However, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website or anywhere where I can find notification sounds as .mp3s or .wavs?
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just look around. google wavs. i personally download mario sound effect. i really like the yoshi sound
I need an app like that but I can't fnd it. anybody got the apk?
I used that app before until I've realized (read somewhere on the forum) that all you need to do is put sound files into notifications or ringtones folder on your SD card and then they will appear in the list of sounds when you choose new sound for apps.
As for sounds just Google it -- there are plenty of sound resources on the web.
Ringdroid will allow you to cut a piece of an MP3 and save it as a notification or ring. Is that what you're looking for?
do they have to be in .ogg format to work? andexplorer won't let me copy/paste wavs or mp3 into the system folders.
I also have a question on this( sort of)
Where can I get the default ringtones? I think they got removed on cyanogens roms.. but I actually liked some of them. Help? Or pm me. Thanks!
Sorry double post
http://www.zedge.net/
Hands down the best ringtone site Ive come across.
Free , LOTS to choose from , and seems to have a userbase uploading some unique ones.
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do they have to be in .ogg format to work? andexplorer won't let me copy/paste wavs or mp3 into the system folders.
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just make the following directory structure using your computer on the fat32 partition and put the mp3 files there...
/audio/ringtones
/audio/notifications
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I also have a question on this( sort of)
Where can I get the default ringtones? I think they got removed on cyanogens roms.. but I actually liked some of them. Help? Or pm me. Thanks!
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There is a link to Audio Resources in the first post of the cyanogen stable rom thread. That contains everything removed plus more.
thanks for the help!
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just make the following directory structure using your computer on the fat32 partition and put the mp3 files there...
/audio/ringtones
/audio/notifications
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I gave you the wrong info here it is actually..
media/audio/ringtones
media/audio/notifications
I keep my notification sounds on my ext3 partition, because the phone can still acess them when the fat32 partition is mounted in your computer.
All you have to do is push the media folder to /system/sd although I did make to make all the folders manually, only took a couple of minutes though, and the sounds show up on the phone just like they would on the fat32 partition.
hi, i've just got my iconia and I am also new on the Android world. A couple of things I've noticed about the external SD card that maybe somebody could help me to understand.
1.- when I hook my tablet to my windows 7 laptop, I get to see the internal memory on the win explorer but not the external card, so is this normal or do I have to look for more updated drivers on my PC?
2.- with the external SD card on I get to see my files on an android file manager and I get to open any file individually by getting the "select app for opening this file", but this is time consuming so I am wondering if my stock lumiread, gallery, multimedia player have the current limitation of only reading the content from the internal memory. If so, what free alternatives do I have to replace stock apps?
A couple of answers
First, if you install File Manager HD, you won't need to tether your Iconia to your laptop any more. In the app, open the 'menu' and touch 'LAN Connections'. Your Windows PC will show up as an IP address. Make sure to change the IP Address to a computer name (long press, rename) so that next time File Manager won't have to search for it every time. You will be able to transfer anything on the tab to the 'Public' folder on the PC, and vice versa. Depending on what folders are shared on the PC, you will be able to access more on the PC.
I keep my music on my external SD card in a folder named 'My Music'. The stock music/multimedia players found them with no problem.
I haven't tried moving any books for Lumiread to the external SD card, so all I can suggest is to look at the file structure and duplicate it on the ext SD card, copy a book into it (a new one, or move an existing one) and see if it finds it. I don't see anything within the app to set search/storage directories, but maybe it will scan everything like the music apps do.
Have fun with you new Tab. The more you play with it the more you will understand Honeycomb and it won't seem so foreign to you. It does pretty much everything every other OS does, just a little different way.
Kp
Thanks Ken, I downloaded FMHD and will try it soon. I also though about reproducing the lumiread folder on the ext sd card but no luck, so probably a future update on the app will fix that. I tried this as well copying the pictures folder (and also renaming it as 'My Pictures') but the stock gallery just won't see the image files, is there any chance you could see if you get the same results? I have not tried yet on the music stock app. Again, thanks for your help, it is great to find nice people on the web with similar tech passions as I do
Hello Ken, like that app. Wondering if it would be an easy way to tether to my HTC Evo? Thanks in advance for you thoughts.
Bob
Get Quickpic
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Thanks Ken, I downloaded FMHD and will try it soon. I also though about reproducing the lumiread folder on the ext sd card but no luck, so probably a future update on the app will fix that. I tried this as well copying the pictures folder (and also renaming it as 'My Pictures') but the stock gallery just won't see the image files, is there any chance you could see if you get the same results? I have not tried yet on the music stock app. Again, thanks for your help, it is great to find nice people on the web with similar tech passions as I do
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I use Quickpic from the Market (free) since it lets you choose which drives/directories to scan.
Here is what you do.
1. Create the My Pics directory on the External SD card with File Manager HD, put a few pics in it.
2. After installing Quickpic, start the app. It will display everything it finds on the internal SD Card.
3. Touch the Menu button from the main screen.
4. Choose SETTINGS-INCLUDED FOLDERS-ADD
5. Tap the double dots at the top of the list, it will display all the memory devices attached.
6. Tap EXTERNAL_SD. All directories on the card will be displayed. Press OK.
Now press the 'back' button and you will see your pics that are anywhere on the External SD card.
All I did to get the A500 music player to find the music on the External SD card was run the NemoPlayer app and open the music. Once I did that the regular music app found them, too.
Have fun!
Evo
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Hello Ken, like that app. Wondering if it would be an easy way to tether to my HTC Evo? Thanks in advance for you thoughts.
Bob
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Don't quote me on this, but I don't think so. From what I have seen and heard so far it is only connecting to Windows shares. I don't have an Android phone to test with, so can't swear to it, but I know it doesn't see an iPhone, so likely won't see a Mac either.
Anyone else been able to connect to anything but a Windows share? Let us know if you have, and what app you used please.
As of the newest Spotify version (0.5.12.52) the app has a built-in (yet hidden) feature of saving playlists to SD card:
Go to Settings and in the bottom select to "Delete cache and saved data". You will be logged out.
Log in again and go to Settings and set Download/Stream Quality to "Extreme Quality"
Download your playlists and they will be saved to SD card.
Thanks to user nomadjr for the info
Source: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Hel...w-save-to-external-SD-card/td-p/46803/page/60
The old version of the "hack" which is no longer needed:
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[COLOR="Red"]The old version of the "hack" which is no longer needed:[/COLOR] Found this info on the Spotify forums and thought I'd share it with you guys. It enables Spotify to save your downloaded/offline playlists to your external SD card without using any other apps such as DirectoryBind and Apps2SD and whatever.
Basically you install a previous version of Spotify which supported selecting SD storage (no idea why this feature was removed!) and then upgrading to the latest version while keeping that feature intact.
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[*]1. Uninstall Spotify and check that the Spotify folder in sdcard/Android/data has been removed.
[*]2. Install the old version of Spotify from [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?64njb8peymtkawn"]here[/URL]
[*]3. Start the app and don't log in (if you are logged in auto, log out) and press the menu button and select the SD storage option.
[*]4. Change the standard location to /mnt/extSdCard or /storage/extSdCard and then log in (if it bugs when you log in, just exit the app and try again)
[*]5. Select a single playlist to download/offline play and let it finish downloading before you go to the next step. Don't download all your music here, just a little playlist with a few songs is enough.
[*]6. Go to the Play Store and update the Spotify app to the newest version.
[*]7. Now enable Extreme Quality in the new Spotify app and begin downloading all your play lists :) Provided you did everything correctly, Spotify will now save all offline/downloaded music to the external SD card now until you uninstall the app (unknown if future updates will break this feature)
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Check via your file browser that Spotify is indeed saving to the external SD before downloading your entire collection :p If it's not saving to the SD card, the path to the SD card you typed is probably wrong..check it again.
All credits go to:
Chr1212 @ [url]http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mobile-Android/Samsung-Galaxy-S3/td-p/82955[/url]
neo-x @ [url]http://community.spotify.com/t5/Mobile-Android/REQUEST-Previous-version-of-the-client-APK/m-p/79997#M4161[/url]
Thats a nice catch dude, nice one
I assume its working perfect as no-one has commented yet...lovely!
Darkside Agent said:
Thats a nice catch dude, nice one
I assume its working perfect as no-one has commented yet...lovely!
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Thx. Hehe probably or they're using one of the mods for having all apps on the ext SD
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This worked for me too! Thanks for info.
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This appears to still work! Thank you sooo much!!!
Perfect. Many thanks!!
Thanks! Works great on Razr M running Jelly Bean.
One added note:
I used /storage/sdcard1 as the location.
I found this by going to Files > selecting a file on the SD card, viewing details, and finding the path there.
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Thanks! Works great on Razr M running Jelly Bean.
One added note:
I used /storage/sdcard1 as the location.
I found this by going to Files > selecting a file on the SD card, viewing details, and finding the path there.
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Cool..glad you found it useful
Yeah, the actual path to the SD card probably varies on different devices.
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I get a loop
Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?
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Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?
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Works great for me!
Loop issue when trying to log in eith the old version but at least able to set correct location!
Force close the app, update at Google Play and there you go!
Thanks everything worked great!
Worked for my on my S3 with 4.1. Thanks so much for posting this thread; it just opened up 4gb of storage on my phone. The only issue I had was that the app would crash as soon as I opened it, but as long as you set the storage path before it still works.
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Hi, it doesn't work for me! After I have set the location for the offlinefiles i choose login and get a warning message about data transfer, that keeps coming back all over again like a loop! Any suggestions?
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Try force closing it and try again. Or just reboot and try again. Might take a few tries since the old Spotify probably isn't so compatible with Android 4.1.2
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Ok thanks. How ever when I look in the app menu it says the llarge amount of data for the app is stored in the cache... So I guess it didn't work for me...
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Ok thanks. How ever when I look in the app menu it says the llarge amount of data for the app is stored in the cache... So I guess it didn't work for me...
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Okay, that's strange. Also double check that you are using the correct path to the SD card with a file manager app like Root Explorer or something. The standard one i wrote in the post may not work for everyone
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Is this still working?
Can't believe that Spotify haven't officially fixed this issue yet! Going to try this tonight once @ home on my Wifi connection.
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Just tried this by creating a playlist with a couple of songs in it to save on data and I think it has worked lol?
Which folder would the music now be stored in on the ext SD card? Checked in the Internal storage>Android>Data folder and the Spotify folder isn't in there as expected if being stored on extSD, but I can't find it's location on the extSD either
Can confirm this works fine. Had the old apk crash a few times, just kept restarting it and used the force stop in app settings. Now have a lovely 29GB to fill up with some awesome tuneage!
Thanks OP :good:
This is great and all.. BUT
Yes, there is a but ..
I want extreme quality when I sync.
This is not possible on the old spotify-app.
Is this even doable?
Can you update to the newest spotify-app after syncing,
then turn on extreme quality on the newest and get extreme quality on the SD-Card ?
dmbardal said:
This is great and all.. BUT
Yes, there is a but ..
I want extreme quality when I sync.
This is not possible on the old spotify-app.
Is this even doable?
Can you update to the newest spotify-app after syncing,
then turn on extreme quality on the newest and get extreme quality on the SD-Card ?
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I'll take a look at the file size if possible.
As soon as I updated back to the 'new' version of Spotify, I set the download to 'Extreme Quality' and then downloaded another couple of songs.
Anyone know the average size of Extreme Quality file as compared to a normal or high file?
Not sure how large the "normal" files are, but I think extreme are roughly 10mb's...
Since moving from the Galaxy lineup to the V20 I've been unable to set custom ringtones for contacts. On Samsungs there was a built-in app that would handle user audio files & attach to the contact; as long as it was audio the format didn't really matter. So far I've found no such program on the LG. What says the community. Simple process that I'm just not familiar with? TIA.
Partial solution....
Copied all the tones from my external SD to the internal SD ringtones folder. Now they're accessible. Still odd that the system says that no application can handle this when I click the "+".
ProfEngr said:
Partial solution....
Copied all the tones from my external SD to the internal SD ringtones folder. Now they're accessible. Still odd that the system says that no application can handle this when I click the "+".
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The only way I know is to go into each contact, select edit, and change the ring tone.
I did it in following steps.
Open the contact you want to set custom ringtone and click "Edit"
scroll down to the place Ringtone. Normally, the name of your default ringtone will be displayed there.
click on it and list of the ringtones available on your phone will be shown.
click on the (+) button on the top-right corner. Your music app will be opened. (if you have more then 1 music app, it will ask you to choose one.
select the audio file that is appeared in the list of the music app.
That's it. It works every time.
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I did it in following steps.
Open the contact you want to set custom ringtone and click "Edit"
scroll down to the place Ringtone. Normally, the name of your default ringtone will be displayed there.
click on it and list of the ringtones available on your phone will be shown.
click on the (+) button on the top-right corner. Your music app will be opened. (if you have more then 1 music app, it will ask you to choose one.
select the audio file that is appeared in the list of the music app.
That's it. It works every time.
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Probably TiBu then. I froze a bunch of stuff soon as I got root. Didn't know the "Music" app handled this. I have others that I prefer so it got iced.
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Probably TiBu then. I froze a bunch of stuff soon as I got root. Didn't know the "Music" app handled this. I have others that I prefer so it got iced.
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probably. don't freeze the music app. Actually i preferred it a lot since currently it is the only app that can utilize the DAC 100%. The other apps sometimes pass over 48khz mark, but can't reach the output 128khz like the stock music app.