I have all my music stored on my sdcard, but I see everything doubled in my music player. I looked at the storage locations and one is listed in /mnt/exSdCard and the other is in /storage/extSdCard. I also noticed I was missing just a couple artists out of the 100 or so I have if I restricted the music location to the /mnt one. However, if I switch it to /storage, they all show up (or so I believe). Can anybody explain what's going on with it?
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I have searched everywhere, but I know this has to have been listed before.
I have about 4gb of music I'm syncing from my PC, but when I pull up music on phone (no playlist) I see all the music on my device AND the music I synced.
I want to ONLY see the music I add. For photos, there was a reg key I added to set which folders were ignored. Is there a way to do that for music as well?
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zim 2323 - this drove me cRaZy for a couple of weeks until I downloaded OMarket and got "Nitrogen".
I can click and drag my music from my PC instead of having to sync (if you have already d/l double twist - get rid of it - more pain than it's worth) and the system music files are omitted in Nitrogen.
I did the same thing and it ONLY shows the music I added?! I am having trouble understanding what you are trying to do?! I dont have music on the phone and it only pools what I have on my storage card. When i first loaded music it said it was searching for music and it found everthing I added.
zim2323 said:
I have searched everywhere, but I know this has to have been listed before.
I have about 4gb of music I'm syncing from my PC, but when I pull up music on phone (no playlist) I see all the music on my device AND the music I synced.
I want to ONLY see the music I add. For photos, there was a reg key I added to set which folders were ignored. Is there a way to do that for music as well?
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Hey Zim Yes, I think there's a regedit method for this, but the way I do it is to just figure out which folders I need to exclude and then navigate to them in Total Commander, long-press, and choose "properties"...you can then choose to hide the folder just like in regular windows. For me, it turned out that just hiding the "program files" folder on the SD card was enough, but I'm sure you can handle it if there's more you need to hide.
Unfortunately I can't hide program files on the sd card because I have to see the folder for software I use/install.
I also do not want to use 3rd party media players. I want to load music and play natively in sense.
When I goto music TAB it finds every MP3 on ROM nad SD memory. I only want to see music located in \storage card\my documents\music.
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Unfortunately I can't hide program files on the sd card because I have to see the folder for software I use/install.
I also do not want to use 3rd party media players. I want to load music and play natively in sense.
When I goto music TAB it finds every MP3 on ROM nad SD memory. I only want to see music located in \storage card\my documents\music.
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No folder that I've hidden this way seems to be invisibile to me or the sys...they still show up in file explorer, and are still directly accessible by apps etc, they just don't get indexed.
The Music app seems to load every audio file on my internal and sd card memory. How can I make it so that Music will only check my music folders? I tried the .nomedia trick but everything still shows up. I appreciate any help.
Does anybody else have this issue? I have audio books, recorded calls, voice memos, etc showing up in winamp, music, etc
Really? Im the only one here with this problem?
what i have done for every phone i have had is make a music only folder on the sd card and no other files in the folder and it works perfect.
i dont really think winamp and the default music player have folder options but i think power amp does
I do only have music in my music folder. these players are grabbing all audio files, even ones they can't play for some reason (ie: wav), from every folder on both the internal and sd memory. i have put a ".nomedia" file in all other folders besides the one with my music ion it and still no good. i will take a look at this power amp though.
Okay checked out power amp. it does have folder options which totally fixes my issue but it's a paid app... you shouldnt have to pay for this kind of feature.
hmm..that is weird.. I also just created a 'Music' folder on my SD card, and my music player has no problems.. it doesn't see anything else but that folder for music..
I stuck all my ringtones, notifications, alerts on the internal SD like this:
\media\Audio\Alarms
\media\Audio\Notifications
\media\Audio\Ringtones
those do not show up in my music list when I open the music player..
hth...
I uploaded 457 songs to Google Music. I did not want to stream all the time so I checked off that everysong be downloaded physically to the device. It all went swell but I'd like to move the songs to my SD card and I can't find any folder where the music would be stored at all. The App size grew, so I know the songs are in there. Especially since I can play them without wifi or Mobile Data enabled. But I have NO idea where to look as media, music, etc folders are all empty.
Am I missing something? It is a stock rom S4 rooted with some stuff frozen but I don't believe anything frozen is related since Google Play operates perfectly short of the fact that I can not locate the physical files.
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Thanks. Since I have the S4, I assume there is something SLIGHTLY different. I tried everything I could find and while all processes finished correctly, the end result wasn't he same. The music would not store anywhere different.
I also got Google music + v 1.1 and when I type the alternative save location, all the music that JUST worked, loses all artwork and say "storage full" when attempting to play on a COMPLETELY empty SD card. I only have 4 free GB and about 10GB of music and this is driving me crazy.
I'll just have to physically add music to the device and I assume GMusic will just play from it?
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Internal memory only. Hence why a 16gb S4 is too small a memory size.
Sorta going off topic a tad, but here's how to store Google Music tracks on your SD card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYFw9bEAzM8
I'm not sure if it'll work on the S4, as I don't have one to try out just yet, but hopefully it does!
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I uploaded 457 songs to Google Music. I did not want to stream all the time so I checked off that everysong be downloaded physically to the device. It all went swell but I'd like to move the songs to my SD card and I can't find any folder where the music would be stored at all. The App size grew, so I know the songs are in there. Especially since I can play them without wifi or Mobile Data enabled. But I have NO idea where to look as media, music, etc folders are all empty.
Am I missing something? It is a stock rom S4 rooted with some stuff frozen but I don't believe anything frozen is related since Google Play operates perfectly short of the fact that I can not locate the physical files.
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My advice Google Music + S4 is a really mess we don't have enough storage space to install more than 3 large games let along our music collection when Google insist on internal storage only.
Your best and quickest option without rooting is to download your music via Google Music webapp then place the files on your SD card. Not ideal i know but a workaround till Google fixes the music app.
I've got a galaxy S4 running on Google Edition 4.4. I have always used MediaMonkey to add my music onto my device, last week I had added a bunch of new songs to my phone (onto the EXT SD card). I went to add some more today and I had noticed a bunch of songs missing according to MediaMonkey. I went onto the device with windows explorer and to my surprise couldn't locate a random chunk of the songs that I put on last week.
Oddly enough the Google music app can still see and play the songs on my device, but according to my PC they do not exist. The only way I can actually view all the missing songs is through ES File Explorer in which everything is in the music folder and seems fine.
View hidden files is enabled, did something mess up when the songs were copied over or what the heck happened?
Just wanted to see if anyone had run into this before on the Pure Edition (stock 7.0 rom) or any other device, for that matter. The phone finds ~99% of all music, but fails to get the length or title of a handful of tracks (music app just displays the file name as the name of the song instead of the actual encoded title). There is also a ring/notification tone that refuses to show up on the list of available sound effects for notifications and ringers. I could be wrong, but I assume that these are caused by the same underlying problem.
So far, I have tried using the Media Rescan app (even pointed it toward the specific directories in question) and also an app that places/removes a .nomedia file in troublesome directories. A few months ago, I even attempted to completely wipe data for the application that that does the actual media scanning. This succeeded at wiping out my alarm sound effect preferences, but the media scanning problem remained exactly the same.
For the notification noise, I also tried placing it in a "ringtones" and "notifications" folder on both the SD card and internal storage. Tried various combinations of the .nomedia file in the folder as well. There was no change.
There aren't any commonalities that I can see in the files that aren't being picked up (some mp3 and some flac). I have the same music and ringers on my other phone, and it doesn't have any trouble with even a single one of them, so, unless Android got magically better at parsing media between 7.0 and 10, something is cobbed up on my specific device.
At this point, I'm considering doing a hard reset, unless anyone can think of anything else that I could try. Any ideas?