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Various mp3s not playing and says corrupted.

Hello, I recently flashed a WM5 ROM on my Hermes and proceeded to copy a bunch of mp3 songs from my computer to my SD card. However it seems as though the vast majority of the mp3 files cannot be played by any media player (tried with WMP and tcmpcp) - they say the data is invalid. Other mp3 files do play but some take really long to buffer and play on WMP.
The files work fine on my computer, I've tried reformatting the SD card to no effect, tried recopying, softresetting, taking out and reinserting SD card. For some reason these files on the SD card itself cannot be copied, moved or deleted via the file explorer or total commander on the phone. Note that opening the SD card on the computer and playing the files there works fine.
Any ideas?

[Q] Music app and SD card on G2

Hi,
I have G2 with stock f/w (2.2) with build # 1.22.531.8.
Here is the issue,
I copied mp3 files from PC to the SD card (used USB cable).
when I start the music app or ringdroid, I can't see any files on my SD card. how ever I can select the files using "ES File Explorer" and play it on music app.
But no files show up on the music app.
Here is what I have done so far,
--> deleted all the ".nomedia" files from the card
--> backed up data and formated the SD card thru the phone
--> copied all the files back
Here are few other things that I tried,
--> removed SD card and inserted it back
--> unmounted SD storage and mounted it within the phone settings
The music files are copied to the /music folder.
Please let me know if I am missing something here.
Thanks for your time.

have you tried a different music player ?
and try putting them in /mp3 (works for me)
maybe format the sdcard on your pc

Transferring .obb files to phone...

Anybody else having trouble with that? Every time I try to transfer the files to my phone storage it fails but it works fine on my external sd card. A work around I found was moving it from my sd card to my phone storage through my device but copying directly to my phone storage fails. Other files such as mp4s or mkvs work fine.
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[Q] ExFAT is read-only on GS4 (i9505)

I've got a 32 GB SD card which I've formatted to exFAT through Windows. The card works as expected when inserted in my PC; I can add, remove and change files. Though, I can not delete files I copied to it from my Windows PC when it's in my GS4, using stock Android 4.3. I can read files and strangely apps can read/write/delete files they create themselves. The problem is, if I delete a file in for instance ES File Explorer or any media player, the UI pretends to delete it (no errors given), but when I refresh the view, the file is still there.
I'm a bit stuck as it's a bit annoying having to move the card to my PC to delete files created on my PC.
Is there a low level difference in how Windows and Android devices handle exFAT? I can't format the card to exFAT from within the phone, it will only default to FAT32. I tried to download the "Official SD card formatter" from sdcard.org, but that one also defaults to FAT32 on 32GB SD cards.
Has anyone else had this problem? Not being able to delete files on an exFAT SD card? If so, how did you get around it without rooting the phone?

Moto X Play File Transfer Issue

I am having issues transferring most of my videos off my device onto my windows computer. All videos can be viewed and played on my phone but I receive an error code of
"Can't play, this file isn't playable. That might be because the file type is unsupported, the file extension is incorrect, or the file is corrupt. 0xc00d36c4" on my computer after I attempt to move the files.
All videos are transferred and saved as an MP4 file, and I can view the date created and the size of the file, although there is no length/run time indicated in the video details on my computer. I have no issues with the transfer of any photos, only the videos.
I did indicate that I am having issues transferring "most" of my videos, because the main bulk of them are stuck on my phone but for some reason, an odd video here and there will transfer successfully and I have no idea why as I am doing nothing different in the procedure of taking the video, transfer settings, or in the program on how to view them. The video details seem the same to me as well for the ones that are corrupt versus the ones that are successful, the only difference being the runtime is indicated for the successful transfers.
Any suggestions?

Squach said:
... All videos are transferred and saved as an MP4 file, and I can view the date created and the size of the file, ...
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Hi,
what's the file size of the videos and what's the exact SD card type - SD, SDHC or SDXC? And which ROM do you use? If an affected video file exceeds 4GB the reason could be the partition format. It seems that at least the LOS17.1 ROM doesn't support exFAT, but uses FAT32 instead (see posts #119 and #121). With FAT32, which is a usual partition type for SD and SDHC, the file size is limited to 4GB. SDXC cards usually use exFAT ("SDXC adopts Microsoft's exFAT file system as a mandatory feature"; Wikipedia SD_card, section Capacity/SDXC).
Windows seems to be able to read from and write to an SDXC card even if it's formatted with FAT32. But this ability could be limited to files below 4GB. And, in Windows you can't even format a SDXC card with FAT32, it only provides NTFS and exFAT.
If your video files are below 4GB or if you don't use an SDXC card the partition type shouldn't be your problem.
Regards

If the MP4 files can be played on your phone, your player on your PC may not support the file type. First, try other Player. If no, try other way to help you transfer your videos files from your phone to pc.