If you use Google Play Music and you recently noticed that with the screen off the music would skip, slow down, and sound genuinely awful it is linked to using the External SD card as storage. It turns out Google had a bug in their program and have started working on a fix. Article below --
Link: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/07/the-google-play-music-app-has-been-wiping-downloaded-cached-music-stored-on-the-sd-card-google-is-fixing-it/
Key points:
- At the moment the app will delete your cache and downloaded songs upon reboot or after un-mounting and mounting SD card
- I don't know if moving it to intermal memory fixes the issue, but the article says it affects SD card users so it is a possible workaround.
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is there a way listening music from removable sd card?
music ap do NOT recognise files
yizhaq79 said:
is there a way listening music from removable sd card?
music ap do NOT recognise files
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What is format of SD Card? What is format of songs. I have a large amount of music on removable SD card and music app sees it all. Try exploring music and select a song on removable card to play. should open player, which might help.
I also have this issue and more..
Rumbleweed said:
What is format of SD Card? What is format of songs. I have a large amount of music on removable SD card and music app sees it all. Try exploring music and select a song on removable card to play. should open player, which might help.
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I have the keyboard and the sd card is using the standard 32bit format. music is in the media folder copied from my hts desire, same as pictures and movies.
All of which work on the desire but are not visable through any of the default installed apps, I have also installed various free apps which again do not show the files.
I can play them seperatly via file explorer and they play properly but do not stay in the history.
Contacted Asus who suggested that I clear the apps cache via settinges/ applications etc.
Tried that several times including reboot before opening apps and no joy.
Also having the issues with google maps downloaded and cached maps. only work on internal memory.
Not rooted yet but depending on these issues will either root or return.
The media services will only recognize internal memory and /mnt/sdcard.
You have to move any music/videos/pictures manually into internal memory or sd card.
The Music app and gallery find the stuff on my Micro SD without 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
Don’t know what will end up being useful info so here goes. I had 1000 songs on my 32 GB sd card and was able to use the built in music player and MusiXmatch to play. Then I updated the MP3’s with embedded cover art and lyrics. Things were still good. Then I installed MXvideo, podcast addict, instagram. Then I copied about 2GB of 12 video files and was playing those with MXvideo. I changed quite a few settings in MXvideo and podcast addict.
Now I went back to MusicXmatch and Music player and my 1000 songs are not shown. They are still there in My files and if I click on them they play with the music player from the sd card. If I try to play a previously created playlist or recently listened to it tells me can’t play that audio type. If I copy a file from the sd card to phone it will be added to the library and play. If I try to go to a folder on the sd card from with in a music app it doesn’t seems to recognize that there is an sd card.
Steps taken
Reboot
Remove SD card, reinsert, reboot
Cleared all default apps that I thought had anything to do with audio
Uninstalled all recent apps
Thought it was something try to take over the playing of .mp3’s but they play fine if on phone
Stumped!
.nomedia file
Ok so I noticed a .nomedia file on the root of the sd card. Evidently, this stops all apps from scanning this or sub folders.
So I deleted it BUT this doesn’t clear the problem. I unmounted SD card, cleared cache, reboot, etc. trying to get the apps to rescan.
What I had to do was unmount, pull card, reboot without card and then insert.
Still don't know what app put that file there.
Hope this helps someone else someday.
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 . . .
My S8+ can see my 128 GB SD card in Device Manager and I can even go into it in the file directory. However, Play Music doesn't 'see' the audio files so I can't dial the music up to play automatically. Picking one track at a time to play is a bear!
I've relocated them to a subfolder called 'Samsung' on the SD logical drive, have pointed Play to my Micro SD, I've deleted and reinstalled the program and I've deleted the system cache to no avail. This is frustrating to no end!
Any suggestions that I've missed? Factory reset maybe. Seems too draconian though.
Thank you for whomever in the ether responds.