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I've got a little issue, Ive put a few mp3's on the root of the sdcard in a folder called "Music" but the Music app says there isnt any music.
Ive tried a bunch of things
/audio
/Audio
/music
/ *basically on root*
/Music
/dcim/audio
/dcim/Audio
/dcim/Music
/dcim/music
/android/Music
/android/Audio
^ all the directories ive tried. I'm on CM5.0.8
My phone defaulted it to "My Music", so try that.
Use a file browser (like Astro or any other).
Then go to that folder and double click an mp3, Can't remember if it asks you what to use to open if or if it just opens it.
Then the music app will know the folder and the rest of your music will be listed.
If that rom comes with Dev tools(app)
-Open it
-click media scanner
make sure your songs are mp3 or aac(?)
your phone has to rescan for media. i ended up turning my phone off then back on until i rooted and changed to a good rom. it doesnt automatically scan your phone as this would drain the battery.
It worked thanks guys! It actually picked it up in android/music but I moved it back to root. Lol media player lists doubles for everything now but I'm happy it worked.
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So like i said in the title, i used the app SDRescan to force my phone to rescan media because i found that the gallery app was not automatically refreshing when i added new media to the phone.
I ran the app and a couple minutes later it finishes. Turns out it deleted ALL the phones videos (luckily no pictures). But the problem im having now is that the gallery app is not detecting any media on my phone. There are still pictures, and i readded a lot of my videos back, but the app is showing no media on the phone
I force closed the app, cleared it's data etc. I even formated my sd and put the files back on. Still it shows i have no media.
I thought about taking a new picture with the camera to see what would happen then, and guess what, now it shows i have 1 picture in the gallery. Is there a way i can get the gallery to see the other 1000 pictures i have taken? And all my videos?
edit: i downloaded the stock android gallery app but its the same in that app too. So it's not just HTC's app. Somehow android isnt recognizing my old media.
anybody? this is really killing me.
edit: did a factory reset and the problem persists What's have i done!
hmmmm this is an interesting one. ive had this before but i couldnt remember how i fixed it ...
what ROM are you using, or are you stock ?
SDRescan did nothing to your phone. Your are having problems with the stock Android Media Scanner in your phone. SDRescan does nothing else but notifies the Media Scanner to do it's job on demand, instead of on-boot or SD card mount. That's all it does.
So in short you are having problems with Android Media Scanner, try to look around in this area. I seen few reports on internet when media scanner deleted some files.
fkofilee said:
hmmmm this is an interesting one. ive had this before but i couldnt remember how i fixed it ...
what ROM are you using, or are you stock ?
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On stock... I really hope u remember, nothing I try is helping. Even after a factory reset which is weird
faugusztin said:
SDRescan did nothing to your phone. Your are having problems with the stock Android Media Scanner in your phone. SDRescan does nothing else but notifies the Media Scanner to do it's job on demand, instead of on-boot or SD card mount. That's all it does.
So in short you are having problems with Android Media Scanner, try to look around in this area. I seen few reports on internet when media scanner deleted some files.
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I figured the problem lies with the media scanner so I went into Settings > Manage Applications > Media Storage > clear data... but nothing changes.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
Isn't this your problem ?
I did have a .nomedia folder on my phone with some videos in and those were deleted. But also the videos in my DCIM folder were deleted. However im over that, my problem is that media scanner isnt picking any media.
I thought i would try another microsd card i had in my sister's mp3 player, and believe it or not android picked up the media. So somehow i think this SDRescan app damaged my sc card..
No, it didn't. Media Scanner has separate databases for each and every SD card. So it's the database for your old SD card which doesn't work, when you put in a new card a new indexing database was created for the ID of your new SD card.
This has happened to me a few times, all i do is find the file using "ES File Explorer" then select to open it with the default video player and it gets added to my library of videos
It's easy to do for a couple of vids, but not really practical if you've got like 10+
faugusztin said:
No, it didn't. Media Scanner has separate databases for each and every SD card. So it's the database for your old SD card which doesn't work, when you put in a new card a new indexing database was created for the ID of your new SD card.
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i see. but this index, is it not stored on the phone memory? because a factory reset still hasn't solved the problem. I also formatted the sd card, so shouldn't the phone recognize it as a new memory card then?
sromer said:
This has happened to me a few times, all i do is find the file using "ES File Explorer" then select to open it with the default video player and it gets added to my library of videos
It's easy to do for a couple of vids, but not really practical if you've got like 10+
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I tried that wil ES File explorer, and other explorers i have and it doesnt work for me.
It should. You don't have by any chance .nomedia file in root folder of the SD card, right ?
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It should. You don't have by any chance .nomedia file in root folder of the SD card, right ?
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I do. I'll try delete it and see if that helps
Edit: nope
You deleted it and what did you do next ? Did you started SDRescan or rebooted your phone ? Until the Media Scanner kicks in, there won't be any change.
The point is :
1) if you had a folder with data and then added the .nomedia file to it, then unfortunately thanks to the inner workings of the media scanner the file gets deleted instead of only removing the reference from database
2) the card will get indexed again only at boot, SD card insertion or when you execute apps like SDRescan which start the Media scanner manually.
yes! it works now!! thanks for all your help faugusztin!!
after i deleted the the .nomedia folder i did a restart and the problem persisted, but now (like two hours later) i just thought i would go and check the gallery app again and low and behold all my media appeared. Maybe the media scanner didnt finish or something idk. But im happy now
But i was under the impression that the .nomedia trick only blocks media from within that folder? Why was it blocking all my media?
Anyway thanks for all your help mate. really appreciated.
It does index, but it takes time.
It block media from that folder - and all subfolders. It is a sign which says "nothing to see there" - that includes the subfolders of that folder too. Since you had the file in root folder of the card, it didn't indexed anything.
I was too late...glad you got it sorted supreme.
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I decided to setup Bittorrent Sync to sync music to my phone's external SD card, but quickly discovered that Android 4.4+ won't let the BT Sync App write to /extSDcard/Music.
I figured: the media scanner can look in /extSDcard/Android/com.bt.sync/files/..., right? This will work, right? But it doesn't; if I put anything in /extSDcard/Music, it is picked up by DoubleTwist, etc, right away, but stuff in the part of the filesystem that the BT Sync App can write to is not found.
I looked for .nomedia files in the path, but didn't find any. The Linux guy in me wants to make a symlink from Music to the BT Sync dir, but that doesn't appear to be possible without rooting.
I use my phone for work and it is encrypted and has MobleIron, etc. on it; I think rooting is out of the question. Is there some way I can make this work?
The media scanner looks everywhere that doesn't have a .nomedia file in the folder or abovelying folder.
To my knowledge, there's a .nomedia file in /extSDcard/Android created by Android by default. It excludes all folders contained in /Android from the media scanner, as it also applies to subfolders.
ShadowLea said:
The media scanner looks everywhere that doesn't have a .nomedia file in the folder or abovelying folder.
To my knowledge, there's a .nomedia file in /extSDcard/Android created by Android by default. It excludes all folders contained in /Android from the media scanner, as it also applies to subfolders.
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I just double-checked, and I don't see any .nomedia files (with hidden file view enabled, of course) in the tree leading up to /extSDcard/Android/com.bittorrent.sync/files/music where my shares live, yet the music database shows none of the material there.
Is there way to see a log of what the media scanner is doing?
Hey xda!
After days of trying to get a decent solution out of the Sony support guys, I gave up and turned to the only place I know I'll probably find my anwser!
So here's the scenario: I've recently purchased a Z2 (yesterday) and immediately started syncing my music up with the provided application which is Media Go. The unfortunate thing is, that my music refuses to show up in the WALKMAN app. I've looked up some probable solutions on the web such as clearing the data and cache of the WALKMAN app, restarting the phone several times, doing a factory reset, but I ran into a dead end every time. I've also heard that the WALKMAN app cannot recognize music which are in the external storage, but that's not the case here since I dont have an SD card inserted at the moment. I've also read that the app cannot recognize music without proper ID3 tags, but I don't think thats the case here since every music player, even Media Go, can recognize every single mp3 I have on my PC.
Anyone else Xperienced (pun intended) this problem and found a solution?
Thanks in advance!
-Khemist
First thing: The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage. From Kitkat and beyond, that's almost the exclusive use for it, without root.
Second: does other players recognizes songs? Download one of the most used, are your choice, and see if they find it.
Third: Seems obvious, but everyone forgers, sometimes, the most obvious stuff. Use a file manager, on the phone (there should be one called File Commander built in), and check the Music folder to see if your media files are there.
Forth: Use the file manager in Windows, and transfer a few music files to the Music folder. Reboot the phone, wait a few minutes (just to make sure), and check if the music is now on Walkman...
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The good thing about android is that you can just copy and paste the files onto your phone storage without using a syncing app.
Have you tried copying one of the music files onto your storage straight away into a new folder you create? (the name of the folder doesn't matter at all)
In addition, check the folder with your music files. (The one music go created) Chances are...there is a file in it called '.nomedia'. It's usually a hidden file, so make sure you select 'show hidden files' when you use a file management app. (I recommend Es file Explorer. You can find it on google play store, but others are fine too as long as you get to see hidden files) The file is there to stop media files in the folder from being recognised.
P.S the phone does recognise media files on external storage. That's the whole point of having one really.
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Felimenta97 said:
First thing: The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage. From Kitkat and beyond, that's almost the exclusive use for it, without root.
Second: does other players recognizes songs? Download one of the most used, are your choice, and see if they find it.
Third: Seems obvious, but everyone forgers, sometimes, the most obvious stuff. Use a file manager, on the phone (there should be one called File Commander built in), and check the Music folder to see if your media files are there.
Forth: Use the file manager in Windows, and transfer a few music files to the Music folder. Reboot the phone, wait a few minutes (just to make sure), and check if the music is now on Walkman...
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Hey! Thanks for the extremely fast response!
First, the music is located in the internal storage. It's in the root/Music folder. The structure looks like /Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS
Tried what you suggested and strangely , none of the downloaded music players recognize any kind of music on my phone!
Also tried manually copying files (by following the "/Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS" and by simply copying individual files into the /Music/ folder) but still refuses to recognize my music.
Have you tried creating a NEW folder and put some music files into it?
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khemist92 said:
Hey! Thanks for the extremely fast response!
First, the music is located in the internal storage. It's in the root/Music folder. The structure looks like /Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS
Tried what you suggested and strangely , none of the downloaded music players recognize any kind of music on my phone!
Also tried manually copying files (by following the "/Music/ARTIST/ALBUM/SONGS" and by simply copying individual files into the /Music/ folder) but still refuses to recognize my music.
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The other guy pointed some important information. Kudos to him
Try using a more powerful file explorer (the recommended ES File Explorer is a good one. You can try Solid Explorer too, if you like it better) and do a search on the whole storage (remember to activate the Show Hidden files/folders) for .nomedia files.
PS: That isn't the root of the storage, in theory. From a user standpoint, it is, but technically there are a few other folders before you reach the actual root.
Again, don't forget to thank the other guy. I kinda just repeated what he said, but in another way. From the time O am writing this, I haven't saw a reply from you to him...
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Tried creating a folder of my own and putting some music files into it, but nothing sadly, I've checked for a .nomedia file in the /Music/ folder but i dont see anything in there. However, there is a .nomedia file in the root of the internal memory. Maybe that's the root of my problem?
khemist92 said:
Tried creating a folder of my own and putting some music files into it, but nothing sadly, I've checked for a .nomedia file in the /Music/ folder but i dont see anything in there. However, there is a .nomedia file in the root of the internal memory. Maybe that's the root of my problem?
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Most likely yes. Delete it and it should work. I wonder why that file was there in the first place...
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Hey everyone!
Thanks for the fast responses. The solution was indeed to delete that dreaded .nomedia file there... I too wonder why did Sony put there in the first place! Thanks again for your help!
-Khemist
Felimenta97 said:
First thing: The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage. From Kitkat and beyond, that's almost the exclusive use for it, without root.
Second: does other players recognizes songs? Download one of the most used, are your choice, and see if they find it.
Third: Seems obvious, but everyone forgers, sometimes, the most obvious stuff. Use a file manager, on the phone (there should be one called File Commander built in), and check the Music folder to see if your media files are there.
Forth: Use the file manager in Windows, and transfer a few music files to the Music folder. Reboot the phone, wait a few minutes (just to make sure), and check if the music is now on Walkman...
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Wooah wait there...Z2 has always been reading the music from SD card how can you say that it doesnot...?
I dont think the native music player has any problem reading it from the SD card...even though KK 4.4 has restrictions
Also throw the music file anywhere in the phone either internal or external inside any folder it recognises automatically unless the database is corrupt...
unmaskedfalesh said:
Wooah wait there...Z2 has always been reading the music from SD card how can you say that it doesnot...?
I dont think the native music player has any problem reading it from the SD card...even though KK 4.4 has restrictions
Also throw the music file anywhere in the phone either internal or external inside any folder it recognises automatically unless the database is corrupt...
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But I said it reads music from SD Card...
"The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage."
Felimenta97 said:
But I said it reads music from SD Card...
"The Z2 does recognizes Music in the external storage."
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My bad...
What version is Walkman? The version that came with my phone wouldn't load up my music either but once I updated it worked as expected.
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unmaskedfalesh said:
Wooah wait there...Z2 has always been reading the music from SD card how can you say that it doesnot...?
I dont think the native music player has any problem reading it from the SD card...even though KK 4.4 has restrictions
Also throw the music file anywhere in the phone either internal or external inside any folder it recognises automatically unless the database is corrupt...
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My Z2 sees all the music, I have the MUSIC folder created on my SD Card.
The only explorer which can do it is File Commander.
Jumping in on this thread....
I use to play my music unlimited through the Walkman, but all of a sudden it seems to have stopped doing so when I try to log back in it doesn't allow me to do so, I click on music unlimited within the Walkman it loads up the screen to login but neither the "login" button or "create account" button will do anything if I click on them they make the tap sound which is registering that they are being clicked but nothing else, the other two links on the page will open ( Learn more and Terms and conditions )
I've tried removing both apps, clearing all the data and reloading everything back on but it's still the same, anyone got any ideas.
Walkman plays my 70gb library on my sdcard1 just fine...
I use Google play music and Walkman does not see my music.
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I use Google play music and Walkman does not see my music.
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Oh yeah, that's cause Google play music downloads your music to the device and stores it in some cryptic way. I forgot about that.
But, if you put your music on your phone yourself via pc, EVERY music player will be able to see it.
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Oh yeah, that's cause Google play music downloads your music to the device and stores it in some cryptic way. I forgot about that.
But, if you put your music on your phone yourself via pc, EVERY music player will be able to see it.
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Google music sucks. It will only let you download the music and it's stored in some secret way. I use amazon mp3 at least you can actually put the files on your added card. Shame on Google.
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Hello.
For a long time now I haven't been able to listen to any music at all from my phone. This hasn't really bothered me because I rarely use it for music. Now I just discovered this again and I can't let it go, I cannot just leave this. I am irritated, frustrated and it's annoying the hell out of me.
Google Play Music (or any music app) won't find my music! I have put it in different folders and locations but nothing helps. I can't find my downloaded music either through Google Play Music. When it's downloaded the app tells me it's stored locally somewhere and it works offline, so it's on my phone somewhere (I know Play Music stores them in numeric names).
The odd thing is though, if I set a music file as my ringtone, Play Music will find the song under "Unknown artists" and "Unknown Albums". THIS is what irritates me, why can't it just find my Music folder?
I've tried a lot of things;
Formatted my phone and reinstalled it (even stock won't find it)
Cleared Cache and Dalvik
Reinstalled the app(s)
Tried different formats (.ogg, .m4a, .mp3 for example)
Used apps to "Rescan" my internal storage (media finder)
I had this issue on my old Samsung device with CM10. On my N6P I'm currently running PureNexus 6.0.1-20160803-OFFICIAL.
Whoever can help me with this will be my hero, trust me, this is so freaking annoying I'm actually considering buying an iPhone............... Alright, that was a little too extreme, I would never do that. That's just the frustration inside me talking.
BunnyPig said:
Hello.
For a long time now I haven't been able to listen to any music at all from my phone. This hasn't really bothered me because I rarely use it for music. Now I just discovered this again and I can't let it go, I cannot just leave this. I am irritated, frustrated and it's annoying the hell out of me.
Google Play Music (or any music app) won't find my music! I have put it in different folders and locations but nothing helps. I can't find my downloaded music either through Google Play Music. When it's downloaded the app tells me it's stored locally somewhere and it works offline, so it's on my phone somewhere (I know Play Music stores them in numeric names).
The odd thing is though, if I set a music file as my ringtone, Play Music will find the song under "Unknown artists" and "Unknown Albums". THIS is what irritates me, why can't it just find my Music folder?
I've tried a lot of things;
Formatted my phone and reinstalled it (even stock won't find it)
Cleared Cache and Dalvik
Reinstalled the app(s)
Tried different formats (.ogg, .m4a, .mp3 for example)
Used apps to "Rescan" my internal storage (media finder)
I had this issue on my old Samsung device with CM10. On my N6P I'm currently running PureNexus 6.0.1-20160803-OFFICIAL.
Whoever can help me with this will be my hero, trust me, this is so freaking annoying I'm actually considering buying an iPhone............... Alright, that was a little too extreme, I would never do that. That's just the frustration inside me talking.
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Are you trying to find Google Play music or your own music you added to your storage?
jhs39 said:
Are you trying to find Google Play music or your own music you added to your storage?
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My own music I've added.
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My own music I've added.
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I created a folder called Music that is in a location accessible when I plug my phone into the computer. I have my music organized as follows--artist folder/album folder/songs. My songs are all mp3 format, which works on Android. I use a third party music player (Black Player currently, Shuttle Music Player previously).. The music player automatically finds the albums I stored. I don't think Google's Music App works as a music player for your own music. Are you ripping your own music or downloading it or what? Do your music files have meta-tags that allow a music player to identify what the music is?
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I created a folder called Music that is in a location accessible when I plug my phone into the computer. I have my music organized as follows--artist folder/album folder/songs. My songs are all mp3 format, which works on Android. I use a third party music player (Black Player currently, Shuttle Music Player previously).. The music player automatically finds the albums I stored. I don't think Google's Music App works as a music player for your own music. Are you ripping your own music or downloading it or what? Do your music files have meta-tags that allow a music player to identify what the music is?
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I've bought my music and ripped it to my computer. All meta-tags are present so that shouldn't be an issue. Like I said, the weird part is, if I add a song as my ringtone Google play music finds it, but I don't want to do that for each and every song I have haha.
That would irritate me too!
It's weird that it has carried over on a clean flash. When you say your formatted the phone, did you also do the data partition? May be obvious, but the folder isn't hidden, is it? So the folder would be ".Music"? Or is there a file in there called ".nomedia"?
What music player are you using? I've had phones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and Huawei and never experienced this problem. The fact that you had the exact same issue on 2 different phones suggests that you are doing something that is causing the problem, although its hard to see what. Your files aren't DRM protected if you are ripping them yourself. Maybe if you use a good third party music player it will find your music. I would stick to MP3 format on the files since that is compatible with Android. I had some files in Apple's format and had to convert them to MP3.
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That would irritate me too!
It's weird that it has carried over on a clean flash. When you say your formatted the phone, did you also do the data partition? May be obvious, but the folder isn't hidden, is it? So the folder would be ".Music"? Or is there a file in there called ".nomedia"?
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I've done a total clean format on my phone now, wiped everything including data/partition/storage. I have not done anything to the folder or renamed it. It's stilled called "Music" and there are no .nomedia files inside that specific folder (only in other folders that's not related at all).
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What music player are you using? I've had phones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola and Huawei and never experienced this problem. The fact that you had the exact same issue on 2 different phones suggests that you are doing something that is causing the problem, although its hard to see what. Your files aren't DRM protected if you are ripping them yourself. Maybe if you use a good third party music player it will find your music. I would stick to MP3 format on the files since that is compatible with Android. I had some files in Apple's format and had to convert them to MP3.
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Google Play Music (my music player)
What should I try? I tried PowerAmp or what it's called to see if it can locate my files but no success. The files are not DRM protected and I'm sticking to MP3 because like you said, higher probability it will find the files somehow.
I understand I might be the cause of this, and I don't mind it as long as I can understand what I'm doing xD As long as I know what's causing it I can let it go and remain peaceful, but as long as I have no idea what is causing this I will tear my hair off.
For it to persist across clean flashes and two different devices, there must be something in the folder that's buggering it up.
I would delete everything, then try copying some completely unrelated mp3's over to the same location to see if they're visible. If so, you know the problem is with the content. You can then go through this folder by folder until it stops working and you know what the culprit is.
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I've done a total clean format on my phone now, wiped everything including data/partition/storage. I have not done anything to the folder or renamed it. It's stilled called "Music" and there are no .nomedia files inside that specific folder (only in other folders that's not related at all).
Google Play Music (my music player)
What should I try? I tried PowerAmp or what it's called to see if it can locate my files but no success. The files are not DRM protected and I'm sticking to MP3 because like you said, higher probability it will find the files somehow.
I understand I might be the cause of this, and I don't mind it as long as I can understand what I'm doing xD As long as I know what's causing it I can let it go and remain peaceful, but as long as I have no idea what is causing this I will tear my hair off.
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I would try Black Player or Vanilla Music. Apparently you can use Google's app to play your own music but I'm not familiar with how that works. You do have a dedicated music folder called music, correct? What is the file path to your music folder? And how do you organize your music within that folder? Loose music tracks or folders for your artists and/or albums?
krs360 said:
For it to persist across clean flashes and two different devices, there must be something in the folder that's buggering it up.
I would delete everything, then try copying some completely unrelated mp3's over to the same location to see if they're visible. If so, you know the problem is with the content. You can then go through this folder by folder until it stops working and you know what the culprit is.
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Then it must be the folder itself, as I've mentioned before I have already tried done a complete wipe of my internal storage to get it working but with no success. Can I change the path for android to search for my music?
jhs39 said:
I would try Black Player or Vanilla Music. Apparently you can use Google's app to play your own music but I'm not familiar with how that works. You do have a dedicated music folder called music, correct? What is the file path to your music folder? And how do you organize your music within that folder? Loose music tracks or folders for your artists and/or albums?
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Alright, so I downloaded BlackPlayer to try it out. It can't find any music files on my device at all. When I try to set a different search path (trying to select which folder the app should check for music) I can't even see my internal storage... This is really starting to worry me if my device might be faulty in some way (highly unlikely though because the device works perfectly fine with gallery and ES File explorer).
Within the Music folder I have it categorized in folders for example; /music/Children of bodom/Are you dead yet/ and then the songs from the album. I have also put some MP3 files directly into the Music folder to make sure the subfolders aren't messing with the apps.
So again, weird that BlackPlayer won't find any files at all and can't even recognize my internal storage. What can make this happen?
Edit: Just hit me, why don't I check the internal storage to see what's being used. In Settings>Storage & USB I can see that 1.08 GB worth of music is being used of my internal storage. When I click on it to see what files I have, I can only check something called "Unknown", inside that tab I have another folder called "Unknown" and inside THAT folder I can see my 3 custom ringtones..... What is going on?
You should check what the permissions are for your music folder. Root Explorer lets you check and change permissions for folders but costs 3.99. ES Explorer used to be good for this function as well but that program is a hot mess now. Do you have some kind of program on your phone that can check and change folder permissions? If Black Player can't find your music folder maybe read permissions aren't set properly for some reason.
I stopped using GPM a while ago. Such a battery hog and missing so many features. I use Sony music now. Has built in equalizer and album art finder. If u want to try it I can post the link
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I stopped using GPM a while ago. Such a battery hog and missing so many features. I use Sony music now. Has built in equalizer and album art finder. If u want to try it I can post the link
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I want to use Google play music, I like the player and like I mentioned, it's not only Google play music that's causing this.
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You should check what the permissions are for your music folder. Root Explorer lets you check and change permissions for folders but costs 3.99. ES Explorer used to be good for this function as well but that program is a hot mess now. Do you have some kind of program on your phone that can check and change folder permissions? If Black Player can't find your music folder maybe read permissions aren't set properly for some reason.
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When I get back from work I'll try this out.
Alright, tried to set the permissions for the folder but didn't fix anything unfortunately
BunnyPig said:
Alright, tried to set the permissions for the folder but didn't fix anything unfortunately
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There's a flashable Zip that fixes file permissions on entire internal SD Card. Use the download link after the text, not the highlighted one within the text.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
It might help. It sounds like the permissions on your internal storage might be screwy. I was hoping changing permissions on the single folder might fix it.
use blackplayer ex..... even i had the same issue and now since a year im useing this for music and its AMAZINGGG.......
jhs39 said:
There's a flashable Zip that fixes file permissions on entire internal SD Card. Use the download link after the text, not the highlighted one within the text.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
It might help. It sounds like the permissions on your internal storage might be screwy. I was hoping changing permissions on the single folder might fix it.
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I tried that but it didn't work... Same issue persist. I've found out though that VLC can recognize my files (through the explorer that belongs to VLC). When I play one of my songs to my car stereo through VLC the display say "fd://34" in the song title... What could this mean? The numbers change depending on the track, one is called fd://34 and the next one might be called fd://53 etc.
percy5911 said:
use blackplayer ex..... even i had the same issue and now since a year im useing this for music and its AMAZINGGG.......
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Blackplayer doesn't work either and I want to use Google Play Music since I've bought a couple of songs from them. Don't want to switch between different music apps. I also like Google Play Music the most out the majority of apps.
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I tried that but it didn't work... Same issue persist. I've found out though that VLC can recognize my files (through the explorer that belongs to VLC). When I play one of my songs to my car stereo through VLC the display say "fd://34" in the song title... What could this mean? The numbers change depending on the track, one is called fd://34 and the next one might be called fd://53 etc.
Blackplayer doesn't work either and I want to use Google Play Music since I've bought a couple of songs from them. Don't want to switch between different music apps. I also like Google Play Music the most out the majority of apps.
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Are you sure your music tracks have proper metainformation? It sounds like VLC can't tell what any of your music is and is using a generic placeholder name. I would open some of your music on your computer with the free program Mp3tag and verify that information shows up in the title/artist/album fields. If the fields are blank then your music isn't tagged properly. You can also right click on a music file and go to the details tab but I prefer the Mp3tag program because if something is wrong it's easy to do the tags for an entire album at once. You didn't do anything unusual with the formatting of your data partition on the phone?
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Are you sure your music tracks have proper metainformation? It sounds like VLC can't tell what any of your music is and is using a generic placeholder name. I would open some of your music on your computer with the free program Mp3tag and verify that information shows up in the title/artist/album fields. If the fields are blank then your music isn't tagged properly. You can also right click on a music file and go to the details tab but I prefer the Mp3tag program because if something is wrong it's easy to do the tags for an entire album at once. You didn't do anything unusual with the formatting of your data partition on the phone?
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I've checked the metatags and it's all fine. Everything is there.
I thought so as well about the VLC thing. But yet again, with all the metatags there, how come it can't recognize anything? Seems so weird.
No, I don't think I did. I'm using TWRP right now and I do a clean wipe using the options inside that. Before TWRP I used CWM, same issue persisted though. I appreciate your help so much, I'm trying my best here to figure it out but it helps a lot with your ideas! Just like to say that so I don't seem ungrateful