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[Q] music player to manage folders from mounted hdd?

I have a portable hdd with about 90gb of music stored to it. I mount it to my rooted a500, and it works fine, to an extent. I can select a song, which it will play, but I can't find a music player which is able to use the /sda1 mount to manage the music folders, only from the SD cards.
Does anyone here have a solution, or know of a player that will do this for me?
Thanks in advance.

Same here. Im waiting for my iconia 500 and i have a 320gb external hdd with music+playlist (.zpl, which ill prob convert to .m3u if i have to). I'll need a player to handle my music and playlists via USB. Any recommendations?

Did you try Power Amp?
And I wouldn't search for sda but instead go to the source (/mnt/usb_drive or whatever it's called). It works fine from my thumb drive so I don't see why it wouldn't work my a HDD.

I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
I could try having the hdd formatted as fat, but I have found the mnt/USB_storage to be very unreliable. It seems to need a reset very often in order to read the contents of a thumb drive, and also with the large amount of files, also seems to read them very slowly.

I bit the bullet and formatted my hdd to fat32. I used fat32formatter, nice and quick.
The a500 needed a reboot to read the files on the hdd, and I find disconnecting and re-connecting it, does require another re-boot to read again.
Poweramp and winamp both are no able to read the hdd, but took about 4 hours to scan the files and make a library from them.
I haven't added new music to the library, I'm really hoping that it won't need to re-scan all the files again. Fingers crossed.

Also looking for a solution to this, let, me know if anyone has a good organized music player.

saggsy said:
I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
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I'm using Usb Mount All from the market which creates a symlink to mnt/sdcard/sda. All my apps can see and write on sda that way.
That's why I prefer Mount all over Drive mount.

Thanks bbivk, that app is exactly what I should have been using, it's so easy now.

USB flash drive to watch movies/connect keyboard with OTG Cable on Nexus 10

I keep seeing posts of people that use the Nexus Media Importer application to connect their flash drives to their Nexus 10 in order to see files. I just wondering if this has worked for everyone..I saw that some people were having issues...as am I. Whenever I connect my flash drive i can view the files but can't play the videos...............and absolutely nothing happens when I connect my keyboard through usb-OTG.
Any thoughts???
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Samsung_GS3 said:
I keep seeing posts of people that use the Nexus Media Importer application to connect their flash drives to their Nexus 10 in order to see files. I just wondering if this has worked for everyone..I saw that some people were having issues...as am I. Whenever I connect my flash drive i can view the files but can't play the videos...............and absolutely nothing happens when I connect my keyboard through usb-OTG.
Any thoughts???
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What happens when you click on the files when viewing in NMI? What files are you trying to play? Have you verified that you can play the files directly from your nexus?

Maybe with the video player you are using it doesnt support the file you are trying to watch? Has worked for me so far, connecting SD card, flash drive and HDD.

Obbeh said:
Maybe with the video player you are using it doesnt support the file you are trying to watch? Has worked for me so far, connecting SD card, flash drive and HDD.
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i get the same problem. nothing happens when i connect my usb with my n10. any help??

Try StickMount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=de
It works like a charm for me but unfortunatly you have to be rooted to use it. Also I think the N10 has problems dealing with NTFS out of the box so try FAT32 or ext3/4.
Good luck.

There are links on the StickMount playstore page to download files that allow full usage (r/w) of both exFAT and NTFS formatted volumes. The current version of StickMount works 100% for me.

Nexus Media Importer works great - no need to Root!
Niggo372 said:
Try StickMount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=de
It works like a charm for me but unfortunatly you have to be rooted to use it. Also I think the N10 has problems dealing with NTFS out of the box so try FAT32 or ext3/4.
Good luck.
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Nexus Media Importer (vrs 4.0.3 ) works perfectly for my N10 - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE ROOTED!! I've only used FAT32 USB sticks and it works as advertised and it's awesome Make sure you download the paid version ($2.95 or so CND). Expand the Overview in the Google Play Description by clicking MORE and there are youtube videos showing the proper process, it works great and I'm thrilled to get the extra space and watch movies right from the USB stick using MX Player or copy movies, pics, music etc. to internal storage if I want to. Excellent app - five stars! I will be trying a NTFS Formated stick so I can use > 4Gb files (mkv prob) but haven't yet. It does claim to handle NTFS formatted drives.

(auto)Loading movie subs from external drive

Hy guys. It's been a year since I get my 2TB passport and I'm using it just wine with my N9005. I'm using it on KK in combination with total commander and paragon tools, however I'm curious is there any way to load subtitles since they are not auto loading in MX player? Subs are generally loading by default if they have same name as movie and they have. If I copy movie (and subtitle) to phone memory they are loading normally but doing this on external disk does not work? Is there any solution to this, I don't think this is player related?
Thanks

Hm, I've never encountered this problem with VLC or Dice.. I always use my 2TB Elements with my phone for films.
With VLC you can manually select a subtitle file as well. Is there a similar option in MX? (I don't use MX, as they pulled out the H264 codec.)

Hy ShadowLea.
Maybe I should try VLC as I was reading even BS player supports OTG functions comparing to MX player which I love. The problem is that I can't navigate manually to subtitle cause MXplayer only allows me to navigate on my phone memory, I can't enter manually location or pic/browse to it? It only sees my phone memory as option so I should copy on my phone movie, which is dumb and not an option for me (that is why I buy this 2TB drive in the first place).
BTW what kind of software combination do you use for this?
I'm now using TC + paragon plugin and it works very well for me other than that problem I previously mention which is I think player related? I don't know if Nexus media importer would be better in any way...never tried it though?

All I'm using is my harddrive and VLC. The drive is formatted as EXFAT, so it doesn't require any additional software to work. It picks up the .srt files straight away.
VLC is open source (free), so it's an easy matter of testing it to see if the problem lies with the player or somewhere else. If they don't work, you'll at least know the problem doesn't lie with the mediaplayers.
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I think my problem could be a drive which is formated in NTFS mode. I tried vlc also but same situation. Those are really bad news cause I dont wont to format it an loose my data. I'm also not sure is there any other option that could emulate this and maybe provide some workaround solution?
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elektroda said:
I think my problem could be a drive which is formated in NTFS mode. I tried vlc also but same situation. Those are really bad news cause I dont wont to format it an loose my data. I'm also not sure is there any other option that could emulate this and maybe provide some workaround solution?
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Ah... Android doesn't get along with NTFS very well. Not at all, in fact. It's not even supposed to be able to detect an NTFS partition.
The total commander/paragon tools apps seem to have a workaround, but other apps can't read/write to NTFS. (because it's set on Enforcing.) Hence, the videoplayer simply doesn't detect the partition, and thus not the subtitle file, either. The fact that it'll play the video itself is already a miracle.
You'd need to use a custom firmware setup.
I know the pain of a reformat all too well... My 2TB drive is my daily drive, so reformatting and the backup and restore took almost 2 days. >.< (My laptop runs on windows 8, so I, too, prefer NTFS.)
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Same situation with me that is why I find it hard to do formating.
I hope this is possible to fix using.maybe custom kernel or complete rom? What am I looking for exactly in kernel/rom?
Thanks.
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Fire TV Download Centre

I read that some users had success with the original Fire TV mounting an external hard drive and running nzbget mobile. Is this possible with the Amazon Fire TV 2?
I am interested in doing the following on a rooted Amazon Fire TV 2.
1. Mounting an external hard drive, ext4.
-How do I this? Can I mount a drive with adbFire? does this install a script to mount the drive every time the device boots? or I read that some users installed stickmount to mount drives. What should I use?
2. Install SAMBA
-Can this be done with adbFire? or how do i achieve this? to share the media on an external drive attached to the Fire TV 2.
3. Install nzbget mobile.
-Does this work for the Fire TV 2? Install from playstore? Sideload nzbget for android .apk?
4. Install python for android
-to run nzbget post-processing scripts
I am pretty new to the Fire TV customization so all guidance on how to do the above would be appreciated. I have currently rooted my device and have installed FireStarter and Kodi.
Thanks in advance.

great question(s)!
I hope someone has an answer for us
But from what I have read so far is that only USB flash drives and microSD cards work. However, I am hoping, like you say, there may be a work around.
For now I am using AirPin(Pro), which is doing the trick for streaming movies from my PC. Fyi, if you use this app, you don't need the "sending" app/program for your PC (maybe not). I also have a 1TB external connected to my PC that I am able to stream from, but AirPin won't find it via the app on the AFTV2, you'll have right click (PC) on whatever movie you want to stream, and select> "play to...". AirPin also will stream to my bluray in the other room simultaniously

1Xfan said:
I hope someone has an answer for us
But from what I have read so far is that only USB flash drives and microSD cards work. However, I am hoping, like you say, there may be a work around.
For now I am using AirPin(Pro), which is doing the trick for streaming movies from my PC. Fyi, if you use this app, you don't need the "sending" app/program for your PC (maybe not). I also have a 1TB external connected to my PC that I am able to stream from, but AirPin won't find it via the app on the AFTV2, you'll have right click (PC) on whatever movie you want to stream, and select> "play to...". AirPin also will stream to my bluray in the other room simultaniously
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Unrooted, it can read from any FAT32 formatted (not exFAT) portable drive as long as you provide external power to it via a Y cable or hub. Otherwise, it will only read from solid state media like USB sticks.
Reads my 2TB passport drive fine, no root required. You might need to hunt around for a tool to format that size drive in FAT32.

Claude Koch said:
Unrooted, it can read from any FAT32 formatted (not exFAT) portable drive as long as you provide external power to it via a Y cable or hub. Otherwise, it will only read from solid state media like USB sticks.
Reads my 2TB passport drive fine, no root required. You might need to hunt around for a tool to format that size drive in FAT32.
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Try "mini tool partion wizard (free)"; google download. Caution: you could format the wrong drive! I use for SDcards too... search youtube too

Q: Mount NAS Drive to Shield TV

Hey guys,
I am having trouble mounting NAS drive(publicly available on my home network) to Shield TV. First of all that NAS server is not visible when I try to add Network storage from settings so I have to add it manually. I tried giving smb://<ip_address>/<public_share>, smb://<host_name>/<public_share> and same without smb: but no luck so far!
Am I missing something here? Has anybody had any success doing this?
- B

Did you already try ES Explorer or Kodi? Does it work there?

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Did you already try ES Explorer or Kodi? Does it work there?
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Yes, those work, but I want to mount a NAS drive to which I can download games to and play later. I have got the basic version so it comes with 16 gig(about 11 gig which can be used actually) of ssd.
I can put USB as well, but my NAS drive has way more capacity than USB.

My question was if you can mount your NAS with ES Explorer or Kodi.

I maybe wrong but I don't think this is possible.
I would simply add an external USB 3.0 hard drive to your shield for the added storage as they are dirt cheap now.
I added a 1TB drive at a cost of $80 CDN (probably cheaper in the US !)
As an FYI In the past I tried USB 3.0 thumb drives and Class 10+ SD cards as external storage options but the performance simply wasn't there for me.
The USB 3 external hard drive works great !! I wouldn't even know it was connected !
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Yes, those work, but I want to mount a NAS drive to which I can download games to and play later. I have got the basic version so it comes with 16 gig(about 11 gig which can be used actually) of ssd.
I can put USB as well, but my NAS drive has way more capacity than USB.
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With ES Explorer I can copy files between the shield and my NAS.

If you have root, try the patched version of CifsManager, available here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53760495&postcount=537
For share options I use "ro,iocharset=utf8".

j-m-s said:
My question was if you can mount your NAS with ES Explorer or Kodi.
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Yes, I did it with ES Explorer, but just to explore network drive and not actually mount it to Shield TV. That is good for copying back and forth to NAS from/to Shield TV internal drive.
By looking at replies here, I feel its better to attach my external USB drive until the day it is possible to mount NAS.

Mogster2K said:
If you have root, try the patched version of CifsManager, available here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53760495&postcount=537
For share options I use "ro,iocharset=utf8".
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Thanks but I am not very much confident about rooting to my new Shield TV right now . I would just use my external USB drive for now.
I've done it for all of my phones which I've used so far though.

I got the network shares to mount on my shield the other night.
If you're using linux for your nas, you will need to start the 'nmbd' service on your machine. This is part of samba and listens to NetBIOS requests, which the Nvidia Shield appears to be using to discover smb shares on the network.

Hi, I had the same problem and it was cause by the synology's firewall.
So, i create a new rule with my shield s IP on all the synology s port.
My Diskstation was immediately seen by the shield.
Hope i helped you