I currently have a Gear Vr and a SD card. I have a couple movies on my sd card, but can not get the Gear VR to recognize them in oculus video. Anyone have any ideas? I was trying to avoid placing the movies on the phone storage.
Tried to figure this out myself. It seems like only the Milk VR app can play videos from external storage. The default app simply will not locate anything from the external storage unless I missed an app. But Milk VR is a definite go. You won't get the movie theatre effect with regular videos like the default app, but for 180 and 360 VR videos it's perfect.
I guess the app simply needs to be updated for external sd support. At the time of the s4 they probabaly just didn't care, because it was somehow a beta stage still and with the s6 they had no need, because there was none.
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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
I have a 64gig micro SD card and placed music and movie files on there. For a day it worked fine..I was able to play music via samsungs music player and PlayerPro app. Now for whatever reason my phone does not see mp3 on my microSD card. I can still however play movies from my sdcard. Anyone have a similar experience?
I don't think the card is going bad as I can still play movies from it. I think it might be a setting issue.
Quick update. I can navigate to my SD card using My Files app and play the files but the stock music player or 3rd party music player cannot view the files.
Ended up reformatting and restoring sd card. Its a bit annoying since the phone was able to read the sd card still.. just the apps was not able to see whats on there.
Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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Just move all the songs from the Music directory (or whatever directory Goggle puts them in) on the internal memory to the Music directory on the SD card. Create the Music directory on the root of the SD card if it does not exist. Then delete them on the internal storage. That's what we do for our Amazon purchased/downloaded music. The music app will automatically find them.
From having a look about it seems the files arent visible without root.
My question therefore still really exists. Unless rooted, what is the point of an sd card in an s4?
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SlyTuk said:
Firstly, on the whole, I love my s4. There are just a couple of niggles.
1) Google Music - on the s4 it stores the music on the 'internal sd' ie phone memory. The only way round this seems to be to root. As I have sky go, I would prefer not to have to root this phone.
2) storage space generally - ive vot a 64 gb card on order. Ideally I bad hoped to use some of this for music. The question is, with no apps to sd, no music for google music, what is the point in having an sd card?
If I could just get the music to work, id be happy. It is just unfortunate that I have a phone where I am worried there isnt enough space, and a 64gig card that cannot be used for anything!
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I currently link the Google Music uploader on my PC to my iTunes library so I can use the Google Music app with the cloud. I've come to really dislike the Google Music app so I'm happy this is forcing me to break free of it. I figured I would just use Samsung Kies and point it to my iTunes music folder and let it sync to the SD card (I ordered the 64GB SDXC one from Sandisk for $25 via Amazon Warehouse Deals). It can sync wirelessly via WiFi so that's a nice plus.
So with this setup I can use whatever music player I want, sync it with iTunes wirelessly, and not have to worry about what is in the cloud or on the device since it's all going on the SD card. I was initially worried about only having the 16GB model of the S4 until I thought through this process.
I read the title wrong.
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From having a look about it seems the files arent visible without root.
My question therefore still really exists. Unless rooted, what is the point of an sd card in an s4?
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Even if Google hides its files, you can still load ripped CD's and other downloaded music to the SD card like I mentioned above.
Plug your S4 into your computer and do some searching of the internal memory for the songs Google downloaded. I'm surprised they would be hidden from the user like that. Could be, though.
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can someone help me with these niggles about my s4?
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Sounds racist. :silly:
I believe I did this, with the Moment or whatever phone I had before the S3.
I now have an S4 (ATT).
I don't want to stream all the time and keep my music on the phone for when at the gym.
There used to be a guide on how to make the offline music in Google Play download to the SD Card and not internal, but I can't find it now for some reason.
Anyone know how to force the Google Music App to put offline music to the SD Card?
I've got a Joying HU, and the onboard storage isn't that great.
I'm an Amazon junkie and love Amazon Prime Music. I can choose to "download" individual songs or playlists to the Joying HU, but it always saves the songs on its own internal storage. On a normal PC you can choose where to store your music, but with the phone/Android version no such option exists.
I moved the app itself to the SD card (32GB) I installed, but that didn't change where the songs were stored.
I tried using the Amazon MP3 Mover app here but it only allows me to move NON-Prime music, I would assume because it doesn't want me offloading the music somewhere else.
So is there any chance at all there's a way to get Amazon Prime Music stored on the SD card? I'm not trying to break Amazon's rules, and the app is free to check in on wifi to verify Prime is still valid...but running everything in "Online" mode isn't optimal. I'm open to any solutions.