Hey everybody,
im wondering if there is a possibility to get the buildin mp3-player indexing my mp3 files on my external sd as well.
Until now the buildin mp3-player is only indexing the files that are on the internal sdcard, but not any of my files on my external sdcard. Do you have the same problem? or ist it a folder problem?
Thx in advance!
I created a folder on the External SD called Media, then within it a folder called Music, put All my MP3 in it and the media player sees them all just fine.
It should index your sd card.
Can you access the files via the explorer?
Check if its in there correctly.
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it is working out of the box for me
i dumped all my movies and mp3 files into the EXTERNAL SD card and the build in Samsung Music Player plays it just fine.
the only annoying thing is that it needed you to select which songs/album/artist to play.
so after spending a few hours finding another App, i ended up with this "Player" (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081) App, you just select the folders you want to play, and it plays everything inside them all
so... very curois. i created a folderstructure like this sdcard\sd\media\Album1, album2, album3.
The buildin Media player is not indexing them.. so i opened my file explorer and navigated to sdcard\sd\media\Album1 and clicked song1. The buildIn Media Player is playing it.
After that i installed the "Player" from Allgamers hint. when i select a folder and want to play the songs within it says that the playlist is empty, sam problem if i only mark 1 mp3-file. "The playlist is empty"
So the only way to play my files on the external sd is to click them, title per title... Very strange. Is that a problem of the indexer? or my sd?
My Phone: XWJM7, rooted an OCLF
Thx for all your fast answers!
So i think my problem is solved!
Because of your hints i reformated my external sd with my phone, and now it works with no problems. All files are indexed, no matter what folder they are saved in!
Thank u all for tipps and hints!
I reformatted (factory wipe) my phone and also formatted my sd card (to remove apps2sd, only using froyo2sd now).
Before the wipe, I was using MixZing with no issues. All the albumart for my songs (embedded into ID3 tag in mp3) showed up with no issue.
After the wipe/formatting, i retransfered about 7gb of music to my sd card, and the album art is not showing. It's not showing in the stock player, in MixZing nor the new winamp player (which i didn't have previously).
I don't know for sure, but I think album art is the responsiblity of the media service in android, not each individual media player, so i'd like to force android scan for album art in mp3 files. Oddly, the poweramp (beta) player (which I also didn't have prior to the reformat) sees that album art just fine, but I believe that it has it's own code for reading artwork)
Is there anything I can do to get this artwork to show back up, i know for sure it's in the the iD3 tags, as I've copied files off of my N1 onto another computer and it shows up in winamp on that computer.
Thanks!
bump. please help!
Just use an mp3 tagger from the market to reload the album art...
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You're correct that Android's media scanner should process any new music files when you mount your SD card. It creates thumnbnail images on the SD card and indexes them for use by media applications via the Android API. I have a music app that uses this facility. From what I can see, FroYo puts the album artwork thumbs into a folder on the SD card called
Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs
Note that each album thumb file is numbered and without a typical image file extension. If you want to look at a file as an image, you'll need to explicitly open it with an image viewer as a JPG file.
Make sure you don't have a file called .nomedia in the top-level directory where you store your music on your SD card. This tells the Android media scanner to ignore the directory and all directories contained within.
So, I'd suggest mounting the SD card on your computer via a USB cable, checking the above directory, unmounting the SD card, waiting 10-15 minutes for Android to index the music files, re-mounting the SD card, and checking the directory again, to see if there has been any change.
Good luck!
Thanks I'll try this out. I've gone into the phone and wiped the media storage (Applications -> Manage Applications -> "All" tab -> Media Storage -> clear Data) and that didn't rescan the atwork. I'll check for the .nomedia tag.
I looked on my SD card, and that directory wasn't there. I also tried to create it, and yet, there's still nothing there. oh well.
Sorry to hear it's still not working. One more thing you could try, to at least see what's going on, is installing the Android SDK on your computer and, with your phone attached via USB, issue the command "adb shell" from a DOS window--assuming you're using a Windows box. Then, at the $ prompt, enter "logcat". This will output log messages. After this, mount and then unmount the SD card. You'll see a lot of messages fly by, but amongst them should be information on the media scanner doing its thing. Or, possibly, you'll see some relevant error messages.
Good luck!
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I have created a logcat and excluded all the extra unneeded lines. I'm sure more can be removed. I did this by running "adb logcat | tee logcat.txt", then after a while, exiting, and then running "egrep -v" on terms from the log.
Code:
cat logcat.txt | egrep -v "dalvikvm|Tethering|WifiService|WifiMonitor|wpa_supplicant|WifiStateTracker|QC_CORE|NetworkStateTracker|Gmail|CalendarsList|ConnectivityService|CalendarsEvents|ActivityManager|GTalkService|CalendarLayoutFiller" > logcat2.txt
My Logcat File (stripped of unneeded info)
I can't seem to find any info on this error in Google. Most of the errors i got were this one:
Code:
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
E/MetadataRetrieverClient( 120): failed to extract an album art
I have tried a variety of things to fix the issue
1) Reformatting my SD card again (for the 3rd & 4th times)
2) Clearing the android "MediaStorage" data (Applications->Manage Applications->"All" Tab->"MediaStorage"->"clear data". Then reboot and after the reboot and open the stock media app and wait. Loaded songs again, but not album artwork
3) Looked for Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs as suggested, and I see that this directory did not exist. I tried to create it manually, just in case, and nothing changed
4) Change media folder structure around (originally and currently at /sdcard/media/music/[Genre]/[Artist] - [Album] - [Track #] - [Song Title].mp3) I've tried /sdcard/Music, /sdcard/media/MP3
5) ensure no .nomedia files in any directory structure in the path
6) Completely uninstalled Winamp, MixZing & powerAmp from the phone
7) Cleared "MediaStorage" again, with all apps uninstalled
8) Tried reinstalling all the players above, PLUS DoubleTwist player. I have gotten some of the players to read 1 or 2 files successfully, however, i can't consistently reproduce how it got it to do that.
9) Poweramp seems not to rely on the MediaStorage utlity to read the album art, and instead reads it on it's own (so successfully gets it from the file). Would continue to use it, but it's beta and still constantly crashes, plus no lock screen widget
10) Gotten "Album Art Grabber Free" from Market, however, I have alot of non mainstream songs, so it can't find artwork for about 60% of my collection, so still not ideal.
11) Gotten "SDrescan" from the market as well.
12) MixZing will download album art, but downloads it from internet, and runs into same problem as "Album Art Grabber Free", plus, stores it in an app specific folder, not in the common folder, so artwork is only available in MixZing and not other players.
I had this working before, I can't believe formatting my phone and SD cards so that it was "stock" has given me a problem like this. ANyway, thanks for your help!
I've had problems with Mixzing...
Best way to deal with Mixzing is to hide your media from it (I place a . in front of the folder name, ie. Media becomes .Media).
Open Mixzing, and delete all the media (it can't find it, so don't worry, but it will delete the database).
Reboot.
Remove the . from the folder name.
Use mp3tagger to update album art.
Relaunch Mixzing, and rescan for media.
Hey presto! Fresh new database!
Has always worked for me...
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So i upgraded to the latest nightly for CyanogenMod (v227 -> v232). I also ran the fix permissions script. Either one of those two (i'm thinking the fix permissions) fixed the issues, and everything works fine now.
I've converted some books to epub and sent them to the Nook with Calibre, but I'd like them to show up in my library. Any idea where they should go? I don't want to have to store all my books on the Nook itself and would imagine that the ability to increase storage on an external card would allow for them to show up in the library.
Thanks!
I use adobe digital editions and drag them to the root of my memory card. then I add them to the favorites shelf in my library.
Mine are in sdcard/my files/books and they show up in the library.
What I have found is that if the files get to the SD card via a network download do not show up 100% in the library. You can select them from my files, read them, but can not place them on a shelf nor will your place be saved until the nook indexes the SD Card.
I am not entirely sure what causes this to happen but you can force it to happen 1 of 2 ways: 1) Reboot, 2) Take the SD Card out and put it back in.
Rick
Don't feel too bad. I have similar problems with BlackBerries. Besides new files, they also don't like updating the media library after you've deleted files either.
Thanks! Copying them from the folder that's automatically created for them, at the root of the SD Card, to the Books folder in My Files, worked. I was even able to keep them in the "author" folders and they still showed up as individual books in my Library, which is pretty cool.
Hi there,
I am having problems transfering music on to my LG Optimus Black.
I am not sure where to create a music folder so the default music player can see the music files.
I have created music folders in Audio and in DCIM and in the main menu and the music is on the phone but the it is not found by the default player.
Any help would be appreciated .
Kind Regards
Kev
You put music files (say .mp3) anywhere in your memory card, your player should detect it automatically. So there should be an error reading the memory card.
Try this : Settings >> SD card & phone storage >> Unmount SD card.
Then mount it again. Once scanning of all media files finishes ( You may be able to see the scanning progress and completion notification on top bar. ) you player should work okay.
Also try downloading different players from market. Do they detect your music files?
I'm not that sure but I think the SD already have a "music" folder? mine those, I put all files there and player automatic detected them, even if I have files at bluetooth>music or download>music folders still detect them with no problem
Felsar said:
I'm not that sure but I think the SD already have a "music" folder? mine those, I put all files there and player automatic detected them, even if I have files at bluetooth>music or download>music folders still detect them with no problem
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Well even if there's no music named folder it still works. I directly copied my folders from pc such as metallica and linkin park etc and I put it in "my favourite" folder in root directory and it works perfectly..
Anyone have problems copying all thier internal storage files to Windows 7 PC?
It only seems to copy 2gb worth out of 4gb. It always skips pictures music and videos.
I had the same problem. I just had to redo it
One method1911
I had to manually select one or two folders at same time. multiple items never worked even after 3 attempts.