Anyone else having issues getting the media scanner to find videos and music? I have the files on the usbstorage but the media scanner is not picking them up.
Try rebooting, thats what I did and it worked.
Having the same problem, if I go into File Manager, I can see the music, but in the media player, they don't show!
No one have any ideas? I've gone as far as to format my sd card, reload all my files and still only showing a fraction of the total music! Gonna try to move the music to the internal memory and see if that helps!
Still didn't work, put the sd card back into my atrix , and everything loads fine! This is really weird! I even installed player pro, and it too only finds the same songs as the default player. I hope a genius comes in with the answer soon !
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Media scanner is working fine here...
May take a few delays but mines work
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My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
enzov said:
My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
Ok so for my issue, I moved everything off the card and backed up on my PC. Then Formatted the card again but this time I didn't do the quick format. It took about 10 mins but after, put the card in the phone, let the directories build. Then connected USB mass Storage mode, and moved all my files back. 15mins later, I have all my music and videos!
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Nope.
I guess I can try a format of the usbStorage.
Formatted usbStorage, nothing.
I then put a video file in the /sdcard folder and not the subfolders. Now the video application picks it up. Any idea what may be wrong with the subfolders?
Is there an update/fix to this issue? Are all AT&T units affected?
delettin .nomedia
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Yes there sure was. It was hidden in the sd card. just deleted it now all media is found. No formatting or anything needed. Thanks!
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I just installed Wolfs V7b4 but now my gallery is empty, no music in stock player, ringtones gone. I have tried clearing data in Media Storage, fixing permissions, installing SDrescan which just said "done" after starting :s
Wolf mentioned app StudioKUMA.nomedia which can exclude folders from scanning for faster boot so i installed it to check it anything is excluded but none of the folders are.
Has someone had that problem or does someone know how i can manually scan for media?
I had this too, but i fixed it by formatting my SD card and but the files back on it. So just copy everything from your SD card, then format SD card and than put everything back. I hope this helped for you
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Search on the market for an app that may rescan your media...try the rescan media app
I formated my sd twice now, nothing changed. Restored backup and installed every app I could find for media scanning yet the only thing that has changed is that I have my pics from facebook althou I didnt have them before. Poweramp finds my mp3s and plays them with no problem so I dont think its sd cards fault for this
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I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
seriouscorps said:
I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
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Thats from the stuido .nomedia app which places a very small file in any directory you want on your sd card which stops the media scanner scanning it, very useful if you have lots of folders with no media in them.....
But a bit of a schoolboy error there!!
Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
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Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
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If you want everything available dont use .nomedia....
delete all .nomedia files....
I find it easier to have all music in one folder with subdirectories and the same for pics and videos...
I havent used it in first place, I have no idea how it ended up on my phone.
Got only one 13gb folder with music and 150mb of pics in camera folder.
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So I have the 16 GB BBY WiFi-Only Flyer. The ONLY ROM that allows me to read sd card music and photos is Mwakious. Any other ROM, no apps except file managers can read the sd. Any ideas? I have formatted the sd, rebooted, cleared media storage data, cleared caches, etc. I am at a loss. Help, please!
US builds of honeycomb weren't build to read external storage for media (photos, music)
this is rectified in ICS. unfortunately for us we'll have to wait...
Well,they won't read the internal sd either.
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US builds of honeycomb weren't build to read external storage for media (photos, music)
this is rectified in ICS. unfortunately for us we'll have to wait...
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I’m using a Best Buy flyer with a US build of HoneyComb (with all my Music, Movies and Pictures on the external card.) and it has no problem reading my external sdcard.
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Well,they won't read the internal sd either.
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Which apps can’t read your cards?
Kudzus said:
I’m using a Best Buy flyer with a US build of HoneyComb (with all my Music, Movies and Pictures on the external card.) and it has no problem reading my external sdcard.
Which apps can’t read your cards?
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Seriuly, that's aperfectly bizarre claim. My Honeycomb Flyer has no trouble reading either of the internal memory partitions or my external SD card. In fact, the external card is where I keep my movies.
Now true, it does take the machine a bit to discover the card on first boot, but it will see it eventually.
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Now true, it does take the machine a bit to discover the card on first boot, but it will see it eventually.
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I created a folder called Media on my external sd card with subfolders for movies, books, music and pictures and have no problems with the system reading all my files.
I then moved all the books (the free ones that come with honeycomb) to my external Media/Books and rebooted.
At boot I get a notification that books were imported and they now appear in the My Shelf widget.
Now back to the OP problem I would suggest a full wipe and clean install for any Rom.
Of course this means you’ll have to reinstall all your apps and rebuild your home screens.
I would not restore any system data from a backup.
This although not a universal issue, is not an uncommon problem. I have had this happen to me while moving from rom to rom after doing a full wipe. If you search it out there are a couple of threads to this effect. I have always managed to get my media to be visable after some effort. I have wiped caches, cleared app data, created a in.nomedia folder in the music directory, unmounted and mounted sd cards, moved the files from internal to sd, used power amp free trail and played music from there, etc. Eventually something pops.
Now mwakious will see I have 7 songs and my photos. Not all my music or photos. Its not that it hasn't loaded them yet
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it happens when you do a complete wipe. I have a nandroid backup of when I first flashed globatrons s off method. If I restore that then flash any rom with out a wipe my music files are all visable. If I wipe then flash I have to play games with my media till they are visable but I am always able to get them visable after enough tinkering.
Well, I went to Lee Droid since it's my fav, but still nothing with my sd. I hope I can get it to work. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post them.
I had the same problem last night with DeSensed-View Version 1.5. (My girlfriend also had similar problems with the stock Honeycomb ROM - part of the reason she wanted me to revert her back to GB.)
I have all of my images stored in internal memory in a folder called "Pictures," and all of my videos in a folder called (gasp) "Videos." When I go into the gallery, it only shows content from the DCIM folder and Picasa/Google+. So I went into ES File Explorer and clicked on a picture... it wouldn't open. Long-press, "Open As," "Image," nothing... didn't open at all. When I click a video, it gives me the option to open with the Gallery app, and that works fine, but the videos never show up in folders in the Gallery app. So basically, I can never view any of the images in a folder other than DCIM, and I have to go through a file explorer to get to my videos. Needless to say, I went back to Gingerbread before the night was through.
Rather frustrating problem...
Just so you guys know, my media still hasn't shown up.
Have you tried moving your media files to your dcm folder?
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No, but I will
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Having a problem here and I hope someone can help.
Problem 1:
I have the Sandisk 64GB SD card. I have copied all my music to it. For the most part everything is fine. The strange thing is that it doesn't report all my songs. I did a search and the names are coming up strangely.
For example: What reports on my computer is "Strange Eyes.MP3". What reports on my phone when I search using My Files or look at the file with ES File Explorer is "Strange Eyes.MP3e.MP3". Some files are also changing to .mp3p. That's just what I have found so far.
Problem 2:
The other strange thing that if I read the SD card on my computer while it is in the phone it only shows the folders of my music up to the J's. If I use a SD card reader, I can see only up to the J's. If I use My Files or ES File Explorer I can see them all. This makes it extremely hard to copy the songs. For the one song I was able to fix (see below) I used Dropbox. BTW, I did try breaking up the music into folders like A2F, J2O, etc.
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Now, all the files look fine. All the tags, file names, etc. they are all MP3's that I had ripped from my own CD. I fixed one of the songs by going into (I know) iTunes and converting it to a MP3 (which it already was) and copied that file over. Now the phone sees it. There are a total of 4,167 songs and my phone is only seeing 4,087+1.
I originally had not formatted the card from when I had gotten it and had this issue, so I reformatted in the phone and still it persists. My old phone had no problems reading the music. It was a Thrill 4G.
Does anyone have any ideas on either of these issues? Thanks in advance.
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Having a problem here and I hope someone can help.
Problem 1:
I have the Sandisk 64GB SD card. I have copied all my music to it. For the most part everything is fine. The strange thing is that it doesn't report all my songs. I did a search and the names are coming up strangely.
For example: What reports on my computer is "Strange Eyes.MP3". What reports on my phone when I search using My Files or look at the file with ES File Explorer is "Strange Eyes.MP3e.MP3". Some files are also changing to .mp3p. That's just what I have found so far.
Problem 2:
The other strange thing that if I read the SD card on my computer while it is in the phone it only shows the folders of my music up to the J's. If I use a SD card reader, I can see only up to the J's. If I use My Files or ES File Explorer I can see them all. This makes it extremely hard to copy the songs. For the one song I was able to fix (see below) I used Dropbox. BTW, I did try breaking up the music into folders like A2F, J2O, etc.
Other info:
Now, all the files look fine. All the tags, file names, etc. they are all MP3's that I had ripped from my own CD. I fixed one of the songs by going into (I know) iTunes and converting it to a MP3 (which it already was) and copied that file over. Now the phone sees it. There are a total of 4,167 songs and my phone is only seeing 4,087+1.
I originally had not formatted the card from when I had gotten it and had this issue, so I reformatted in the phone and still it persists. My old phone had no problems reading the music. It was a Thrill 4G.
Does anyone have any ideas on either of these issues? Thanks in advance.
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This is the exact same problem I'm having also with a SanDisk 64 gb card, files with weird extensions that I can't change and files, folders not showing up in Windows. I have no clue how to fix it but I was hoping that reformatting the card in the phone would work but it looks like it didn't for you. All the files worked fine with my Infuse but with a 32 gb card. Hope someone knows what's up with this.
I took my old 32GB card from my thrill and copied my music to it. Put it in my GS3 and it has no issues with any of the music.
The difference (besides size) is it is formatted Fat32. I'll format my 64GB card at work today to Fat32 and see if I have the same issues.
Stay tuned Tryptonite.
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I took my old 32GB card from my thrill and copied my music to it. Put it in my GS3 and it has no issues with any of the music.
The difference (besides size) is it is formatted Fat32. I'll format my 64GB card at work today to Fat32 and see if I have the same issues.
Stay tuned Tryptonite.
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Cool, let me know how it goes and I'll end up doing the same thing when I get back from work.
Formatted my card on a Mac at work to Fat.
Copied all my music to it with the SD card reader.
Checked on my PC. Shows as Fat32 and sees all the folders.
Checked on my phone. Sees all the folders when plugged into my computer.
As of right now everything is 100%.
You may loose a little space because of the allocation size, but it's worth it is it works.
Go for it.
Thanks, I was thinking I would need to return the card. One less thing to worry about.
No problem. I hope other see this that may have the same issues.
I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
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I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
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Try to run Rescan Media app from Play store.
Maybe your media scanner service does not work properly and needs to refresh the list of media files on your sd card.
Good luck !
rescan is done automatically every reboot. doesn't help. thanx anyway.
investigated further and found out that the files are not corrupt, but the libraries of Music app and Gallery app created duplicated empty files (in fact 2 fake entries in library for every valid file on the card). Duplicate files don't exist physically on SD card, only in libraries of the two applications.
Already tried formatting cache and dalvik cache, but to no avail...
ICS 4.0.4 Orange Romania (BVLPH) stock ROM.
Later EDIT: This was an easy one. Unmounted SD Card and open Gallery app and Music app. Then re-mount SD Card, both apps will refresh libraries, wait a while for media scan in the background and voila: duplicate files disappear, everything is in god order.
I had a similar problem where both gallery and music files were duplicated, but the duplicates were unreadable.
My solution was Settings -> Applications -> All -> Media Storage -> Clear Data.
This forced a refresh and everything turned normal again.
Slightly annoying that the media scan data is stored under a separate application and not within the data of the gallery or music player applications, but once I discovered this it was an easy fix.
I was surprised yesterday after re-flashing the stock LSD, and seeing that the media scanner problem draining 60% of the CPU was back.
I had it dont remember if on LS8 or other before, and it was easilly patched by setting the camera folder location to external SD/DCIM and moving everything there. However, with this LSD, that doesn't work anymore :S
There's any way to get rid of this? Or its impossible to make your battery last more than few hours on stock LSD?
Thanks in advance!
I'm on lsd and did the sd thing, no media scanner trouble.
Are you sure the pics are going to the ext sd?
Set it up in camera settings.
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Thanks gastonw!
On the camera settings, I've selected external SD as storage option. I've tested and when I make a photo, the image goes there (external SD/DCIM/Camera/.)
However, I just noticed that the thumbnail file, doesn't go to the external/DCIM/.thumbnail, but moves to the internal SD card DCIM folder :S
I've deleted Camera, Galery etc Cache's, the interal SD/DCIM folder has only the 2 empty folders, Camera is set to store on external SD.. and the photos are stored on the external SD and the thumbnails on the internal SD..is this normal?
No it's not and that's why media scanner is going crazy.
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:S Any clue why thumbnails are being stored there?
I have no idea, my internal SD/DCIM folder has a .thumbnail folder empty and the Camera folder empty, and the external SD has all the stuff in the same DCIM folders..
What is wrong here? Where is the option to set the thumbnails storage location? apparently it isn't the same than the camera one
Post a screenshot.
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What do you mean?; Screenshot of what exactly?
My problem is that media Media scanner runs for 6m33s everytime I reboot the phone (then stops) even with the DCIM folder empty, and that even when the photos get stored in the external SD DCIM's, the gallery thumbnails are stored into the internal one . How can I screenshot this? :S
I dunno, I don't get how a thumbnail is storaged the way you say it's storaged.
Post a pic of the internal DCIM folder and cache.
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R: [Q] Media Scanner still hitting on 4.1.2 LSD?
For me there isn't the problem.. Use rescan media root
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albelomba said:
For me there isn't the problem.. Use rescan media root
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It's a pain in the ass running that app everytime you reboot.
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Don't let the phone turning off lol
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