[Q] Symlinks for AirSync - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'd like to use AirSync so that I can sync my music with my phone without bothering to plug it in, but the problem is that it puts the music in the internal SD which is only 6GB and half full, rather than my empty 16GB external SD card.
My first instinct was that I should make a symlink from /sdcard/Music (where AirSync puts the music), to /sdcard/external_sd/Music instead. Can I do this, how do I do this, and would there be any problems as a result of doing this?

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Internal SD: MUSIC FILES not getting Detected!

This is really getting annoying. Any MP3/Vide files which I transfer through USB Mass Storage are not detected when it goes "Scanning for Media". It works through Kies and Webharing Wifi Transfer app...until I reboot the phone, then its detected in the music player anymore.
If I use the file browser or astro i can play it through them, but that's not really convenient is it.
Everything works fine if I transfer it through an external SD card. I only have a 2gb one though so it really doesn't cut it.
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Can't copy-paste all my music to external SD

Hello.
I am trying to copy-paste my quite extensive mp3-collection to my Galaxy S. Its about 6GB.
The problem is that I don't want to use Kies as it mucks up all my ID3-Tags...at least it did the first time I tried it.
I just put the phone in Mass Storage mode and tried to copy-paste the Mp3's to the /music folder on the external SD. When I tried to let it copy all together I disconnected the phone properly (safely remove, then disc. from the screen) and let the media scanner run...it didn't find anything. When I connected it to the PC again I saw that the /music folder was empty and the /Lost.dir folder was 6 GB. So the files probably ended up there somehow.
Afterwards I tried copying the folders with my mp3s one by one, disconnecting the phone after every one and letting it search again and again and it worked fine for the first 3 GB...after one more copy paste it lost the new folder and wiped half of the rest which were working fine by then along with it.
I also tried doubletwist and WMP, same problem there.
I'm running Froyo.
Thanks for reading. Any ideas?
When you say you have tried WMP, have you sync'ed them to the card as you would do a mp3 player? It has never failed on me in the past so not sure what else to advise.
Also you may have a corrupt SD card or a fake? Make a backup of the files you have on it at present, then format the card, replace the back'ed up files and try again. There are allot of fake cards sold on ebay and there are some programs about that give diagnostics on cards so might be worth running one to see the genuine capacity and/or to see if there is any corruption.
Yep, I tried syncing as with a normal MP3-Player. Its really weird as it does this only with music and it also does it retroactively...it has lead me to believe that theres some kind of problem with the media scanner.
The card is bought off ebay, but its original Kingston...it was sealed up and everything. I formatted it yesterday just to be sure...didn't bring up any errors...I'll take a look at those programs you mentioned though.
Thanks.
Hmm... If it's only happening with music it might be worth checking to see if there is any DRM on the music files as well. If there is any you'll need to run them through a convertor to remove this.
My music files all AAC+ moved to external SD card .
New Folder on SD card named SONGS and placed all music in that folder via USB mass storage mode .
But all my music is DRM free .
jje

[Q] External SD as SOLE mass storage device?

Hello.
Got an external SD card today (32gb). Now when the device gets plugged into the computer it mounts it as two separate drives (internal SD and external SD). Is there anyway to either change the priority so the external SD is number 1 or prevent the internal SD from mounting or have them treated as one drive?
I ask because since getting the external SD and filling it up with music my car headunit only detects the internal SD, because it doesn't have the capability of detecting 2 storage drives.
Preventing/being able to control the internal sd from being used as a mass storage device would be the ideal outcome. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Using JPU 2.2.1.
Cheers,
Mike.
I need this as well. Otherwise my car cannot play music stored on the external_sd.
All help is appreciated.

[I9003] Corrupted sdcard ?

Hi everyone, i'm having a hard time with my i9003 phone. All my music is saved my 32 gb micro sd card (Kingston), at first when I want to listen to the songs everything will work fine, then with time some songs may get corrupted or unplayable.
I get a message like "the player doesn't support such kind of file" or sometimes the mp3s get messed up I mean I can listen from 00:00 to 00:10 without problem then at 00:11 there will be a major skip to like 00:30 (in the original song) while it's still written 00:11. I did a low level format on the sd card and now formatting it back on windows for FAT32, a lot of people experience the same problem, how to fix it ? Thanks for your help
PS : I tried every kind of methods to put the songs in the sd card (samsung kies, usb storage)
Anyone experiencing the same problem?

[Q] The highly annoying media storage corrupt bug

Hello everyone,
I have the i9000 with slim bean installed. I still have the problem where mounting the usb storage to transfer songs over usb cable corrupts the media storage. Every single time it's connected to a computer and files are transferred this happens. I have re-formatted my microsd 32gb lexar card more times than I can count and have cleared the media storage and play music app and rebooted. With 25gb of music it takes hours and hours before rescanning everything before it somewhat works but still has a few errors. I've tried various rescan media apps from the play store and non of those work either. I have switched to a new method of running an ftp server from the phone and transferring music wireless. While this doesn't corrupt the media store, it doesn't detect new music either. I remember back in the gingerbread days that I never had a problem adding music to my external sd card and never had a problem with corrupted media storage. Is there any music apps that don't use media storage app?
If anyone has a solution to this I'd love to hear it. The long rescans and clearing out the media storage drain most of my battery when it has to rescan 25gb of music.
Thanks

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