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[Q] Can't find music on SD card even though it's downloaded

Ok so I download an mp3 using one of the many mp3 apps out there (Music Box Pro) I have it set to download to SD/Music
When I open up file explorer I SEE THE FILE in this directory, and I can, via this explorer app, select and open the song and listen to it.
But why can't I locate it on Winamp ? Why can't I use a ring tone maker to locate and use this song ? It finds many other songs -- but not the ones I download
anyone know why ? is a permissions thing ?
basically I am wondering why I can't access the songs I download - I can't assign them to play lists, etc. or use as ring tones. Why not ?

Try finding the music box pro file on sd card and if it exists open it and if the tracks are in it then copy them to another folder ie sounds
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slaphead20 said:
Try finding the music box pro file on sd card and if it exists open it and if the tracks are in it then copy them to another folder ie sounds
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nah, I have it so that the tracks are automatically downloaded to my /sd/music folder -- yet still can't really access them or find them it's as if they don't have permissions, it's really messed.

Issue with CM7 onecosmic and teamhacksung!!

Yeap, it's normal.
A .nomedia file is a blank file placed in a folder. When the media scanner detects the .nomedia file, the media scanner doesn't scan that folder so the images in that folder don't appear in the Gallery app. With this, you can prevent junk images like weather skins as an example to appear in your photo gallery.
Same goes to the music. If you don't want background music from games to appear in the music player, just create a .nomedia file in the selected game folder.

omarbenjdida said:
When i go to EX-SD i find no-midia
Is that normal
Im running onecosmic ICS
Need help guys
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If you want to view the contents of your external sd card .. go to /mnt/emmc ..

Music

What folder does my music need to be in? No music on my SD card shows up on my music player
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Create a folder named music and put it in there. It should show up. If not, make a folder named media, then open that and make a folder inside media named music, and put your files in there.
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dblkspecial said:
What folder does my music need to be in? No music on my SD card shows up on my music player
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What music player are using?

I'm using the stock music player "my music" I put my music on my internal and it wasn't on my music player so I rebooted and then they showed up
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As long as there isn't a file called .nomedia in it, your phone should find music in pretty much any folder. That being said, if you're using the stock music player on ICS, make sure that MotoCast process isn't frozen. The stock music player is dependent on it for some reason, even though it doesn't appear to be the same as the MotoCast program that can be downloaded from the Play Store.

[Q] Downloading music

I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance

You need to rescan the phone for media. There are apps for that. I think one is even called rescan media
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rmusic2400 said:
I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance
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If you are downloading legal music via mixtapes etc why not just go to mixtapetorrent.com and use the utorrent app to download the music. You can use utorrent to direct the music to the spot you want it on your phone. Thus no need for the file explorer etc.

Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.

I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..

derekwilkinson said:
I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..
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I'm having the same problem the OP listed. No idea why. Same files my Evo had no problems with.

reaper36 said:
Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.
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No, it doesn't need another app to recognize the apps. It's just not triggering the operating system to rescan for media files. Android scans the entire storage on boot or between mounting the storage for new media files (pictures, audio, video, etc) and then adds them to the libraries they belong to. Certain actions can bypass this scanning for new media. This app I suggested manually tells the system to scan for these files. It's nearly instantaneous when you do it. I've had to use it before on other devices, you literally open the app and you're done.

For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.

reaper36 said:
For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.
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Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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gk1984 said:
Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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Example: 08 Orianthi - Another You.mp3
10-orianthi-highly_strung.mp3
01 Lights Of Manos.mp3
From 3 albums that worked on my OG Evo this morning.

I had the same problem and after getting the music player to play the song it said the format wasn't supported. And these were songs I played on my galaxy nexus fine. And astro file explorer plays them fine too...
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Basic question about stock music player.

I have thousands of music files on my SD card. The stock music player seems to only be able to access and read ( when in shuffle mode under tracks ) some of my songs , meaning the ones only under tracks heading in shuffle mode. A little bit of research made me believe that the reason only half of my songs are listed under tracks is that the rest are within sub folders on the SD card and not accessible under tracks to be played via the shuffle method.
Any ideas on what I need to do to make all my songs accessible for shuffle play?
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I've just been extracting my albums to the desktop of my cpu. Then dragging and dropping the album folders to the SD card with my n4 plugged in.

if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..

wase4711 said:
if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..
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So basically I would have to dump all music files into one folder. Breaking up all albums and folders?
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Nope.

10-K said:
Nope.
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OK put albums in one folder and not make sub folders within a folder?
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Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders

10-K said:
Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders
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So basically you don't have folders within those folders?
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Yes

Thanks guys.
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just remember, every music player handles files differently, so keep that in mind when you do that..
for me, I just dump it all on my sd card in a directory called music, and always play them randomly anyways, so there is never an issue with any player I use by doing that