[Q] How to add music and movies - Nook Color General

First let me apologize, I have searched but could not find the answer. I am an utter noob. I just put cm7 using an SD card on my Nook Color. I was only able to do this by following the step by step instructions and youtube videos.
How do I add file to my Nook Color? I have some movies, music, and other files I would like to put on. I am technically very UNsavvy, so please hold my hand and do not assume I have any idea what to do.
Thank you in advance.

Or could you just provide a link to where I can find the info

connect your sd card to computer and drag and drop the files you want from computer to sd card

Im no dev, but this is what I do to get music, videos,pics and side load apps on my nook. first you'll need a file manager, I like Astro or Root Explorer both have free version at the market.
For music, videos and pics, its vary easy to put on your nook. all you have to do is to mount your nook's sd card from your pc with your USB cable. now on your sd card just make a new folder and name it "music" and just copy your music to this folder and thats it. for videos, and pictures its the same, just make a new folder and name it video and so on. now go to your video player and it should be available to you. the player that i like is call double twist its great for music and videos. now to side load apps all you have to do is to copy or download your apk to your sdcard and by using astro just navigate to the apk and press down on it, the file manager will launch and ask if you'll like to install it say yes and your done. I hope this is helpful.

boxcar8028 said:
Im no dev, but this is what I do to get music, videos,pics and side load apps on my nook. first you'll need a file manager, I like Astro or Root Explorer both have free version at the market.
For music, videos and pics, its vary easy to put on your nook. all you have to do is to mount your nook's sd card from your pc with your USB cable. now on your sd card just make a new folder and name it "music" and just copy your music to this folder and thats it. for videos, and pictures its the same, just make a new folder and name it video and so on. now go to your video player and it should be available to you. the player that i like is call double twist its great for music and videos. now to side load apps all you have to do is to copy or download your apk to your sdcard and by using astro just navigate to the apk and press down on it, the file manager will launch and ask if you'll like to install it say yes and your done. I hope this is helpful.
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What does "mount your nook's sd card from your pc with your USB cable" mean, and how do I make a folder and add the music and such

I just put stuff in my dropbox and then save it over.

I Am Marino said:
I just put stuff in my dropbox and then save it over.
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again, I am a noob, what is a drop box

Tom Hagen said:
again, I am a noob, what is a drop box
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Dropbox is a great service for sharing files etc. Click here for more info

Paul22000 said:
Dropbox is a great service for sharing files etc.
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I see what you did there. Thank you.

1. install SD card in Nook
2. Format SD card in Nook
3. Eject SD card from Nook and remove it.
4. Put SD in PC reader or whatever to mount on PC
5. Copy content to appropriate folders on the SD.
6. Eject SD from PC
7. Install SD in Nook.
8. If in doubt, reboot the Nook.
That's about as simple as I can describe the simplest and least technical method.

Most simple...
1. Plug your Nook USB cable into your computer.
2. On your computer, a Window should pop up that says a couple different things, you want to open folder or browse files, something along those lines.
3. This will open a file explorer, where you will see all of the folders on your nook. On a blank part of that screen, right click with your mouse and click New - then click Folder.
4. Name this folder music.
5. Open up My Computer (assuming you have Windows) in a separate window.
6. Drag any music files you want to put onto your Nook into the folder you created on your Nook.
7. On the bottom corner of your screen, there should be some kind of icon saying that your USB driver is connected. Click than and hit safely remove.
8. For videos do the same.
9. Unplug your Nook from the computer
10. Go to the Market from your nook and download a music player if you don't already have one installed.
11. Jam hard

Tom Hagen said:
First let me apologize, I have searched but could not find the answer. I am an utter noob. I just put cm7 using an SD card on my Nook Color. I was only able to do this by following the step by step instructions and youtube videos.
How do I add file to my Nook Color? I have some movies, music, and other files I would like to put on. I am technically very UNsavvy, so please hold my hand and do not assume I have any idea what to do.
Thank you in advance.
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Just Plug Nook into PC while it's on. In Notification Bar it Should say "USB Connected" Tap that and then hit the Mount Button.
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I hope you have enough information now to get your music, video and pics to your nook. just a side note. as I mention earlier that I prefer double twist as my main media player, I forgot to mention air sync. its super cool and easy to use, it's very handy. you may want to check it out. but then again with all of these music and media clouds coming out.....
http://www.doubletwist.com/airsync/

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adding new music

When I add new music to my sdcard via PC or downloading through the browser it doesn't show up in the stock music app.
I can open the file directly through a file explorer or browser download screen and it will play but it will have no options eg: no repeat or add to playlist
Has anyone come across this? Once I restart the phone it will show up correctly.
I noticed there is a media scanner in spare parts or dev tools but it doesn't help.
mine shows up pretty quick, where do you put the music onthe sd card and how do you dismount the sd card?
Had that problem too, a long time ago. Probably even before I got my Nexus and used a Galaxy Spica. What I did was download songs to my SD card over the network using ES File Explorer. I think Android doesn't really monitor the SD card, all it does is scan when the SD card is mounted. This way, if you use USB to transfer media from your PC, and then disconnect it, it gets mounted again, and the media scanner will run and find the new files. Any other way is probably broken... maybe you can trigger a scan by unmounting and remounting the SD card (from the settings menu)...
I remember there being an application on the market, sdcard rescan or something that did that.
yup, thats normal, if you copy music to the sd through an application. android does not monitor the filesystem for new music files and only scans on mount (which happens on bootup).
but yeah ther was an app for that. does anybody have the name?
free
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-bero-sdrescan-jBBB.aspx
perfect.
thanks for the mount tips too. makes sense.
or if your rom comes with "Dev Tools" just open media scanner.
Good one, forgot about that.

[Q] Shortcuts possible to sdcard2?

Hi, I'm running Vegan 5.1 on Gtab. I know I can put shortcuts on the desktop but that isn't what Im trying to do. For instance I want to use a audio or video player that searches by default for files in folders on sdcard such as audio or video. When the program searches /sdcard/video I would like to redirect it to /sdcard2/video. Wouldn't a shortcut in one directory redirect to another location and be "visible" to the host program? I'm trying to get audio and video players to find sdcard2. If a shortcut existed to the directory or file itself wouldn't that work? Looking around I don't see much about this, and it may not be possible with android. The only information I see is about shortcuts on the desktop. Any ideas? Thanks.
Try this- ../sdcard2/(target directory)
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Try this- ../sdcard2/(target directory)
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Thanks, but I don't understand how to apply this. Lets say I have a video file at /sdcard2/video/movie.mp4. If I could make a shortcut to the movie.mp4 file and place it in /sdcard/video, then movie player program would be able to see it. Since I can't change the path for the movie player to search, I'm going to have to bring the files to where they can be found. I want to use sdcard2 for multimedia storage and put shortcuts to video and music on internal sdcard. I can mke shortcuts to the desktop all day long, but I can't find how to move them into a different folder. Also I don't know where the desktop folder, if indeed there is such a folder is located. If I could find the desktop folder I could copy or move the shortcut from there. Like I say, this may not even be possible.
you can always use astro file manager to open the video/audio file. i have the same problem opening videos that only vital player recognizes, but it only gives the option to sdcard not sdcard2 or usb. so i search for the file in astro and open with vital.
I know this is an old thread, but here's what I have been doing in VEGAn 5.11.
Make a directory called sdcard2 in /mnt/sdcard -- you can do this with a file manager or in the shell. You only have to do this once
Open a shell.
Enter:
su
First time you do this you'll have to acknowledge root. If you tell it to remember, you won't have to do it again.
Type
mount -o bind /mnt/sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard/sdcard2
That's it. Now you will have an sdcard2 folder nested in the sdcard folder. The only problem is it won't survive a reboot. I was looking for /etc/fstab to do this permanently but there is only a vold.fstab file so not sure if that will work or not. Need to try it and see I suppose.
Re Calkiuns ROM I believe it's native...
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I actually have a few movies saved in SD card 2 I long press chose shortcuts, astro,scroll to SD card2 and choose the movie witch puts it on my homescreen I then put them all in a movie folder on the homescreen... hope that helps.. I'm running tnt lite 4.3
nice tip about the shortcuts. however, it doesn't work if you have an application that only works with the sd card
besides, I can imagine wanting to start other things like sshd
One other thing I've noticed. If you do the bind mount (https://market.android.com/details?id=os.tools.scriptmanager looks like it would be good for doing this on boot, btw) then putting the tablet in USB file transfer mode just spins forever. Well maybe it just takes a long time searching sdcard2 but I finally cancelled it. The solution is:
umount /mnt/sdcard/sdcard2
Then do the USB operation.

transfer movies, pdf, pics from pc to cm7 sd using card reader

How can I transfer movies, pdf, pics from pc to cm7 sd using card reader. My nc is not appearing in my pc so Il just use a card reader for the meantime.
The Problem is that the CM7 card has 4 partitions but Windows only sees the first partition. The simplest way around this is to download a Linux OS like Ubuntu and burn it to a CD/DVD or USB drive, or run Linux in a VM and link the card reader to the VM. Linux OSs will see all 4 partitions and let you easily copy files onto the 4th partition(the one that gets all the extra space).
Alternatively you can boot you're Nook into CM7 and then plug it's USB cable into your PC. A notification saying "USB Connected" will appear on the Nook, clicking on it will allow you to put your Nook into USB Mass Storage mode. Hence allowing you to copy files over to your card.
I personally use Ubuntu as my default OS so this is never a problem for me.
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Another option is to use ADB Wireless and push the files to the /sdcard partition
You might try this too!
Another option... I really love using the highly rated "Wifi File Explorer Pro" It costs $1.62, but well worth it. I just bookmark the wifi address on my PC, open the app, and then move the TV, Movie, ebook, etc. files onto and off my modified Nook Color. No fussing with getting a grasp on that tiny micro drive! One of the most loved apps on my NC.
update: less than a dollar now. I am too new to post a link but all you need to do is search for wifi file explorer pro and you'll get to it easily enough if your are interested!
WalangAlam said:
How can I transfer movies, pdf, pics from pc to cm7 sd using card reader. My nc is not appearing in my pc so Il just use a card reader for the meantime.
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I use Samba and transfer files wirelessly. Install Samba on the NC and the SD card appears as a shared resourse on the Windows network, easy-peasy.
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thanks guys for the suggestions. Il look into them. I'm using now websharing(wifi).
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Another option... I really love using the highly rated "Wifi File Explorer Pro" It costs $1.62, but well worth it. I just bookmark the wifi address on my PC, open the app, and then move the TV, Movie, ebook, etc. files onto and off my modified Nook Color. No fussing with getting a grasp on that tiny micro drive! One of the most loved apps on my NC.
update: less than a dollar now. I am too new to post a link but all you need to do is search for wifi file explorer pro and you'll get to it easily enough if your are interested!
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If you're going that route I'd recommend "File Expert" instead as it is free, well made, and has many more options including HTTP, FTP, and SMB. It also serves as a Root File Explorer if you enable Root in it's settings.
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Can't copy files to SD card through USB

I'm trying to copy over files from my Windows computer to my Note 4 so I can quickly view things through the Gear VR. I have USB debugging turned on and it connects to my computer in camera mode. When I navigate to my SD card and open up the Oculus folder I see all the folders (360Photos, 360Videos, etc) however if I open any folder they all say 0 items and are blank and it won't let me copy files into any of these folders. Anybody know what is going on here?
Thanks.
I think mass storage feature was removed from android long time ago. If you use external drive and otg cable you can copy files from drive to memory card using Note's built in file manager (my files)
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I'm trying to copy over files from my Windows computer to my Note 4 so I can quickly view things through the Gear VR. I have USB debugging turned on and it connects to my computer in camera mode. When I navigate to my SD card and open up the Oculus folder I see all the folders (360Photos, 360Videos, etc) however if I open any folder they all say 0 items and are blank and it won't let me copy files into any of these folders. Anybody know what is going on here?
Thanks.
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The way i have to do it is -
Copy files from PC to internal SD using EX file explorer or windows, then i use the file explorer that came pre installed to move the files to the ExtSD
Deblow said:
The way i have to do it is -
Copy files from PC to internal SD using EX file explorer or windows, then i use the file explorer that came pre installed to move the files to the ExtSD
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My steps are little different. Im using one of those sandisk memory sticks with usb connector on one side and micro usb on the other. Copy files from pc to memory stick and plug in memory stick to phone and transfer files using My Files app. I know it is extra step but allow me to have few movies on stick and load them when needed
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I personally downloaded one of many apps that enable sd card writes. I believe you need root though. Now, I just copy with a usb to the computer. No need to take out the sd card. Make sure you download the Note 4 usb drivers for your os. Also, make sure your sd card is exFAT so you can copy files larger than 4gb. I have many 10+ gig 3D video / movie files I play with the Gear VR. The only issue is sound on some of them as it won't play. What I do is play the file on my computer and on the Gear VR at the same time. Good luck!
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I personally downloaded one of many apps that enable sd card writes. I believe you need root though. Now, I just copy with a usb to the computer. No need to take out the sd card. Make sure you download the Note 4 usb drivers for your os. Also, make sure your sd card is exFAT so you can copy files larger than 4gb. I have many 10+ gig 3D video / movie files I play with the Gear VR. The only issue is sound on some of them as it won't play. What I do is play the file on my computer and on the Gear VR at the same time. Good luck!
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For the sound you need re-encode the file to mp4 with mp3 sound because wont play ac3 or aac encoded sound
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for most the movies/videos iv done so far i used the settings below,
3D -
1920x540 or 1920x544
codec - H.264/MP4
Avg kbps - 4000 or 5000
H.264 Level - 4.1
MP3 (lame) as others was causing problems when coming from TrueHD & DTS-HD
bitrate - 160 or 320
for normal HD movie/vids
1280x720
all other settings same as for 3D.....

How to find downloaded movies and move them to a Micro SD card?

I have some movies downloaded from Amazon to my internal storage and I just got a micro SD card. I'd like to move the movies to the SD card, but I can't find the movie files? I can access them to watch them, but can't find the actual files to move them. I have installed a file management system, and looked through all the file folders, but they must be hidden or something.
Can anyone help?
I have a Fire 10 and am running 5.3.3.0 if that helps.
TIA
esee01 said:
I have some movies downloaded from Amazon to my internal storage and I just got a micro SD card. I'd like to move the movies to the SD card, but I can't find the movie files? I can access them to watch them, but can't find the actual files to move them. I have installed a file management system, and looked through all the file folders, but they must be hidden or something.
Can anyone help?
I have a Fire 10 and am running 5.3.3.0 if that helps.
TIA
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After a quick look through the files, I can't find any of my Amazon movies either. The only thing I can think of doing is turning on "Download TV Shows and Movies to SD Card" in settings, deleting the movies, and redownloading them. I would only do this if I couldn't find any other way.
esee01 said:
I have some movies downloaded from Amazon to my internal storage and I just got a micro SD card. I'd like to move the movies to the SD card, but I can't find the movie files? I can access them to watch them, but can't find the actual files to move them. I have installed a file management system, and looked through all the file folders, but they must be hidden or something.
Can anyone help?
I have a Fire 10 and am running 5.3.3.0 if that helps.
TIA
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I suspect Amazon 'hides' them on unrooted FireOS. You will probably need to download again if you want to designate a different storage device/location.
Ok, glad I'm not the only one who can't find them. I did delete and downloaded one my movies. Was hoping to avoid that, but at least that does work. Thanks

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