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Playlist oddity, any thoughts?

Hi:
Since the AT&T Froyo update, I am having odd music playlist problems. I am using the stock media player., and all music is stored to external SD card.
When in the song list, to add a song to a playlist, I hold down on the song, and select add to playlist, and then choose the playlist. It does not ever show up in the playlist I chose. This is the same way I have always added songs, only now it won't work.
If I go to the appropriate playlist, and remove songs via the menu button, and then add a few songs, the changes work properly, EXCEPT after the phone is turned off then back on, the changes disappear, and the original songs that were removed are still there, and the songs that were added are NOT there.
Any thoughts on what is causing this? I am desperate to fixe this. Every time I want to listen to music I have to go in and add/delete songs, which as you can imagine is hugely inconvenient.
Any thoughts will really be appreciated.
Thanks!!

Hi again:
I just tried using PowerAmp music player, and the same problem happens as with the stock player

Bump.
This is really a huge problem for me, any suggestions would REALLY be appreciated.
Thanks!

Have you had this problem on any custom ROM?
CM7 Inspire 4G

TheBassman369 said:
Have you had this problem on any custom ROM?
CM7 Inspire 4G
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Hi:
Thanks so much for your reply. I have never flashed a custom ROM. I can however say that I did not have this problem on stock 2.1.
Thanks again!

I actually had this problem on a few roms I was using. A reinstallation of the music app seemed to fix it. In this case, a reset may help unless you want to root and remove/add the app back in the system/app folder.
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tysj said:
I actually had this problem on a few roms I was using. A reinstallation of the music app seemed to fix it. In this case, a reset may help unless you want to root and remove/add the app back in the system/app folder.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Hi:
Thanks so much for your suggestion.
I am already rooted. Do I actually go into the system folder and remove it, paste it somewhere else, and add the same app, or do I need to find a file of the music app online to replace the original?
Thanks again!!

cincy1020 said:
Hi:
Thanks so much for your suggestion.
I am already rooted. Do I actually go into the system folder and remove it, paste it somewhere else, and add the same app, or do I need to find a file of the music app online to replace the original?
Thanks again!!
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That's about it. I'd cut and paste it somewhere else just in case then move the new on in. You can probably grab the app from a lot of ROMs that use the Samsung Music Player or just search for it somewhere. It should be called MusicPlayer.apk

tysj said:
That's about it. I'd cut and paste it somewhere else just in case then move the new on in. You can probably grab the app from a lot of ROMs that use the Samsung Music Player or just search for it somewhere. It should be called MusicPlayer.apk
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Great thanks!
One last question. Do you think this would affect the proper functioning even in Poweramp, because this problem is occurring when I use that also.
Thanks again!

Constant "Video maker" crash.

Hello, I'm having issues with the video maker that came with the note.
Once I open the app and select the theme and as soon as all the videos starts to load up video maker crashes and goes back to create new project screen :/
I was wondering if anybody else is having this issue and knew how to fix the problem?
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zen0s said:
Hello, I'm having issues with the video maker that came with the note.
Once I open the app and select the theme and as soon as all the videos starts to load up video maker crashes and goes back to create new project screen :/
I was wondering if anybody else is having this issue and knew how to fix the problem?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
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Are you using a Rooted Device? What Firmware are you on? Do you have CWM Recovery?
If so then try wiping cache and Dalvik cache from the CWM Recovery menu and see if that helps.
You can also go to settings> applications> manage applications> all> and find the app and then clear the app data, etc and see if that helps as well.

Thanks for the reply. I'm currently on everything stock. Since I just got this phone and new to android platform I haven't really messed with rooting etc.
I tried clearing data like you recommended but it didn't help still crashing at the "add media" screen. Idk why...
Update:
I guess video maker doesn't like importing videos/pictures from sdcard... After transferring videos and pictures to phone it's working fine now. Is this problem normal? Or just me? Having 2gbs of pictures and videos too much? :/
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Some of the files on your list may corrupted. Did you check with other set of files? If newer set of files didn't work.. try factory reset if still didn't work try hard reset, even if it's not working! Rooting is the best option. After that you can install a good working video editor from someone whose app is working good or you can even flash a new rom.
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Yeah I copied the same pic/vids files from sdcard to the phone and video maker works perfect so files aren't corrupted, at least I don't think? App just refuses to use the media files from sdcard for some reason I tried factory reset no changes.
Must be something in sdcard cause unless unmounted the sdcard I cant get video maker to work.
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That's it... You found the culprit.. Try with other sd card..
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I just formatted sdcard and everything is in order Ty for the help!
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Ok after testing what was causing this problem, I finally narrowed it down to "music" folder.
I have about 1000 mp3 on sdcard and seems like loading that many songs in video maker is crashing the app.
Anyone who has 1000+ mp3s try to load up video maker see if it crashes on you?
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That was quite informative though couldn't try.
So it is a cache issue that can be solved by Samsung.

Yeah hope so... I wish I can choose which folder to scan and exclude like quickpic.
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I have some 3000+ songs on my SD card and Video Maker crashes on me every time, no matter if I use a video on SD card or internal memory. I have moved the video around to see if that would help, but it continues cashing.
I'm not sure I understand what the solution is from the posts above.

a workaround..
Mine does this too, stock ICS. My SD card has lots of videos recorded by my htc desire, some files are corrupt. All other gallery apps simply ignore those files, video maker crashes.
Find the videos, music and pictures you want to use on the sd card, and copy them to internal sd card. Now go to settings->storage and select unmount sd card. Open video maker, and select media. On mine, it would still crash unless I killed by task manager, and re-opened. Then it worked, and export movie would fail. 2nd time it worked.
Mount SD card when finished.

ics rom duplicate music entries

i am now using latest doc ics rom.. my problem is in music player there is duplicate song entries. how to get rid of this problem..

try:
- Go to settings, Google Play Music, Force Stop, Clear Data
- Same for Media Storage
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
seems to help some people. didnt for me, so if you have an ext SD:
- Go to settings, Storage
- Unmount External SD
- Reboot into recovery and clear delvik cache
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
the second one solved that media bug permanently for me, although i am not quite sure why

duplicated music
adsdf said:
try:
- Go to settings, Google Play Music, Force Stop, Clear Data
- Same for Media Storage
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
seems to help some people. didnt for me, so if you have an ext SD:
- Go to settings, Storage
- Unmount External SD
- Reboot into recovery and clear delvik cache
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
the second one solved that media bug permanently for me, although i am not quite sure why
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I have the same problem too, but none of above worked for me.
Try DoubleTwist player it does not show me the duplicates.
btw I am using AOKP rom

Duplicate songs
Good morning....the problem is not with the device (android) it is with the file details.
1. The problem I think you are having is that albums appear twice, with songs being split between the dual enties?:
2. On your PC right click on the music file (song) and click on properties.
3. Go to details and make sure all of the songs in the album have all of the details exactly the same...contributing artist, album etc. if not change it.
4.Delete the album form your device and copy the newly modifed files to your sdcard.
I do quite a bit of music recording and editing...this occurs alot.
I hope this helps.

Edit: <wrong>
The problem appears to be with ICS mounting internal and external SD cards twice.
Every ICS ROM I've tried has them mounted:
/sdcard
/emmc
/mnt/sdcard
/mnt/emmc
</wrong>
<irrelevant>
I don't know why both are mounted twice.
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It seems that this will never be fixed, the best solution I've found is to use different applications for music/pictures.
For music I use Poweramp.
For pictures I use Quickpic.
Both of them scan your media separately to the android media scanner and they're smart enough to not scan both mounts of each SD card.
Edit:
Can't be my original reason as you only get one copy of the media first time round, then after each reboot or mount as USB drive you get another and another and another.
I guess the media scanner doesn't compare newly discovered files against its existing database, it just adds new entries every time it runs which is why the list keeps growing.
Anyhow, Poweramp and Quickpic are the way to go. Poweramp is worth the money it costs, but if you can't/don't want to pay for it then you'll have to go through the abundance of other music players to see if they avoid the duplicate file problem.

The solution is to use power amp for music...in its settings you can select which folders to scan and hence over come the problem

I have this same problem. every music track (not albums) is duplicated three times. file explorers show a single file but its three files in a music player. but sometimes it goes away, by itself (or I don't know what I did). its not a big deal for me since it won't treat these three duplicates as three different tracks, instead it treats all three as a single file so there is no repeating when playing an album.

slaphead20 said:
The solution is to use power amp for music...in its settings you can select which folders to scan and hence over come the problem
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Trial version:/
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Imho it depends on the rom.
I used ICSSGS 4.2 quite a while where this bug was present.
When I switched to CM9 nightly the bug vanished - until today it is definitely due to multiple scanning of the external SD.
Hopefully it just because of switching to the latest version.
If so I would recommend to use CM9 nightly where this bug should not be present anymore.
Best regards,
ww

...on my galnote
Go into Applications -> Media Storage (near music).
Force Stop Media Storage.
Clear Data Media Storage.
Go back to Applications -> Music
Force Stop Music
Clear Data Music
Unmount SD Card
Mount SD Card
Start Music App. Worked like a charm (rescanning in progress with 0 music files in Music App)

adsdf said:
try:
- Go to settings, Google Play Music, Force Stop, Clear Data
- Same for Media Storage
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
seems to help some people. didnt for me, so if you have an ext SD:
- Go to settings, Storage
- Unmount External SD
- Reboot into recovery and clear delvik cache
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
the second one solved that media bug permanently for me, although i am not quite sure why
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This worked perfect for me after updating my ROM.
Cleared Data, rebooted, waited for a big, and double entries were gone and music was playing

biliskner said:
Go into Applications -> Media Storage (near music).
Force Stop Media Storage.
Clear Data Media Storage.
Go back to Applications -> Music
Force Stop Music
Clear Data Music
Unmount SD Card
Mount SD Card
Start Music App. Worked like a charm (rescanning in progress with 0 music files in Music App)
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Thanks alot, worked a treat fo me !! :good:

I had this problem with Winamp. Now on JetAudio no problems

wogooo said:
I had this problem with Winamp. Now on JetAudio no problems
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I use jet audio too and this problem keeps reoccurring. Using Padawan ics rom on galaxy note. I clear data on both media storage and google frameworks and then use sd rescan. That solves the problem but it always returns.

Hmmm ...
So this whole scenario has happened to my Samsung "twice" this month (Nov 2012) and the other Samsung on my account, 3 times this month. I have to admit though since my Samsung's are only 2+ months old, the one thing I did when I got both phone(s) was alter ever single album detail! I'm starting to wonder if this is the culprit but the thought of having to revert all of the album details to their original state, then delete/then re-load music back on BOTH phones (4-6 hours of work) .. I'm sooooooooooooooooo dreading this.:crying:
greatdaneduke: Did your suggestion fix your phone (permanently) and did this eliminate your problem entirely over the last 7 months too?
greatdaneduke said:
Good morning....the problem is not with the device (android) it is with the file details.
1. The problem I think you are having is that albums appear twice, with songs being split between the dual enties?:
2. On your PC right click on the music file (song) and click on properties.
3. Go to details and make sure all of the songs in the album have all of the details exactly the same...contributing artist, album etc. if not change it.
4.Delete the album form your device and copy the newly modifed files to your sdcard.
I do quite a bit of music recording and editing...this occurs alot.
I hope this helps.
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Hi SSHollywood.
greatdaneduke was wrong about what causes the problem.
The assumption made in step 1 (if you can call it a step, it's not really a step, but it is next to the number 1) wasn't the case for me or anyone else I've spoken to with the issue.
I know what greatdaneduke is talking about and I have seen this before, but it's not the case here. What greatdaneduke was saying is that when you write the tags for mp3s, sometimes it's written to the file slightly differently, then this causes the program you're using (Android in this case) to see some of the files from 1 album and some of the files from another album, even though when you look at it, it looks as though they all say Insert Album Name Here. The only cure to this is to delete the mp3 tags and rewrite them from scratch, and hopefully this time they are all written the same way.
The actual problem is this...
It's a developer based ROM which has bugs.
One of these bugs is the way the media scanner updates the media library.
The media scanner will run every time the phone boots up/reboots or when the phone is disconnected from a computer.
Each time this happens you get another listing of your music in your library.
There are 3 ways of fixing this, listed from least expensive/most infuriating to most expensive.
1. Wipe your media data before every reboot and before every time you connect to a computer, this way when your phone boots up or is disconnected from a computer it will have a blank media library to update. This will get annoying and you'll probably forget to wipe the data each time.
To do this you need to:
a. Go into Applications -> Media Storage.
b. Force Stop Media Storage.
c. Clear Data Media Storage.
2. Use Poweramp for music (there's a trial version but it only gives full features for 14 days) and use Quickpic for photos. Both these apps use their own media scanners so they don't have the duplicates problem.
3. Buy a new phone. Samsung Galaxy S original is now 2 and a half years old, it's very dated and developer support is dropping fast.

legiong said:
3. Buy a new phone. Samsung Galaxy S original is now 2 and a half years old, it's very dated and developer support is dropping fast.
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You suggest buying the first gen Galaxy? Ive got the skyrocket and I think that ICS is dog doo.
I never had this problem when I had gingerbread. I sent my phone in for warranty replacement and it came with ICS already installed. Getting multiple music entries all the time except only one entry will play all duplicates don't play, rendering my shuffle function useless as I get the silent tracks the majority of the time.
Guess its time to finally root. I was on the fence but with ICS it seems obvious that rooting is the only way I'll get an enjoyable phone experience.

NeoMishMoo said:
You suggest buying the first gen Galaxy? Ive got the skyrocket and I think that ICS is dog doo.
I never had this problem when I had gingerbread. I sent my phone in for warranty replacement and it came with ICS already installed. Getting multiple music entries all the time except only one entry will play all duplicates don't play, rendering my shuffle function useless as I get the silent tracks the majority of the time.
Guess its time to finally root. I was on the fence but with ICS it seems obvious that rooting is the only way I'll get an enjoyable phone experience.
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No, what I meant was it's time upgrade to a new phone because I assume they currently have a Galaxy S 1 which is an old phone.
As this question is posted in the Galaxy S 1 forums I'm guessing anyone commenting on the thread currently has a Galaxy S 1.
Personally I've moved on to the Galaxy S 3.

Worked
adsdf said:
try:
- Go to settings, Google Play Music, Force Stop, Clear Data
- Same for Media Storage
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
seems to help some people. didnt for me, so if you have an ext SD:
- Go to settings, Storage
- Unmount External SD
- Reboot into recovery and clear delvik cache
- Reboot and wait a couple of minutes
the second one solved that media bug permanently for me, although i am not quite sure why
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Please edit - Google Play Music = Music.

sdcard/media
I had this problem with some tracks too - I used ES File Explorer (although the stock 'Files' app may work too) to search the whole phone for one of the duplicated track names. It found one in my 'music' folder on my SD card (where I'd copied the track to) and another in "/sdcard/media". I don't know what that directory is for - it doesn't have all my music in it, and it seems to have some I can't remember listening to, so it doesn't look like a cache. Either way, I deleted the files in it, and the problem is solved.
I'm guessing the music player could solve this by only scanning certain areas of your system (which avoids getting ringtones and app sounds into the music lists), but AFAIK, Rocket Player (my music player of choice) doesn't seem to be able to do this
Either way - if your music player is showing duplicate tracks, check to make sure you have actually only got one copy of it on your phone! Hope that helps someone out

Music files no longer showing up in Apollo or the Play Music app

I've started to have a weird issue. I don't know when it started happening though. I went into apollo to listen to some music and nothing showed up in the library. I always use apollo to listen to music so all of the sudden just nothing is there when there are normally around a thousand songs. I tried using the google music app and that one didn't show anything either. Is there some setting that could be blocking the these apps from scouring my touchpad for music files? Most of the music is in a folder called HP Music because I imported the music when I first got the touchpad running Webos last year. When I first switched to CM7, all of the music just automatically imported itself. Same with CM9. So I am at a loss for why this is happening. I was previously running the Aug 11 2012 nightly for CM9. The music definitely worked a couple of days ago while running that nightly. I then today decided to upgrade to the Aug 16 2012 nightly to see if that would fix the problem but no dice. Music still is not showing up in the music libraries. It is worth noting that I can open up the hp music folder, select the song I want and then it will play in the ES media player. Any thoughts guys?
I have also just noticed that when I long press on the home screen and select gallery, it says 0images/videos available.
Thanks!

jetguy35 said:
I've started to have a weird issue. I don't know when it started happening though. I went into apollo to listen to some music and nothing showed up in the library. I always use apollo to listen to music so all of the sudden just nothing is there when there are normally around a thousand songs. I tried using the google music app and that one didn't show anything either. Is there some setting that could be blocking the these apps from scouring my touchpad for music files? Most of the music is in a folder called HP Music because I imported the music when I first got the touchpad running Webos last year. When I first switched to CM7, all of the music just automatically imported itself. Same with CM9. So I am at a loss for why this is happening. I was previously running the Aug 11 2012 nightly for CM9. The music definitely worked a couple of days ago while running that nightly. I then today decided to upgrade to the Aug 16 2012 nightly to see if that would fix the problem but no dice. Music still is not showing up in the music libraries. It is worth noting that I can open up the hp music folder, select the song I want and then it will play in the ES media player. Any thoughts guys?
I have also just noticed that when I long press on the home screen and select gallery, it says 0images/videos available.
Thanks!
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I had the same problem, see this post and install the fix and your problem will be sorted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30311349&postcount=9
I hope this helps.

sstar said:
I had the same problem, see this post and install the fix and your problem will be sorted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30311349&postcount=9
I hope this helps.
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Thanks! I had found that same article. Seems to be the fix. I searched root explorer for nomedia and it found one file. I deleted it and poof, my songs started populating again in the library!

jetguy35 said:
Thanks! I had found that same article. Seems to be the fix. I searched root explorer for nomedia and it found one file. I deleted it and poof, my songs started populating again in the library!
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Love it when I get something right. :good:

Apollo does not recognize music folders starting with a number
For other people that found this page on google... I was having trouble with some folders that Apollo was not loading. Turned out their names started with the year of the album and as soon as I changed the folder are it appeared in apollo

I was having the exact same problem last week. I couldn't figure it out, and I spent over four hours trying to understand why my gallery and Apollo showed no files. Then, I would plug my TP into my PC, and saw that only the "Notifications" folder would show up in MTP. I tried everything, including clearing my cache, fixing permissions, clearing the Dalvik cache, uninstalling apps, moving apps the SD Card etc...
I finally said screw it and restored to a month old backup, and voila, the problem was solved. If I would have known it was a pesky ROM Manager update, i would have thrown my Touchpad at the wall.

BuffMcBigHuge said:
I was having the exact same problem last week. I couldn't figure it out, and I spent over four hours trying to understand why my gallery and Apollo showed no files. Then, I would plug my TP into my PC, and saw that only the "Notifications" folder would show up in MTP. I tried everything, including clearing my cache, fixing permissions, clearing the Dalvik cache, uninstalling apps, moving apps the SD Card etc...
I finally said screw it and restored to a month old backup, and voila, the problem was solved. If I would have known it was a pesky ROM Manager update, i would have thrown my Touchpad at the wall.
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Lucky. I've searched for those pesky .nomedia files and deleted them all and yet Apollo nor Play Music populate with my music at all. My music folder originally was named downloads from webos, I tried renaming to Music and that didn't work. I'll have to dig around for a backup I guess, though I doubt I have any.

allstar319 said:
Lucky. I've searched for those pesky .nomedia files and deleted them all and yet Apollo nor Play Music populate with my music at all. My music folder originally was named downloads from webos, I tried renaming to Music and that didn't work. I'll have to dig around for a backup I guess, though I doubt I have any.
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Have you tried running the fix posted here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30311349&postcount=9

sstar said:
Have you tried running the fix posted here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30311349&postcount=9
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...Can't believe I missed that, I literally Google'd the crap out of that last night. Thanks man, working all fine now.
I also seem to have overlooked your previous post with the same link.. Guess I'm either blind, or its just the color scheme of the forum that makes it blend in easily..

[Solution to Apollo Music App]
There are a lot of ".../Android/data/no media." files. If you noticed when you rooted your phone and you had to use CWM or TWRP, folders such as 0, emulated, legacy, and storage were made and duplicated multiple times. If you want your Apollo to start showing songs, you're going to have to go through each and every "Android/data" and delete each no media. files. I can't tell you the exact places where your Android/data file occurs, because the amount of occurrences depends on how many times you've formatted the SD or rerooted with another ROM, but if you can delete all of them, Apollo will start working.
I'm not responsible for your lost of data, information, contacts, etc.
**DO NOT DELETE THE WHOLE DUPLICATED FOLDERS (0, emulated, storage, legacy, etc.) FOR SOME REASON THEY ARE ALL CONNECTED + AND FOR STRANGER REASONS IF YOU DELETE A PART OF THE FOLDER such as the NO MEDIA FILES, all of them won't be deleted.**
I don't know why, but it happens. Thank you for reading and I hope everything works for you :]

This happen to me,
When i accidently put nomedia files on sdcard root, then suddleny missing all playlist songs in Apollo player,
Then fix it easily is with delete nomedia files from root sdcard and then move your songs folder in root sdcard.
And to make sure, clear Apollo's data app.
It's works for me

[Q] Walkman and video players not finding files on my SD card

Just got the phone and I'm digging my way through it but I've found that for some reason my music and video files are not being seen by the phone.
Photographs are fine, but I see no obvious way of forcing the walkman and movie apps to scan my SD card. The files are still there and I've tried unmounting/remounting but I'm not having much luck.
Has anyone else experienced this? I tried to search but only saw reports of skipping tracks etc.
Edit: I've come from a Galaxy S3 and the card was formatted on that phone - could it be a slightly different file organisation system? I hope I don't have to reformat!

I understood the media server will scan for files if you:
- Add new media to the SD card and unplug USB cable.
- When you power cycle the device.
If all this fails maybe try an app like "Rescan Media":
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-addz-mediascanner-jtDAw.aspx
Rescan Media is a simple app will rescan your mobile phone for new files that usually happens on a system re-boot.
It only calls the android media scanner.
Kind regards, Stefan.

You can also delete android folder from the sd and reboot.
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Thanks guys. Oddly enough I'm now seeing my files. It seemed to just happen! When I rebooted and used usb, nothing happened. Then out of the blue it just does it, unexplainable! That app looks handy though

can't find the media
Same to me. I can find any mp3 or mp4 file that i have in sdcard in my walkman, Still can see it through file explore. How can I fix it? Tried media scan app, flash new app, wipe anything... but still can't see anything in the damn screen.
Please help me! You can send email for me: [email protected]