[Q] Sony's Album problem??? - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Sony's album application does not show photos and videos from the sd card.
It did at the beginning but when i formated the sd card and re-copied some folders with photos/videos.... they dont show with "album"
Any solution? and any good alternative to "Sony Album"?

Use an album app grabber from play store, they work nicely. I have 3 different ones installed though as they some seem to be able to find better quality pics than others or those that are rarer art to find too. My favourite/main one I use is 'cover art grabber'.

FIXED!!!
Seems that clearing the application's cache through /setings/applications etc does the trick!

papala said:
Seems that clearing the application's cache through /setings/applications etc does the trick!
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The same goes for Walkman app when it sometimes won't add new music from sd card.

Does not work for me . Formated my sd card and changed the folders a bit . Now the album shows those " mountain images " ( like the file was deleted or corupt ) . Cleared cache , data and forced stop twice . Still nothing . Any ideeas ?

Settings. Apps. All. Media Storage. Clear all data. Reboot. If you have root explorer open photo folder and any random pic. Open any music file. Close app and wait for a while. Hope that helps. It was a fix for HTC OneX.
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xchasa said:
Settings. Apps. All. Media Storage. Clear all data. Reboot. If you have root explorer open photo folder and any random pic. Open any music file. Close app and wait for a while. Hope that helps. It was a fix for HTC OneX.
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Whell , for starters it did erase all my metadata but i'm still waiting for android to rebuild everything . It's been like 10 minutes or so and still nothing . will report back if it works !

They show up in the end just wait.
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fookea said:
Whell , for starters it did erase all my metadata but i'm still waiting for android to rebuild everything . It's been like 10 minutes or so and still nothing . will report back if it works !
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I just tested on xz and it works. Best to open a picture and a music file in file explorer first to kick start it.
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nope still nothing i did previously freez MHL , mirrorlink and startupflagservice with gemini AND installed rescan media root ( to disable mediaserver ) BUT i re-enabled mediaserver and uninstalled the program and did unfreeze the sistem apps . rebooted twice , unmounted sd , took photos wich are saved to internal memory , opened both pictures and music on my album\ walkman apps. still nothing... Media storage has now 608 Kb vs 604 kb ( about 1 hour ago ) vs 15 mb or so ( before clear ) . I do have root and stock firmarware. Any ideas, tips ? am i doing something wrong ?

Wheel ok... I found the problem... I had previously copied the data via a SD adapter ( much faster) and the album and Walkman could not see anything on the stick. Funny thing is that when I plugged my phone via cable with de sd inside, windows showed it empty.... Weird. Anyway, copied everything back via phone with sd inside and everything ok now! Thanks!

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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?
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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.

How to exclude picture cache file from showing up in defaulted album?

Hi, Just wondering how do I exclude particular folder like cache folder or whatsapp picture folder from showing up in defaulted album? Before ice cream sandwich I can just put a .nomedia file to the folder that I don't want to show up but this doesn't seem working on ice cream sandwich. Please help. Thanks.
Download nomedia app from the market. Then you put a .nomedia file in each folder you do not want the media scanner to scan
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Or skip the nomedia app and just create a file with the filename .nomedia (with the preceding full stop) in whichever folders you want to skip indexing.
You might need to reboot your phone or reset and re-index the media database by going to Settings, Apps (All), Media Storage and clearing the existing data. (The phone will need to be rebooted after clearing the database.)
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Or skip the nomedia app and just create a file with the filename .nomedia (with the preceding full stop) in whichever folders you want to skip indexing.
You might need to reboot your phone or reset and re-index the media database by going to Settings, Apps (All), Media Storage and clearing the existing data. (The phone will need to be rebooted after clearing the database.)
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Works Perfect
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Are there any apps available to run the media storage clearing and rescan? At the moment I am regularly clearing this data and using the rescan root app from market but would like this all in one process without the need to hunt through the settings. It's annoying that as new files are added to these folders with .nomedia the still appear in album unless I clear the data and rescan media.
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Wobba-Lee said:
Are there any apps available to run the media storage clearing and rescan? At the moment I am regularly clearing this data and using the rescan root app from market but would like this all in one process without the need to hunt through the settings. It's annoying that as new files are added to these folders with .nomedia the still appear in album unless I clear the data and rescan media.
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Not that I know of. There are media rescan apps but they are largely hit and miss in my experience.
As I said above, you can do it by wiping your existing media database and then rebooting your phone. Not ideal but gets the job done.
How about this app...
hXtps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultyfree&hl=nl&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dvaulty
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Duvel999 said:
How about this app...
hXtps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultyfree&hl=nl&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dvaulty
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Good for hiding p0rn from your girlfriend, not any good for getting your phone to rescan your media.
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Oh, and that's not an endorsement by the way - just based on reading the app description.
I haven't used the app so couldn't comment!
Tried it..lol
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".nomedia" also prevents audio files from being scanned... any solution to prevent only images from certain locations to be shown? I have a lot of album artwork stored with in my music collection and it keeps showing up in the gallery...
thank you in advance for any suggestion
mrmel said:
".nomedia" also prevents audio files from being scanned... any solution to prevent only images from certain locations to be shown? I have a lot of album artwork stored with in my music collection and it keeps showing up in the gallery...
thank you in advance for any suggestion
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lol, Use mp3tag to embedd the albu art inside the mp3 file and then delete the extra files. I had a similar problem a long time ago and with this program it took me about 15 minutes to embedd them all (Dead easy to do) then you can delete the album art...
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lol, Use mp3tag to embedd the albu art inside the mp3 file and then delete the extra files. I had a similar problem a long time ago and with this program it took me about 15 minutes to embedd them all (Dead easy to do) then you can delete the album art...
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Yep... right... I already have embedded album art in mp3 files... but at the same time I have same files (and some extra ones) in the folder... sometimes it's more convenient to have them handy...
I think I will delete all graphics files from my music folder after copying the music to my phone... that's probably easiest solution...
Thank you anyway...
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Yep... right... I already have embedded album art in mp3 files... but at the same time I have same files (and some extra ones) in the folder... sometimes it's more convenient to have them handy...
I think I will delete all graphics files from my music folder after copying the music to my phone... that's probably easiest solution...
Thank you anyway...
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i delete them straight away, you can always redownload very easily via album art downloader software
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/album-art/index.php?title=Main_Page
I just want to hide picture from sony album, and i want it appear as nomal to use other app( for exp i use multipicture livewalpaper app to set walpaper)
Is it possible

Music Player duplicates Media files on external sdcard

After updating to xxlsa, my music player duplicates the files on my external sdcard. Any fix on this?
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I have tried unmounting my sdcard, clearing data for media storage and music player but yet no changes. Any help will be appreciated.
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hi, it's strange ..
I am still with LS7, I have not tested yet.
but I had a similar problem with ics, it was infact google music and its cache ..
test reading your duplicate songs with the stock player, if the duplicate song will not open, it is almost certain that it comes from gMUSIC ...
Otherwise, if you're on they are copied to your external sd, have you tried to delete, reboot and see if you still have the problem?
ps: you're not in the right section, here is themes and applications
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hi, it's strange ..
I am still with LS7, I have not tested yet.
but I had a similar problem with ics, it was infact google music and its cache ..
test reading your duplicate songs with the stock player, if the duplicate song will not open, it is almost certain that it comes from gMUSIC ...
Otherwise, if you're on they are copied to your external sd, have you tried to delete, reboot and see if you still have the problem?
ps: you're not in the right section, here is themes and applications
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Yeah. On ICS I had same problem but the duplicate didn't work. But unmounting sdcard and clearing data for media storage solved the problem. But on XXLSA both the duplicate and original are playing just fine.
Edit: I deleted one of the duplicated media files and it rendered the other useless, i.e. the music player could not play it.
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you are using google music on your phone?
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you are using google music on your phone?
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Nope. I dont have Google music.
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strange, wait reponse of guys have LSA.. sorry, i not flash this night
Go settings+application manager+all application look media storage and clear after restart..
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Emothic_Reagan said:
Go settings+application manager+all application look media storage and clear after restart..
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As i said above, i have tried that and it didnt work.
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coolwolex21 said:
As i said above, i have tried that and it didnt work.
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I am on lsa and i dont have any such problem
And i even have google music installed

[SOLVED][Q] Stock music app does not auto-update!

Hi guyz!
I have a galaxy mini (stock)
My music player app (stock) does not get auto-updated and as you may know there is no way of refreshing the list or updating it manually.
Whenever I add or delete my songs in the device the music app does not show the added ones nor remove the deleted ones :banghead: :crying:
I have to play them all from my folder and they can't be played in background therefore causing me loads of problem
And the same goes with my picture gallery (gallery ics).
I have searched a lot for solutions but found none of them working except of ofcourse reflashing ..
But I don't want to reflash.
So plzzzzz if you guyz know any work around then tell me plz :crying:
Note: the songs and pics are in the external sd card..
Nabs Zains said:
Hi guyz!
I have a galaxy mini (stock)
My music player app (stock) does not get auto-updated and as you may know there is no way of refreshing the list or updating it manually.
Whenever I add or delete my songs in the device the music app does not show the added ones nor remove the deleted ones :banghead: :crying:
I have to play them all from my folder and they can't be played in background therefore causing me loads of problem
And the same goes with my picture gallery (gallery ics).
I have searched a lot for solutions but found none of them working except of ofcourse reflashing ..
But I don't want to reflash.
So plzzzzz if you guyz know any work around then tell me plz :crying:
Note: the songs and pics are in the external sd card..
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Something wrong with the media scanner. I cannot point out what.....
I think its better you flash it.
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try this,
clear data and cache of the music app and gallery..
and from /sdcard/DCIM folder delete ".thumbnails" folder...
and then launch gallery..
it will take a bit more time to display all pics as it will generate thumbnails of all pics...
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srt99 said:
try this,
clear data and cache of the music app and gallery..
and from /sdcard/DCIM folder delete ".thumbnails" folder...
and then launch gallery..
it will take a bit more time to display all pics as it will generate thumbnails of all pics...
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dude thank you soooooo much worked as a charm and solved both the problems .
Love you man <3

Walkman/album library problem

Hi guys something weird is happening to my phone , when I put new images or music I don't see them in walkman app or album , can someone help please?
pw1nce said:
Hi guys something weird is happening to my phone , when I put new images or music I don't see them in walkman app or album , can someone help please?
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Try using a file explorer to see if they're there. Phone should recognize them , but sometimes, expecially if you put a large amount of ppics and music files, it takes some minutes
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Try using a file explorer to see if they're there. Phone should recognize them , but sometimes, expecially if you put a large amount of ppics and music files, it takes some minutes
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I've checked , they are there , when I download images from Google drive still I don't see them , I have so take screen shot of the pic to send to anyone , and also no music appearing in Walkman, only the old one , no new music is being detected
- the best way is transferring media files thru MTP.
- u can try SD / media scanner app from Google Play
- the last resort is to clear 'Media Storage' data thru settings > app & reboot. u may need to reonfigure ringtones, etc.

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