Hello.
First I just wanna say sorry if my english is bad, its not my first langues.
I got Xperia Z for some weeks ago, and its working fine except for one thing.
When I put in Flac-music from my computer to the phone, with the program called Media Go, some albums show as unknown artist and is 0 secs long, and isent able to play at all.
I manage with one album by puttiing it in the phone and then delete it and then put it back for like 10-20 times, but that havent worked with the other albums.
So someone that knows how I fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.
What app are you trying to play them in? I think the Walkman app has issues with FLAC files, you might be better off converting them to MP3 (or similar).
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lukamus said:
What app are you trying to play them in? I think the Walkman app has issues with FLAC files, you might be better off converting them to MP3 (or similar).
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its the normal app, that is called Walkman, yes.
Do you know if they will fix the app soon? Or if I can get some other good app that can manage flac-files? Because I really wanna use Flac-files, thats one of the reasons why I got android instead of iPhone.
I did a little more Googling, and it looks like the Walkman app *should* play FLAC files.
Can you check that the file copied over correctly? Maybe try playing it in another player. Google Play Music (orange headphone icon) plays FLAC files.
Walkman plays Flac just fine
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it should be able to play Flac? Then why is it doing the thing its doing? And how do I fix it?
Did you try playing them in Google Play Music?
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Did you try playing them in Google Play Music?
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No I havent done that yet, I havent been home, but I try it now
How do I put in music inside this app?
I managed to put in a song inside the app, but it happend same thing as with the walkman-app...now what?
It automatically scans your sdcard for files it can play. If you saved your files on an external sdcard, move them to the internal /sdcard/Music directory. (You shouldn't need to do this, but do it anyway to be sure.) Reboot your phone afterwards to ensure it rescans for changes. (Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but we want to be sure.)
If nothing shows up, then the files might be corrupt.
You can check their file sizes using File Manager and comparing wit the ones on your PC.
You can also copy them back off your phone to a temporary location and see if they play on your PC.
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It automatically scans your sdcard for files it can play. If you saved your files on an external sdcard, move them to the internal /sdcard/Music directory. (You shouldn't need to do this, but do it anyway to be sure.) Reboot your phone afterwards to ensure it rescans for changes. (Again, you shouldn't have to do this, but we want to be sure.)
If nothing shows up, then the files might be corrupt.
You can check their file sizes using thees on your PC.
You can also copy them back off your phone to a temporary location and see if they play on your PC.
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the files work on my computer, I have already tryed that, I have played them many times.
So you've copied a file back off your phone and it played on your PC, but neither Walkman nor Google Play Music will play the file. Is that right?
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So you've copied a file back off your phone and it played on your PC, but neither Walkman nor Google Play Music will play the file. Is that right?
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thats correct, yes.
If I check in the folders on the computer, I can see that the song that dosent work on my phone, gets to the right artist-folder in the phone, and I can play it with the computer.
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thats correct, yes.
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This might be relevant: http://www.romaco.ca/blog/2012/12/01/fix-flac-files-not-playing-on-android/
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See if this file will play with Walkman or Google Play Music: http://archive.org/download/Jesi_Demo/Demo_-_02_-_Corporate_Dirty_Work.flac
If it does then the problem could be with the tags on your files. You can use MusicBrainz on your PC to automatically tag your music. Just try with one or two first.
How do I remove the ID3 tags? Sorry, but I am kinda bad at these stuff.
Check my post above.
ow, sorry, I missed that. Thanks alot for your help!
You're welcome. Did the file I linked to play?
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Is there anyway to prevent my audiobook files from being indexed with the rest of the MP3s?
when ever I have music playing a chapter or two will pop up in the middle of the shuffle.
thanks
I'm curious, too, but for a different reason. I have a game (Need For Speed) whose background music files show up in the Music Player lists. Most are really obnoxious rap or hip-hop tunes I would never listen to, but when using the player on random they pop up. I'd like to exclude that folder from being seen by the Music Player app so I never have to see or hear them except when I'm playing the game.
You could put them all in their own folder and put a blank file called ".nomedia" (without quotes) in that same folder. That stops them from showing up in the default music player, but I don't know about 3rd party players.
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You could put them all in their own folder and put a blank file called ".nomedia" (without quotes) in that same folder. That stops them from showing up in the default music player, but I don't know about 3rd party players.
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That might work for the OP, but in my case the files need to be in whatever folder the game is looking for or they won't work in the game.
I create a AudioBook folder and placed the .nomedia in there, it works great to keep them out of the media player. The problem is that all the other media players on the market (that I found for free), use the same "collection" of music as the stock player does, so they also did not see the audiobooks.
I found TinyPlayer (free in the market) satisfies my needs really well. The only thing it doesn't do is bookmark. So I have to remember my place if I ever reboot. It uses a folder tree to read your collection, so it ignores the .nomedia and sees my audiobooks. It does not read song tags like the music player does, but that never bothered me. I just arrange each book into a folder, then the player will automatically go to the next music file, and stop at the end of the folder.
Awesome! Ill give it a try. Thanks for the quick responses.
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That might work for the OP, but in my case the files need to be in whatever folder the game is looking for or they won't work in the game.
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Just put the .nomedia file in the folder where the game's music is. It should work in root folder of the game. The stock player does not look in any subfolders if there is a .nomedia in a folder.
^ I'll try it. How do you make a "blank file?"
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^ I'll try it. How do you make a "blank file?"
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I just right click on the desktop in windows 7 and select new > text document and rename it, then copy it to my phone
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I just right click on the desktop in windows 7 and select new > text document and rename it, then copy it to my phone
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OK, that's what I thought, but wasn't sure if the file content/type mattered. I guess you just drop the .txt when you rename it.
UPDATE: That did the trick, but I first had to open the file in Astro and rename it without the .txt extension. The stock file manager wouldn't let me do it. Thanks again!
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OK, that's what I thought, but wasn't sure if the file content/type mattered. I guess you just drop the .txt when you rename it.
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Oh sorry forgot that part. I also take out the .txt extension
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Awesome! Ill give it a try. Thanks for the quick responses.
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It looks like several others have already helped, but if you wanted yet another option, I've used MortPlayer (there's both a Music and an Audio Book player). It's free on the market, has a widget, and also uses the folder structure so you can sort things that way (I haven't used Tinyplayer, but it sounds similar.)
+ 1 for mortplayer. Great for audio books.
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Seems the .nomedia file trick works for keeping ringtones playing in the music player as well. The android music player, like the gallery app, searches and plays EVERY peice of sound file available on the device's memory.
But, once .nomedia is placed in the ringtone folder, you're ROM cannot find the ringtones anymore!
Any solution to this? Why can't these smartphones be "smarter"? Hell, blackberries had this feature ages ago...
You're telling the OS there's no media in that folder, thus it stops looking for any media there. It's not hard to figure out. Despite not being tagged songs, the mp3 or files are still viewed as media.
Does the media player offer some sort of folder exclusion for its libraries? I never use anything but Pandora, so I wouldn't know.
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You're telling the OS there's no media in that folder, thus it stops looking for any media there. It's not hard to figure out. Despite not being tagged songs, the mp3 or files are still viewed as media.
Does the media player offer some sort of folder exclusion for its libraries? I never use anything but Pandora, so I wouldn't know.
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Yea I understood that, but that's basically what I'm wondering - if there's an exclusion folder made specifically for ringstones/notifications. You'd think there would be, in fact, there HAS to be...
There is a way. Search the forums I know its been posted before I just can't remember how. Also, check your gallery thread, try that solution for music, may work.
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I don't know about how you're trying to set a ringtone, but try removing the .nomedia file and rename the folder with a period in front (if it's named ringtones, rename it .ringtones, etc.). That should still exclude the folder from libraries, but it still might stop it from being found by whatever method you're using to set the tone.
Also, if you feel like dicking around with the phone's internal media, the ringtones there are stored in /system/media/audio/ringtones/; you can probably add a file there and keep it excluded.
use a different media player. i recommend doubletwist.
I have my ringtones in media/audio/ringtones on my sd and none of them show up in my music player.
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I have my ringtones in media/audio/ringtones on my sd and none of them show up in my music player.
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that is strange because I do too and they show up in the stock HTC music player. quite annoying
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that is strange because I do too and they show up in the stock HTC music player. quite annoying
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I use cm7 so I haven't tried the htc player in a while sorry
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Make sure the folder is named exactly as above. I originally fogot the S on ringtones. Once I added it my ringtones no longer showed up in my stock music player.
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I'm using Samsung Galaxy ACE, this phone is nice and there's nothing to complain about it. But nearly here, I did install a ROM, the Stocklite 7.1 with battery extender kernel and slaid480's script. And then, all the songs in my sdcard's tag isn't right anymore :| You know, I don't know what I did with the ROM, the kernel, the script,... I just flash it normally, like every other ROM, but what? Before this, with other ROMs, there's nothing wrong with my music (I'm not meaning to complain about the stocklite, it's a nice ROM, I'm just confused) but now, it's all wrong, I can ensure with all of you, from my computer, the songs are still normal, but when I copy them to my sdcard, just like my phone can't read the tags. How did this happen??? Anyone? Please help me, I've asked this question so many times but noone replied me. I have to go to school almost everyday of the week and without music at breaktime is disaster! Please help me!
P/s: my music is from iTunes, the songs are iTunes version, file m4a. :crying:
Somebody, help me :-? I'm really annoying with this, anyone? :|
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That's wierd. All my songs work fine. Does ace support m4a file format?
Try some other music player from market. Make sure the folder containing music is not protected or something, also make sure that there's no " .nomedia " file in the songs folder.
Maybe something got messed up with the music app database if you uses titanium backup to restore data.
Remove all songs from sd, delete data and cache from music app, reboot, open up your music app (now u got no songs), close the music app.
Put the songs back, reboot and check if the tags are ok.
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That's wierd. All my songs work fine. Does ace support m4a file format?
Try some other music player from market. Make sure the folder containing music is not protected or something, also make sure that there's no " .nomedia " file in the songs folder.
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Ace supports m4a file format, like i said, before i install that rom, and kernel, and the script, everything's fine. There's no dotnomedia in the songs' folder any different idea???
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Maybe something got messed up with the music app database if you uses titanium backup to restore data.
Remove all songs from sd, delete data and cache from music app, reboot, open up your music app (now u got no songs), close the music app.
Put the songs back, reboot and check if the tags are ok.
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i'd followed your instruction and nothing changed. :-< I'm using the stock music player, but Google Play isn't any better, the tags are still suck
I plugged up to my pc and put albums in the music folder and picture albums in a pictures folder. When i open the music app, it doesn't see any music and same with gallery, cant see anything only pics i've taken with phone. If i use my file explorer it see's everything, opens it and plays. I tried third party gallery like quickpic and it works fine. Poweramp works fine as well for music. The stock software isnt showing anything. I factory reset phone as well and same thing. I've been using android for the longest and first time encountered this. (EVO, EVO 3D GS1, GS2, GS3, Skyrocket, Nexus 4)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I plugged up to my pc and put albums in the music folder and picture albums in a pictures folder. When i open the music app, it doesn't see any music and same with gallery, cant see anything only pics i've taken with phone. If i use my file explorer it see's everything, opens it and plays. I tried third party gallery like quickpic and it works fine. Poweramp works fine as well for music. The stock software isnt showing anything. I factory reset phone as well and same thing. I've been using android for the longest and first time encountered this. (EVO, EVO 3D GS1, GS2, GS3, Skyrocket, Nexus 4)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I've noticed the same issue here. I can connect to a network share, copy music into the Music folder (or media/music) but it wont appear in the Music app, or DoubleTwist. The same is true when copied over USB. Not sure how to get it to detect the music. If I navigate to the folder, I can launch individual songs, but the players wont read the tags, or add the song to it's database...
Force close media storage and use
Media scanner on the play store right after fc-ing media storage.
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Force close media storage and use
Media scanner on the play store right after fc-ing media storage.
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That didn't seem to do anything for me. I did get music to appear once though by using DoubleTwist AirSync yesterday. I sync'd some crappy windows sample music successfully via that method last night. It showed up in DoubleTwist and the HTC Music app. So I manually deleted those albums and attempted to sync an album I recently got. That time it showed up in DoubleTwist but NOT the HTC Music app. I cannot figure out what the hell is going on or what to do about it. I've tried 3 different media scanner's from the play store and none have done anything for me. I've tried copying my music to various folders hoping they'll get caught in a scan but still no success. Is everybody else able to use the Music app with no problems?
I thought I was the only one. I tried to install Swype also and that didn't work either
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still no fix for this problem? will anyone care to reply n help me out?just got the htc one n this glitch is RUINING the brand new phone for me what did the OP do?
So I just found a way to get everything back .
First download a root file explorer (one able to gain root)
then navigate to your root it should be just a "/" then go to /data and then /data/media.
Bam that's where everything is! now just move all the folders to the main sdcard directory, /sdcard or delete the files that are in /data/media if you don't need them anymore.
Good Luck and hit "Thanks" if it helped :laugh::laugh:
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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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..
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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.
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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.
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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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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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