Content on SD not shown in Gallery... - Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My Gallery won't show anything stored on my ext SD, did it all the time, i have my pics and movies on my sd and where always vissible in my gallery, since a few days the Gallery shows only content from my inernal storage and nothing from my ext storage, when i check my sd is installed, and a can see the foto's and all other files, can open them, even with my gallery, but still not visible in my gallery.
a day later the same happend to my Music, all stored on sd, still exists but my music player won't recognize them, if i go to the song i can choose play, then choose the music player, and it plays, but my player wont find any music.
So it looks like my phone still will see all the content on my sd, but if i wanna use that content with an app, the app won't recognize the content, movies, pics and music (mp3) all on my sd, when i move it to my internal storage, it works great...
The only options i have in the gallery is show content from phone, facebook and picassa, but no sd options.
i restored my phone to factory default, still the same....
or someone else who knows i can fix it

Bartbig said:
My Gallery won't show anything stored on my ext SD, did it all the time, i have my pics and movies on my sd and where always vissible in my gallery, since a few days the Gallery shows only content from my inernal storage and nothing from my ext storage, when i check my sd is installed, and a can see the foto's and all other files, can open them, even with my gallery, but still not visible in my gallery.
a day later the same happend to my Music, all stored on sd, still exists but my music player won't recognize them, if i go to the song i can choose play, then choose the music player, and it plays, but my player wont find any music.
So it looks like my phone still will see all the content on my sd, but if i wanna use that content with an app, the app won't recognize the content, movies, pics and music (mp3) all on my sd, when i move it to my internal storage, it works great...
The only options i have in the gallery is show content from phone, facebook and picassa, but no sd options.
i restored my phone to factory default, still the same....
or someone else who knows i can fix it
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Have you recently partitioned your SD Card or played around with it in any way? Have you been using Music2SD, Link2SD or Pictures2SD? Have you tried using another SD Card? What gallery/media player are you using?

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tiskael said:
Have you recently partitioned your SD Card or played around with it in any way? Have you been using Music2SD, Link2SD or Pictures2SD? Have you tried using another SD Card? What gallery/media player are you using?
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Thanks for the hint, never thought it was the SD himself, because in my pc it works great, and all content was vissible, also in my phone with root explorer i found all my files, and was able to open them.
but tried another sd with some pics and stuff and they where vissible in my gallery, formatted the SD on my pc wasn't possible, but when i did it with my phone it was solved, now i can see all my old pics...
Thanks again

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Unable to get music to be scanned into media player

Hey guys. Ive tried reflashing quite a few times now, and for some reason no matter what rom i try my phone is no longer scanning the media on my phone. i have music on my phone in the form of mp3's that will play when i use astro to browse to them, ut do not show up in any media player including the stock android one. an thoughts? as to whats going on?
things ive tried,
New sd card
Reflashing and wiping
Cyanogen clockwork recovery and amon ra
going back to a nandroid where it did work ( it no longer does)
deleting all my music and putting new music in
reformatting the sd card.
any other ideas? or if anyone knows a fix, please help!
Do you dump all of your mp3s in 1 folder? I've found that if I do this, the music player will scan some but not all album art. I know you're not getting them detected at all, but try adding music in subfolders so maybe when it scans 1 folder with hundreds of mp3s it doesn't get overwhelmed. If you're adding a lot of music at a time, try adding just afew mp3s and see if that works.
Thanks for the reply. just tried it and its still a no go :/
You sure you don't have a .nomedia file in the same folder as the music or your music folder doesnt start with a .? (like .music will not be scanned)
nope nothing with a dot or a nomedia file.. i found out if use force scan with meridian media player it finds my music, but its only temporary. as when i exit. it loses everything again :/
edit: i just tried a non sdhc card. the original 2gb card and it works.
however i want to use my 8gb card :/
any idea why the media scanner is not working on my sdhc card?
is it because its a class 2?

[Q] Not all mp3's are recognized

I just loaded an album via usb and for some reason only a few songs are showing up on the music player(stock and mixzing). I am running cyanogenmod 6 rc1, I have a 4 gig sd card with about 1 gig free and about 200 mp3's. If I use Astro to look for the files, they show up and can be played but still wont show up on the music player. Anyone know a solution to this problem? I have tried rebooting the phone and unmounted the sd card.
stabone00 said:
I just loaded an album via usb and for some reason only a few songs are showing up on the music player(stock and mixzing). I am running cyanogenmod 6 rc1, I have a 4 gig sd card with about 1 gig free and about 200 mp3's. If I use Astro to look for the files, they show up and can be played but still wont show up on the music player. Anyone know a solution to this problem? I have tried rebooting the phone and unmounted the sd card.
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Are they all under one folder? A music folder?
You might have to set a default music folder depending on what player your using.
They are all in a Music folder, I have some full albums in subfolders, but some songs show up and others don't, even if they are not in a subfolder. It seems like its only this latest music loaded that is having this problem.
I downloaded an mp3 tag editor(TagScanner). The only difference I have found between the mp3's that don't show up is where is the Tag Bar. Mp3's that have ID3v1.0 don't show up, seems like all other ones are good.
I had this problem a while back and it was pissing me off as I couldn't work it out. It turned out that I had a space character at the end of some directory names for some reason which threw the scanner off. (Maybe it was a space at the end of the ID3 tag descriptions? One or the other).
Good luck, I know how annoying it is!

[Q] Google Play Music playlists are deleted whenever external SD is remounted

I have the P880G (apparently a Canadian AWS/Band IV variant), and I store my music files on my external SD card. Being in Canada, I can't use Google's cloud music service, but the Google Play Music app is still pretty darn good for playing local music files.
The trouble is, every time the external SD is remounted (such as when the phone reboots), my playlists and "thumbs up" list are wiped. The playlists are still shown in the list of playlists, but they're all empty with 0 songs.
Before this phone I had the Nexus S, using only internal storage, so this wasn't an issue, except that there was barely room for the music files I wanted to have with me. I'd really like to use the external SD now that it's an option.
From searching around xda, the closest I could find to this issue was a problem with having the cloud-based music sync to the external SD (it apparently goes to internal storage by default). A solution is posted here, and I tried that on my phone, but it didn't solve my particular issue.
So does anyone have any insight or experience with this?
jphillip said:
I have the P880G (apparently a Canadian AWS/Band IV variant), and I store my music files on my external SD card. Being in Canada, I can't use Google's cloud music service, but the Google Play Music app is still pretty darn good for playing local music files.
The trouble is, every time the external SD is remounted (such as when the phone reboots), my playlists and "thumbs up" list are wiped. The playlists are still shown in the list of playlists, but they're all empty with 0 songs.
Before this phone I had the Nexus S, using only internal storage, so this wasn't an issue, except that there was barely room for the music files I wanted to have with me. I'd really like to use the external SD now that it's an option.
From searching around xda, the closest I could find to this issue was a problem with having the cloud-based music sync to the external SD (it apparently goes to internal storage by default). A solution is posted here, and I tried that on my phone, but it didn't solve my particular issue.
So does anyone have any insight or experience with this?
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Would love to know if anyone has any resolve for this. Having the same issue on my GS3 running CM10.1.
Thanks.
Well, sorry to say I never found a fix, but my solution was to sign up for Google Play Music's cloud service in a roundabout manner. So now my playlists are synced and never get deleted from the phone.
A workaround is better than constantly re-adding songs. Thanks!
Same problem
I'm having the same problem with my playlists being wiped. I didn't know what was causing it until I read this post.
When I was using V20A firmware until last week, I discovered that LG 4x's media scanner, at every boot, deleted all .M3U files on SD card. To solve this issue, I was obliged to disable the integrated media scanner (using an app with root grants) and eventually copying all .M3U files from a unscanned folder to main music folder on SD card.
The a/m issue was not present in all previous V1xx firmwares.
italianquadcore said:
When I was using V20A firmware until last week, I discovered that LG 4x's media scanner, at every boot, deleted all .M3U files on SD card. To solve this issue, I was obliged to disable the integrated media scanner (using an app with root grants) and eventually copying all .M3U files from a unscanned folder to main music folder on SD card.
The a/m issue was not present in all previous V1xx firmwares.
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What app did you use to disable the media scanner?
bobdobal said:
What app did you use to disable the media scanner?
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Rescan Media ROOT ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot ).

[Q] Dmod v6 (Samsung GT-I8190N) SD card problem

Hello. I am using Dmod v6 (GT-I8190N) and 16GB Sd card transcond.I have a problem on our devices. When I installed SD card gallery, music player, video player can not see the contents of the internal memory or card. The content is updated for approx. 10 minutes. But when something or download a photograph again I can not see what I've done. Appears again for approx. 10 min. When I remove the SD card, I see the contents of internal memory and photograph something, I see it in the gallery. No waiting 10 minutes. Immediately. Music on SD card not see too. When I go to Total Commander on Sd card photos, video, music I see ... in the gallery, video player and music player can not see. It can anyone help us so that I could use ext. SD card? Please

Walkman does not show and play external sd card content

After the last update which renamed Walkman app to Music, application does not list my music files and folders in the external sd card. Internal card content is being listed without any problem. I have uninstalled the update but still it shows nothing from sd card, even in the folders tab.
How can I make the walkman application browse and play music files located in sd card?
zihinsiz said:
After the last update which renamed Walkman app to Music, application does not list my music files and folders in the external sd card. Internal card content is being listed without any problem. I have uninstalled the update but still it shows nothing from sd card, even in the folders tab.
How can I make the walkman application browse and play music files located in sd card?
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This must be a problem with the default Media Scanner found on the device. You could try Rescan Media Root which works wonders for most devices
Requires root permissions you can use it to force scan external sd and internal sd for audio tracks.
Revontheus said:
This must be a problem with the default Media Scanner found on the device. You could try Rescan Media Root which works wonders for most devices
Requires root permissions you can use it to force scan external sd and internal sd for audio tracks.
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Yes, it was a media scan issue. I tried this app from play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
It solved the problem for audio tracks and walkman runs fine now. After a while I realized that ringtones are gone in whatsapp and system sound settings. I rebooted and sounds are restored gradually. Everything is well now. Though I am still curious about why this problem occured after the walkman update.
Anyway thanks and have a good day.

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