How can I keep short mp3's I have on my phone for use as ringtones from showing up in the Play Music app?
Adding a blank file with the name .nomedia in the ringtones directory solves the problem but then in turn prevents me from being able to choose those files as ringtones.
I'm sure this isn't a new issue but one that I've never encountered since all my previous phones had an SD card slot and I kept these files on the external rather than internal storage.
HankStorm said:
How can I keep short mp3's I have on my phone for use as ringtones from showing up in the Play Music app?
Adding a blank file with the name .nomedia in the ringtones directory solves the problem but then in turn prevents me from being able to choose those files as ringtones.
I'm sure this isn't a new issue but one that I've never encountered since all my previous phones had an SD card slot and I kept these files on the external rather than internal storage.
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Bump to see if anyone has any ideas.
What works for me is: after adding them to the ringtones folder, go to setting, apps, scroll across to all and then down to media storage. Force stop and clear data and then reboot. On reboot wait a while for the play music app to rebuild and the should be gone.
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maccag said:
What works for me is: after adding them to the ringtones folder, go to setting, apps, scroll across to all and then down to media storage. Force stop and clear data and then reboot. On reboot wait a while for the play music app to rebuild and the should be gone.
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That seems to have worked! It's been a few hours and the ringtone files aren't showing in the Play Music app but all my actual music files are. Thanks for the tip!
HankStorm said:
That seems to have worked! It's been a few hours and the ringtone files aren't showing in the Play Music app but all my actual music files are. Thanks for the tip!
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Is there a reason that my music shows up twice I'm my music apps? Thanks!
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LKMR.PREZ said:
Is there a reason that my music shows up twice I'm my music apps? Thanks!
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Not sure of the reason but with poweramp you can manually choose the folders it uses. You'll see the duplicates and just untick one of them, bloody annoying!
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Thanks!
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LKMR.PREZ said:
Is there a reason that my music shows up twice I'm my music apps? Thanks!
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Are you using a senseless ROM?
Yes I am.
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That is why. I do not know the reason but the senseless ROMs have this bug.
iStatiK said:
That is why. I do not know the reason but the senseless ROMs have this bug.
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I'm on a sense Rom and have had the issue with numerous others as well?
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rotorsk8r said:
I'm on a sense Rom and have had the issue with numerous others as well?
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I have never had this issue with any sense ROMs. are you sure you dont physically have them duplicated on your SD?
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I have never had this issue with any sense ROMs. are you sure you dont physically have them duplicated on your SD?
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Or maybe had the songs in your internal storage and then moved them to the exteranl SD card?
I had the issue. It is because your music player gets music from both sdcards, but the external is also pinked within the internal. Let me explain
Internal storage is located in : /sdcard
External storage is located in : /sdcard2
But, external storage is also located in /sdcard/ext_sd
So when your music player scans music from your /sdcard directory, it also sees the music in ext_sd as it is linked within it!
The solution I have found that worked for me is :
Rename your music folder with a dot before it ( ex: Music becomes .Music )
Create a shortcut to your .Music folder in your sdcard root.
Perform a clear data from your music player and let it rescan
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ideaLduK said:
I had the issue. It is because your music player gets music from both sdcards, but the external is also pinked within the internal. Let me explain
Internal storage is located in : /sdcard
External storage is located in : /sdcard2
But, external storage is also located in /sdcard/ext_sd
So when your music player scans music from your /sdcard directory, it also sees the music in ext_sd as it is linked within it!
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That makes sense. I have my music on the external SD card. Using the HTC stock music player, I am not seeing my songs duplicated. I have a "Music" folder on the external SD card, but I do not have a "Music" folder in the internal storage. That may be the reason I don't have duplicates.
brucegil said:
That makes sense. I have my music on the external SD card. Using the HTC stock music player, I am not seeing my songs duplicated. I have a "Music" folder on the external SD card, but I do not have a "Music" folder in the internal storage. That may be the reason I don't have duplicates.
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Having the same problem
Worked perfect thanks for this!
ideaLduK said:
I had the issue. It is because your music player gets music from both sdcards, but the external is also pinked within the internal. Let me explain
Internal storage is located in : /sdcard
External storage is located in : /sdcard2
But, external storage is also located in /sdcard/ext_sd
So when your music player scans music from your /sdcard directory, it also sees the music in ext_sd as it is linked within it!
The solution I have found that worked for me is :
Rename your music folder with a dot before it ( ex: Music becomes .Music )
Create a shortcut to your .Music folder in your sdcard root.
Perform a clear data from your music player and let it rescan
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Weird question, but I transferred my music to my new One and put it in the Music folder on the SD Card. However, when I open up Music or Play Music it does not find anything. I'm using standard Mp3... . Phone is running stock and I'm not rooted. Thoughts?
Try Rescan Media in the store or reboot the device.
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No option in stock music programs to rescan. Final solution was to use HTC sync to transfer music. How stupid is that. Even if I transfer music to where HTC sync does (using another program), stock music program will not see it.
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Nacho suggested using an app called rescan media.
It would be a complete battery killer if android constantly looked for new media, so it only does this after certain things happen. HTC sync probably sends a command forcing it to scan. The app suggested forces it to scan also and it's literally as fast as opening the app and you're done. Phones where you had to toggle usb storage mode on/off would automatically rescan when turning off the usb mode. Since this uses mtp, there isn't much going on to trigger this.
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why not download es file explorer and find your music click on it and then pick you music player to play a song..i pretty sure it'll scan the file after
Btw, I just transferred music with windows - drag and drop folder to folder. No issues scanning media. Not sure why mine worked just fine and yours isn't.
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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
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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rmusic2400 said:
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..
derekwilkinson said:
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.
reaper36 said:
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.
reaper36 said:
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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gk1984 said:
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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Can you move google play music that was purchased from google to the HTC music app.
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If it's downloaded physically to your phone, (not in cache form, but in actual mp3 form) then the Android media scanner will automatically put them in the local app.
If you change the cache files to a .mp3 file extension they will play fine and be seen in your media folder
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If you change the cache files to a .mp3 file extension they will play fine and be seen in your media folder
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How would you do that ?
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Go itnt the data folder for Google music, it's /sdcard/android/data/com.xxxxxxxxxxx. find the cache folder using root explorer or which ever app you prefer. Just change each file name in the cache folder to a xxxxxxxx.mp3
The above will work, but unless you're comfortable with a batch renaming tool (command line or otherwise), could be rather painful. If you search around though, I think there was a project called Google Music FS or something similar that (if you were rooted) allowed you to share your music into any local-storage using music app.
You can also download the purchased music onto your computer through Google Music. Then transfer the songs over
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I have thousands of music files on my SD card. The stock music player seems to only be able to access and read ( when in shuffle mode under tracks ) some of my songs , meaning the ones only under tracks heading in shuffle mode. A little bit of research made me believe that the reason only half of my songs are listed under tracks is that the rest are within sub folders on the SD card and not accessible under tracks to be played via the shuffle method.
Any ideas on what I need to do to make all my songs accessible for shuffle play?
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I've just been extracting my albums to the desktop of my cpu. Then dragging and dropping the album folders to the SD card with my n4 plugged in.
if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..
wase4711 said:
if you dont keep your music in folders, then it will be easier for them to be read by all music players..
not very organized, but, at least all your songs are available all the time, with every player..
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So basically I would have to dump all music files into one folder. Breaking up all albums and folders?
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Nope.
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Nope.
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OK put albums in one folder and not make sub folders within a folder?
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Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders
10-K said:
Sorry you are having such trouble.
My albums are each in their own folder loose on my SD card. Maybe this pic will help more.
You can see a rom, a pic, and the album folders
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So basically you don't have folders within those folders?
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Yes
Thanks guys.
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just remember, every music player handles files differently, so keep that in mind when you do that..
for me, I just dump it all on my sd card in a directory called music, and always play them randomly anyways, so there is never an issue with any player I use by doing that