Basic question about stock music player. - T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

10-K said:
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

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Getting rid of music files on Nexus One that aren't Mp3 on music players.

Has anyone figured out how to get rid of all these non mp3 files from playing on the nexus one music player? I hate skipping a song and hearing the Lets Golf soundfiles that are store on my SD card. Or any other game music files on the SD card. I just want to hear the Mp3.
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Fidelio_o said:
Has anyone figured out how to get rid of all these non mp3 files from playing on the nexus one music player? I hate skipping a song and hearing the Lets Golf soundfiles that are store on my SD card. Or any other game music files on the SD card. I just want to hear the Mp3.
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put a blank notepad file named ".nomedia" (just like that, a dot and nomedia, no extension after it)
the app developer should have done it himself
Should I place this on the folder where these files are store? For instance If I want to get rid on the "Hot Shot Golf" one do I put that in that folder?
Fidelio_o said:
Should I place this on the folder where these files are store? For instance If I want to get rid on the "Hot Shot Golf" one do I put that in that folder?
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yes that should work fine
oh great! i hate when im working out in the gym all pumped up and all of a sudden a sound clip from HAWK comes on n ruins it -_-
Forgive me if my question seems very ignorant but....as the file is called nomedia: would this also work to keep (for instance) album art out of the gallery?
(tried searching for it already, didn't find anything so far)

Keep ringtones out of music player

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.
FEGuy said:
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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hungmung said:
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
GroovyGeek said:
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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HTC One & Media Files

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.
I used the HTC sync program. Music is there and works. For pictures it separated one album into 30 and gave them all random titles. Very strange. Could use some help here as well
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Have the same problem. All my photos don't show up in gallery.
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I think you should clear gallery cache data from app manager and then restart.
This was solved my issue once.
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You will also need to clear the "media storage" cache.
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Chodaboy83 said:
Sounds like a lot of jumping through hoops just to transfer some songs and pics?? All of my android friends are always saying how much they love the drag and drop features of their phones, and how they dont need itunes to sync pics and songs. Looks like its not all its cracked up to be, with a 2013 flagship model not properly transferring media via drag and drop.
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Worked fine when I dragged music and pictures over. Not sure what OP is doing wrong.
I put pictures in the Pictures folder and music in the Music folder. Then unplugged and they showed up in the respective apps.
Since HTC Music Player can show folders as a category what I did was simple -
1. Under Music folder created sub-folders with same name as my iTunes Playlists
2. Opened each folder and dragged the iTunes Playlist from iTunes into it
3. This copies all songs from that playlist into the folder
So the folders in the player work as playlists
Also, copy over Events from iPhoto into Pictures folder creating each sub-folder and this show up in Gallery as Albums !!
All done ...
im having the same problem with my htc one. will someone please tell me if they found a way to fix this issue? clearing the media storage didnt fix the prob,it only made it worse now even the pics i took from the phome wont show up in the gallery. rebooted it like 3 times. please help! this is completely ruining my brand new htc one for me..
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:

Default player wont recognise music on internal storage

Hi, i recently got the s3 mini and after putting some music on my internal 4gb storage in the already created music folder but the stock music player wont show them up, i have done a battery pull with no sucsess, sadly please help
Nothing, no one nada, please guys
Maybe you have a nomedia file in the folder. First check that, then try and see if other players find the music
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W1nst0n said:
Hi, i recently got the s3 mini and after putting some music on my internal 4gb storage in the already created music folder but the stock music player wont show them up, i have done a battery pull with no sucsess, sadly please help
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download VLC application from playstore
vonuzu said:
Maybe you have a nomedia file in the folder. First check that, then try and see if other players find the music
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There's no nomedia file in there also google play music picks up even less on my 2gb sd card, ill get winamp or something asap, just weird that it can't find it seems very weird, I'm running 4.1.2 I think

[Q] Downloading music

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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Torrent
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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