sorry if I'm duplicating threads.. I've transfered music onto my sd card and none of the players will locate it. the music is on the card I can go into my files and play it individually. I'm using a San disk 32gb card in a non rooted phone
The .nomedia file makes it so the pictures are not indexed and added to the gallery, it does not affect the scan of the mp3s themselves. They should be being added to the index of available music which is what the players look at to find music.
First restart your phone to force an index and see what shows up if you have not already done it. I know it sounds obvious but make sure the music is in a format that the player can read. It does all the usual stuff like aac, mp3 and so on but if you've gone into one of the more unusual lossless formats or whatever you have to get a player that can play that format. Related, make sure that you have not imported your music to your phone in a play list format that the player cannot play. Both of these get people all the time.
If you have already restarted and the files can be played by the player and are not in an unrecognizeable play list then the next step is to go into your settings/applications/ find the player and delete its cache and data. Force stop it and then restart your phone. Startup will take slightly longer than usual but thats normal. This will not delete your music. If that doesn't work let us know.
With the stock player it wont find music on my SD unless I put it in a folder called Music on the root of the SD. then it finds it fine.
This may be an answer but it's not the answer.This is the answer. Create a folder on the root of your SD card called "Music" and put all your music in there. Also create folders for "Movies", "Pictures", and "Ringtones" if they are not there already. Make sure folders are spelled exactly as I wrote. Then your phone will also recognize your movies, pics, and ringtones that you store on your SD card.
This may be an answer but it's not the answer.
I have my music in a folder called syncr (put there by iSyncr) on my external SD card but all my music players find my music no problem.
Don't know if this issue has been resolved or not but I was having the same problem and solved it
I found this thread by way of Google, so hopefully I can help someone that was having the same problem as me
Since I'm new, I can't post any screenshots or links, so I'll try to be descriptive, but its kinda the same method from crabman post
Samsung Galaxy s3 T-Mobile
So, this is how I came about the problem. I downloaded a playlist backup app that also make a .nomedia file along with a playlist backup in whatever folder its in. I wanted my playlist backed up on the root of my external SD card, but I didn't know nothing of the .nomedia file at the time.
The app put a .nomedia file on the root of my extSD card
Don't bother trying to find the file with the stock file browser because its hidden. You'll need something like Root Explorer to find it.
These are the steps I took
>Using Root Explorer, find the .nomedia file on the root of your extSDCard and delete it
>Go to your settings and open up the application manager.
>>>Force Stop and Clear Data from two apps, Music Hub and Music Player
>Unmount and Mount your extSdCard
>Restart your phone
Oh, I also pulled the SDCard, but I don't think it was necessary. I hope this helps someone out that was having the same problem as me.
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