Downloaded audio file wont appear in players

[irayge]

I downloaded an mp3 podcast using tTorrent and can not get any music app to find it. I had this problem on my old epic but an app that forces the phone to rescan for media would fix the problem, but none of those work on the e3d

I have also tried restarting the phone, completely shutting the phone down and booting it back up, and also unmounting and then remounting the sd card... The file is not missing or currupt because I can find it and play it using astro but once I go back to my home screen it stops.

Any help or ideas?

 

[illwood]

I would use a file manager to move the file from the downloads folder to a folder like:

Media / Podcasts

Or something like that. There may be a ".nomedia" file in your downloads folder or a setting that prevents it from being seen. Also, when you are playing it after finding it with file manager, you are basically only opening a "thumbnail viewer" type program. You would need to open it with the full player app.

BTW, you may want to download Mobo Player from the market and see if that will behave more like you want. I believe it will let you navigate the file structure for media to open.

 

[Chorazin]

I downloaded an mp3 podcast using tTorrent and can not get any music app to find it. I had this problem on my old epic but an app that forces the phone to rescan for media would fix the problem, but none of those work on the e3d

I have also tried restarting the phone, completely shutting the phone down and booting it back up, and also unmounting and then remounting the sd card... The file is not missing or currupt because I can find it and play it using astro but once I go back to my home screen it stops.

Any help or ideas?

Get a app that'll refresh your media table, like this one Market Link. I had the same problem until I figured it out!

 

[illwood]

Get a app that'll refresh your media table, like this one Market Link. I had the same problem until I figured it out!

I thought that at first, but re-read their post.

I had this problem on my old epic but an app that forces the phone to rescan for media would fix the problem, but none of those work on the e3d

I wonder if there is a ".nomedia" file in their download folder causing this problem.

 

[irayge]

I would use a file manager to move the file from the downloads folder to a folder like:

Media / Podcasts

Or something like that. There may be a ".nomedia" file in your downloads folder or a setting that prevents it from being seen. Also, when you are playing it after finding it with file manager, you are basically only opening a "thumbnail viewer" type program. You would need to open it with the full player app.

BTW, you may want to download Mobo Player from the market and see if that will behave more like you want. I believe it will let you navigate the file structure for media to open.

i understand the thumbnail thing and thats what i was trying to explain but couldnt think of how to phrase it. i did move the file to my mp3 folder in hopes that would make it work... no luck

ill give mobo player a try now and see how that works out. EDIT seems great for video but wont play audio files as far as i can tell

Get a app that'll refresh your media table, like this one Market Link. I had the same problem until I figured it out!

i have tried 3 or 4 different apps including one that worked well on my epic as well as the one you linked to... no luck on any of them. thanks anyway

 

[illwood]

That's a really strange problem. Maybe the torrent didn't download completely and the header is corrupted and the media players aren't playing it for that reason.

 

[irayge]

ok i figured it out and i feel somewhat stupid although its not my fault...

i just noticed i have 2 podcasts with the same name.... whoever made the file made the file name with the current date but diddnt change the id3 tags or mislabeled them to read the incorrect show date

so i had the files: 7-22-2011.mp3 and 7-26-2011.mp3 but the track names both read as 7-22-2011


thank you both for trying to help, i should have never doubted my e3d

 

[illwood]

Glad you got it figured out.