.mp3 files can't be seen by default music players but are working fine on VLC.

[Android Central Question]

Using a Nokia 7.2 and I've been using Google Play Music and Musixmatch to play music. Recently, GPM showed an error while playing some tracks. All the tracks are under the same default Music folder. The tracks are mix of .mp3 (both 128 and 320 kbps) and .flac So far, I have tried the following:

-Clearing the Cache partition
-Clearing data on GPM and Musixmatch
-Renaming and moving the files around
-Deleting all the files off my phone and retransferring them from a backup on my pc while keeping USB Debugging on.
-Clearing my Media Storage data and forcing a rescan
-Restarting my device after clearing Media Storage

So far, after several reindexes of the database, GPM can only find 174 out of my 1003 songs. Even these 174 tracks have their metadata missing and some won't play properly. However, VLC plays all the tracks just fine. Don't mind using VLC as my new default music player but just wanna know what might be the problem.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! The music files are on Internal Storage, and not an SD card, right?

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[Nandish Karmani]

The files are in my internal storage. I don't have an SD Card mounted

 

[B. Diddy]

Where are the music tracks from? Are they ripped from CDs, or downloaded from somewhere? Do the filenames have any unusual characters?

 

[ManiacJoe]

If VLC plays the MP3 files when other apps do not, my late-at-night off-the-top-of-my-head guess is that the needed codec for the file is a less popular one that is not normally installed on the device. To know for sure, you will need to open the files with an app that will display the internal details of the files. This is easy to do on a computer, but I have not seen (due to not looking) an app for this on phones.

 

[Nandish Karmani]

Most of them are legit tracks with the right metadata, album covers and normal file names. They play just fine on my PC as well. Hard to track where I downloaded them from but they are proper files with proper names.

 

[Nandish Karmani]

@ManiacJoe The files were playing just fine through GPM and Musixmatch until yesterday. If I play them through any file explorer they play just fine as well