Music issue with SD Card

[nic_car_bel]

Hi there, I've been trying to move all my music across on a 128GB microSD card, but have been having issues with playback on the phone itself. After syncing music across through HTC Sync Manager, for some reason, only songs that start with the letter A, a number or with punctuation playback on the phone, whether its an mp3, m4a, whatever. Any thoughts on why this would be happening?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Welcome to the forums. Have you tried just dragging and dropping through Windows?

 

[nic_car_bel]

Yeah, that was what I originally tried, but it leaves the card as "read only" and doesn't copy all the files across, they'll just randomly disappear from within the folder while I'm dragging them across.

Like, what happened this morning, was I left it syncing across all night. There's around 20000 songs. It got up to J, and I had to go to work soon, so I hit cancel, and the music seemed to play fine, until I decided to move one more song across, and it rendered the B-J files as unplayable.

 

[anon9512082]

I had no problem transferring most of my videos folder (not much in my music folder) on Windows 7 laptop to HTC 64GB SD card using USB cable + HTC Sync Manager. Everything plays as good as can be expected using Media Player or MX Player app. Sometimes video + audio are not in perfect sync ... sometimes the video stalls for 1 second or is a little jumpy.

 

[nic_car_bel]

See that's exactly what I'm using, just a straight up sync through the HTC Sync Manager, although it seems that it may be an issue with it writing it to the card, because if I try to play it off the card through the computer, it still won't play even on that. Again, some files here and there have been today, when I tried copying songs from scratch again, but even less are playing, and the *-A aren't the ones working this time.
Basically, I've tried:

• Formatting the card on the computer and copying right across
• Formatting on the phone, unmounting, then copying right across
• Formatting on the phone, leaving the card in and copying right across as a removable device sort of thing
• Formatting on the phone and then syncing through HTC Sync Manager

I don't know what other ways there is to try. Pictures worked fine on the card when I did that to copy across to the phone, but music? Whole other issue.

 

[anon9512082]

My procedure for transferring a Nina Simone music folder.
Not sure how the music was "ripped" back in 2012.
Could demo Anita Baker folder, but Anita is ".wma" format ... Nina is ".mp3" format.
Both work on HTC.

Attach USB cable from HTC to Windows 7 laptop.
To get HTC Sync Manager to work sometimes, a "soft" HTC Restart -or- Windows 7 "Control Panel" "Devices and Printer" MTP troubleshoot is required. It all depends on how many times I have connected / disconnected that USB cable.
Go into "My Computer" on laptop and click "Libraries," "Music," "My Music."
Right-click music folder to be transferred + "Send to" HTC One M9.
Transfer is quick to my HTC SD card MUSIC folder.


ES File Explorer app will play the entire folder.
I don't have to manually start each song.
HTC BoomSound with Dolby Audio sounds GREAT to me !!!

On another note, my HTC does not charge well with USB connected to laptop unless I also attach a Tenergy Rapid Boost adapter. But the Tenergy adapter blocks file transfers.

 

[nic_car_bel]

I'll give that way a go when I get home from work, didn't know it could be done that way though. So you send each folder one at a time?

UPDATE: Seems to be working OK, better than before. Although still have gotten a few playback issues so far (have only updated Artists 0-B at the moment), where if I track forward, it comes up with the "Cannot play this audio file" message, but this could be since I still have it plugged in, I'm assuming. Thanks for the help so far though, I'll keep you posted with full results!

 

[msm0511]

I honestly can't ever get HTC Sync Manager to work the way it's supposed to. I use either AndroidFileTransfer, AirDroid, or iSyncr to transfer music and files.

I have a similar problem charging with my laptop as well @williejmackey. Well, it only happens while trying to transfer and charge at the same time. The cable/USB port can't charge at a fast enough rate to keep a charge and transfer.

 

[Russel McDonald]

Read through this thread, and am left wondering if your microSD card has a problem. I just copy and paste my music folders under itunes down into my USB mounted SD card using Windows explorer:
Computer\HTC One M9\SD card\mobile\music.
Works fine every time. So if when you do just that simple step if it's leaving the card as "read only" and the files disappear as they are "dragged across" then I'd be suspicious of that.
The only piece to the puzzle that does not fit a microSD hardware problem is the strange "only songs starting with 'A' play". That sounds more like a software problem...such as perhaps source code is designed to sort alphabetically but the list containing the pointers/values was poorly designed and 20,000 entries overflows it.
So I'd say either (1) microSD card problem and try a separate microSD card, or (2) software problem and try just copy/pasting a smaller number of files, say all "B" songs or some small category such as that to see if the issue goes away.

 

[fernandezhjr]

Hi there, I've been trying to move all my music across on a 128GB microSD card, but have been having issues with playback on the phone itself. After syncing music across through HTC Sync Manager, for some reason, only songs that start with the letter A, a number or with punctuation playback on the phone, whether its an mp3, m4a, whatever. Any thoughts on why this would be happening?

What brand SD card and what class is it? Some cheaper brand cards don't perform well and for music, you want to make sure you have a higher class for faster read and write speeds. Also, there are counterfeits out there. Be leery of large size good brands that are really cheap.

 

[nic_car_bel]

Read through this thread, and am left wondering if your microSD card has a problem. I just copy and paste my music folders under itunes down into my USB mounted SD card using Windows explorer:
Computer\HTC One M9\SD card\mobile\music.
Works fine every time. So if when you do just that simple step if it's leaving the card as "read only" and the files disappear as they are "dragged across" then I'd be suspicious of that.
The only piece to the puzzle that does not fit a microSD hardware problem is the strange "only songs starting with 'A' play". That sounds more like a software problem...such as perhaps source code is designed to sort alphabetically but the list containing the pointers/values was poorly designed and 20,000 entries overflows it.
So I'd say either (1) microSD card problem and try a separate microSD card, or (2) software problem and try just copy/pasting a smaller number of files, say all "B" songs or some small category such as that to see if the issue goes away.

I thought that having so much music would overload it, so it is a small possibility, but I've tried doing it bit by bit, like doing all the A's at once, then all the B's, and so on, but it would just have files disappear, where it says its copying across, and then they just don't come up. But, that could be an issue with the SD card, which I'll get on to.

What brand SD card and what class is it? Some cheaper brand cards don't perform well and for music, you want to make sure you have a higher class for faster read and write speeds. Also, there are counterfeits out there. Be leery of large size good brands that are really cheap.

I think you're right here. I'm taking a risk on an el cheapo off eBay, so that could be the problem. So, in the end, I might just have to bite the bullet for a SanDisk one or something. I just thought with the el cheapos (like the very first one I tried), they would either not work at all, or they'd work just fine. The first one I tried just got corrupted big-time the first time I formatted it. This one, well... you know the problems.

I let it sit overnight copying songs across, and it got to the big giant folder of my Billboard Top 100s, and it ended up fully copying everything up until about halfway through that folder by the looks of it. Then, it did the thing where it copies the folders, but not the files, and then the missus unplugged it haha, so.. I'll give it another full go tonight after work when I can just leave it there for ages.

 

[nic_car_bel]

OK, so I left my phone syncing all the music for a day, and everything copied across, no shut downs, no files disappearing, etc. Then, one I tried to play the files on my line, everything disappeared up to my folder with the Billboard Top 100s in it (which is a pretty big folder) I wonder why it goes to that folder as its cut off?