play music app wont recognize mp3s

[vertcobra99]

Just picked up an EVO LTE tonight and I loaded a micro sd that I had from my epic 4g the issue I am having is that the play music app won't recognize all of my music. It only pulls certain songs. While the stock music app has no problem seeing all of the songs. Anyone else experiencing this issue? If so how do I fix it?

 

[G3TCASHM0N3Y]

I had the same issue! Just ended up using power amp music player out of frustration instead.

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[mrhankey184]

Yea I would love to resolve this issue. Been using power amp, but having to switch back n forth is getting old

 

[G3TCASHM0N3Y]

Is this seriously not bothering anyone else?

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[Judynnnn]

I thought you can only use music you uploaded or download to play music to use play music. I have music in my sd card and over 2200 songs in play music. The only thing that bothers me is not being able to shuffle all my music together.

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[01011000]

I thought you can only use music you uploaded or download to play music to use play music.

No, you can load music files onto your microSD card from anywhere and the Google Play Music app should recognize them with no problem. I'm not sure why its not recognizing the files...

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[vertcobra99]

I really wouldn't care if it wasn't such a pain in the ass to make playlists on the other music app. Anyone have a solution for this? Is power amp a good alternative?

 

[Paradocks]

What is the bit rate of the songs that won't play? Could a very high bit rate be causing the problem? Maybe the Music app cannot handle these high quality recordings. Just a thought...

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[bbtitanium]

I noticed that Play Music took a while to load all the songs, even local on the sd card.

 

[ffejjj]

Personally i hate power amp

I've used Mixzing since my ogevo days and i love it

MixZing - The Ultimate Android Music Player

 

[vertcobra99]

What is the bit rate of the songs that won't play? Could a very high bit rate be causing the problem? Maybe the Music app cannot handle these high quality recordings. Just a thought...

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I am not sure of the bit rate. How can I check that? It doesn't seem that the other music app has this issue...

 

[vertcobra99]

I noticed that Play Music took a while to load all the songs, even local on the sd card.

I mean whats a long time? I can leave the app open for over an hour and its still missing a ton of songs.

 

[Ciege]

Try clearing the cache on the Play Music app, then force closing it then restarting Play Music. I had a similar issue where it wouldn't recognize music on my SDCard and the above steps cleared the issue up.

 

[G3TCASHM0N3Y]

I disabled the music app, re enabled it and now it recognizes sd cars songs! Awesome thanks for the help.

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[vertcobra99]

can someone tell me how to clear the cashe on this app?

 

[mrhankey184]

Worked for me too

 

[vertcobra99]

I disabled the music app, re enabled it and now it recognizes sd cars songs! Awesome thanks for the help.

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How do you disable then reenable the play music app?

 

[G3TCASHM0N3Y]

Go into settings, then Go into apps, find play music, click disabled, then enable.

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[ericj12]

What is the bit rate of the songs that won't play? Could a very high bit rate be causing the problem? Maybe the Music app cannot handle these high quality recordings. Just a thought...

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no thats def not what it is. i can play flac audio files i have on my dropbox and those have a way higher bitrate than an mp3

 

[jeromyraider]

.it probably is your sd card. you prob need atleast a class 4 micro sd card. take out your sd card and post sieze, class and how much data you actualy have on it.