Playing song from sd card

[AxlMyk]

Probably got it all figured out after 2 years

AC App on SGS3

 

[battygirlrachel]

I had the same problem and unfortunately reading the responses didn't really give me a direct answer... but I was able to figure out what the problem was... When I initially connected my phone to my computer to transfer files a folder for music was already displayed and so I saved all my music to it. The folder name was "com.google.android.music" and, from reading various posts here and elsewhere, I determined maybe that was the problem. So to fix it I went to "my flies" and selected the "SD memory card" then I 'pressed' the "menu" button to create a new folder. I titled the new folder "music" (though it probably doesn't matter what you name it). now when I open "my files" and select the SD card, I have a folder called "music" and one called "android". I selected the "android" folder then the "data" folder then the "com.google.android.music" folder, which was where all my music was saved. I selected all of my file folders with music in it and pressed the icon in the upper left corner (it has three bars and a triangle) and selected move. Once that is selected it takes you back to the initial screen where you select "SD memory card" or "device storage". I selected "SD memory card" and then the "music" folder I created. in the upper left hand corner, I selected "move here", which moved all my music to the new folder. I powered off and back on and walla! my music app can now find all my music, and has them in the folders as they were saved. Some of my folders contained folders, and the folder within a folder comes up as a separate folder in the player. i.e. I have a folder called "Instrumental" and within it was another folder called "Final Fantasy"; the music player shows the "instrumental" folder as well as a separate folder for "Final Fantasy". The player shuffles as well. (P.S. I'm using the music player that came with my device.)

I'm not a tech genius so all the tech lingo in other posts was a bit hard for me to follow. I hope that others who are just as confused by the lingo find this easy to follow along. Keep in mind I use Boost mobile so the way your carrier has things set out may be a bit different.

 

[Tovote Onxfactorusa]

Dear temp311,

Thank you for your post (#16). Prior to finding it, I spent hours trying to learn whether I didn't understand this phone, or if there was a shortcoming in the design. I even did a 30 minute chat with Samsung overnight. They were useless of course. I had the inability to play more than one song from the micro SD card on my Samsung Galaxy Test SGH-t379. Then I would have to start the next song, repeating the process for each tune I wanted to hear. Using your information to effectively "reboot" the proper communications between the internal memory, the proprietary music player and the micro SD card solved the problem for me finally!

Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. I was at the end of my patience to research this problem. You saved me in the nick of time!

 

[James Al-jawahiri]

If you go to my files > music > options menu > settings > tick show hidden files it should bring all the music up. Worked for me anyway

 

[mediaocity]

On my Note 3, I used File Commander (App you can get from the Market if you don't have it to manage files) to create a new folder titled 'Music' and I moved all the songs from my internal storage to it, the stock Samsung player for music found the folder instantly and it saved up a lot of internal storage space

 

[androidjo]

I found this thread searching for an answer to this exact same problem on another device (not a Samsung). Unfortunately nothing here worked, but I did find an answer to my problem, and I want to post it here in case someone else is searching for an answer. My phone is running KitKat 4.4.

I have a directory on the internal memory entitled "Music" and I created a directory on my external SD card also entitled "Music". I had a couple of songs in the internal Music directory and a bunch of songs on the external SD card directory. Neither the stock player nor Google Play Music nor several other players would read the music on the external SD. They would just find the couple of songs that I had on the internal memory. The one exception was Rocket Player and it found all my music correctly.

I tried all the advice in this thread but nothing worked. However, I did have a realization and tried it and it worked. The problem, at least in my case, was that the players will always prefer internal Music directory and will not look at the external Music directory. I simply renamed the directory on the SD card to "My Music" and all the players found the music without any problem.

To summarize, if none of the tricks in this thread works, try renaming the music directory on the external SD card to something other than "Music" because some players appear to get confused if there is an internal Music directory and an external Music directory.

 

[androidjo]

** Double Post **

 

[MagpieJack]

I downloaded the free version of Rocket Player and the $5 version of iSyncr and they did the trick.

 

[McJaystar]

Rescan Sd Card worked a treat for me !!! Thankyou to the person who posted this

 

[Sanjeev_mail]

I encountered exactly the same problem on my s3 mini. After a few hours of frustration I decided to just try and download another music player. Go the the app store and download "Rocket Player". It works perfectly, I had all my music back in less than 5 minutes. And, unlike the default music player, it has the option to rescan your device at any moment.

Thanks for your recommendation about rocket player...this in was looking for long time..God bless you...

Thanks

 

[Mimi santana]

Play my music from my scd card

 

[Mimi santana]

Play my music from my sd card