Thanks. It's funny how people try various things, think it's cured, only to find the problem returns. I liked ice cream sandwich better than Jelly Bean in so many ways. If this problem goes all the way back to gn3 I don't see much chance it will ever be solved. I tried copying my sd card on computer then letting phone wipe it and reformat it then copied back files. I find it unlikely that a top quality (mine cost a fortune) SanDisk sd card is the culprit but I'll eventually try replacing it. I did forget to have windows convert mp3 to mp4 during copy process because it takes so long but that would be the next thing. I also found that I cannot delete files on sd card from computer, only from phone. No biggie but odd.
So far the index service and media server are not running. (Fingers crossed)
Beamed from my Galaxy Note 3