Once that's finished, I'm pretty sure your media player(s) will find something to play (with). Then have the media scanner run again (e.g. I'd suggest to either temporarily delete or at least rename all affected files, so that no file with "special characters" in its name remains. Which resulted in the media database not being populated, from which follows: The players think "no media files there".
HTC MUSIC PLAYER NOT FINDING MUSIC ANDROID
Seeing a file name like Computer\Nexus 4\Internal storage\Music\Christina St眉rmer\Freier Fall\1 Geh nicht wenn du kommst.mp3 points to a special problem with "special characters" (such as German Umlauts) which got messed up on data transfer: While Windoze uses its own character set (MS-ANSI or wone of the WIN-12xx, depending on configuration), Android expects UTF-8 - which is why it's a good custom to use only 7-bit ASCII characters in file names.ĭue to this mismatch and the "unidentifyable character", the media scanner most likely has crashed.
HTC MUSIC PLAYER NOT FINDING MUSIC PC
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Why can one app (the file manager, and e.g.
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On my Nexus 4, there's a folder called /sdcard/Music/ (or just /Music when browsing the phone's storage Windows 7 calls it Computer\Nexus 4\Internal storage\Music) and I've put a lot of songs in there but the music player doesn't see any of my songs.