For questions relating to Android's media scanner process, which maintains a list of media files (music, videos, pictures, etc) on an Android device.
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Android Music Player is not detecting Music files
I copied music files from my computer to my Galaxy Nexus phone, using the command adb push Music /sdcard/Music/, and the stock Android music player is not detecting these files (while others do). I'm ...
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Mediaserver is eating my phone's battery?
I'm using dual boot on my SGS2 with CM10.1 and JellyBam and both running fine but with some issue of mediaserver draining my phone's battery like a crazy nut. I have checked on Google and got many ...
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Gallery images appearing in mixed up order
I have an HTC One X with stock Android 4.1.1. As you know, Android 4.1 introduced a "nice" feature to the gallery which allows grouping images by events. Unfortunately, after this update I started to ...
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Is it possible to add arbitrary folders to the media scanner?
I have a samsung captivate glide and it's got 4 gigs of storage that isn't main storage and isn't sd card memory. It shows up as a separate section under settings->storage and it's mounted on ...
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Mac's Android File Explorer and SSH are not in sync
I transfered some photos using the Android File Explorer application for Macs.
However, I accidentally put them in the Music/ folder and Android File Explorer doesn't allow me to move files. So I ...
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No Music Showing in Any Music Player
My Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 is rooted + 3rd party Jellybean 4.1.2 XXLS6 MIUI rom
Music apps tested: DoubleTwist | Songbird | Google Music
In all of these apps, the music list shows empty.
I have ...
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Not all media files discovered by media apps
I have folder on my sd card called podcasts. It contains subfolders of podcasts. My problem is the media players I have tried only display some of the podcast files as being available to play.
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Video showing up as Audio in media library
I use Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus.
I have copied a .avi File to the 'Movies'-folder of the device using mtpfs. I expected the file to show up as a Video in the Media Library so I can use Skifta (a ...
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Media scanner running constantly
I recently bought one new Samsung Galaxy S 2. (Ice Cream Sandwich)
I am getting "media scanner running" message each time I try to open the camera.
How can I get rid of this issue? Do I need to ...
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How do I reinstall MediaScannerService?
I recently rooted my Samsung Exhibit II. and was going through and deleting some bloatware and accidentally fat fingered and deleted the MediaScannerService not realizing what I was deleting. Does ...
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How can I make the Galaxy S3 detect media on my sdcard?
I have transferred some mp3s onto my sdcard using samba but the operating system doesn't seem to automatically detect them as it would if you copied it using MTP or whatever. How can I force it to ...
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mediascanner scan from system directory /data
How can I make mediascanner scan phone memory, i.e. the /data directory? I want to test playing MP3s from this directory.
When I try to hack it by replacing the "pathStr" from /mnt/sdcard to /data ...
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How can I prevent my media library from disappearing when I unmount the SD card?
I have a rooted stock HTC Rezound and frequently connect it to the computer as a USB mass storage device. After each time I do this, once I'm disconnected and my SD card is mounted, my media library ...
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Which directories does the Media Scanner scan?
Which directories does the Media Scanner scan at startup?
Is it only the sdcard?
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How does one disable the media scanner? (obviously on a rooted device)
Running a rooted Galaxy S2 with DarkyROM2 2.3.5 & SuperCore kernel. I have a 32 GB microSD card in addition to the 16 GB internal storage, and it takes ages to scan both when the phone boots. At ...
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The music player keeps displaying deleted songs. How do I remove them or refresh the library?
I am using a Droid X with rooted Gingerbread that is otherwise stock. I have root access, but have not used it to do anything.
I have inspected the /Music folder multiple times and the 500+ songs I ...
