Questions tagged [media-scanner]
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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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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How to resolve a bug where documets and media files are not indexed to MediaStorage
I have encountered a problem with several file managers which I have failed to resolve.
Files in my device are not properly indexed and hence are not recognised by the file managers at least to my ...
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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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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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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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Scanning huge audio files is slow, but does it have to be?
I am using Musicolet player which has an option to use Musicolet scanner or system scanner for media scanning. I wonder why scanning some single huge file is so slow? Does the scanner have to scan ...
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Is there any way to fix MediaStorage's file creation dates without root?
I am using PlayerPro to play audio on my phone. I want my MP3s to be sorted by creation date and that is the problem. PlayerPro seems to be using MediaStorage's data about media files and it gets the ...
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My gallery shows nothing
I've searched high and low and cannot find a solution to this problem. The other day I wiped my phone for various reasons. Ever since I did the wipe the gallery does not display any of the images that ...
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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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.nomedia + SD Card - just can't create the file, no matter what
I have an ASUS Zenfone 7 Pro phone running Android 11. This phone comes with an SD card slot and so I wanted to make use of it. It stored the files great, I can read the files all good. But I cannot ...
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unable to see music files in any player app
This is a seemingly common problem and I viewed the dozen suggested posts before posting this but none of that helped since it was mainly things I already tried.
50 GB worth of MP3s in /sdcard/Music
I ...
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Need a media subdirectory inside a nomedia folder
As the title says, I have been searching for a way to show pictures from a nomedia folder subdirectory...the files have to be in that directory and can't be moved.
My messaging app stores it's ...
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Why is the audio category of my files incomplete?
I have recorded some .wav files with my Samsung S7. They are located in a folder of the recoding app.
Unfortunately the audio category of the my files (Samsung) file manager only lists some of them. ...
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Prevent Google Music (but not other players!) from scanning local files
I'm wondering if there exist other options rather than adding the '.nomedia' file - this way I'm hiding the mp3s for all the players I have. But I want just Google Music not to see them, not other ...
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Remounting a part of external SD card
Context: I've now spent more than 6 hours reading all articles / possible solutions I can find about the ".nomedia" file bug of Android 4+. See bug report here or also here or possible solution here. ...
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Music player without files
My music player suddenly stopped and it says there are no songs.
But in fact, there are songs in my SD-Card.
I had a similar problem that is the gallery didn't display images and also I have ...
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Android scanning app media files
My M8 is scanning all the app media files so music and images and icons from apps are showing up in gallery and music apps, I'm not sure which directories these are coming from so I can't add the ....
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Hide folder only from stock gallery without using Samsung's private mode
I know this might seem like a very common question, but when I have searched for a solution it seems almost no one has this same problem, all that is discussed is how to hide pictures that no one ...
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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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How do I fix my camera?
I have a Samsung Admire (running Android 2.3) & my camera won't work: it keeps saying cannot connect to camera & it always says multimedia scanning. I'm not sure but I think some pics have ...