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I'm not up-to-date with Android's current behaviour, but it always used to be that Media Storage would re-index all its media at boot. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner can also force a re-index.
Try this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
I had the same problem after removing my SD card. This forces Android to rescan your SD Card files so they will hopefully display properly in your music apps. Worked a treat for me but YMMV.
I haven't had this exact issue, but I do transfer my media over terminal commands and my phone never updates with the new media so I went looking for an app and found one. It allows you to add specific folders as well and also takes you directly to the media storage app if you ever need to clear it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
On Lineage 14.1: use the phone to format your external SD card: stock File manager > external SD card > 3-dots > Format.
Copy some files to card, set Camera to save to card, take some photos & reboot.
Or: Settings > Apps > 3 dots > Show system > Gallery > Storage > Clear Data & Clear Cache. Do the same for app Media Storage & reboot.
Settings > Developer Options > Development tools> Media Provider> SCAN SD CARD.
Or: try the tiny & free app media.Re.Scan
Maybe you could edit your OP & include essential troubleshooting info like device model & LineageOS version please?
Download this app and run it once if you have issues with Windows not showing all the files inside your phone after enabling File transfer through the notification.
Run app before you plug your phone to your computer!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
App will force Android to update the data for media storage and external media storage system apps.
There are media rescan apps on the Play Store that can initiate the rescan without having to reboot. This is one I've used in the past:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en
Not sure WHY its happening, but you could see if one of these apps helps:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascanner
They both restart Android's "media scanning" process.
Use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
I have the same issue for some reason, I have to scan every time I transfer my music. After the scan, it shows up normally. The other solution is to reboot after you transfer.
What do you mean? Whenever you transfer music files, they will show up in GPM, no matter the location. The only issue that comes to my mind is that your media library hasn't been scanned (the problem I had). Try this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Explain your problem a little bit more, what doesn't work?
Verifique se há algum problema com seu Media Storage. Você pode encontrar na loja alguns apps que te ajudam nisso como o media.Re.Scan.
If you never want them to be indexed you can use something like re:scan, most players use the android indexer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en
Vanilla Music has this built in.
Maybe try a media re-scan if you are on Android. I think the folder isn't detected by the Photos app. Sometimes I have this issue also.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Last two comments here could help. I no longer have stock firmware on my old G3, so I can't test it.
Before changing anything in Gallery app and possibly destroying something, I would try to use something like media Re.Scan to check if it prompts gallery app to notice your photos. (I'm not sure this will work for locked photos.)
I have tried copying dm files on G7, and it recognized files in new locations immediately. If you use your SD card directly in your computer, try copying using phone itself (for example from cloud storage or some location inside phone).
I've had this happen sometimes... The media scan hasn't run, or doesn't remove the nomedia folders during run... I fixed it by using a 3rd party app from the store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner), if a simple rescan doesn't fix it, a wipe of the media storage data followed by a scan should do the trick
> ..from > Settings > developer options> developer tools> media> scan SD card
On S3 i9300 LOS 14.1 exact path is: Settings > Developer Options > Development tools> Media Provider> SCAN SD CARD.
Afterwards it said: Media Scanner finished scanning /storage/emulated/0 so it does NOT include my external Micro SD card contrary to the tiny & free app media.Re.Scan
I had an issue on my V10 a while back where some photos were not appearing in my gallery app. I used this "media rescan" app Sounds like you might have a different problem, but it may be worth a shot. (I assume you tried restarting the phone?)
I figured it out. Look for a file called ".nomedia" in internal storage root. Delete this file. Now you need to rescan your media (one time thing to repopulate the database). I used this App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner My media is back. No idea how the .nomedia got put in the root folder. This file tells Android there is no media in that folder or subfolders.
Go to Settings App and force stop Apollo
Use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en
Restart ur phone and check again. I don't know what phone you are using, but you should move to LineageOS
Yes! I did not find a "solution". The MTP is still having problems, but I managed to copy almost all of the data I wanted. I managed to get 2063 items out of the 2064. Clearing data and rebooting was not enough. SDrescan crashed. However, I found another app that worked.
Thank you so much /u/itsalllies
I'll leave the solution here if anyone has the same problem:
Settings, Apps, three dots on the upper right corner, Show System, scroll down to Media Storage, click in Storage, Clear Data.
Install media.Re.Scan. and click "Start Mediascan"
It didn't work at first. I had to do this several times. Sometimes the Gallery app crashed. Sometimes the index would have only about 75% of the items. Finally my computer recognized 2063 out of 2064 of the items in the folder. To get the remaining items, delete the ones you copied to your pc and send the rest through Airdroid or Google Drive.
I talked to OnePlus technical support and they recommended a hard reset to solve the problem completely. I haven't done this yet so I don't know if it'll solve the problem.
OK. If the app is working but you can't see the directory then there's definitely something not in sync with the filesystem viewer. I have two more ideas (but then I'm really, really out): 1. Try this app to rescan the internal storage: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner then try to find the file again. 2. Install a terminal emulator (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm). Open it and type:
cat /sdcard/jp.comico/*; echo
then copy the output.
You can use Media.Re.Scan as an alternative.
> Just like my music, nothing is indexing...
Try the tiny & free app media.Re.Scan
I've used this one for quite a long time
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en
found this from some similar posts. can't hurt to try
I use this app: media.Re.Scan
Download an image file, run this for "image", then your file will appear.
Android has some filesystem cache that sometimes fails to show latest files.
I use this app to refresh the cache https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
See if apps like these fix it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Local files Playlists are broken in Android 10 but worked fine in previous versions of Android for .m3u, .pls, .wpl.
There's an issuetracker and community discussion here. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/157351665 https://support.google.com/android/thread/24235979?hl=en
The problem is that the media scanner fails to parse the playlists and correctly populate the media database. It usually creates playlists but with zero entries. In android 9 it all worked except for .m3u8 which did the same thing; Playlist created with zero entries.
This affects any music player that uses the media database such as YouTubeMusic, GooglePlayMusic and others.
The workaround is to use a media player that reads the playlists directly. Poweramp and BlackPlayer are two good examples.
All of this assumes you are using a sync method that copies the playlist and music files across directly using USB file transfer and then rely on the media scanner to populate the media database. There are some which may update the media database directly at the same time as the file transfer.
This is further confused because music files in internal storage are scanned automatically within seconds of being moved. However, files on an SD Card are only scanned at boot unless you use a 3rd party app to kick the scanner. eg https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en-GB
I presume you've tried rebooting so far, 2 other things I can think of is that you might need to trigger the media scan on your internal storage, I've used this one before: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
The other thing might be that GPM might not play some formats, have a look at a different music player, like Shuttle, Phonograph or Poweramp and see if that helps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=another.music.player
Same problem for me. I use this app do I don't have to restart
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Use this. This regenerate thumbnails. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner and run media scan. It will be fine.
Try this and btw many people have had this issue, just Google it >.>: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Try using one of these media rescan apps:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
Try this app: media.Re.Scan
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner&hl=en
Try this, 1 guy told me to do it and it worked!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.house.noranuko.mediarescanner
I use this. Works like a charm. But better. Because charms don't work. And this does.