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I transferred (1,100 songs) 5gb worth of mp3 files from my computer to the x10 mini 8gb sd card, the transfer went perfect, and when i double checked the folder in the sd card, it has all the music and it says 5gb.

Here comes the problem, once i safely remove hardware and disconnect the usb from phone, the phone will index the media and auto refresh it and when i go to the music player and check all tracks, it is only showing 412 songs and around 1.7gb, and when i scroll from top to buttom it only shows artist from A-G, and H-Z is not being refresh or read by the music player. Even when i restart the phone, it doesn't refresh and add the missing music files.

Now i keep testing it and i thought maybe the sd card is malfuctioning or is corrupted but that's not the case, i check the sd card in the computer and the 16gb sd card is showing all 1,100 5gb worth of songs and when I used it on a diff mp3 player, it reads all 1,100 5gb music files just fine.


Is the x10 mini limited to only storing around 1.7 to 2gb of music files on a 8gb card, or is there a setting somewhere where the limitations can be turn off?

Another thing is, on my other phones and mp3 player, you can manually refresh the music player when new songs are added, how do we do this on the x10 mini?

Basically the main issue here is the x10 mini music player is only refreshing/indexing upto 1.7-2gb (400-412 songs), when i check the sd card settings on phone it says 8gb capacity and 3gb remaining, so that means 5gb is used up, but for some reason the music player is only showing 1.7-2gb 412 songs

Hope you can help guys


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Posted: 2010-10-25 03:02:48
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Hey... literally just finished loading my X10 Mini Pro with some of my iTunes playlists just before reading your post. Had to download a free Android app, Auto Mount, by JRTStudio, and the free doubleTwist, in my case, the Mac version. I use a 64GB iPod Touch also, and have an 8GB card in my X10 Mini Pro, I set doubleTwist to import all my iTunes Playlists, but I could obviously only sync a few of them owing to the space constraints. Syncing a few movies too, haven't checked playback yet, as they are optimised for the iPod's screen. Playlists seem pretty complete, aside from some issues with iTunes DRM on some non-iTunes plus songs I bought a long time ago. The whole thing took me less than 20 minutes, much easier (not to mention safer) than taking the memory card out every time, these little MicroSD card can be quite error-prone.
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Posted: 2010-10-25 04:57:04
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Hi colpolite, are you using the cra...er... default music player? hehehe...

Try MixZing or Zimly.

What class card do you have? If it's just a class 2, that will take a LONG time for the phone to index... so you might just try waiting a good 30-40 min for it to index after you reinsert the card.
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Posted: 2010-10-25 04:57:45
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yes it is a class 2, the thing is after i see the indexing media notification on top of the screen, it only stays for 3-5 sec, i wanna know if i can refresh the music library manually. And the thing you said about the 30-40 min wait, i've had 5gb 1,065 mp3 files in the phone for more than couple hours now and the music library is only showing 412 songs which is around 1.7gb
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Posted: 2010-10-25 06:07:08
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Try using a 3rd party music player
BTW, can u see the other files using a File manager ???
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Posted: 2010-10-25 06:40:42
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The symptom is that the default music player would not recognize some MP3 files even though I verified that they were on the SD card. When I open them through a file explorer app or another mp3 player or the computer they played fine... they just will not get indexed by the android default music player. I downloaded other music apps like zimly/mixzing/meridian and they behaved the same way... very confusing.

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Posted: 2010-10-25 06:59:32
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Hmm.. it's a long shot, but what's the bitrate of the mp3s that don't play on the X10 Mini? It's a weird hunch, but not all mp3 players support higher bitrate or some VBR encodings. I have not experience with my Mini Pro not playing any mp3s... if you want, you can email me a couple of mp3s that don't play on your Mini and I'll see if they play on mine.

That way we can isolate if it's a software problem, SD card issue, or if the X10 Mini really just can't play them.
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Posted: 2010-10-25 07:35:15
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I have some 320Kbps MP3s and Mini plays them without a hitch
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Posted: 2010-10-25 11:54:26
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I solved the problem guys!

The issue was a damn single song messing it up for all the songs, basically what happened was that all my songs from A-Z and that one song that was causing the issue was a "G" title song and once the x10 mini index/refresh it upto that point and notices the error, it stops indexing and refreshing so what happens is im stuck with songs only from A-G and H-Z mp3 file names are not gonna show on the phone

This is obviously a software issue because that same song can be refresh/index on my other phones/computer and mp3 player, and usually if a song is not like by the operating system like android for instance in the x10 mini, instead of asking you to ignore this file or do you wanna delete and continue on, it just suddenly stops indexing/refreshing once it reaches that particular mp3 file the x10 mini don't like.

How I solved the problem was to remove that one mp3 file in the "G" category and replace is with the same song and the x10 mini index/refreshed all of it

That one song that was causing the x10 mini to not index/refresh once it reaches the file has something to do with the id3 tag that i read from other people having issues with media scanner not indexing/refreshing new added mp3 files on android devices and i hope i can help other people dealin with this issue atm. It had nothing to do with bitrate or default music player or any music player application

Peace

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Posted: 2010-10-26 23:39:33
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