Programs not able to see Ext_SDcard (Google Music)

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So I have noticed an issue and I am not sure how far reaching this is within the OS system but many programs are not able to see the additional 32GB micro SD card I added to my phone from my EVO3D.

For example, Google Music saves it's files by default to the SD card location. Since the internal memory is the SD card that means it doesn't get saved to the 32GB card I put in. I do not see any place to change this within the software. I keep my full library up to date and store typically about 9 GB of music at all times on my phone with the rest streamable (great for traveling on airplanes a lot). That would wipe out my entire internal memory.

I have noticed the same thing with Google Play Movies. It will save only to the internal SD card. So for example, if I have my music saved as normal I cannot then download a movie either to watch on a plane.

Not sure if there is a work around anyone has found for something like this or if there are other ways to change where programs save to by default.

im looking for a better answer, but the best thing you can do is put everything else like pictures, games, audibooks in the extarnal SD card. shows up as SD Card 2 if you are explorting the root folder or as ext_sd if you are exploring the SD card. click on either of those 2 folders and you will see your card that you put in. SD card 1 is our internal 16gb

Yes I posted the same problem in the general section. I'm assuming at this point, I will wait till we find another way (ROM maybe?) To restructure the filing system or have the system notice both "sd cards".

For now, I have left all of my files alone the way they were (I have a 64GB card, no way to move my stuff ), and I have started to use Apollo music app, which is the official music player of CM9. Based off play music, it satisfies what I need at the moment, despite it still being in beta. The dev updates it often, and I expect it to become my future default when custom ROMs start coming out. Here's a link: http://www.seeingpixels.org/2012/05/apollo.html. Or you can scroll down more, and use the CM9 unnamed version with more features and similarity to Play Music, but with less support and updates (I believe).

Hope it helps for now!

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Same issue here.

It would be nice if there was some way to specify the default save location on a system-wide (ROM) level so that I don't have to tweak it for each app (especially since some apps won't let me see the second SD card). Let's hope that either HTC or some dev in the ROM community can cook something up for us.

Yeah it was pretty frustrating, but not going to not have my music. I left my original 10GB on my actual SD card at the moment and just had it pin a few of my playlists so I would still have music and not be out of room on the internal SD.

Pretty frustrating, not sure many phones utilize this or have this problem since the other One X phones don't have the extra slot we do. I just don't want it to be useless for music and movies which is what I use it for the most.

This is the same way it works on the Transformer Prime as well with the expandable memory it has, can't save those pieces there. Thankfully it has much more internal memory so that isn't a problem.

create a /media/music folder on the sdcard and it should see the music there.

I have my music in the same /media/music directory on my card and it recognized them.

You guys are not understanding - this is not the HTC Music App that has actual MP3s on it.

Talking about Google Play Music/Video. They have to save to the main SD card as designed, the app won't look to the EXT_SD card when you insert it. Google Play Music/Video saves to the Android/Data folder on your SD card by default.

This means you only have the 10gb internal to use for these pieces, not the 32 GB on the extra SD card which is where you would want them.

works for me

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i popped my card out of my Epic Touch, popped it into my new Evo LTE and rebooted. All of my videos and music on my card show up automatically in both Play apps.

Android doesn't have any intuitive way to handle internal user space and external space in a seamless manner. Android leaves it 100% up to the developer to handle internal vs external space. Androids guidelines say internal space should be mounted as /emmc and external as /sdcard. The problem with this is virtually no apps handle /emmc so basically the user is required to use an sdcard. So it seams as if HTC changed the method to make the internal storage mount as /sdcard so that users won't have app issues out of the box. With root and custom roms devs can change this method though.

Can someone see if there is an fstab file under /system/etc/ and if so post its contents here