[Q] Media Scanner & CIFS

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Hi,

i'm having a issue with Media Scanner and thanks to that with nearly all media players on Android.

Let me explain .

• I don't have my music on Galaxy Tab, i have a share on network, mounted via CIFS to /mnt/sdcard/music. With apps like MortPlayer or via explorer utils i can see the contents of this folder.
• Unfortunately this folder is not indexed by Media Scanner, as even if i use a SD rescan util (which forces the Media Scanner to start scanning), none of the files show up in the standard music player. On other side, if i manually copy the files to internal memory via USB, then after USB disconnect the Media Scanner runs and finds all new files - except those from those from the share.

Now, the question is if this is some sort of Media Scanner limitation (like if it ignores any mounts) or do i have some configuration issue ?

Of course i could use MortPlayer, but i don't really like using this kind of player if could have a library instead.

Originally Posted by faugusztin

Hi,

i'm having a issue with Media Scanner and thanks to that with nearly all media players on Android.

Let me explain .

• I don't have my music on Galaxy Tab, i have a share on network, mounted via CIFS to /mnt/sdcard/music. With apps like MortPlayer or via explorer utils i can see the contents of this folder.
• Unfortunately this folder is not indexed by Media Scanner, as even if i use a SD rescan util (which forces the Media Scanner to start scanning), none of the files show up in the standard music player. On other side, if i manually copy the files to internal memory via USB, then after USB disconnect the Media Scanner runs and finds all new files - except those from those from the share.

Now, the question is if this is some sort of Media Scanner limitation (like if it ignores any mounts) or do i have some configuration issue ?

Of course i could use MortPlayer, but i don't really like using this kind of player if could have a library instead.

Have you find solution? I'm having same problem. Tried to google, but no luck.

No solution unfortunately. It looks like a limitation of the Android media scanner.

Hi,

iam using the standard Player called "musik" on my galaxy tab.

I have mounted a CIFS on /mnt/sdcard/media/subfolders

There are 3 folders which contain mp3 files. Others Videos...

One week ago i have noticed that the Media Scanner has detected the content from only one folder full of mp3s. I thougt that it is impossible that the standard player detects files from cifs. But it has detected the media. I dont now why. The other two folders with mp3-mixes are not detected.




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