New music on SD card not displaying in Google Music

[wmoore]

I have a lot of music on my SD card and normally use Google Music (4.1.511) to play it. However, I noticed that a couple of albums I've added this week are not showing up in Music and no matter what I do, I can't make them show. Here's it what I've done so far:

• Cleared cache and data in Google Music
• Booted into recovery and cleared cache & dalvik
• Checked file properties and permissions in Root Explorer
• Played the tracks in Google Music by going into Root Explorer, long tapping and hitting Open (plays fine )
• Confirmed the music doesn't show in stock ICS Music
• Removed stock ICS Music
• Uninstalled Google Music (also went into /system/app and deleted the APK)
• Re-installed from APK
• Fixed permissions and checked SD card in recovery
• Checked that the files are correctly tagged and re-copied them from the computer
• Probably other stuff I've lost track of

After all that, these new albums are still not showing up in Music. The rest of my collection is there, just not anything added recently, even though I can see these files in Root Explorer and play them in Music by long tapping --> Open. WTF???

Can anybody give me any ideas before I go insane? And please don't suggest other music players, I like Google Music and it has always worked well for me across different ROMs. There must be some fix to this.

 

[k0zmic]

Try an app that forces Android to rescan for media files.

Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using Tapatalk

 

[wmoore]

Tried Rescan Media and still no dice. I backed up my ROM and flashed a different one and it showed them up within a couple of minutes of booting. Very, very odd.

 

[dsp4]

Tried Rescan Media and still no dice. I backed up my ROM and flashed a different one and it showed them up within a couple of minutes of booting. Very, very odd.

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but a lot of people seem to still have this issue. Here's what worked for me:

Some apps rely on the Media Storage service to list media files on the device, instead of enumerating files every time they are launched. In other words, Media Storage indexes the files on your device, then apps like Play Music query Media Storage to know which files to display.

For some reason, on my phone, it only indexed files if they were copied through USB. If I copied MP3s from a network share using ES Explorer, or from Team Viewer, they wouldn't show up in Play Music.

The solution was to clear Media Storage's data (Settings => Apps => All => Media Storage => Clear Data) then reboot the phone. This forces the service to reindex all content. Play Music will act as if there's no music at all on the device for a few minutes, then everything should show up.

I hope this can help someone

 

[metropical]

The solution was to clear Media Storage's data (Settings => Apps => All => Media Storage => Clear Data) then reboot the phone. This forces the service to reindex all content. Play Music will act as if there's no music at all on the device for a few minutes, then everything should show up.

this was the same solution I stumbled upon.

 

[athifjeffdx]

The Solution to clear the media storage data and reboot works! Thank you so much.......