I copied and pasted all my music to my micro SD card and it isn't showing up in my phone

[KO80]

The question in the title is the jist of my problem. I sat and waited for a couple hours after I did a simple "copy" and "paste" of my music files from my computer to this new micro SD card for my phone - I formatted the card in the phone prior to doing any of the copying and pasting....

Now I am not seeing these music files in my phone...anyone know where I should go from here?

Why can't there just be simple processes such as copy and paste for these music files?

 

[Lee Power]

I just use Windows media player to sync my music with my Lumia 930, so easy & it works perfectly every time.

 

[matt john2]

What kind of audio format are your songs? For example are they .mp3,.wav,.flac,etc format?

 

[Susmit257]

The question in the title is the jist of my problem. I sat and waited for a couple hours after I did a simple "copy" and "paste" of my music files from my computer to this new micro SD card for my phone - I formatted the card in the phone prior to doing any of the copying and pasting....

Now I am not seeing these music files in my phone...anyone know where I should go from here?

Why can't there just be simple processes such as copy and paste for these music files?

Have you pasted them on the music folder ??only paste those music files into the music folder on your sd card.

 

[KO80]

What kind of audio format are your songs? For example are they .mp3,.wav,.flac,etc format?

A lot of the albums in WMP are CDs I loaded into from actual CDs.

 

[KO80]

SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE. I am on the verge of smashing this effing phone against the wall.

 

[KO80]

I just use Windows media player to sync my music with my Lumia 930, so easy & it works perfectly every time.

I think I tried this - does it allow you to order them as albums when you "sync" them to the phone?

 

[Darren Yeats]

Windows Phone is dumb at reading normal music files copied into the phone and can't accept many valid tags. Pretty much all the music apps are the same since they are skins. It's outrageous.

I found one exception. Try out Core Music Player which allows you to browse folders and files. It works okay if you have artist/album folders and sensible file names i.e. track numbers at the beginning.

You can actually get a similar effect by browsing using 'Files' app, and playing the files. However, 'Files' will not allow the music to play in the background or give you lock screen controls - these are the two key benefits of Core Music Player. It does annoy me I had to pay a small amount for something basic, but it's the only workable way I've found for a normal copied set of MP3s! (I've also read Core Music Player supports FLAC, but I haven't tried that yet.)

Tip: pin the 'Music' folder from with Core Music Player, and you get a nice tile labelled Music.

 

[vishwas_prabhu]

Try out Core Music Player which allows you to browse folders and files.

Yes. Core Music Player is an excellent app. Folder playing works flawlessly.

 

[KO80]

Windows Phone is dumb at reading normal music files copied into the phone and can't accept many valid tags. Pretty much all the music apps are the same since they are skins. It's outrageous.

I found one exception. Try out Core Music Player which allows you to browse folders and files. It works okay if you have artist/album folders and sensible file names i.e. track numbers at the beginning.

You can actually get a similar effect by browsing using 'Files' app, and playing the files. However, 'Files' will not allow the music to play in the background or give you lock screen controls - these are the two key benefits of Core Music Player. It does annoy me I had to pay a small amount for something basic, but it's the only workable way I've found for a normal copied set of MP3s! (I've also read Core Music Player supports FLAC, but I haven't tried that yet.)

Tip: pin the 'Music' folder from with Core Music Player, and you get a nice tile labelled Music.

I have to pay for this? To play music?

 

[Darren Yeats]

I have to pay for this? To play music?

As I wrote, annoying - I'm with you.

 

[I3unny]

Hi try this.. Go to storage sense, select sd card, click remove sd card.. Once it is removed, restart your phone then open music app.. Your songs will appear on the list. Works for me might work for you has well

 

[Slovenix]

Try putting music files into the Music folder on the SD card. And try rebooting if It wont show up. Works for me.

 

[KO80]

My phone has used up all it's memory (internal, factory memory that comes standard at 8GB with the phone) - the people at the local T-Mobile store told me that's why the phone can't read the 10 GB of music I put on my SD card. Is this true?


They told me to go to the Microsoft store at the Mall of America to get this figured out, but I thought maybe someone here could figure it out.


Is the internal 8 GB of memory that's all filled up - if there is space freed up in there, is that what is needed for some of the processes to be read the installed SD card?

 

[Corepc]

Is the internal 8 GB of memory that's all filled up - if there is space freed up in there, is that what is needed for some of the processes to be read the installed SD card?

I would try to clear up at least 1gb on phone itself, I have run into problem with my 521 when I get below 1gb, Apps not working, music not showing up correctly. Make sure storage sense is set to store photos, music on sdcard. I would also move some apps to sd card if they can be moved ( I store apps like Microsoft News, Fedora, and games on sdcard). To move apps storage sense->apps->select app and if you can move to sdcard it will be option. Clear temp internet files has well. Try that stuff and report back.