How to get content onto the sd card without fouling things up?

[Madam ImAdam]

You can copy the playlist directly with the file explorer, in order to do that follow these steps:

1) Plug the phone to the PC
2) There should be two drives, one called Phone and one called SD card, open the Phone drive.
3) On windows explorer go to the Tools Menu and select folder options
4) Go to view and select "show hidden files, Folder or drives" and clic on apply and then OK
5) Open the music folder located on the phone drive
6) There you will see a folder called playlist, open it and paste you playlist there.

The playlist should be store in the phone in order for it to work, id doesnt work from the SD card.

Hope this helps.

Thanks I will have to try that with a different, smaller playlist, as the one I'm trying to sync is too large for the phone storage.

 

[Stephen Pedersen]

Welcomes to Microsoft's Windows Phone. Microsoft has been silent on this issue. I've heard about thirty different ways to get it to not duplicate and show the data, but it still gets corrupt. If not right away then after a few days. I'm very annoyed by this. I guess if Iwant a hassle free music experience go to iPhone. Their music software is superior, and need I say-- functional.

 

[Arlan Henry]

Didn't want to make a duplicate post so I'm glad I found this. I have the EXACT same issue. I have tried EVERYTHING. A full format, booting up the phone with the card in, and selecting Yes to use the sd card creates the folders, "Music," "Pictures," "Documents," "Videos," "Whatsapp".

My issue is also with adding content. I've noticed that I can add about 16-20GB of music before the card gets corrupted (64 GB MicroSD class 10).

I also find that certain playlist files or album art trigger the corruption, usually with an error message during the copying process saying "An unexpected error occurred. Cannot copy file... Because the device may have stopped or have been disconnected" and messages of the type. After you get that message for the 1st time the card is now officially corrupted.

I'd remove the card from the phone, insert it into the sd slot on my pc and run a chkdsk /f H:

This corrects the errors and more files can be added to the card but the phone will not recognize the files. When I go to settings and phone storage to check the breakdown of files on the sd card, the files will be listed under the category "Other" instead of Music+Videos.

So I concur that this is a very frustrating process.

If I use a 32GB card that is in my Samsung Galaxy Note, only SOME of the songs will register with my music player.

I have 25 GB + of music that I want on my memory card to save space on the phone's memory but alas.

 

[Arlan Henry]

 

[yeewiz]

My issue is also with adding content. I've noticed that I can add about 16-20GB of music before the card gets corrupted (64 GB MicroSD class 10). I also find that certain playlist files or album art trigger the corruption, usually with an error message during the copying process saying "An unexpected error occurred. Cannot copy file... Because the device may have stopped or have been disconnected" and messages of the type. After you get that message for the 1st time the card is now officially corrupted.

I don't see enough background on that card you're using, but based on my experience, you probably have a bad card and should replace it. I had a similar experience with a 64GB SanDisk Ultra microSD card on a Surface Pro 2. No amount of formatting or chdsk'ing would help, it would format and chkdsk just fine. If I copied a 2GB file or files, then I would get same error message as you got. Replaced, card, no more heartbreak.

 

[Arlan Henry]

I'll try that.

 

[Arlan Henry]

Upgraded to a 128GB card and am now experiencing the same problem

 

[Harrie-S]

Upgraded to a 128GB card and am now experiencing the same problem ��

Is the "same "problem the fact that you see the stuff you copy under Others?
The phone needs a while to index and after that they will disappear from others.
So check after a day to see if something changed.

 

[tangledW]

I have have been using windows phone for three months, and have had it up to here with the fussiness of adding and syncing content onto my damn phone. I am about to throw this thing out the damn window.

I am now hard resetting my lumia 1520, hoping this "fresh start" will clear things up for me, but I'm losing my patience.

I have a 64gb card, I want my music playlist (approx. 18GB) on there, and numerous photo folders from my pc (about 10GB), and all new photos and videos to be saved to the card. Doesnt sound like a difficult request, does it? But from the multiple duplicate and triplicate files, to the music hub routinely not seeing any of the content n the card, while other third party apps can, I am about to scream!!!

I have tried the Windows Phone metro (total crap, took about 14 hours to sync the 30GB of data), then WMP, then iTunes, and am now trying out MusicBee.

Otherwise I am fairly happy with WP8, and have actually been trying to tell people I know about it (most have never heard of it and have no CLUE WHY I would even want to use it!), but for me the difficulty with syncing is driving my f*king bonkers, really.

Sorry for this rant, but I am very frustrated and would really like to learn the best way to manage content on this phone.

rant over (for now)!

Remove the SD card from the phone and insert it into your PC, drag and drop the files from your PC to the correct folders on your card. This speeds up the copy from using the garbage sync app.

Reinsert the card into your phone, reading will take a while depending on the size of your collection. Open your photos app and let it update, be patient. Do the same with the music and video apps.