![]() In the stock ROM the Nexus 4 default music player should be " Play Music" with an icon that looks like yellow headphones, never heard of Apollo but it's possible this is something your custom ROM's changed. As said before, I strongly recommend to restict characters in file names to 7-bit ASCII - that avoids a lot of problems, though some names might look a little strange ) That being approved, you know what to look for in the future. Once that's finished, I'm pretty sure your media player(s) will find something to play (with). Then have the media scanner run again (e.g. I'd suggest to either temporarily delete or at least rename all affected files, so that no file with "special characters" in its name remains. Which resulted in the media database not being populated, from which follows: The players think "no media files there". Seeing a file name like Computer\Nexus 4\Internal storage\Music\Christina St眉rmer\Freier Fall\1 Geh nicht wenn du kommst.mp3 points to a special problem with "special characters" (such as German Umlauts) which got messed up on data transfer: While Windoze uses its own character set (MS-ANSI or wone of the WIN-12xx, depending on configuration), Android expects UTF-8 - which is why it's a good custom to use only 7-bit ASCII characters in file names.ĭue to this mismatch and the "unidentifyable character", the media scanner most likely has crashed. I'm still mystified by the fact that file-browser apps see the files but music-player apps don't.(I've now revised this question to remove the Windows part.) My Windows pc at work couldn't see the files either, but after unplugging/replugging the USB it now can see open play the files.(I renamed an existing TXT file and it promptly disappeared :)) but I used the Root Browser Lite to look through /Music and subfolders - the only match I found was the one I had renamed, and I have deleted that now. nomedia files: The CyanogenMod File Manager doesn't display files that begin with a. Running Rescan SD as suggested below didn't make the files appear in any of the player apps.I know that the songs are present and that they work because the CyanogenMod File Manager shows them and I can play them individually. ![]() (yes there's a Chinese character in there and I don't know why it's a German ü (umlaut u) on my original Windows media drive)
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