I have a collection of CDs that I ripped to MP3 to listen to on my Android phone. My kids want to listen to some of them on their Android phones as well. - Is there a way to share my MP3 collection with them so they can also play them on their own Android devices? - Is there a way to create a family library of MP3s for sharing across all the family's Android devices?

I like to extract playlist information (i.e. path and filenames) I've created on Android's builtin MP3-player, to copy it with the MP3 files to a bigger SDHC card. Playlist information is lost when doing this: - Removing the SDHC memory card (after turning off the device), and re-insert it later, causes the MP3-player to forget all files in the playlists which I have created. This is especially annoying if you want to replace the SDHC card by a bigger one and want to backup all files including playlists from the old one The reason for this issue is that Android mounts SD cards as /storage/UniqueId where UniqueId is a hex number (the **serial number** or CID of your SD card), e.g. A15F-1234. So your original SD card has a root path like /storage/A15F-1234/ and when you buy a new SD card, its CID is different, so the root path changes, e.g. /storage/F987-5432/, hence the player is looking for the old path as stored in the playlist and don't find the files anymore! Note that this is a virtual folder and it cannot be renamed. This becomes important because the music player stores the files of your playlist as absolute path, e.g.
>/storage/A15F-1234/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3. On your PC you will just see a path like
>E:/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3 Once you copy the file to the new SD card, it will be on
>F:/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3 (where E: is your old, F: your new card in this example) But when you put the new card into your mobile after copying, your file will be at
>/storage/F987-5432/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3 and your playlists are all empty because every single entry still starts with the old path /storage/A15F-1234/..., and the player (e.g. Samsung Music) can't find them, because it doesn't look into the new path (/storage/F987-5432/...). Now I am looking for a way to backup the playlists or at least their content (i.e. path filename etc) to be able to edit the path to make them usable again. --- **More information:** The phone has a playlist folder, containing the Playlists, when I use a USB cable to connect it to the PC, I can see them (*.pla files) but they have 0 bytes and cannot be copied. Also, if I connect the SDHC card via cardreader, the files aren't useful. Samsung Kies also did not work for me, it does not seem to support the playlists created on the phone. I found [this interesting question](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/15045/81963) , which explains that Android stores playlists in SqlLite databases, but unfortunately, on my Samsung phone I could not find the database file (although there is a folder Computer\GT-I8190\Phone\Android\data\com.google.android.music which should contain it, but no databases subdirectory and no database files). **N.B.:** The smartphone is able to read and import *.m3u playlists (via the player's "Music Square" menu - context menu "Library update"), but cannot modify them (if you add titles, they will only be available in the smartphone, the *.m3u file isn't changed). --- To **summarize my question (one of the options below would help me):** - Do you know how I can backup the playlists on the phone and then extract the file/path info contained in them in Windows?
Phone Playlist -> Windows PC -> Extract Path/Filename to text file - Or do you know if there is a tool available (for Android, or for Windows reading it from the mobile phone) converting the playlists into a compatible text format (like [.m3u playlists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U)) ?
Phone Playlist -> M3U file

(**Note:** The other way round it is possible, as [this forum post](http://androidforums.com/threads/tutorial-m3u-playlists-on-android.291803/) explains). Here's an example of a M3U file, note that relative paths (like Sounds/Sample.mp3) are allowed as well (if the player supports them): #EXTM3U #EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title
/storage/extSdCard/Sounds/Sample.mp3 (where extSdCard stands for a CID like F987-5432 and #EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title is metadata, see [M3U playlist format](http://www.assistanttools.com/articles/m3u_playlist_format.shtml)) --- Your help is much appreciated!

I have the [Dropbox](http://dropbox.com) app on my Droid, and it can "download" files to the local storage on the phone, but for some reason, the music player app can't see those files. How do I make the music playing app see the mp3s in my Dropbox? Is there an alternative way I should think about the problem or sync the files?

Both MediaMonkey and MusicBee, as music players let you 'rate' songs from 1 to 5 stars. I would like to have this functionality as well in an Android app. The main problem is syncing these ratings. Android apps like NRG Player do have a rating, however if I rate songs using NRG Player, they are not 'understood' by neither MediaMonkey nor MusicBee. Also, any ratings I give to songs via MediaMonkey or MusicBee are neither understood by the NRG Player. Is there any app which reads/writes ratings in the same format that either MediaMonkey or MusicBee do? Or any app which syncs such ratings?

Are there any apps around that are good at gapless audio playback? I listen to a lot of music that continues from one track to another and the stock app puts a small but noticeable gap between tracks.

Does any Android app play Variable Bit Rate MP3 files, while not demanding Internet access and access to my Contacts? I used soundconverter on my Xubuntu PC to convert MP4 files to MP3 and they play OK using Audigy on the laptop, but don't have any sound output using either Google Music or the default sound player on my ver. 4.4.2 Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3.

In the past and in others platforms I was used to plays mp3 and downloads txt/lrc lyrics from internet how can I download lyrics for lacally stored mp3 files? The app minilyrics for android is failing on my device and also it seems that was removed from Play

I spent an hour trying to get this to work so I could get some sleep in my noisy hospital bed last night. I wanted to listen to some noise on loop. I downloaded some waves lapping type music. It's on my internal SD and is an mp3. Clicking the file in Astro browser doesn't open the file in a player fully but only a popup preview window. It's in the foreground, doesn't offer many controls and stops playing when the focus is removed. Searching for the file in all 3 of my players doesn't result in anything, even after a restart. I have also tried a SD card rescan utility from the play store. Music apps I tried were Fusion, Bubble UPNP and the Samsung Music App. All of which seem to rely on some internal media index. Frustratingly I can't simply browse to the file from inside the apps, I have to search the library. It should not take an hour and a post to here to figure out how to manually play a simple file, added to my phone in such a way. It would be great if it were like Windows or osx and allow the user to "Open with... ", and then select the app. I know you can dig in and change this, but it's a more permanent solution for a temporary requirement. Anyway I must be loosing my mind:) How can I add this file to my library from within Android or otherwise open this file in a full player to make use of controls like loop etc? ---- Update from a comment on an answer: It's mp3, and plays in the popup player just fine. Perhaps the tags are corrupted and somehow blocking it from appearing in the library. I tried an mp3 tag utility and it can't see the file in the folder. So perhaps it is corrupt in some way.

I use Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. Previously I could play mp3 files with the "music" application. Now I have 10 players but the plain "music" player is gone and no builtin player can play an mp3 file from my memory card. Why? There used to be a player in the android that could do it. Instead I have google play which seems new.

I'm using the standard MP3 player on Android 4.3. Whenever I listen to long pieces of music and I pause for several minutes and/or unplug the headphones (not sure of the exact cause), the playlist will just reset itself. This causes - the active track to reset, which is very annoying for long tracks, and - the shuffled playlist to reset, so that many tracks will be played twice. Is there a way to make the player just remember the shuffled playlist as well as the active track position, no matter how long I don't use it? I could not find a setting in the standard player to prevent it from resetting. This question indicates that for more _memory capacity_ I would need a different player than the standard one, but I don't need it to keep track of several audiobooks or something. Can this be achieved with the standard player, or do I really need another player, and if so, which one could it be? Another question deals with the logging of timestamps (which could solve that aspect), but it doesn't have an answer yet. I'm not very skilled with Android, so please tell me in case I forgot to mention something. edit: One reason why I use the standard player is that it's capable of playing very many formats which other players cannot, such as _.flac, .wma, .m4a, .mka_

I have reordered my mp3 collection with the excellent easyTag tool. Now on my LG-430 and on my Xperia Z1 compact, in the native music players of the smartphones as well as in the external apps Equalizer+ and Poweramp, in many albums every song appears twice. An example is Mick Jagger's "Goddess In The Doorway". I have checked with a file explorer that there is really only one mp3 file for every song. I have checked with easyTag that all tags are set correctly. Another strange tagging error happens with the Stones' famous "Exile On Main Street" album (OK, I admit, I am a Stones junkie, forgive me). Here the very first song of this early 70ies double LP, "Rocks Off", is put into an album called "Exile On Main St. CD1". All other songs of the double LP are put into an album with exactly the same name. What am I doing wrong or what is wrong with the mp3 collection apps? Greetings from Germany!

I have an untouched Samsung Galaxy S2 just out of its box, though this model of phone is rather old and came out in 2012. I was wondering could I stick this brand new technology sd card into it? http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/microsd/ultra-class10-for-android/ (It says the 128Gb card is microSDXC) I saw in another post here that v1 and v2 should work in this phone but v3 wont. The site for the sd card doesnt mention any version though. I want to do this so I can use the phone as a ipod replacement. Also bonus question.. Anyone know how long one can play mp3s on the samsung galaxy 2 before it runs out of batteries? EDIT: I found this which seems promising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUg14u_co8

I want to download my music from the cloud through the Amazon MP3 app, but whenever I download it always puts it in the "amazonmp3" folder on my phone's internal drive. This is kind of annoying because my internal drive is not as big as my perfectly good 16GB SD card plugged in, which I'd much rather put the music on. I can't find anything in the settings that references the path where music gets downloaded. Even when I move the app itself to the SD card, it still downloads everything to internal storage. Even worse, my phone won't let me easily just move the folders from the internal storage to the SD card; I have to plug it in and connect it to my computer and do it from there. Is there any way to make the app download music from the cloud to my SD card rather than the internal storage?

It's getting really annoying that the music I "buy" in the different music stores on Android (Google Play and Amazon MP3 specifically) aren't visible to other music players even when I make them available offline. Are there any players out there that know to dig into these areas and make this music playable? It's really obnoxious to not have all my music in one place and have certain tracks tied to players I don't especially like. The only solution I've come up with is to abandon getting new music when I'm out and about and download the tracks on a PC the old fashioned way and then add them to my music folder on my phone by hand. Surely there's something better that I haven't thought of yet.

How can I change camera button functionally and use it (or any other physical button) to pause/resume mp3 in a media player app? It is very important for my, because I want be able to pause/resume mp3 without looking to screen of the phone. Actually my phone (Xperia Mini Pro) has a hardware keyboard with 42 keys, but a few apps use this button as a keyboard shortcut (X-plore is one of few programs that uses hardware keyboard properly).

I just got my Nexus 7 tablet and I was trying to load some music/videos to it. I have about 10 gigs worth of .mp3 files with no DRM in my computer. Since this is Android, I figured I would not be subject to the pain that is iTunes and I would simply be able to drag the music into a "Music" folder if I plugged in the tablet to my computer. Sure enough, I saw a folder named "Music" and tried dragging a couple of files to it. When I go to my Nexus, however, I don't see the files. I started reading up on this and it seems that the way to do things on Android is to use the Google Music Manager which would then put my songs in "the cloud" and make them playable from any device. That's all nice and everything, but is there any way to simply put a couple songs into my device locally without any of that funny business? TL;DR: I don't want to use Music Manager, how do I locally upload a song/video to my Nexus 7?

Amazon Cloud Player (aka Amazon MP3) displays all mp3 files, even those that are podcasts (which I use the DoggCatcher to listen to). Is there some way to tell the Cloud Player to ignore podcasts so that my list of downloaded music is only music?

All of a sudden my Samsung Galaxy S claims to not support mp3 files (the phone has been idle for a few hours, I did not touch anything). Ogg files however still play without problems. When this happens, no app can play mp3 files, e.g. my custom ring tone is not played anymore (it just vibrates as if it were muted). A reboot of the phone fixes the issue but within 3-4 days the problem comes back. It does not make a difference if files are stored on internal or external sd card. This also affects video playback, I'm just not sure if it happens at the same time or independent of each other. The youtube app can no longer start videos (unknown playback problem), and the video player app claims all video files as unsupported. I suppose the issue may not be the video playback itself but the audio codec used in the video (mp3). Any idea how to fix this or debug this? I don't want to reboot my phone every couple of days - it takes 2-3 minutes to do this and a phone should just work. I applied 2.2.1 firmware lately and this only seemed to make the problem worse. I had this before 2.2.1 (with 2.2) but only very rarely. I'm curious if TitaniumBackup may be the culprit as the backup scheduler seems to stop processes sometimes. Maybe others experiencing this issue use scheduled TitaniumBackups, too? The hint was that since upgrading to 2.2.1 I also upgraded to the licensed TitaniumBackup version and scheduled daily backups. But this may just be coincidence. What contradicts this theory: Backups are scheduled at night but last time I saw this issue it happened during the day - mp3 worked in the morning, failed in the afternoon. The phone was idle during the time it "decided" to no longer play mp3. Looking at forums (I only found a few hits in Google), people having the same problems suggest to simply reboot the phone - but that is no fix at all. Or they suggest to send the phone back for replacement - and guess what: It has not fixed the problem for people experiencing this issue. So I suggest it is not a hardware issue (neither related to sdcards nor to the phone itself).

any way how to edit (mp3) id tags inside my android? HTC Desire 2.1 I am used to play my music using winamp with right click on directory and select 'play in winamp'. In that case it doesn't matter if you have id tags set up or not. I miss that on Android a lot.

I'm looking for a device that: 1. Is programmable like the iTouch, Android, devices. 2. I'd rather not go Apple, but the iTouch is a nice device. 3. I want a line-in jack or at least the ability to connect a real mic What I 'really' want is this: 1. I want to set it to record, put it on the table and whenever something interesting is said, be able to hit a marker button. 2. I want to be able to have a menu of movie quotes, "it goes to 11", "what is your name!?", "How you gonna lose your job,... on your day off?!", "Groovy baby!".... as well as the ability to record my own quotes. Then I can just hit a button and boom, it plays the quote. That must exist, but if not, I can program it myself. Web browser/wi-fi would be a bonus. The Archos devices look nice, but it's not clear that they've got line-in's.