Media scanner will not recognize NEW music

Question

So I have a bunch of music already, all in /sdcard/music that scans just fine. When I add new music to the folder, the scanner does not recognize it even though I can see them in the folder in My Files. I have ran Rescan SD, it does not help. I am also using the standard Music Player that came with my Droid Charge (2.3.6, I know, it's ancient). Any ideas?

EDIT: Yes, all files are .mp3, there is no .nomedia file in it, ID3 tags are just letters and numbers, and all my music is in /sdcard/music/. This is only happening to new music I've been putting on, all my existing music works fine.

EDIT: From what I can gather, it's a problem with the actual scanning feature. The new songs do not show up in other players and rescanning doesn't help either.

Welcome to the site! This is probably a stupid question, but just to confirm: is the new music encoded to a supported such as mp3? (Please [edit] your question with the information) — dotVezz, Dec 18 '13 at 14:40
Media Scanner in Android will not scan any folder if that folder contains a file named ".nomedia" (without quotes, of course) Check if your desired folders contain any such file. If yes, delete this file and Media Scanner will include those folders in the gallery. With the stock player it won't find music on SD unless sometimes, you can put it in a folder called Music on the root of the SD. then it finds it fine. Lastly check the ID3 tags in the MP3 files, if they have unusual characters they will be skipped! — RossC, Dec 18 '13 at 14:41
possible duplicate of Play Music (KitKat): update library not working — bmdixon, Dec 18 '13 at 14:55
You might also want to look at Winamp not loading new mp3 files — bmdixon, Dec 18 '13 at 14:56
It's not a direct duplicate as he is running Android 2.3.6 and not KitKat, but it is worth looking into. The easiest fix is the .nomedia one, unmounting/remounting the SD and the tags. After that it gets a bit messier! — RossC, Dec 18 '13 at 15:32
@bmdixon both questions (rather their answers) do not help here (except for the .nomedia part): triggering the media scanner has already been tried, as the OP states in his original question. domguy: maybe the media database is "messed up". Try going to Settings→Apps, switch to the "All" tab, look for the corresponding apps (not sure which this was on 2.3.6), and delete its data. Then trigger the scanner again (either via Rescan SD, or by a reboot). this should re-generate the database contents "from the scratch". — Izzy, Dec 18 '13 at 15:33
Izzy: Tried doing this, it didn't work either, in multiple music players too. — domguy, Dec 18 '13 at 16:04
See also: The music player keeps displaying deleted songs. How do I remove them or refresh the library? and Android Music Player is not detecting Music files for more on kicking the media scanner into life. — GAThrawn, Dec 18 '13 at 16:13
@Izzy Have you looked to see what logcat says while the media scanner is running? It can usually offer a clue. — Ken Sharp, Mar 14 '14 at 23:40
@KenSharp wrong addressee: I'm not the one having the issue :) — Izzy, Mar 16 '14 at 21:06
@domguy Have you looked to see what logcat says while the media scanner is running? It can usually offer a clue. — Ken Sharp, Apr 18 '14 at 21:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '14 at 16:36

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Well, It is not a direct answer for your question, but since you are using a "Gingerbread device" that probably uses "mass storage", Winamp or MusicPlayer will do the work for you.

answered Nov 04 '14 at 16:36

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 30 '15 at 04:33

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I mounted and unmounted my SD card, and all apps recognized the files again.

edited Sep 30 '15 at 04:33

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answered Jan 18 '15 at 23:43

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Media scanner will not recognize NEW music

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