Force Media Update?

Question

Sometimes I download songs from various sources, and they aren't put in the requisite media folder on external storage. The media scanner can still find them, but the only way I have found to do this is by moving the file around with a file manager, or mounting and unmounting as USB storage. This forces the phone to rescan for media files.

Does anyone know of a way to give Android a hint that it needs to rescan for media from within Android itself?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '11 at 15:17

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Most custom ROMs include this functionality as part of the Power Widget. For stock firmware you have to resort to 3rd-party apps such as ScanMedia or SDRescan, for example.

answered Apr 21 '11 at 15:17

Chahk

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Another app I used to solve the same problem: MediaScanner. – micah Apr 21 '11 at 15:28
Meridian Media Player has an option to rescan media in its toolkit section. – Sparx Apr 21 '11 at 16:20
I wish there was a native way to do this, but thanks for the info everyone! – jakebasile Apr 21 '11 at 18:32
Both of these apps crash when I try to run them. java.lang.SecurityException ... not allowed to send broadcast ... MEDIA_MOUNTED – endolith Jun 04 '15 at 04:19

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '14 at 06:28

This is a very good question and I see it is already answered. I wrote a small application to solve this problem specifically for Kit Kit(Android 4.4+). My application works on all phones.

Here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=burrows.apps.sdcard

This works on the Nexus 5!

Please let me know if this helps you!

Regards,

Force Media Update?

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