Android Music Index
on May.17, 2009, under Technology
I’ve not used Android’s music player much, but today I FTP’d some MP3s to my G1 and they would not show up in “Music.” I remembered that when I tried it once before it had “just worked.” After much Googling revealing nothing (which is really annoying, and hopefully this post will fix) I removed and reinserted the microSD card, and magically the media was indexed and available in Music. The only mechanism of rebuilding the android media index seems to be inserting the SD card. It seems this has to be physical as well – while Android has an “unmount” option for the card, it doesn’t give you a mount option afterwards. The music program itself really should have a menu item for performing a re-scan, at the very least.
