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Help Music on SD card

Greetings im still a lil new here my fone is the Motorola photon i love it but my concern is when i switch SD cards all my playlists disappear the music is not erased just the playlists and it takes time for me to build them again. Is there a way i can have my playlists on my SD cards stay intact while i switch cards. Any advice would be much appreciated .......
 
so you have multiple SD cards with music???

DAMN how much music you got?? lol

anyway, i am guessing its software on the phone.....

when you have the SD card in, and set the playlists, the program remembers it....when its a different card...then it reads it as such...

have you tried putting it back in and see if it pulls it back up???
 
Greetings im still a lil new here my fone is the Motorola photon i love it but my concern is when i switch SD cards all my playlists disappear the music is not erased just the playlists and it takes time for me to build them again. Is there a way i can have my playlists on my SD cards stay intact while i switch cards. Any advice would be much appreciated .......

Before we get into being able to really help you with the issue you're having, there's some information that would get you a more accurate response:

- Memory on each SD card that you're swapping/using
- Music app you're using (if not stock)

Now, from just the preliminary information you've given, I can already tell you that the phone has to take time to pool the information everytime you swap SD cards, as it does not work "exactly" like it would when performing the same functions you would on a PC or MAC, when swapping drives.

From the sound of it, I'm making the assumption that you've created the playlists on the phone. If that's the case, it's possible that those different playlists are saved on the internal storage, not the external SD, which would explain the lag in the playlists being identified (because, in essence, it's pooling all of the playlists and excluding the ones that aren't identified where the files would normally be...e.g., the other sd card).
 
My apologies for not giving the SD card specs. I have a concern 2GB card that is filled completely with music so i now have a 4GBconcern card thats almost half full i have like 2gigs left of spaceon that one i used an app from the market with the red head and earphones to download music. Does that help any? Thanks again
 
My apologies for not giving the SD card specs. I have a concern 2GB card that is filled completely with music so i now have a 4GBconcern card thats almost half full i have like 2gigs left of spaceon that one i used an app from the market with the red head and earphones to download music. Does that help any? Thanks again

I highly recommend getting a higher capacity micro sd, so you don't have to continually change. Guarantee that'll eliminate your issues.

An 8gb or higher micro sd can be had for extremely cheap. You can even find 32gb micro sd's for 19.99.
 
Funny you should mention an 8gbapp card i do have one but nothing is on it just a few pics. So can i put my music from my 4gb AND my 2gb on the 8gb card somehow and keep my playlists intact? . Thx.....
 
Funny you should mention an 8gbapp card i do have one but nothing is on it just a few pics. So can i put my music from my 4gb AND my 2gb on the 8gb card somehow and keep my playlists intact? . Thx.....

I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to do that. What I would do in order to transfer the data is copy the music from the 2gb microSD and the 4gb microSD onto a drive (PC/Mac/External) in a single folder for music. Then, I'd copy the pictures from the 8gb card onto the drive in a separate folder for Pictures.

Once you've done that, I'd place the 8gb microSD into the phone, format the microSD in the phone, then transfer the folders from the pc/mac/external drive to the phone.

Pretty simple process and will save you a lot of headache in the long-run. One way or another all of your playlists will either be on the separate microSD's you currently use or on the internal storage, so as long as you copy/paste all the folders/files that are on each microSD, I don't see there being a problem.
 
when you get the bigger cards...you can have pics, movies, music, etc etc, on these things..

just like a pc :D
 
I haven't personally tried this as I don't really do playlists (I'm more of a pick an album and listen to it kind of guy) but if you built a playlist in e.g. Windows Media Player, Exaile, etc. and saved that playlist in .m3u format to the SD card, would that work when you inserted the card into your phone?
 
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