Music Playback Issue

[fcs627]

Hey everyone, I have been enjoying my Galaxy S4 for over two months now and its a wonderful phone. I first started by adding music to my GS4 via Kies and placing it on the Internal Memory with no issue whatsoever. Eventually though as I added more audio files my space was running low so I invested in a 64 GB SD card. This is when all hell broke loose. For the past week I have had an unimaginable number of issues. I have removed all of my music countless times, attempted to one by one add files directly though the removable devices folder, but to no avail.

My issues include:

Songs playing for one second then skipping to the next track
Songs randomly skipping halfway through
Songs not playing at all getting the "Sorry the player does not support this type of audio file"
Songs working fine one day then having one of the above issues the next

Solutions I have attempted:
All of my files are MP3's so they are all compatable
I have tried several third party media players all same issue
If music is on the internal memory there is never an issue
If I have downloaded the entire album together I never have an issue
Attempted to make folders for each artist which worked with mixed results
All Files work fine on my PC

I have been searching the interwebs high and low and it seems as though I am either the only on with this issue or the only one talking about it. At this point I am extremely frustrated but at least I have some music to enjoy on my commute and at work as opposed to none.

Any suggestions?

 

[DanPLC]

If you're not having issues with your MP3 files stored in internal memory, then perhaps your SD card is having issues. Have you tried re-formatting it on your computer and re-copying the files?

If it keeps happening after that, then perhaps the SD card is faulty.

 

[fcs627]

I just reformatted my SD card with varying degrees of success. Some songs work absolutely fine without issue. Others after going into the files one by one and filling out all of the track information work fine while others just refuse to cooperate. It's a brand new SD card out of the box so I would be extremely surprised if that was the issue. I guess no one else has had an incident with their tracks skipping after one second of running time.

I will also preface by saying some of these files are well over 10 years old. The newer ones seem to work more often but then again not always the case. Also I made sure none of them were write protected.

 

[mikedt]

Hello fcs627 welcome to Android Forums.

I just reformatted my SD card with varying degrees of success.

What do you mean "with varying degrees of success.", that sounds ominous. A good SD should always correctly format no problem at all.

Some songs work absolutely fine without issue. Others after going into the files one by one and filling out all of the track information work fine while others just refuse to cooperate. It's a brand new SD card out of the box so I would be extremely surprised if that was the issue. I guess no one else has had an incident with their tracks skipping after one second of running time.

I will also preface by saying some of these files are well over 10 years old. The newer ones seem to work more often but then again not always the case. Also I made sure none of them were write protected.

Could very well be a counterfeit SD card, there's a lot of them around. Fake SDs don't work properly, and you will get symptoms like truncated MP3s or them not playing at all, and things like "Sorry the player does not support this type of audio file". Did you buy the SD from Ebay?

You can test if the SD is correctly storing/retrieving files, and has its true capacity with this tool...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.anotherflexdev.sdcardtester.SDCardTester

And if the SD fails the tests, replace it with a known good non-fake one.