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New SD card won't take my music

kmwolf92

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I've been fighting with my Samsung Galaxy Victory a lot lately. We were down to very little space on my 4GB card and it was deleting songs from playlists; knowing I needed a new card before I could dowbload more apps and get more songs, I bought a 32GB. My new 32gb SD card was in the mail when I got home today. I spent every bit of the following 6 hours trying to move my stuff from my 4gb card to the new one with basically no success with the music.
First I tried putting the old card into my laptop with an adapter, copying literally all of it to a folder on the desktop, removing that card, sticking the new one (after formatting it in my phone) in, and pasting. Everything looked good, but when I put it back in my phone, it only found 73 of the ~800 songs, and half of them it skipped through because suddenly they were in the incorrect format.
I tried the same process thinking it was a copying error with, of course, the same result.
I tried copying the files straight from the old SD card in the adapter to the new one while the phone was plugged in by USB. There were a bunch of files it refused to transfer because they were corrupt- even though they played fine on the old card and still work great on my computer.
Finally I added all the songs to my iTunes library. It seemed to convert a bunch of them- last time I had a file format issue, this process seemed to fix it, though I'm not sure why. Since there didn't seem to be a way to sync to my phone without downloading another app(I really hate downloading apps for processes I think should be straightforward), I copied the new files to a folder on the desktop, then copied them to the phone/new SD card from there.
An hour after that copying process started, it finally says it's finished and only ONE song is showing up on my phone's music player.
Actually, I looked through the phone's file manager and none of the files I added are even there. Upon plugging it back into the computer, it also shows that none of the music files are there. Only thing on this card is a phone-created directory called "LOST.DIR." At least in my first couple methods, the files seemed to be on the card, just not in the player.
What gives?! I love getting new stuff and transferring files, but it got old after the first 30 minutes and I really don't want to spend another unsuccessful 6 hours on this.
Next step I guess is to try Dropbox, but I really can't think of anything from there so would appreciate some help.
Thanks!
 
1) Is the new card a legitimate card or a Chinese knockoff? (IOW, did you buy it from SAN Disk or Kingston or some reseller?)

2) Are you sure you're copying files, not shortcuts?

3) Is the hew card formatted as FAT32?

4) Are you putting the card into the computer directly, or through a USB hub (bad idea). Both the phone and the card should go directly into USB ports on the computer.

There are a few dozen other possibilities, but these are some of the common ones.
 
It was a cheap one. Formatted FAT32 (did the formatting through my phone, but just verified the file system by sticking it on the laptop slot). The Dropbox thing is working alright in that at least a few songs transfer perfectly which hadn't before, but taking forever (I'm dragging them from iTunes to the Dropbox folder, waiting for everything to sync, and exporting them to the SD card through the Dropbox app on the phone). Biggest issue is that most of the files result in the error message, "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file." Which means that after all this transferring & waiting, I'll still have to do most of it over again to fix any corrupted files.

When I was putting the card into the computer, I tried a few things. One was hooking the phone up by USB, and the other was using the SD card slot on my laptop in conjunction with the supplied adapter.
 
Update: After I'd had enough yesterday, I went out and bought a SanDisk 16gig card. Half the memory and $6 more, but totally worth it. Transferred everything immediately without an issue.
Thank for pointing out the quality differences, Rukbat. With more expensive items, I usually stick to name-brands; guess it still applies to cards.
 
kmwolf92:

sounds to me like you may have gotten a 'fake' sd card. get h2testw for your pc, and check the card out.

Steve
 
It's almost certain that a supposedly cheap SD via mail order or Ebay will be counterfeit. There's a lot of them around. Problem with the fakes is that they don't work.
 
Thanks for this thread. I was thinking of getting a cheapo card but I think I'll pay a few more bucks and save the hassle.

Sandra
 
Thanks for sharing your experience with us :) Sorry you had to go through that but it just goes to show you get what you pay for.

Since you have everything back on the 16g card then you may want to use our Script : A Backup Routine for us All to keep those special contents safely backed up on your computer. ;)
 
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