Touch Flo 3d Music Library Problem

[pringlet]

Hello,

I had about 200 songs on my Touch Pro and the HTC Music Library seemed to function pretty well (Except that it'd mix in all my ring-tones).

Just today I added about 1800 more songs and cleaned out some of the old ones.

It appears that the media library has picked up some of the new songs, but the old songs are also still listed. Additionally navigation is very slow and it seems like it's just bogged down with all the music.

Is anyone aware of a way to rebuild the library from scratch? Is anyone else experiencing this same issue?

pt

[pringlet]

Solved....

1. Stop Touch Flo by turning it off in the "Today" Control Panel
2. Soft-Reset
3. Open File Manager and navigate to \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng
4. Delete the contents
5. Start Touch Flo by turning it on in the "Today" Control Panel

Now when you go to the Music tab, you'll See searching and your library will be rebuilt.

[pringlet]

A couple other tweaks...

Since all of my music is on my Storage Card I set the following path in the registry so that Ringtones and other sound files are avoided:
Location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig

Key:
device_scan_path_path
EDIT:
Also update device_scan_path_path_0

Value:
\Storage Card\Music

EDIT
Update your ring_tone_path key value to wherever you store your ringtones and need them to be skipped. It appears that \Windows\Rings get's skipped automatically. UNTESTED SUGGESTION!!!!!!!If you have more than 1 ringtone directory to be skipped then create another key ring_tone_path_0 and add that directory as the value to this key.!!!!!!!!!!!

I also upped the memory allocation a bit.
Location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig

Key:
Request_Memory

Value:
4194304

pt

[w7excursion]

Ill have to try this out when I get a chance.

[mstevens]

I can't seem to make this work for me.

I have way too many ringtones in a directory at \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones. I have some music files at \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music.

If I:

1) Turn off TF3D
2) Soft boot
3) Delete contents of \Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng
4) Edit HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config
key: device_scan_path_path
to value: \Storage Card\My Documents\My Music
5) Soft boot
6) Restart TF3D and go to my Music tab

I see it searching, then it rebuilds the same library as before with my excessive number of ringtones!

I even tried deleting the values for keys device_scan_path_path_0 and ring_tone_path in HKLM\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\Config, but it made no difference.

Either I'm doing something wrong, or this doesn't work. I'd LOVE to find a way to get my Music tab to skip my ringtones when building its library.

[mstevens]

Actually, it's worse now: I have TWO copies of each sound file listed!

[pringlet]

mstevens,

the key ring_tone_path is a hint for audio manager to skip that directory. If you deleted it you'll actually get all your ring tones added into your library automatically. So put the key back.

Here's my setup.

I have ring-tones in
/Window/Rings
and
/Storage Card/Downloads/Rings

It appears, /Windows/Rings gets skipped automagically, but I didn't mention earlier that I did NOT delete that key but rather I updated key ring_tone_path to /Storage Card/Downloads (didn't define the Rings directory)

If for example you have ring-tones at
/My Documents/My Ringtones
and
/Storage Card/Ringtone
then maybe trying adding a second ring_tone_path_0 (following the pattern of scan device) argument for each of the directories you want skipped. It may work. Please post if you try it out.

Also, try putting back the device_scan_path_path_0 key. I didn't delete mine, I updated it to the value same as device_scan_path

Additionally, double check that your device_scan_path registry edits are sticking. I was trying to duplicate the behavior you were describing and noticed when I'd change a key here and there the value wouldn't stick or maybe I didn't save my changes. At any rate, just take a second look that both are updated and matching.

Good luck.

[lblacklol]

This still doesnt work for me.

I turned off TF3D, Soft reset, I updated both keys to list my \storage card\music folder, updated ringtone path to be \storage card\J which is the root of my ringtones (so it should skip any folders in there).

Then I deleted the files in the audiomanager folder, soft reset, and reinitialized TF3D. It rescanned and still found all my ringtones. I dunno what else to do, because this makes the music player almost worthless. I have hundreds of tones stored there.

Anyone else get this to work or have another idea?

[Celtictc]

Does anyone know what the album art file needs to be called and what size it needs to beto get it to show up? I just get a question mark showing at the album

[mstevens]

Originally Posted by pringlet

Additionally, double check that your device_scan_path registry edits are sticking. I was trying to duplicate the behavior you were describing and noticed when I'd change a key here and there the value wouldn't stick or maybe I didn't save my changes. At any rate, just take a second look that both are updated and matching.

Thanks, but I tried setting ring_tone_path set as \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones and my collection of tones located there (or anywhere else I add it to) STILL gets added to the library.

However, if I move all the ringtones to \My Documents\My Ringtones and use that for the ring_tone_path key, the exclusion works! For me, it seems that I can't exclude ringtones on a storage card.

Now I just have to fix the problem with duplicate music file listings, which persists. For the moment, I just have one .mp3 file in the \MUSIC directory in order to keep things simple. The Music tab still shows TWO copies of this file.

I do check after each reboot to ensure that the registry edits "took" prior to re-enabling TF3D. Thus far, they always have.

I tried setting both the music paths back to \MUSIC since I suspect (but am not sure) this is the default.

I'll try moving everything to directories named as in pringlet's post, setting up keys the same, then report back.

Does anyone know what the default registry keys are?