Phalon4 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hey I have a question about my Poweramp music file, I currently have 217 songs in the app but neither of them are in my device's music file. Can anyone tell me where to locate them because I am afraid to do a rescan in fear of losing them all. Thank in advance for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 A rescan simply finds media on your device, it does not delte or remove anything. I assume you allow Poweramp to search everywhere, have a look at settings, folders and library, music folders. You should only select folders where you want Poweramp to scan. If you do not know where your music is saved, use a file explorer such as Esexplorer to search for a track. It will find it and tell you where it is. Be aware that if you do not limit the selected music folders, Poweramp will even find tracks in trash folders created by others apps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Are you saying that all of the songs of your device appear in Poweramp's Library and you can play them from there, but you don't see them in the default Android music app? If so, you might have a .nomedia file tucked away in your Music folder, which would block Android from looking for any media files there (Poweramp ignores that control file, it has its own Music Folders system for setting up scanable locations). Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalon4 Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 No I'm saying the songs do not appear in my device but they are all in Poweramp physical app and play just fine. I've searched every where in my device and I can't locate none of them any where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalon4 Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 It's like Poweramp has its own secret file somewhere but I can't even locate that if there were one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalon4 Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 Update: I finally located the music files they weren't in my device, but they were on my SD card in a backup folder. Thanks for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 And the easy way is to edit the tags in Poweramp. It shows at the top where it is located. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalon4 Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 Where is.... ehere located ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Menu > Info/Tags on any song in Poweramp will show you where the file is located. If you want to remove them from Poweramp's scans, use Settings > Folders and Library > Music Folders and make sure that ONLY the folders where your valid music files are stored are ticked. I usually untick everything and then re-tick the folders I want. Then you might want to do a Full Rescan to confirm. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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