On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:26:10 -0500 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>> Stay tuned for the rest of the saga. :) >You could just do a few mp3 files to begin with to find out if it >works and then copy them all over after you have perfected a solution. OK, you have a good point. The MP3s are in three folders, labeled Jazz, Symphonic, and Zarzuelas, the latter being Spanish sort-of operettas. After checking out all the Symphonic folder files starting with A and B (215 of the 1348 total), I pulled the card from the laptop and put it in the phone. Android saw all the files in the Jazz and Zarzuelas folders, but only 814 of the Symphonic files. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the missing files are the ones that won't play, ones that I am going through to re-copy from the TB3 source. Your point made me perform a good exercise. I now know that the exFAT drive is acceptable to Android, and also that at least all the files on two of the folders are OK. I still have to go through the remaining 1,100+ files in the card's Symphonic folder, which will take a while. They look perfect in the file manager, exactly as they appear in the source folder. The only way I know to determine if they are somehow corrupted is to double-click on one, which opens it in Exaile. Exaile either starts playing it or pops up an error message. With the error messages I delete the file from the folder on the card, then drag and drop the same file from the source, and finally, double-click on the replacement. Out of the 50+ that I have replaced so far, absolutely 100% of the replacements have played perfectly. Something happened to some of them as they were copied last night. The corrupted ones appear to be totally random; I can see no patterns to give me clues about the reason. It would be nice if I could automate my procedure somehow, but I don't know any way to do it. I'm using Exaile as my test instrument, but I've tried several other players, and all of them refuse to play any of the corrupted files, just as Android refused to recognize them. I am also curious how Android knew to refuse to display the corrupted ones. Maybe Android is smarter than I thought. :)
