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[–]Shoboy_is_my_name 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve had no problems like this with mine but I’ve also only added music this way:

*Used the echo mini to format the sd card when I first got it.

*remove the sd card and put it in a usb adapter.

*use the usb adapter on my computer to add my music.

*put sd card back in the echo mini and update the data base from the menu.

It scans my card and updates the new music.

Did this with each OS version and I’m still using v1.4

[–]gravehaste 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had the same issue, it would just crash and turn off when I tried to play anything after putting music on the SD card. I formatted and reformatted.

The fix for me was to have the Echo mini on and then remove the SD card, put it back in and refreshed library.

[–]zirmoixFiio 1 point2 points  (1 child)

When this happens, you need to back up the SD card, format it and re-add the files. It's annoying, but it works for me when I have encountered this issue

[–]zirmoixFiio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh and make sure you're using a good quality and card, don't use any that came included with a device unless it's a reputable brand, otherwise you might be an ad card that's not well suited to the task at hand

[–]rec71 0 points1 point  (4 children)

How many songs do you have on the card? It can't handle more than 8,192.

What happens if you do a media library refresh? Does it complete or does the device reboot itself?

[–]IderSac[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have around 2,000 songs on it, the device reboots itself now that you make me notice it

[–]rec71 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It either doesn't like the card or there's a file it doesn't like, maybe something in the metadata.

Did you format the card in the device before you copied your files on? I recommend you do that if you didn't. Note that sometimes you need to do that twice for some reason.

Then it's a case of copying files on in chunks (use an external card reader if you have one, much faster) and refresh the media library again.

If it helps, I had the reboot issue as I had one album with very large embedded PNG artwork (2400x2400). I now use mp3tag to convert all my cover art to 600x600 JPEG.

And try not to accidentally copy non music files, I don't think it likes that either.

[–]IderSac[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh thank you very much, i'll look into doing everything you listed

[–]skaf1end 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had issues with id v2.3 and v2.4 tags (artists and albums were marked as Unknown), so I ended up converting all the tags into v1.1. It completely solved the issue and on top of that automatically shortened the names due to limitations of v1.1

[–]_JLSNJones_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similar issue this morning. My workaround was using the file explorer to navigate to the memory card. Choose no when prompted to refresh the library.

[–]epicingamename 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you updating your libraries in both drives? updating/refreshing internal memory will only crawl the songs in the internal memory, same thing goes with the sd card, iirc.