Been looking around and am wondering if someone else is having problems loading music on their 8130.
I have a 2 Gig card and of course putting all my music on it. I have about 6 CDs worth of music and have roughly 1.53 Gigs free after that and pictures. But when i attempt to load a 7th CD, it deletes one (or hides it in such a way that i cant find it). So the new cd gets put on but then i end up missing one. So i reload the one i am missing and then that 7th one i put on disappears!
I am getting a little frustrated and my dreams of music + 8130 are slowly dying>
I have had a similar problem. Everytime I load new music, my media player does not show it or update. I do a battery pull then it always updates all music.
I am having problems with this too. Even after a battery pull, it's like it has to go through the card and update before I can actually start listening. I have folders I have added that never update and show after I put them on the BB even after multiple resets.
Have an 8G SanDisk with about 2G free (and ~ 12M free on the phone itself). I can play any music directly from the card, but thru the Pearl's music player, it only reads random artists/songs so I can never shuffle all the music on my card. I formatted the SanDisk via the phone, so it has the BBerry structre on it. And yes, you have to do a battery pull every time you put the card back in. The music player's inability to read everything on the card just seems to be some weird glitch...
If it's any help to you, i have an 8130 with a 4gb sandisk card in it, and have never had a problem....
when i first installed the card i had to do a battery pull for the phone to recognize the card. then i put some music on via the adapter in my laptop, as well as enabling disk mode when it was plugged in...
my music will work even if i pull the card out and pop it back in... so i don't know if a battery pull will fix your problem..
hopefully the new update may contain a fix for your problem?
Just put all your music in the MUSIC folder and you should be OK! album art and everything!
Wegmans - tried your suggestion and redid music on SD card via mass mode. But I have a Mac, and the Pearl just froze and rebooted whenever I tried to move over the files, which I discovered is not uncommon. So guess I'll just have to live with the glitch, and enjoy whatever music the Pearl randomly reads from the card...
Here is something no one has mentioned or asked. Are you just copying and pasting in windows or are you using the Media Manager that came with the desktop software with you pearl?
I just loaded about 3GB of music on mine and, when I'd go through the normal channels (i.e. Media, Music, All songs, etc) it wasn't showing anywhere near all my songs. But, when you first open the Media application, open the menu and then hit Explore. This will show your folders and, as if by magic, all my music was showing up there, and it would play just fine. Plus, playing from here allows me to set up different folders or "playlists".
I'm sure everyone else already knows about this option but I'm new to the BB and just discovered it.
Just a thought... after you insert the card loaded to the gills with songs, open media to your songs and let it sit for a minute before you try to view or use. Reason is, and this might not pertain to music, is I have a boat load of pictures on my card. I had to delete the bb.dat file, which is the data base for the thumb nails you see, for a issue I was having, and when I reopened the picture folder, it took a while to rebuild the thumb nail data base. Now if you download/install more music in a big chunk, the data base might take a little to update. Same might hold true when viewing your music list. The BB can't keep up. Just thinking out loud.