Hey,
I'm writing an app that have lots of audio and images files, it has ~6000 .mp3 files that each one is ~7 seconds, in total ~400 mb
So I need to put them on the external sd-card. I'm using android 1.5.
The user will put the media manually to the sd-card

1. How can I enter the files in the external sdcard through code?
2. In the Samsung Galaxy S, the external sdcard is in /sdcard/external_sd .... do all android devices have the same path?

Thanks.

Mag1c could you please tell me more about what you are trying to create here. The way I see you can directly copy paste the files if the user will put the media manually.

Yes the user will paste the files in the external sd
Though I want to know how can I read the files to play them in my app..
How to access the folder etc

Well first you need to define the path where you have your song. Then populate the songs...here is how you would do it...

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public static final String MEDIA_PATH = new String("/sdcard/");
private List<String> songs = new ArrayList<String>();
...
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        ...
        ...
        updateSongList();
}
...
     public void updateSongList() {
          File home = new File(MEDIA_PATH);
      //mpInterface.clearPlaylist();
      if (home.listFiles(new Mp3Filter()).length > 0) {
         for (File file : home.listFiles(new Mp3Filter())) {
            songs.add(file.getName());
             //mpInterface.addSongPlaylist(file.getName());
         }
      }
    }
   
    class Mp3Filter implements FilenameFilter {
          public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
             return (name.endsWith(".mp3"));
          }
    }


Thanks strider2023, Worked like a charm
Though the only problem is that the List is the other way around, i mean "audio001, audio002,...audio100"... list[1] is audio100 not 001!