Can you explain exactly how you were attempting to open the file? If everything is working correctly, the media scanner should automatically catalogue the music on the removable media and have it show up directly in music-app with no extra steps needed.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513066 Title: Music files are not scanned from pen drive Status in Ubuntu Music App: Invalid Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When I open a file located on the sd or on a usb pen drive the music app copy the music to a local folder(in the internal nand) while the app should read it directly where is located To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1513066/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp