USB contents not showing up in media player apps

by brayden2011

I have a Song A8G OLED TV and it runs Android TV and I've experienced this odd issue where the USB drive (SanDisk Extreme PRO) sometimes will not display the contents (mkv files) in any media player or file explorer app but randomly may the next day if the TV reboots. Is there some trick to get this to work?

venkatx5

Try different drive / port. With that you can issue is with drive or port.

If it happens on all drive / all USB ports then, please check developer options. It should be disabled(I faced USB detection issue on Port A once when I enabled developer options).

I had 2TB Sandisk drive connected with Android TV and it'll take sometime to detect after shutdown/reboot.

elister

Most Android TV media players wont see NTFS formatted drives, doesnt matter if its USB, HDD, or SSD. Format it to Ex-Fat and see files start showing up. Dont bother with FAT32 format, it wont let you copy files bigger than 3.9gb in size.