I've read this before somewhere but I'm unable to find the thread relating to this query.
Is there a way to hide ringtones/alarms etc from the TF3D music player? I'm sick and tied of having to scroll through tonnes of alarms & ringtones etc just to find a certain song. Obviously I know you can create a playlist, but I know there is a way of hiding these files, but can't remember how it was done or which thread it was in.
I believe it may have something to do with either changing the registry so files can be hidden in certain folders or to move the files to a certain location.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanx
Does somebody find the answer?
ive been wanting this too, lucky I have a dutty rom installed and like only about 10 ringtones, so not too much. But i like to listen to all my music shuffled, and then every now and then i get an annoying ringtone
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Has anyone figured out how to use your own audio files for all of the different types of notifications? I have a few .mp3 files that I've used on all of my previous Android phones that I'd like to continue using. I put them in the "Ringtones" and "Notifications" folders that were initially on the phone. After I did that, I was able to select them as ringtones for the ringer, but they don't show up as options for SMS and e-mail notifications. Any ideas?
Try converting the ones in the Notifications folder to m4a files, they work for SMS and email notifications for me. Could also be the length of your files.
harolds said:
Try converting the ones in the Notifications folder to m4a files, they work for SMS and email notifications for me. Could also be the length of your files.
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or just install zedge from the market. Thats not your own ringtones, but there are good ones too..
Ringdroid is a nice application for this, it works quite well and you can just uninstall once you convert your audio files to notifications, ringtones, or alarms.
Thanks for the tips. The files are very short, so it's not the length. I also looked for Ringdroid, but I can't find it in the market. There's something called "Ringdroid (Social Edition)," but this doesn't look like it's the right thing. When I get a chance I'll try converting the files and seeing if that works, although I do find it strange that my mp3s (they were from a pack a downloaded a while ago called "RCP Ringtones) are seen when selecting ringtones for the ringer, but not for notifications.
so i decided i wanted to change my homescreen, and wanted a music widget. had little luck finding one that supports the stock music player, so have recently installed poweramp, which seems like a great player, and has a nice widget.
the problems are that it tries to play all my mp4 videos and some small app sounds, which is annoying. is there a way to filter out the small files? as for the mp4s, ive tried to deselect the folder from my external sd\video folder, but every time i do that it either crashes the program or just reselects it. i think it sometimes crashes randomly also, but cannot be sure having only used it for a day.
also, ive downloaded a lot of album art, and works well within poweramp, but ive tried to go back to the original player and the old album art is displayed. is there any way to embed the album art back into the songs or whatever needs to be done?
sorry if these questions have been answered before, but ive had no luck searching or playing about in the settings myself.
might think of some more, but for now any help with the above would be great.
If you go to the settings, go to the folders/library section and click Music Folders it will come up with a little pop up type box called Folders Selection
it'll take a little while to load your whole folder list so dont worry, but when all your folders are shown, untick everything, and then find just the folders where your music files are stored and tick that. That way only files from those folders are played
And as for album art, there's no setting in poweramp for that as far as i know, and i dont know of any apps that do that, but there is one easy way to do it that should work perfectly, (it shows my album art on any player)
On your computer, download the Songbird player. Then set which folders are you library etc etc so all your songs come up in the player. Then get the album art files you've downloaded on your comp, and you can edit the album art of each song or whole albums.
To change the album art, click on the song or highlight all the songs in an album (to do this, click the first song on the album, hold the shift key, then click the last song, and all the songs in between will be highlighted too); and right click the selection.
Click view metadata
Where the artwork is displayed, click the replace button
In the box that pops up, navigate to the folder where your album art is stored, click the correct album art and click open, then close the metadata box by clicking the okay button at the bottom and the album art should be changed.
It is a bit of a long process if you have a lot of albums, but at least it doesn't mess up like those automated album art changers or tag editors you can download...
Hope this helps
nice one
although like i said ive tried that folder selection thing. ive unticked the videos one, and it just crashes, or fails to work.
Hmm... i've no idea why that happens.
Go the poweramp page on google play or go to poweramp's own site and email them. That seems to be an issue with the app itself
I have downloaded some new notification sounds, but can't find them in Personalize > sounds to allocate them as email and text notifications. I'm sure I'm being dim - can someone please tell me how I can do this? Ta!
there in ur download folder on ur sd card, move them to notifaction folder to use them
could be in music. not a guarantee, because i downloaded a ringtone from at&t which never appeared anywhere, but something else i downloaded through the play store ended up in my music player, which actually seems logical, since the player has the capacity to create a ringtone.
Hello,
I'm trying to add some of my ringtones to the G3, and can't get the phone to use them. As usual with previous phones, I just copy some mp3 in my Ringtones folder, but they don't appear in the ringtones settings. In the settings I can add a new ringtone, but it tries to get it from my library, and I don't want them in there as they're not actual songs.
Is there something I don't get? How do you guys use custom ringtones?
I could probably add them to my library, then add them as ringtones, then remove them from the library, but that seems tedious and I'm not even sure that would work.
(PS: I'm not rooted yet, I'll wait a few weeks to have a good feel about the stock rom before I go into serious tweaking)
Protagoras said:
Hello,
I'm trying to add some of my ringtones to the G3, and can't get the phone to use them. As usual with previous phones, I just copy some mp3 in my Ringtones folder, but they don't appear in the ringtones settings. In the settings I can add a new ringtone, but it tries to get it from my library, and I don't want them in there as they're not actual songs.
Is there something I don't get? How do you guys use custom ringtones?
I could probably add them to my library, then add them as ringtones, then remove them from the library, but that seems tedious and I'm not even sure that would work.
(PS: I'm not rooted yet, I'll wait a few weeks to have a good feel about the stock rom before I go into serious tweaking)
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I was surprised to see this issue as well--I'm not sure why LG would intentionally not allow additional ringtones (and notifications).
I'm rooted, and what I ended up doing was copying the ogg files into /system/media/audio/ringtones. Even then, the new ones took a while to show up in the ringtone list--I assume a media scan was needed.
I have noticed, however, that new notifications and ringtones downloaded through Zedge do appear in the list.
On my d850 I can add custom ringtones, I didn't even have to copy them into my ringtones folder. I hit add in sound>ringtone and it finds all media on my sdcard... Even mp4 videos
eelton said:
I was surprised to see this issue as well--I'm not sure why LG would intentionally not allow additional ringtones (and notifications).
I'm rooted, and what I ended up doing was copying the ogg files into /system/media/audio/ringtones. Even then, the new ones took a while to show up in the ringtone list--I assume a media scan was needed.
I have noticed, however, that new notifications and ringtones downloaded through Zedge do appear in the list.
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Actually you're right, the ringtones I had manually copies into the ringtone folder did eventually appear in the list. I guess as you said a media rescan was needed.
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Actually you're right, the ringtones I had manually copies into the ringtone folder did eventually appear in the list. I guess as you said a media rescan was needed.
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Hey,
I fixed this issue on my phone by going to Settings -> General (if you have "tab view" on) -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage and then clearing the data by clicking on the "Clear data" button. After that, I simply rebooted my phone and all of my ringtones and notification sounds appear in my apps (e.g. Hangouts, Google Play Music, Contacts, etc).
There are apps on Google Play that is suppose to do this for you; however, the first three that I tried force close on me so, I went this route.
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Hey,
I fixed this issue on my phone by going to Settings -> General (if you have "tab view" on) -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage and then clearing the data by clicking on the "Clear data" button. After that, I simply rebooted my phone and all of my ringtones and notification sounds appear in my apps (e.g. Hangouts, Google Play Music, Contacts, etc).
There are apps on Google Play that is suppose to do this for you; however, the first three that I tried force close on me so, I went this route.
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Using this method erased the cache completely and left me initially with an empty list of sounds/ringtones/notifications so I was a bit startled, but the returned a few seconds after.
However, the only sounds I can get working are .ogg files, .mp3 do not show up in the lists.
Time to get rootin' I guess but haven't found a root-method yet as I've been so ignorant to install all LG OTA updates and now I'm at software version V20h-EUR-XX.
Actually, having said that, there is a "+" in the top right corner which does see the .mp3 files and enables me to select them.
Sweet. It's worked. Thanks
so i have a question, and this may be an ignorant one... apologies...
so the stock music player for Note 4/3/S4/S5 (basically the same as far as im concerned)...
there is an option under the menu button to add tracks to the "now playing" list. every time i go through and add songs to the list it never plays that song(s) next. It's like it just ignores that i added songs to the now playing list.
just a little background here...
so i start up the music player and go through the "tracks" and select one to start playing. (also i keep the player on shuffle), while listening to the track i hit the menu button and select "add to now playing", it takes me to the "tracks" screen where i select 1 or more tracks and hit "done".
So now i am thinking that after it finishes the current song that it should kick over to one of the ones i just added to the list, right? WRONG... it just shuffles to something else in the "tracks" list, the "tracks" list being the 1 big list of all the tracks on the phone.
am i doing something wrong? or is this meant to be used another way or what?
any answer is appreciated.
raptorseye said:
so i have a question, and this may be an ignorant one... apologies...
so the stock music player for Note 4/3/S4/S5 (basically the same as far as im concerned)...
there is an option under the menu button to add tracks to the "now playing" list. every time i go through and add songs to the list it never plays that song(s) next. It's like it just ignores that i added songs to the now playing list.
just a little background here...
so i start up the music player and go through the "tracks" and select one to start playing. (also i keep the player on shuffle), while listening to the track i hit the menu button and select "add to now playing", it takes me to the "tracks" screen where i select 1 or more tracks and hit "done".
So now i am thinking that after it finishes the current song that it should kick over to one of the ones i just added to the list, right? WRONG... it just shuffles to something else in the "tracks" list, the "tracks" list being the 1 big list of all the tracks on the phone.
am i doing something wrong? or is this meant to be used another way or what?
any answer is appreciated.
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First make sure you have all of your music correctly organized in a neat folder structure in "Music" folder on your internal or external sdcard. What you do is go inside your "Music" folder and create folders for each and every artist. Inside each artists' folder you want to have a separate folder for each individual album. Name the album folder correctly. Inside each album you will have all the mp3's along with the album art which needs to be named "AlbumArt.jpg" (or other compatible method). Even if you have random tracks and not the entire album, you still need to use the folder structure so that the music player can do the task you want. This should do the trick. songs in a specific album folder will be able to shuffle and your track list should play the songs you put in the now playing list. This is my only suggestion for your problem. Give it a try if you haven't done this already.
I appreciate your help, but f**k that lol. That would take forever. I will just keep ignoring that feature. Haha.
But thank you for the reply, I appreciate it
When working with mp3's the folder structure is crucial for media devices to be able to sort and display tracks correctly. Organization is key here. When making an mp3 cd or DVD, the same thing applies. You have to do this or fumbling to fing a specific song or album is gonna take a long time fumbling through one giant pile of mp3's in one single directory. I like things simple and organized and thats how mp3's need to be done. You might want to get on board with the program or youll always be fighting the system lol.