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when i scroll down the albums list in the htc music player, i got loads of stupid folders from other programs and games i have installed, is there a way to exclude these folders so it just shows my music?
AndroHero said:
when i scroll down the albums list in the htc music player, i got loads of stupid folders from other programs and games i have installed, is there a way to exclude these folders so it just shows my music?
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Yes. just create a file entitled ".nomedia" and copy to those folders you want to exclude. As far as I remember, you have to reboot to make it work. That's all!
lukacs.attila said:
Yes. just create a file entitled ".nomedia" and copy to those folders you want to exclude. As far as I remember, you have to reboot to make it work. That's all!
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Almost correct No reboot is necessary (at least in my case).
ferus said:
Almost correct No reboot is necessary (at least in my case).
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Thanks for that
How do I create file. Nomedia? Or did u mean folder?
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Almost correct No reboot is necessary (at least in my case).
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thanks lads but thats no good, i cant move the folders or the apps that created them wont work most of them are from gameloft games like hawx and asphalt and that
jamran said:
How do I create file. Nomedia? Or did u mean folder?
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oh i thought he ment folder too now im confused lol
AndroHero said:
thanks lads but thats no good, i cant move the folders or the apps that created them wont work most of them are from gameloft games like hawx and asphalt and that
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Create a blank text file called .nomedia then stick a copy of this in all the folders you DON'T want to appear in the music player.
That's how I understand it anyway, haven't tried it so I might be wrong!
Richy Freeway said:
Create a blank text file called .nomedia then stick a copy of this in all the folders you DON'T want to appear in the music player.
That's how I understand it anyway, haven't tried it so I might be wrong!
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Yes. An empty .nomedia file should be in every directory on your SD card which you don't want to include in your music player/photo viewer.
I attached a zip file with the .nomedia if you want it. Just extract it to necessary folders.
ferus said:
Yes. An empty .nomedia file should be in every directory on your SD card which you don't want to include in your music player/photo viewer.
I attached a zip file with the .nomedia if you want it. Just extract it to necessary folders.
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cheeeeers ferus your a star
ferus said:
Yes. An empty .nomedia file should be in every directory on your SD card which you don't want to include in your music player/photo viewer.
I attached a zip file with the .nomedia if you want it. Just extract it to necessary folders.
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thanks a lot!!!
You could also install a player that allow you to specify directories that hold music. Mortplayer is such a player. Available from Marked.
I prefer to use the stock music player because I like to use the widget but
having to add a file to all directories is a bit of a pain ,
So I just downloaded mortplayer , and it works fine but you would think
you would be able to play only music from the mp3 folder by default or at least
given an option by the htc music player
Petesky said:
I prefer to use the stock music player because I like to use the widget but
having to add a file to all directories is a bit of a pain ,
So I just downloaded mortplayer , and it works fine but you would think
you would be able to play only music from the mp3 folder by default or at least
given an option by the htc music player
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have you tried Mixzing? i quite like this one and you can actually specify what directorys to use for music.
i quite like this play... tried quite a few.
Hi fellas,
I have a good amount of musics, and they are all equipped with albumart.
When I open gallery / gallery 3D, all those unnecessary folders with albumart on each of it showed up. How do I remove or hide these albumart/folder from gallery ?
I wanted gallery to only show my pictures... not albumarts...
Please, any help would be appreciated..
Have you tried putting a nomedia file in the folders that you don't want to show images in the gallery? I've attached the file in a rar, try downloading it and placing one in each folder that you don't want to show it's image content in the gallery.
how did you get those files? these are amazing! did you made it?
denis_sianto said:
how did you get those files? these are amazing! did you made it?
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you just create a blank file called .nomedia, also try nomedia from the market, it lets you create and manage your .nomedia files
Rename your folder with the album art....
You just need to rename the folder with the album art and precede it with a .
eg:
.albumart
By default the OS ignores anything with a . in front as it uses these for system files, your picture/media viewer will ignore any folders with a . in front
Hope it works....
Also been looking for this!
Thanks!
Wow, great tip! I've been wondering about this too! I'm going to finally be able to hide JuicePlotter cache images! All is good in the world now.
Am I being dumb here??
I've just downloaded nomedia as my Gallery app was loading every image on my phone. I've run it and selected the folders I don't want to see in Gallery. I can see a new .nomedia file appear in the chosen folders but still Gallery shows them.
Please help as per the other users this has been bugging me for ages.
JBristowUK said:
Am I being dumb here??
I've just downloaded nomedia as my Gallery app was loading every image on my phone. I've run it and selected the folders I don't want to see in Gallery. I can see a new .nomedia file appear in the chosen folders but still Gallery shows them.
Please help as per the other users this has been bugging me for ages.
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the pictures wont disapear until you reboot
I seems to have trouble finding the actual folders location. I have folders such as "newdesign" "zimly" and stuffs, but when I look up to them at sd card root.. Can't seems to find them. I also tried to find inside subdirectories, still can't find. Gallery 3D does not tell you information where do those particular folders are hiding at. How do I find them?
can anybody else help?
matcol said:
You just need to rename the folder with the album art and precede it with a .
eg:
.albumart
By default the OS ignores anything with a . in front as it uses these for system files, your picture/media viewer will ignore any folders with a . in front
Hope it works....
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when I try to rename the folder with . from windows, it always show error message:
"you must type a file name"
How do you rename it ?
Run "cmd" and go to the directory which contains the folders you want to rename ( "cd .." to go back one dir. and cd "example" to go to a further directory from the dir you are). Then, for example, type "ren abcd .abcd".
I hope the instructions are clear
denis_sianto said:
when I try to rename the folder with . from windows, it always show error message:
"you must type a file name"
How do you rename it ?
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for the 2nd time, download nomedia manager off the market, its an app that will let you create and manage your .nomedia files lol
I have a HTC Desire with 2.2 stock and unrooted. I just noticed that have a directory called NewDesign in my gallery and I can't find it or get rid of it. I think it appeared after the Android update last night. Anyone know how to get rid of it?
AndroHero said:
for the 2nd time, download nomedia manager off the market, its an app that will let you create and manage your .nomedia files lol
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AndroHero ----
Well.. I agree.. nomedia seems to work great... too great in fact...
I found this thread while "searching for a way to keep album art from showing in the picture/movie Gallery" (the basic Gallery app built into my Samsung Fascinate).
So, I tried nomedia... re-scanned Media Card... well.. it worked, only folders with pictures I want show up.
HOWEVER.. I assume nomedia truly means no media at all will show up in any media application.. ie: Now, when I launch Music Player... it too is obeying the nomedia file, and all of my Music mp3s are no longer visible at all (only the ones in the ringtones folder, which I currently do not have a .nomedia file in).
Is there any way to get rid of album art from the photo Gallery.. AND maintain access to the mp3's and the Album art via the Music Player app?
Thanks in advance for any assistance or knowledge anyone has on this subject.
amcq1010 said:
AndroHero ----
Well.. I agree.. nomedia seems to work great... too great in fact...
I found this thread while "searching for a way to keep album art from showing in the picture/movie Gallery" (the basic Gallery app built into my Samsung Fascinate).
So, I tried nomedia... re-scanned Media Card... well.. it worked, only folders with pictures I want show up.
HOWEVER.. I assume nomedia truly means no media at all will show up in any media application.. ie: Now, when I launch Music Player... it too is obeying the nomedia file, and all of my Music mp3s are no longer visible at all (only the ones in the ringtones folder, which I currently do not have a .nomedia file in).
Is there any way to get rid of album art from the photo Gallery.. AND maintain access to the mp3's and the Album art via the Music Player app?
Thanks in advance for any assistance or knowledge anyone has on this subject.
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after i copy music to my sd card, and it shows up with the album art, i then just delete the album art from the album folders, it dosent remove it from the music player
Can try 'gallery enabler' from the market. Its very easy to use, just tick the folder that you want to be shown in the gallery
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AndroHero said:
after i copy music to my sd card, and it shows up with the album art, i then just delete the album art from the album folders, it dosent remove it from the music player
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After a bit more digging, I realized that the Art that was showing up in the Gallery were some files named .....AlbumArt....small/large.jpg.. In other words.. I had all the "folder.jpg" files.. AND other files not named "folder.jpg" .. it was the 2nd group of files that was showing up in the Gallery. Thus, I mounted my SDCard from PC... searched for all "*AlbumArt*jpg" files, and deleted them... allowing only the "folder.jpg" files to remain.
This now allows Media player to see the folder.jpg files for album art... while keeping the "other" file's from showing up in the photo/movie Gallery.
In hindsight, this is pretty obvious.. but, when I was posting above, I didn't realize that I had both sets of "folder.jpg" and "other files".. ..
Obviously, I disabled the ".nomedia" for "My Music" folder, allowing it to be scanned, ... and allowing the Gallery to ignore the "folder.jpg" files.
Thanks to all for your responses....
amcq1010 said:
After a bit more digging, I realized that the Art that was showing up in the Gallery were some files named .....AlbumArt....small/large.jpg.. In other words.. I had all the "folder.jpg" files.. AND other files not named "folder.jpg" .. it was the 2nd group of files that was showing up in the Gallery. Thus, I mounted my SDCard from PC... searched for all "*AlbumArt*jpg" files, and deleted them... allowing only the "folder.jpg" files to remain.
This now allows Media player to see the folder.jpg files for album art... while keeping the "other" file's from showing up in the photo/movie Gallery.
In hindsight, this is pretty obvious.. but, when I was posting above, I didn't realize that I had both sets of "folder.jpg" and "other files".. ..
Obviously, I disabled the ".nomedia" for "My Music" folder, allowing it to be scanned, ... and allowing the Gallery to ignore the "folder.jpg" files.
Thanks to all for your responses....
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the album art should be included in the id3 tags anyway
Hi,
I turned my phone today and when going to the music player it suddenly says, "no music found"
What happened and what should I do to fix this problem?
Thanks for your help!
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Put Music to your SDCard ?
/Music
Hi,
There are the default songs that came with the phone in that folder. And I could see these songs in the music player, but now when opening the music player it says: "No music found"
And after using the eFile Manager app I saw that the songs are on the SD Card so they didn't move anywhere.
This also happened to my whole Gallery now. It says: no photos & videos found
What should I do???
The files are on the SD Card but not in the Gallery. Did unmount and remounted the sdcard several times and used the SDRescan app and everytime I use the Rescan app, the new pictures or movies I take before rescanning,, go away from the Gallery.
Please I really need help on this!!
Is it the standard SD Card that came with the phone?
If not, try a new SD card in there. All music in the sdcard/Music folder should be auto found as said above. If not, it sounds like there's a problem with your card.
Also, are you on stock ROM or rooted? Bought in shop or online?
Check if anywhere from the root of your SD card has this .nomedia file.
This nomedia file tells your gallery/music apps not to detect that part of the SD card.
Had this problem few months ago too
Yes it's a SD card that came with the phone (8gb Samsung) , I bought it online from Asia.
It was perfectly good until I got this problem.
I didn't do much with the phone in terms of changing the software or Rom. So it's the same Rom the phone came with (stock).
andalism said:
Check if anywhere from the root of your SD card has this .nomedia file.
This nomedia file tells your gallery/music apps not to detect that part of the SD card.
Had this problem few months ago too
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Hi,
The .nomedia files has nothing in it :s
I don't know if I have to buy another SD card because if the problem persists I lost my money on the SD card too :s
Grr,
Help guys
Delete the .nomedia file.
Hi!
It worked! Now I have my pictures and music back!
BUT I also took some videos :S
Where are these videos at? :S because they are not in the Video player :S and they are very important videos :S
Please help me with this!
Also how should I get rid of the sounds in my music player use the .nomedia folder then? because I have a lot of sounds from the apps and games playing in the music player while I'm listening to music.
and just having the .nomedia folder empty did hide all my music and picturesa and can't find my videos right now.
Please some help would be appreciated!
Thanks
u just got to place the nomedia right
f.e.
SDCARD
- media
- - music
- - videos
- Android
- - game1
- - game2
in this case u can palce the .nomedia in the game1 and game2 directorys, just not in the root sd folder
.nomedia prevents album&music to scan the directory & all subdirectories from scanning
Blezz said:
u just got to place the nomedia right
f.e.
SDCARD
- media
- - music
- - videos
- Android
- - game1
- - game2
in this case u can palce the .nomedia in the game1 and game2 directorys, just not in the root sd folder
.nomedia prevents album&music to scan the directory & all subdirectories from scanning
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Many thanks, this is the way to put music and play in DHD.
try remounting your sd card via recovery
Thank for explaining me this!
NOW I know how this nomedia thingy works.
I did it but STILL don't know where those videos went.
and I really need them
Why does that file .nomedia appear?
I had the same issue, and if not for this forum, i wouldn't know what to do.
Don't know how I got it on there. And more serious is, you think anyone else would look or just re-format. I don't know if it is a bug, but pretty serious if the average user has no clue what to do.
I don't know how the hell did the .nomedia file ended up in the root of my two sdcards, but I agree it's a serious problem, I was just preparing myself to do a hardreset and even to send my phone to repair when I found this thread.
I had the same problem 2 days ago and I formatted the SD card and everything worked fine after it.I remember seeing this nomedia thing in most folders but I also recall that some files got deleted (one avi and one flv).could it be a certain app issue?
Thanks
kowalski99 said:
Put Music to your SDCard ?
/Music
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Thanks very much. This worked on my old HTC Desire X. Was struggling with it since 2 days.
Good day. I faced the same problem and i have tried deleting the .nomediafile. everytime i do so, it always comes back. I dont know why though. And nothing is working even when the .nomedia file is gone. Help!!
OK, I have searched dozens of threads and it seems they all come back to the same thing. I'm looking for someone to tell me if my deductions are correct. Movies must be stored ON the device or they will not play. There is no option to send them to the SD card.
Next, how do I delete the movie I did download? I can do it from ES file Explorer if that is the only way.
Thanks....
i guess u need to "un-pin" the movie....
fantasmanegro said:
i guess u need to "un-pin" the movie....
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Holy crap . . that must be why it downloaded in the first place. So easy. I guess I tried to make it more difficult than it is...
You can, if you have root access, cut and paste the .samsungvideohub folder onto your external from internal storage. The files will play, theres a subfolder then a numbered folder and inside the numbered folder a .pyv file eg. titanic.pyv. The .pyv files are the video files and will play on most players.
You must have root access to to see inside the hidden folder....
I'm using cyanogen 10.2 on my sgh-i317 and recently downloaded an album (320kbps/mp3) through utorrent. It downloaded it to my download folder on sdcard 0. I then moved the folder to my music folder on my external sd and listened to a few songs off of it. When I got up the next day, the music files were not there. So, I downloaded it again on my PC and then transferred it to the same folder on my external sd along with another album from my collection. Both albums do not show up on the sd, either through ES file explorer or Apollo. The only notification I got was in windows when I was transferring them. It said something along the lines of these files may not be compatible with your device do you still want to copy them. I selected 'do this for all current items' and then clicked proceed. All my previous music files give me no problem and I'm having a hard time getting to the bottom of what is causing this. Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
Storage/emulated/0/extsdcard or some such nonsense.
rangercaptain said:
Storage/emulated/0/extsdcard or some such nonsense.
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Yes I know where they're supposed to be. I'm saying the folders are empty. They are there and I've even played some of the tracks and then they just disappear.
DRM issue with the player?
Is this for every type of file or just these?
Can you see the files when you are connected to a PC?