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
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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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
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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
Guys i have searched all over the forum, made a thread even, and googled and i couldnt find the location the playlists created in winamp are saved. do you guys have any idea where it is saved? please help me. im tired of constantly creating new playlists after updating my phone.
Probably in the winamp folder have you looked .
jje
This is a guide/ suggestion I done for another forum. It may work on winamp too but I'm not sure
Occasionally I like to listen to music on my phone however there is so many songs I like and I was sick of manually creating play lists on my phone every time I flashed over to a new ROM. I had a quick squint on the web and found a neat little program that creates play lists for you so when you transfer the album or song folder onto your Galaxy S your music player automatically builds the play lists for you!
Here’s my quick guide
1. Download the Playlist Creator program here http://www.oddgravity.de/app-opc.php and install
2. Create a folder on your pc and name it anything you like. I call mine “Galaxy Music”
3. Drop the albums you want on your Galaxy into this folder
4. Open the album you want to create the playlist for then open your playlist creator program
5. Drag the folder into the playlist creator and then all your songs from that album will appear.
6. Choose the file path to save the new playlist
7. Enter the name of the album where it says “name and type” then use the drop arrow to select .m3u
8. Click “Create Playlist” Now your saved playlist will be in the same folder as your songs for that album
9. Once you have created all your playlists for the music your putting on your phone you can drag the complete folder together with the sub folders on to your external sd card
To drag the files on to your sd card
1. Touch Settings – Wireless and network – USB Settings – then put a dot in either 2Mass storage or Ask on connection”
2. Plug your USB cable into your phone and then touch “Mass Storage” then “Connect USB”
3. Locate your external sd card and then simply drag your files on to it and load up. Once loaded up your all done!
Now when you go in to your music player you can instantly touch “playlists” and then choose what album you want to listen to so there’s no need to scroll down your music list to find your favourite song anymore!
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JJEgan said:
Probably in the winamp folder have you looked .
jje
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do u know where can i find the folder? i searched all over the int and ext sd, couldnt find.
i do not use winamp so cannot look but you may need root explorer or similiar to search at root level . Or even ask Winamp .
jje
JJEgan said:
i do not use winamp so cannot look but you may need root explorer or similiar to search at root level . Or even ask Winamp .
jje
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i tried that too.. cant seem to find. the only way is too email them..
Is it possible to clear timeline in stock My file app? I have tried to select a file and delete by tapping bin icon, but this deleted that file also from original folder.
Also looking for a solution, let me know if you find out if its possible
I also would like to know
Is there a solution yet?
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I also would like to know
Is there a solution yet?
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I've been looking for a way to clear or disable the Timeline myself with no success. Perhaps Timeline items go away only when you move the files off the device(?)...
Unfortunately the "My Files" "Timeline" content is actually controlled by another process called "Media Storage" (this process scans all the files on the device looking for pictures, music, and other content then it builds a database so the system or apps such as music players can quickly find the content, it usually runs on boot-up and can update occasionally.
The only way to clear (or temporary clear) the timeline content is to clear the "Media Storage" database, by clicking "Force stop" and "Clear data" on the Media Storage process, though if you do this it will just rescan again eventually, and if you turn it off or prevent it from scanning you can loose access to your ringtones / alarms and other system sounds , also any music files on the device as a lot of applications use this service (otherwise everything would need to scan the memory card ./ memory for files causing increased cpu overhead and device lags....)...
See screenshots.
Thanks a ton, otyg! It's not an ideal solution, but it's better than nothing. I mostly wanted to clear the Timeline data and start it over, and this does seems to do that.
Figured it out
Plug tablet into the computer. Rename the folder that you don't want showing up with a '.' in front of it. I.e. "Adult" to ".Adult".
Then install Astro File manager, change the settings so that you can view hidden folders. And then you can still access the folder from the tablet, but will not show up in Timeline or the stock file manager.
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Plug tablet into the computer. Rename the folder that you don't want showing up with a '.' in front of it. I.e. "Adult" to ".Adult".
Then install Astro File manager, change the settings so that you can view hidden folders. And then you can still access the folder from the tablet, but will not show up in Timeline or the stock file manager.
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you might also be-able to add a .nomedia file to the folder too this is supposed to prevent the media scanner from scanning the folder contents, though it doesn't work on all devices and I haven't tested it with timeline. or samsung yet., thought I would throw it out there if anyone wants to test.
At this time it's still unclear if you can hide items or completely remove the from the recent items list, with out moving every little file and or download and the list will only repopulate as you continue to download or add files. Just tap the added date above each subsection and collapse each individual section. While this isn't a permanent fix and the list will repopulate once you reopen the My Files app, it's only a minor inconvenience for someone who uses the app occasionally.
I've got files stored under sd card, folder, folder, .folder, folder, photo media scanner use to not see it and doesn't see it on my s5 but my tab 4 sees them if I click don't show hidden files it don't
Hey What's up.
I cutted a scene from a Video (TS format), Duration 0:16 .
Then I converted it from TS to Mp3, Wav, MP4, MP4A
and transfered it to the phone. No matter what format I tried, the file doesn't open, can't change the default ringtone
because the phone does not detect it in Files Manager nor Music.
I tried to open the files followed download paths (where it stored on phone) I recieve Error(1). What to do?
Rebbot your phone, to allow the system to poll new files and list them properly, then use a file explorer (I recommend you use MiX File Explorer as it works best), and move the ringtone you've just made to this directory:
storage/emulated/MIUI/.ringtone/
(Or your internal storage directory) then open settings and it will appear quickly. Ringtones can me *.MP3, *.OGG, or even *.WAV I believe. The reason Music doesn't see it is because in the Music app, it filters out small files and short music so it doesn't clutter up if you have actual music there. Below is a screenshot of the default settings:
Hi!
I figure it out how to create your own live wallpapers!
Very easy, i use external SD Card to store it. Go to Settings, about the phone, storage, pull up, storage settings, themes and select external storage.
Now plug the phone in to PC, open external storage ( i think it calls android by default), open MIUI folder then open .videowallpaper folder ( it is where will be paste the live wallpapers!).
Its a mp4 video and must have 1080x1920 size with or with out sound, you must delete the mp4 extension like if it calls babe.mp4 it will be only babe and you must create a folder with video name and add "_split" in to name, like babe_split! ( Do you get it???)
You will get babe file and babe_split folder.
Now open the live wallpapers option and it will be there!!!
Easy, no?
I let you here some live wallpaper i made from some videos i download from (shhh... Youtube...)
Just past in .videowallpaper folder.
Live_wallpapers.
If you like press thanks!
Last one i made.
Cyborg from Justice League!
Cool! No?