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
Hey, is there any way of preventing pics/videos in a certain folder showing up in the gallery?
LuftWalk said:
Hey, is there any way of preventing pics/videos in a certain folder showing up in the gallery?
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Just put a .nomedia file in the folder where you have the pics and videos you want to hide.
You might already have this file in your sdcard (some ebook reader or other app that has pics not show in the gallery).
If not, just create an empty text file and rename it.
lohpsch said:
Just put a .nomedia file in the folder where you have the pics and videos you want to hide.
You might already have this file in your sdcard (some ebook reader or other app that has pics not show in the gallery).
If not, just create an empty text file and rename it.
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Doesnt work for me... Stil shows the folder.
It definitely works. Either your media files didn't update yet or you don't have a correct nomedia file...
elburna said:
It definitely works. Either your media files didn't update yet or you don't have a correct nomedia file...
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Can confirm. This does work. Try restarting phone.
Tried it with a .nomedia file already but it didn't work. Gonna see if it needs to update though.
Rename the folder to .folder, the whole folder becomes in invisible.
Your other option is to install estrongs security thingy, which allows you lock down apps totally
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I found the best way is to create a zip file and store them in that as it cannot see through a zip file. Has always worked for me, hope that helps
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Can someone just rename this thread to 'how hide porn and pics of the bird your cheating with'
By the way. The ext partition is a good place to put 'sensitive' material. Gallery wont look there and it wont show up when plugged into a windows PC.
Is it possible to keep certain picture files from showing up in my gallery?
My problem is my gallery is flooded with pics from all my UCCW files , very cluttered it is !
Thanks for the help .
Yeah just name them something else the gallery won't be able to show like .txt. or you could mount USB to PC and select and delete any pics you don't want there.
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If you create a file named .nomedia and place it in a folder, any pictures in that folder will not be shown in the gallery. There are probably a few .nomedia files in folders on your phone already that you could copy/paste as well.
Either that or use QuickPic
24dupo24 said:
If you create a file named .nomedia and place it in a folder, any pictures in that folder will not be shown in the gallery. There are probably a few .nomedia files in folders on your phone already that you could copy/paste as well.
Either that or use QuickPic
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I'll try the nomedia suggestion. thanks !
I read... alot! And every time I download an EPub book it puts the cover art into my gallary as a new folder. I have over 200 in there now! Is there a way to put them into a separate folder and keep the main gallary folder for just my photos - still have them work as far as displaying the art and download to the new folder?? Or perhaps have my photos go to a specific folder?
rogerperk said:
I read... alot! And every time I download an EPub book it puts the cover art into my gallary as a new folder. I have over 200 in there now! Is there a way to put them into a separate folder and keep the main gallary folder for just my photos - still have them work as far as displaying the art and download to the new folder?? Or perhaps have my photos go to a specific folder?
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Create a .nomedia file in your ebook folder and it will skip that folder for scans.
I had to do that for quite a few locations to skip them.
intelliriffer said:
Create a .nomedia file in your ebook folder and it will skip that folder for scans.
I had to do that for quite a few locations to skip them.
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I appreciate it but how would I go about doing that? Not a complete newb, just a partial one.
I use an app called es file explorer for all sort of file/folder related tasks.
I browse to the folder on my internal or external card and hit new to create file in that folder and name that file .nomedia
intelliriffer said:
I use an app called es file explorer for all sort of file/folder related tasks.
I browse to the folder on my internal or external card and hit new to create file in that folder and name that file .nomedia
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Tried that but it doesn't seem to be working. I"m searching the device for other places to do this with and see if that works.
That worked! Thanks alot!
solution to this annoying problem that occurs in the gallery? I installed messanger Facebook or other applications I appear emoticons.
You need to have have a file on the map you want to exclude from the HTC gallery named ".nomedia" then this folder will be excluded from scans from HTC gallery. If you look on external sd and then on the folder Android you will see such a file, copy it and paste it on the root of the folders you want to exclude.
the folder is not there, you could explain? the destination folder and paste it where I find it?
Open the Gallery app tap the settings icon in the top right corner (the 3 dots) and choose "Show/hide albums".
Now you can choose which albums is visible in the Gallery app.
nikaredda said:
the folder is not there, you could explain? the destination folder and paste it where I find it?
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sorry I meant sd card>android>data then you will see a file named ".nomedia" copy it and put it on the folders/maps you want to exclude from scanning.
That file is also present in other folders just search a bit with (htc) file explorer.
lexuz said:
sorry I meant sd card>android>data then you will see a file named ".nomedia" copy it and put it on the folders/maps you want to exclude from scanning.
That file is also present in other folders just search a bit with (htc) file explorer.
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I did not understand what folder copy / maps you want to exclude from scanning?
HTC gallery app scans your maps/folders looking for images. In the facebook messenger folder ( internal memory or external) there are images that's why you see them on the HTC gallery. If you use the ".nomedia" file and put it on the root of the facebook messenger folder then HTC gallery will not scan this folder for images and therefore you will not see them .on the gallery.