Is there a way to add specific folders to the music player? On my phone, the player automatically adds voicenotes and audio from whatsapp which is pretty annoying. I would like it to choose only the music folder.
anyone?
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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drwx said:
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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Hey, worked perfectly! Thanks!
.nomedia with no success
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Hey, worked perfectly! Thanks!
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I am really surprised to see that .nomedia had any desired effect in your case. I'm trying to exclude those files in my WhatsApp folders from appearing in my Galaxy s3 music player as well as in the gallery. I can do whatever I want, these files ALWAYS are visible.
When trying QuickPic i am able to exclude mentioned folders and no pictures apper in the QuickPic gallery, but they do prominently appear in the Gallery app. the same goes for audio files. I tried to exclude them from DoubleTwist media player. Actually they never appear there, no matter i have a .nomedia file placed or not.
I have no understanding, which folders are scanned for media. And I cannot say that ALL folders are scanned because that would mean my mp3-ringtones under Ringtones shall appear in my music player media list?
So for me it is hard to believe that the .nomedia trick will do the desired effect (keeping WhatsApp media files out of my galleries and media players).
Actually browsing the web a bit, it seems I am not alone with this experience and I am surprised, that there is no clear description about that ominous .nomedia file. I do not say it has no effect (it does have in QuickPic - but that is about all), but not the effect everyone is talking about.
So I am really curious how you managed to have those files eliminated from your media lists (gallery, music player) by simply putting the .nomedia file in the respective directory
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mtfh
The .nomedia file did the trick just fine on the S3 mini. Thank you.
@mtfh: a late answer but, after creating the .nomedia file, try restarting the phone. Also, I guess it depends whether your (music player/photo gallery) app reads for .nomedia files to ignore those directories. In my case, I created with ES File Explorer a .nomedia in the following locations:
WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Audio/
removed the audio files from the stock music player
WhatsApp/Media/WallPaper/
removed the whatsapp custom wallpaper folder in the stock photo gallery
As for:
WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images/
I actually liked having that folder in the photo gallery to check all whatsapp pictures in one place (without opening whatsapp itself), so I left this folder intact.
Galaxy s3
I know I am going to seem dumb as dirt, but we just got our first smart phone a few months ago. I am learning a lot with it, but I just cant figure out how to do this. I can figure out how to tap the lower left corner while in my files to create a folder. But for the life of me I cant figure out how to do this. If I click on the music note on my player it brings up a list of all my music and the ringtones, but I cant do anything with them other than shuffle them or delete. I cant find a specific folder with all ringtones in it. I have dl a couple of apps that have ringtones. Can anyone give me a step by step?
Tammy
drwx said:
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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step by step info
tammyinwv said:
I know I am going to seem dumb as dirt, but we just got our first smart phone a few months ago. I am learning a lot with it, but I just cant figure out how to do this. I can figure out how to tap the lower left corner while in my files to create a folder. But for the life of me I cant figure out how to do this. If I click on the music note on my player it brings up a list of all my music and the ringtones, but I cant do anything with them other than shuffle them or delete. I cant find a specific folder with all ringtones in it. I have dl a couple of apps that have ringtones. Can anyone give me a step by step?
Tammy
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Hey there, follow the instructions in this link, very useful and graphic.
http://www.guidingtech.com/15563/hide-certain-files-android-music-player-photo-gallery/
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I installed the Asphalt game from the market and now there are close to 180 ogg files named raw* in my music player list. Is there anyway to get rid of them without unistalling the game?
I don't want to use some other music player since I like the default one's widget
Create a file with notepad and give it no name and the extention .nomedia place this in the directory that contains the items you don't want to be displayed in your media player and your problem is solved.
So you will end up this: ".nomedia" it's totaly empty but this is the way 2 go.
Worked perfectly.. Thanks!
Is there a similar approach to sorting images? The albums they show up in seem to be quite random. I'd like to define only certain folders to grab images from for the albums. I just can't figure out to manage photo albums at all.
i did it and worked at first but now i see them in music player. they are scanned again
edit: a restart fixed the issue and now they don't appear
Does it work with video files too? also wondering if it is anyhow possible to hide applications in program listing?
tried this, as my audio book files showed up in the music player, and it works...but...it also removes the audio book files from the audio book player! So I had to remove the .nomedia file again to be able to listen to my books
thanks! worked
can a specific directory for music be set in the stock player?
I can't find an option and the result is that directories that have audio files (eg /dictaphone) are appearing as albums - even though the player than can't even read the format. Very annoying having to thumb through a lot of irrelevant directories. I want it to look for music in a single directory rather than the device as a whole.
Thanks, M1
i'd like to see this tweak too!!! i have my music organized into one folder. i don't want all the other sounds from programs or games or anything.
a solution is the .nomedia file put into those folders but it's time consuming if you have many folders
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My audio book files are appearing as albums in the HTC music player.
I tried the .nomedia trick, but then the audio book files became invisible to the audio book player as well
another case of the usability thinking being skin deep I'm afraid.
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I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
Bielinsk said:
I have a few applications (Juiceplotter for example) that store some graphic files on the SD card.
When I view the gallery, I don't want to see these graphs. (I also have an issue with MP3s from Lets Golf and the music player)
Can I hide these directories by adding a "." to the name of the folder without effecting the actual application?
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yes, that should work.
pr0nz !
Yeah that's what some people are doing to hide folders ... folders with sensitive pictures. Stealth folder.
doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
that would be great if there is a way to do that.
If you do find it, please share.
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doesn't work.
While it does hide the folder form the gallery, it also hides it from the application. So the application pukes.
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interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
TeknoJnky said:
there is a way to prevent the media scanner from scanning folders, something like putting a blank/empty 'noscan' file in the folder.
Maybe someone else will remeber the exact filename, otherwise I'll repost when I have it.
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try an empty text file '.nomedia' in the folders you want not scanned
http://www.google.com/support/forum...n&fid=38ae9cef358fc8de0004839c47779068&hltp=2
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this... this is very useful.
There's an app called HideNSeek for 99 cents. It's supposed to be used by playas that don't want various girls to see pics of other various girls in the gallery (it's even disguised as a flashlight app), but I think most people use it to block regular folders/pics (like album art) from showing up in the gallery.
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interesting.. i'll do more testing then.
this... this is very useful.
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Don't do that ! Or be aware of the consequences.
If you put a .nomedia empty file in your folder in order to prevent the Gallery from loading pictures, it will also prevent any media players (ex : music player, winamp, meridian, etc...) from scanning these folders to find music !
So, I still don't know how to prevent Gallery from showing pictures in music folders (because I prefer having a "polluted" Gallery than a useless music player!).
I'm quite sure the File Manager app that comes with CM6.1 includes the ability to "exclude from Media Scan" on any folder. Haven't tried it myself. I like my nudies exposed at all times.
+1 for .nomedia!
Theres also a vault app that hides your pics and videos
I hate to ressurect an old thread but I can't find an answer anywhere. How do I exclude album art from the gallery in AOSP ROMs without also disabling music files or the album art in a music app? I have several GBs of music and hundreds of album art files that pollute my gallery.
Thanks in advance.
I have a similar issue and I am going mad with my 1000s of media art showing on my gallery. There should be a way to manually assign afolder for indexing.
Why don't you use . (Dot) if you want to hide anything (etc .Pictures)? Adding dot in front of the name will make folder as hidden and will be visable only via some app (root explorer, bluetooth file transfer)
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why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
chmod will do it.
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why it becomes so complicated??
you dont need to rename any folder.
just place .nomedia file in folder which contain files you don't want people to see. (i.e pr0n)
don't place it on your camera (DCIM) or music folder, thus gallery app still can access it.
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Its complicated because in different case its not that simple, for example I have many deep rooted folder structure which have links to 1 master html page (actually its an offline html site where the pix are sliced) now i keep on changing over writing this folder structure so as per suggestion I will need to create .nomedia file & copy in all the sub folders>sub folders right upto the last directory. Gallery in this case index 1000s sliced images & polluting the whole gallery.
Even if I do this once I will have to do it again as it will get modified when I overwrite.
Best would be (if possible) I create a master folder & tell gallery not to index any media for all the folders & sub folder from this master folder. So I copy the folder=file in thsi master folder if i don't need them to be indexed in gallery.
But what do I do for the music album art? the media player needs to display the art so if i put .nomedia file will the music player be able to display it & the gallery wont index it?
I am yet to try this solution.
seriously dudes between chmod and chown you should be able to do anything you want. If the app tanks or ? you might have to write a small script. Worst case scenario you could probably put files on a different partition and crate a symbolic link to it.
So I have the HTC one m9 and it's not showing all my music that I have on the phone using the included music app. I thought it could be a compatibility issue but if I find the music using a file explorer it will play.
Any know what is causing this and hoe to fix it? Even tried moving music to a different folder.
Stock music player is pants. Have you tried another player? Had similar problems in the past but a different player like JetAudio allows you to select folders to read from.
Did you check inside those "missing" folders - for '.nomedia' file ? Is it there?
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Did you check inside those "missing" folders - for '.nomedia' file ? Is it there?
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Yes it was there...I removed some to see if that helps didn't seem to change anything...
Remove all .nomedia files inside the missing music folders as well as from the one level up common folder - if such exists.. then reboot the device and give couple minutes to rescan your music library..
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Remove all .nomedia files inside the missing music folders as well as from the one level up common folder - if such exists.. then reboot the device and give couple minutes to rescan your music library..
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Will do see if it's works, so what exactly do the nomedia files do?
Hides music from your music player..
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Hides music from your music player..
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Hmm that seemed to work for the most part but not on some ... Guess I'll try to delete and redownload
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
create a .nomedia file in the music folder and it will stop the pictures from appearing OR in the gallery app click menu settings and hide the folders
bunglebp said:
create a .nomedia file in the music folder and it will stop the pictures from appearing OR in the gallery app click menu settings and hide the folders
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I just created a blank text file with ".nomedia" name and copied it to my Music folder on my phone sd card, and the albums are still there.
PS: I want to make file on my PC only, hence pls inform solution tht can be done via computer.
craige said:
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
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Do it like this:
If you have all your music files in a folder called Music, rename the folder by adding a dot to the folder name with a file explorer app. (like this: .Music)
This way the albumart isn't visible in gallery (have done this myself)
Keep in mind that some music player apps aren't able to find the music in the folder when done the above.
In my case Pulsar+ couldn't find my music in the folder if I let it scan for music.
Omnia (from the same developer as Pulsar+ is working fine tho.
With Omnia I have to manually tell Omnia in which folders contain music.
While Pulsar+ just scans the phone for folders containg musicfiles and I can add exclusions afterwards.
Keep in mind also that some file explorer apps can't find the folder after you have added the dot in front of the folder name.
I am using Solid Explorer and have to enable 'show hidden folders' in the app settings after I have added the dot.
craige said:
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
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You can hide all the pictures music folders in the settings of gallery.... i know because i have the same problem, now it is solved
william84 said:
Do it like this:
If you have all your music files in a folder called Music, rename the folder by adding a dot to the folder name with a file explorer app. (like this: .Music)
This way the albumart isn't visible in gallery (have done this myself)
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Now inside my SD card, i cannot create .XXX folder as it says "You must typre a file name" Error. BUT, inside Music folder - when i copy my music albums i renamed them to .music succesfully.
Now, the albums are neither appearing in my gallery nor on my samsung music player
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Now inside my SD card, i cannot create .XXX folder as it says "You must typre a file name" Error. BUT, inside Music folder - when i copy my music albums i renamed them to .music succesfully.
Now, the albums are neither appearing in my gallery nor on my samsung music player
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I am sorry to hear that my suggestion didn't work for you.
Then i would suggest to revert the changes you have done and hide the folders containing albumart in the gallery app itself, like user brunsman6229 suggested.
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I am sorry to hear that my suggestion didn't work for you.
Then i would suggest to revert the changes you have done and hide the folders containing albumart in the gallery app itself, like user brunsman6229 suggested.
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I am sure there has to be some solution...
Hopefully someone know a trick here, now comes the waiting part!
craige said:
I am sure there has to be some solution...
Hopefully someone know a trick here, now comes the waiting part!
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Have you done the following in the Samsung Gallery app?
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You can hide all the pictures music folders in the settings of gallery.... i know because i have the same problem, now it is solved
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Have you done the following in the Samsung Gallery app?
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I cant there are too many of them !
UPDATE: I transferred few albums today and to my surprise.
Few albums appear in gallery and few doesnt !
Now all album/tracks are embedded by same method by me, so what can be difference ?
Please guide how to check Tag details so to pinpoint to a solution.