Is there a way to stop album art showing in the picture gallery?
if you talk about htc photo gallery you simply have to make the images "read only" and they'll disappear, but i don't know how to hide them if you're using nexus one gallery.
This is a simple fix for cooliris galley - (nexus one).
Load up your albums with the cd front cover jpg within the folder, the phone will cache the image. you may need to reboot for it to scan the folder and cache the image file.
When it shows up in the gallery you can delete the image located in the album folder for example: sdcard: Music\ACDC\image.jpg, this will remove it from the gallery and you have the the cd image now in cache for the music player, sorted.
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this was one of the big issues over on the Omnia HD forum.. every image from every program appearing in the default gallery...
work-around-there was to simply set the images to HIDDEN. not great but worked.. could work here maybe.
do wish we get some control in these Gallery programs so we can tell it what folder we want it to look at... so new phone, new OS but still same old issue
I was just wondering if there was a way 2 hide specific folders from being visible in the gallery. I have like 4 folders of pics i want 2 see and like 35 album cover folders -_- i use the app Album Art grabber and i guess thats what makes so many folders for each album but man this is kinda driving me nuts. ANy thoughts? Thx in advance.
Create a file called .nomedia (no other file names or extensions) and put it into the folder that you do not want to show up in Gallery
Edit: I have attached a zip file that has the .nomedia file inside.
Snuggl3s said:
I was just wondering if there was a way 2 hide specific folders from being visible in the gallery. I have like 4 folders of pics i want 2 see and like 35 album cover folders -_- i use the app Album Art grabber and i guess thats what makes so many folders for each album but man this is kinda driving me nuts. ANy thoughts? Thx in advance.
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I think you can edit the folder names in a file manager and put a . in front of the folder names and this will make them "invissible"
.foldername
maybe someone else can confirm.
awesome i will try these things! thx! =)
khaosxiii said:
I think you can edit the folder names in a file manager and put a . in front of the folder names and this will make them "invissible"
.foldername
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That's correct, just add a "." (without the quotes) to a file name and the folder is considered hidden.
sometimes you don't want the folder hidden completely, for example e-mail attachments to my touchdown app since the app still needs to reference them. The .nomedia did the trick now my gallery does not populate with e-mail attachments or my juice plotter graph images. Thanks!
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Create a file called .nomedia (no other file names or extensions) and put it into the folder that you do not want to show up in Gallery
Edit: I have attached a zip file that has the .nomedia file inside.
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Awesome this worked! Thx a million! Now my gallery isn't all crazy clutterd. =) idk if this is else where but sticky maybe?
fRom Snugs G2 ^.^
Several ics revs back I could open the gallery app and it would only show folders with picture files in them. I also had the option to hide folders. Now when I open gallery, it goes and if a folder has any apk's in them it will display the icon picture as well. Well I have a folder with my apk's backed up so it is showing a bunch of icons in addition to my own picture folder. I cannot hide them either. Does this happen to anybody else? I do have the option to delete them. If I delete them, will it just remove them from the album and not delete the actual file?
Do u have an app backup apk downloaded?
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You can put a "." In front of the folder name , no "'s to hide that folder, I know thats not the answer you wanted, but hope it helps.
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Right now my settings for photos are to ext sd but I noticed when I try to reorganize my photos using gallery creat new album and moving photos, the new album and accompanying photos go to internal storage. How do I set new albums to default to external?
2. If I create a new directory in extSdCard dcim directory , I notice the gallery needs to be restarted and creates duplicate album entries in gallery.
How does i create an album on ext card to move pics there in gallery?
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I would like to know this aswell. I find the gallery to be very unorganised.
Folders from dropbox and google and camera and external sd card and so on and so on..
Select all,Copy/Paste to a newly created folder on the external SD card.
hi Hagba
I did that using Solid Explorer. Create a folder, select the pics and move.
Then when I launch Gallery, it actually creates 2 duplicate albums (one with a SD icon and one without) showing duplicate photos.
It's a weird quirk.
I moved all my albums to extSDcard using solid explorer and quickpic and when I use Gallery , it shows duplicate albums (one with the SD icon and one without).
Does your gallery show the albums moved to Extcard correctly without a duplicate?
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Select all,Copy/Paste to a newly created folder on the external SD card.
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i use ES file explorer to move photos
Why not use the stock "My Files" app?
Randomm said:
hi Hagba
I did that using Solid Explorer. Create a folder, select the pics and move.
Then when I launch Gallery, it actually creates 2 duplicate albums (one with a SD icon and one without) showing duplicate photos.
It's a weird quirk.
I moved all my albums to extSDcard using solid explorer and quickpic and when I use Gallery , it shows duplicate albums (one with the SD icon and one without).
Does your gallery show the albums moved to Extcard correctly without a duplicate?
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As the poster above said I used the stock My File application,Selected all the pictures and pasted to a folder I have created on the External Card and after that DELETED the empty original folder from the internal storage card,so no I have no duplicate issue. .
Hi!
installed somes apps, copied some music, etc.
now those images (e.g. albumart / coverart) appear in the album, so it's very bloated with a lot of undesired images.
how can i exclude certain folders from being visible in the album? tried it already with a ".nomedia"-file in those folders, but this doesn't seem to work.
any ideas?
thanks & have a nice day.
There is a .NOMEDIA file in the demovideo folder. Copy that file to the folders you don't want to get indexed, then clear the cache of the album app. Reboot your phone and your set.
LucoBuck said:
There is a .NOMEDIA file in the demovideo folder. Copy that file to the folders you don't want to get indexed, then clear the cache of the album app. Reboot your phone and your set.
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thanks for the hint, but unfortunately it didn't work!
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sorry, as i didn't find a solution yet...
Use Quickpic app to hide any folders you don't want the album to see. It works fine.
biffsmash said:
Use Quickpic app to hide any folders you don't want the album to see. It works fine.
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thanks for your reply. i read about quickpic. but doesn't quickpic just hide the images only from the quickpic-gallery?!
hebbe said:
Hi!
installed somes apps, copied some music, etc.
now those images (e.g. albumart / coverart) appear in the album, so it's very bloated with a lot of undesired images.
how can i exclude certain folders from being visible in the album? tried it already with a ".nomedia"-file in those folders, but this doesn't seem to work.
any ideas?
thanks & have a nice day.
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QUICKPIC is the solution - try n confirm.
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Is it posible that there´s a Problem with the .nomedia file in your xperia z?
Example:
I´ve a .nomedia File in the WhatsApp Media Directory. Right after the creation of that .nomedia file, everything is fine, the Pictures are hidden in the Album app. I´m recieving a Picture in whatsapp, Album app also Shows it, also after reboot!
SirRobin78 said:
Is it posible that there´s a Problem with the .nomedia file in your xperia z?
Example:
I´ve a .nomedia File in the WhatsApp Media Directory. Right after the creation of that .nomedia file, everything is fine, the Pictures are hidden in the Album app. I´m recieving a Picture in whatsapp, Album app also Shows it, also after reboot!
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seems that there is something wrong with your .nomedia file, too
.nomedia file is created with QuickPic...
SirRobin78 said:
Is it posible that there´s a Problem with the .nomedia file in your xperia z?
Example:
I´ve a .nomedia File in the WhatsApp Media Directory. Right after the creation of that .nomedia file, everything is fine, the Pictures are hidden in the Album app. I´m recieving a Picture in whatsapp, Album app also Shows it, also after reboot!
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USE QUICKPIC please. It is (so far) the only quick solution.
You do not need a .nomedia file under your music directory. You do however need to rename the album/cover art jpg files to AlbumArt.jpg (not cover.jpg or other filename), and Sony's Album app will automatically exclude those images.
You will still need to clear the media cache.
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USE QUICKPIC please. It is (so far) the only quick solution.
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I´ve done it with quickpic allready but right now after this step newer whatsapp pictures are back again in album app...
Bravia engine not working with quickpic
I've noticed Bravia Engine doesn't kick in when viewing images with QuickPic. Is there a way it enable it?
As I understand it, the .nomedia file doesn't work with JB 4.2+
Check StudioKuma .nomedia manager on PlayStore
hebbe said:
Hi!
installed somes apps, copied some music, etc.
now those images (e.g. albumart / coverart) appear in the album, so it's very bloated with a lot of undesired images.
how can i exclude certain folders from being visible in the album? tried it already with a ".nomedia"-file in those folders, but this doesn't seem to work.
any ideas?
thanks & have a nice day.
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Well, I just downloaded an icon pack and added a single period in front of the name of the unpacked folder. This makes the folder hidden. It no longer shows on my album or my widget for that matter.
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use gallery pro
The .nomedia solution works perfectly fine for me. However it will not exclude stuff that is already in the album so you need to clear the data of the Media Storage (Settings --> Apps --> All --> Media Storage) app. It will mean that it will need to rescan your phone however, but it will correctly exclude any directory with the .nomedia file in it.
This works on XZ and it also worked on my old SGS3 running CM10.1 (JB 4.2.2)
Syzygial said:
I've noticed Bravia Engine doesn't kick in when viewing images with QuickPic. Is there a way it enable it?
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No, be is part of the stock album app.
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Quickpic hides them from both galleries. If they're still in your album after you've hidden them, then you either need to reboot or if you've stopped media scanner you have to scan media to ensure they're no longer shown in album app.
Quick pic works perfectly on Z I use it to hide all my wallpapers from the gallery ;-p
It's a good way of seeing what your pictures REALLY look like without Bravia shenanigans also lol