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Filter Music Player?

Hey, I have tried looking all over on my phone, searched Google, searched xda, but to no avail; If i missed something, Mod, feel free to share the link and close this thread.
Anyway, here's my problem--After downloading a couple games (assassins creed and a racing game) all of their stupid sound files populate in my music library. Assassins Creed alone has over 1,200...
Is there any way to exclude those folders from the music player library, or put some sort of a filter on if the songs are < 30 seconds? I would prefer to keep using the stock music player if possible, but if there are no ways to fix it i'd be open to hearing about other players that would accomplish what i'm looking for.
Crossing my fingers this isn't a double post,
amruthwo

I haven't used my music app, but omg it's spammed from applications

yeah, it's super annoying. What music player do you use instead?

amruthwo said:
yeah, it's super annoying. What music player do you use instead?
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I haven't had any need to play music on the Evo yet, but I will for sure be keeping an eye out for another music player....

put a ".nomedia" file in the directories that you don't want it to see

I've never made one of those, I'll try to find out how though. Thanks!
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If you're on windows just open up notepad. File save as ".nomedia" with the quotes. that'll make notepad keep the extension and not append .txt to the end of it.

thanks!
Thanks Albaholic, man I love this forum!

No problem

I tried placing this file in my "youmail" folder, but DoubleTwist is still seeing my downloaded voicemails as playable songs. Does this ".nomedia" file only affect the HTC Music Player?

Albaholic said:
If you're on windows just open up notepad. File save as ".nomedia" with the quotes. that'll make notepad keep the extension and not append .txt to the end of it.
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Thanks this worked perfect!

This works thanks......using CM6 nightly crack

UK Google Music Uploading?

Hi there,
I'm really new to android so please bear with me...
I have been using the Music app on my new nexus as a general music player for my android. I just noticed an mp3 on there that I didn't want so I held my finger on it and hit delete.
The message that came up said that the only version that would be deleted would be the "side-loaded" version, and the automatic upload to google music would remain.
Now from what I gather google music isn't open to the UK anyway, but I don't wanna use it when it's out, and I certainly don't want an auto upload using up data, but I can't see a setting to turn it off.
Is there one? Or do I need to download winamp or something else to use as my native music player to stop it?
Thanks for any help. It's massively appreciated.

As someone outside of the U.S. I noticed that too however, I connected to Google Music (via tunnel bear) but didn't see any tracks uploaded or listed.
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maybe its just a standard warning message in the app for when you delete a track?

You're probably right. I don't think they'd have done a UK only version of music just to adjust that message.
Once google music is open in the UK though (which I assume it will be at some point) all my music is going to start uploading, which is pretty annoying.

I'm in Australia and have been using the music app for a few months now. As far as I know, it does not upload music stored on the phone. There is a program that you can download from the google music website which will allow you to upload your music collection or only specific songs from your computer to the cloud. You can then access the uploaded music files from the app on your phone.
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ringdroid

dont know if this is common knowledge at this point.. but i love the app ringdroid.
I have been finding free ways to chop up mp3s to make ringtones since my OG moto razor days . This app makes it incredibly easy. Maybe this could even turn into a healthy exchange of ringdroid made ringtones? Depends what music everyone listens to.. I generally go for some electro house or heavy dubstep.
lets see if this takes off!
(I know this is not epic specific and it could go in general android, but lets face it.. i would rather see what the epic peepz have to say, we're just more important)

DrKaotica said:
dont know if this is common knowledge at this point.. but i love the app ringdroid.
I have been finding free ways to chop up mp3s to make ringtones since my OG moto razor days . This app makes it incredibly easy. Maybe this could even turn into a healthy exchange of ringdroid made ringtones? Depends what music everyone listens to.. I generally go for some electro house or heavy dubstep.
lets see if this takes off!
(I know this is not epic specific and it could go in general android, but lets face it.. i would rather see what the epic peepz have to say, we're just more important)
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I personaly use gtunes since its a music downloader AND ringtone editor and fairly lite but this app is cool too!
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Free Music Download
I prefer Free Music Download. I think it came as bloatware, but it has a lot more songs than ringdroid and I love the interface to make the ringtones.

ashbuly said:
I prefer Free Music Download. I think it came as bloatware, but it has a lot more songs than ringdroid and I love the interface to make the ringtones.
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I think you're confused. Ringdroid is an audio file splicer. You can splice off a segment of an audio file and save that segment as its own file. General purposes are for creating alarm, notification or call ring tones to save to your local storage.
This app doesn't provide songs or access to a song market/outlet.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ringdroid
Now if you are talking about Ringdroid Social, then that is a different story. That version combines the open source Ringdroid project with a social plugin to the "inthru" network. The "inthru" network plugin provides access to a song market/outlet. They are two separate projects and have separate Market pages.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ringdroid.social

nikon120 said:
I think you're confused. Ringdroid is an audio file splicer. You can splice off a segment of an audio file and save that segment as its own file. General purposes are for creating alarm, notification or call ring tones to save to your local storage.
This app doesn't provide songs or access to a song market/outlet.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ringdroid
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What he said ^^
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MP3 music download
https://market.android.com/details?id=great.app.luck&hl=en
I love this app. Download multiple tracks at once. It has a pretty good library. reminds me of the napster days

Figured there is so many gtunes that aren't real out there or they are outdated so I uploaded my final market official app before it got taken off.(it got taken off back when they were removing music downloaders) This app is a music downloader and it has a built in audio splicer and music player *although I don't recommend the audio player don't even press it, the scan for music takes forever.*
Here once again its not my work so I take no credit for it...
https://www.box.com/shared/yrzrakg7nhaq0hhqoegu
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Music Cleanup App?

Does anyone know about any sort of app which can neaten-up your music collection (give cover art, correct artist and names etc) because I've been looking for one like the program for windows called Tune-up gold however I hate iTunes. Can anyone help?
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Hmm.. i believe in some music players have those feature... like lewa music player.. or miui music player... but i forgot some xD
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Buy Music. Do not get them from pirated sources. You'll not need such apps then!
EDIT:Most media players do it automatically these days. You just need to find the correct one.

Ace of Spades said:
Does anyone know about any sort of app which can neaten-up your music collection (give cover art, correct artist and names etc) because I've been looking for one like the program for windows called Tune-up gold however I hate iTunes. Can anyone help?
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The MX player does that.

The music is all legal except I bought it when I was in China so for whatever reason, the song names are English but album and artist names show up as strange weird characters in Google Play music app (pic attached) and It's quite expensive for me to buy them all over again. I think I'll check out Mx player. Thanks for your help guys.
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Try mediamonkey on the PC. The free version should be OK for what you need to do.
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I underestimated the stock Music Player...

Seriously, it sounds awesome with Perseus audio tweaks and a little bit of tweaking within the player itself. I'm not a big fan of the UI, but it honestly just works.
The only reason I'm switching over is because PlayerPro's EQ and DSP pack were giving me issues. The "bass" knob was going...backwards.
PowerAmp is hideous IMO, but sounds good. Neutron isn't really user friendly, but it sounds epic.
Walkman is nice, but Ac!d audio along with it gave me FC's in Sound Enhancement. (Anyone know how to fix this?)
Anyway,
Perseus headphone amplification up to 63, a u-shaped EQ with +2 and -2 being the limits, negative gain on 1, stereo expansion on 6.
Mild bass/clarity adjustments in the music player, +1 on 3D, +1 on room size.
What can I say, I'm happy. My ATH-M50's suddenly have a new life.
I may flash Ac!d universal again and see how it sounds. I do feel like I can get a bit more sub-bass out of these cans.
Thoughts?

I love the stock music player. The only reason why I'm using poweramp (I like its asthetics fyi but let's ignore that for this discussion) is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want. With the stock music player, it pulls music from my dropbox and also voice recordings. With poweramp, I can prevent that which is better for me. I would use the stock music player otherwise. It also helps when I won a license key from poweramp a while back.

koreancanuck said:
I love the stock music player. The only reason why I'm using poweramp (I like its asthetics fyi but let's ignore that for this discussion) is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want. With the stock music player, it pulls music from my dropbox and also voice recordings. With poweramp, I can prevent that which is better for me. I would use the stock music player otherwise. It also helps when I won a license key from poweramp a while back.
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PowerAmp ftw. Been using it for a while. Well worth the price unless you won a copy like above lol.
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Since you guys seem to love it, and more to the point, use the stock player, I have a simple question.
When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist.
So far I only found that possibility when I open the app using the standard icon.
That annoyance has driven me to use apollo pro (a beefed up version of the player on CM9+ firmwares).

I have one major problem with the stock player (though it's really the os default behavior). I have a lot of music on my 64gb sd card (50gb?) and when I open the stock player it freezes while it rescans it all (about a min) - same on closing the player - very annoying. It does it every time so I use Player Pro which opens instantly for music and just use the stock player for podcasts. The other plus for me is Player Pro shows the album art on the lockscreen. I have no issues with the audio quality of either, though I also like and use the controls in Perseus stweaks.
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I have 38gb of 320kbps MP3's, no freezing issues here in any player at all!

Yeah combo of stock music and google play has replaced poweramp. Like the way google play creates playlist and stock player music squares.
Poweramp is in need of a major update. Been using it for years and its getting dated.
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If PowerAmp fixed its playlist issues, I'd probably use it again lol.

koreancanuck;37397874 said:
reason why I'm using poweramp is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want.
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This. The stock music player will happily play every media file on the damn phone, not just my music.
I haven't used a SINGLE stock music player in Android ever due to this issue.

I'm a playlist user. I use iSyncr for mac to get all my music on there, it all shows up fine.
I can agree about folders though. I have used them from time to time, PowerAmp did that job pretty well.

Cant u choose wich folder to play on stock player too? I like the stock player as well.
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I still haven't found a third party music app better than PlayerPro. Stock music player is actually quite good (probably the best stock player I've used) but I can't customize it in the same way I can with PlayerPro. And when you combine PlayerPro with the "Equalizer" app (paid version), it's a wrap!

No one likes winamp? I've been using it on pc since I was a kid and the app seems good. Shoutcast radio is also a plus.
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You guys know you can add a no media file for random music files like ringtones and game files.
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silentecho13 said:
I'm a playlist user. I use iSyncr for mac to get all my music on there, it all shows up fine.
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Ahh! That's why it was choking and scanning forever - I have no playlists and the music player interface always opened where I left it - on the Songs page/tab. If I leave the interface showing the Playlist tab, it opens without a lag! Now to add a playlist...
Ugh. Using the app to add the playlist is problematic, no impossible. I can choose individual songs to add to the playlist, but as soon as I choose "Select All" it freezes (and never completes the task). Then I tried to make the playlist with various apps but I couldn't get any to make a playlist of all songs given my directory structure (All Music > Genre > Artist > CD). Hmm... What should I call it - suboptimal? ...I finally did make a playlist with my PC version of Winamp (mounting the phone with SGS3 Easy UMS), but I'll probably keep using the Player Pro.
Thank you for that comment though as it explained my problem and gave a workaround (make a playlist with an external app), but I think I have to stick with the opinion that the stock player is poorly made... Though perhaps it would be more correct to say that the Android media scanning default behavior is just crazy bad and needs to be changed - then all the stock music apps would probably work fine. The Gallery app by the way suffers from similar problems for the same reason...

How do you get it to pull from dropbox?
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nemesis_9 said:
No one likes winamp? I've been using it on pc since I was a kid and the app seems good. Shoutcast radio is also a plus.
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I use Winamp Pro. Has an equalizer and plays FLAC. I also bought the Album Washer and Lyrics addons. Can't go wrong with that.

intruda119 said:
You guys know you can add a no media file for random music files like ringtones and game files.
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.nomedia files cause the system to ignore ringtones, and then you can't use them as ringtones.

Dr. Evo said:
"Equalizer" app (paid version), it's a wrap!
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This is a big plus, I'm using this Equalizer (unlock version) to save the presets + Power amp + Good quality headphones = Solved..

tpowell.ca said:
Since you guys seem to love it, and more to the point, use the stock player, I have a simple question.
When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist.
So far I only found that possibility when I open the app using the standard icon.
That annoyance has driven me to use apollo pro (a beefed up version of the player on CM9+ firmwares).
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When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist. I was confused by this too. If you use the widget, open the app with the lower right icon. Using the back button, you can move between main screen, playlist screen and song screen.