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
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
Hi everyone!
I have a little trouble with my navigation system sounds on Xperia Arc S.
I'm using iGO Primo and this app is using sounds in *.mp3 format, so these sounds are automatically added to the Walkman application.
The question is : Can i somehow make the folder with these sound hidden for Walkman? Or any other solutions for this issue?
Thanks everyone!
nblxtu said:
Hi everyone!
I have a little trouble with my navigation system sounds on Xperia Arc S.
I'm using iGO Primo and this app is using sounds in *.mp3 format, so these sounds are automatically added to the Walkman application.
The question is : Can i somehow make the folder with these sound hidden for Walkman? Or any other solutions for this issue?
Thanks everyone!
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create .nosound file in a folder with these mp3 files then clean data for walkman and media scanner and reboot. You don't have to clean data but it will take a while for these files to disappear from walkman app.
.nomedia file is a file that tells android media scanner to not scan this directory and its a plain text file named ".nomedia" without an txt extension. If you cant create this file then you can copy it from "android" folder in you sdcard.
pypcier said:
create .nosound file in a folder with these mp3 files then clean data for walkman and media scanner and reboot. You don't have to clean data but it will take a while for these files to disappear from walkman app.
.nomedia file is a file that tells android media scanner to not scan this directory and its a plain text file named ".nomedia" without an txt extension. If you cant create this file then you can copy it from "android" folder in you sdcard.
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Did everything as u've adviced (coppied the file from android folder and put in every sound directory) ; unfortunately didn't work (
If walkman is using media scanner then there is no way this cant work. Maybe you have to wait for these files to be deleted from app.
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If walkman is using media scanner then there is no way this cant work. Maybe you have to wait for these files to be deleted from app.
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Well, today i have changed ROM and now it works ) hopefully, that will work forever
Thanks very much !!
Actually the file was .nomedia that's why it didn't work
Flash other Walkman!
You should flash other Walkman now.
Recently I tried to hide unnecessary images from gallery by putting a .nomedia file in that folder. After that I realise I have put the file in the wrongly in my SD card root folder causes some of my picture won't be displayed in the gallery. And then I deleted the file but it still not showing up in the gallery. Any idea how I could solve this???
*QuickPic and ES File Explorer can open and view the pictures just fine, but the stock Gallery app cannot. I really need the stock Gallery app to work because I need to choose my own lockscreen wallpaper.
Hi, is there any way to prevent the media player from recognizing all files? I noticed that on the stock rom, the media player was also recognizing mp4 video files and some ringtones, its also the same on the custom roms that i flashed, is there any way to limit the media player searching to certain folders? Thank you for your help
Using any file explorer, add a ".nomedia" file to the directories you want the media players to ignore files from.