Develop Bugs

Google Music and podcast files

Is there any way to separate podcast mp3s from Google music? My podcasts are infiltrating my artist list and recently played view.

I don't think so without changing the genre to podcast or something, though it won't get rid of it from the recently played list
Google does have it's own podcast app called Listen which is pretty old but works. You can dump also your already downloaded episodes to /sdcard/com.google.android.apps.listen/
Just an alternative

Is there a location I can store my podcasts where music spent search?

thereddog said:
Is there any way to separate podcast mp3s from Google music? My podcasts are infiltrating my artist list and recently played view.
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Put a .nomedia file in the folder where the podcasts are. You might meet to reboot afterwords.
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also, if you use beyondpod there's an option to "share media miles" that's enabled by default. Unchecked it then clear user data for the media storage app and reboot/rebuild your library. Can't remember if there's an option like that on dogcatcher but ever since switching to beyondpod its the best podcast player in my opinion.
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aarongzmn said:
Put a .nomedia file in the folder where the podcasts are. You might meet to reboot afterwords.
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I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.

thereddog said:
I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.
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I use doggcatcher too, and what I did was create a folder in the sd and named it .nomedia
I then moved all my podcast stuff there.
Make sure you go to doggcatcher settings and change the location of your podcasts to that location.
Next you need to go to app settings and delete all google music app data so it can rebuild it's cache and scan the sd card again.

celticpride34 said:
also, if you use beyondpod there's an option to "share media miles" that's enabled by default. Unchecked it then clear user data for the media storage app and reboot/rebuild your library.
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I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?

landstander said:
I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?
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I know this is a really extreme solution but have you tried Pocket Casts? I used to be a huge fan of beyond pod also until I tried Pocket Casts. Its way more pretty and easy to use.
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thereddog said:
I added a blank .nomedia file using Root Explorer and rebooted, but when my feeds updated, they are all seen in Google Music.
I am using Doggcatcher at the moment.
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The thing with .nomedia files on ICS seem to work only after you clear the cache in manage apps-> all-> media storage

I switched to BeyondPod, which doesn't have this issue.
Thanks!

aarongzmn said:
I know this is a really extreme solution but have you tried Pocket Casts? I used to be a huge fan of beyond pod also until I tried Pocket Casts. Its way more pretty and easy to use.
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I second pocketcasts in terms of ease of use and appearance.

.nomedia file doesn't work with pocket casts, but creating .nomedia folder and moving podcasts there worked.

landstander said:
I've seen some references to that online, but it doesn't seem to exist on my copy of BeyondPod (version 2.9.15). After going into Advanced Settings (which is hidden in a very WTF-esque manner), where it allegedly resides, there simply isn't a share podcasts / media files setting to be found.
Where do you find this beastie?
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It's in 'Playlist and Widget Settings' these days.

I tried .nomedia and it didn't work for me. I use BeyondPod and PlayerPro now. It has a feature to only scan music from a certain folder.

+1 dog catcher
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how to Run Google Podcast without Google App?
i have disable Google App, when i try to open Google Podcast it says it requires Google App.
Please tell how to Run Google Podcast without google App.

Phone Music/Photos

For some reason recently my phone refuses to show all of my phones music and Photo files if i were to go into Music Player or Gallery. Only a small percentage of them actually show but if i were to use a File browser(SGS2's default file viewer) i can actually see them.

Seshin said:
For some reason recently my phone refuses to show all of my phones music and Photo files if i were to go into Music Player or Gallery. Only a small percentage of them actually show but if i were to use a File browser(SGS2's default file viewer) i can actually see them.
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app called rescan its in the market--- give it a shot

playya said:
app called rescan its in the market--- give it a shot
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Tried it before didn't work. Think it'd work after i use it a few times?Im really about to just return this phone since the power button is screwed.

Seshin said:
For some reason recently my phone refuses to show all of my phones music and Photo files if i were to go into Music Player or Gallery. Only a small percentage of them actually show but if i were to use a File browser(SGS2's default file viewer) i can actually see them.
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I use all file and move to external sd card and now J see them,this is temporary solution
I dont know why this is happened and I dont know another solution

Seshin said:
For some reason recently my phone refuses to show all of my phones music and Photo files if i were to go into Music Player or Gallery. Only a small percentage of them actually show but if i were to use a File browser(SGS2's default file viewer) i can actually see them.
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This happened to me last night, couldn't figure out for the life of me what happened. Ended up doing a full system wipe/reset (after backing up to my comp of course) and all is good now...it was strange though.
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Is it possible to change the sms(/notification) sound to other than default? + more

1) Is it possible to change the sms signal to something other than the default ones?
2) Can I turn off the shutter sound?
3) Am I supposed to be able to turn the screen into landscape mode when looking at apps/widgets and the homescreens?
4) I have copied two .mkv-movie(4-7gb) files to the movies folder on the phone but when I watch them I get no sound, how come?
I have the standard, none edited, newly bought version of the note 2.

1) Mess with the sound settings. Default notification is what you're after.
2) Upskirt much?
3) No
4) DTS codec removed from almost all players because of license issues. Either find non-DTS mkvs or encode them.
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1) I am talking about a .wav sound that I have saved from an old HTC that I want to use. Is that possible? I cant find any information about that on the net nor in the sound settings of the phone.
2) Maybe
3) Thanks, explains that.
4) Oh...I see...any easy way to do that by my own? Any programs that you or someone else can recommend?
Thanks!

1) create a folder named "notifications" on your internal memory, any audio file in that folder should show up in the list for app/messaging notifications.
if you don't want it to show up in the music app you can also place it in /system/media/audio/notifications, but that requires root access.
for ringtones and alarms you can place it in any folder, and set it through the music player.
2) this is illegal in some countries and can be abused for various criminal activities, so this will require modifications to system files.
3) not in the touchwiz launcher, but if you want to rotate the screen you can install a 3rd party launcher like apex, or nova, and enable rotation in their settings screen.
4) try MX player, if the encoding of a video or audio stream is not supported by your phone it can usually still play using software decoding.

thedicemaster said:
1) create a folder named "notifications" on your internal memory, any audio file in that folder should show up in the list for app/messaging notifications.
if you don't want it to show up in the music app you can also place it in /system/media/audio/notifications, but that requires root access.
for ringtones and alarms you can place it in any folder, and set it through the music player.
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Ah, thanks I will try that!
thedicemaster said:
2) this is illegal in some countries and can be abused for various criminal activities, so this will require modifications to system files.
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Seriously? That is really tragic. :/
thedicemaster said:
3) not in the touchwiz launcher, but if you want to rotate the screen you can install a 3rd party launcher like apex, or nova, and enable rotation in their settings screen.
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Thanks!
thedicemaster said:
4) try MX player, if the encoding of a video or audio stream is not supported by your phone it can usually still play using software decoding.
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I tried to play the videos in MX Player but still no luck. Still no sound.
I tried a 1080p music video and that worked great, but not the .mkv-files.

[Q] Help with lyrics of the stock music player

I've bought M8 a week ago. I've come from a Symbian belle device, where if I put a .lrc file with same name as the song, it'd show the lyrics while playing songs. Now in M8 I've found there is a lyric downloading settings but I can't seem to see any lyrics on stock Music player. Can anyone help?

Saikat.mondol1 said:
I've bought M8 a week ago. I've come from a Symbian belle device, where if I put a .lrc file with same name as the song, it'd show the lyrics while playing songs. Now in M8 I've found there is a lyric downloading settings but I can't seem to see any lyrics on stock Music player. Can anyone help?
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In order to view the lyrics you need to go to the visualizer for which you will have to swipe to the right from the music screen

AshritShetty said:
In order to view the lyrics you need to go to the visualizer for which you will have to swipe to the right from the music screen
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.lrc format works?

Saikat.mondol1 said:
.lrc format works?
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The inbuilt Grace Note lyrics search engine fetches the lyrics automatically. I don't think there is an option to choose your own lyrics

AshritShetty said:
The inbuilt Grace Note lyrics search engine fetches the lyrics automatically. I don't think there is an option to choose your own lyrics
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But I've not been able to see a single lyric till now. Doesn't they have lyrics for either Eminem Rap God or The Monster ?

Saikat.mondol1 said:
But I've not been able to see a single lyric till now. Doesn't they have lyrics for either Eminem Rap God or The Monster ?
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In the Visualizer screen press the 3 Dot Button and then Update Lyrics
Grace Note will now download the lyrics.

AshritShetty said:
In the Visualizer screen press the 3 Dot Button and then Update Lyrics
Grace Note will now download the lyrics.
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Hey,
I tried this on multiple tracks and it doesn't seem to work. I thought I might fix the issue by modifying the .mp3 files and manually setting the correct album, artist, track number etc., but it still doesn't work. Whenever I try updating the lyrics I get the following notification:
Lyrics from LyricFind
Total 1 lyric(s) checked. 0 lyric(s) updated.
Any thoughts on how I could force it to find the correct lyrics? And it's not like I am trying with an obscure artist, it's Led Zeppelin IV for Christ's sake.

I remember this from my One X days. It's a location issue. You have to trick Gracenote to think that you are in the US through a VPN software and then it will work with no problem.
1) Download and install Hotspot Shield Free from play store
2) Run Hotspot Shield and make sure that Virtual Location is: United States.
3) Play a song and you will see lyrics appearing.
4) Un-install Hotspot Shield
5) Play another song and voila, you always have lyrics

stathis95194 said:
I remember this from my One X days. It's a location issue. You have to trick Gracenote to think that you are in the US through a VPN software and then it will work with no problem.
1) Download and install Hotspot Shield Free from play store
2) Run Hotspot Shield and make sure that Virtual Location is: United States.
3) Play a song and you will see lyrics appearing.
4) Un-install Hotspot Shield
5) Play another song and voila, you always have lyrics
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Thanks a lot for the tip, mate, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. The Wi-Fi at work, which I used to download most of the lyrics the phone did manage to recognize, assigns US-based IP addresses, so I should have had no issues to begin with. I went ahead and tried the fix with Hotspot Shield anyways, but to no avail.
What's even more interesting is that it has downloaded lyrics for individual songs within an album. Why it would recognize one track, but wouldn't the very next one from the same album is beyond me.

stathis95194 said:
I remember this from my One X days. It's a location issue. You have to trick Gracenote to think that you are in the US through a VPN software and then it will work with no problem.
1) Download and install Hotspot Shield Free from play store
2) Run Hotspot Shield and make sure that Virtual Location is: United States.
3) Play a song and you will see lyrics appearing.
4) Un-install Hotspot Shield
5) Play another song and voila, you always have lyrics
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Wow, I love you (lol). I don't used Hotspot Shield, I used TunnelBear, but it works like a charm!!

Expert advice requested!

Love this device, but there's two things left on my list of things to update/modify which I'm stuck on.
I rooted the device
went through the Xposed catalog
updated to KitKat
downloaded a bunch of apps like Dropbox, Google Drive, Coursera, emulators, games, synced all my e-mail/social accounts, etc. etc.
bought the Samsung OTG adapter to connect a 1TB external HDD (Game of Thrones Seasons 1 - 3!)
Later I plan on getting a controller and keyboard for games and productivity.
So the basis for this entire post;
The last 2 things I'm trying to get on my tablet is flash and Viper4Android.
My GSIII on PacRom (4.3) has flash enabled using an older version of Dolphin Browser (allows me to watch full episodes of the Colbert Report/Daily Show on Comedy Central). Also, Viper4Android works flawlessly.
I can't seem to find a solution for my Note 2014 tho.
My main questions are does anybody here know how to enable flash and install Viper4Android on the Note 2014?
What I've tried so far;
trying to enable Flash
-downloaded Dolphin/Boat/other flash enabled browsers after dl'ing the recommended files from Adobe's official website
-use the old version of Dolphin the same way my phone has it
trying to install Viper4Android
-install to System/apps then another suggestion to install from System/priv-apps (all permissions set as suggested)
-followed a few guides that talked about editing build.prop (found a solution for the Note 3, however, the lines required for me to edit weren't there on the Note 2014)
Mainly I don't expect my tablet to turn into an amazing sound system, but one of my minor gripes is that it's speakers are somewhat quiet. If V4A doesn't work for us, is there a sound hack to increase how loud we can set the volume (especially for movie watching, even MX Player's 200% sound increase is a little lacking for me)
Thanks! regardless even if there's no known solutions yet.

Here's your answer for flash, don't know about that other thing your asking....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52218885&postcount=7
Hit thanks if it helps.... Enjoy.

For V4A, extract the audio_effects zip and place the audio_effects.conf file in system/etc folder and set permissions. Enjoy!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvth1hp163cwqmn/audio_effects.zip
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Itchiee said:
Here's your answer for flash, don't know about that other thing your asking....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52218885&postcount=7
Hit thanks if it helps.... Enjoy.
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Worked flawlessly! Thanks!

¿Will-it-Blend? said:
For V4A, extract the audio_effects zip and place the audio_effects.conf file in system/etc folder and set permissions. Enjoy!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvth1hp163cwqmn/audio_effects.zip
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This kind of works! Thanks! With one caveat however, I played a few songs using PlayerPro (bought the full version and is my preferred player) the stock Samsung Music Player, and Google Music Player; but it doesn't seem to fully function. Driver Status says Processing: No.
So I set the FX Compatibly Mode from Normal --> Compatible and selected Force Enable V4A.
Retested the three players on my tablet, and the Google Music Player has an audible difference. I tested this by putting the reverb to some ridiculous setting, and the Google Player was obviously audibly different, while Player Pro and the stock music app were the same. Can't check Driver Status in Compatibility Mode however, but it was clear GMP works with V4A while the other 2 did not.
So now, the problem changes from getting V4A to work (because it does with Google's music app!) to getting it to work with PlayerPro and universally across apps in general. Curious if there's anyway to do this? Im hoping to find a way to get V4A to work with MXPlayer and PlayerPro as well!

presidential1O said:
This kind of works! Thanks! With one caveat however, I played a few songs using PlayerPro (bought the full version and is my preferred player) the stock Samsung Music Player, and Google Music Player; but it doesn't seem to fully function. Driver Status says Processing: No.
So I set the FX Compatibly Mode from Normal --> Compatible and selected Force Enable V4A.
Retested the three players on my tablet, and the Google Music Player has an audible difference. I tested this by putting the reverb to some ridiculous setting, and the Google Player was obviously audibly different, while Player Pro and the stock music app were the same. Can't check Driver Status in Compatibility Mode however, but it was clear GMP works with V4A while the other 2 did not.
So now, the problem changes from getting V4A to work (because it does with Google's music app!) to getting it to work with PlayerPro and universally across apps in general. Curious if there's anyway to do this? Im hoping to find a way to get V4A to work with MXPlayer and PlayerPro as well!
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Make sure you delete or freeze MusicFX from your system. This will ensure that V4A is the default system sound equalizer. And of course make sure it's installed as a priv-app.
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¿Will-it-Blend? said:
Make sure you delete or freeze MusicFX from your system. This will ensure that V4A is the default system sound equalizer. And of course make sure it's installed as a priv-app.
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This works! Grateful and appreciative!

¿Will-it-Blend? said:
For V4A, extract the audio_effects zip and place the audio_effects.conf file in system/etc folder and set permissions. Enjoy!
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can you help me ? im having the same problem.. i did what you said still doesnt work on my tablet. What permissions do i put it , and where do i install the app? thank you!