Exclude Downloaded Sounds from Google Play? - HTC 10 Questions & Answers

So, been downloading a bunch of sounds for my notification and ringtone sounds from the HTC Themes store. Annoyingly these were added to the list of folders included in Google Play Music app and I cannot exclude them so that I do not see them everytime I open Music. Please help me? How do I make it so that Music only looks for songs in my "Music" folder only?
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SiAmaze said:
So, been downloading a bunch of sounds for my notification and ringtone sounds from the HTC Themes store. Annoyingly these were added to the list of folders included in Google Play Music app and I cannot exclude them so that I do not see them everytime I open Music. Please help me? How do I make it so that Music only looks for songs in my "Music" folder only?
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That should not happen...
Alright, normally inside your storage you should have 3 folders: alarms, ringtones, and notifications. Every time you download a soundtrack from HTC Theme, it will create a folder "theme" (depends on its category) under these 3 folders.
Please make sure you have these folders. If not, maybe, I mean maybe, HTC Theme app cannot identify the correct folder and put the downloads into the "music" folder.

Alpert3 said:
That should not happen...
Alright, normally inside your storage you should have 3 folders: alarms, ringtones, and notifications. Every time you download a soundtrack from HTC Theme, it will create a folder "theme" (depends on its category) under these 3 folders.
Please make sure you have these folders. If not, maybe, I mean maybe, HTC Theme app cannot identify the correct folder and put the downloads into the "music" folder.
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Everything is in its place, but those folders seem to be included in Play Music
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That's weird. These soundtracks of theme, are they in (.ogg) format?
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Alpert3 said:
That's weird. These soundtracks of theme, are they in (.ogg) format?
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No, mainly flac.
This is driving me super crazy
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SiAmaze said:
No, mainly flac.
This is driving me super crazy
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That's why. You have to format them into (.ogg).
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Alpert3 said:
That's why. You have to format them into (.ogg).
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System notifications which also appear in Music are read-only files
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SiAmaze said:
System notifications which also appear in Music are read-only files
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Really? Reinstall Play Music won't help?
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Alpert3 said:
Really? Reinstall Play Music won't help?
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Uninstalling just removes updates. I do not believe this. Why am I the only one with this problem? You do not have it? Others do not have it? But, why? I just downloaded these ringtones just like all the others.
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SiAmaze said:
Uninstalling just removes updates. I do not believe this. Why am I the only one with this problem? You do not have it? Others do not have it? But, why? I just downloaded these ringtones just like all the others.
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I don't know, really strange, I have to say. Try this method maybe? http://www.androidtipsz.com/how-to-hide-non-music-audio-files-from-appearing-on-android-music-player
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Alpert3 said:
I don't know, really strange, I have to say. Try this method maybe? http://www.androidtipsz.com/how-to-hide-non-music-audio-files-from-appearing-on-android-music-player
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I had already tried that before posting here. Doesn't work on Android 6, it seems.

OK, I found out that these files I am talking about are stored in the "System" folder under "Media". And I cannot cut the media files in them to another folder nor create ".nomedia" file in the media folder so that it doesn't try to find media in it (talking about Google Music). What do I do now? Why is Google Play Music scanning my System files ????

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SGS3 Media Files (Alarms,Ringtones...etc)

SGS3 Media Files
Included Files:
-Alarms
-Ringtones
-Notifications
-UI Sounds
Link: www.mediafire.com/download.php?26wskymzz43wywr
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thanks man!
Gonna grab those UI sounds!
Thanks, mate!
Server error
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JaZart said:
Server error
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Second that
Also do u flash these in cwm or what?
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Copying the ringtones into the SD card folder enables the files to show up in the ringtones selection, they don't actually produce any sound. Seems like our phones don't like the .ogg file type, as my phone takes custom mp3 files just fine.
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JaZart said:
Server error
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scuzzbag87 said:
Second that
Also do u flash these in cwm or what?
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If you guys are viewing mediafire from your phone, use Google Chrome and switch to request desktop view and it will show.
treleung said:
Copying the ringtones into the SD card folder enables the files to show up in the ringtones selection, they don't actually produce any sound. Seems like our phones don't like the .ogg file type, as my phone takes custom mp3 files just fine.
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Get foobar and Lame encoder - then drag the files into the foobar window and then right click on the files (select all), convert (to mp3), and walk through the prompts (you need to download LAME too - try free codecs dot com).
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Just went through them and you might be dissapointed though - I've seen a lot better sounds on most custom roms...
Ozark_8125 said:
Get foobar and Lame encoder - then drag the files into the foobar window and then right click on the files (select all), convert (to mp3), and walk through the prompts (you need to download LAME too - try free codecs dot com).
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Just went through them and you might be dissapointed though - I've seen a lot better sounds on most custom roms...
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Is this for the UI and if it isn't then how would I be able to install them on my phone? Thanks
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hey
you have to extract the file on another route. Now you have to copy and move. for example if you are going to move ringtone move it to this route. /system/media/audio/ringtones. Notifications /system/media/audio/notifications. Alarms /system/media/audio/alarms. and ui is the same but do not quite understand yet that I have little in this. when finished reboot and then go to settings and you will see in the sounds. sorry I do not understand much English.
EddiePR said:
you have to extract the file on another route. Now you have to copy and move. for example if you are going to move ringtone move it to this route. /system/media/audio/ringtones. Notifications /system/media/audio/notifications. Alarms /system/media/audio/alarms. and ui is the same but do not quite understand yet that I have little in this. when finished reboot and then go to settings and you will see in the sounds. sorry I do not understand much English.
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OK well I have the ringtones part done and I've copied and pasted the UI sounds in /system/media/audio/UI. Then I rebooted and didn't work. Did I do something wrong.
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How to let music app rescan media files?

Hi, I have cleared data for "media store" app in app manager, now the music app is showing no media.
Why I did it, because I could not find some music files in music app after the 1.29. update though they were still there as mp3 files in the storage (also I have PowerAmp and it has no issues) I have restarted the device, but it did not help, also tried by activating USB mode to disc drive then back to storage again considering with this could work as mount/unmount and does the trick, but no success. I do not want to do a hardreset if it is avoidable as well.
Is there a way to force HTC music app to rescan storage for media files?
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Download extended controls and you can have a toggle that forces a media scan.
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You might also find a dedicated app in the market.. search for 'media rescan' and use the one that works best for you.
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have tried with 4 different apps from market but none of them solved the matter. There is not a such option in the music app, actually no "settings" at all.
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There's no command that I know of in the menus. You might need root to run it? But I doubt that.
Android should rescan every now and then.
You could also try clearing the media players cache.
also.. Power amp has this feature buildt in
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I know, hv been using Poweramp since earlier, it is awesome, no any such issues with it. Also hv tried with clearing cache and data for music app too, no success. More interestingly, have also applied reset to factory settings, but still same. I think the only thing left to do, hard reset from boot menu, it will wipe everything.
Any other suggestion? before doing that are more than welcome.
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just a thought, how about moving your mp3s to another folder using a file manager on the phone and reboot, it may pick them up that way
Yes, it did the trick.. not renaming the music folder or moving to another place using folder explorer app in the phone but created a brand new folder when connected to windows pc as storage and moved all my mp3s into this new folder, and finally it worked, thanks for the tip mate, it was so easy
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Yes, it did the trick.. not renaming the music folder or moving to another place using folder explorer app in the phone but created a brand new folder when connected to windows pc as storage and moved all my mp3s into this new folder, and finally it worked, thanks for the tip mate, it was so easy
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even creating a new folder didnt solve the problem for me. seriously guys any way to solve this issue?

Whatsapp Audio

Hi
is there way to make Google play music not pick up whatsapp audio , get a lot of them and music player keeps picking them its annoying T_T.
berz said:
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is there way to make Google play music not pick up whatsapp audio , get a lot of them and music player keeps picking them its annoying T_T.
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Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
Then profit.
Cheers!
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el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
Then profit.
Cheers!
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Will this mean that whatsapp notifications won't have any audio ever?
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tobynexus said:
Will this mean that whatsapp notifications won't have any audio ever?
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No, you'll still be able to play the audios from within whatsapp.
They won't appear in the music player, though. That's what you want.
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file? how?
el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
How to create file in galaxy s4. I know I can create folder. but don't see any option for creating a file.
HOW?
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Thnx
pulseps said:
el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
How to create file in galaxy s4. I know I can create folder. but don't see any option for creating a file.
HOW?
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Try to download file manager app like ES File Explorer or Astro. You should find a create file option there.
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thanks
@el_charlie Thanks man.. I was getting annoyed with this problem for quite some time now.. ur advice helped. thanks.. cheers

Strange behavior while pouring musics to my Galaxy Nexus

If you asked me this looks very odd. But when I attempt to copy some music albums from my PC down to my Galaxy Nexus, something strange happens. No matter what I do all the musics get moved to the root of the Music folder although they are originally stored in separate folders.
I even tried to copy the files into a very different folder completely apart from the default Music folder but the same thing happens every time.
I wonder why is this happening?
I'm using an Ubuntu powered box.
NoobSibot said:
If you asked me this looks very odd. But when I attempt to copy some music albums from my PC down to my Galaxy Nexus, something strange happens. No matter what I do all the musics get moved to the root of the Music folder although they are originally stored in separate folders.
I even tried to copy the files into a very different folder completely apart from the default Music folder but the same thing happens every time.
I wonder why is this happening?
I'm using an Ubuntu powered box.
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Are you using the MTP protocol for copying?
Petrovski80 said:
Are you using the MTP protocol for copying?
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Yes I do.
NoobSibot said:
Yes I do.
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MTP is known for it's buggy implementation. I recommend using adb for file transfers (see the link in my signature).
Petrovski80 said:
MTP is known for it's buggy implementation. I recommend using adb for file transfers (see the link in my signature).
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It doesn't really seem like a bug to me. It's more like someone's put it there intentionally.
Thanks anyway. Seems I have to dig deeper for answers. :good:
Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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teddy_irish said:
Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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Because WMP supposedly doesn't run very well on Ubuntu.
teddy_irish said:
Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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Petrovski80 is right. WMP is not currently an option on ubuntu. I guess I just have to stick with command line for now.

[Q] Added Music Not Showing?

So I added some songs to my sdcard under the default music folder and nothing is showing up. I've rebooted and tried Play Music, Now Playing, and a few others but nothing. Any ideas?
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electro` said:
So I added some songs to my sdcard under the default music folder and nothing is showing up. I've rebooted and tried Play Music, Now Playing, and a few others but nothing. Any ideas?
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maybe u have media scanner turned off? had that issue on my one v
give this app a try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bero.sdrescan&hl=en
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BTW the gnex doesn't have an SD card slot :sly: xD
Seraz007 said:
maybe u have media scanner turned off? had that issue on my one v
give this app a try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bero.sdrescan&hl=en
:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
BTW the gnex doesn't have an SD card slot :sly: xD
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Silly, he meant "/sdcard"
iLeopard said:
Silly, he meant "/sdcard"
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yup
It's emulated and it should work similiar. Anyway, I got it to work with a few reboots.

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