I need to know how to change the destination for a specific apps download directory for music.
Another words If a specific application is able to download music to a directory such as internal mem or flash drive ,how can I go about changing the location of storage it actually puts the downloads into as in not manually one by one But for every song download from there on out . The joying 4.4.2 unit I can't find where my music's are downloading too. So I want to with root or without root change where it files them.This doesn't mean placing the app somewhere but only redirecting music downloads to my flash drive. So I can get a music player app to pickup and find all my music that I've stored in which I can't get any music app to do that
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Guys i have searched all over the forum, made a thread even, and googled and i couldnt find the location the playlists created in winamp are saved. do you guys have any idea where it is saved? please help me. im tired of constantly creating new playlists after updating my phone.
Probably in the winamp folder have you looked .
jje
This is a guide/ suggestion I done for another forum. It may work on winamp too but I'm not sure
Occasionally I like to listen to music on my phone however there is so many songs I like and I was sick of manually creating play lists on my phone every time I flashed over to a new ROM. I had a quick squint on the web and found a neat little program that creates play lists for you so when you transfer the album or song folder onto your Galaxy S your music player automatically builds the play lists for you!
Here’s my quick guide
1. Download the Playlist Creator program here http://www.oddgravity.de/app-opc.php and install
2. Create a folder on your pc and name it anything you like. I call mine “Galaxy Music”
3. Drop the albums you want on your Galaxy into this folder
4. Open the album you want to create the playlist for then open your playlist creator program
5. Drag the folder into the playlist creator and then all your songs from that album will appear.
6. Choose the file path to save the new playlist
7. Enter the name of the album where it says “name and type” then use the drop arrow to select .m3u
8. Click “Create Playlist” Now your saved playlist will be in the same folder as your songs for that album
9. Once you have created all your playlists for the music your putting on your phone you can drag the complete folder together with the sub folders on to your external sd card
To drag the files on to your sd card
1. Touch Settings – Wireless and network – USB Settings – then put a dot in either 2Mass storage or Ask on connection”
2. Plug your USB cable into your phone and then touch “Mass Storage” then “Connect USB”
3. Locate your external sd card and then simply drag your files on to it and load up. Once loaded up your all done!
Now when you go in to your music player you can instantly touch “playlists” and then choose what album you want to listen to so there’s no need to scroll down your music list to find your favourite song anymore!
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JJEgan said:
Probably in the winamp folder have you looked .
jje
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do u know where can i find the folder? i searched all over the int and ext sd, couldnt find.
i do not use winamp so cannot look but you may need root explorer or similiar to search at root level . Or even ask Winamp .
jje
JJEgan said:
i do not use winamp so cannot look but you may need root explorer or similiar to search at root level . Or even ask Winamp .
jje
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i tried that too.. cant seem to find. the only way is too email them..
As the title mentioned, after I've done full wipe + flash ARHD 3.2 ROM (twice) the problem still persist. I can well play the song individually if selected from Astro File Manager but those songs just won't show up in HTC Music App. Any idea what might have caused it ?
Do you have a .nomedia file anywhere in the path to your music folder?
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I have no problems with music app detecting songs. Place all your musics under the folder "Music" in the root of your sdcard.
AndroHero said:
Do you have a .nomedia file anywhere in the path to your music folder?
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yes I find out that's what cause the music to be skipped from scanning but I have no idea why after i deleted it, it will just pop up again after sometime. How is that file generated? by system?
Google Play Music can't find any music files since I flashed JB.
ICS is OK.
Other 3rd party app works fine, such as TTPlayer.
All music are in sdcard\music.
twilightgod said:
Google Play Music can't find any music files since I flashed JB.
ICS is OK.
Other 3rd party app works fine, such as TTPlayer.
All music are in sdcard\music.
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I had this before.. You should check your sdcard for ".nomedia" files scattered all over the place.
You shouldn't have one in the root directory and you definitely shouldn't have it in your music folder.
These files tells Android's Media Manager not to scan for media files in such directory. IIRC, TTPlayer (and others) do not use Media Manager to get information about media files. These files are useful if put in the correct directories.
I read somewhere that Rom Manager app put this file in the sdcard's root for no (known to me) reason. Dunno.
Yes. A botched update to ROM Manager put these files in the wrong directory (SDcard root). An update was released soon after to fix that. Just delete the .nomedia file in SD root folder and you should be fine.
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Hi,
I'm a fairly advanced Android user that mainly uses Cyanogenmod but I am having a problem with the stock ROM on my HTC One (M8).
I regularly download a podcast as an .mp3 file. When I click on the downloaded file I get offered to open it only in 'Gallery' or the 'Image Gallery' component of File Manager HD. Obviously neither of these apps can handle an audio file. The same happens when I try to open it using the stock 'Downloads' app.
If I try to open it from Either the stock file manager or from file manager HD I get the full range of apps that can handle .mp3 files.
I am guessing that the phone is recognising .mp3 as an image file extension instead of an audio file extension but cannot find any setting to change this.
It's so frustrating as the file doesn't have the correct details in the MP3 tag so it is impossible to find it in poweramp
Any ideas?
Please note the attached screen shots. I use Verizon Visual Voice Mail - and I have used the option of permanently saving some of those voice mails (messages from my deceased Dad, etc) - which puts the recordings in a folder in my internal memory. The Samsung Media Player has found them and includes them with music to place in my phone. How do I tell the Samsung Media Player to ignore certain files or folders...?
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Please note the attached screen shots. I use Verizon Visual Voice Mail - and I have used the option of permanently saving some of those voice mails (messages from my deceased Dad, etc) - which puts the recordings in a folder in my internal memory. The Samsung Media Player has found them and includes them with music to place in my phone. How do I tell the Samsung Media Player to ignore certain files or folders...?
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Locate the folder where those files are saved. Using a FILE MANAGER program, make a new file and name it (without the quotes) ".nomedia". It does not have to contain anything. That file alone will prevent Android system from showing any files included in that folder in Gallery and Music. The name must start with the period.
If you cannot create a file with the period character, you'll need a different File Manager program. However that will fix your problem. Use this method to hide anything from the basic file system of the music and gallery apps.
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Locate the folder where those files are saved. Using a FILE MANAGER program, make a new file and name it (without the quotes) ".nomedia". It does not have to contain anything. That file alone will prevent Android system from showing any files included in that folder in Gallery and Music. The name must start with the period.
If you cannot create a file with the period character, you'll need a different File Manager program. However that will fix your problem. Use this method to hide anything from the basic file system of the music and gallery apps.
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Works perfectly - thank you!
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