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[Q]MANILA - Music Tab(Music Player)

Hi ALL
here is my question.
i like to use MANILA music player but i have a lot of ringtone files on my storage card and it always search the whole memory so i end up with many music files in my player which i don't want there.is it possible to choose folder for music player to use as the one and only?or any other idea how to stop music player to search on entire storage card?
thx

+1 for this!
A mod can probably merge this post with:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5342869#post5342869

There's a registry entry that declares a folder which is not scanned by Audio Manager. It is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig:ring_tone_path
By default it would be "\My Documents\My ringtones\" (don't know for sure, I'm on a dutch ROM atm). You can change this to another location if you like, but I it won't take a location on your storagecard, unfortunately. It means you will have to keep ring-tones in the device memory. For me this is no problem because I only carry a few dozen tones with me.

thx for reply.i have done this by using Resco Explorer.all the folders that contains ringtones and files i do not want to show up in music tab i simply set as hiden.that did the trick for me.manila will no longer pick them up.

4tune said:
There's a registry entry that declares a folder which is not scanned by Audio Manager. It is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig:ring_tone_path
By default it would be "\My Documents\My ringtones\" (don't know for sure, I'm on a dutch ROM atm). You can change this to another location if you like, but I it won't take a location on your storagecard, unfortunately. It means you will have to keep ring-tones in the device memory. For me this is no problem because I only carry a few dozen tones with me.
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Thanks for this, this has helped improve matters somewhat, but I still have a folder full of audio books (very large, so needs to be on storage card) that still show up and I would rather they didn't. Any one know of a way of hiding these from Audio Manager?

HD2 + Music on Storage Card

Hey guys, I was wondering if there is anyway of setting only a particular folder to play music from on the storage card. The Sense music player is picking up every audio format e.g. ringtones and playing them???

all i did was create a folder on my mem card called music and my ringtones are on phone mem and music tab didnt find them

Thanks. I thought this was the case, but I have a lot of mp3 ringtones assigned to contacts and moving them all over to the phone memory just wouldn't be viable.

thare are serval discusions on that, around here. actually there is no way from stoping the music tab to play all sondfiles it find on the storage card (or at least only play a single folder). there are serval registry key and stuff but it looks that the music tab is ignoring them and do what it like to do.
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you could trim your ring tones or lower the quality of the file depending how many you have and if you can be bothered or just create a playlist and exclude the ringtones that prob the quickest option

Use a file explorer to make all the folders you don't want the Music Player to see, hidden. The phone will still see all of the ringtones etc... but they won't show up in the Media Player. It worked for me.....

sorry for bumping an old thread, I put songs into my SD card in the Music tab, I find WAZE nav sounds ( in mp3), what should I do so the Nav mp3's are not shown in the Music tab?

Question about Music player

Hi
I have recently started to use my HD2 as a music player. Ripping CD's (yes my own) to MP3 and moving the files to my SD card.
The music files are numbered nicely 01, 02 etc. so when you look
in a file explorer the are sorted as on the CD. So far so good
However, when I tab the Music note and look there, the files
are sorted in a way I would describe as randomly.
I can of course solve this by a playlist, but I wonder if
anyone could give me some insight on this.
Thank you

skafsgaard said:
Hi
I have recently started to use my HD2 as a music player. Ripping CD's (yes my own) to MP3 and moving the files to my SD card.
The music files are numbered nicely 01, 02 etc. so when you look
in a file explorer the are sorted as on the CD. So far so good
However, when I tab the Music note and look there, the files
are sorted in a way I would describe as randomly.
I can of course solve this by a playlist, but I wonder if
anyone could give me some insight on this.
Thank you
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I just got an HD2 last week and ran into the same thing as well. So far the only workaround I've found is to create playlists. If you happen to come across an answer, please post it here.

i put my music on as albums and find that each tune is listed as it appears on the album with no problem at all.
Mike

Chastiser said:
i put my music on as albums and find that each tune is listed as it appears on the album with no problem at all.
Mike
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If I understand you correct, you are not just moving folders / files ?
/Skafsgaard

On my Storage card i have a folder called Music so like this i have
Storage card > Music > Artist > Album > Tracks
This way my music tab see's it all and i can easily browse through

Demon_man said:
On my Storage card i have a folder called Music so like this i have
Storage card > Music > Artist > Album > Tracks
This way my music tab see's it all and i can easily browse through
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Yes same here. The order of the tracks differs though compared to
File Explorer. Rather annoying

skafsgaard said:
Yes same here. The order of the tracks differs though compared to
File Explorer. Rather annoying
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Solved. Ripped the CD using Windows Media Player and then 'synced' the
storage card using the WMP.

skafsgaard said:
Solved. Ripped the CD using Windows Media Player and then 'synced' the
storage card using the WMP.
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Be careful with that, have a search on these forums for using WMP to sync, I seem to remember an issue with one person's HD2. I think it stopped playing the tracks.

I'm very anal when it comes to my music being tagged, so there tagged with everything, are your songs tagged with track numbers?? that might make a difference,
and file explorer wont see them the same as the music tab as the way it sorts the files, date, name etc

Demon_man said:
I'm very anal when it comes to my music being tagged, so there tagged with everything, are your songs tagged with track numbers?? that might make a difference,
and file explorer wont see them the same as the music tab as the way it sorts the files, date, name etc
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I certainly got something to look into.
Thank you all for your time and replies.

Music?

I just got my HD2 a week ago and love it. One problem i have is all the music i put on my Sd card won't play down the list in the music player it will just play the song i selected, what am I doing wrong?

semso said:
I just got my HD2 a week ago and love it. One problem i have is all the music i put on my Sd card won't play down the list in the music player it will just play the song i selected, what am I doing wrong?
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what is the folder structure under which you put the music. It should look something like this:
\Storage Card\Music\Offspring - Americana
\Storage Card\Music\Offspring - The Offspring
\Storage Card\Music\Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
A folder for each album under a general "Music" folder...

MUSIC
I just made a folder in my Storage Card and called it "Music" obviously without the quotes and used a Micro sd Adapter and put the card reader thingy into my laptop like a usb and transfered over my music. I have a bout 5GB of music and when i when to the music tab it said searching and found all my songs.!?

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, (please be more specific if this isn't what you're talking about).
When you select a song to play, how are you selecting it?
If you go to Artists or Albums, it will only play the songs under the respective artist or album.
If you go to Library>All Songs and then press on a song, it should then play all songs. Is this what you're doing? What happens when you do this?

Do any of your music players freeze?
I have had it freezing once I loaded about 4gb of music onto it.
Storage Card\Music\*.*

I know just what he means. In the music tab you get the album view which is pretty useless/cumbersome, so, instead of playing music from there, he's going into "Library" and then possibly Artists>Album>SongName. Problem is, when you do that, HTC's music player creates a new (temporary) playlist with only that one song, so, if you want to skip to another song, you have to go back to Artists>Album>etc...
With HTC's player, you HAVE to create playlists to get the most out of it (or just stick with the default "All Songs" playlist (painful if you have over 1,000 songs because, again, of the lame UI for the music player)) and just switch playlists as you go.

Is there any way to get the HTC media player sort the albums in landscape mode to Artist then album like how its sorted in an ipod touch or iphone?

egzthunder1 said:
what is the folder structure under which you put the music. It should look something like this:
\Storage Card\Music\Offspring - Americana
\Storage Card\Music\Offspring - The Offspring
\Storage Card\Music\Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
A folder for each album under a general "Music" folder...
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When i uploaded 6 gb of music all in different folders, the player showed it to me all in one giant list, is this going to fix the problem, or do i have to do something else?

goldt said:
When i uploaded 6 gb of music all in different folders, the player showed it to me all in one giant list, is this going to fix the problem, or do i have to do something else?
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The player can show it to you listed by album, artist, genre, or composer...just use the slider when in "library" view. However, this is dependent on the ID3 tags on your music files being filled in correctly...

Is there a way to create ID3 tags for all my music based on folders?
I don't care about the albums as long as i can have folders and not a one giant list of mp3's

goldt said:
Is there a way to create ID3 tags for all my music based on folders?
I don't care about the albums as long as i can have folders and not a one giant list of mp3's
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BTW i just downloaded ID3 tag editor and its great, so if anyone has these same issues try it, its free Stamp ID3 Tag editor

Hey im having real issues getting ANY music to play, it is in .mp3 format but my HD2 just wont play it?
Can anyone help?

Only show my own music?

I have searched everywhere, but I know this has to have been listed before.
I have about 4gb of music I'm syncing from my PC, but when I pull up music on phone (no playlist) I see all the music on my device AND the music I synced.
I want to ONLY see the music I add. For photos, there was a reg key I added to set which folders were ignored. Is there a way to do that for music as well?

Ur Own Music
zim 2323 - this drove me cRaZy for a couple of weeks until I downloaded OMarket and got "Nitrogen".
I can click and drag my music from my PC instead of having to sync (if you have already d/l double twist - get rid of it - more pain than it's worth) and the system music files are omitted in Nitrogen.

I did the same thing and it ONLY shows the music I added?! I am having trouble understanding what you are trying to do?! I dont have music on the phone and it only pools what I have on my storage card. When i first loaded music it said it was searching for music and it found everthing I added.

zim2323 said:
I have searched everywhere, but I know this has to have been listed before.
I have about 4gb of music I'm syncing from my PC, but when I pull up music on phone (no playlist) I see all the music on my device AND the music I synced.
I want to ONLY see the music I add. For photos, there was a reg key I added to set which folders were ignored. Is there a way to do that for music as well?
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Hey Zim Yes, I think there's a regedit method for this, but the way I do it is to just figure out which folders I need to exclude and then navigate to them in Total Commander, long-press, and choose "properties"...you can then choose to hide the folder just like in regular windows. For me, it turned out that just hiding the "program files" folder on the SD card was enough, but I'm sure you can handle it if there's more you need to hide.

Unfortunately I can't hide program files on the sd card because I have to see the folder for software I use/install.
I also do not want to use 3rd party media players. I want to load music and play natively in sense.
When I goto music TAB it finds every MP3 on ROM nad SD memory. I only want to see music located in \storage card\my documents\music.

zim2323 said:
Unfortunately I can't hide program files on the sd card because I have to see the folder for software I use/install.
I also do not want to use 3rd party media players. I want to load music and play natively in sense.
When I goto music TAB it finds every MP3 on ROM nad SD memory. I only want to see music located in \storage card\my documents\music.
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No folder that I've hidden this way seems to be invisibile to me or the sys...they still show up in file explorer, and are still directly accessible by apps etc, they just don't get indexed.