This is more android related, but I couldn't find the appropriate sub-forum to post it in. Since I have a vibrant, I figured here would be okay
I'm utilizing the android folders to help keep things organized on one of my home screens. I have a folder named Movies, and I'd like to put shortcuts to various movies I've ripped from DVD to an mp4 using Handbrake.
I'm at a loss for how to place shortcuts to the actual movie files. Let's say I open the "Family Guy" folder in my Movies folder and want to place a shortcut to each of the various episodes I've ripped within that folder. How would I go about doing that? Obviously, I've copied the ripped episodes & movies to my phone already. I can get to them by using the file explorer, but it's a bit cumbersome.
I'm rooted, if that makes any difference.
Thanks!
Ian
I've also been unable to figure out a way to create desktop shortcuts to downloaded files (PDF's, in my case); it seems they can only be moved around in the file explorer, but not moved to desktop.
I use an app called Apps Organizer, which allows you to group your apps into (pre-assigned) categories and create icon-based folders for those on the desktop. The more "advanced" version, Folder Organizer, also apparently lets you treat "bookmarks and contacts" this way; don't know if it will work with files as well?: http://sites.google.com/site/folderorganizer/
(If Android doesn't support creating shortcuts to files, then my guess is prob. not...)
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Have you ever been listening to your Britney Spears, Daft Punk or Tupac and suddenly you start hearing files that aren't music (i.e ringtones, notification sounds, etc.)? I find it pretty annoying that there is no current method to hide these files from the music player, until now.
I would like to give credit to Scheff's Blend for this idea, and after tinkering with the the doom game folder on my memory card, I found a file called ".nomedia". Within that same folder was over 100 sound files for the game doom, BUT my music player was not reading that specific folder.
I figured it had to do something with that ".nomedia" file, and coincidentally it DID.
Instructions:
1) Download and unzip nomedia.zip somewhere onto your computer
2) Inside is a file called .nomedia, copy it into the directory of media files you want to hide
3) Reboot your phone
P.S. This also works for pictures and video files, BUT for newly taken pictures and videos, or music files added, a REBOOT is REQUIRED to hide them again.
Thanks. Works perfectly! I have just hidden all my MP3s
so now people with naughty pics can hide them.
nice
I've been hiding certain pics since I got the phone. You can also just make a new folder with a "." in front of it and it will make the folder hidden.
Example: /sdcard/.data/all your ringtones, naughty pics, etc. here
Yeah, I just make a folder name it to whatever, go into astro and rename the folder to .xxxxx or whatever. Windows wont allow you (at least me) to add a . in front of folder name. But astro will.
Either way it works, but its the period that does the trick.
Even quicker, if you're a terminal kind of a person CD to the directory you want and type:
touch .nomedia
should work
Is there any way to hide it JUST from the gallery? I have tons of folder art with my mp3s that I love having in the music player but would rather not have it shown in the gallery.
You can change a name to:
Naughty.jpg.HIDE
Or name a folder
Naughtypics.hide
My ? is how do you find all the files that are not suppose to be in the Music library to rename them or move them
Most of them are named just numbers. I don't know where they are at.
I haven't found any way to do the following. (Please correct me if I've passed over anything)
But I'm looking for both a music and gallery app, that allows me to choose the directory path that I only want those respective apps to scan. I.e. if I wanted to exclude my downloads folder from showing up in the gallery. Or my saved voicemail folder from showing up in music.
Honestly I'd love this to be native functionality I'm afraid it's not, but if it could be worked into cm7
Anyway if you have any ideas on how to achieve this, please chime in!
in your sdcard try to find a ".nomedia" file and just copy and past that into any directory you dont want media to be picked up from
unfortunately I don't think that will work for what I want.
Here's an example:
as a result of my ocd like tendencies for music organization, every folder of an album has a jpg or png of the album art in it. (yes I could delete this file, but I'd prefer to leave it on account of being stubborn and I think that's how my album art shows up in the music player.)
If I put the .nomedia file into that, I would lose the image from showing up in my gallery app, but it would also stop the music from showing up in the music player, wouldn't it?
That is why I would love to have the option to have my music (from settings) only search my "music" folder, and have gallery only search "dcim" and say "downloads" folder.
I know this is kind of nitpicky, but I really think it should be an option. Maybe I'm not so much looking for an instant solution, but rather others opinion on whether or not this should be available functionality.
Also correct me if I'm wrong about the .nomedia file in the above mentioned instance.
Late night bump.
Am I really the only one bothered by this?
If you have a .nomedia file in a folder, it will be excluded from music and gallery searching. There is no way to choose specific folders to include with stock apps, so just create an empty file with that name in the folders you want to skip.
Delete the album art JPG/PNG files; all modern music players for PC allow you to save album art to the media a tag instead of a seperate file. The seperate file is proprietary Microsoft invented crap.
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Thanks, deleting the files worked. I'm just trying to remember when and how I embedded the album art into the songs
I still think android could improve how it handles media. But maybe that's just me.
Give MediaMonkey a go, if you're as fussed about your music collection as I you will fall in love the batch tagging and organizing features are unmatched.
Edit: If you want to use autosync/autoconvert in MM it will require the paid registration for gold features. Also, AAC encoder is an extra paid addon... but it can encode MP3 and WMA native. It does ogg, but ogg has non-standard album art embedding... which Android doesn't pick up.
Edit: if you want just a batch converter that can embed album art, try dbpoweramp - mature, industry proven, and also freeware. Its miles ahead the bloatware/shovelware converters out there!
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I'll definitely look into it thank you
hi,
for the new restricted user profile, is it possible for them to read files from a folder? i added mx player to the app list but i cannot find any video files when i search for them. file explorer also cannot look into the folders.
was planing to create a kids video play list but right now cannot do it.
thanks for any advice.
i don't know too much about profiles. but what i do know, is that when you create a new profile, a new folder is created and used as their "My Documents" sorta thing.
think of it like this, your main user has a folder path of:
android/storage/users/0/
then your first new user has a path:
android/storage/users/1/
my guess is that the videos are placed in the /0/ folder, and so your user can't see it. guessing.
I agree with your assessment, mrhomiec. We just don't know the workaround... MX Player appears not to allow us to redirect to the correct folder. It seems to recognize these "profiles" should be secure and won't cross contaminate folders, but it definitely sees them.
Anyone figure this out?
Has anyone figured out how to make downloaded videos accessible in a restricted profile?
rkstoops said:
Has anyone figured out how to make downloaded videos accessible in a restricted profile?
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I have a separate partition (Webos/Touchpad), which is accesible for both.
Means I have to move content though from one to the other....
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2477671
or from the master account, I can run X-plore or similar rooted and move files to /data/media/10/xxx being the restricted user, but then they are still protected ...
Hey guys. This is seriously nothing special, but I recently just dumped a bunch of new notification tones on my phone and found that Google Play Music and MX Player were picking them up during the media scan, so I decided to fix that. You don't need any shady apps or anything to do this.
To stop this, you're supposed to put a ".nomedia" file in the directories you don't want indexed. But making this file can be a little annoying. I made it and it works great for its purpose, so if you think you might find it useful, please give it a download.
NOTE: It's inside the nomedia zip. Because it's a 0 kb file (since there is nothing in it), most filehosts don't allow me to upload it as is. This is perfectly safe, if you are unsure, once you extract it, open it up with Notepad, and you'll see that there is nothing in it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/345001/nomedia.zip
If you would rather create this file yourself, you can do it simply by opening Notepad, saving a blank text document as ".nomedia" and set the filetype in the save dialog to "All files" instead of text files.
That's all.
SOLVED.* Hi, all. I usually have a ton of audiobooks, seminars, etc on my sd card and I listen to them via a separate and dedicated audiobook app.
It'd be so great to start my new phone with more ease/less clutter: I'm really tired of slogging through hundreds of spoken word files when I open my music player to choose music.
Any way/any player that will let me hide tracks selectively so that only my music shows up?
Thanks in advance!
* EASY SOLUTION
Put everyday music like in separate folder. Alsoake sure player only uses that folder. For other files you need to pit a .nomedia in folder so players ignore that.
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Put everyday music like in separate folder. Alsoake sure player only uses that folder. For other files you need to pit a .nomedia in folder so players ignore that.
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Thank you -- I'd never heard of the .nomedia concept before!
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Thank you -- I'd never heard of the .nomedia concept before! Could you help out with one further thing possibly? I dunno how to make one or where to get one. Feeling kinda dumb, but if you could direct me one last time, I'd be quite grateful.
I always keep separate folders, so that's done. SD card has a folder for audiobooks, and SmartAudiobooks already knows that's the root folder for those.
I also have a music folder on the sd card, and, ideally, that'd be the only folder I want a music player to look for music.
When you mentioned the .nomedia file, I looked it up and saw that google play offered some for this purpose -- but reviews all complained that those apps were useless as the sd card was not searched. So I searched on how to make one or find one elsewhere and I guess my search skills are missing something.
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You can also place a period in front of folder name to game similar result
A .nomedia file is just a blank text file but has the filename of ".nomedia", any text editor can create a new file but make sure you save it with the .nomedia filename.
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*SOLUTION Much heartfelt thanks to repliers!
The easiest way to do this is to download a handy app called ES File Explorer from the play store, install it, then open and go to the folder whose media you wish to hide. Once there, click the upper right dotted menu, choose new, then file, then rename the file .nomedia. At this point you are asked to rechoose the folder you wish to hide. Choose it, and you're done! SmartAudiobooks still recognizes all my audiobooks but the music app blissfully ignores them.
What's best is that ES File Explorer makes the .nomedia file work on the SD folders ... after learning about .nomedia from the helpful folks on this thread, I made the file using my desktop but I could NOT get the music player to ignore it, and had a hard time making the PC allow me to name it with nothing before the dot.
The ESFE solution was a painless breeze, and I am now a happy listener
Thanks for teaching me something wonderful, you guys!