Hi Xda!
I am not sure if I am posting it at the right place.. I am new here and getting hang of xda forum yet..
I tried searching this everywhere on internet and xda could not find any answers so finally i decided to post this here.
I have Galaxy S and my Default or any music player I install they all pick up my games sounds too like sounds from the games like Nova, HAWX and what not. I do not want my player to scan my whole phone for the music, I just want it to show music from a particular folder.
It is very annoying to see it shows so many stupid sound files from those games.
Please Help
Gaurav
Put a .nomedia file in the directory that the song is in.
Use astro to search for where the song files are.
Create a text file and open a cmd prompt and rename the text file to ".nomedia" without the quotes.
Then copy that .nomedia wherever you want to hide media files from the music player.
BTW this is not Android development.
It belongs to the Android Question forum.
Thnx mate... this really worked.. but for some reason my phone has gone way too slow and takes about 15 mins to reboot now
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Alright lads,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to assign only one folder from my SD card to my music player? I ask as my music player is clustered with game music and ringtones (as I moved that folder to the SD card to save space).
All help appreciated,
RRJ
i the same similar situation, if any one can help, either directing the folder or editing the default folder to avoid playing back ring tones, alarms or any other unwanted files!!!
I am almost positive I have found this answer previously on here somewhere . . . am looking for it, will let you know when I find it.
EDIT - found it. Sort of. I was looking for a way of making music player just look in one folder for music, but couldnt find it.. In the end I hid the sound folders of a couple of apps (Waze included) and put my ringtones on the phone.
Look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673142&highlight=ringtones+music+player
But the problem is that was not an actual fix, it's more just moving or hiding the sound files which defeats the purpose because you won't be able to see your ringtones. This has long been an HTC Sense issue, Android/Sense builds do the same thing.
my music tab takes 15 seconds to load up and its the only tab that lags like for example when i am going on the library tab it lags and when scrolling up and down through the music list it also lags. i dont know if maybey its because all my song where formatted by itunes before i draged them to the phone or is it that i have too many songs (400). but the funny thing is that i had all these song on my tp2 and it worked fine. if someone could please help me or suggest something maybey a registry tweak might help i don't know help please
thanks in advance
Are your songs set up as one giant playlist, or are they in albums? I've read elsewhere that large playlists take forever to load, so maybe they somehow got interpreted as such when they were synced over from Itunes?
i just took them from the folder that itunes stores all my songs and dragged them to my sd card and made a for it but most of these songs were converted by itunes. and they are all in different albums not playlist
doesnt itunes have all tracks in one folder? If that is the case then that is probably your problem.
Most people recommend a folder structure something like
music/artist/album/tracks.mp3
Also, some people have have found that it could be caused by one or two tracks with bad tags.
Try clearing your music folder, then drag it back across a few dozen at a time, then you can maybe spot when it starts to go funny, and examine the selected mp3's more closely.
Use windows media player to sync across music,
Then create a shortcut to the following in the \windows\startup folder
audiomanager.exe
Its in the windows folder.. (need total commander or something similar..)
That way the music program resides in memory on start up and seriously reduces the time as you don't have towait for it to load each time... i have 3.5 Gig of music and my music tab is operational after 1-3 seconds.....
i create this shortcut in the phone windows folder? and were do i get audiomanager exe from?
sry im a noob to this...
ariel123 said:
i create this shortcut in the phone windows folder? and were do i get audiomanager exe from?
sry im a noob to this...
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audiomanager.exe is in the windows folder. you want to create a shortcut to it and put it in the start up folder, which is also in the windows folder.....
you can use total commander to do it....
um i dont see the audio exe i been looking for it is it in a folder or something?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=665484
it could be usefull
bye
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
raduque said:
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
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this problem has been driving me nuts too. but you putting it into words just gave me an idea, try the no media thing, so it prevents them from showing up in the settings lists, but then try going "oldschool" (lol) and using rings extended from the market. it was an app first released for the g1 to see and select ringtones on the sd card that the settings lists weren't picking up.
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where exactly did you put the .nomedia? and what kind of file was it? or was it the name of a file or folder?
i'm down to help figure this one out ucz this music player is starting to piss me off with it's badass look yet completely lacking in options.
ps: another good feature of the stock android music player was that if you hit the context menu while a song was playing, it had a "delete" option. this was great for someone like me who dumped tons of new music i just wanted to have on the phone, and when i party shuffled, i could be like, "WTF is this unworthy for mobile listening sh!t? *delete". haha miss that option so...
yep...this is bugging me too...i just download a game and all the SFX shows on my albums list...and the ringtones that i have download from zedge...however a easy solution for me is was creating playlists...i really like this phone and it getting better and better...specially now that i found out that there's a equalizer in the music player...excellent.
Hopefully there will be solutions for this little bugs...i'm still keeping my phone the way it is.
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
raduque said:
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
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thanks for the .mid tip. hoping something more substantial comes up, as i have tons of my own ringtones i made haha. let's keep on this as it could be included in a custom rom hopefully
I love this phone and the growing dev support is optimistic, but I know to know:
How would you stop the music player from playing certain audio formats?
My music player reads everything , so when I got Asphalt for my Vibrant, all the .ogg sound files on the game shows up in the music player. Needless to say, I don't want to listen to 100 files of a car driving in my music player.
Create a file named .nomedia in the folder you don't want the media scanner to scan.
And would I have to put all the files from the game into that folder?
Will the game's sound be okay and still read during the game?
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And would I have to put all the files from the game into that folder?
Will the game's sound be okay and still read during the game?
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Make a file named .nomedia not a folder. Just make that file in the games music folder.
Aw jeez sorry but there's no other way of doing this?
Asphalt alone has 100+ .ogg files...
lets try this again, ill talk slowly
maaaake aaaaa fiiiiile caaaaaaaalled .noooomeeeediiaaaaa(.nomedia) in theeee foldeeeeeer yooooou doooont waaaaant yoooour muuuuusiiiiic plaaaayeeer to plaaaay.
havent tried it but boy talking like this is fun
Seriously? Was that response necessary?
OP, all of the games music should already be in one main folder (more than likely named Asphalt). There may be different subfolders in that main folder (music, engines, tires, etc.). Any folder that contains sounds from the games (or any sound file you don't want the player to play) should get the .nomedia file.
I got it now, I just didn't know that we create a file. Thanks both of you for the help.
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!