Hello.
When I open mass storage in computer, which folder should I transfer music and videos to in order to show up in the phone?
Thanks.
any of the removable drives that pop up when you mount the phone to the PC.
external or internal doesn't matter.. just preference really.
Also a little hint create a folder on your preferred drive, internal or external, and name it music or whatever for organization. Second hint if you create a folder named ringtones or notifications anywhere it will show up in your phones list of ones installed.
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Another hint: if you don't want your ringtones and other sounds to show up in your music player playlist create an empty file in those directories called .nomedia
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Like my new Incredible compared to my BB Storm, but I'm missing a few things.
While I can add MP3's as ring tones, I can't figure out
Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
KB Smoka said:
Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
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For whatever reason this never would work for me. So what I did was create a folder on the root of my SD called media. Inside media created folders called ringtones and notifications. I then converted the MP3 or whatever format the media was in to M4A using the latest beta of Audacity (awesome app). Tossed the converted media into the appropriate folder, and voila, I can has sounds.
This may seem a little convoluted to some people, but it works for me.
download ringdroid from the market, allows you to pick the portion of the mp3 you want, and you can set it as alarm, notification, or ringer
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Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
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Actually, there should be three folders, and they should all be on the root of the SD card. The two you mentioned, plus one called alarms. These three folders will let the various sounds you load only show for the correct applications.
For instance, put a sound called alarm1 in the alarms folder and it will only be selectable as a alarm for various clock apps. However, put the same sound in notifications instead, and it will only be available to apps that use a notification alert, like calendars.
The other advantage to using these three folders is that it keeps the sounds from showing up in media player apps. I can't tell you how annoying it was to have my music playing randomly and then an alarm sound would play. Then I'm checking my phone to see what it is trying to remind me about only to discover that darned thing played in my media rotation.
StirCwazy said:
For whatever reason this never would work for me. So what I did was create a folder on the root of my SD called media. Inside media created folders called ringtones and notifications. I then converted the MP3 or whatever format the media was in to M4A using the latest beta of Audacity (awesome app). Tossed the converted media into the appropriate folder, and voila, I can has sounds.
This may seem a little convoluted to some people, but it works for me.
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Are the sounds showing up in the "songs" your media player lists?
I would recommend creating these folders under /emmc in place of /sdcard that way if the SD Card is removed your custom ring-tones/notifications will still work....
here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
Mixzing media player, if you use that, also allows you to set mp3's as ringtones.
rcicu said:
I would recommend creating these folders under /emmc in place of /sdcard that way if the SD Card is removed your custom ring-tones/notifications will still work....
here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
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I like this idea.....
Is there anything out there I can use to view these "system" folders on my PC? When I look at the phone on my computer I only see a couple folders.
I just use zedge app and let it do all the work.
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here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
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Wouldn't the ringtones/notification sounds come up in the music player then?
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dali137 said:
Wouldn't the ringtones/notification sounds come up in the music player then?
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What I have noticed it that sound files in any of those 3 folders won't show up in my music player whether they are on the phone or the sdcard. If you put a sound file in the media folder it will show up, but nothing in the 3 sub folders will.
I haven't tried putting them anywhere else but I think it's safe to assume that folders named Alarms, Notifications, and Ringtones are ignored.
gadget!
Anyone know how to have the gallery not scan every directory on the SD card. Right now it's showing anything that is an image anywhere.
So I see folders with all my mp3 covers, all the cache for any installed app. It's a bit much and really annoying.
make a blank file in notepad on your computer called ".nomedia"
Do not include the quotes obviously. Save it as all files, and not as a text file.
Now with your epic attached and mounted to your computer in mass storage mode, copy this file .nomedia to every directory you dont want scanned for pictures and music.
navoid said:
make a blank file in notepad on your computer called ".nomedia"
Do not include the quotes obviously. Save it as all files, and not as a text file.
Now with your epic attached and mounted to your computer in mass storage mode, copy this file .nomedia to every directory you dont want scanned for pictures and music.
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Awesome, this is great. Thank you.
this works for most things but breaks music.
if you put a .nomedia in a directory with music then the music player doesn't show music in that folder. so i still have a bunch of galleries show up with album covers in them.
hopefully a new update will allow users the ability to filter out which directories to display and such. i too am having the same issue and its very annoying.
hi,
i am having problem in audio manager and also in wmp.. problem is i have songs arranged in few folders, but it shows only song not in folder so i am having difficulty in creating a playlist.. i cant use desktop as it has many songs and my phone has selected amount of it.. can any one guide me to how to view and select a whole folder for a playlist?
Are the folders placed in a centralized location: i.e. My Device\\My Documents or Storage Card\\My Documents\\Music.
its in root of storage card..
Try moving those folders to Storage Card\\My Documents\\Music.
Then in Windows Media Player choose to do a search for media.
Sorry but a really noob question ..........
Where do I put music and video's so that the default app's find them?
I thought the SD card was 'external_SD' so that's where I put the music folders. But then, when I try to navigate to that on the phone, there's nothing in there. And also, when I open the music app' it doesn't show anything that I've added!!
So can you tell me where you put audio and video files please.
Sorry, I really show know this but it's not something I've done on any of my phones before!
Thanks in advance for you help.
SDCard : Internal Storage ,the 16Gb build in
External SD : The micro SD (T-Flash) you insert into phone
And inside Windows Explorer ,it should be two drives ,say ,Drive E and Drive F ,one is internal ,one is external
Hope this help
I think memory your looking at is the built in memory. I put some video files in the folder marked media and it found them ok. If you want to find the external memory you need to go to settings,wireless and network then usb utilities to connect tovpc. Thenn i just put all my music on there. Again it found them ok.
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Right, I've done the music files. I've dumped them in the 'Music' folder in the above screenshot and it appears to have found them. The only annoying thing is that it's sorted each song alphabetically and not by track number!
Now I just need to work out where to put videos.
I also still can't see, from my screenshot of the folder structure above, where my SD card is. If it is that 'external_SD' then why aren't files showing when I explore it on the phone?
And does the Note not play .mov files? I've transferred some across but when trying to open them it states, "No applications can perform this action".
Prozac69 said:
And does the Note not play .mov files? I've transferred some across but when trying to open them it states, "No applications can perform this action".
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Try this ,work fine for me .
There is Software decode fast mode ,pretty good .
https://market.android.com/details?...SwxLDEsImNvbS5teHRlY2gudmlkZW9wbGF5ZXIuYWQiXQ..
Prozac69 said:
Right, I've done the music files. I've dumped them in the 'Music' folder in the above screenshot and it appears to have found them. The only annoying thing is that it's sorted each song alphabetically and not by track number!
Now I just need to work out where to put videos.
I also still can't see, from my screenshot of the folder structure above, where my SD card is. If it is that 'external_SD' then why aren't files showing when I explore it on the phone?
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right click, create a folder in the "media" folder called "videos". put your videos in there
Is there a way to save my google play music that is stored on my device to an external SD card without having root? For the life of me i can not find the music files in any file manager....I see people have posted paths to the music but my folder is always empty....so basically can I save my google play music to an external sd card without root?
Just download your music collection and move it to an SD card if that's what you want to do.
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jbarresi19 said:
Is there a way to save my google play music that is stored on my device to an external SD card without having root? For the life of me i can not find the music files in any file manager....I see people have posted paths to the music but my folder is always empty....so basically can I save my google play music to an external sd card without root?
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Go to MyFiles app and go to device storage, long press on music folder and choose move, now move it to sd memory card
Also once done hit menu and go to settings, there you will choose to redirect music to your extsdcard so from now on every song you add will go to your extsd
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The Music folder on MyFiles app maps to /storage/emulated/0/music
Google music however stores the files at root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/
So I'm not sure that moving that folder would do the trick
@op - I don't think you can do that without root
jj14 said:
The Music folder on MyFiles app maps to /storage/emulated/0/music
Google music however stores the files at root/data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music/
So I'm not sure that moving that folder would do the trick
@op - I don't think you can do that without root
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That's where I get mine too. But I have to use Root Explorer.
It would be neat to see a non root method to access those files from the original directory source.
And speaking of directory source, I hate Sony Unlimited app. I can't seem to find where my 320 aac songs are. Blah.