Is it possible for someone to create an app which stops certain media folders which contain files like splash screens, game videos, game music album art showing up in the gallery and the music player. Would be very useful for alot of people.
Btw I'm not sure if here is the correct place to post this so please don't criticise me too much. Lol
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rizzy123 said:
Is it possible for someone to create an app which stops certain media folders which contain files like splash screens, game videos, game music album art showing up in the gallery and the music player. Would be very useful for alot of people.
Btw I'm not sure if here is the correct place to post this so please don't criticise me too much. Lol
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No need for an app. Just put a . in front of the folder name. This makes the folder "hidden" and the content will not show up in the gallery.
Example:
"Pictures" as a folder would show up in the gallery.
".pictures" would not.
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orkillakilla said:
No need for an app. Just put a . in front of the folder name. This makes the folder "hidden" and the content will not show up in the gallery.
Example:
"Pictures" as a folder would show up in the gallery.
".pictures" would not.
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Thanks mate but would this stop the apps from reading the folder as the shortcuts will have been changed?
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Yes, that will.
So instead, if you put an empty file named '.nomedia' in a folder, it prevents mediascanner from listing that folder and any subfolders media. Not an ideal solution, but unforutnately there are no alternatives.
To automate this task, there is an app in the store, but I cant remember its name now.
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Hi all,
is there a way to hide certain media (in this case: videos) from the media scanner so they do not show up in the media list?
I do not want my wife to know what kind of p.0n I'm wathing on my phone
To be precise: Nothin' illegal, just the usual stuff, but she's almost fundamentally catholic
Just make a file called ".nomedia" and put it in that folder
From my Galaxy S loonie-phone
I would be quite interested in this too..
And how do I re-run the media scan?
marty1976 said:
And how do I re-run the media scan?
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just delete, copy or move a file in the the stock browser . then it should do it automaticly
Falloutboy2000 said:
just delete, copy or move a file in the the stock browser . then it should do it automaticly
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Or connect USB and mount the drives, then dissconnect, scanner will run automatically
reboot phone, kill two birds with one stone, mostly reply in case this helps a future viewer.
Put said videos in a folder starting with . for example...
/sdcard/media/.secret/stuff/
The content in .secret will not be visible in any normal file explorer or file chooser, appear in galleries or media scanners. You will have to use a file explorer that has a "show hidden files" option to see these.
Optionally you may use .nomedia to hide these in a general sense. However not all third party software will honour these tags.
marty1976 said:
I do not want my wife to know what kind of p.0n I'm wathing on my phone
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LOL I like that you don't want her to know what kind of "p.0n" you are watching... presumably that means there are some kinds she would approve of, but they aren't the kind you have on your phone
danmullen said:
LOL I like that you don't want her to know what kind of "p.0n" you are watching... presumably that means there are some kinds she would approve of, but they aren't the kind you have on your phone
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LOL, ack! She's into the "normal" stuff that we watch together, but I also like... well, that doesn't belong here, but anyway I'd like to explicitly state it's nothing illegal...
You could also use "Vaulty Free" app that moves selected images and videos into a virtual vault which then requires a password to open and view. This also ensures that they do not show up in gallery and video player.
Hope this helps.
Look at my signature.
Put all your secret files in /sdcard/.secret/Secret Stuff.jpg
Then use my app to start the media scanner when you need to scan.
Look at the link in my signature.
so how would this work if you wanted to hide media in game directories? its quite irritating to have the media player list the thousand small wav and mp3 files that are part of games i have on my SD, and renaming the dir to one with a dot in the front will break the path to it.
any suggestions?
kanemari said:
so how would this work if you wanted to hide media in game directories? its quite irritating to have the media player list the thousand small wav and mp3 files that are part of games i have on my SD, and renaming the dir to one with a dot in the front will break the path to it.
any suggestions?
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Put a blank file named
.nomedia in the directory of the game sounds folder.
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Put a blank file named
.nomedia in the directory of the game sounds folder.
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Agreed....
I have several .nomedia files in different folder Apps that contain graphics.
Stops them showing up in the Gallery App.
Using a .nomedia file works fine for video game folders but if you add one to a music folder to hide the album art thumbnails from the gallery then this also hides the music files from the music player !
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gaelynx said:
Using a .nomedia file works fine for video game folders but if you add one to a music folder to hide the album art thumbnails from the gallery then this also hides the music files from the music player !
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I think you can get around this by embedding the folder art into the music files themselves - I had to do this to my entire collection as my car player would only see them in the MP3s and not as separate files
Taomyn said:
I think you can get around this by embedding the folder art into the music files themselves - I had to do this to my entire collection as my car player would only see them in the MP3s and not as separate files
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That's exactly what I do. Mp3tag is a good, free program for doing this.
gaelynx said:
Using a .nomedia file works fine for video game folders but if you add one to a music folder to hide the album art thumbnails from the gallery then this also hides the music files from the music player !
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Try changing the album image's name to albumart.jpg (or watherver file type it is). It is no loger shown in the gallery. Only problem is you can only have 1 image per folder. I have not tried with variantas such as albumart_1 and so on, but it may work...
Thanks, .nomedia worked fine for me, but I think there really should be an option in the OS to either leave the scanner on auto (so it could scan all the phone's storage), or to manually select the folders that contain my media files.
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EDIT: I opened-up a ticket here (I took the liberty to include some other ideas I found in this thread).
Anyone know how to change settings so library only adds files from a certain folder? I have hawx installed which has 500 audio files and the music player has them all listed which is really annoying having to scroll through.
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theking52 said:
Anyone know how to change settings so library only adds files from a certain folder? I have hawx installed which has 500 audio files and the music player has them all listed which is really annoying having to scroll through.
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In any folder you do not want scanned by the media scanner for music and video, place a blank file named ".nomedia"
ah ok thanks. Blank file meaning even a document file or something specific?
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Glad this was asked. I was curious about the same thing. After installing some games, the music player includes some of the sfx in the playlists. Very annoying. I will try this fix as well.
Thanks for the post.
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masterotaku said:
In any folder you do not want scanned by the media scanner for music and video, place a blank file named ".nomedia"
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This works for all nested folders as well. And if you are rooted, you should also check out Rescan Media Root to rescan the sd card on demand. You can disable the startup rescan if you wish and use this as needed. I haven't yet disabled rescan on startup. It doesn't take too long. But if I add the .nomedia to a folder, it's faster to run this app, rather than connecting to a computer, mounting the sdcard and disconnecting to kick off the rescan.
How do I prevent certain folders from showing in gallery and music app?
I also have this problem. The images of music albums appear in the gallery =/!
Here you go
http://tinyurl.com/3aczmgw
Using a file manager program, rename the folder that you do not want displayed and put a "." preceding the name of the folder.
For example:
rename:
"Folder that should be hidden"
to
".Folder that should be hidden"
made a text file and named it no.media and placed it in a directory that contains album art . I wen to the gallery app and it still shows that album as a folder with pictures in it.
. in front of the folder name works. thx
This is a problem since there ae too many folders to id as such. I even DnId nomedia manager and tried that. If you ID ever folder then you will not see anything. I posted my results on this link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=799735
If someone finds a real solution, please let us know. Thanks!
It's actually quite simple...
Download "Gallery Enabler" from the market. This app will let you choose which folders to show and which to hide...
Now.. wasn't that simple??
Open Notepad and save a blank file as ".nomedia" (select "All Files" in the "Save as Type" option).
Then simply put that ".nomedia" file anywhere you want to hide images/ringtones from applications.
OR
just download ".nomedia" file straight from your phone
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9986997/.nomedia
edein said:
Open Notepad and save a blank file as ".nomedia" (select "All Files" in the "Save as Type" option).
Then simply put that ".nomedia" file anywhere you want to hide images/ringtones from applications.
OR
just download ".nomedia" file straight from your phone
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9986997/.nomedia
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Holy crap, this worked perfectly. THANK YOU! I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to keep the gallery from showing all my album art. It was getting really annoying to have to sift through it everytime I wanted to find a picture.
superfuffo said:
It's actually quite simple...
Download "Gallery Enabler" from the market. This app will let you choose which folders to show and which to hide...
Now.. wasn't that simple??
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Gallery Enabler app is renamed to Media Hidden. FYI. It works well. Also there is nomedia app in the market as an alternative.
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memin1857 said:
Gallery Enabler app is renamed to Media Hidden. FYI. It works well. Also there is nomedia app in the market as an alternative.
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Just DnId and selected all Folders shown by this app. I only allowed DCIM, Movies, Music, Photos and Screenshots folders to be allowed.
However, the following folders/files/categories were still displayed using 3DGallery app:
Browser 11, Calcpro 2, Common 24, Controls 22, FrmAddAlarm 22, FrmAlarm 45, FrmOptions 4, ...........S2 18, S1 19, etc.......
This app sure does not work for me? Any suggestions?
the .nomedia files work but it also removes all the phones searching for all media in that folder..
i tried this to keep the music player from playing the ringtones and it worked but then my phone didnt ring
i would say putting the . infront of folders is the easiest way to keep the pictures private.
it will keep the gallery from showing your pics and you can still browse them with astro.
i installed media hidden and it worked perfectly however I noticed one issue that if I hide my muaic folder because it was showing my album covers in gallery, then it would hide my music all together and then I get a message in music player app that no music found
Other then that this app works fine
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Why can't it just play/show pics from a specific folder like the other Music/Photo apps allow? To me an app doesn't work unless it does what it is suppose to. This does not work.
todd69 said:
here you go
http://tinyurl.com/3aczmgw
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hehehehe :d
jonny68 said:
hehehehe :d
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Thanks, read the link and still don't think that is the answer. I am looking for something that allows me to tell an app what folder(s) to view/open for pics/music. I don't need an app that scan my entire SD Card looking for that stuff.
Thanks again!
For music I now use a program called Meridian player. This lets you load certain folders to play.
Can anyone post the .apk for Media Hidden? I can't get it to download off the market for some reason. It's a free app so it shouldnt be a warez violation or anything.
hey guys. i have a lot of stuff on my sd card and internal storage and a lot of the folders have images and audio files in. obviously these are all showing up on gallery and music player. music player i can cope with but the gallery is amazingly cluttered and it's extremely annoying.
i downloaded an app and chose all the folders that i wanted to exclude. i checked all the folders and they all contain the. nomedia file yet eveything is still showing in the gallery.
have i did this wrong or is it some other problem.
i'm using doc rom 7.6 i think. i know its latest one anywau, jpo. dunno how relevant that is.
anyone know whats wrong or how i can fix it?
cheers
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What app did you use?
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You don't need software, create a text document on your pc as in 'something.txt' copy it to the device, put it in the folder you do not want viewable in gallery and rename it .nomedia
Job done.
padlad said:
You don't need software, create a text document on your pc as in 'something.txt' copy it to the device, put it in the folder you do not want viewable in gallery and rename it .nomedia
Job done.
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This could get rather tedious if you have lots of folders containing media files.
Jumba said:
This could get rather tedious if you have lots of folders containing media files.
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Well I suppose it depends on how many folders you want to hide, but once you have created one it is just a matter of copying and pasting the .nomedia file in the other folders.
Cliffyboro, you need to restart your phone.
Hope you ain't saving the files as .nomedia.txt , Also get "PictureThis!" as its best pic viewer that lets you disable folders. Not sure what method and wether its internal or using .nomedia but it seems to work fine. While you are at it get Mvideoplayer too. both are best apps for media
Hey
Little problem with too many pics in my gallery. A lot of them are album art
Is there any advice to stop these from showing in my gallery?
Thanks
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They must be in your download directory, when you save an image while browsing it goes there. Guess you could go into the directory and move the images elsewhere that the gallery app won't include. You could also uncheck images on device from showing in the gallery but I doubt you want to do that, I mean if your sending them all to say Dropbox, Facebook, Google or whatever and displaying those then you actually could go into content to display and click off device.
jcurran.jc said:
Hey
Little problem with too many pics in my gallery. A lot of them are album art
Is there any advice to stop these from showing in my gallery?
Thanks
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Use QuickPic from Play Store, and you can choose which folders to show i your gallery.
Just a suggestion if you want to use 3rd party apps to solve your problem.
How many years and this is still a problem???????
I still have not found the answer.
Do not want to install a 3rd party app.
.nomedia does not work.
embedding will take forever with the amount of albums one has.
tried renaming music folder to media but art still showed up in gallery.
Is there a quick and/or simple way of getting this done?