I've lot of music in the midi format (.mid files) used for ringtones, notifications, alarms, etc. that I have copied to my new S4 from my Galaxy S2 with JB 4.1.2.
I apparently can't play this type of files on S4 even with the standard music player, and accordingly these files are neither listed within the corresponding category (of course I've put them in the appropriate folder of sdcard: ringtones, notifications, etc.).
So has Samsung got rid of midi files with S4?
Any solution?
Thanks.
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I downloaded an audiofile and deleted it from 'Browser -> Downloads', but it's still between the alarmtones(twice!) and I can't find it with Astro file explorer, the music player or on the computer. How can I get rid of the files?
I think the browser downloads are stored in sdcard/download. Try there.
That was the first thing I did, they're not there. And I know for sure it's not on the sdcard cause when I remove it, the phone still finds the audiofiles but doesn't find the my other ringtones which I do have stored on the sdcard. So they have to be in the map 'above' the sdcard. But they're not in system/media either.
I see now that they're not only with the alarmtones but everywhere.. also with the ringtones and the notifications.
If they are in the default folder for the audio files (ringtones etc), they will be under /system/media/audio/*****
( ***** equals one of the following: alarms, notifications, ringtones, ui)
parrot5 said:
If they are in the default folder for the audio files (ringtones etc), they will be under /system/media/audio/*****
( ***** equals one of the following: alarms, notifications, ringtones, ui)
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Look at the third post
They're not in there.
Just curious, is there a certain folder I need to place my music files in to play on my player? Everytime I go to music, it grabs all the files from notifications and my ringtones folders!! Is there a easier way to play my music?
Regarding Music...
Can anyone help me out??
Personally I don't use the stock music player for that very reason. Check out an app from the marketplace callled MixZing Lite (it's free.) It has the ability to monitor a specific folder for music and also comes with a pretty slick widget.
You can created a blank file called .nomedia (notice the dot at the front) in your ringtones folder which will stop the Media service (Gallery and Music) from searching in there for files. I have not tested if this will break ringtone searching, so give it a go and just delete your new .nomedia file if all your stuff disappears from ringtones.
You also may be interested to know if you call your album covers AlbumArt.jpg then they will appear in music player when a song from that album is playing, but Gallery will not index them and take a thousand years to load cos of all the covers called different names in different folders.
where in the sdcard can I put the music I have in my pc so it shows correctly in the player in the phone?
Create a folder named music.
Actually, music can be wherever you want it to be, in whatever folder you want. There's a media scanner process that runs every so often that scans your SD card and finds music files wherever they may be. Typically the stock media player can see all media files found by the scanner, but if you're using a third-party player, it might only look certain places for the files.
Off the top of my head, Meridian lets you choose which folders it will look in for media files, whereas doubleTwist appears to be hard-set to only look in certain locations for media files, such as Music and Videos (it seems to ignore any audio files I have in my notifications and alarms folders).
If in doubt, then yeah, just put your music files in a folder called Music.
I got the Axon 7 4GB/64GB on B04 rom last weekend china version. All is set up except I cannot work out where sound files for ringtones/alarms/notifications should be stored for the Axon to recognize them and be usable.
I have tried on the phone storage, sdcard storage etc on various paths, media, audio, ringtones etc but nothing ever works.
Does anyone know what folder or path the Axon expects such files to be stored?
Any help would be much appreciated.
There are file explorers that support this. I think ES File explorer had this functionality.
I always use Zedge to configure a ringtone.
Thanks but it doesn't allow me to place my files so that the built in ringtones in setting can locate my own files or to set my own files. Anyone have any idea where the Axon 7 locates the ringtones apart from \system\media\audio etc? I have no root so cannot write to this location.
Have you even tried ES file Explorer? It gives you the option to browse to your own audio files when you want to select a ringtone.
I want to freely assign my own files for ringtones, message, notifications and alarms. Problem is this phone has 2 sim slots and requires me to assign to a specific ringtone 1/2 and message 1/2 etc which es file explorer won't support.
Okay if you say so. I don't have the device yet so I can't tell.
But what I mean is that you only have to install ES File Explorer, you don't have to open it. Just install it.
Then go to your phone settings > ringtones > choose your correct SIM and it will give you the "Complete action using" dialog.
ES File Explorer should be in that list and you should be able to browse to any audio file you want.
No joy after installing ES file explorer. Going to settings, sounds and vibrations, ringtones, it brings me to the default ZTE page for choosing which sim etc then opens the default app for selecting ringtones/notifications etc.
I found out that putting the mp3 file in the folder \Phone\Records then it appears in the "Recordings" tab when choosing the ringtone/alarm.
This took me a long time to figure out. I put the files where they are supposed to go (Notifications folder under /mnt/sdcard/Notifications, Ringtones in /mnt/sdcard/Ringtones). However they don't show up under the main "tone" section when changing tones, you need to swipe over to "music" and it's mixed in with all your MP3s, at least that's how i've been able to set custom sounds. Kind of annoying but it works. Not sure if there's a way to get them to ACTUALLY show up in the tones section.
i noticed for whatsapp, u can only set to the default ringtones that you set on your text message or call ringing tones. You can't custom your own preferred tones. This MiFavor got a lot of flaws.. and ZTE is too slow fixing it. Other than that, great hardwares
\Records on works once
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I found out that putting the mp3 file in the folder \Phone\Records then it appears in the "Recordings" tab when choosing the ringtone/alarm.
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That did work for me first time. I created the folder, added files and it all worked as you suggested. I tried to put in additional files in \Phone\Records and they don't appear. It looks like the system need to do a reread of some sort. Anybody have a clue how to force that reread.
I did a search up on the subject and I think the method that I did is relatively straight forward. What I did is I copy from my dual otg data that contains the ringtones that I want to folder of phone/zte music download folder, from there I Opened this download folder and select whichever ringtones then on the Bottom Right click Set Audio as 2 Choices, Ringtones or Notification.
Hopes it help.
With ES File Explorer Pro, I've placed additional ringtones and notifications in the following locations:
/storage/emulated/0/Ringtones
/storage/emulated/0/Notifications
Note that your phone may categorize the sound files under the header "music" when selecting them.
Just wanted to see if anyone had run into this before on the Pure Edition (stock 7.0 rom) or any other device, for that matter. The phone finds ~99% of all music, but fails to get the length or title of a handful of tracks (music app just displays the file name as the name of the song instead of the actual encoded title). There is also a ring/notification tone that refuses to show up on the list of available sound effects for notifications and ringers. I could be wrong, but I assume that these are caused by the same underlying problem.
So far, I have tried using the Media Rescan app (even pointed it toward the specific directories in question) and also an app that places/removes a .nomedia file in troublesome directories. A few months ago, I even attempted to completely wipe data for the application that that does the actual media scanning. This succeeded at wiping out my alarm sound effect preferences, but the media scanning problem remained exactly the same.
For the notification noise, I also tried placing it in a "ringtones" and "notifications" folder on both the SD card and internal storage. Tried various combinations of the .nomedia file in the folder as well. There was no change.
There aren't any commonalities that I can see in the files that aren't being picked up (some mp3 and some flac). I have the same music and ringers on my other phone, and it doesn't have any trouble with even a single one of them, so, unless Android got magically better at parsing media between 7.0 and 10, something is cobbed up on my specific device.
At this point, I'm considering doing a hard reset, unless anyone can think of anything else that I could try. Any ideas?