Okay so i use Zedge to download notification ringtones. I also use the stock Samsung music app and it plays the notifications sounds from Zedge. I know with other apps like PowerAmp, you can select the folders you wanted scanned but i don't see anything like that for the Samsung music player. Can anyone tell me how to stop the notifications from playing?
Also i tried adding the .nomedia file into the zedge folder but when i do that, the ringtones wont play when i get a notification
Any help?
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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?
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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.
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 have a folder on my SD Card for ringtones. I added a .nomedia file to hide these tones from the music player all good so far... BUT
This file also hides the tones from the sense ui so they cannot be selected as ring/notification/ui tones.
Am I doing it wrong or is this a quirk of sense?
Thanks
It turns out its not the stuff on my SD card thats showing up in music player its the camera ui sounds I think from this folder
/system/media/audio/ui
I cannot edit this folder using any file manager.
Please help?
not sure, but maybe try a different music player? I know meridian lets you select what folders it looks for music in.
One of the annoying things ive found with android is it not recognising what music and pics to display in the music and gallery programs. My gallery shows a folder with all the icons from my sat nav in there, luckily can hide that folder though.
there's something messed up with my music player. for some reason it won't list all of the songs on my phone. some songs are listed, but not all. this error happened only after i installed SetCPU and once set the max frequence to 67 mhz to conserve battery. my ringtone was a song in my music player list and now even that has vanished from the list, but it is still there on the SD card.
Now my default ringtone is some loud annoying ringtone.
if i try to open a song not listed in the music player using sound player (not music player) and set the ringtone from there, it doesn't work. the ringtone is still the default ringtone. i can't even set it going to the settings > sound > ringtone because all the songs are not there on the list.
moreover, all my songs don't play in a queue. so this kind of sucks.
any ideas / help other than to restore factory settings or format my phone or flash a new custom ROM?
btw, i'm using 2.2. no custom ROM.
Okay, so I even tried doing a factory reset, clearing cache, flashing a new ROM but it didn't help. The songs still don't get listed in the music player.
Then I tried transferring the songs through KIES and now they do show up in the music player list.
But most (not all) songs that I download a song off the internet, or 4shared or receive it via whatsapp it still won't get listed in the music player list. Can someone help me out with this?
Did you tried scan folders with you music player? Thats should help
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Just recently I made the switch from Google Play Music to a third party player and put all my music onto the phone. Everything seemed to work fine until I realized random songs here and there aren't being detected by any music player I have, or they are detected but are shown with some crazy length (sometimes even negative) and will just sit at the 0:00 mark. I've verified the files are formatted as MP3s and all so I have no clue what the issue might be.
I have a similar issue. The default tones in the "Notifications" or "Ringtones" folders will show in Google Play Music. No other music in any other folders show up.
Basically, I can listen to all the default notifications and Ringtones in any music app, no other music in any other folders (or even the defaults for notifications and ringtones) show in any music app, and I've tried many. I can view and play them using Root Browser even though I don't have root, but I can't play them in a music app at all.