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Album covers show up in the gallery app - Is there a way to prevent this?

Hello.
Does someone know a way of hidding the album covers showing up in the gallery app? I know the way of putting a ".nomedia" file inside the music folder but that prevents the music from showing up in the music app.
Thank you for your help.

I would also like to know if there is any answer for this? It is irritating to go into gallery and sort through a couple of hundred pictures of my albums.

Embed the art into the mp3 files themselves so you con remove the JPG art files.

There is only one way I know off to stop this and it means going through your music comprehensively.
You need to edit the music files in iTunes or similar, and assign the album art to the individual music tracks rather than just copying a .jpg to the folder.
If you right click on the music file or files (you can edit more than one track at a time) and then click on 'albumart'.
you then find the file you wish to use and click okay.
EACH track then has an assigned album art picture embedded.
It takes time though, I've done 120Gb of my 300Gb of Music!!
21000 tracks and counting so far.................

Personally, I use TagRunner. Downloads the tags and art automatically (and embeds it).

IMO Weak workarounds.
Pisses me off the Gallery wont let you select specific folders.
I once dled a sign language App only to suddenly have 100+ pics in my gallery.
Id you .hide them...the App wont see them either.
Terrible setup by Android , no idea why this hasnt been addressed.

Super noob question,I can't figure out how to add music to my n1.I hooked it up to my PC,do I need software to sync up to? Thanks

class01 said:
Super noob question,I can't figure out how to add music to my n1.I hooked it up to my PC,do I need software to sync up to? Thanks
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drag and drop after you mount your sd card

Um, you guys know that you can just drop a file called .nomedia in any directory and the music/picture/video finder won't index it, right?

Yes that was discussed. but if the album art is in the same folder as the music, you dont get to listen to the music. And if you put that file in the albumthumbs folder, then the music player wont show it either.
OP is looking to eliminate it from the gallery only.

Are the music files and artwork in the same folder?
If they are you can't do anything about it.
Properly tag the files folks...
Now if the artwork is in another folder you can make a 1 byte file with the name ".nomedia" and place it in the folder.
None of the Media Scan routines will process the folder; this means in the folder images *AND* music will be ignored.

Placing the .nomedia file in whatever folder has the images (music folder or albumthumbs) will most likely prevent the album are from being seen in the music player as well.

I agree that properly tagging the music is really the best way around this. I use mediamonkey for my media management and tagging on my desktop.

SilentMobius said:
Um, you guys know that you can just drop a file called .nomedia in any directory and the music/picture/video finder won't index it, right?
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I'm doing this, when I rename the file, it vanishes. Is this right? If I try make it again, it says it can't as a file with that name exists, so I guess that's how it should be.
When I go to album, these folders are still there though. Is there a way to make it refresh?
EDIT: Okay, I rebooted and this worked

How to limit the music player to look in /sdram/mp3 directory

I have a bunch of audio books I keep in /sdram/abooks and use MortPlayer which can be configured to use any particular directory.
Problem is the music player now lists my audio books. I want the music player to just list my music files (i.e. what I put in /sdram/mp3). I can't seem to find any way to do that?
Is there an alternative app that will do that? (will have to be in the free section of Market as the powers that be prevent us non-americans from searching through paid apps, go figure).

madsere said:
I have a bunch of audio books I keep in /sdram/abooks and use MortPlayer which can be configured to use any particular directory.
Problem is the music player now lists my audio books. I want the music player to just list my music files (i.e. what I put in /sdram/mp3). I can't seem to find any way to do that?
Is there an alternative app that will do that? (will have to be in the free section of Market as the powers that be prevent us non-americans from searching through paid apps, go figure).
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extract the attached file on your pc, then copy the .nomedia file inside the folder to those folders that you don't wish to have them show in either Photo or Music Player...
Hope this helps,
Kiay

Thanks for the suggestion. Creating an empty .nomedia file in a directory seems to stop the media player from looking into this directory for media files. It isn't the best way to do it though, imagine you have to go through this process every time you install software that creates a directory on the sdram card. I can't understand the developers of the media player didn't at least make it an option to limit the search for media to certain directories.

I added the .nomedia file into the desired directories but the unwanted songs are still visible in the native HTC music player.
Is there a way to refresh the track list somehow?

same here, probably we've to restart the phone.

I solved his by connecting the Desire to PC via mass storage and disconnecting again. The SD card got "refreshed" this way

MortPlayer Music (free on Astroid Marked) lets you define a directory for music files.

[Q] [?] Music Filter

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?

koreanjhee said:
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.

[Q] Music Player would pick up the sound files too

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

[Q] Music files got messed up after moving from the Mac via doubleTwist

Hello, I connected my Note to the Mac using a USB cable. Then, I used doubleTwrist to copy the music files to the Note. After the transfer, my music files got all messed up. (Perhaps I did not do a good job in organizing the files under iTunes right at the beginning.) I want to do a fresh start. Could you please let me know the following:
1. What is the best way to delete all the music files from my Note?
There are hundreds of them. I do want to keep the good music files
originally installed by Samsung.
2. Is doubleTwrist actually the best app to transfer music files from the Mac to the Note? What other suggestions do you have?
3. In order to avoid messing up the files again, should I just copy the playlist?
I am not familiar with iTunes also. Any advice appreciated. Thanks.