A while back I was doing some debloating, and I may have removed something that is important.
That something is the ability to pick files. So using music players like AIMP where it asks me to select my local folders, or a Twitch download to a specific folder.
The apps simply says something about no handler for DOCUMENT.OPEN.
I reinstalled Google Files too and that didnt' seem to help
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Have you ever been listening to your Britney Spears, Daft Punk or Tupac and suddenly you start hearing files that aren't music (i.e ringtones, notification sounds, etc.)? I find it pretty annoying that there is no current method to hide these files from the music player, until now.
I would like to give credit to Scheff's Blend for this idea, and after tinkering with the the doom game folder on my memory card, I found a file called ".nomedia". Within that same folder was over 100 sound files for the game doom, BUT my music player was not reading that specific folder.
I figured it had to do something with that ".nomedia" file, and coincidentally it DID.
Instructions:
1) Download and unzip nomedia.zip somewhere onto your computer
2) Inside is a file called .nomedia, copy it into the directory of media files you want to hide
3) Reboot your phone
P.S. This also works for pictures and video files, BUT for newly taken pictures and videos, or music files added, a REBOOT is REQUIRED to hide them again.
Thanks. Works perfectly! I have just hidden all my MP3s
so now people with naughty pics can hide them.
nice
I've been hiding certain pics since I got the phone. You can also just make a new folder with a "." in front of it and it will make the folder hidden.
Example: /sdcard/.data/all your ringtones, naughty pics, etc. here
Yeah, I just make a folder name it to whatever, go into astro and rename the folder to .xxxxx or whatever. Windows wont allow you (at least me) to add a . in front of folder name. But astro will.
Either way it works, but its the period that does the trick.
Even quicker, if you're a terminal kind of a person CD to the directory you want and type:
touch .nomedia
should work
Is there any way to hide it JUST from the gallery? I have tons of folder art with my mp3s that I love having in the music player but would rather not have it shown in the gallery.
You can change a name to:
Naughty.jpg.HIDE
Or name a folder
Naughtypics.hide
My ? is how do you find all the files that are not suppose to be in the Music library to rename them or move them
Most of them are named just numbers. I don't know where they are at.
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.
I'm new to Android and had to experiment a little to get this to work so I thought i'd share what I've found.
You can add ringtones and notifications to these Internal Storage folders (do we still call it sd?)
sd/Media/Ringtones/
sd/Media/Notifications/
The music app will not find them if you use this file structure.
To prevent anything else from appearing put a .nomedia file (plenty of info on this on the forums) into folder with the offending files, this will also affect all subfolders. This will also prevent files appearing on the Media app too.
It seems actual music files can go in several places but I just put them in sd/music for simplicity.
:EDIT:
Alarms can go into:
sd/media/Alarms
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In "SD"
/alarms
/notifications
/ringtones
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/media/audio/alarms
/media/audio/notifications
/media/audio/ringtones
All work and show up in their appropriate lists.
Hey guys. This is seriously nothing special, but I recently just dumped a bunch of new notification tones on my phone and found that Google Play Music and MX Player were picking them up during the media scan, so I decided to fix that. You don't need any shady apps or anything to do this.
To stop this, you're supposed to put a ".nomedia" file in the directories you don't want indexed. But making this file can be a little annoying. I made it and it works great for its purpose, so if you think you might find it useful, please give it a download.
NOTE: It's inside the nomedia zip. Because it's a 0 kb file (since there is nothing in it), most filehosts don't allow me to upload it as is. This is perfectly safe, if you are unsure, once you extract it, open it up with Notepad, and you'll see that there is nothing in it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/345001/nomedia.zip
If you would rather create this file yourself, you can do it simply by opening Notepad, saving a blank text document as ".nomedia" and set the filetype in the save dialog to "All files" instead of text files.
That's all.
I used google play to sync my itunes library and then download it to my phone.
only, I can't find the MP3 files anywhere. I now want to be using isycnr as a better solution as it syncs directly to the itunes on my machine rather than what's on google play but want to completely clear out the mp3's already on there.
any good way of doing it?
In Google Play Music setting select clear cache.
Otherwise, the files are saved in Android/Data/com.google.android.music either in the device storage or the external sd storage depending on how you set up the app.
The files won't be named anything recognizable either. Just look for a bunch of .mp3 files with gibberish names.