I added a .nomedia file to my notifications and ringtones folders to prevent them from being played in the shuffle for the music player. Then I noticed that my phone wouldn't ring or alert me for text and email so I removed the .nomedia file. But there is still no sound. I can play the sound when I am changing sound options. I checked to make sure all the system sounds were up and that sounds are set to play but nothing works.
For 1 isn't it dumb that we should have to hide notification folders and audio book folders from the media player. Shouldn't it just play from the music folder?
And 2, how can I fix my phone now so that it rings and alerts for messages?
jamespaulritter said:
I added a .nomedia file to my notifications and ringtones folders to prevent them from being played in the shuffle for the music player. Then I noticed that my phone wouldn't ring or alert me for text and email so I removed the .nomedia file. But there is still no sound. I can play the sound when I am changing sound options. I checked to make sure all the system sounds were up and that sounds are set to play but nothing works.
For 1 isn't it dumb that we should have to hide notification folders and audio book folders from the media player. Shouldn't it just play from the music folder?
And 2, how can I fix my phone now so that it rings and alerts for messages?
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I have a ringtones folder located at /sdcard/ (so it is on internal storage) and none of my ringtones show in the media player. I have not tried audiobooks yet, but they could at least be put in one playlist, with all other songs in another playlist - then shuffle. you could even put ringtones in a separate playlist from songs if you can't figure out why they are not hidden.
you must reboot your phone so the system can reindex all media files . . .
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Does anyone know a way to "block" folders from being scanned (added to the library)?
The reason for this question is that I have my music in \My Documents\My Music & my ringtones in the folder \My Documents\My Ringtones
The problem is that wmplayer also adds (scans) the "My Ringtones"-folder and I was hoping someone could give me a HowTo to block it from being scanned....
It is really a pain-in-the-*** when playing "all music" as it also plays all the ringtones......
Thanks
as far as know you cannot 'block' files or folders from being added, but the best way i find to get round it is to make a playlist in windows media player on ur computer of the music you want, then sync the playlist to ur phone, not the individual music, then the playlist will show up in media player on your phone and play that, as the playlist will only contain the music you want and not other files that have been added to the library by media player,
hope this helps!
Adam
That's what I have done myself, but sometimes I get music, when at a friend or something, and want that to be played but it is not a two-step-way to add to playlist on the phone itself
FYI: In CorePlayer they do it in some other way (much better ) There you can set the folders you want to be scanned.....
Thanks anyway
thats ok, i tried!
the other thing i would have said would be to use the TD3D music player! as you can edit the playlists from the phone itself, then you could add files at a friends house, then add them to the playlist on the phone.
Adam
Is there a way to set a MP3 as our voicemail notification sound?
Yes, you can have an mp3 as your notification sound
Find the mp3 you wnt and browse to your SD card. There should be a media folder there. Open the MEdia folder, then Audio, then Notifications
Drop the mp3 there
Unmount the Sd card then check your notifications. You should have that mp3 in there. Select it and yer good to go
You may want to shrink that mp3 into just a snippit of the whole song though. Getting a text message and having a song play would start to piss me off pretty fast since i get a lot of texts.
Thread title is pretty self explanatory...
How can I keep these mp3 ringtones from showing up in my media player with the rest of my music? I've tried moving them around. They aren't in the same directory as my music.
miztaken1312 said:
Thread title is pretty self explanatory...
How can I keep these mp3 ringtones from showing up in my media player with the rest of my music? I've tried moving them around. They aren't in the same directory as my music.
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I have mine in the folder:
/sdcard/ringtones/
and they don't show up in media player
I had the same problem, myself. If I put them in sdcard/ringtones, they would show up in the media player. If I used the .nomedia method, they wouldn't show up as usable ringtones. I ended up rooting my phone, and using root explorer, moved all my personal ringtones to the system directory where ringtones are stored. I also deleted all the stock ringtones while I was in there. No more issues. Now I don't have to scan through a list of ****ty stock ringtones to get to my custom ones, either. =)
miztaken1312 said:
Thread title is pretty self explanatory...
How can I keep these mp3 ringtones from showing up in my media player with the rest of my music? I've tried moving them around. They aren't in the same directory as my music.
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There is an app in the marketplace called "Media Hidden" should make the process a little bit easier.
I'm reasonably sure that if you make a directory on sdcard media/ringtones the music player will not see them. You can also make a directory under media for notifications for your shorter noises to use with messaging etc to keep them seperate in the dialogs for choosing each type.
If you root your phone you can move them to system/media/ringtones in the root folder.
I tried .nomedia, but it hides it from phone completely, so I converted my tones from .mp3 to .ogg and player still sees them. I know I can move tones to system\media\... but I don't want to because I need these to be separated. I don't understand why player reads these tones because they're in the same folder as Hangouts tones that it doesn't read, so does anyone know why Hangouts tones are invisible to the player, but those that I insert aren't?
In the stock music player you have a option in settings to don't show music files with less duration , you can choose hide media files between 0 and 120 seconds. Just open the music player, and in the bottom , on the right side tap settings icon and then something like filter I don't remember exactly . Good luck
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Thanks. I saw that actually, but too bad I'm not using stock music player. It's frustrating, because of those Hangouts sounds, other players don't read those, just like stock. I was hoping someone knows some magic trick for that.
Hi community, where i can set my custom ringtones in Color OS? I already set a few ringtones. But i been unable to show my custom ringtones on the list for ringtones. I have to find this on multimedia files. And this is a pain in my neck.
I try the following folders without results
ringtones
media/ringtones
ColorOS/ringtones
Also happened with the alarm. I set my files in the following folders
alarms
media/alarms
ColorOS/alarms
Try to Put it in The Music folder
emulated 0/ Music
and all shall pop up ...cheers!!!!
bharat.bkj said:
Try to Put it in The Music folder
emulated 0/ Music
and all shall pop up ...cheers!!!!
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Thanks for your answer. But Music is the default folder for all my album's. Excluding that fact everything is mixed right now (every audio file). And i can't figure out a way to show the system which are the ringtones. So they show up on the ringtone list when i edit a contact.
brito9112 said:
Thanks for your answer. But Music is the default folder for all my album's. Excluding that fact everything is mixed right now (every audio file). And i can't figure out a way to show the system which are the ringtones. So they show up on the ringtone list when i edit a contact.
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Nope, doesn't work, is the only downside I see for this phone in almost a year with it.