There's been ongoing discussions for a long time about the best way to "hide" certain media to keep them from showing up in media players.
Every 3rd party App Ive dled for Music/Movies/Pictures has had the same issue of scanning all the media in the SD card.
Is this some inherent mandate in Android ? Or lazy dev programming ?
I have podcast apps that only pick up podcasts. NYC subway map app that only picks up its MAP images...
Yes open up any media player and I see all of these included with my media.
Obviously the function is in there
add a file called .nomedia and Android will not index that directory
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
xManMythLegend said:
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
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well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
just rename the folder with a "." in front of the folder name, this makes it a hidden folder and the gallery and what not wont search it.
rastacre said:
well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
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THANK YOU !!
I somewhat figured this out when I saw this option in Doggcatcher.
This answers my question.
making a folder invisible doesn't help me.
I have ringtones in one folder and when I playback music, I don't want to hear ringtones.
hmmm is there anyway you can adb push the ringtones to the ringtone folder on the system? So you wouldn't need to have it in your sd card?
download MixZing music player. It will let you select which folder on the memory card to scan for music. Select music folder and your done. No more ringtones playback
This .nomedia trick dosnt work 100 percent. I placed it in my music folder and yes it makes the album covers disappear in the gallery but it also makes the music disappear from the music player. I can no longer scroll through artists, songs, etc from within the music player...
I am not running a rooted phone just the stock firmware with the latest Android update.
Hooligan
*Hooligan* said:
This .nomedia trick dosnt work 100 percent. I placed it in my music folder and yes it makes the album covers disappear in the gallery but it also makes the music disappear from the music player. I can no longer scroll through artists, songs, etc from within the music player...
I am not running a rooted phone just the stock firmware with the latest Android update.
Hooligan
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^bump^
I have the same issue - I don't want to see album covers in the gallery, but I do want the music to show up in my music app - any ideas?
Thanks
.nomedia works 100% and does exactly what it says - NO MEDIA. That includes NO VIDEO, NO AUDIO, NO PHOTOS, NO WHATEVER. All system apps looking for media ignore the folder and all its subfolders.
If the album art is in a subfolder inside the album folder - put .nomedia inside that subfolder. If it's outside with the .MP3s - then .nomedia won't help you.
If you're having issues with album art, you could always embed the album art into the mp3/m4a with an app like dbpoweramp.
One more possible solution:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=4c95682562b36eca&hl=en
xManMythLegend said:
The no media trick does not solve the problem.
Android apps are scanning the entire SD for media instead of letting you pick a default directory.
I want to know if this is an android OS problem or an app development problem.
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rastacre said:
well i wouldn't call it a problem.. it's just the way the mediascanner works... it scans each directory on the sdcard for media files.
and both the gallery and music app relies on the system mediascanner to fetch pics/videos/music: it's called intended design
There is no way to set a default location for those apps.
3rd party apps can be developed for scanning predefined dirs at the developer's liking.
so for the stock apps the only option is the .nomedia file trick.
note that if u put the .nomedia into a directory, all the sub directories are going to be skipped too.
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xManMythLegend said:
THANK YOU !!
I somewhat figured this out when I saw this option in Doggcatcher.
This answers my question.
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.... what? You argued with the first post, next post said the same thing, then you're thanking them??
r4zv4n said:
^bump^
I have the same issue - I don't want to see album covers in the gallery, but I do want the music to show up in my music app - any ideas?
Thanks
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Yes, name the files right. AlbumArt.jpg
BTW, after putting the .nomedia, you will need to REBOOT the device for it to take effect and system media scanner will rescan after first start up.
I'm having trouble believing this is "by design" and adding .nomedia to EVERY FOLDER other than my music folder makes absolutely no damn sense... the other way around would make much more sense instead! ".media"
This issue has also been breaking my balls... I don't want my damn ringtones in my media library...
Kraion said:
I'm having trouble believing this is "by design" and adding .nomedia to EVERY FOLDER other than my music folder makes absolutely no damn sense... the other way around would make much more sense instead! ".media"
This issue has also been breaking my balls... I don't want my damn ringtones in my media library...
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Your ringtones should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
And your notifications should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
Those folders are not scanned into your music library. There is no need for .nomedia files on those two folders, otherwise they will not show up in your notifications/ringtones list.
NOTE: /sdcard means your sdcard.... so on the root of your sdcard you should put a folder named media, then inside media folder you should put another folder called audio, and then the ringtones or notifications folder inside audio folder..... This should solve your issue.
zeus_chingon said:
Your ringtones should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
And your notifications should go into the following folder
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
Those folders are not scanned into your music library. There is no need for .nomedia files on those two folders, otherwise they will not show up in your notifications/ringtones list.
NOTE: /sdcard means your sdcard.... so on the root of your sdcard you should put a folder named media, then inside media folder you should put another folder called audio, and then the ringtones or notifications folder inside audio folder..... This should solve your issue.
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This works....Did this over a year ago when i first bought my N1...
Can an app access and create a specific folder in the Windows phone enviroment? I'm looking at building an audiobook player app and want to allow the user to drop these into an audiobook folder on the computer instead of mixing with the music folder. Could an app create, and could an app access a particular folder outside the default folders for media files, metadata, etc?
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Can an app access and create a specific folder in the Windows phone enviroment? I'm looking at building an audiobook player app and want to allow the user to drop these into an audiobook folder on the computer instead of mixing with the music folder. Could an app create, and could an app access a particular folder outside the default folders for media files, metadata, etc?
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From what I have been looking at in their api's and what not, there doesn't appear to be a way to make a folder that would show up when you plug in the phone. Now, what you might be able to do, is create a application folder, and be able to move the audio books into that folder. I believe because of the security Microsoft has put in place, there is currently not a way to access particular folders, unless your app made it, or it was a temp folder.
-Nick
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From what I have been looking at in their api's and what not, there doesn't appear to be a way to make a folder that would show up when you plug in the phone. Now, what you might be able to do, is create a application folder, and be able to move the audio books into that folder. I believe because of the security Microsoft has put in place, there is currently not a way to access particular folders, unless your app made it, or it was a temp folder.
-Nick
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So it will require a workaround of another desktop app or online skydrive or other api access to get to the audiobook into my folder. I can't just have the user drop into an "Audiobook" folder as a folder the user creates on the hard drive. Bummer. I wish WP8 properly handled audiobook files and this wouldn't be such an issue.
All media files got deleted on both internal and external sd card. Other files seems safe though.
If I open my gallery app no items are displayed. I can't really say that the phone got formatted I think its more like the phone's media scanner deleted all my media files. The only ones left are my manga images which was not deleted. My best guess is that it was inside a ".nomedia" folder. All the folders where my media deleted were, are retained.
Simply put, all files that were identified by the mediascanner were deleted. .jpg, gif, png, mkv, mp4. The only once save where the media files under ".nomedia" folders.
Any way to recover this files? Seached everywhere but no issue same as mine. Thanks!
Side question. Might be related to my problem:
What is the "storage" folder for? Can be found when plugged on pc under Internal Storage->"storage"
although this app is stable, I can't make a new folder in Music or d&d a new folder to music to rename and drop music into it.
IE: If I make a new folder and call it Luisa Sobral, I can't d&d to Music folder.
The only thing that works is to d&d her whole folder to the phone and delete the songs I don't want.
Any other ideas or methods?
Why not connect to your pc
Open the phone until you have the required file open and then copy/past the music directly into the phones music folder?
Seems like you are trying a bit to hard - unless I'm missing something??
L0rdNels0n said:
Why not connect to your pc
Open the phone until you have the required file open and then copy/past the music directly into the phones music folder?
Seems like you are trying a bit to hard - unless I'm missing something??
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you're missing something.
Since the Sony Album app got the last update cache and thumbnail pictures from Walkman and Album start to pop up in my Album app..
I never had that problem with the old app, but now they always pop up when Album generates them. Even if I delete them, half an hour later they are back.
The folders the thumbnails and cache pictures are comming from are /sdcard/Android/data/com.sonyericsson.album , com.sonyericsson.music and com.sonyericsson.movie.
What I tried was to make a new .nomedia file in all of these folders, but if I do so the folders are still in the Album app. When I click on them they are just empty, but the app shows "22 pictures" beneath the title of the folder.
I like the new Album app more then the old one.. Is there any way to get rid of these folders without using the old version? :/
edit: Also these goddamn facebook images or smileys or whatever they call them are now showing, never had that before too.
Find the folder where they are stored and add a file called
.nomedia
That file stops the mediascanner from scanning that folder.
gregbradley said:
Find the folder where they are stored and add a file called
.nomedia
That file stops the mediascanner from scanning that folder.
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I already did. If i put .nomedia files in the folder and in the folder above the folder itself still shows in the gallerie including the "22 pictures" beneath it. But when i open the folder it shows that there are no pictures in it (because oft .nomedia)
sumpf2 said:
I already did. If i put .nomedia files in the folder and in the folder above the folder itself still shows in the gallerie including the "22 pictures" beneath it. But when i open the folder it shows that there are no pictures in it (because oft .nomedia)
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Clear the cache of the gallery
The .nomedia file will not stop you seeing the files in a folder using an explorer app, it just stops the media scanner seeing them.
You will have have another folder somewhere with the cache of thumbnails in them. Goto settings apps and clear data for the gallery