I have music files on My Bionic External SD and want to move them to the 'Download' app on the X , any help ?
It looks like the music files will end up in the google play app . . guess I'll hafta learn to like that particular app other music app suggestions ?
Yeah, Pandora. I never have to transfer files. YMMV.
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Move them over to the Music folder using a computer. Can use any music player app afterwards, they should recognize it.
Got music files moved no prob and after looking, I trying out the Amazon mp3 player, it does allow creating playlists ans seed all music in the music folder. Has ads , , but then I never watch the screen while I listen . . .lol. It will just play music alphabetically if you play from the music folder, so I'm about to create a playlist. It seems to support multiple playlists. I'm wondering if any Xposed modules would block ads ? anyone suggest other ad blockers ?
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Has anyone figured out how to get rid of all these non mp3 files from playing on the nexus one music player? I hate skipping a song and hearing the Lets Golf soundfiles that are store on my SD card. Or any other game music files on the SD card. I just want to hear the Mp3.
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Fidelio_o said:
Has anyone figured out how to get rid of all these non mp3 files from playing on the nexus one music player? I hate skipping a song and hearing the Lets Golf soundfiles that are store on my SD card. Or any other game music files on the SD card. I just want to hear the Mp3.
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put a blank notepad file named ".nomedia" (just like that, a dot and nomedia, no extension after it)
the app developer should have done it himself
Should I place this on the folder where these files are store? For instance If I want to get rid on the "Hot Shot Golf" one do I put that in that folder?
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Should I place this on the folder where these files are store? For instance If I want to get rid on the "Hot Shot Golf" one do I put that in that folder?
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yes that should work fine
oh great! i hate when im working out in the gym all pumped up and all of a sudden a sound clip from HAWK comes on n ruins it -_-
Forgive me if my question seems very ignorant but....as the file is called nomedia: would this also work to keep (for instance) album art out of the gallery?
(tried searching for it already, didn't find anything so far)
Seems the .nomedia file trick works for keeping ringtones playing in the music player as well. The android music player, like the gallery app, searches and plays EVERY peice of sound file available on the device's memory.
But, once .nomedia is placed in the ringtone folder, you're ROM cannot find the ringtones anymore!
Any solution to this? Why can't these smartphones be "smarter"? Hell, blackberries had this feature ages ago...
You're telling the OS there's no media in that folder, thus it stops looking for any media there. It's not hard to figure out. Despite not being tagged songs, the mp3 or files are still viewed as media.
Does the media player offer some sort of folder exclusion for its libraries? I never use anything but Pandora, so I wouldn't know.
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You're telling the OS there's no media in that folder, thus it stops looking for any media there. It's not hard to figure out. Despite not being tagged songs, the mp3 or files are still viewed as media.
Does the media player offer some sort of folder exclusion for its libraries? I never use anything but Pandora, so I wouldn't know.
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Yea I understood that, but that's basically what I'm wondering - if there's an exclusion folder made specifically for ringstones/notifications. You'd think there would be, in fact, there HAS to be...
There is a way. Search the forums I know its been posted before I just can't remember how. Also, check your gallery thread, try that solution for music, may work.
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I don't know about how you're trying to set a ringtone, but try removing the .nomedia file and rename the folder with a period in front (if it's named ringtones, rename it .ringtones, etc.). That should still exclude the folder from libraries, but it still might stop it from being found by whatever method you're using to set the tone.
Also, if you feel like dicking around with the phone's internal media, the ringtones there are stored in /system/media/audio/ringtones/; you can probably add a file there and keep it excluded.
use a different media player. i recommend doubletwist.
I have my ringtones in media/audio/ringtones on my sd and none of them show up in my music player.
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hungmung said:
I have my ringtones in media/audio/ringtones on my sd and none of them show up in my music player.
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that is strange because I do too and they show up in the stock HTC music player. quite annoying
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that is strange because I do too and they show up in the stock HTC music player. quite annoying
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I use cm7 so I haven't tried the htc player in a while sorry
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Make sure the folder is named exactly as above. I originally fogot the S on ringtones. Once I added it my ringtones no longer showed up in my stock music player.
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I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance
You need to rescan the phone for media. There are apps for that. I think one is even called rescan media
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rmusic2400 said:
I have had all three versions of the EVO and have always been able to download free mixtapes with my phone and use a file explorer to transfer the files to my music folder and they were instantly in my player. With the HTC One I can download them and move them and even play them from e'sfile explorer but my music player never sees them. If I connect phone HTC one to my computer and put the same songs in my music folder they show up instantly... What the hell is going on? No SD card problem?
Appreciate the help in advance
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If you are downloading legal music via mixtapes etc why not just go to mixtapetorrent.com and use the utorrent app to download the music. You can use utorrent to direct the music to the spot you want it on your phone. Thus no need for the file explorer etc.
Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.
I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..
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I have no issues with the Music player seeing music in the music folder..
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I'm having the same problem the OP listed. No idea why. Same files my Evo had no problems with.
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Are you serious that this amazing phone requires a 3rd party app to recognize mp3's in the music folder? I can do that but it really doesn't click with how advanced this thing is. My old HTC phones didn't need that.
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No, it doesn't need another app to recognize the apps. It's just not triggering the operating system to rescan for media files. Android scans the entire storage on boot or between mounting the storage for new media files (pictures, audio, video, etc) and then adds them to the libraries they belong to. Certain actions can bypass this scanning for new media. This app I suggested manually tells the system to scan for these files. It's nearly instantaneous when you do it. I've had to use it before on other devices, you literally open the app and you're done.
For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.
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For some crazy reason I can not get any of four albums to show up. Rebooted phone, ran rescan media. Even pulled one song out of it's sub-folder and put it straight into the music folder.
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Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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gk1984 said:
Do the file names have periods in the name such as in place of a space? What file type are the files?
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Example: 08 Orianthi - Another You.mp3
10-orianthi-highly_strung.mp3
01 Lights Of Manos.mp3
From 3 albums that worked on my OG Evo this morning.
I had the same problem and after getting the music player to play the song it said the format wasn't supported. And these were songs I played on my galaxy nexus fine. And astro file explorer plays them fine too...
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I have all my music on a microSDXC card in my phone, as well as uploaded to Google Play Music's "cloud". But when I try to play music from Google Play Music through my Chromecast, it insists on trying to use my local music and thus gives me the "can't play sideloaded music" error. Is there any way to force the Music app to look only at the cloud as the source for music? The only source options I see are "All Music' or "On device".
If you remove the side loaded music, then pin the music using the play music app, it should stream correctly and you would still have the music on your device for offline use.
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If you remove the side loaded music, then pin the music using the play music app, it should stream correctly and you would still have the music on your device for offline use.
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Thanks for the idea. I didn't know about pinning. But it looks like this downloads the music from the cloud source, which I really don't want to do, since I have it organized on my microSDXC card already.
You could also try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592461
[Q] How to hide local MP3s from Google Play Music ???
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You could also try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592461
[Q] How to hide local MP3s from Google Play Music ???
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This won't work in my case. The music player I use most the time is one I wrote and it depends on getting album metadata from the Android media database, so I can't put the ".nomedia" files in my music directories, since the Android media database metadata harvester would not find it.
I'd like to be able to keep Google Music for cloud content only as well.
I want to use a third party app for local media files though.
Is there anyway to either
1) Restrict Google Music to scanning only a certain folder
or
2) Have Google Music display cloud content only
Spike96 said:
I'd like to be able to keep Google Music for cloud content only as well.
I want to use a third party app for local media files though.
Is there anyway to either
1) Restrict Google Music to scanning only a certain folder
or
2) Have Google Music display cloud content only
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try adding .nomedia to the local music folder to preve GMusic scanning the folder (need to run media scanner process after this).
then force your local music app (e.g. poweramp) to scan that folder with your local music - hopefully it ignores the .nomedia flag
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This won't work in my case. The music player I use most the time is one I wrote and it depends on getting album metadata from the Android media database, so I can't put the ".nomedia" files in my music directories, since the Android media database metadata harvester would not find it.
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I used the .nomedia for Google Music then use PowerAMP for my local music. You may just have to compromise one way or another.
Unmount the sdcard
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gunswick said:
try adding .nomedia to the local music folder to preve GMusic scanning the folder (need to run media scanner process after this).
then force your local music app (e.g. poweramp) to scan that folder with your local music - hopefully it ignores the .nomedia flag
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Yes, I tried doing that but I was using PlayerPro, which does not ignore .nomedia files.
I've been using PowerAmp, and it works great. It lets you select your music directory and ignores .nomedia. Rocket Player also ignores .nomedia, I just didn't like the interface.
I still wish I could use PlayerPro, though. Google definitely should've added an option to restrict its scanner.
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Unmount the sdcard
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It gets annoying unmounting and then rescanning the SD card every time you want to use Chromecast. Wouldn't you agree?
I copied a lot of music to sdcard/Music, like I've done on many phones.
Stock Music, Google Play Music, PlayerPro do not see the files. Even with PP, where I can set the music directory, nothing shows in my players.
Why?
The phone can see the stupid Samsung audio files, and the Facebook pop file...
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