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Stop gallery from watching certain folders

I have many folders in my gallery of pics such as album art, game pics, splash screens etc which I don't want in my gallery. Is there an app or way to stop the gallery from watching certain folders. Also have the same problem with music and video where game music and videos show up.
Thanks alot
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Create a blank file named .nomedia and put it in each folder. Everything in the folder and any folder below should be hidden.

Is there a way to that on my phone or do I have to do on my comp which is at home?
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Check JustPictures app from market
A lot faster and more options than standard Gallery app

inteq said:
Check JustPictures app from market
A lot faster and more options than standard Gallery app
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Its not really a lot faster but it does have options, its significantly slower though since it shows higher resolution/quality images.

rizzy123 said:
I have many folders in my gallery of pics such as album art, game pics, splash screens etc which I don't want in my gallery. Is there an app or way to stop the gallery from watching certain folders. Also have the same problem with music and video where game music and videos show up.
Thanks alot
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you can stop the media scanner by command or by app (search in dev section)

I have a similar issue and I am going mad with my 1000s of media art showing on gallery. There should be a way to manually assign afolder for indexing.

sgsI9003 said:
I have a similar issue and I am going mad with my 1000s of media art showing on gallery. There should be a way to manually assign afolder for indexing.
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Right, i like opt-in more as well, but nowadays it is opt-out everywhere.
What i did was putting empty .nomedia file in all main folders so media scan is fast now. Gallery and MP3 Player are of course empty now, but since i use QuickPic and PowerAmp as alternatives that allow opt-in, i do not care.
Before that i used Rescan Media Root to disable media scanning completely, but this had the bad side effect of loosing custom ring tones after reboot.

[Q] My walkman app sony don't see music files

Hi, I have a problem in one preinstall app. My walkman app don't see music files. I have few albums in library but app see only latest files. I read that you have to delete the file responsible for the music database, but I don't know where that will be.
Nothing to do when I clear data app in application menu.
Anyone help ?

Download Rescan media app from the market
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Unfortunately, I checked three applications and it did not work for me

[Q] How to trigger media scanner

When i take songs from bluetooth , those songs r saved in bluetooth folder, when i move them to the songs folder they r not updated in the music app when i go to folders tab in music player , there is a folder named bluetooth which has songs but can't play them. And the new folder which i have made that is not present there either
So is there a way to trigger media scanner again??
In G.B it was automatic after every file edit or if we move or delete a file. But in J.B its not automatic. It only triggers after reboot.
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Ya this us a blank side of os but use default file explorer for moving songs and any of media it take responsibility to scan media instance...
Good luk
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atishey23 said:
When i take songs from bluetooth , those songs r saved in bluetooth folder, when i move them to the songs folder they r not updated in the music app when i go to folders tab in music player , there is a folder named bluetooth which has songs but can't play them. And the new folder which i have made that is not present there either
So is there a way to trigger media scanner again??
In G.B it was automatic after every file edit or if we move or delete a file. But in J.B its not automatic. It only triggers after reboot.
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There are widgets that do this. Or you can use widgetsoid to make them.
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atishey23 said:
When i take songs from bluetooth , those songs r saved in bluetooth folder, when i move them to the songs folder they r not updated in the music app when i go to folders tab in music player , there is a folder named bluetooth which has songs but can't play them. And the new folder which i have made that is not present there either
So is there a way to trigger media scanner again??
In G.B it was automatic after every file edit or if we move or delete a file. But in J.B its not automatic. It only triggers after reboot.
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Try this bro Media Rescan app from playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEwMiwiY29tLmFkZHoubWVkaWFzY2FubmVycm9vdCJd
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Google play music

Can you move google play music that was purchased from google to the HTC music app.
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If it's downloaded physically to your phone, (not in cache form, but in actual mp3 form) then the Android media scanner will automatically put them in the local app.

If you change the cache files to a .mp3 file extension they will play fine and be seen in your media folder

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If you change the cache files to a .mp3 file extension they will play fine and be seen in your media folder
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How would you do that ?
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Go itnt the data folder for Google music, it's /sdcard/android/data/com.xxxxxxxxxxx. find the cache folder using root explorer or which ever app you prefer. Just change each file name in the cache folder to a xxxxxxxx.mp3

The above will work, but unless you're comfortable with a batch renaming tool (command line or otherwise), could be rather painful. If you search around though, I think there was a project called Google Music FS or something similar that (if you were rooted) allowed you to share your music into any local-storage using music app.

You can also download the purchased music onto your computer through Google Music. Then transfer the songs over
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stop Album app showing album covers?

Is there any way to stop the Album app from showing every cover in my music folder?

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pipspeak said:
Is there any way to stop the Album app from showing every cover in my music folder?
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it depends on music files
i don't have such issue!
album app will scan all sd-card for images and video
you can see some of them as sort in folders and etc but no way to limit its scanning process...
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I just deleted all album artworks. I use Shuttle and it downloads arts automatically and hides them in secret folder no album app can find.

Create .nomedia file in those music folders?