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Keep ringtones out of music player

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.

FEGuy said:
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

GroovyGeek said:
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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[Q] Music player query.

Hi guys,
Wondered if you could help in suggesting a good music player besides the standard MIUI one, (I'm on an MIUI rom), that plays almost everything especially music which has been ripped of YouTube into a MP3 format via an unnamed YouTube rip app. MIUI music player thinks they are all videos but on other roms with galaxy s standard music player recognizes them as music so makes it much easier to play them all.
Ta.
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Try doubletwist or poweramp, google play music should work too.

I like player pro.. mostly because of its feature of selecting the music folders.. only files in the folders you have selected will be shown in the music library

[Q] Forcing Google Play Music to Use Cloud as Source for Chromecast

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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lattisimo said:
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

highvista said:
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?

Transfer Music To Moto X

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 ?

[Q] Non-streaming music app

Google play music has been a letdown being a "locker" and I don't use Spotify or Pandora. SoundCloud is supposed to be a partner but they haven't updated their app yet... I currently use PlayerPro, are there any other music apps compatible that will play music stored on my phone? Ideally supporting POPM and ReplayGain ID3 tags
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You can use Google play music to play stuff on your phone.
If the music you want is already uploaded to Google music, just download it to your phone from the google music app and it will play offline

ives said:
You can use Google play music to play stuff on your phone.
If the music you want is already uploaded to Google music, just download it to your phone from the google music app and it will play offline
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Have been doing this to an extent, but GPM is just not good enough. I already put a lot of time in to my collection and GPM is requiring even more effort. It also likes playing my ringtone/notification oggs. Very annoying.
The whole idea of this thread is to not use GPM.
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