[Q] Hide ringtones/notifications from media player? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a folder on my SD card named Media that has all of my custom ringtones/alarms/notification mp3 files in it.
The built in media player wants to catalog them all and play them along with my music folder files.
I tried putting a .nomedia file in there, but that also hides them from the rest of the system so they don't show up when you try to select a ringtone or alarm tone.
Is there a way to just hide them from the media player, or make the media player only read from a specific folder?

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Get MortPlayer and you can select the folder to play music from.
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Looks good so far! Thanks for the tip.

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MixZing also lets you select which folder to look in when searching for media. The default player from Samsung is really lacking in some important features. M3U playlist file support, lack of widget, and ability to discern between ringtones and songs.

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It's a little frustrating to be listening to music and suddenly hear your ringtone going off and wondering why your phone says no one is calling.
I'm going to try MixZing as well.
I did buy a program called iSyncr which allows you to sync your iTunes playlists to the phone and it uses the playlist files from them and they show up in your playlists on the default player. If you use itunes at all it might be worth looking at. It moves the files down with the folder structure intact under it's own parent folder.

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I use this app from the market StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager
This is the same as using the .nomedia file trick only by using a simpler and quicker way through a GUI interface.

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jkcheng122 said:
MixZing also lets you select which folder to look in when searching for media. The default player from Samsung is really lacking in some important features. M3U playlist file support, lack of widget, and ability to discern between ringtones and songs.
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Why would you need a widget when the music controls are right in the status bar? And if you need to sync your playlists try this: http://www.yellowfocus.com/blog/35-...-the-galaxy-s-for-the-stock-music-player.html

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ProximaC said:
I have a folder on my SD card named Media that has all of my custom ringtones/alarms/notification mp3 files in it.
The built in media player wants to catalog them all and play them along with my music folder files.
I tried putting a .nomedia file in there, but that also hides them from the rest of the system so they don't show up when you try to select a ringtone or alarm tone.
Is there a way to just hide them from the media player, or make the media player only read from a specific folder?
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I like the stock Samsung music player because it can change songs on screen-lock mode..but I hate it when it plays my ringtones and alarms.
It'll be great if it can ignore those files but not hiding from the system.

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android.vibrant said:
I like the stock Samsung music player because it can change songs on screen-lock mode..but I hate it when it plays my ringtones and alarms.
It'll be great if it can ignore those files but not hiding from the system.
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if you have root, just push the mp3 you want as ringtone to /system/media/audio/ringtone and it will show up as selectable ringtones but won't be in the media player.

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android.vibrant said:
I like the stock Samsung music player because it can change songs on screen-lock mode..but I hate it when it plays my ringtones and alarms.
It'll be great if it can ignore those files but not hiding from the svRystem.
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The winamp player lets you switch songs on the lock screen even the security screen lock ... as long as winamp is playing music when you want to change the song the player pops up over writing the lock ...
Also if you need to unlock the screen while winamp is still playing winamp puts a small lock icon on the upper left corner of the player that takes you to the lockscreen
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ironlood said:
The winamp player lets you switch songs on the lock screen even the security screen lock ... as long as winamp is playing music when you want to change the song the player pops up over writing the lock ...
Also if you need to unlock the screen while winamp is still playing winamp puts a small lock icon on the upper left corner of the player that takes you to the lockscreen
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I d/l winamp player but it cannot change songs on security screen lock, how do u do that?

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android.vibrant said:
I d/l winamp player but it cannot change songs on security screen lock, how do u do that?
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Theres an option in the settings
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ProximaC said:
I have a folder on my SD card named Media that has all of my custom ringtones/alarms/notification mp3 files in it.
The built in media player wants to catalog them all and play them along with my music folder files.
I tried putting a .nomedia file in there, but that also hides them from the rest of the system so they don't show up when you try to select a ringtone or alarm tone.
Is there a way to just hide them from the media player, or make the media player only read from a specific folder?
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I'm looking for the same thing. Putting the .nomedia file in media folder hides ringtones from system's Ringtone Picker too. But also want to stick to Sony's stock Walkman player.