Hi,i am having a problem that the music player app lists sound files from game s such as avatar and hawx, is there a way to tell it to only search the"music"folder for media?
Thanks!
No but there is a trick
Use root explorer, go to every game in the gameloft folder on your internal SD card.
Bring up menu bar in root-explorer and click on "more" then "new file" Make the file name .nomedia and save. Do this in every game folder and it will make it so it doesn't search those folders and they wont appear in music/video player, and pictures.
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make it easier uploaded. just unzip and put this file in every game folder in gameloft directory
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Hey all..
I have a few media players installed on my hero, but on the preinstalled one is there a way to get it to ignore a folder? I am currently learning spanish and have about 500 mp3's on the phone. It unfortunatly lists them all on the media player. I want to get it to ignore them so when i let it play my entire playlist on random it wont choose any of those.
is there a way? I have MixZing lite which does have an option to look at specific folders, but it wont intergrate with the lock screen (which is really very handy!). I tried adding the .nomedia onto the directory but to no avail....
I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.
The media player ignores everything under these folders:
\Media\Alarms
\Media\Ringtones
\Media\Notifications
However, if you move your spanish mp3s into these folders, they'll show up in alarms, ringtones or notifications.
sweet! that will solve my ringtones issue to then
just moved ringtones to the folder /media/ringtones but not showing up in the ringtone selection... should i do a reboot first?
Try a reboot,
If it doesn't work, backup your SD to your PC. Then format the SD card through the phone and recopy your data back.
That worked for me.
Cannot rename a folder starting with a "."
wheeljack said:
I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.
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Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????
tbondexpert said:
Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????
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you need to use linda file explorer or similar.
ricostuart said:
you need to use linda file explorer or similar.
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Yeah, I use Astro, and it works fine.
Yep just used Astro to change my download folder (where I download ringtones to on my sd card) anyways in the music player it used to show a load of unknown albums and list the weird ringtones I had downloaded.
Changed the folder through Astro .downloads and now the music player doesn't pick up those unwanted files.
The other alternative is:
Using notepad, create an empty file
save the file as .nomedia (do not save as .txt, but "All files")
add the file .nomedia to the folder you want to avoid showing media from
This works for video, photos and MP3. They can still be accessed using file explorer.
Hope that helps
The files in the attachment are OGG file types ... and the hero does not recognize them .. how can we get these sounds compatible on the Hero?
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iTouch24 said:
The files in the attachment are OGG file types ... and the hero does not recognize them .. how can we get these sounds compatible on the Hero?
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http://www.androidspin.com/forum/index.php?f=209&t=88&rb_v=viewtopic
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What do you mean, the Hero doesn't recognize them? Where did you copy them exactly? Do you mean they don't show up when you go to select your ringtone? If so, you need to make sure the ogg files are in /system/media/audio/ringtones/ (or /system/media/audio/notifications/ depending on what files you're dealing with.) You can put them there with
Code:
adb push file.ogg /system/media/audio/ringtones/
or is it a different problem? If the ogg's are on your SD card, can you play them in the Music app? Are there any error messages you can share with us?
i placed the files in their necessary folders, ringers/alarms/notificatios
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
if i open on sdcard and play on phone.. they play fine ... but when i go to a contact and go to select a ringtone .. the file is not showing ... but other ringtones i put in that folder show ....
iTouch24 said:
i placed the files in their necessary folders, ringers/alarms/notificatios
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
if i open on sdcard and play on phone.. they play fine ... but when i go to a contact and go to select a ringtone .. the file is not showing ... but other ringtones i put in that folder show ....
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I've got them up and running, did you already resolve this, itouch?
No, they still don't show up when I try I'm pick ringtones for someone yet they play when I am listening to music on my phone , so phone recognizes them at that time but not when o am looking for them. And I know if I pit a "." In front of folder name it will hide the music player from playing them but it also hides from everything on phone.
Odd, I put the same files in the same folders and it works fine here. The Audio Manager ignores those folders, so it shouldn't be necessary to hide them.
Regarding wallpapers, they should be placed in sdcard/media/resources/wallpapers
i am running fresh ROM .7 ... not sure if that has something to do with it
but my media player is playing the ogg files ... and they are not showing up when i want to pick one of them for ringtones.. it is like it is setup backwards...
from what u are saying is that the media player should be ignoring those files automatically and they should show up when i pick alarm/notification and ringtone
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would u believe what the problem was
my folders had capital letters ... Ringtones instead of ringtones...
dam i didnt know it was case sensitive ...
thanks guys for assisting on this ...
Haha, it's always the smallest little detail Glad you got it working.
Where are these located on the system? I have a file on the SD card under media/notifications. I also put a .nomedia file in there so it wouldn't show up as a music file, but now it doesn't show up for my ringtones. What can I do? Thanks for the help.
420fan said:
Where are these located on the system? I have a file on the SD card under media/notifications. I also put a .nomedia file in there so it wouldn't show up as a music file, but now it doesn't show up for my ringtones. What can I do? Thanks for the help.
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Why not just let it be a music file. Then just long press the file inside the music player (not the new google music app) and select use as ringtone. You might also be able to download a ringtone application and use the folder that it places its files in and use it from there.
gkirby11 said:
Why not just let it be a music file. Then just long press the file inside the music player (not the new google music app) and select use as ringtone. You might also be able to download a ringtone application and use the folder that it places its files in and use it from there.
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I don't want to have my ringtones play when I am listening to my music. I know I can create a playlist, but then everytime I add new music, I have to redo the playlist. It looks like I can convert them all to ogg files and push them to the system/media/ringtones file. Didn't know if there was an easier way.
I'm on MIUI Lithium. I've installed an app to watch rmvb movies but I can't find a way to get the format associated to the app in File Explorer. That is, I can't play the rmvb file directly by clicking the file in File Explorer. Under the browse tab, it is classified as Misc instead of Videos. When I click the file, I don't get the "Complete action using" popup to choose the default app. Any way to work around this?
help!!!!!!!
I have installed Hungama app from Google playstore now after that is downloaded some videos from this app and the video are there inside the application only,
then i installed ES file explorer where i can access the android/data/com.hungama.myplay.activity/files/video/.
inisde this folder all the videos can be found but the problem is that every video is having a filename with extension .cache
at first time when i entered to the folder and copied one from them and pasted there in same folder than moved the copy to another folder and renamed the filename by changing only its extension from .cache to .mp4 while having the app running in background, after renaming the file with .mp4 extension i tried to open it with MX video Player, it was played well without any buffering like an file in sdcard. i thought its easy, therefore selected all the files from that folder and copied them to another location in the sd card and tried to rename all files at once by changing their file extension from .cache to mp4 ,
But this time MX player and every mp4 player failed and now also no video is playing outside that particular app.
What could be the solution?? please post your suggestions soon,, and help!!!!
if possible can anyone here check this video file for the error why it cant be played after playing once in android MX player...
"filehosting.org/file/details/686141/video_2800254777.mp4"
Progress..?
d1310 said:
help!!!!!!!
I have installed Hungama app from Google playstore now after that is downloaded some videos from this app and the video are there inside the application only,
then i installed ES file explorer where i can access the android/data/com.hungama.myplay.activity/files/video/.
inisde this folder all the videos can be found but the problem is that every video is having a filename with extension .cache
at first time when i entered to the folder and copied one from them and pasted there in same folder than moved the copy to another folder and renamed the filename by changing only its extension from .cache to .mp4 while having the app running in background, after renaming the file with .mp4 extension i tried to open it with MX video Player, it was played well without any buffering like an file in sdcard. i thought its easy, therefore selected all the files from that folder and copied them to another location in the sd card and tried to rename all files at once by changing their file extension from .cache to mp4 ,
But this time MX player and every mp4 player failed and now also no video is playing outside that particular app.
What could be the solution?? please post your suggestions soon,, and help!!!!
if possible can anyone here check this video file for the error why it cant be played after playing once in android MX player...
"filehosting.org/file/details/686141/video_2800254777.mp4"
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Tested on app version 5.2.18
When the app opens a .cache file, it "decrypts" it. When a file is decrypted, its name will have "decrypt" at the end
EX: encripted "audio_134298.cache"
decrypted "audio_134298decrypt.cache"
So, my solution was to download an FTP server on my phone, then connect to it through windows CMD and download the decrypted songs with a wildcard
(Make sure to CD into wherever you wanna download the songs first BEFORE doing the commands)
Code:
ftp -i
open
PHONE_IP PORT
cd Android/data/com.hungama.myplay.activity/files/track/
mget *decrypt.cache
mdelete *decrypt.cache
When I did the process described above, there were only 21 decrypted songs (Even though my library has +500 songs) (I don't know if the same 21-rule applies to videos), so you'll have to press PLAY (from the hungama app) 21 times, and then repeat the download process (mget and then mdelete to free up space)
After that's done, I fired up "Bulk Rename Utility" and changed all extensions to .mp3 (since I was converting music), and also removed the "decrypt" characters from the filenames.
But BEWARE, decrypted files are not the final form of the mp3; If you listen to them you will only hear giverish.
But at least we now have meta-data.
I would post a link to one of these files, but:
a) I don't have enough reputation to post links
b) Copyright
At this point it might just be better to write down a list of all your songs and re-download them from hungama<dot>com
Hope this helps
First of all navigate to the browser where it saves the file and Remove .nomedia File from that folder not browse the folder in MX or VLC and Enjoy the videos
d1310 said:
help!!!!!!!
I have installed Hungama app from Google playstore now after that is downloaded some videos from this app and the video are there inside the application only,
then i installed ES file explorer where i can access the android/data/com.hungama.myplay.activity/files/video/.
inisde this folder all the videos can be found but the problem is that every video is having a filename with extension .cache
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It's not uncommon that an app creates files that other apps don't need to access, or shouldn't access.