[Guide] Use Google music beta music with other music players - HTC EVO 3D

I figured out how to use your music that you have downloaded from google music beta.
1. use any file manager app ie. es file explorer
2. go into setting - file settings then choose to show hidden files
3. navigate on your sdcard to android and delete .nomedia file
4. navigate next to android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music and delete the .nomedia that is there.
5. if you see another .nomedia anywhere in that path delete it.
6. now after you download music you have a couple of options to make your music be seen by the other music players.
a. unmount and mount sdcard
b. reboot
or c. what i do is use widgetsoid and use the media scan button
enjoy your entire music collection with what ever app you want to use.

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how to get media player to ignore folders

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

[Q] Media player

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
Thanks thatvworked wonederfully

Custom Ring Notifications

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.

ES File explorer questions.

Hi
I would like to know if I can change one (or all) of three things within ES File explorer.
1. When one file is selected you can use the 'open as' function to send the file to a specific app. I would like to be able to use the 'open as' if multiple files are selected. So I can select several audio files and send them to my preferred player rather that the ES media player which is standard for a multiple select.
2. Can I disable / remove ES Media player to get round the above problem? My guess would be no.
3. Can I enable some form of buffering in ES Media player?
The reason for this is I am trying to stream music via FTP from my home server. While I have been successful I am having a few teething problems.
I have discussed my issues in a different thread:HERE
Thanks for your suggestions

[Q&A] How to Share Facebook videos w/o Apps

Hi there,
I made a quick search about this, but I wasn't able to find a complete answer.
Just wanted to share how to view/share/save Facebook videos to other apps (i.e. whatsapp).
The reason why I prefer doing this over using an app, is because some "video downloading" apps require you to login inside their app, and for me that doesn't seem safe.
Requirements
Facebook App
Root Explorer (or similar)
Rooted phone
Procedure
Open your Facebook App, and watch completely the video (or wait till it finishes loading).
Use Root Explorer to go to (Bookmarking this makes it much easier):
Code:
data/data/com.facebook.katana/files/video-cache
Arrange the folders according to Date (so the latest date/time is the video you just saw).
Copy the file inside the folder (i.e. 00000000), to a safe folder back in your SD or extSD
Rename the "0000000" file, to whatever name you like and using the extension .mp4 (i.e. video.mp4)
Watch or share the video from root explorer (long-press and share)
Notes
I believe is safe to delete the whole cache folder to work better
I have only used the .mp4 format and it has been effective so far
You can't watch the video inside the Cache folder (at least w/my phone)
Enjoy:fingers-crossed:

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