[Q] Disable automatic Android media library (mov,music,pdf,etc.) - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi,
is there a way to disable the Android's library, i'd like to set files myself, an app perhaps?
or something that'll limit the search to a specific folder only? like for example, only fill up the library for musics only from /music folder and excludes anymore music files outside the /music?
thanks!
my phone is already rooted

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Playlists from folders

Anyone know of a program that can create playlist files from folders? I keep my music organized by style.
For example, Music--> Soundtracks -> Movie Soundtracks --> Prince of Persia. or
Music --> Techno --> House.
I have found this MUCH easier to maintain than making playlists everywhere but I can't get the default player on the Vibrant to recognize Folder structures so...anyone know of an app that can CREATE playlist files out of music folder structure? I can then feed these playlists to the music program I want to use.
I don't like how Astroplayer sounds so I'd rather not use a different music player. I just want to save and create playlist files or make the phone SEE the folder structure AS playlists.
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Anyone know of a program that can create playlist files from folders? I keep my music organized by style.
For example, Music--> Soundtracks -> Movie Soundtracks --> Prince of Persia. or
Music --> Techno --> House.
I have found this MUCH easier to maintain than making playlists everywhere but I can't get the default player on the Vibrant to recognize Folder structures so...anyone know of an app that can CREATE playlist files out of music folder structure? I can then feed these playlists to the music program I want to use.
I don't like how Astroplayer sounds so I'd rather not use a different music player. I just want to save and create playlist files or make the phone SEE the folder structure AS playlists.
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I just use Mixzing which plays the playlists (.m3u files) I made with WinAmp just fine. I have foldered structures for my mp3 files similar to yours and each album has a playlist file in its folder.
Playlist from folders
Creating playlists based on folder content would be useful. Using .m3u files works fine until files are added or deleted.
I use a play list .bat file. Google m3u create batch file. Its simple code.
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[Q] Music library app for externally stored files

I have all of my music on an external drive. I would like to use a library app that looks into the external drive as a whole, not having to navigate into each individual file each time. I found "Power Amp" but it does not show my music files in the library after it does the scan. It finds the files, as indicated by a popup alert, but the library only shows what is in the SD card. Yes, I do have the mounted USB checked as a source of files.
Is there another music library app that works with externally stored music files?
Try MusicPlayer Pro. I think you can export and import the library saving you the scan time...
I see many apps with similar names. Can you tell me the developer or post a link to appbrain?
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[Q] How to prevent Google Music from detecting music on SD card?

Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to ask this:
I use doubletwist for listening to new music that is stored on my SD card. I use Google Music for streaming my favorite tracks that I have uploaded. The problem is Google Music automatically searches my SD card and displays all the music stored on my phone along with the artists/playlists/etc. that I have stored on the cloud, which makes it confusing when browsing the library. My question is: Can I prevent Google Music from searching and displaying what's on the SD card, but still allow doubletwist to see it? Thanks much!
I think that's not a problem with the Google Play Music app. The Media Storage app does the scanning. I don't think you can do what you asked.
bump. So is this a no-go? No way to disable media scanning for google music but still allow it for doubletwist?
I don't use either app but you could try the .nomedia trick. Just create an empty file and name it ".nomedia" and place it in whatever folder your music is in then force media scanner to do a rescan (or just reboot). Media scanner will skip any folder (including all subfolders) that contains a ".nomedia" file. This should hide your music from google music but they should still show up in doubletwist (I think). Note this will hide all media files which means they will not show up in any app that depends on media scanner (any photos in the folder will not show up in the stock gallery app, etc.). If you need to unhide the folder just delete the ".nomedia" file and force another media rescan.
Thanks for the response. I tried that, but it hides media from both google music and doubletwist. This is frustrating. Why can't these apps just have a menu to allow you to select the folders you want for a library? Why do they think they need to be able to scan the whole card?

[Q] Disable certain type of media in a folder

Hi,
I have following problem. I have a pretty big music collection on my SD card and there are also album art images. All these images are displayed in Galery or QuickPic. I want to tell the media scanner not to scan for images in this folder. Is it possible?
I know you can put a file called .nomedia in any directory and it will be excluded from media scanning. But I want to exclude only images and scan for audio files. Is it possible?
Use a photo hiding app like Hide It Pro and hide the album art works and it wont show up in gallery !
Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortanately it doesn't suite my needs. It only allows me to select pictures from directories one by one. With thousands of directories it is something I don't want to do. I checked other similar tools but they worked the same way. They didn't let me to exclude from galery a whole directory with all subdirectories. Do you know any tool which ca do it?

App or utility to export playlist (and the associated media files) to a folder

Here's my dilemma...
I have my entire music library on my phone, and these days find myself using the phone to create playlists more frequently than I do on a PC.
When I was making playlists on PC more frequently, it was a piece of cake to transfer the playlist and the media associated to Android with apps like DoubleTwist and a few others that worked great.
What I'm running into now is that I'll create a great playlist on my phone, then want to transfer it to my PC or to my USB drive kept in my car and there is no way that I have found to do it unless I manually scroll through the playlist on the phone and copy the files to a folder one by one.
Anyone have a script, or maybe there is an app I am overlooking that can accomplish this?
Phone is Verizon Galaxy S7 Edge but I've wanted this on every Android I've had so I think the question is relevant here, instead of just in the Samsung forums. Feel free to move if it should be a device specific question.
tl;dr -- I want to take a playlist created on Android and copy the media files in that playlist to a folder on my PC without going song by song and copying them via MTP

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