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
Hi. I have read a lot of post about media scan in i9300 and I cannot figure out what happens to me.
I have a folder of image , (for example whatsapp image) the folder was stored in the internal memory (mnt/sdcard/Whatsapp/media/whatsapp_image)
I copied some images to the folder from computer and my whatspp downloads the new image sent by my friends.
the most interesting thing is Gallery only shows the image downloaded by whatspp. The other images that I put into the folder from computer are missing.
I use "ASTRO File Manager" to see what happens. I found that the file manager cannot even generate the thumbnails of those image I copied from computer to the folder. It only have the thumbnails that downloaded by whatspp. (On the other words, only the image with thumbnails are shown in Gallery and they are downloaded by whatsapp)
But I can still open the image without thumbnails by pressing them and choosing "Use Gallery to open", It can be viewed perfectly. It proves the images are not damaged.
(P.S. If I use My Files, the stock file manager, all images have thumbnails. But the images are still missing, nothing changed or improved)
Then I use File Managers, (My Files, Stock File Manager, and ASTRO File Manager) to move the images without thumbnails to external sd cards (mnt/exSdCards/Temp). After that, ASTRO File Manager can find the folder and generate the thumbnails, Gallery can show the images after rescanning the media.
However, after I move the images back to internal memory (I even create a new folder under root of the internal memory), the thumbnails gone and gallery cannot show them after rescanning media.
Does anyone know what happened and how to solve it? I know I may use other Picture Viewer to "solve" this, but I hope to find out the real solution first. Thank you.
Sorry my thread are too long and my english is poor.
I may post some screenshots later if you want.
I had downloaded an album via torrent,no zip,mp3 files.
Moved the directory to /storage/sdcard0/Music
And after 3 shutdown and 3 restart Apollo even PlayMusic don't see the music inside the device. After that i copied the files into my PC,and re-transfered the files via USB connection...no way,both apps don't see the files...
How is possible? My friend do the same thing but the player see Music....
[SOLVED] Guilty of the .nomedia. file! -.- Deleted nomedia file, resetting data of MediaStorage...problem solved!
thx
Hi chaps,
I was wondering how do I move a picture from a folder to another. I sent myself a pic through bluetooth and now when I got to gallery there's a folder called Bluetooth - I want to delete this folder and send the picture to a different folder.
Any thoughts?
DFN
using my file or file explorer or what ever your app is named.
copy and paste the picture to the folder you want.
delete folder you do not want.
I meant these folders (see attached)
you should still be able to deete subfolders from the pictures or image folder file using my files.
Hi there,
I've been reading this forum and other forums for a while now but can't find a sollution for a current problem that i have.
My gallery displays alot of folders with images and i wanted to remove a couple of folders from it. So i searched for a sollution and found out that when you add a file to the folder named .noimage or .nomedia the folder would not appear into the gallery. That's true but after adding more photos to the folder the folder shows up again in the gallery... even when the .noimage or .nomedia is still there. When i replace the .noimage or .nomedia the gallery will hide those folders again.
Any others that have the same problem?
ps sorry for my poor english