I got my spare battery and 200gb SD card from LG. I decided to put all my music collection on the card that way I dont have to stream it, which sometimes I cant in bad service areas. I put a lot of the music on the card and see that the album art is now showing in the gallery. Is there a way to exclude these images from the gallery? It has added a bunch of folders that are not needed.
Any info is appreciated.
JohnnyDangerX2 said:
I got my spare battery and 200gb SD card from LG. I decided to put all my music collection on the card that way I dont have to stream it, which sometimes I cant in bad service areas. I put a lot of the music on the card and see that the album art is now showing in the gallery. Is there a way to exclude these images from the gallery? It has added a bunch of folders that are not needed.
Any info is appreciated.
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Using a file manager, create a file called .nomedia in the folder that contains the album art. You may need a 3rd party file app from the Play store, not sure if the stock one lets you create files.
Edit: I just noticed this presents the music player from recognizing the music as well. I feel like I've done this before tho.. Lol
Album art file should be named albumart.jpg and they won't show up
If you use a tag editor to load the images ( this may require you to transfer them to the internal memory then back to the SD) then you can delete the files all together.
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Hello,
can anyone give me some hints (setting or extra app) how to deal with the mess in the gallery and album name(s)?
I have for e.g. a local HDD dir with name "holiday_2003" and plenty of subdirs.
In the gallery I get a separate album for each directory (instead I want a single album with name "holiday_2003")?
Also my music picture(s) are shown which I would not like (I mean cover art etc.). This may come from separate cover art files from within the music folder(s) and there may be no workaround.
With the Samsung gallery App itself there are not really many options to set this up.
Otherwise I would have to go into the SD card folders and clean everything up which waste(s) my time ;-(
Any advice or better gallery App I could use?
i did -
plug in phone goto sd card create forders pictures music notifications videoes etc
place your photo albums in pictures then they show indavidual folders in gallary same for albums just put ur music folders in music folder etc etc
Hey all,
This has been bugging me for a month. lol
I've found a couple other similar threads..
but no real solution yet, not that I can find anyway.
I want to be able to prevent all of my album art from being displayed in my gallery, and only to show the images/folders that I've actually placed in my gallery.
When i open my gallery,
I see all the images & folders that I've put there,
but I also see ALL of the folders with ALL of the album art..
and this can be a pain in the ass.
Is there any way to prevent this?
I want the album art to display in my music player-
(when that album is playing).
But I don't want to have to scroll through every frickin folder of all album arts every time I open my gallery to find pics/images.
Get's to be too much when you have over 20GB's of music and pretty much all of them have album art folders.
Is this do-able?
Any help or info is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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alright, well I found this app..
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpro&feature=search_result
and it seems to work decent.
not ideal, but good enough for now. lol
edit: yep, seems to have hidden them while still showing up in my music player. :O Niice.
Adding a .nomedia file into a folder will cause the mediascanner to skip that folder (and all sub-folders) so they won't show up in the gallery app. Unfortunately, that also means the folder won't show up in the stock music player either.
Unless you're really in love with the stock gallery app my advice is to use a third party gallery replacement app like Quickpic instead and then exclude/include particular folders in the app settings.
Quickpic for the super win!
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Thanks for the replies, guys.
Normally I wouldnt/dont like the stock gallery apps,
but the one that came on my galaxy player is actually quite nice.
I've tried quickpic but really don't find it as nice as my stock gallery.
Turns out that the app i linked to, "hideit pro"
works perfectly for what I needed.
So I'm good. for now anyway. lol
Thanks again.
and thanks lufc for moving the thread, sorry for the confusion.
go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/iss...&ts=1343920475
AlCapone said:
go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/iss...&ts=1343920475
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page doesnt exist. lol
I figured this out anyway..
I either just use ICS Gallery and it gives me the option to "hide" any folders I want,
or I can use gallery lock, but Gallery ICS works great.
Solved !
updated link, AND - I found a great solution to the problem. (posted in the link)
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35879
Rename Music folder to "media"
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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I have just tried this and there is no change...all album art is shown in the stock gallery.
Using CM10.1 Rom on an HTC Desire S
The easiest way to do this is NOT by downloading app. Well yes, any file explorer app I have File Explorer and File Explorer (root add on), then go to the folder in which the album cover is in and rename the album cover to "albumart.jpg". Do this for every album art cover you have. You may want to organize your music if it isn't already since you can't have the same name files together so something like this: sdcard\media\music\vampireweekend\contra\ and create another subfolder for another album like this: ..\vampireweekend\vampireweekend\
That way each album has its on album art work. Then after you've renamed all your album covers to "albumart.jpg" reboot and viola they're gone! This worked for me and I don't see why it shouldn't for you.:good:
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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Cool this works a charm on 4.2.2 Stock Gallery app.
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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This works well, however my music can not be found anymore in the Play Music app... Not the solution then
!!EDIT!!: Sorry I was too impatient. After I waited some more and started up the Play Music app, all my music was there Thanks!
Delete Cover or album art in Android stock gallery
instanceof said:
No need to download any application. Just rename your top level music folder to "media" or put all of them under "media" folder in your sdcard or phone memory.
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No album or cover art in my gallery anymore. Thanks for that!
The media folder contains stuff like Facebook_pop.m4a etc. Now they are showing up in my music player list(rocket). Any ideas?
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Best way that I have found to hide in stock gallery.
-Install QuickPic
-place random picture inside of your main music directory on your SD card (ex /media)
-Hide the folder in quickpic
-Exclude the folder in quickpic
Now none of the album art shows up in either quickpic or stock gallery.
Hey,
I havn't come accross a way to disable album art in the default music player.
Is there a way? All the default ones are absolutely hideous.
Does anyone know the path to the images? I'm rooted so i could replace them myself.
Thank you.
I don't know the specific location, but have a look into the free app Album Art Grabber. It lets you choose new album art from lastfm, musicbrainz or your SD card. I just used it to update all my album art and it did all the well known ones automatically, and then for my more obscure music or stuff not in proper albums, I just did those myself manually.
uzzy said:
Hey,
I havn't come accross a way to disable album art in the default music player.
Is there a way? All the default ones are absolutely hideous.
Does anyone know the path to the images? I'm rooted so i could replace them myself.
Thank you.
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Just put the cover image on the folder and it should work.
Tsukurimashou said:
Just put the cover image on the folder and it should work.
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I copied a few folders containing FLAC music files and album art on to the SD card.
The SG3 eventually discovered and used some of my images, but it doesn't seem to use the jpegs called Folder.jpg or folder.jpg, but instead it's (apparently) randomly picking a different image, albeit from the correct folder.
I have usually found that the main album art image should be titled "folder.jpg" for the most universal compatibility with different music players, so I'm puzzled that the SG3 seems to studiously ignore it!
Could my album art files be too large? I've not experimented much yet.
Ideas welcome!
Thanks
Well maybe it's because of the size, I don't have to name it folder.jpg it just takes the 1st image on the folder I think. I just copied my music on my GS3 and I have some folder with covers and I noticed it always takes the 1st pic as album cover, for example I have Front.JPG Front2.JPG Front3.JPG and Front4.JPG and it is displaying Front.JPG as cover, on another folder I have Lady GaGa-The Fame [Front].jpg Lady GaGa-The Fame [CD].jpg and Lady GaGa-The Fame [Back].jpg and it is displaying Lady GaGa-The Fame [Front].jpg just try to name it cover.jpg and it should work imo, if it doesn't work try to reduce the image size to see if there is a limit.
Well, I deleted all the album art that I DIDN'T want from the music folders in the SD Card (just leaving the cover images), but the wretched wrong images remained showing in the music player!
SO I went to the Applications Manager (under "settings") then to "Media Storage", cleared the cache there and restarted the phone.
Sure enough, the correct album art now shows. Much happier!
fasty said:
Well, I deleted all the album art that I DIDN'T want from the music folders in the SD Card (just leaving the cover images), but the wretched wrong images remained showing in the music player!
SO I went to the Applications Manager (under "settings") then to "Media Storage", cleared the cache there and restarted the phone.
Sure enough, the correct album art now shows. Much happier!
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I'm glad you found out, thanks for sharing.
Power Amp will give you complete control over such things and is probably a better solution than the stock player to boot, for local files anyways...
That being said I use an app, forget what it's called, MP3Tag that lets you embed your own images in your mp3 files and you never have to worry about images being wrong again as long as the music app you use is configurable so that it won't try to get it's own art. .....any of them worth a crap are...
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wrong forum
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Yes but the post is nearly a year old why trawl .Post was dead until you resurected it from the depths .
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I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
Try clearing data in "MediaScanner" in the applications manager, and then rebooting. Give it a little while as it can take a few minutes to scan the entire phone.
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I need help and this has been driving me nuts for the past hour of two. I placed 2 new music albums to my internal SD card (/storage/sdcard0/Music) and for some reason my music player cannot detect them. What I did is I checked the entire Music folder for any .nomedia but there is none. I downloaded a SD scan app and still the same.
The last resort i did is i deleted everything from my music folder and transferred everything again from PC to the S3. Now after doing that, the new albums appeared BUT one of the older albums is not showing! I checked the folder via Root Explorer and MyFiles and the album and songs are in my internal SD card. Like I said in my first statement, these albums/songs are located in just one folder.
Same result if I use the stock music app or a third party app like N7.
I am now frustrated and lost
I am currently using LI8.
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Try putting the music somewhere else on your SD, before deleting caches and data... If that doesn't work, you can always just delete the cache of your music player, that usually works, but try not to delete the Media Scanner's Cache, that means it will take longer to boot and get to the launcher...
If you want, you could also just download Google Play Music, it's better than Samsung's Music player (Because Music Player leaves a second out of the music..) and Play Music is much smoother than Sammy's..
Try one of those and if it still doesn't work, do the Media Scanner Cache.
Anyways, hope I could help you!
You can also decrease the scanning times by using the SD watcher mod here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28795745&postcount=2
Thanks! I'll try all the options provided and will let everyone know the results.
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I recently added all my music (roughly 90GB of music) to a Sandisk 128 GB Class 10 microSD. I put this microSD into my phone and my music players were unable to locate all the music. I don't know how, but at one point, all my music was finally scrollable. After some tinkering with the ".nomedia" file, all my album artwork showed up in my gallery. I've since then installed QuickPic to deal with that annoyance. However, I have been unable to look at all my music again. The majority of my music are in one big folder with no name in the stock music player. In Shuttle, every song in it is called "null - null". If I click on the album, Shuttle crashes. When I go to the songs tab, they're all there and playable, but are still under null-null and makes it very difficult to browse and select the music I want to listen to. When using file explorer (ES File Explorer), I can see all the artist folders in my Music folder perfectly fine. How can I restore my phone's ability to view my entire library of music?
I've yet to try deleting everything off the card, and then retransferring, but that's a real pain in the butt that will take forever and I would rather do that as a final option (though I don't know if that would even help).
I have tried deleting my music players' data and uninstalling/reinstalling them. I have tried restarting my phone and unmounting/mounting my SD card, but still no luck.
Oh, and I am rooted on QF6 Hybrid Nougat ROM on T-Mobile S7.
Have you tried another music apps besides shuttle to work with, eg. Poweramp, black player?
Any possibilities your sdcard is corrupted or something, I mean like incompatible file system, fat, fat32, exfat, ntfs that maybe not compatible with your current roms kernel?