AS The thread title really.I have some audio books on my sd card which are picked up by the music player.
on my last Motorola phone it was simple to force the music player to exclude folders but I cannot d find a way in this one
Any suggestions?
Create an empty document with Notepad on your computer, then rename it to ".nomedia" and put this file in the folder you want to exclude.
If you do this it should not pick up any media from those folders.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it hasn't worked.
Should I delete all of the music from the library first? And if so how do I do it? Do I have to delete the Music from the SD card?
EDIT: Nope tried all of that and the audio books are still showing up!
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With my X10i, i got use to using Media Go.
Arranges folders etc on the SDCard under a folder caused Music.
Obviousley i copied this filde from my SDCard onto my S2 Sdcard.
Im still using Media Go for now, but have to manually refresh/rescan in Poweramp eveytime.
Anyone else having this issue.
Back on topic. Whats people using to transfer music? I like to make sure they have covers etc, and to continue putting them into the SdCard/Music foldr, into relevant artists foldr etc.
I'm not sure about the relevant artists function but I use doubleTwist because it pulls the playlists from itunes and syncs all the music with your phone in a folder called music on your sd card if you want. I think if you wanna use poweramp you have to manually re-scan your library every time new music is added, not sure about that though.
Hi all, is there a way to have the HTC player read only the mp3 files in my "my music" folder instead if playing all my music and wav files that I have on my phone? I added a bunch of music from my library to my "my music" folder and it seems like a pain in the rear to add a playlist to only those files since I have to add them all manually. 300+ songs...ya right! If the player can read only files in a certain folder that would be great.
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Hi all, is there a way to have the HTC player read only the mp3 files in my "my music" folder instead if playing all my music and wav files that I have on my phone? I added a bunch of music from my library to my "my music" folder and it seems like a pain in the rear to add a playlist to only those files since I have to add them all manually. 300+ songs...ya right! If the player can read only files in a certain folder that would be great.
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use itunes to make the playlist. right click on it and export as an m3u file, drag it to your music folder and use the all playlist
you can put them in a .music folder that would be hidden i believe from the player
Create a folder named. Nomedia add it where the files you don't want to show up like ringtones etc
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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?
I've been on my S4 for about a month, and have encountered an annoying problem.
I have about 10 gb of music in a folder called Music on my external SD card. I can see and pltany song via my files, or ES file Explorer. But none of my music apps (Samsung Music Player, Winamp, or Google Play Music) can see any songs that are in the Music folder. They can see music in the download folder on the sd card, but not the folder that houses my music files.
I've tried changing the default location in My Files, but that had no effect. I've cleared defaults, and tried everything I can think of, but no luck.
Has anyone else encountered this? How can I get my apps to see my music folders?
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Try popping out and polling in your SD card. That forces the gallery to search for new files. Never know, that might be the problem.
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Check for files called .nomedia and delete if you find any. That's really all I can think of right now
I have a bunch of music on an sdcard and it was working fine, but I got tired of seeing all the album art in the gallery, so I used the app called Explorer to put a .nomedia file in the music folder, and the album art disappeared from the gallery, but then the music wouldn't show in the music app either. So I deleted the .nomedia file but the music still won't show in the music app. Since deleting .nomedia I've cleared cache and data in the music apps, rebooted, all that stuff. What to do?? I can still play the music with the music app if I go thru Explorer. If I have to I'll just rdelete the music folder and reload it from my hard drive...
So if I add the music back to the card from the hard drive it shows back up in the music app. Hassle but at least it works
I noticed the same thing with my photos, after deleting .nomedia they did not come back but any new photos added to the folder showed up fine.
Many aftermarket media players will let you set your music directory directly and ignore the .nomedia file, Poweramp for example. You can then use the nomedia file and still have your music.
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I noticed the same thing with my photos, after deleting .nomedia they did not come back but any new photos added to the folder showed up fine.
Many aftermarket media players will let you set your music directory directly and ignore the .nomedia file, Poweramp for example. You can then use the nomedia file and still have your music.
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Which file program did you use to create the .nomedia file? I use Explorer which is the non root version of Root Explorer, so I was wondering if that app kind of messes up your files if you add a .nomedia file.
first of all, if you are listening to any 44.1khz pcm file, you should not use the stock LG music player. It upsamples all 44.1khz pcm to 48khz pcm and creates audible artifacts. Neutron will work for you and ignore .nomedia. What it will not do yet is correctly unfold .mqa files and play DSD256 files. You should also consider using a photo viewer program that lets you choose where your pictures are located so that you do not have to bother with .nomedia at all.
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first of all, if you are listening to any 44.1khz pcm file, you should not use the stock LG music player. It upsamples all 44.1khz pcm to 48khz pcm and creates audible artifacts. Neutron will work for you and ignore .nomedia. What it will not do yet is correctly unfold .mqa files and play DSD256 files. You should also consider using a photo viewer program that lets you choose where your pictures are located so that you do not have to bother with .nomedia at all.
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Thanks for the tips!
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Which file program did you use to create the .nomedia file? I use Explorer which is the non root version of Root Explorer, so I was wondering if that app kind of messes up your files if you add a .nomedia file.
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I did it from a PC, I use solid explorer but it did not seem to work creating the nomedia file from that.