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?
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Whenever I copy an .m3u playlist onto the device, when it does the 'updating multimedia library' scan it is deleting my playlist. Anybody else having this problem? No matter where I put the file the scan finds it and deletes it.
I have been having problems with playlists disappearing, but did not associate it with the f'ing scan.
put .nomedia in the directory and see if that helps.
I thought it was the player I was using - justplaylists
Hey i tried out that .nomedia... it does prevent the playlist from being deleted but then the media players dont find them
JustPlaylists does find them and you should be able to launch them directly with your preferred player by putting a blackmoon or ES shortcut to the file on your home screen.
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.
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!
Intetested in this as well...
I can't seem to get my phone to recognize some of my mp3 songs. I've placed the same file in about 100 different folders on ext_sd and on internal but it won't show up in music player or my alarm. I can see it and play it under es file explorer. Tried reboots and unmounting the card. I even use the extended controls update media widget. Any help?
Did you try clearing data for the music player? This might help your sd card get scanned for new music.
Just a thought
Check what folders you have the player scanning for music.
Hi there, I have a lot of music downloaded into Google Play, but I was wondering if there was a way I could go into the settings with a computer to find the files and copy it from there, and put it into the music folder? Is there a way I could do that? So I could delete the google play app, I don't like that it will automatically edit the music on the phone if you did it on the computer.
Another reason is that I like the music widget, and I want that to appear for all my songs, not just in my phone. So I want to move all my music that is downloaded to google play music to my phone. Does that make sense? And is there a way to do so?
Google Music songs are stored online at "Google Music"
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Google Music songs are stored online at "Google Music"
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I know that, I downloaded it to my device so now it is stored on the phone memory in the app itself. Is there a way to transfer that into the music folder?
Easiest way is just to download it onto your computer then transfer across.
When you say you downloaded it to your device, did you do it through the app and select songs to keep for offline listening? If you did that, then the files saved aren't actually the music files. I'm not sure what they are, but they are only readable by Google Music.
What you can do (to build off of madflier's post) is go to the Music Manager on your desktop, and there will be a tab to download some or all of your music from Google Music onto your computer. You can then move the music into a folder on your phone and listen there.
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When you say you downloaded it to your device, did you do it through the app and select songs to keep for offline listening? If you did that, then the files saved aren't actually the music files. I'm not sure what they are, but they are only readable by Google Music.
What you can do (to build off of madflier's post) is go to the Music Manager on your desktop, and there will be a tab to download some or all of your music from Google Music onto your computer. You can then move the music into a folder on your phone and listen there.
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Thank you bro, I did it, and it worked perfectly!!!