So I really want to move my apps to my sd for all the obvious benefits, but when i format my sd to do this I have to copy all my music back(1100 songs!). Not that I'm lazy... but when I do this about 1/4 of my songs have some # in front of the filename before the song title. I.E. 03 Dude looks like a lady. I am so sick of modifying these filenames just to get an alphabetic listing in the music player. Does anyone know why this happens and if there is any way to avoid it. Also, when I format my sd card, the second part is supposed to be ex2, but i don't see that option in my mac's disk utility tool. Is it called something else on a mac? My goal is to install a theme on dude's latest build. Thanks for everyone's help! This place is tops! credits:
haykuro, thedudeofLife, jesusfreke, and all those who don't have their names on the builds, but are major contributors.
my first attempt at installing a theme resulted in a blank screen after reboot
Sounds like your music files arent being managed.
You need to go through your folders and tidy up the tags on your songs.
I dont use Mac, so I cant help you there.
JackD3ath said:
Sounds like your music files arent being managed.
You need to go through your folders and tidy up the tags on your songs.
I dont use Mac, so I cant help you there.
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my files look as they should on itunes or in their folder on my mac. but when i copy them to my phone, i get random numbering. it's not because there are duplicates, i checked that out. i am perplexed as to what that is all about.
thanx for the response
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I thought I had made a thread for this a while ago, but can not find it. Sorry if its a repost.
What I was wondering is whether or not someone who had an app, or the skilz to make an app, that can take a sample of an mp3/wma/ogg/flac/etc file, match it on say shazam or something then update the ID3 tag with the pulled info. With the option for it just to rename them automatically, or ask for your approval of changes. Much like how Album Art Grabber gets your artwork for you on mass, with little or no manual intervention. This would be great for a few reasons.
I have been finding myself using mp3 download apps on my phone a lot now, more so than my comp and these files are usually incomplete at best. a way to get these, then run this app to fix discrepancies would be awesome!
Its not that I'm lazy, I just have 10+ years of tunes on my external and a lot of them didn't get tags back in the day. Plus after that long, uploads, downloads, 4 computers, iTunes (ARGH!!! I HATE ITUNES!!!!!!) renaming and reorganizing have some in a mess. So when I transfer them, they usually all show up unknown, null, or DGOI.mp3. And renaming & tagging 1000s of songs one by one is not how I want to spend a week.
Hope this sparks an idea, or someone can point me in the direction of one that already exists. I'm sure one does for a PC, but I don't use mine for media other than movies. My phone is my music machine. If a PC solution is the only way so be it.
I don't know of an app that can do this but maybe someone could take the method that the app ,"MP3 Download", uses. First you search for a song and can preview then you can choose to download it. Once you have downloaded it you can goto edit tags and it has a download button... I don't know what database it uses or how it is configured but it will give you album art and is usually correct. I think it has to have the album name though.
Thanks! I'll try that on there, and my old iMusic Tao apk I still have.
Mixzing pro can do this
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I used to be able to do it on 2.2, 2.1, etc. Just create a directory with a dot in front of it ".temps", and use astro to find the files, but maybe something is different with honeycomb? I'm doing the same thing, but gallery still sees all of my files. Thanks.
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maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.
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maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.
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lol - that's what we were all thinking!
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I used to be able to do it on 2.2, 2.1, etc. Just create a directory with a dot in front of it ".temps", and use astro to find the files, but maybe something is different with honeycomb? I'm doing the same thing, but gallery still sees all of my files. Thanks.
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.nomedia file in the directrory
toddmp said:
maybe just use a specific micro-sd card for your porn.
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Lmao.
Clear cache and reboot -
Ya yesterday I googled this and found some said make a file called .nomedia in the folder and others said to put a . in the folder name so I did both and it didn't work, but then I reboot the TF and then it worked so not sure which one actually did it or if both did.
.nomedia does work. The thing is the media scan only run when you rebooted. I think DevTools or SpareParts (don't have my TF with me right now) has an option to force a media scan so youdon't need to reboot.
I have a similar question, but it might be different case though.
Anyway, I have a lot music folder containing mp3 songs and in each folder there is a file called folder.jpg. I created those folder.jpg files manually to assign each music folder a cover picture. They are all shown up properly in the Music player.
(I had this for long time already for my Windows phone, Android phone, Windows PCs).
The problem I have is that, those folder.jpg files are also shown in the Gallery (for Pictures) and I do not know how to exclude/hide those folder.jpg files from the Gallery.
Any clue will be appreciated.
Spawned a good idea. Given .nomedia is supported, the android devs should expand the idea to help you solve your problem. Something like .nophotos in any music folder you don't want photos to be noticed in, and .nomusic, .novideos, .nodocuments, etc..?
When you say reboot, do you mean power off/on? I use Quickpic to browse photos since it doesn't include album art, but I like the default pic viewer and would like it exclude album art as well. I added the *.nomedia to my /music directory and it still shows album art.
Try changing the name of file from folder.jpg to albumart.jpg. It worked on Android 2.x
Has anyone figured out the problem with AAC encoded mpa files and the tags. I'm seeing the same problem in all 2.3.4 ROMs. No music program (stock, Google Music, doubletwist, PowerAmp, etc...) will read the tags from any mpa file. MP3 files work fine. I've tried Apex 7.2, Continuum 6 RC1, and AtomicFusion 1.0. I've tried the Samsung 2.3.3 ROM and Cog 5 Beta 2, both of which work correctly. Is it because the 2.3.4 ROMs are I9000 and the 2.3.3 ROMs are Captivate specific? I don't think I'm the only one.
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I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
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I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. I just find it weird that 2.3.4 ROMs as a whole will not read the tags from mpa files while the 2.3.3 ROMs work fine. MP3 files work fine with both versions of gingerbread.
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I had this same issue once upon a time (and whenever I reload my music files back to my phone) and what's happening here is there's a blank album artist tag in the file our something like that. I fixed the issue by loading all of the problem files into a program called mp3tag and going into extended tags and deleting the offending tag.after I did that my phone recognised all of my tags. I'm not near my computer now, but I can tell you more information later in the day, but you may be able to find the problem tag just by playing with the file
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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I tried using Media Monkey to convert a few AAC files into mp3 files. The phone read the new files without error. I think there is a glitch with the base Android OS.
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I tried using Media Monkey to convert a few AAC files into mp3 files. The phone read the new files without error. I think there is a glitch with the base Android OS.
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Sigh. I was hoping to avoid this. Thanks for testing and confirming.
Makes me wonder if the issue is android or samsung based (as in an issue with their code).
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Sigh. I was hoping to avoid this. Thanks for testing and confirming.
Makes me wonder if the issue is android or samsung based (as in an issue with their code).
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It's more likely caused by Apple... if you ask me
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It's more likely caused by Apple... if you ask me
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Agreed good sir.
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I just tried using this program and I still couldn't get it to work. All my trouble is coming with my AAC/MP4 files which were encoded via itunes. The album artist fields are blank on all of them so using mp3tagger I created an "action" that would copy the artist info into the album artist field. This didn't solve the problem. There is nothing that I can delete where it would seem to change anything. I'm kinda lost here on what to try next.
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
sadly have the same problem. im trying media monkey now. i accidently made a whole bunch of songs he same album
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
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Thanks. I tried doing that already and still couldn't get it to work. I ended up converting everything back to mp3.
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Take one of the problem files and right click on it and look at the extended tags, you should see a blank album artist tag, or band tag or something like that (may not even be blank as some were in my case!). Take note of all the extraneous tags, select all of the problem files and go back into extended tags and just delete all the tags you don't need to classify your music -- That should fix it
--I don't have much access to my computer from here but I just tried what I did before and I believe it has to do with the 'album artist' tag with a space. Just looking at one file you might not be able to see it, you have to select the entire range for it to show up under extended tags
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That may work for the artist field but the title, track, genre, etc are all still screwy. The only field that is read correctly is album. I just find it so odd that these files were fine with Eclair, Froyo and Gingerbread 2.3.3
I HATE Zune!
I find it very painfull to use if you have a bunch of un-named songs its just useless.
I miss the days of just dragging and dropping the folders in explorer onto my phone in order to sync my files.
So I have access to the filesystem on my phone using Windows phone device manager, but I still cant locate where WP keeps, Music, pics or videos etc!...
Can someone please help me out.?
EDIT: Just found where it stored my songs and album art. Seems it wont help if I just copying my media into the filesystem Why can't it just have a file called, music, videos etc!!!!)
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I HATE Zune!
I find it very painfull to use if you have a bunch of un-named songs its just useless.
I miss the days of just dragging and dropping the folders in explorer onto my phone in order to sync my files.
So I have access to the filesystem on my phone using Windows phone device manager, but I still cant locate where WP keeps, Music, pics or videos etc!...
Can someone please help me out.?
EDIT: Just found where it stored my songs and album art. Seems it wont help if I just copying my media into the filesystem Why can't it just have a file called, music, videos etc!!!!)
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Because Windows Phone sucks ass, trying to be like the iPhone. They figured that this way you wouldn't share music that you've downloaded with others so they can make more money; same reason you can't freaking send an audio file as an attachment or MMS. People on here are probably tired of hearing me say this but WM kicks WP ass by a long shot, this is why their sales suck.
"I find it very painfull to use if you have a bunch of un-named songs its just useless."
Consider that you are the problem, not zune. Go organize your music library, learn to use a computer, etc etc.
sinister1: WM sales weren't great either...
Why are there two WP haters spamming up this forum?
mmm, excuse me!
Check my previous posts! I am no spammer!
Maybe this forum would be a better place without "senior" members like you!
And as for me knowing how to use a computer.......the first computer I used was a commodore VIC-20, you probably dont even know what one of them is!
I have probably built more computer systems than you have had hot meals!
I will not stand for this personal attack! Certainly not from a senior member that should know better!
I was about to post a question about this, but I just figured this out myself. My phone recently updated to Android 11. I have an SD-Card which has music on it - along with a lot of album art. Since the update, all these album art photos have been cluttering up my gallery. Every time I add a .nomedia file in here (which also was there before the update), it seems to get automatically deleted (no, not hidden). I tried copying a .nomedia file from elsewhere on the phone. I even tried popping out the SD-Card and adding the file via PC. As soon as Android touches it, it deletes the file again.
So, here is the issue. With Android 11, it is creating some default folders (I wish it wouldn't clutter up things with these empty folders that I never need or use). Those default folders include: Music, Pictures, Movies. These are created at the top level on the SD-Card and on internal storage. So, if you are also using one of those folders for something, it's going to auto delete the .nomedia file. In my case, I just moved my music into a Musics folder instead(and ensured it has a .nomedia file, of course.
Hopefully this will save someone else from wasting their time trying to figure out why this is happening!
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I was about to post a question about this, but I just figured this out myself. My phone recently updated to Android 11. I have an SD-Card which has music on it - along with a lot of album art. Since the update, all these album art photos have been cluttering up my gallery. Every time I add a .nomedia file in here (which also was there before the update), it seems to get automatically deleted (no, not hidden). I tried copying a .nomedia file from elsewhere on the phone. I even tried popping out the SD-Card and adding the file via PC. As soon as Android touches it, it deletes the file again.
So, here is the issue. With Android 11, it is creating some default folders (I wish it wouldn't clutter up things with these empty folders that I never need or use). Those default folders include: Music, Pictures, Movies. These are created at the top level on the SD-Card and on internal storage. So, if you are also using one of those folders for something, it's going to auto delete the .nomedia file. In my case, I just moved my music into a Musics folder instead(and ensured it has a .nomedia file, of course.
Hopefully this will save someone else from wasting their time trying to figure out why this is happening!
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This makes no sense, please explain in more detail.
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This makes no sense, please explain in more detail.
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If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.
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If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.
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Thanks that's what I did and got lucky, I was so desperate I signed up to XDA just to comment I gotta say XDA I love your site and been reading for a couple year's now, enjoy the information provided, thanks guy's for all your hard work
pacaveli420 said:
If you're storing your music files in any of the default folders, Android is going to auto delete your .nomedia file if you try to put one there. Ergo, the solution is you need to store your music in a folder named something else.
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Thank you for saving my media library! I've been tortured by this issue since using the new phone, finally!
hello, i just get Android 11 on my MI A3, and those folders ( music, pictures, movies )appears on my sd card, they are useless for me, is there a way to delete them?
before Android 11, i didn't have this problem because i choosed " use sd as external support " instead of "use sd as extended memory" when inserting the sd card, but now even if i make the same choice, the folders are there and i can't delete them.
Sort of off topic but not really:
How do I stop it from creating these default folders? It's extremely annoying. I don't have my SD card structured that way and never have. I've deleted the default music, movies, etc folders numerous times now as they just clutter up the root directory and they keep reappearing. Is there a solution to this?
This seems to be a part of Android 11s default folder structure which no one ever bothered to do something about. I wouldn't be surprised if it's there for "security reasons" as well as a communist one. As in you only have the option to use these "secure" folders or else it won't show up in your apps at all.
This might be a way for Google to slowly faze out SDCards entirely while only giving you the option to use said folders for your "private" stuff akin to how IOS (kinda) works. In other words, they are doing it on purpose and no one ever bothered to read the fine print.
Obviously private music and other media collections is the root (see what I did there) cause of the problem. They don't want you to have those at all, And want you to use streaming services instead (tinfoil hat). Which is probably what these folders will probably end up being used for.
Netflix and Spotify allow you to store music on your device, but it's encrypted and will probably end up there at some point in Androids lifecycle. Obviously these files don't need .nomedia since the files are encrypted and will only show up in said app either way which makes the above meaningless.
Most of this is speculation obviously, but we've slowly been moving towards this trend if you look at how System apps were split into app and priv-app and so on. At some point in time only certain apps that has had the blessing of Google will be allowed to read anything off your storage. This happened with Chrome not to long ago where they blocked side-loaded extensions from running.
You will slowly see Android turning into IOS because they (Google) and big-tech in general wants 100% control of what you can and can't do. And everything based on AOSP or LOS is gonna follow suit because no one gives a flying fudge because that's too bothersome. The fragmentation of custom builds based on LOS/AOSP in general already shows that this has always been the case for the last 10 years. Linux in general is no different either as can be seen with wokeism. Except that was through decimation via woke people and not big-tech.
I was going crazy thinking this issue was specific to my samsung's stock rom. I started searching about this once I noticed it on LOS 18. Glad I'm not alone
I tend to be a little OCD about my folder structures but at this point I don't mind making a separate folder to avoid album arts in my gallery.
I believe I found a solution to this. It's been about a week or two with no further incident now. My solution was to delete the default folders from the root of the SD card because I don't use them, then create blank files that used those names. Haven't had a problem since.
I use the top level pictures folder because of a compatibility issue with programs that have small file path character limits that cause the program to hang. I don't use them anymore but I haven't had a reason to move it back where I had it previously and that would only make the default folder issue worse if I did. Or at least it would have until now with this discovery.
I do not use the movies and music folders, and if I move my pictures folder back where I had it I won't use that one either. Having them pop up on their own to clutter my root directory on both my SD card and my phone itself was very annoying. After deleting the movies and music folders off of the root of my SD card for the billionth time and getting rid of the empty default folders on my phone again, I created two blank files on my SD card root called Music and Movies. Ever since then the default folders haven't reappeared. On top of that, it hasn't created any ".thumbnails" folders all over the place like it always used to do either. That includes doing so on the internal phone storage. Creating those files on the SD card seems to have broken the whole process. I imagine the same would work vice versa for OP since it sounds like they use those default folders. Find an empty default folder on internal storage, delete it, create a file and name it the name of the folder you deleted (case sensitive), and that should disable the annoying default folder management process too. I can't vouch for that method, but I can vouch for it working when you do so on the SD card.
I just noticed this today on my tab s7+.
From what I can tell, the .nomedia file nolonger does anything on its own. However, if I add the .nomedia file to a folder, then rename the folder placing a . in front, of course it hides the entire folder. When I rename the folder again, removing the ., the .nomedia file now works. No matter how many times I rename the folder, the gallery does not see it until I remove the .nomedia file.
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I just noticed this today on my tab s7+.
From what I can tell, the .nomedia file nolonger does anything on its own. However, if I add the .nomedia file to a folder, then rename the folder placing a . in front, of course it hides the entire folder. When I rename the folder again, removing the ., the .nomedia file now works. No matter how many times I rename the folder, the gallery does not see it until I remove the .nomedia file.
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thank you pool shark.. i tried what you did/suggested and it worked. thanks.