I have tried the built in media player, doubletwist and also 'MixZing' I can't seem to figure out how to navigate to a particular folder to play an .mp3. What am I missing here?
I do not know how to do this from the player but here is what work:
Open File Manager (My Files)
Navigate to the folder
Double click the first mp3 file in the folder
File manager will offer a list of music players to play the file. The player will then proceed to play the files from the folder
In general, it seems like the use of tags in MP3 files is the way to go though.
Great tip! I never thought to use "My Files" since I normally use ES File manager, but that works great! Thank you.
So I am not doing anything wrong, these options are just not part of these players?
Im not sure I understand the question. Whatever files i have on my sd card show up in Video player/ Music Player, or whatever files the player is capable of playing, no matter where they are on the sd card.
The built in player doesn't have a file explorer
The built in player doesn't have a file explorer, but it should have all your compatible files indexed. It has an ok search function that you can use to find what you are looking for after you enter the app. click on the search touch button on the bottom right of your phone.
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All my mp3 files are not being recognized within file explorer?? Properties still shows them as MP3s but I can't play them therefore they are not recognized as ringtones or songs
It started when I tried Nitrogen player but did not like it so I took it off and now all my mp3 files will not play. If I go through media player or S2P I can play them but my phone will not recognize any of these so it will not play them as ringtones anymore... I reinstalled Nitrogen and they can play through file explorer BUT still no ringtones... What the ... did I do?
I did a reg restore and and I removed all of Nitrogen through SK files search but still no go... Ahy ideas
Edit: I changed all my mp3s in the system to wmas and its working. i dont get it.
My guess would be that its screwed up the file associations on the uninstall. To re-associate, go to an MP3 file in file manager and open the context menu (either press & hold on the file on screen or hold your dpad button). You should get a menu with an "Open With Program..." option. Select that, choose "Windows Media" and tick the "Associate selected program with this file type" box.
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Some versions of WinMo/File Explorer dont appear to have the "Open With" option. In this case you should be able to use an external file association program such as BadSchwii's
More information here...
http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/forum/topic/17100
Hi people, i had problems with Windows Mobile Media Player.
All my audio files is in my storage card, including App's audio file.
There is too many App's audio file each time i update my library(200+)
My Music was stored in proper folder and i want it to be like that(language-singer-mp3)
What can i do? i do not want those 200+ App's audio file to be played in my media player.
noobielameo said:
Hi people, i had problems with Windows Mobile Media Player.
All my audio files is in my storage card, including App's audio file.
There is too many App's audio file each time i update my library(200+)
My Music was stored in proper folder and i want it to be like that(language-singer-mp3)
What can i do? i do not want those 200+ App's audio file to be played in my media player.
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What phone and version of WM do you have?
I'm guessing that the 200+ files belong to apps that you installed on your SD card? If so, you need to use Total Commander to navigate to the /storage card/program files folder, and mark it as "hidden"...you'll still be able to see/use the folder (and run apps that are in it), but the music player won't index it anymore.
have u done these? click on menu - open files(choose folder) - queue up
btw, try using audio manager, nitrogen, or coreplayer. They are more user friendly
sirphunkee said:
What phone and version of WM do you have?
I'm guessing that the 200+ files belong to apps that you installed on your SD card? If so, you need to use Total Commander to navigate to the /storage card/program files folder, and mark it as "hidden"...you'll still be able to see/use the folder (and run apps that are in it), but the music player won't index it anymore.
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I am using HD2 WM6.5 rom 1.66.707.1(76641)WWE
The files is taking about >80mb, thats why i installed them in my SD.
I tried making them hidden but the player still had them added.
ingerasu said:
have u done these? click on menu - open files(choose folder) - queue up
btw, try using audio manager, nitrogen, or coreplayer. They are more user friendly
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queue up and save as playlist. guess i will try coreplayer.
Hello!
I've got my Sensation yesterday
Loving it, despite of the bugsss
I see that Sensation can config SRS in the default player, wanna use it with speakers
But I rarely use the default player =\ .. mostly mSpot and I'm thinking of testing Google Music, both having their "custom" players
Is it possible to take advantage of SRS with any other streaming music player?
Or make the default player see the songs downloaded by mSpot? (yea.. I wasn't able to make it do that )
That's weird, cuz it can find musics downloaded by "MP3 Music Download". And it's not the codec either, it's m4a by mSpot.
Thanks in advance!
SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.
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SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.
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Thanks for your reply.
I tried the SDRescan, but it didn't work =\
I've also rebooted the phone.. it just doesn't see the mSpot folder -.-
I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.
I did a test copying the mSpot file to another folder.. it was able to see the music
So I guess the file is not the problem
But still can't make it to scan mSpot folder
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I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.
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The files are there. Didn't find any setting like that.
I think I'm just gonna try Google Music (to sync) and play them with default player
Thanks, though!
Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..
Use Volume+.
ercliou said:
Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..
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That sucks man. DRM sucks. Yeah any folder with a file .nomedia or any folder that begins with a . is hidden from a media scan. The period first in the name is how you label a file or folder hidden in Linux.
Hi Guys, I recently downloaded a bunch of audiobooks and put them on my new Samsung Galaxy S III however it seems that the stock music player picked up these songs even though they were in a separate folder from my music. I was hoping somebody has found a way to remove songs from the stock media player with out actually deleting them. I use a different app for my audiobooks. Another possibility is having the music player only get songs from a specific location, which i also have no idea how to do.
Thanks for all your help guys
Make a new file in the folder you want not to show up and name it .nomedia. This causes the media scanner to skip the folder.
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Make a new file in the folder you want not to show up and name it .nomedia. This causes the media scanner to skip the folder.
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would this disable mort player from seeing the media also or just the music player?
I have no idea how mort works. This disables the built in media scanner from scanning the folder. If mort relies on the built in scanner to find media, then yes, I think will cause mort not to see your files. However, if mort has an import or manually add option, you can just add the folder yourself.
You can easily undo this by simply deleting the file, so just try it and see if it works for you.
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I have no idea how mort works. This disables the built in media scanner from scanning the folder. If mort relies on the built in scanner to find media, then yes, I think will cause mort not to see your files. However, if mort has an import or manually add option, you can just add the folder yourself.
You can easily undo this by simply deleting the file, so just try it and see if it works for you.
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I tried add the .nomedia file to my audio book folder however it seems my audio books are still showing up on the media player i have rebooted my device and updated my library. did i miss anything?
You may need to remove the files from the media player manually. The scanner won't automatically add them again. If you have too many files to remove them manually, try deleting the audiobooks from your device entirely, ensure they aren't in the media player anymore, then add them back along with the .nomedia file (probably put the .nomedia file in place first, just in case).
dump the junky stock player and get poweramp
it will solve all the problems you are having, you can tell it where to look for songs only
Hi all, I have try using Google Music and Shuttle Music Player.. it's quite weird that it even detects my mpg files or my recording files which are store inside other folders ...
It's frustrating that I have to go through the Song list and start to blacklist one by one...is there a way around this ? I can't see it in the app Settings ...
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Hi all, I have try using Google Music and Shuttle Music Player.. it's quite weird that it even detects my mpg files or my recording files which are store inside other folders ...
It's frustrating that I have to go through the Song list and start to blacklist one by one...is there a way around this ? I can't see it in the app Settings ...
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This isn't a Google Music/Shuttle Player issue. This is how Android hunts for media.
To prevent any app from indexing a location that has media files (and by extension, showing up in any music/gallery/movie player app), you have to add a .nomedia file inside the directory that contains the files.
You can do this one of two ways; you can open a blank notepad file, save it with the filename ".nomedia" and set the filetype to "all types", or you can download this one which I made here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xat4bgykd5tugvl/nomedia.zip
Extract from the above folder, and copy and paste the .nomedia file into any folder that contains things you don't want to see in your media players. Then close Play Music/Shuttle or force close/clear data on them, and open them back up again. You won't see them anymore.
thank you so much ... that helps a lot