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Audio Books

I have a few audio books that I want to listen to on my phone. These files are mp3 files. I found an app that will let me bookmark the files like audiobooks (Audio book player). The problem is that now in the music player it shows all the tracks of the audio books. I found a way to exclude the audio book files from the music app ( .nomedia file in the folder). But the audio book app doesn't see them now.
Is there a way to exclude a certain folder from being seen in the music app but seen elsewhere? Or, is there an audio book player app that can see the contents of a folder, instead of seeing "music" from the media scan.
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Nevermind ... some additional Googling found tinyPlayer. It gives me the audio book functionality with folder view not using the "music" on the phone.
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[Q] Default HTC music player

How do I get a songs I downloaded on a mp3 music app to show up on the default music player?
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They need to go into the "Media" folder on the SD card

Thanks for the reply...
Yea it's saved auto to the music folder but now its showing up on the player. Don't know why it was taking so long.
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My solution to music player
SupremeC281 said:
How do I get a songs I downloaded on a mp3 music app to show up on the default music player?
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I had this same issue..that is, until I downloaded widgetsoid2.x and created a media scan widget. I just download a song from the mp3 downloader app, do a media scan and then I'm set. Hope this helps

mine is perfectly fine i put 3 albums in root and it recognized them without any issue and i could download the covers too

MerLinh said:
mine is perfectly fine i put 3 albums in root and it recognized them without any issue and i could download the covers too
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when you are done. in what way to you disconnect the phone from pc. (ie go to notification bar and select charge and press do?). im just asking for you to explain your process, because im having trouble with this also....

Just reboot, media scan process runs on every boot.

[Q] Google Music

Hi,
Does anyone know where the Google Music app stores the downloaded music on the sd? I uploaded some music files to my Google Music account and my sensation made it available offline... as i know that means it downloaded the music on my phone.
I'm interested because i'm running on ARHD 3.1.6 with Beats and i want to use the stock music app. I certainly don't want to copy all my music on the sd card once more assuming the Google music app has already done that.
Or one way around, is it possible to use the Beats enhancement in the Google music app?
Thanks in advance

SeptimiuB said:
Hi,
Does anyone know where the Google Music app stores the downloaded music on the sd? I uploaded some music files to my Google Music account and my sensation made it available offline... as i know that means it downloaded the music on my phone.
I'm interested because i'm running on ARHD 3.1.6 with Beats and i want to use the stock music app. I certainly don't want to copy all my music on the sd card once more assuming the Google music app has already done that.
Or one way around, is it possible to use the Beats enhancement in the Google music app?
Thanks in advance
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Google music doesn't store anything on your sd card that's the beauty of the program which is why it requires its own music player which acts like YouTube and streams your music. Unfortunately beats is not able to be accessed through a msound enhancer altho I believe that if you set beats on your music app then switch to google music the enhancement remains.
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It does save to the SD card
SD/Android/data/com.google.Android.music/
In here you will find a "cache" folder and a "music" folder (music folder is created when you save music for off line use)

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bicycleray said:
It does save to the SD card
SD/Android/data/com.google.Android.music/
In here you will find a "cache" folder and a "music" folder (music folder is created when you save music for off line use)
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Thanks, found it. Unfortunatly in that folder the files don't have their original names like "asd fgh - xyz.mp3" , theire stored as file1, file2, file3 etc..
Anyway now i just need a way to make the HTC Music app find them and play them.
Edit: There is a .nomedia file in that folder. Deleted and now i can play them in HTC Music app

nice im bout to do that

SeptimiuB said:
Edit: There is a .nomedia file in that folder. Deleted and now i can play them in HTC Music app
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Hmm, doesn't seem to have any effect for me - I removed the .nomedia file and opened the music player, waited for it finish scanning my SD card, and the Google music cached songs don't appear. I can tap on the song in ASTRO and play it, but it's impossible to know what's what based upon file names. Wondering if maybe Google Music is stripping all tags from the music files and maintaining those tags independently so you're hooked into their player?

brett_c said:
Hmm, doesn't seem to have any effect for me - I removed the .nomedia file and opened the music player, waited for it finish scanning my SD card, and the Google music cached songs don't appear. I can tap on the song in ASTRO and play it, but it's impossible to know what's what based upon file names. Wondering if maybe Google Music is stripping all tags from the music files and maintaining those tags independently so you're hooked into their player?
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Also selecting the HTC music app to play through file manager still doesn't allow you to set beats audio. I had no luck the say as you Brett
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[APP] music down loader

What music down loader does everyone use. I used to use tubemate but with the moto q it doesn't seem to work.
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dwaynet89 said:
What music down loader does everyone use. I used to use tubemate but with the moto q it doesn't seem to work.
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I used to use tubemate, but I haven't used it with this phone yet.

I use gtunes
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I use tTorrent and torrent my music.
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If I'm just listening to music from YouTubes, I use Harex... Basically lets you create a playlist of YouTube videos, and allows them to play in the background.
Not quite what you're looking for, but I don't really download music to my phone. Would much rather stream it .

I use both torrent and MP3 Music Downloader V6. But, I typically buy my music from Sprint Music+. I know I know LAME lol.
The only thing simple is the belief in simplicity.

arrrghhh said:
If I'm just listening to music from YouTubes, I use Harex... Basically lets you create a playlist of YouTube videos, and allows them to play in the background.
Not quite what you're looking for, but I don't really download music to my phone. Would much rather stream it .
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I just found out (stupid me) that the google play app has the ability to stream music from your desktop. So I've just started using that and I downloaded an app call youtube2mp3 that downloads and converts videos to mp3s and I use solid exploer to put the music on my sd card.
Side note: solid explorer is a great file manager app. Its simply beautiful when trying to save the little internal memory on this phone. I don't have to use directory bind no where near as much!
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dustinwstiles said:
I use tTorrent and torrent my music.
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I also use tTorrent. You can get the whole album, and if you don't want the whole album you can just select specific songs.

local music files not showing up

I have been trying to get some music on my one s with liquid smooth. I originally put an album on my phone in flac. I loaded it at /sdcard/music/[artist]/[album]/[track#]-[song].flac. I've been trying three different apps, play music, stock music app, and winamp. The files would not show up in any of the apps but I did noticed if I browsed to the files with root explorer and "open with" winamp that they would play within that app but the app showed no recognition of the file other than being able to play and pause it.
Next I decided to convert some albums to ogg and put them on my phone. Still have the same issue as with flac, but notice that all three apps would play them if I opened it through root explorer.
Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Obviously there is support for the file types as I could get them to play, but why will they not show up within the apps?
Btw, my initial goal was to get music to play in zombies, run! Which uses an external music app to play music from what I understand.
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You have to clear then data on your media storage which can be found in apps. Open settings/app and find media storage.. It will have an android icon.
Clear the data and cache and reset your phone. This should work. Let me know if it doesn't
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Try the APP "rescan SD" or sth like this.
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do what the guy above said
and check your sd card for ".nomedia" file in your music folders

Took a while before I had a change to try your suggestion, but it worked, thank you! Downloaded "rescan media" and rebooted and now I see the files
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glad i could helP!