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[ Tool / App ] Listables! - Share apps, contacts, music, & photos

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Free/no ads/donations accepted
Market link (Web)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.listables
Market link (Phone)
market://details?id=com.alostpacket.listables
Share & save directly - P2P (Phone to Phone)
music, app-lists, contacts, photos
This app was designed with one goal in mind: it's your data, send it directly to whomever you want. They're your photos, your music, your contacts.
With Listables, you can share your favortie MP3 when you're out with a friend, or email vCard contacts to your relatives, or post a list of your favorite apps to a forum. There are many possibilities but please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments or email me with feature ideas/requests.
* Send MP3s, contacs, images or app-lists directly via Bluetooth
* List apps with QRcodes, Market links, HTML or BBcode
* Share & backup contacts as vCards, CSV, or plain text
* Save and load m3u playlists
* Preview songs and images before sending
* Generate QR codes individually for apps and contacts
* Quick copy contact phone numbers or emails
* Get direct links to the Android market (both Web & Phone), AppBrain, and Androlib
* AUTO-RESUME broken bluetooth connections
*NOTE*
Wi-Fi and Background data can interupt Bluetooth connections.
(NEW BETA feature) AUTO-RESUME broken bluetooth connections: Listables will now try to reconnect by itself if it detects a bluetooth connection broke while in the middle of the transfer. It should pick up right where it left off once reconnected.
FULL FEATURE LIST:
- Share audio files / MP3s over Bluetooth
- Create playlists from shared audio files
- Share app-lists over Bluetooth with direct market links
- Share contacts over Bluetooth, and add them to your address book
- Share photos over Bluetooth
- Search any list: music, apps, contacts or images
- Save & load m3u playlists for audio files
- Save & load custom app-lists
- Save contacts as CSV (comma seperated values)
- Save contacts as vCards
- Generate app-lists in HTML, BBCode, XML & plain-text
- Generate QRcodes by long-pressing apps & contacts
- Long-click to preview-listen to music
- Long-click to preview images
- Long-click to quick-copy email & phone numbers from contacts
- Copy contact-lists to the clipboard
- App-lists have direct links to Android Market on the Web and on the Phone
- Links to AppBrain & Androlib.com
- Works best on Android 2.2+

Wow, kinda forgot I posted this here.
The app has gone through a lot of updates and is up to 0.9.0 now
includes:
-app-list sharing
-contact sharing
-mp3 file-sharing
-image sharing
via Bluetooth, QRCode, HTML, BBcode, CSV, vCard, XML etc etc
Anyways sorry for the low post count im way more of a lurker than a poster around here

This app has gone through a lot of changes, sorry for not updating this thread better
Anyways it's still free as always
1.2.7
-Minor update to address Russian characters in HTML
-HTML charset is now utf-8
1.2.6
-Some minor bug fixes
-Increased performance for contacts
-If you are having trouble saving XML app-lists please email me
-For Bluetooth issues, please be sure both phones have the latest version
-Note: If you have over 1000 contacts things may be unstable, this should be fixed when the new performance upgrades are done
-Any other issues please email me!
Older changes:
- Added links to Android's new web Market
- New Home screen
- New animations
- Long-click to listen to music
- Long-click to preview images
- Quick copy email & phone number from contacts
- Save & load m3u playlists for audio files
- Save & load custom app-lists
- Generate QRcodes by long-pressing apps & contacts
- Links to AppBrain & Androlib.com
- Improved performance & graphics
- No more "please wait" dialogs when launching
- portrait & landscape supported

Wow, seems like a great app!! Gonna try it!!!!! Thanks!

I just installed and yes, sir! Looks great. One suggestion though, other than just creating the QRCode, you should allows for an option to copy the QRCode to clipboard so we can paste it somewhere, or better yet, allow to save the QRCode as an image file somewhere. That would be great.

Short question... when sending a contact from my phone to another one... is this contact send with my used contact picture or without the picture?

Nice will try out now.

Heart1010 said:
Short question... when sending a contact from my phone to another one... is this contact send with my used contact picture or without the picture?
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It tries to send the picture but not all pictures can be accessed by the app. For example, Facebook-sync'd images will not be sent because the facebook app goes out of its way to make them hard to get.
But generally, it will try to send any picture added through Android.

Pitbull_Raven said:
I just installed and yes, sir! Looks great. One suggestion though, other than just creating the QRCode, you should allows for an option to copy the QRCode to clipboard so we can paste it somewhere, or better yet, allow to save the QRCode as an image file somewhere. That would be great.
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Thanks for the ideas! I think saving the QR code as an image file is definitely something I could add in there (and shouldn't be too hard).
But I'm not sure about copying to the clipboard. That's a lot of bitmap data to copy to the clipboard and I'm not sure exactly where someone would paste it or of any apps that support the pasting of bitmap data.
If you could let me know of how you think you might use a copy feature specifically, I can maybe think though how to do it a bit more. But for now I'm not sure I see/understand the use-case.

Gonna try this

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the feedback, and feel free to let me know of any features you want added.
Though dev time is a bit slow on this app but I always try and get to requested features eventually

Pitbull_Raven said:
I just installed and yes, sir! Looks great. One suggestion though, other than just creating the QRCode, you should allows for an option to copy the QRCode to clipboard so we can paste it somewhere, or better yet, allow to save the QRCode as an image file somewhere. That would be great.
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Just added the save QR code feature in 1.2.8 last night, it's on the Market now.
Also in 1.2.8, the apps now sort themselves alphabetically as was requested in the Market comments.
Cheers

Some ideas
Just tried the app, and I think it's pretty good. I think the user interface is great, but I have a few suggestions to make the app better:
1. In the "Applications" view, the menu is barely readable. The black background is fine, but you should give color icons with white text to the buttons for save, load, email, etc.
2. When viewing a previously saved app list, it would be awesome if the list would somehow indicate which apps are currently installed on the device. Perhaps using different colors for the app's name, such as yellow for installed and red for not installed.
3. When saving a list, append a date code to the default file name so that older lists are not easily over-written.
4. When viewing a list, have a different action occur when the name is pressed, as opposed to just toggling the checkmark. For example, if I am viewing a list of apps, then pressing on an app's name would take me to its market page and pressing on the checkmark would perform the toggle.
Again, I think you've got a solid app. Keep up the good work!

thunderwolf17 said:
Just tried the app, and I think it's pretty good. I think the user interface is great, but I have a few suggestions to make the app better:
1. In the "Applications" view, the menu is barely readable. The black background is fine, but you should give color icons with white text to the buttons for save, load, email, etc.
2. When viewing a previously saved app list, it would be awesome if the list would somehow indicate which apps are currently installed on the device. Perhaps using different colors for the app's name, such as yellow for installed and red for not installed.
3. When saving a list, append a date code to the default file name so that older lists are not easily over-written.
4. When viewing a list, have a different action occur when the name is pressed, as opposed to just toggling the checkmark. For example, if I am viewing a list of apps, then pressing on an app's name would take me to its market page and pressing on the checkmark would perform the toggle.
Again, I think you've got a solid app. Keep up the good work!
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Hey Thunderwolf, thanks for the great feedback!
1) Yeah, I need to remove that dark background actually. That's a byproduct of HTC Sense/TouchWiz/MotoBlur not playing nice with Android themes, and a limitation of the themes themselves. Will likely just go back to the regular style looking menu. I'll have that fixed in the next update.
2) That's a great suggestion, I will definitely look into that!
3) Not a bad idea, I may warn the user if a file exists too.
4) This feature is already part of the app, you just need to long press to get a context menu with many more options for that app. This works with contacts as well. With photos and music, long press will let you quick preview the image/song.
Cheers & thanks again -- very thoughtful stuff there

Great app! I just wish there was a way to share non-market apps, but I understand that there is a security risk behind that.

YoungSinema said:
Great app! I just wish there was a way to share non-market apps, but I understand that there is a security risk behind that.
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Thanks for the kind words & feedback
But yeah, it shares links to apps, not the apps themselves. The links it can share are Android Market, Androlib, and AppBrain. Though I'll probably add Amazon too eventually.
Not really sure how to help people share links to non-market stuff, though I may add a "note" feature where users can write their own notes in at some point.

thunderwolf17 said:
Just tried the app, and I think it's pretty good. I think the user interface is great, but I have a few suggestions to make the app better:
1. In the "Applications" view, the menu is barely readable. The black background is fine, but you should give color icons with white text to the buttons for save, load, email, etc.
2. When viewing a previously saved app list, it would be awesome if the list would somehow indicate which apps are currently installed on the device. Perhaps using different colors for the app's name, such as yellow for installed and red for not installed.
3. When saving a list, append a date code to the default file name so that older lists are not easily over-written.
4. When viewing a list, have a different action occur when the name is pressed, as opposed to just toggling the checkmark. For example, if I am viewing a list of apps, then pressing on an app's name would take me to its market page and pressing on the checkmark would perform the toggle.
Again, I think you've got a solid app. Keep up the good work!
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These are now all implemented in 1.2.9 (well #4 was already implemented )
Changelog:
-New: Shows already installed apps on loaded/received lists
-New: Date appended to filename for Apps & Playlists to avoid overwriting
-Removed old code potentially causing FCs in Pictures section
-Protections against FCs saving contact CSV files w/ missing/invalid values
-Removed dark backgrounds causing problems with already styled menus (such as HTC SenseUI)

Feel free to let me know if there are any additional features you guys want to see. Some great suggestions so far (almost 100% have been added)

alostpacket said:
Feel free to let me know if there are any additional features you guys want to see. Some great suggestions so far (almost 100% have been added)
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Being able to batch install from a list would be good.

siedkins said:
Being able to batch install from a list would be good.
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Thanks, that's actually a really good idea but I'm not really sure if it's possible. Although, I guess something like AppBrain does this?
I'll take a look and see if there is a way to send the market multiple install commands. Right now it just sends you to the details page of an app -- I'm not sure how to trigger the download/install.... That's usually considered an exploit. But never say never!

[APP][2.1+] FX File Explorer Dev Thread (5.0: Material Design UI, Wi-Fi Direct Xfers)

[APP][4.1+] FX File Explorer Dev Thread (7.0 released)
FX 7.0 is now available!
Note: This initial post is now VERY out of date and will be corrected very soon. Screenshots are from old prior versions (2017/08/10)​
Hello all,
This is the ongoing development thread for FX File Explorer. I greatly appreciate feature suggestions, bug reports, and general feedback!
FX intends to be an uncluttered, everyday-usable file manager for Android. The primary development goal has been to create the same level of usability, intuitiveness, and efficiency as that offered by the file manager on your desktop computer.
Local file management features of FX are free, including the root features, indexed search, cleaning tools, usage view, non-encrypted archive creation/extraction, the text editor, and all other viewers (e.g. script exec, binary viewer, image viewer). The network/cloud stuff and media-specific stuff (e.g. browsing music by album, editing playlists) is a paid add-on called "FX Plus".
The free version of FX is not a "Lite" version or some kind of watered-down demo. There is no advertising in FX. And there is no user-tracking, phoning home, or any other "doubleplusungood" stuff of any kind in FX.
FX Connect Demonstration
A demonstration of FX connect. Phones are paired together using NFC by opening FX and touching their backs together. Transfers take place over a high-speed Wi-Fi Direct connection.
Home Screen
The "Home Screen" appears when you first open FX. The idea of the home screen is that you create bookmarks to the folders you actually use, rather than milling through the garbage every app places in the root folder of your SD card.
One last note regarding the free-vs-plus stuff: The features shown in the "Media" and "Internet and Network" sections are part of the "FX Plus" add-on, while everything else is free. And another note: the home-screens below have every option turned on: you can use the "View" menu to customize what is shown.
The first image shows a default home screen.
The second image shows the home screen configured with a translucent dark theme and view mode set to "Icon". The translucent dark theme uses your default system wallpaper (or optionally an alternate wallpaper of your choosing).
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Directory Browsing
These screenshots show FX viewing a directory. The one on the left shows the Material Design Teal theme, the one on the right uses a translucent theme.
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Windows and Split View
FX supports multiple (unlimited) windows, with the ability to view one or two at a time.
The first screenshot shows the window menu, which is accessible by tapping the slide-out icon in the upper left corner or sliding your finger from the left edge of the screen to the right.
The second screenshot shows the split view mode. You can enter this mode from the window menu by tapping "Split View", or by dragging the path bar from the top of the screen downward.
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Root / Developer Features
FX supports root access. Root access requires an add-on, but the add-on is free.
Root access is kept entirely separate from normal file browsing, and can optionally be protected.
Developer features include:
Root access may be secured via PIN, Password, or Warning; secured access can be enabled for viewing or only for modifications
Remount filesystems as read/write or read-only
Disable System Apps
Root Usage View
Recursive Search
Modify permissions
Change Ownership/Group, with Android-based design (e.g. select an app-specific user by app name; see screenshot)
Symlink Creation (relative and absolute)
Shell Script Execution, with support for creating launcher shortcuts to execute scripts [NR]
Explore APK Contents [NR]
View Android Binary XML Files in Text Viewer [NR]
View any file in Binary Viewer [NR]
MD5/SHA1 Checksum and Composite Checksum Calculation/Comparison (checksum directory structures, optionally with UNIX permissions, [NR])
Items marked with [NR] do not require root, but may offer more functionality when root is available.
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Text Editor
FX includes a full-featured text editor. It can edit local text files, edit files as root, and edit files on remote hosts (with FX Plus add-on). Features include:
Undo/Redo with History (able to undo/redo multiple times)
Cut/Copy/Paste
Pinch-to-zoom font scaling
Proportional and fixed fonts, word wrap can be enabled/disabled
Optional shortcut bar can be enabled to provide arrow keys and fast access to undo/redo
Jump to line number, beginning/ending of file
Find text within documents
File browsing for Open/Save As
Enable/disable autocorrect
Multiple color schemes
Save/load files in different character sets
Plus Add-On
All features demonstrated above are entirely free. The Plus Add-On is the paid component of FX, and adds additional features:
Application management: browse user, system, or all installed apps
Browse installed apps by permission (e.g. find all apps which require GPS location or Internet access)
(Root Access Required) View /data usage by application, disable any application
AES-128/256 Zip Encryption/decryption; browse inside encrypted zip files/folders, view text files, images, audio and video files without ever writing decrypted version to media
Browse all Images, browse images by folder (e.g. Camera folders on different media/SD cards)
Browse camera Videos or all videos on device
Browse Music by Artist, Album, Playlist, or view all music
Browse ringtones, podcasts, notifications, and alarm sounds
Create playlists, add albums/tracks/artists/playlists to playlists, reorder playlists via drag-and-drop
Bluetooth FTP and Bluetooth Pairing within FX (pushing files via Bluetooth does NOT require FX Plus if your device supports it)
FX Plus adds support for the following network/cloud services:
SMB (Windows Networking), supports network browsing (SMB1 and SMB2)
FTP, including FTP-S and FTP-ES; browsing local network supported via mDNS
SSH, including public key, password, and interactive authentication; browsing local network supported via mDNS
WebDAV, including WebDAV over HTTPS; browsing local network supported via mDNS
Google Drive
Dropbox
Box
SugarSync
Microsoft OneDrive
OwnCloud (by creating a WebDAV connection)
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How to get FX​
Current Play Store Version
To get the current version (5.x) from the Play Store, simply click here:
Download via Play Store
Beta Testing
FX can be beta tested by either downloading APKs directly (links will be posted in this thread) or via the FX beta channel on Google Play. At any given time, there may or may not be a release in the beta channel. (There won't be a release when a beta has just been pushed into production).
To join the Google Play public beta test and receive automatic updates:
Step 1: Join this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704
Step 2: Visit this page to opt-in for beta testing: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx
Beta APKs are also posted in this thread.
Step 3: Get FX from the Google Play Store: Download via Play Store
If you'd prefer to download an APK directly:
Go to the last page of this thread and grab a beta APK by clicking a download link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253399&goto=newpost
APKs of FX are archived here:
http://android.nextapp.com/fx
Notable versions:
FX 2.3.0.8, r2108: last release of the 2.x series. http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r2108/FX_r2108.apk
FX 3.1.0.4 r3122: last release of 3.x series http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r3122/FX_r3122.apk
FX 4.0.6.0 r4040: last release of 4.x series http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r4040/FX_r4040.apk
FX 5.1.x.x r5140: last release of 5.x series http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r5140/FX_r5140.apk
FX 6.3.0.1 r6301: last release of 6.x series http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r6301/FX_r6301.apk
Root add-on:
The root add-on is available for direct download here: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/FXRoot.apk
(Root features may now be enabled directly via settings.)

Since this is currently in beta, I am moving this out of the Paid Apps forum.

Hi,
Great, great app. The curious thing with Android is that when you think "is there an app for that?", usually you stumble upon it the same day! Your app is great, fast and no-frills - I am amazed at the speed, even though both my internal and SD storage is full.
However, have you seen MIUI file manager? It also classifies apks, PDFs, and whatnot along with media. The only thing THAT is missing is SD card support for this classification, and the ability to show both storages as a whole.
I think this is where you can improve your app and make it (safely) the best file manager on Android - i.e. adding more file associations such as apks and pdfs etc. Keep improving it and someday we won't have to worry about where each file is lying.
Also the UI could use a little more polish.
Thanks for the app

Just installed, and actually very surprised! The app is fast! I mean, no lag at all, even with continuous reloading of picture previews ).
First thing I miss - editing files. Root Explorer provides simple text editor, which is quite handy. Next - changing permissions - I need it ). And executing .sh/.rc etc scripts.
And what about multiple selection, and actions on these, like move/copy/delete?
I liked your text viewer has font settings - it's amazing! Why not implement same feature for file lists? Coz I find titles bit bold, I want them lighter/smaller. Same sizing ability would be good for icons too. I don't like big icons.
Bookmarks. I need bookmarks for folders, so I can access them fast.
Otherwise it's good. I'll uninstall both RE and Estrongs once your app has features I listed ) Good job!

Very nice, fast, different look and feel app. Seems very promising.

I really like this.
Is there a way to select multiple files?

GReat App
GReat App. Thanks

see the video

Thanks! I'll definitely be trying this out.

djsubtronic said:
I really like this.
Is there a way to select multiple files?
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Thanks! Yes, multiple file selection is accomplished by a swipe gesture:
(the above is supposed to be an animated GIF image, if it's not showing, see the Youtube video at the top).
More info on selection can be found here: http://android.nextapp.com/site/fx/doc/basics

creage said:
Just installed, and actually very surprised! The app is fast! I mean, no lag at all, even with continuous reloading of picture previews ).
First thing I miss - editing files. Root Explorer provides simple text editor, which is quite handy. Next - changing permissions - I need it ). And executing .sh/.rc etc scripts.
And what about multiple selection, and actions on these, like move/copy/delete?
I liked your text viewer has font settings - it's amazing! Why not implement same feature for file lists? Coz I find titles bit bold, I want them lighter/smaller. Same sizing ability would be good for icons too. I don't like big icons.
Bookmarks. I need bookmarks for folders, so I can access them fast.
Otherwise it's good. I'll uninstall both RE and Estrongs once your app has features I listed ) Good job!
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Thanks for suggestions, there is definitely more work to be done on the Linux/root/technical-user end of things, root access, remounting, chown and chmod being the most notable omissions.
I do want to add bookmarks, but it may be post 1.0. Not quite certain on the UI integration of these (have been thinking about a couple of different methods). One thing I think I want is the ability to add certain bookmarks directly to the home screen. As a for instance, I'd personally like /sdcard/Documents and maybe /sdcard/Download to be directly on my home screen. Too many top-level bookmarks would be quite annoying though, so likely will want two categories.
May wind up doing a mini text editor for root editing, but need to check if more powerful stuff like "Jota" support su as well.
Thanks again!

talhamid said:
Hi,
Great, great app. The curious thing with Android is that when you think "is there an app for that?", usually you stumble upon it the same day! Your app is great, fast and no-frills - I am amazed at the speed, even though both my internal and SD storage is full.
However, have you seen MIUI file manager? It also classifies apks, PDFs, and whatnot along with media. The only thing THAT is missing is SD card support for this classification, and the ability to show both storages as a whole.
I think this is where you can improve your app and make it (safely) the best file manager on Android - i.e. adding more file associations such as apks and pdfs etc. Keep improving it and someday we won't have to worry about where each file is lying.
Also the UI could use a little more polish.
Thanks for the app
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Thanks, I actually had not been previously exposed to MIUI, but after browsing YouTube a bit I see what you're talking about. I'm not certain how they're classifying the additional file categories beyond Music, Video, and Images. FX is using Android's MediaStore provider to do this. It may be that the underlying MIUI firmware has been modified to index the entirety of the filesystem, or it may be that the file manager itself is doing it (and possibly thus relying on itself being used for all modifications). Honeycomb appears to have added support for adding arbitrary files to the MediaStore but I've yet to play with it.
I do want to add the ability to place bookmarks on the FX home screen to provide immediate access to folders you use frequently (e.g. Downloads and Documents).
What phone are you using? On most phones the media indices do appear in a single database, the exception being HTC devices such as the Droid Incredible which has two completely independent databases, one for the SD card and the other for the internal user storage.
What aspects of the UI would you most like to see improved? That is, is it the actual interaction with the interface, the aesthetics (overall appearance, icons, gradients, etc), or UI performance? Are there places where you find it non-intuitive? Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks again for the comments!

Great work!!!! The only thing I miss is a root option...but its a great great app!!!
I have an idea...maybe like you have a swipe gesture for multiselect...you can add a swipe gesture for delete copy and paste...a cross for delete for example...
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2tliebeck: when do we expect an update?)
P.S. I fall in love with your top navigation bar - it's so amazing! It looks like Win7 one, which is really great.

looks very promising. when there is a root option, i will gonna use this as default filemanager. good work

holy ****. nice one, amazing work
finally something that replaces the crappy default gallery app!
i love the window system, and the way to multiselect.. and it loads so fast!!
rly rly nice work

interface seems really cool. finally a file manager that is not ugly!

Thanks again everyone, loving the comments!
Cocolopes said:
Great work!!!! The only thing I miss is a root option...but its a great great app!!!
I have an idea...maybe like you have a swipe gesture for multiselect...you can add a swipe gesture for delete copy and paste...a cross for delete for example...
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A quicker multiselect might well be possible to implement, i.e., start by dragging horizontally and then cross through any additional items you want selected. Beyond that though we're fairly booked up with single-finger gestures given that horizontal = select and vertical = scroll, both of which have to happen immediately. Could also look at vertical double-finger swiping for (de)selecting multiple items at once in list views.
creage said:
2tliebeck: when do we expect an update?)
P.S. I fall in love with your top navigation bar - it's so amazing! It looks like Win7 one, which is really great.
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Hope to have an update out in the next 24-48hr (edit: delayed a bit due to encrypted FTP fun and excitement), don't want to promise on that given that there's always bugs and testing...really don't like pushing updates unless I feel they're very solid. Have been focusing on network stuff in this next release, including FTPS support (implicit and explicit) and notification of SSH keys (and warnings for changed keys).
The next version will also be allowed to reside on the SD card, assuming it tests correctly there.

This wonderfull app will get a root option in the future? Like root explorer...I realy espect that...thank again for this app!!!!
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Can't Find Media on SD Card? Blame ROM Manager!

For most of yesterday I'd been trying to figure out why my CM7 G2X won't see any sound, video, or image file on my phone's SD Card. Both the stock Gallery app, and MX Player File Browser, just didn't see any of the media in the folders on my SD Card. And the Music player saw absolutely no songs on my SD Card. And my ringtone and IM tones were messed up.
So, while playing with different settings, on MX Player, I unchecked "Respect .nomedia (Exclude a folder if ".nomedia" file exists in that folder or a parent folder". Voila! I can see videos! I can see my images and songs!
Well, I looked in the root of my SD Card and there it was - a file called ".nomedia". Strangely, the icon for that file is the same icon as ROM Manager icon. Odd. because I had just updated ROM Manager. I deleted it and saw my media files again.
Well, today I saw a new update for ROM Manager Premium. The update states "5.0.1.4 Fix bug that places .nomedia file in the wrong directory if directories are missing." Huh. I guess the "wrong directory" is a cagy way of saying it puts it in the root of your SD Card so you can't see any of your media. And I do have the proper directories that ROM Manager needs.
O.K., I updated ROM Manager. Guess what? No media files again! And that damned file ".nomedia" is right back in the root of my SD Card, same as before, with the same ROM Manager icon staring back at me.
Look, it's not enough that people like me wasted money on ROM Manager Premium because the license check always crashes. Now, the app is messing up our phones?
Hope this helps

Stupid RomManager.
Easiest way:
Connect your phone via usb (with usb debugging enabled), open a cmd window and type:
Code:
adb shell
rm /sdcard/.nomedia
adb reboot
You can do this without a PC from Terminal Emulator at Android as well, just open it and type the following.
After a reboot everything is back to normal.
Code:
rm /sdcard/.nomedia
The problem in the FileManager is, that you have to enable "show hidden files" (or sth. like that), a leading dot (".") at a filename indicates a hidden file at Linux.
But of course you can just enable that option and delete the ".nomedia" file manually as well.
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I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?

WoodroweBones said:
I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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Update your rom manager, then delete the nomedia file, then reboot! You should be alright after that!
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda app-developers app

BigDig said:
Update your rom manager, then delete the nomedia file, then reboot! You should be alright after that!
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda app-developers app
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Fist thing I tried unfortunately

WoodroweBones said:
I use RootExplorer which can show hidden files... removed the .nomedia file and while some stuff showed up (gallery pics) most stuff still doesnt (all my custom notifications/ringtones and my music wont show in Ubermusic, Play Music or Winamp. I downloaded Rescan Media and ran it but still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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Look into your other folders on your card for ".nomedia". ROM Mangler could have placed that file in different places.
You might also want to remove the SD Card and put it in your PC, and search the entire card for ".nomedia". Make sure you only delete ".nomedia" in the folders that you want to show media.

Here is what I did...
I renamed my Music folder to "Music2" then rebooted my phone. Now after that I went into Ubermusic and started an SD Card scan but didnt wait very long (maybe 10 seconds) then went into Winamp and clicked on "Songs" and I could see it was searching. Eventually all my songs showed up so not sure if it was Winamp or Ubermusic
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EEngineer said:
Look into your other folders on your card for ".nomedia". ROM Mangler could have placed that file in different places.
You might also want to remove the SD Card and put it in your PC, and search the entire card for ".nomedia". Make sure you only delete ".nomedia" in the folders that you want to show media.
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The Galaxy Nexus doesnt have a removeable SD card but the method I used in the post above worked

I'm cross posting here because this seems to be an active thread
In some instances Media Scanner will DELETE ALL THE PICTURES ON THE SD CARD
Here is an example google bug report on the issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
When a ".nomedia" file is added to a directory that has already been scanned by the media scanner, any jpg and gif files in that directory and all sub directories will be deleted.
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I have lost a year of pictures because of this. Before you assume I am making a mistake realize that the SDcard is now connected directly to my laptop and a search of the entire drive (including subfolders) with the string *.jpg gives no results. I can post a screenshot if you like.
Rom Manager caused my pictures actually be deleted and I am using recovery tools that scan the free space to get them back
If any of you suffered as I did try this OPEN SOURCE recovery tool specifically made for recovering pictures from an SDcard - PhotoRec - CGSecurity
Here is a screenshot of my current progress
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edit: I just realized it also broke some of my applications that stored images on the sdcard that served as part of their menu system. SCREW YOU ROM MANAGER DEVS. I will never trust anything you publish from this day forward

braschlosan said:
I'm cross posting here because this seems to be an active thread
In some instances Media Scanner will DELETE ALL THE PICTURES ON THE SD CARD
Here is an example google bug report on the issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
I have lost a year of pictures because of this.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm running CM7 Nightly #225 and it seems CM7 fixed that bug - I tried to recreate that on my phone and it did not delete the files.

Quite strange; I was wondering why lately my phone has been weird and not reading any of my files from the SDcard. i cant find my music nor photos ive taken, but when i use rootexplorer i can find them.
Edit - thanks alot!! by deleting the .nomedia file, its all working!

How i fixed it
i used rom toolbox pro and went into the sd root.
Android > .data > .nomedia
and i deleted .nomedia and poof it worked

Thanks, had to play around with folder names and reboot, but it's working again now. I believe I have to post at least 10 times before I can thank a post though
EDIT
Ah, just had to post once and the thanks button shows up now!

Might-E said:
Thanks, had to play around with folder names and reboot, but it's working again now. I believe I have to post at least 10 times before I can thank a post though
EDIT
Ah, just had to post once and the thanks button shows up now!
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Back at 'cha - I gave you your first Thanks! Nice to know that only two people appreciate the work I did.

damn ROM Manager
well, this teach me to never hit the "update all" button in google play now. ONLY update apps that shows changes you need/want.
anyway, after 2 days of messing deleting .nomedia, only to have it come back at next boot and uninstalling apps that was suspect. i finally saw a thread about this.
The thread recommended: remove update/uninstall rom manager
delete .nomedia
clear data of Media Storage
reboot
this worked out perfectly for me and that damn .nomedia file hasnt come back for the past few reboots

Do not allow any apps to auto-update. And I have background data turned off all the time to save the battery.
The only time I have background data turned on is when I'm in Google Play. I always check permissions, (you MUST click "see all").
Here are the apps I have stopped updating because they suddenly want scary permissions:
Angry Birds - wants access to Google Billing Service (****!)
Camera 360 - wants ability to change WiFi state, modify passwords
Firefox - Modify global system settings, access user accounts, read sync settings
Google Translate - take photos and videos without user intervention, view available networks
YouTube - take photos and videos without user intervention, access user accounts

I'm hoping someone can help, I'm having this problem only with JB ROMs
ROM manager is not even on my phone, here's what I do in recovery
Wipe data/Factory Reset
Wipe cache partition
run dalvik-wiper.zip
reboot recovery
format /system /cache/ /data /boot AND /sdcard
reboot recovery
?? at this point this phone should have nothing on it right?
install ROM. (I have tried 5 or 6 of the JB ROMs in the Nexus S TMO develop section)
Copy over my pics and music. I install no Apps, just run gallery and it's empty, even after 2 hours.
Where does ROM manager do its damage after everything is formatted? Is it CWM that is causing the problem?
I've checked /DCIM and /Music on my sdcard backup and they don't have any .nomedia or hidden files.
where do I go next?
Thanks for the reply.

Same thing here. i have only CWM and root.
tried all kinds of stuff like format sd card new rom search and delete .nomedia
installed new rom manager now...
+quick system info shows cpu 100% and batery dies quickly (25% at night to 0 in the morning)
With sd card removed battery goes back to normal..
Today i used another phone,the old one, because of this..
It really sucks and im close to sell or smash it!
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mikrron said:
Same thing here. i have only CWM and root.
tried all kinds of stuff like format sd card new rom search and delete .nomedia
installed new rom manager now...
+quick system info shows cpu 100% and batery dies quickly (25% at night to 0 in the morning)
With sd card removed battery goes back to normal..
Today i used another phone,the old one, because of this..
It really sucks and im close to sell or smash it!
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don`t know how i did it, noe it`s working , you have to f#@&k it up a little with the sd card, Install/uninstal rom manager and nomedia files (note the nomedia wasnt placed in my gallery or music folders) , hope i don`t meet this in the future..

@mikrron, it's possible you have a bad misbehaving application. You might have a game that scans your sdcard and sends photos and other info to the game's servers. That would account for your bad battery usage.
Install the firewall DroidWall and block internet access to any application that doesn't NEED the internet to run, like cameras, most games, etc. See how much your battery life improves.

Sorry for performing necromancy on this thread but I encountered a problem. It is similar to the one described here (files can be browsed normally but no media-apps can see them. Even the settings>storage menu shows nothing on my sd card but reports that the free space is only 1.5gb out of 8gbs total.
If I fire up a file browser I can access all the files on the sd-card without a problem. I can even view the pictures with the gallery and the music app plays my music files alright, if I select the file from the browser and then use the corresponding program to deal with it.
If I just use the gallery or the music app or songbird or any other media player, they all report an empty media library. Media on the phone's internal memory can be scanned by these apps and included to their library without a problem.
After lots of searching around on the web, I found that most people that had this problem, managed to solve it by deleting some stray .nomedia files that were in their sd-cards (like you guys did in this thread).
So, I searched my sd card for those files (I know they are hidden), both through the phone's file-browser and by connecting it to my computer, and I failed to find anything. For good measure I backed all my data up, formatted the card, restored the data, cleared the media storage data and restarted my phone, all to no avail. I know that the sd-rescan apps are irrelevant here but I tried one of them anyways. It didn't help...
I should note that I have not tampered with the phone in any way (no custom roms, no rom manager, not rooted, no unlocked bootloader or anything else of that kind). Also my phone is a Sony Xperia Tipo, using android 4. Sorry if the post is out of place here... The thread seemed very relevant.
If someone has any idea about what the problem might be, I'd love to hear from them. Thank you in advance.

Is it possible that the nomedia file is in the secured android file that you cant access without su permission
All the way from mars

[APP][4.0+] MusicRenamer

Hello,
This is my first "useful" (i think) app for Android.
Maybe you have in your device a lot of music with bad file names. This app will help you!
Select type of rename (ex. "Title - Artist" + 3 more), app will read id3 tags and rename your mp3/flac file(s).
Sure, you can see preview and decide if its good. You can also select folder, and app will fix file names of all music files.
Example:
You have song "get_lucky_daft_punk.mp3". Open Music Renamer, press menu (tree dots) > Select > File, pick song file. MusicRenamer will display some info about song. Then click on Rename button, select Rename type to "%Artist% - %Title%, press OK, see preview if its good press OK again. Ta daaa Successfully renamed. New file name is "Daft Punk - Get Lucky.mp3".
Screenshots:
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You can select your favourite file manager in app settings and use it to select music files and folders.
App theme: Holo Light/Dark (can change in settings, 0.70+)
Latest app version: 0.71 (download)
0.71
changelog here
0.70
changelog here
0.60
- fixes, fixes, fixes
- added settings page
- you can select default file manager
- added tr by Metin Dülger
- preview for folder shows new file names only, looks better
- fix for detecting sdcard (hope it will work on Samsung phones)
0.61
- fix for ES File Manager (user cant pick files/folders with it)
- fix for ID3 tags - if they contains "/", this char will be replaced with "ft."
- small other fixes

hi i m Metin Dülger
i translated it Turkish (tr)

thank you!
i improve app a bit a need to retranslate string app_info. i uploaded new strings.
by the way, MusicRenamer 0.60
- fixes, fixes, fixes
- added settings page
- you can select default file manager
- added tr by Metin Dülger
- preview for folder shows new file names only, looks better
- fix for detecting sdcard (hope it will work on Samsung phones)
- ...

0.61
- fix for ES File Manager (user cant pick files/folders with it)
- fix for ID3 tags - if they contains "/", this char will be replaced with "ft."
- small other fixes

My issue is not so much the filenames but the id3 tags.
I sometimes borrow music from YouTube, just to try a couple of apps found in this forum and not because I'm too tight to buy them lol.
Anyway these downloaded mp3 don't contain id3 tags and usually have long strange filenames.
Anyway could you create a function to create id3 from filename as well as rename file according to id3.
Thanks
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Thinking about this. When i will have a time, i will look on it. But files need to have good file names if we want detect data, which will be written as ID3 tags, right Another way is use some services like Shazam, but at the moment i dont know if any of these services have public API (free ) ...
So, i think i have work for two monthly holidays
p.s: i know your problem i set up tag by tag with MP3tag on PC some times ago. now i dont do it, its waste of time. now i download music from torrents they have good ID3 tags

Used this app to rename some songs, selected the folder & it renamed them. Then to my horror I discover that it deleted the songs it didnt rename
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

i think u should put some screenshot
will u share it on Google Play?

Nice share mate..
Is it work for .m4a music file?
And... it will be great if u post the update at 1st post..
Thx's
Sent from my C6603 using xda premium

TonyK2005, hmm, you are using Samsung phone. there is nightmare with Samsung and his own sdcard locale (its /sdcard/external_sd/?). Your songs should be in device, try use some File Manager and search for them. and, maybe, can you please upload /system/etc/vold.conf?
any developer to help me? its this code right?
public File getExternalSD() {
external_sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
if (android.os.Build.DEVICE.contains("Samsung") || android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER.contains("Samsung")){
File ext_sd=new File(external_sd+"/external_sd/");
if (ext_sd.exists()) {
external_sd = ext_sd;
}
}
return external_sd;
}
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SHS™, I cant publish it at the moment
simple4me, support for .m4a? i think yes.
going to update 1. post.. add screesnshots

pyler said:
TonyK2005, hmm, you are using Samsung phone. there is nightmare with Samsung and his own sdcard locale (its /sdcard/external_sd/?). Your songs should be in device, try use some File Manager and search for them. and, maybe, can you please upload /system/etc/vold.conf?
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Yes I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 & my music was stored on the internal memory at /sdcard/music
I used es file manager to try & locate the missing songs but they were gone. Luckily I had a backup on an old external SD
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

TonyK2005 said:
Yes I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 & my music was stored on the internal memory at /sdcard/music
I used es file manager to try & locate the missing songs but they were gone. Luckily I had a backup on an old external SD
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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Ok, sorry for problems. I am looking to code and dont understand. it should work, but it doesnt.
can you do 2 tests? please make backup first =)
1. try open file and rename it.
2. try open folder which is on External SD Card and rename files.

Really awesome app, it's very useful and saved me so much time.
One suggestion to improve it though - why don't you add the select file /folder button to the main screen, instead of having to use the menu button every time?
Basically my suggestion is to add some functionality to the main screen, as currently it's pretty useless after tyou get the basics of the app.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium

ngyurov said:
Really awesome app, it's very useful and saved me so much time.
One suggestion to improve it though - why don't you add the select file /folder button to the main screen, instead of having to use the menu button every time?
Basically my suggestion is to add some functionality to the main screen, as currently it's pretty useless after tyou get the basics of the app.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium
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good idea!

A minor issue I had with the app was that after I renamed my entire library and started poweramp it gave me error saying it can't play the file, and that was for every song.
At first I thought that the app somehow broke my songs, but then I figured to go to settings and force close poweramp as it has the habit of running in the background. After I did that I rescanned my library and it was all fine, every file playing normally. I assume that only rescan without FC is going to work too, in case someone else has the same or similar issue.
You might want to add that to OP so people can have an easier time finding a solution.
Also I don't know how to extract the strings file in order to translate the app in Bulgarian, so it'd be good of you gave me a have there.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium

download strings_061.zip, unpack it. then open strings.xml in notepad++. and translate strings:
<string name="rename">Rename</string> to<string name="rename">Преименувай</string>
so all text between <string name=string ID> and </string>
save it, and give it to me...
about rescan media: my app do some type of media rescan. you can see that Google Music player works and its updated. Poweramp have probably own databases and this is problem. Needs to be update probably (and maybe PowerAmp have API for it, will check).

ngyurov said:
A minor issue I had with the app was that after I renamed my entire library and started poweramp it gave me error saying it can't play the file, and that was for every song.
At first I thought that the app somehow broke my songs, but then I figured to go to settings and force close poweramp as it has the habit of running in the background. After I did that I rescanned my library and it was all fine, every file playing normally. I assume that only rescan without FC is going to work too, in case someone else has the same or similar issue.
You might want to add that to OP so people can have an easier time finding a solution.
Also I don't know how to extract the strings file in order to translate the app in Bulgarian, so it'd be good of you gave me a have there.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using xda premium
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No need to do a FC. Go into Poweramp settings > folders and library > full rescan
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New version 0.70
- added support for fixing ID3 tags using filenames, only for Mp3 files!
Lets explain..
Select file - for example - This Is What It Feels Like - Armin Van Buuren.mp3
Click on Set ID3 tags
Select type of parsing file name to %Title% - %Artist% and confirm.
New ID3 tags are: Artist: Armin Van Buuren, Title: This Is What It Feels Like
note: i am thinking about fixing ID3 tags of all files in folder, but i dont know if it will be good and it will not damage some files with good ID3 tags
- you can change app theme (Settings are still in White, even if theme is set to Dark, fck, i dont care)
- small fixes

MusicRenamer 0.71
- fix for Samsung phones
- fixed bug in Rename Preview ("null" was displayed before first renamed file)
- add bitrate info (yay!)

Sorry for the necro. Is there any alternative to this now?

[Q] Where does Amazon Music store downloaded Prime music?

So Amazon Music now allows Prime members to download free Prime music to their mobile device for offline listening. Anyone know where on the device they store this music? If they're putting it on my phone instead of its external SD card, I'm going to be much more conservative about how much Prime music I download. Obviously they have security measures to keep the Prime music from being freely accessed outside of the Amazon Music App (and thus possibly shared), but something has to be stored somewhere... I just want to know where, exactly.
Apologies if this is a stupid question.
Using a rooted Sprint Samsung Galaxy S5, stock ROM (for now)

ant-iphone said:
So Amazon Music now allows Prime members to download free Prime music to their mobile device for offline listening. Anyone know where on the device they store this music? If they're putting it on my phone instead of its external SD card, I'm going to be much more conservative about how much Prime music I download. Obviously they have security measures to keep the Prime music from being freely accessed outside of the Amazon Music App (and thus possibly shared), but something has to be stored somewhere... I just want to know where, exactly.
Apologies if this is a stupid question.
Using a rooted Sprint Samsung Galaxy S5, stock ROM (for now)
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i would like to know this as well. I just downloaded an album to my phone and the amazon music app says there is data on my external sd card, but i dont see the files.
using root explorer
extSdCard/Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music has an updated date of 17 min ago when I started to download, but there are no files in there..
are they hidden somehow?
partially downloaded...size on sd card matches what the notification panel size that it has downloaded.
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seriously?
no one?

DRM'd Amazon music downloads don't go on SD card ... maybe they can be symlinked?
dh4645 said:
seriously?
no one?
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On my rooted KitKat Motorola Photon Q, here's a sample path:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music/Bruce_Springsteen/Born_In_The_U_S_A_/B00137GCGK_(disc_1)_11_-_Dancing_In_The_Dark.m4a
Some of these will play on my phone (all would play on it when I was running in an unrooted JB environment), but not consistently (the Amazon app crashes).
[ actually there's no SD card currently inserted into this phone ]
If I was able to play these consistently from main storage, then my next step would be to try creating symbolic links from main storage to the SD card for these. I would like to know whether this would work. I'll report back if I wind up with a workable test environment (e.g., if I find that these recordings will play with a rooted JB ROM)

Favorable resolution on my JB ROM
jae_63 said:
On my rooted KitKat Motorola Photon Q, here's a sample path:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music/Bruce_Springsteen/Born_In_The_U_S_A_/B00137GCGK_(disc_1)_11_-_Dancing_In_The_Dark.m4a
Some of these will play on my phone (all would play on it when I was running in an unrooted JB environment), but not consistently (the Amazon app crashes).
[ actually there's no SD card currently inserted into this phone ]
If I was able to play these consistently from main storage, then my next step would be to try creating symbolic links from main storage to the SD card for these. I would like to know whether this would work. I'll report back if I wind up with a workable test environment (e.g., if I find that these recordings will play with a rooted JB ROM)
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I was finally able to get this working, but I'm using a JB ROM, not a KitKat ROM. I don't think that the latter should be a show-stopper, if the Amazon Prime MP3s will play "normally" with your ROM, i.e., prior to the gymnastics which I describe in my link.
Hmm ... I can't post the link, but you can google for "jae_63 android forums amazon prime symlinks".
If someone else could post the Android Forums link, that would be helpful ... TIA.
I will answer questions either here on XDA, or on Android Forums.
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Hmm ... some reports suggest that this problem can be resolved using FolderMount, which has a discussion thread here on XDA.
This would be a much simpler solution than what I've done ... I suggest trying that first. My interpretation of the FolderMount documentation suggests that it might be necessary to use the paid version of that app to access the required /data/media directory. My solution is free, but pretty hairy.
Please post back here (or on AndroidForums) if you attempt either FolderMount or my solution.

dh4645 said:
i would like to know this as well. I just downloaded an album to my phone and the amazon music app says there is data on my external sd card, but i dont see the files.
using root explorer
extSdCard/Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music has an updated date of 17 min ago when I started to download, but there are no files in there..
are they hidden somehow?
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I've also looked around and I think Amazon hides those files in that amazonmp3 folder
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For Amazon Prime music, look in
/data/media/0/Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music
(That is how it is on my JB phone. Your phone may be different.)
Sent from my XT897 using Tapatalk

HTC m8 location
so, found the locations easy enough on my htc m8
Downloaded tracks store to internal device path :
/storage/emulated/0/android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music > PrimePlaylist (for downloaded playlists)
oddly, when i first selected the download option the app said "choose storage" and i choose my SD card.
I have since found that it has stored the downloads in both the internal and external locations; I have no idea why, but here is the external path for the SD card:
/storage/ext_sd/android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music > primeplaylist (for downloaded playlists)

Using Cyanogenmod on a Fire phone
At first the Amazon prime music app refused to install on my rooted Fire Phone.
I just installed the APK and it worked fine.
Then was just playing around with this today. Found the downloaded MP3 files are in a hidden directory. com.amazon.mp3 was hidden. (nice try Amazon).
It was a matter of clicking "show hidden files" in linux and duh; there it was.
data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music etc, etc

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Any ideas how you can play or convert these .m4a files?

Dr. Righteous said:
At first the Amazon prime music app refused to install on my rooted Fire Phone.
I just installed the APK and it worked fine.
Then was just playing around with this today. Found the downloaded MP3 files are in a hidden directory. com.amazon.mp3 was hidden. (nice try Amazon).
It was a matter of clicking "show hidden files" in linux and duh; there it was.
data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music etc, etc
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Not tried; they are DRM laden files. I googled a it and found some pretty "iffy" utilities I didn't trust not to be full of spyware.

on the internal storage <android<data<com.amazon.mp3<files<music. If you are trying to store to sd card and your getting the stubborn 206 error external memory is full, go to your settings<find storage<sd card<unmount(wait 10 seconds)<mount. it should then save to sd card. no it will not let you copy and paste the music from your phone to your sd card. if it is prime music it will need to be re-downloaded.

So i see where a downloaded playlist is supposed to reside but what about a locally created one? I had my music saved to my SD and my SD got full. So i transferred all my SD card to a new larger SD card. Now when i go into prime music it shows my playlist name but with zero songs. How do i fix that? I did not know how to put my playlist back up to the cloud.

Sdcard/android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/music/private. (assuming you've chosen to save to SD)
Samsung's own file mgr won't see/find it but ES file mgr does.

Hi All,
I would have the same question to ask you.
Is there a way to convert or playing these .m4a files through other media player?
ie. Google Play Music.
thanks in advance

I have the files and we cannot change them as they are DRM protected. I heard somewhere that we need to create an audio cd and then extract but that did not work either. Any help on this will be much appreciated!