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[APP][REQUEST] Media Hidden (Gallery Enabler)

Hi everyone!
I used to use Gallery Enabler (later renamed into Media Hidden) to exclude folders from SD media scanning, but I seem can't find the app on Market anymore. Could anyone please post a download link to the app?
More information about the app can be found here:
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/media-hidden_gxdt.html
Thanks indeed!

You could try Pandora or Private Media as well. In my opinion pandora is better as it lets you play files without restoring them to their original location.
Otherwise a very simple way of hiding a folder from gallery is to insert a .nomedia file in the folder. Creating a .nomedia file is easy. Just open a text editor & save a blank file with the name ".nomedia".
Hope this helps.

seventyfivein said:
You could try Pandora or Private Media as well. In my opinion pandora is better as it lets you play files without restoring them to their original location.
Otherwise a very simple way of hiding a folder from gallery is to insert a .nomedia file in the folder. Creating a .nomedia file is easy. Just open a text editor & save a blank file with the name ".nomedia".
Hope this helps.
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Wicked!! Learn something new every day! I've been wondering if that was possible

You can also try Hide it Pro application. It can do all sorts of hiding like photos,videos,audio,application

I would like to hide certain folders from some applications but not others. In particular I would like to hide my podcasts from my mp3 player but not my podcast player.
Can this be done?

Hide Album Art in Gallery?

Title says it all... Having my music on my SD Card, with album cover in each folder causes each cover to be inside the gallery.
Thoughts?
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Put an empty file called ".nomedia" (with no file extension like ".txt or other) in the folder where the cover pictures are
(you can copy the .nomedia file from others folders)
(if doesn't work immediatly, reboot)

Yeah, this is an issue for me too. I want only pictures in the gallery, not my videos appearing too.

I'll try that, thanks.
But I have everything separated by folder with the album cover where the music is for that album.
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matteventu said:
Put an empty file called ".nomedia" (with no file extension like ".txt or other) in the folder where the cover pictures are
(you can copy the .nomedia file from others folders)
(if doesn't work immediatly, reboot)
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The issue there will be if you place the .nomedia file in a music folder that folder won't be read at all by media scanner. So your songs will not be read either. You might be able to use a workaround such as telling your music player what folder to look in but I'm not sure if that will work either with a .nomedia file in there.

Okay, I've got another solution (which takes a bit more time). Let's sum those solutions up now:
You can put a .nomedia file into your music folder. This should stop Androids media scanner from scanning sub-directories, too. Ah, damn. Just read the answer above mine. He's right. This method will "hide" all the files in the music folder and therefore your music player won't be able to find them (except it has an internal media scanner).
Embed the album covers in the mp3 files itself and then delete the cover .jpg file from the directory (most likely this file is hidden). Embedding works with various tools (for example MP3Tag for Windows). This takes way more time than option 1.
I hope this helped

Music Player

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 ...

doran_lum said:
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

How to hide pictures(Only) for Gallery

I have an SD card which includes many folders of CDs and Scans.
When I opened the Gallery, the pictures of CD scan will appear but I want to hide them.
Here comes the problem: I know I can creat a .nomedia file to make it hiden but that will also prevent the music file in the same folder from being scanned by the music player. Besides creating those files is such an exhausting work.
So is there's a way I can hide pics in gallery but not influence my music? Or make media scanner scan the specific folder only.
PS: Why the stock Gallery App doesn't have a hide function. (-.-
Sorry for my bad English. Appreciate for your help. (^_-)

You could download an app like secrecy which can be used to hide and encrypt photos and videos.

Photo Hide
Use Photo Hide App From Play Store

Set Gallery to read only Camera folder? Set another default app instead of Gallery?

so in android 6.0, when i used my camera, the images (when clicking the little preview button on the bottom) would go to gallery, but would read only from Camera folder where the captured images would be saved.
now with 7.0, if i click that little preview button to the right of the shutter, it starts off showing ALL the pictures from all the folders, including wallpapers, screenshots, etc. and none of them are in order.
can i change that somehow?
also, i can't seem to change another gallery app as default, like QuickPic.. is that really not possible?

Not sure about switching default gallery apps, you can't switch default video player apps, but you can create a file named .nomedia in the folder of each folder you don't want media to show up in the gallery from
Create .nomedia in the folder containing the images/videos etc, reboot the phone, it should remove those images from showing in the gallery, but they will still be accessible form the folders themselves

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Not sure about switching default gallery apps, you can't switch default video player apps, but you can create a file named .nomedia in the folder of each folder you don't want media to show up in the gallery from
Create .nomedia in the folder containing the images/videos etc, reboot the phone, it should remove those images from showing in the gallery, but they will still be accessible form the folders themselves
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oh that's cool to know. will that only affect the Gallery or other apps like QuickPic as well?
UPDATE: the .nomedia file affects other apps like QuickPic gallery as well. however, in QuickPic i can click "show hidden" and those appear.
its a decent workaround, however i wish samsung didn't screw up their gallery even more.
thanks for the advice.