Does anybody know how to exclude the gallery app from creating thumbnails of movie files? You can't use the .nomedia file because then the video player can't see them. Thanks.
Don't know the answer to your question, but I recommend QuickPic as an alternative.
its pretty sime actually. Use a file manager and put an empty file in the folder and name it ".nomedia", exactly the way i have it in quotes. It will exclude the contents of thay folder from viee in normal apps. Like ^^^ said, u can then use quikpic to view them
Turbojugend said:
Does anybody know how to exclude the gallery app from creating thumbnails of movie files? You can't use the .nomedia file because then the video player can't see them. Thanks.
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Can't have your cake and eat it too.
promiseofcake said:
Can't have your cake and eat it too.
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like ur username? i think not, mx player will do this, as well as quickpic
icenight89 said:
like ur username? i think not, mx player will do this, as well as quickpic
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Since he is talking about "the gallery app" I was under the impression he was planning on selecting his video files to play from within the Gallery App, yet hoped to prevent thumbnail creation. There was no mention of a 3rd party player as I am well aware that MX Video does this as I use it daily.
promiseofcake said:
Since he is talking about "the gallery app" I was under the impression he was planning on selecting his video files to play from within the Gallery App, yet hoped to prevent thumbnail creation. There was no mention of a 3rd party player as I am well aware that MX Video does this as I use it daily.
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fair enough, the pretext of my post was incorrect. If he dies want to both play videos in gallary and hide thumbnails, as u have said, it cannot be done. Only through 3rd party alternatives
My ICS gallery app keeps reading a folder with images that a game I installed created.
I tried creating a ".nomedia" file and copied it into the folder. I verified that it was in there and also rebooted. However, the stock ICS gallery app is still reading it?
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So I just got the Google Music beta invite and have been syncing my stuff to the cloud. But, I see no options to exclude folders, so it brings in all my podcasts from doggcatcher and my recorded calls. Has anyone found a way to exclude folders?
Yes, you can. I'm not at home right now so I can't look, but IIRC it's the second tab in the music manager. I removed the default on mine (since I didn't really want everything synced) and just added the folders for the artists I wanted access to.
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ZuneNinja! said:
So I just got the Google Music beta invite and have been syncing my stuff to the cloud. But, I see no options to exclude folders, so it brings in all my podcasts from doggcatcher and my recorded calls. Has anyone found a way to exclude folders?
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Are you talking about from the app on the phone, or the web interface? Either way, I can't find what you're talking about
Music Manager is the run on PC that is putting content up into the cloud. You should had to have run it to select what to upload ... choices are iTunes, WMP, My Music folder or Other. Use Other to pick exactly what you want.. In the Web player you can remove uploaded content by selecting it and there will be a arrow in lower right corner to delete.
feedhead said:
Music Manager is the run on PC that is putting content up into the cloud. You should had to have run it to select what to upload ... choices are iTunes, WMP, My Music folder or Other. Use Other to pick exactly what you want.. In the Web player you can remove uploaded content by selecting it and there will be a arrow in lower right corner to delete.
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Ah! Ok, I understand what dbagjones is saying now. Maybe I wasn't too clear in my post. I meant exclude folders that are on the SD card in my phone. Hence why my Doggcatcher and recorded call files are being displayed in the music app. They aren't music so I don't want them in there.
The only way that I could find to selectively upload is to use the "Other folders" option on the "Select music" tab and just pick what I wanted uploaded.
the_happy_cannibal said:
The only way that I could find to selectively upload is to use the "Other folders" option on the "Select music" tab and just pick what I wanted uploaded.
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That still isn't what I'm trying to do. I have .mp3 and .wma files on my phone that are NOT songs. The Google Music Beta app for Android must automatically scan your entire SD card. I'm not even trying to sync those to the cloud, whatsoever. I just want them to not show up in the app
Can't you put a .nomedia file in there?
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Utnapishtia said:
Can't you put a .nomedia file in there?
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Wow! I didn't know about .nomedia until now. I'm going to give it a shot
ZuneNinja! said:
Wow! I didn't know about .nomedia until now. I'm going to give it a shot
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yup, adding a .nomedia file to the directory you dont want included will have the media scanner skip that folder and it wont show up in any music app
I know that .nomedia works in the phone. But does it stop the Music Manager from uploading them from my compooter in the first place?
If not - is there another clever way to do this?
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.
GorillaPimp said:
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.
My xoom is not working nomedia.
I installed the osu, the music game,
that game has many images and music.
so i copy and paste the nomedia that folder, but it can't work it.
so those files are still scanning the music app, and gallery app.
How can i solved it???
Thx to read my post.
kokjsch said:
My xoom is not working nomedia.
I installed the osu, the music game,
that game has many images and music.
so i copy and paste the nomedia that folder, but it can't work it.
so those files are still scanning the music app, and gallery app.
How can i solved it???
Thx to read my post.
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I would like to help you but I can't understand what you are saying.
What is "nomedia?"
What is osu-the music game? Can you be a little more clear?
okantomi said:
I would like to help you but I can't understand what you are saying.
What is "nomedia?"
What is osu-the music game? Can you be a little more clear?
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.nomedia is a file that works disable the media scanning in android.
If the '.nomedia' is in folder, that folder disable the media scanning.
You see the page - http://osu.ppy.sh/p/about
osu need to many pictures and mp3 because of running games
So, If the '.nomedia' is not in Osu folder, their all files(musics, pictures) are scanning,
and therefore i can see their music in music app, and can see their picture in gallery.
If i put the .nomedia to Osu in android 2.2, 2.3, that files didn't scanning.
but, xoom it's not.
I used tiamat 2.1 hammerhead.
I'm having the same problem, rooted on stock Rom. Pictures still show up in Gallery although the .nomedia file has been used.
Is there a fix for this?
You should just be able to open your gallery, highlight the folder that they are in and click Delete. It will not delete the files. Just their entry into the gallery. Shouldnt show up again unless you do another media scan. Not sure what happens then. I usually just delete the folder after removing it from the gallery first. Never tried scanning again to see if they come back
Any one know how to view your library from within the stock video players widget? I can't find any button or menu that will allow you to see the contents of your video library. Alternately whats a good video player for a tablet to replace the stock one? I've tried Mixzing but its not made for tablets so it doesn't have a widescreen setting.
Files from Stock video ICS
kzoodroid said:
Any one know how to view your library from within the stock video player? I can't find any button or menu that will allow you to see the contents of your video library. Alternately whats a good video player for a tablet to replace the stock one? I've tried Mixzing but its not made for tablets so it doesn't have a widescreen setting.
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I just use ASTRO and/or andexplorer and it goes right to my video files.
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I just use ASTRO and/or andexplorer and it goes right to my video files.
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I have a couple file explorers but I want to see the library from within the player itself. There are forward and back buttons on either side of teh play button to move between videos but you can't see titles doing it this way. I have about 40 video files in my library and its impossible to tell which one I'm picking to play within the player.
edit: found moboplayer to use, it at least opens up to a decent library at start but doesn't have a widget. Going to switch to MX Player its a lot better but still no widget.
I'm not sure what you are looking for. In the stock video player I can choose any video that I want.
If I misunderstood, please let me know.
Kuniokun said:
I'm not sure what you are looking for. In the stock video player I can choose any video that I want.
If I misunderstood, please let me know.
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I have the stock music players widget on my desktop, when playing a movie I cannot select another one by name as their is no menu to access the library. So I guess the topic should have included the widget part. I update the op to reflect this thanks for your help.
Oh, and I think that I understand that now.
Maybe this app could hep you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupVideo
Kuniokun said:
Oh, and I think that I understand that now.
Maybe this app could hep you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupVideo
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I tried it but still no way to access the library from the widget. Just going to stick to stock and will just have to close the widget and open the player app to get at the library.
I have it changed for when I'm browsing in files app but it doesn't change when using the Gallery app. I was hoping Good Locks would be able to make the change but can't that option.
Try mx player i used vkc for years and real player and settled on mx
liggerz87 said:
Try mx player i used vkc for years and real player and settled on mx
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Will it play automatically from the Gallery app?
Doesn't look like it's possible. The Gallery app is so bonded to the camera app it's probably like that for a reason.
Personally I don't use Samsung Gallery as a standalone app, there are far better and more powerful apps out there. I use F-Stop for all my media content.
When you click video in the gallery app it then should ask you to use the Samsung player you dont select that and just then select mx
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When you click video in the gallery app it then should ask you to use the Samsung player you dont select that and just then select mx
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it doesn't give you that option in the stock GALLERY app. it always uses the samsung built in video player.
i have since switched to Fstop it works great however whenever i select a photo from the CAMERA app it always uses GALLERY not Fstop. minor inconvenience.
Ye will do that im not sure if there is a way to change it unless modding lol