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I have some music downloaded on my storage card and using the Windows Media to play them, what set up do I have to do in other to enable me select a whole bunch of music file to play them without selecting them any time one ends.
Any tip for this !!!

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HI THere are umpteen no. of Third Party playlist editors available.
you can create & Manage playlists using these TPA's

you can create a playlist on your PC and sync the whole list, using windows media player of your PC.
Then the playlist will be in a folder "Playlists" (the Music will go to "Music").

How to remove (not delete) songs from the music player

Hi Guys, I recently downloaded a bunch of audiobooks and put them on my new Samsung Galaxy S III however it seems that the stock music player picked up these songs even though they were in a separate folder from my music. I was hoping somebody has found a way to remove songs from the stock media player with out actually deleting them. I use a different app for my audiobooks. Another possibility is having the music player only get songs from a specific location, which i also have no idea how to do.
Thanks for all your help guys

Make a new file in the folder you want not to show up and name it .nomedia. This causes the media scanner to skip the folder.

Sycobob said:
Make a new file in the folder you want not to show up and name it .nomedia. This causes the media scanner to skip the folder.
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would this disable mort player from seeing the media also or just the music player?

I have no idea how mort works. This disables the built in media scanner from scanning the folder. If mort relies on the built in scanner to find media, then yes, I think will cause mort not to see your files. However, if mort has an import or manually add option, you can just add the folder yourself.
You can easily undo this by simply deleting the file, so just try it and see if it works for you.

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I have no idea how mort works. This disables the built in media scanner from scanning the folder. If mort relies on the built in scanner to find media, then yes, I think will cause mort not to see your files. However, if mort has an import or manually add option, you can just add the folder yourself.
You can easily undo this by simply deleting the file, so just try it and see if it works for you.
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I tried add the .nomedia file to my audio book folder however it seems my audio books are still showing up on the media player i have rebooted my device and updated my library. did i miss anything?

You may need to remove the files from the media player manually. The scanner won't automatically add them again. If you have too many files to remove them manually, try deleting the audiobooks from your device entirely, ensure they aren't in the media player anymore, then add them back along with the .nomedia file (probably put the .nomedia file in place first, just in case).

dump the junky stock player and get poweramp
it will solve all the problems you are having, you can tell it where to look for songs only

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 ...

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Hi all, I have try using Google Music and Shuttle Music Player.. it's quite weird that it even detects my mpg files or my recording files which are store inside other folders ...
It's frustrating that I have to go through the Song list and start to blacklist one by one...is there a way around this ? I can't see it in the app Settings ...
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This isn't a Google Music/Shuttle Player issue. This is how Android hunts for media.
To prevent any app from indexing a location that has media files (and by extension, showing up in any music/gallery/movie player app), you have to add a .nomedia file inside the directory that contains the files.
You can do this one of two ways; you can open a blank notepad file, save it with the filename ".nomedia" and set the filetype to "all types", or you can download this one which I made here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xat4bgykd5tugvl/nomedia.zip
Extract from the above folder, and copy and paste the .nomedia file into any folder that contains things you don't want to see in your media players. Then close Play Music/Shuttle or force close/clear data on them, and open them back up again. You won't see them anymore.

thank you so much ... that helps a lot

Any music player app that doesn't use media server?

Anyone know of a music player app that doesn't use the Android media server app to scan? I want to disable media storage because it destroys my battery.
I've found that everything but my music player works fine without it...

Sadly, no.
A better option is to place a .nomedia file in every folder that you don't need Mediaserver to index. That excludes the folder from the scanner. You can find one to copy in the Android folder. It also applies to subfolders. DON'T put one in the home directory.
Mediaserver is also required for ringtones, notifications, alarms and such. If you disable it, you're stuck with the stock ringtones.

Problem with ringtone

All the mp3 i put on the internal storage is showed on the ringtone list at ringtone select list there is a way to not happen? Like a .nomedia?

this is SUPER annoying. '.nomedia' does work but your preferred music app might also be prevented from accessing your mp3s. i believe VLC didn't work but AIMP did. i can't remember if 'Black Player' had a problem with '.nomedia' or if i uninstalled it because it was just frustrating in general.
i also had a problem where some ringtone apps would install the same sound files in multiple folders ('Alarms', 'Notifications', 'Ringtones') so there were always duplicates of the same file.