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.
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Is anyone working on a S2P type audio player for Android? One reason that I regret going to Android is the lack of any good audio players. Using Nemoplayer and it is alright...but I want my S2P!
Until then, can anyone recommend an audio player that DOES NOT scan then entire SD card for audio files? As much as I like my 1 second audio clip for notifications, I don't want it to be included in my playlist.
S2P was ideal because all music needed to be in the /music directory. Thanks ahead of time!
You can put an empty file named .nomedia (the dot is important!) in the directories you don't want scanned.
You have just made my day! Thanks very much.
Well, that fixed my audio player issue, but now that essentially is preventing android from seeing my ringtones. So now I can either have my ringtones or an audio player that will not play my ringtones. Any way of having both?
My ringtones don't show up in the Music application, are you doing something differently?
Try Mortplayer. You can even find info about it in this forum. It doesn't use the Android media database. It scans only the folder and subfolders you designate.
guags99, mortplayer is exactly what I am talking about. Thanks for the information!
For all those who prefer other players, try to put a file named .nomedia in the directories you don't like to have scanned for Android's media library.
MortPlayer doesn't handle that file since I think it's enough to point it to the correct main folder, so you could even use .nomedia to omit audio books from your favorite tag based media player and play them with MortPlayer Audio Books.
(Of course I hope many like MortPlayer, but of course folder based navigation isn't for everybody. And I didn't like to code the 5,000,000th iTunes clone...)
Edit: Oops, skipped an important post... I think ringtones in /media/audio/ringtones (resp. .../notifications or .../alarms for those) should be regarded even with .nomedia.
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My ringtones don't show up in the Music application, are you doing something differently?
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Mine don't either. Maybe it's a difference between different versions of Android?
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Hey guys - be careful with .nomedia - you can loose all your media files due to a silly bug in Android...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6782845&postcount=1
I quite like btunes. You can specify which folders for it to look into. Ive just got all my mp3s in my music folder.
Audiobooks ive got in another folder and use an audio book reader for them so btunes works pretty well for me. Also like the interface.
The key to keeping ring, notification,and alarm tones from showing up in the media player is to have them in the correct folders. And there is where the "why didn't I think of that" comes into play.
At the root of your sd card:
alarm tones go in the "alarms" folder
notification tones go in the "notifications" folder
ring tones go in the "ringtones" folder
Now your phone will be able to see the tones and use them properly, but they will not show up as media files in any media player unless you tell it to look for them (some players, such as Meridian for example, allow you to exclude folders in the application setting).
Android Delight has a great comparison between Cubed and DoubleTwist. (can't post links yet)
Those are my two favorite music apps. Cubed was my fav but for reasons in the article (syncing, ease, etc.) DoubleTwist is taking over.
I'm using btunes right now. You select the folder with your music manually. I used to use Meridian where you also selected the folders. I changed because of a bug after an update, but that might have been fixed now. I like them both becaus you can skip, fast forward by swyping (best on meridian)
one of the best audio player is deadbeef. simply to use, GUI is perfect, sound is clear.
I have already read some other topics about this, and I know Google Music stores its offline cache in android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music and that you need to delete the .nomedia files in the path for the songs to be available to other players.
I have noticed, however, that Google Music stores the files with random numeric names with no ID3 tags. So when you access them with other players, it's rrrrreally annoying to sort the songs out.
So my question is... how does Google Music know which file corresponds to which song? That info must be stored somewhere, right? Music is showing the ID3 info somehow.
Is it possible to create an app that renames and moves the cache files to other directory according to Google Music's internal information?
Thanks in advance.
Would love if there was a way, even if it involved hooking it up to a computer and getting another program to tag the songs.
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In your sdcard, if your device has an internal sd it''l be there and not in the removable, go to Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music and rename the .nomedia file. I haven't tried this myself because I don't have another media player as i love the music beta player, but that file is what you put in a folder to tell the media service to not scan that directory so removing it will add those files to the media db. However that may cause issues with the Music Beta app so be cautious, hence rename instead of delete. I would reboot check the apps and if all is well u can then delete the file.
Offline Music Importer
Check out the app which makes this task easy.
The ID3 tag information is stored in Google Music's database on the phone. The app accesses that database and applies the proper ID3 tags and artwork to the cache files you're talking about.
With all that information added, the app moves the files to a public folder on your sdcard so that the Android Media Service Provider can see the files. The files then become available to any player on the device.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sapien.music.importer
I don't know how the syncing really works within the application or anything, but when I just installed Google Music, none of the playlists would download. I had to empty my music folder completely, and now everything syncs.
Is there anything that doesn't remove the music from Google Music's folder? It seems like moving it all would mess up the sync function. I'm just wondering if anyone knows before I subject myself to a day without music while the app downloads a couple thousand songs.
There is nothing on my local folder, android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music, actually there's no "music" folder inside "cache". I have try the above app and also the app "Google Music Importer" (which appears to be the same) but nothing, it's doesn't recognize the downloaded albums. I'm on ICS 4.0.4 with a custom ROM. What can I do?
I have finally managed to import my music. First of all, you need the latest version of the import app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sapien.music.importer
If the music is not on your internal sdcard under android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music then the path will be /data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music. Now you have to set the proper permissions to the folder and files (I'm not sure if you have to set reading permissions or also write and execute ones, and also, I'm not sure if you have to set it only in the files or also on all the folders behind). You need to grant permissions on files under artwork and music folders .
You have to tell the import app your "cache" path under its settings. If your path is the second one, you will need root access (also configurable on the app's options).
Now the import app should recognize your music. If not, please let me know.
I have a problem here, how can I change permissions to more than just one file at the same time? Thanks.
It's a good idea
It doesn't work, sometimes the app recognizes the music and sometimes it doesn't. The funny thing is that sometimes it only recognizes the artwork, and not the music. This is starting to piss me off...
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.
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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
On the stock lg music app every audio file is displayed and played and thats the problem. I have a lot of games with audio files that show up in the music app and I don't want them disrupting the vibe (I also have my ringtones in a separate folder from music) so is there any way to hide those files and take them away from the music app (preferably without creating a .nomedia file) I am rooted
I had a similar problem with the music player and Gallery apps was pulling in the cover art as well.
Easiest would be to probably be to use a 3rd party app that allows you to specify which folders to search. It would likely be just /sdcard/Music and maybe /sdcard/Downloads. PowerAmp does this, I know.
Cool I downloaded Poweramp and it hides thing from the stock app too but I have a separate folder that I put my ringtones in and those are still visible and Poweramp doesn't detect it as a folder
Hello,
I'm trying to move from folder organized music to playlists, but I would really prefer if I can back them up on cloud etc and modify them on 1 device (PC) then send them across all my devices.
I just have some trouble when I delete a playlist in Z3.
If I delete it from an explorer (SolidExplorer) the Music app (aka Walkman) doesn't forget it. Kill of media services, cache clean, data clean, media rescan with 3rd part app AND hard reboot have no effect on this playlist LOL...
My research showed me Android maybe using a file Music.db in data/data/ as a back up. Which I suppose is the root folder requiring a root access to be opened by browser.
Anyone can confirm this for me, since I never needed a root permission before?
I belive another issue with deleted mp3s persisting in Music app, untill reboot (media rescan wont help >_>) have the same origin.
Any workaround?
How I can clear old (missing) mp3/Playlist shortcuts in Music app without restart?