Well, kind of 3 months ago I discovered that my lyrics app (Lyrics Grabber) didn't find my music anymore, and magically it did find other audio files (Recordings, Ringtones, Attachments from Any.do, Whatsapp Audios). So I noticed that the "Music" folder is being ignored by the app; all other folders are found. And it's exactly the same with musixmatch, shuttle, nexmusic and google play music. So I assume that it happens to all the music players but... poweramp. It's pretty weird but it's so. The only music player that finds my music is poweramp. It may be because poweramp has an option to manually choose which folder are gonna be scanned but I don't know what's going on with it. Any ideas?
Note: I'm 16, and I'm learning to speak English by myself, so if I made a mistake or you didn't get what I'm trying to say, plz tell me and I'll try to explain it better
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DEVICE INFO:
Motorola MOTO G (GPE*) 1st Generation
Model: XT1032
Codename: falcon_gpe
Build: Android Lollipop 5.0.1 (LRX21Z.M002) (falcon_umts)
Root Access: YES.
DPI: Stock (320)
(*) Converted from stock (KitKat 4.4.4) into GPE to update it to Lollipop.
do you have file named
.nomedia
in the music folder?
You can check with ES File Explorer (or some other file explorer) BUT you need to enable viewing hidden files.
If there is the file .nomedia in the music folder - delete it.
The purpose of .nomedia is to exclude for example system folders from Gallery and music players checks.
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bookworth said:
do you have file named
.nomedia
in the music folder?
You can check with ES File Explorer (or some other file explorer) BUT you need to enable viewing hidden files.
If there is the file .nomedia in the music folder - delete it.
The purpose of .nomedia is to exclude for example system folders from Gallery and music players checks.
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There was a .nomedia file, I deleted it but it didn't work. In fact, I'd already tried deleting .nomedia files in the music folders but it hadn't worked.
plz help me
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Nexus One, Froyo, Stock
I've been using doubletwist now for a while for a music player, however, I haven't been able to find a way for it to point to a specific folder to play. It seems that it will play any type of audio file on my SD card and it's kinda funny yet annoying to hear Let's Golf soundtracks and files playing. Anyone know how to adjust this if possible or an app that will? Same thing happened with cubed.
Make a file called .nomedia (period included) and place it in the folders that you don't want to show up.
thanks i'll try that out and report back
Does the nomedia file work for doubletwist only or for any other player in android?
Any player. And it works for keeping pictures from showing up in the gallery as well.
Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!
ajones7279 said:
Make a file called .nomedia (period included) and place it in the folders that you don't want to show up.
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Great tip. It's annoying for both pictures and audio.
There is a known bug with the .nomedia trick . If a .nomedia file is placed in a folder with existing content files in that folder will be deleted by the system the next time a media scan occurs. Try it on a test folder before you use it on a folder that has files you need (like the sound files for the GPS).
marvin02 said:
There is a known bug with the .nomedia trick . If a .nomedia file is placed in a folder with existing content files in that folder will be deleted by the system the next time a media scan occurs. Try it on a test folder before you use it on a folder that has files you need (like the sound files for the GPS).
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That's weird. I've NEVER had that problem.
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.
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.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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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 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
Hey guys,
I'm not sure if it is just the Z3 or Lollipop in general but it seems that the phone is ignoring the .nomedia file and so in the Play Music and Sony Music app I am swamped with audio files from Whatsapp. I've checked with Es explorer that there is a hidden .nomedia file in each of the folders in whatsapp Media but even after several data clearances to restart the media scan it will always find those audio files. Is anyone else suffering from this issue and what is the solution?
Thanks
.nomedia FILE does not work, make a folder and name it ".nomedia" without the quotations, and if you want to add anything behind the name, ie: ".nomedia_music" it will work just fine.
nomedia Files work for me just fine on lollipop (CM 12.1). Guess it's not a lollipop bug/problem.
LitoNi said:
.nomedia FILE does not work, make a folder and name it ".nomedia" without the quotations, and if you want to add anything behind the name, ie: ".nomedia_music" it will work just fine.
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I will try it now thanks.