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.
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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.
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?
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
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
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