I need a music player that only would build a playlist by you manually going to a specific directory and then select by file name. I don't want any player that scan for all your music files everywhere on your phone and try to build a fancy database to let you select by artist, genre, whatever.... Yes, call me old fashion but i am a minimalist.... Obviously i still like the player to have all the audio features and etc, but i find that all of these database based player screws up after you remove and add stuff to the sdcard, etc...... just take too long to get them to rescan thousands of file and they don't even do it correctly. Thanks but no thanks. I manage my music by file and directory name just fine....lol
Also I use MX player as my movie player for my old phone and that thing simple being simple is great!
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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 wonder if such thing exists.. because its really uncomfortable to do it through phone..
I haven't used it in a while, but I'm sure Winamp does that for you.
Most music apps should work with m3u playlists. I don't know if the stock app can but all music players from market that I tried could.
I usually add my music on my phone's SD card with a m3u playlist file (generated by Winamp) in every music folder. I use Winamp on my phone to listen to music. You can try to make a m3u playlist and see if your stock player can see/play it.
Hello.
Is there a music player that know how to properly sort files, so after file1 it would play file2 and not file10 ?
Thank you.
You have to turn shuffle off.
Yes, Captain Obvious, it IS off.
For some reason all players I've tried so far sort files as:
file1
file10
file11
file12
...
file2
file20
file21
This goes to sorting by filename or data in ID3 tags
In PHP/MySQL it's called "natural" sorting, I believe
Sorry. But that was the first thing that came to me. What phone do you have?
Google Music Player
That's the best music player anywhere online or offline
winamp ?
Uber Music by Federico Carnales has an advanced media scan and he claims it uses "true shuffling" so you can try that..
I had this same problem (while using CM9 music player) and I found that by hitting party shuffle it fixed it?
first try to rename file1 to file01 and file2 to file02 eccetera eccetera... After that i used doubleTwist Player, freeware from Google Play, you can create playlists with that.
I like TTPod
Any free music player what can properly sort files?Arrow
try to rename the files and then use the doubletwist player
TTPOD is the best music player...
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try to rename the files and then use the doubletwist player
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If I have to rename files any player would do just fine. It defeats the point of this topic - finding a player that sorts files properly.
They are being sorted properly, all operating systems recognize 10 as coming before 2. Use a program like Mp3tag to automatically rename all of your music files to the correct convention; 01, 02.......10,11, etc.
Sent from my HTC One X
And what the "all operating systems" are you referring to? Windows sort them just fine without prepending with zeros.
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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
There is one thing which i find annoying on all media players for Android which I've tried: creating and managing a playlist is unnecessary complicated. For example, you need to create a playlist, after that browse though the song files, find one which you want in that playlist, long click on it and select Add to playlist, select the playlist and after that browse for another song and so on. What if you want to create a playlist with 100 songs? I find this really complicated and time consuming. And if you organize your music directory like me, with subdirectories for different genres or different artists, and at some point you want to listen just to some artist, what can you do? Same thing: create a playlist, after that browse though the song files, find one which you want in that playlist, long click on it and select Add to playlist, select the playlist and after that browse for another song......
So I've decided to create my own media player for Android, a media player with better playlist management. I'm still using the old PC version of Winamp (2.91) and i really like the simple playlist management. Want to add some media files to the playlist? Just navigate to the location of those files, select them and press a button - all those files will be added to your playlist. DO you want to add to your playlist all media files in a specific directory? Navigate to that directory and press a button and all the files found in that directory will be added to your playlist. And of course, you can save a playlist, or load a previously saved playlists. And that's what I've done with my media player for Android. It's a simple media player which can play mp3, ogg and wav files; it can read ID3 tags; it has all necessary functions (repeat, shuffle, search, save/load playlists) for a media player and nothing more, just to keep it simple and user-friendly.
It is available on Android Market (QR below) in 2 versions: one paid, for 1.5$ and one free. It works on Android 2.2 and newer.
Paid version:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dancadar.mobile.hitamp
Free Version:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dancadar.mobile.hitampfree
Sorry for the text link, but I can't post links yet.