topic Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player? in Other/General

How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:55:54 GMT

I keeps a lot of audio files with my phone, from recordings to audio notes (also some data from apps like evernote), and all of them show up in the Music Player. Is there anyway to exclude those folders or maybe make the Music Player to only search in certain locations? I really like the built-in Music Player, so i would like to avoid using another music player for it.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

Uliwooly — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:00:10 GMT

not w/ the preloaded music app, you need a third party music player

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unrelated topic, if you have some time please check this thread

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/44888

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:09:27 GMT

you can try to put a .nomedia file on those folders using a file manager, (i use ES file explorer)..

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:10:48 GMT

it can be used to hide other media too.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:13:33 GMT

interesting, will that affect the subfolders as well? e.g. if i put a no media in the root of the sdcard, will it exclude the 'Music' folders as well?

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:19:46 GMT

sometimes it has mixed effects.

music (.nomedia is here)

both album1 and 2 will be exluded from system scan.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:29:47 GMT

i see, thats a bit not ideal, but i think it will work, thanks!
btw, how do i refresh the gallery/music player ? i added several .nomedia, but the files are still showing up...

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:49:30 GMT

try to put the .nomedia file next to the files you want to exclude,, reboot your phone.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:08:19 GMT

its doesn't help. i searched around and seems like there is no easy way to refresh the media library, i even deleted a file, rebooted, and the file is still in the library. how do i force it to re-scan everything?

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:14:01 GMT

try reinserting your memory card.

try clearing music player cache and data. settings>apps> all(tab) search for music player. and tap on clear data.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:36:42 GMT

i am not using a memory card, and clearing the app data doesn't work either.

I tried plugging it to PC and added some new music with media go trying to trigger the library update, but it didn't work either.

a related question, when i tried to enable Auto Connect in MSC mode, windows detected it as Xperia Sola, just like it did in MTP mode, is this normal? or do i have to insert an sd card to use it in MSC?

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:43:04 GMT

....Oh, hmm, never tried it on the internal memory.

afaik, you need to have the sd card to be used as the mass storage,

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:54:34 GMT

well, thats too bad... so i'll have to live with a dead file in my music library, WTH Sony?? i think i'll have to find a way to move all my media files to a memory card once i bought one, and hopefully the dead file won't show up in the library once i do that,

then again, even with a memory card, having to re-insert memory card to refresh the library is ridiculous, even my decade old symbian phone has the option to refresh the library... hope they can get this fixed in a near update... is there anyway to raise this issue to someone in Sony??

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:58:23 GMT

did you try to delete via the file explorer? maybe you can try to delete the thumbnails file, but I don't know where it is, maybe Uliwooly can help.

you can pm those people with blue xperia avatars, they are xperia support team.,.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

MarlonUk1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:07:15 GMT

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mrfloppycoding.galleryexcluder

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

hendra2392 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:08:21 GMT

pictures and videos was ok, the files are gone from the Gallery when i delete the file, although they seems to ignore the .nomedia

but in case of music files, seems like i had to re-create the file with the same name at the same location, then delete the file again from the Music Player to remove it from the library, again, there should be an 're-scan' option to add new files and remove dead files from the library. Even better if they can give us an option to only scan a certain folder.

Thanks, will PM one of them.

Re: How to exclude certain folder in the Music Player?

meslahik — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:26:18 GMT

to re-scan the media on your xperia:

On your phone, go to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All -> Media Storage. Now hit ‘Clear Data’. This should clear all the cached library information on your phone. (I have a hunch that if you re-write id3 tags without changing the file name, the phone probably won’t refresh the library). It takes time to re-scan all the media on your device.