how to get media player to ignore folders

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Hey all..
I have a few media players installed on my hero, but on the preinstalled one is there a way to get it to ignore a folder? I am currently learning spanish and have about 500 mp3's on the phone. It unfortunatly lists them all on the media player. I want to get it to ignore them so when i let it play my entire playlist on random it wont choose any of those.

is there a way? I have MixZing lite which does have an option to look at specific folders, but it wont intergrate with the lock screen (which is really very handy!). I tried adding the .nomedia onto the directory but to no avail....

I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.

The media player ignores everything under these folders:

\Media\Alarms
\Media\Ringtones
\Media\Notifications

However, if you move your spanish mp3s into these folders, they'll show up in alarms, ringtones or notifications.

sweet! that will solve my ringtones issue to then

just moved ringtones to the folder /media/ringtones but not showing up in the ringtone selection... should i do a reboot first?

Try a reboot,
If it doesn't work, backup your SD to your PC. Then format the SD card through the phone and recopy your data back.
That worked for me.

Cannot rename a folder starting with a "."

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Originally Posted by wheeljack

I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.

Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????

Originally Posted by tbondexpert

Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????

you need to use linda file explorer or similar.

Originally Posted by ricostuart

you need to use linda file explorer or similar.

Yeah, I use Astro, and it works fine.

Yep just used Astro to change my download folder (where I download ringtones to on my sd card) anyways in the music player it used to show a load of unknown albums and list the weird ringtones I had downloaded.

Changed the folder through Astro .downloads and now the music player doesn't pick up those unwanted files.