On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM, clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm torn between which group to post this too, but since it is for an > application I am working on, I guess I'll stick it here. > > So here we go. I have an application which downloads data onto the > sdcard to be used by the application. Some of these files are sound > or music files and the music player in android seems to parse these > directories and add these files to the list. I'd like to somehow > block or hide these files from the music player. Is there is a way to > do this? > > I was thinking it may be possible to name my folder with a period at > the beginning, since linux hides such files. I'm just not sure if > that is going to hide it from the music player or if there is another > way to handle this.
You could have just tried it, and you would have found that that does indeed have the effect you're looking for. Alternatively, you can put a file called ".nomedia" in a directory to prevent the media scanner from scanning that directory. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
