[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2013-02-25 Thread Brill Pappin
I'm testing for the problem right now, and it most defiantly is *not* working for me. at least the .foldername is not working and I am now experimenting with .nomedia. I'm using the download manager for this and it actually looks like the download manager is marking the file as scannable by the

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-28 Thread clark
On Apr 27, 11:32 pm, "nEx.Software" wrote: > A quick look shows at the source indicates the MediaScanner omits > files that begin like "._" or are like "Folder.jpg", > "AlbumArtSmall.jpg", "AlbumArt_{...}_Large.jpg" or "AlbumArt_{...} > _Small.jpg". But it all seems to be based on filename. Of co

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-28 Thread clark
On Apr 28, 8:33 am, Marco Nelissen wrote: > You put the files in a folder whose name starts with a period, and they > still show up in the music app? > Are you sure it's not the old files in the old location that are still > showing? Can you check that there are actually entries in the media data

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-28 Thread Marco Nelissen
You put the files in a folder whose name starts with a period, and they still show up in the music app? Are you sure it's not the old files in the old location that are still showing? Can you check that there are actually entries in the media database whose path (the _data column) includes a folder

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-28 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:32 PM, nEx.Software wrote: > > A quick look shows at the source indicates the MediaScanner omits > files that begin like "._" or are like "Folder.jpg", > "AlbumArtSmall.jpg", "AlbumArt_{...}_Large.jpg" or "AlbumArt_{...} > _Small.jpg". But it all seems to be based on fil

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-27 Thread nEx.Software
A quick look shows at the source indicates the MediaScanner omits files that begin like "._" or are like "Folder.jpg", "AlbumArtSmall.jpg", "AlbumArt_{...}_Large.jpg" or "AlbumArt_{...} _Small.jpg". But it all seems to be based on filename. Of course there's a native method in there "processDirect

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-27 Thread clark
Just tried it and the sounds are showing up in the music player. So much for that idea. Anyone else have experience with this? I guess I can try changing the extension since I pass it the Uri, and hopefully MediaPlayer and SoundPool don't choke. I just have quite a few files and would hate to

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-27 Thread clark
On Apr 27, 4:51 pm, Marco Nelissen wrote: > You could have just tried it, and you would have found that that does indeed > have the effect you're looking for. Could have, assuming I was at my development machine at the time. Either way, thanks for the info. ~clark --~--~-~--~~--

[android-developers] Re: Hiding media files from Music Player

2009-04-27 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM, clark 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