If you use .jpg's for album art read on...

AndroidAlex · Dec 14, 2011

Hi Guys,

If you are currently sorting album artwork and use your own jpeg

Leonne · Dec 14, 2011

I always work with my music manually: Cover downloaders and automatic taggers don't always do a great job.

semus · Dec 14, 2011

i love quickpic, its aLOT better than the stock gallery,

but here's a little tip:
if you want to have a folder in your phone's memory full of pictures or videos or songs, but don't want them to show up in the gallery or music player or whatever, just put a .nomedia file in that folder and your phone will ignore it.

To create a no media file, open notepad, and then choose 'save as', put it wherever (desktop or something..), change the 'save as type' to all files, and put in the 'File Name': .nomedia
and just copy it to whichever folder you want.

im not sure how poweramp reacts to it though.

AndroidAlex · Dec 14, 2011

semus said:
i love quickpic, its aLOT better than the stock gallery,

but here's a little tip:
if you want to have a folder in your phone's memory full of pictures or videos or songs, but don't want them to show up in the gallery or music player or whatever, just put a .nomedia file in that folder and your phone will ignore it.

To create a no media file, open notepad, and then choose 'save as', put it wherever (desktop or something..), change the 'save as type' to all files, and put in the 'File Name': .nomedia
and just copy it to whichever folder you want.

im not sure how poweramp reacts to it though.

Hi Semus - thanks for the tip, but in my scenario the .nomedia approach doesn't work as it gets rid of ALL media types. My issue was getting rid of the artwork in the gallery. Adding a .nomedia would therefore abolish my .m4a's which I didn't want.

Deleted User · Dec 14, 2011

yeah another vote for quick pic! much faster and cleaner + its free....

semus · Dec 14, 2011

AndroidAlex said:
the .nomedia approach doesn't work as it gets rid of ALL media types.

Yes, i know, i was just mentioning it as a way to control what appears in the gallery and music player, in case someone does find a use for it.

dwh_72 · Dec 17, 2011

Im a little OCD too. I use TAG SCANNER (600+ songs manually edited... painful but worth the effort) on my computer then copy music to my phone. It embeds (i think) the picture into the mp3. No album or hidden folders needed. No bulky inconsistant apps on phone needed either. I also noticed that if I put my music on the phones internal card rather than the external, the album art appears quicker and smoother

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