Help Any way for ringtones not to appear on the music application?

[EarlZ]

Is there a a way for my ringtones/alarm tones not to display on the default music application ??

 

[NZtechfreak]

Put a file in their folder called .nomedia - make a text file in Windows with notepad and save it as all files, naming it .nomedia

 

[snapper.fishes]

Or you can just create the file in your android phone.

 

[ardyer]

I tried the ".nomedia" option, but then they quit appearing in my ringtones list as well.

 

[goughy]

Yeah, I had the same thing happen to me. If you do a search on 'nomedia' there is a thread which lists a program you can download where you can set folders that don't get searched by the music application. It's also worked for some, but again for me the mp3's I used for ringtones dissapeared.

 

[EarlZ]

Yeah, I had the same thing happen to me. If you do a search on 'nomedia' there is a thread which lists a program you can download where you can set folders that don't get searched by the music application. It's also worked for some, but again for me the mp3's I used for ringtones dissapeared.

Yeah this is the problem I have now, I cant use my ringtones anymore.. ill give nomedia a search and see if i can find the application..

EDIT:

Was not able to find it, anyone who has a solution about this ?

 

[NZtechfreak]

OK, another approach - if you create the following directory "/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones" and place the files there does it work the way you want?

EDIT: Nevermind, that doesn't work either.

EDIT EDIT: I see that in Astro you can directly assign a file to be the ringtone, perhaps doing that for a file in a .nomedia'd folder will work?

 

[EarlZ]

I'll give that a try.. It pains me knowing that andriod is such a great OS but lacks the basic ringtone and profile options LOL!

 

[NZtechfreak]

I know, there are definitely a few everyday activities that are needlessly painful in Android...

 

[EarlZ]

I see that astro can only assign it as a call tone, not an SMS tone =(

God this is so frustrating..

 

[goughy]

I ended up getting mixzing for my music/video player and set the folders to look for music in.

 

[ralphitz]

Same problem here. All the ringtones/smstones/notificationtones show up in the MP3-app; With .nomedia in those folders, they're unable to be selected AS ringtones/smstones/etc. So that .nomedia-option is really useless....
Is there a solution figured out after all?? Maybe?