Option to ignore .nomedia files #1248
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I only use open source apps on my phone except for in island. So far, your music app has been my favorite and has many of the features I need. I do have a problem though. I have a library of over 80GB of music and I try to keep a high quallity album cover in each album folder. The issue is that all of this shows up in my gallery app, and even if I hide the hundreds of photo albums with the covers inside, it fills up other apps too, which is especially annoying when I go to send someone a file. I can create a .nomedia file in a special directory for my music, (since my phone keeps deleting it in the default one), but then Retro player can't play it. I was wondering if there could be future options for explicitly included and scanned folders that can ignore the presence of a .nomedia file. It is driving me insane. I want to note that I have yet to find any media player with this feature. I don't know if this is because of lack of desire or some difficult technical reason. |
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We use Android Mediastore which scans for all the media on the phone (music, photos, etc.) For the album covers showing in your gallery, you can create a Powershell or Bash script to add a .nomedia file in every sub directory of the music folder. |
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We use Android Mediastore which scans for all the media on the phone (music, photos, etc.)
The
.nomedia
file makes the mediastore skip that folder and not scan it, so Retro doesn't display it.For the album covers showing in your gallery, you can create a Powershell or Bash script to add a .nomedia file in every sub directory of the music folder.