RaaA android related issue with album art and Gallery

[jimbilly]

how are RaaA users dealing with album art images showing up in the android Gallery as photos.   Is there a work-around for this, other than embedded art?

seems that Android requires AlbumArt.jpg and rockbox doesn't use that filename as valid AA.

thanks

[paulheu]

Simply create a blank file and call it .nomedia. Whatever directory this file is placed into will indicated to the Android media scanner that any media files inside this directory should not be indexed and left alone.

putting an empty file called .nomedia in the /sdcard/rockbox folder should do it..

[[Saint]]

Simply create a blank file and call it .nomedia. Whatever directory this file is placed into will indicated to the Android media scanner that any media files inside this directory should not be indexed and left alone.

putting an empty file called .nomedia in the /sdcard/rockbox folder should do it..

Ummmm...no. Just no

For it to work using the .nomedia file you would need to put it in the topmost level of your music catalogue, but, be warned if you use any media player other than Rockbox...doing this will sacrifice Android's ability to play these files (it's going to hide your music, as well) as you're specifically telling the Android OS "there's no media here, or, none I want you to be aware of".

Rockbox will still be able to play your music, though.



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[paulheu]

Good point, but who needs another media player.,,lol

But you're right obv.. The above does however prevent the theme graphics from showing up in the gallery which is a good thing anyway..

[bluebrother]

seems that Android requires AlbumArt.jpg and rockbox doesn't use that filename as valid AA.

I cannot confirm that. On my Android device the stock Music.apk finds my album art files which are named folder.jpg and placed along the albums. That's also true for the sample tracks HTC put on the SD card that came with the device.

I don't see much of a problem to also check for AlbumArt.jpg, but since Music.apk deals with folder.jpg just fine I don't see a reason for that either.

[torne]

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For it to work using the .nomedia file you would need to put it in the topmost level of your music catalogue, but, be warned if you use any media player other than Rockbox...doing this will sacrifice Android's ability to play these files (it's going to hide your music, as well) as you're specifically telling the Android OS "there's no media here, or, none I want you to be aware of".

Can't you use .noimage to just exclude image files from being picked up by the media scanner?

[jimbilly]

bluebrother, music.apk is not the problem, its the gallery that doesn't handle folder.jpg properly(by ignoring it).  would be nice if rockbox supported a custom aa filename, configurable in config.cfg called cutom-aa-filename=whatever.jpg
then developers wouldn't have to compile a larger list of possible AA filenames.

torne, never heard of .noimage, doesn't do anything on my android, tried putting that in the root of my music folder.

[jimbilly]

i have just resorted to using the .nomedia file and hiding my music from android alltogether.  not the best solution but workable if you just want to stick to rockbox as your only player.