By nickfrosty | 654 views
One of the great features in Android is the automatic media scanner, but what about when it adds unwanted music or other audio files to the Music or other media libraries? Well there is a simple fix for that.
You can easily force the Android Media Scanner to skip searching any directory you want. There are a few ways to do this but the easiest is to create a special file named “.nomedia”. The best part is that this can be accomplished many ways, and I will demonstrate a few.
Option 1
If you have rooted Android device (with BusyBox installed) and the Mobile Terminal app, then this option is preferable.
Open the Mobile Terminal app and use code similar to the following example
touch /sdcard/Music/folder/.nomedia
This will force the Media Scanner to skip the “/sdcard/Music/folder” directory when searching for music and other media. Change “/sdcard/Music/folder” to the location you want skipped. But, make sure you keep “touch” and “.nomedia” the same since these are the important parts of this command.
Option 2
Connect your Android device to your computer and open a plain text editor. In the editor create a new blank document and then simply go to save it. Save the file as “.nomedia” in the directory on your Android device that you want skipped by the scanner. You may have to change the document “save type” to “All Files” or similar.
Done
Once you have completed one of the previously mentioned methods, you will have to remount your SD Card from the settings app. If the files still are scanned then restart the device and you should be all set.
By nickfrosty | 670 views
Ahh the gnome panels! They are great but can be a pain in the butt. Why? Well, because sometimes they will freak out and not work properly, from improperly aligning to malfunctioning when you active it. The good thing is that it is very easy to reset/restart them.
Resetting the gnome panels can be accomplished with four quick terminal commands. So, lets get started.
First open Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Then, simply run the following four commands one after the other.
gconftool-2 --shutdown
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel
NOTE: Running these commands will reset the panels to their default settings, so all launchers added to the panel will no longer exists. But, you can easily add them back.
If you frequently need to reset the panels, then put the commands in a file and saving it to your home folder. Then run the file in Terminal using the following command.
sh FILE-NAME
By nickfrosty | 869 views
Welcome to the new site for nickfrosty. After much personal deliberation, I have decided that my site will be running a WordPress backend, rather than a custom one made by myself. This is for many reasons, but primarily because I did not want to spend the time to make a custom site. The good news is that since I am saving time by not creating my personal site, I will hopefully have time to make more content than ever before, from videos and tutorials to general blog posts.
On this new site I plan for a large plethora of content, ranging from web dev tutorials to windows and linux hacks to so much more. I have a long list of content to make, starting with mostly request. I will also try to keep anyone who is interested updated with the various happening of myself like what I’m working on and such.
Hope you like the new site and format of what’s to come!
