I’ve copied several ringtones and music files (all .mp3) onto my FP 1.6’s SD card, into folders Ringtones/ and Music/, respectively.
Problem is that the ringtones show up in the stock Android music player as well as in Vanilla music player; so I think the problem lies with with the media scanner. My impression is that the media scanner should qualify them as ringtones by the folder they’re in.
I have cleared the media storage data and re-scanned media, but that did’t change anything.
In VLC for Android you can specify the directories you want to include in the music library. This might be a workaround. On the other hand VLC is still in the beta phase and crashes under certain circumstance.
This week I installed shuttle, a very nice music player that can blacklist sound files. As it looks, you have to blacklist each ringtone separately (not on a folder basis or I haven’t found it yet), but for me with a few ringtones and videos that showed up this was a minor issue
Try to create an empty file named “.nomedia” in the ringtone folder and do a rescan. This will exclude the files from being added to your music library, but I’m not sure whether they will still be available as ringtones.
Of course I found media scanner’s .nomedia feature in my search for a solution. But given its description it didn’t seem to do what I wanted - remove the “this is music” marker from ringtone mp3’s while keeping them as ringtones.
So, I’ll probably remove my (500+) ringtones from the SD card and keep only a few, which I will then move into /system/media/audio/ringtones.
Yes, that should do it.
I have stored my personal ringtones in the “Ringtones” directory of the phone memory and none of them show up in the music player.
I think only that directory is excluded, while all on the SD card are scanned, even if named “Ringtones”.