topic Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app in Samsung Apps and Services

Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userXEnmsVP7vn — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:29:31 GMT

For some reason Gallery application suppose that any graphical file on the phone is a photo which I want to see but I have a lot of folders with music albums each of them has at least one cover image which immediately gets to my Gallery application which is really ennoying especially when you want to share your photo in whatsup and it opens the main section of the Gallery application without normal way to switch to the camera cection. So is there any normal way to set the folder which should be scanned?

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userG0Xe6sLcVo — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:01:14 GMT

Please make a solution for this it has been driving me crazy since I got the phone.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userXEnmsVP7vn — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:10:08 GMT

One of the wierdiest solutions is to use a file manager application which able to create a file (I used ES File Explorer) to create a file (or just copy/paste a small one) and name it '.nomedia' (with no quotes). Copy this file into all the directories which you want to exclude from gallery access.

It works though you may need to restart your phone to see the result.

Untill a user has to look for that kind of hacky solutions all Android devices would be really far behind iOS devices. While I was looking for the solution I found out that this problem exists for years, it means that no one really cares about user experience but only about figures of CPU mHz and camera megapixels. And this is really sad

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

Samsung_ntRiS6g — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:35:17 GMT

Thanks a lot for this solution! It works perfectly on Galaxy S9 Plus, also.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userh1D4dedOhd — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 17:34:31 GMT

I have all my music in a folder called Music and under that subfolders named after the bands and subfolders under there named after the album. I found if you just create the .nomedia file and put it in the top level folder in my case music it will exclude all subfolders of music. A little easier than having to put it in each and every band folder.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userjrAphI618O — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:18:37 GMT

@userh1D4dedOhd when I add the .nomedia file to my music folder, it stops all music apps (Google play music, VLC, Amazon, Samsung) from seeing the music in my music folder. What music player are you using? Thanks.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userh1D4dedOhd — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:28:51 GMT

Yeah sorry I noticed that later too. I gave up and ended up just deleting all the album images.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userjrAphI618O — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:40:16 GMT

@userh1D4dedOhd wrote:
Yeah sorry I noticed that later too. I gave up and ended up just deleting all the album images.

Rocket Player works. It can scan folders for music despite the .nomedia file.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

Brainwise — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:53:34 GMT

My Galaxy S9 recently updated to Android 10 and the Samsung Gallery started showing all the album art. Tried this .nomedia solution and rebooted twice, but the album art folders still appear in the Gallery. 😕

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

Brainwise — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:59:00 GMT

@userjrAphI618O wrote:
Rocket Player works. It can scan folders for music despite the .nomedia file.

This is true. Same goes for PowerAmp player.

(That is, unless I misplaced the .nomedia file).

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userkgoyO0q0dB — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:40:24 GMT

This is NOT a solution as the .nomedia stop the music showing up in Various App Music App!!!!!!!

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userkgoyO0q0dB — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:41:25 GMT

We need a proper solution to this that does not stop the Music showing up in other Apps!!!!!!

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userBm8WM21Qwx — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:55:41 GMT

Samsung Gallery version 5.4.13.2 supports hiding photo albums out-of-the-box.

To hide an album, open the Gallery, go to Albums, click the three-dots menu and select the Hide or Show Album menu item. In selection mode, choose the album(s) you want to hide and click Apply.

Follow the same steps to make an album show up in the gallery again.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userlURXAEtoDk — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:26:06 GMT

This only partly works as now Music apps like Shuttle see that same file and exclude all the music in the same app as well. As far a criticism for Android, Google Photos doesn't have this problem, only Samsung's Gallery App. Gallery App needs an option to exclude certain folders or exclude album art.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userlURXAEtoDk — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:28:14 GMT

While a brilliant solution, it doesn't work realistically when there are thousands of albums on a 512GB memory card. There is no easy way to select all albums, you must do this one at a time.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userlURXAEtoDk — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:34:30 GMT

What Gallery needs is a way to select a Folder for exclusion, that would make it far easier to exclude the entire Music folder from Samsung Gallery.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userlURXAEtoDk — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:39:35 GMT

I did this but now the Shuttle music app see the .nomedia file and so it ignores all the music in that folder as well.

Re: Exclude folders from the Gallery app

userLAjiwFo1w1 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:49:28 GMT

Samsung: OMG just add menu option for include OR exclude folders as any other decent gallery app has.