Nomedia

Droida

- April 8, 2014

Unrated

Media & Video

( 1,041)

Description

A tiny tool to hide multimedia files and prevent media scanning. Touch and hold the directory to toggle. Media library will not display the files in red colored folders.

The Android media scanner ignores folders containing an empty file named ".nomedia", using less time, battery and memory.
This app identifies folders, creates and deletes .nomedia files, refresh the media library and stops or restores the media scanning.

Usecases:
- show pictures to someone else and avoid that he can see some embarrassing
- filter undesired ringtones, music and other files used by some apps and games
- shorten the long media scanning triggered at boot when your phone is full of media files
- fix files disappearing from the media library but shown in a file manager

Features:
- list of all folders containing .nomedia files
- force scanning recursively
- recursive mark of subfolders is possible
- .noscanandnomtp files from CyanogenMod
- lightweight and minimalistic

Notes:
- rescan (toggle twice) for newly added files to hidden directories
- for some devices, can't write on external SD card

Reviews

3.7

1,041 total

5 494

4 188

3 83

2 63

1 213

Siniša Jurišić

Simulation of the real thing Would be 5 stars if app could actually place and remove .nomedia files. Currently it acts like it does but revisiting the same directory shows it did nothing.

Douglas Gross

Nice utility to get control of that media service. I think its only con is that it will not request root access, so if "media" is scanning files in /system or other directories this app cannot help.

Arthur Vaverko

Can enter preferences .. No software button I wanted to mark .no media on my external SD but cat get there .. Can't change to root directory of external sd

Hj Kaye

Can't access SD card Won't work, can not find the external SD card to browse.

Phalon4

Nomedia Really can't tell what it's doing after long pressing each music file or obb file and it just say "Job Working" but doesn't show anything and I mean nothing

Duncan Power

App is broken, last update 2 years ago This app doesn't appear to do anything on my Galaxy S7. There's no way to choose any options, just quick press to navigate directory and long press to... do something.

User reviews

Siniša Jurišić February 9, 2015

Simulation of the real thing Would be 5 stars if app could actually place and remove .nomedia files. Currently it acts like it does but revisiting the same directory shows it did nothing.

Douglas Gross April 6, 2015

Nice utility to get control of that media service. I think its only con is that it will not request root access, so if "media" is scanning files in /system or other directories this app cannot help.

Arthur Vaverko November 24, 2014

Can enter preferences .. No software button I wanted to mark .no media on my external SD but cat get there .. Can't change to root directory of external sd

Hj Kaye December 4, 2014

Can't access SD card Won't work, can not find the external SD card to browse.

Phalon4 June 29, 2016

Nomedia Really can't tell what it's doing after long pressing each music file or obb file and it just say "Job Working" but doesn't show anything and I mean nothing

Duncan Power September 7, 2016

Bryan Knight July 29, 2014

This works great! No more audiobooks in Google Play Music, easiest fix ever!

Zahir Gaffoor July 6, 2015

Sd card access Works well for internal storage but not at all for sd card. It changes dir to red then change folder and back, and its undone. No word from developers.........?

Nguyen Viet August 2, 2014

Ok Works fine but really needs lots of improvements. That's why I only give 4 stars instead of 5.

David Eastwick July 18, 2015

Does not work On internal phone memory it's fine but on sd card it does not work...naturally where will the most files be...yep sdcard

Christophe Blythe June 7, 2015

It could use some updating, especially aesthetically, but it gets the job done; I'd recommend it. Also, it'd be great if it ran a quick tutorial on initial launch, so you don't have to figure out how to use it.

Anonymous Anonymous April 5, 2015

Too buggy Needs to do one thing... make .nomedia file, bugs out and fails

Harold Luiz Palazzini Cardozo August 25, 2015

Keeps saying already caching no matter what i do

Saurabh Singh January 8, 2015

Thanks Developers! Helpful for me on my Micromax A110Q. I recovered all my files to be shown in gallery and media players. Great Job

Mitch Gersbach March 28, 2015

Broken Just says currently caching.

Faizal Luthfi May 14, 2015

Still cannot write to sd card in lollipop After upgrade to lollipop, this application still cannot write to sd card while other third-party applications can..

Slava Poliakov August 30, 2016

Doesn't work with external SD card

Irshad S May 26, 2016

Useless Doesn't Update gallery

Kleajmp Fiddich April 26, 2015

Already caching All the folders where I want to put the .nomedia file all "already caching"... So what to do?

Julian Megicks April 10, 2014

Great Great app can keep pics and video from being seen from your gallery.....

Yvon Cui September 24, 2015

Comes with great idea but does not work on Lollipop. I need the noscanandnomtp and this is the only app offering it.

Ibn Batuta May 17, 2014

Still testing ... I have hundreds of thousands of image files stored on my thousand dollar smartphone. That I even need an app like this to ensure my phone's usabillity - to protect me from the dreaded medua scanner - is just one more strike against Android. Ubuntuphone here I come!

PGAAfterShock October 3, 2014

Useless Unable to access sdcards

Avinash Chandra January 17, 2016

Unable to download Error 491

nascent nascentt October 26, 2014

Just seems to say Already Caching on every directory I try

Karthi Kumar October 29, 2015

Android os 5.0 not support Android os 5.0 not support please upgrade memory card folder

Telefon PaulM December 20, 2014

Perfect Can't access external sd_card :((

vikram toor October 26, 2014

Doesnt hide files on external storage

Joe C. Hecht March 16, 2015

Rocks! Thanks! I use it often.

Gaganpreet Singh Kapula June 26, 2014

Works just fine Easy to hide stuffs from gallery using this app.

Md Minhazul Haque July 1, 2016

Does the right job. Like it.

Stanley Chung January 12, 2016

Does the job!

Nick Fetty April 21, 2015

The options are missing

Yehiyam Livneh May 25, 2014

Does the job

Ewa K March 2, 2015

Still testing

Omar Balubaid February 12, 2015

Bad

Ignacio Parga April 2, 2014

.... Very efficient and so small!

Thymen Hoek May 28, 2013

Amazing app This app did the job perfectly on my SGS4. I sort my mp3's into folders for albums, and each album cover has a jpg in the folder along side the music. This app helped me clean up my photo gallery so I didn't have dozens of different "galleries" containing one photo each. It's back down to just the camera gallery and whatsapp gallery. Much more manageable.

Aiga Hoshidake March 12, 2014

Borked on KK Does what it says, no more, no less. Simple and intuitive interface. HOWEVER, it's broken on Kit Kat, and crashes whenever you long hold a folder. This is because it attempts to launch the media scanner, and third party apps may not do that in Kit Kat. I suspect that is a single line of code, so please fix soon.

Abdul Hakim September 25, 2013

Thank you?!!! No wonder my apps - poweramp /mx player doesn't recognise any media.. I thought my memory card was dieing. But turns out.. I remember putting .nomedia file somewhere but couldn't find it. Sooo. This app helps me find it and deleted it for me. So thank you!!!!!! :)