Android players are good for listening player as they sync all the music from your internal or external SD card and let you provide all music in one place. Specially helps when you are on long trip and don’t want to create playlist and you choose shuffle music. Similarly Android Gallery will show you all images and videos in one place in album or folder vise. But sometimes you don’t want to show some music in these lists like in music player it sync whatsapp voice messages as well which you don’t want in music player but also you don’t want to delete theme from mobile. So the problem is you want to hide music, pictures and videos from certain folder.
We provide you simple and easy for this. Follow below steps to hide files from android music player or gallery without deleting them.
Hide Media (Whatsapp Audio) From Android Music Player or Gallery
Step 1
Install ES Explorer. ES Explorer is most powerful android file manager in play store. It’s one of the best and most recommended app on android play store.
Step 2
Open ES Explorer Menu from left side and at bottom of the menu you’ll see “Show Hidden Files” option. Enable it.
Step 3
Now go to the folder of which you don’t want music player or gallery to show.
Step 4
Create file with name “.nomedia“. (Without Quotes)
Step 5
That’s it! Now all files from that folder will not show in player. Also now you can disable “Show Hidden Files” option ES File Explorer as well.
If The Files Are Still Showing Up
If you still see files in music player you can restart your phone and check if the files are gone from player or not. If after restarting files are still showing up it’s mean you have to “Clear Data” of media Storage or Music Player.
To clear the cache, open Android Settings–> Apps. In App, navigate to All Apps and open Media Storage and tap the button “Clear data“.
Conclusion
The trick worked out perfectly for my girlfriend and I am pretty sure it will work out for you as well. Also remember that the trick can not only hide just the audio files but also photos and videos as well from the gallery. Simply put a .nomedia file in the folders that contain your photos and videos that you would like to hide and restart your phone. Also you can delete .nomedia file from any folder to again show files in android player or gallery.